The story of sailing heroine Laura Dekker is getting the big screen treatment.
Dekker stunned the sailing world in 2012 when, aged 16, she completed her solo sailing trip around the world —becoming the youngest person ever to accomplish the feat.
German production company Sommerhaus has signed on to produce a feature film based on Dekker's life, which Dekker herself will co-develop. Florian Cossen will direct and co-write the script to the film with his partner Elena von Saucken. The pair co-wrote both of Cossen's previous features: The Day I Was Not Born (2010) which picked up German Film Awards...
Dekker stunned the sailing world in 2012 when, aged 16, she completed her solo sailing trip around the world —becoming the youngest person ever to accomplish the feat.
German production company Sommerhaus has signed on to produce a feature film based on Dekker's life, which Dekker herself will co-develop. Florian Cossen will direct and co-write the script to the film with his partner Elena von Saucken. The pair co-wrote both of Cossen's previous features: The Day I Was Not Born (2010) which picked up German Film Awards...
- 2/23/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New films by Dietrich Brüggemann, Alex Ranisch and Philip Koch are to be judged by Munich Film Festival’s first ever Fipresci jury in its New German Cinema sidebar at this year’s forthcoming edition (June 25 - July 4).
Swiss film critic Beat Glur, Berlin-based, New Zealand-born Carmen Gray, and Israel’s Nachum Mochiach will choose their winner from 18 world premieres - 13 fiction feature films and five documentaries - including two titles which will then have their international premieres in Karlovy Vary: Brüggemann’s Heil, a politically incorrect satire on German neo-Nazis, and Kosovo-born Visar Morina’s feature debut Babai, which will be released in Germany by missingFilms .
The line-up also includes:
Özgur Yildirim’s dystopian sci-fi thriller Boy 7, starring David Kross and Emilia Schüle, based on the bestselling Dutch book by Mirjam Mous, to be distributed in Germany by Koch Media;
Florian Cossen and Elena von Saucken’s Canada-set black indie comedy Coconut Hero, which is being...
Swiss film critic Beat Glur, Berlin-based, New Zealand-born Carmen Gray, and Israel’s Nachum Mochiach will choose their winner from 18 world premieres - 13 fiction feature films and five documentaries - including two titles which will then have their international premieres in Karlovy Vary: Brüggemann’s Heil, a politically incorrect satire on German neo-Nazis, and Kosovo-born Visar Morina’s feature debut Babai, which will be released in Germany by missingFilms .
The line-up also includes:
Özgur Yildirim’s dystopian sci-fi thriller Boy 7, starring David Kross and Emilia Schüle, based on the bestselling Dutch book by Mirjam Mous, to be distributed in Germany by Koch Media;
Florian Cossen and Elena von Saucken’s Canada-set black indie comedy Coconut Hero, which is being...
- 6/4/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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