The Austrian funding institution has allocated production and development grants to nine film projects. During the Vienna Film Fund’s first session of 2020, the five members of the committee decided that nine out of the 20 projects submitted would be supported with a total sum of €2.44 million. Of this amount, €2,378,000 were allocated to the production of six films. Among the projects selected in this category is Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which received a grant of €635,000. The director is ready to follow up on her 2019 Berlinale competition entry The Ground Beneath My Feet with a film that centres on Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria. Set in 1877, Corsage will portray the monarch renowned for her beauty as she turns 40 and starts being considered an old woman. Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps is to play the...
The institution has backed the new films by Benjamin Heisenberg, Adrian Goiginger and Kurdwin Ayub. During the Vienna Film Fund’s fourth session of 2019, the five members of the committee decided that 11 of the 22 projects submitted would be supported with a total sum of €3.15 million. Eight feature-film projects received production support, while three projects were aided with development grants. The highest grant for production went to Serviam - Ich will dienen, the new film by Ruth Mader. The director, whose movie Struggle screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, is readying a thriller set in a Catholic boarding school for girls. Ruth Mader Filmproduktion is producing the film together with epo-film. Furthermore, the sci-fi thriller Sojus, which will be the feature debut by Magdalena Lauritsch, was backed by the...
Eastern European productions are struggling in Germany due to a crowded marketplace.
At a Sarajevo Film Festival CineLink panel on Tuesday (Aug 15), three representatives of the German film industry discussed the challenges facing regional producers who are attempting to set up their projects as co-productions with Germany.
The speakers offering insight into the current situation were the heads of three German funds: Brigitta Manthey of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Malika Rabahallah from the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, and Claas Danielsen of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (Mdm).
Germany remains one of the most important and desirable partners for co-productions in Southeast Europe, the panel admitted, but a crowded marketplace has left those co-productions looking largely undesirable for distributors.
Manthey highlighted the example that only one Eastern European-produced film with Germany as a minority co-producer reached the top 100 of the German box office in 2016 – Poland’s Marie Curie: The Courage Of Knowledge.
“It is getting more difficult to get your co-production done with...
At a Sarajevo Film Festival CineLink panel on Tuesday (Aug 15), three representatives of the German film industry discussed the challenges facing regional producers who are attempting to set up their projects as co-productions with Germany.
The speakers offering insight into the current situation were the heads of three German funds: Brigitta Manthey of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Malika Rabahallah from the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, and Claas Danielsen of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (Mdm).
Germany remains one of the most important and desirable partners for co-productions in Southeast Europe, the panel admitted, but a crowded marketplace has left those co-productions looking largely undesirable for distributors.
Manthey highlighted the example that only one Eastern European-produced film with Germany as a minority co-producer reached the top 100 of the German box office in 2016 – Poland’s Marie Curie: The Courage Of Knowledge.
“It is getting more difficult to get your co-production done with...
- 8/17/2017
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
The Wife Of The Pilot, The Bus To Amerika, and Lost Country scoop event’s top awards.
Three projects have been presented with monetary awards at this year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, worth €20,000, went to German director Anne Zohra Berrached’s The Wife Of The Pilot.
The prize was awarded by Pablo Pérez de Lema from Spain’s Icaa, producer Leontine Petit, and Manfred Schmidt from Mdm Film Fund.
The Vff Talent Highlight Award, which comes with €10,000, went to Turkish project The Bus To Amerika, from producer Nefes Polat and director Derya Durmaz.
The project’s story follows a young boy living in a Turkish refugee camp who dreams of travelling to America and becoming a pop star.
Separately, Cuban producer Maria Carla del Rio’s Shock Labor and Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua’s Tomorrow is a Long Time, were both presented with €1,000 and the opportunity to pitch their projects to participants...
Three projects have been presented with monetary awards at this year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, worth €20,000, went to German director Anne Zohra Berrached’s The Wife Of The Pilot.
The prize was awarded by Pablo Pérez de Lema from Spain’s Icaa, producer Leontine Petit, and Manfred Schmidt from Mdm Film Fund.
The Vff Talent Highlight Award, which comes with €10,000, went to Turkish project The Bus To Amerika, from producer Nefes Polat and director Derya Durmaz.
The project’s story follows a young boy living in a Turkish refugee camp who dreams of travelling to America and becoming a pop star.
Separately, Cuban producer Maria Carla del Rio’s Shock Labor and Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua’s Tomorrow is a Long Time, were both presented with €1,000 and the opportunity to pitch their projects to participants...
- 2/13/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Belgrade hosts co-pro meeting dedicated to women filmmakers as study reveals industry progress on gender equality in region.
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
- 3/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Belgrade hosts co-pro meeting dedicated to women filmmakers as study reveals industry progress on gender equality in region.
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
- 3/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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