New Europe Film Sales is representing the Bel-Swe-Nor-nl co-production.
Cloudboy has won the Works In Progress award - which comes with an $11,000 (€10,000) prize - at Flanders Image’s inaugural NeXT event. The story is about a Belgian boy who connects to his Swedish mother’s Sami roots during a summer trip to Lapland.
An international industry jury said, “We really want to see the special world that director Meikeminne Clinckspoor has created. We thought producer Katleen Goossens was very well prepared with her presentation, and both she and Meikeminne also told us about the heart of the story not just the plot. The story is both original and universal and we think it will appeal to wide audiences.”
Flanders Image had invited invited 13 projects in post-production – all backed by the Flanders Audiovisual fund — to pitch to the international industry in attendance.
The 13 projects in detail:
Blue Silence, wr/dir Bülent Öztürk, prod [link=nm...
Cloudboy has won the Works In Progress award - which comes with an $11,000 (€10,000) prize - at Flanders Image’s inaugural NeXT event. The story is about a Belgian boy who connects to his Swedish mother’s Sami roots during a summer trip to Lapland.
An international industry jury said, “We really want to see the special world that director Meikeminne Clinckspoor has created. We thought producer Katleen Goossens was very well prepared with her presentation, and both she and Meikeminne also told us about the heart of the story not just the plot. The story is both original and universal and we think it will appeal to wide audiences.”
Flanders Image had invited invited 13 projects in post-production – all backed by the Flanders Audiovisual fund — to pitch to the international industry in attendance.
The 13 projects in detail:
Blue Silence, wr/dir Bülent Öztürk, prod [link=nm...
- 10/11/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
BRUSSELS -- Belgian writer-director Nic Balthazar has announced plans to remake his local boxoffice smash Ben X for the U.S. market.
Balthazar was approached by Wamerica -- the Los Angeles-based production house of French comic Alain Chabat -- to rewrite and direct the film. "I'm very surprised by the concrete interest," Balthazar told Flemish-language daily Het Laaste Nieuws.
The $2 million Flemish-language drama -- Belgium's entry in next year's foreign-language Oscar race -- centers on autistic teenager Ben (Greg Timmermans), who retreats into violent online role-playing games to escape from bullying at school. It has been seen by 250,000 people in Flanders in just eight weeks, making it the most successful Flemish film of the past four years.
Ben X won three prizes at the Montreal Film Festival in September: the Grand Prix of the Americas, the Audience Award and the Ecumenical Prize. It also won the Black Pearl, the top prize at this year's inaugural edition of the Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi.
Balthazar was approached by Wamerica -- the Los Angeles-based production house of French comic Alain Chabat -- to rewrite and direct the film. "I'm very surprised by the concrete interest," Balthazar told Flemish-language daily Het Laaste Nieuws.
The $2 million Flemish-language drama -- Belgium's entry in next year's foreign-language Oscar race -- centers on autistic teenager Ben (Greg Timmermans), who retreats into violent online role-playing games to escape from bullying at school. It has been seen by 250,000 people in Flanders in just eight weeks, making it the most successful Flemish film of the past four years.
Ben X won three prizes at the Montreal Film Festival in September: the Grand Prix of the Americas, the Audience Award and the Ecumenical Prize. It also won the Black Pearl, the top prize at this year's inaugural edition of the Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi.
- 12/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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