The recently created Saint-Petersburg-based Point Of View (Pov) Development Fund has backed three film projects a total of $86,000 (€65,000).
An international expert group of producers that selected the projects included Sergei Selyanov (Ctb Film Company), Artem Vasiliev (Metrafilms), Riina Sildos (Amrion), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic) and Berlin-based sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon of Films Boutique.
The films they selected each have the fate of a woman at their centre:
The Woman From Ingria, to be produced by Pavel Odynin, is based on the biography of a simple woman in the north-western corner of Russia during the 20th century (€25,000);
Svetlana follows the real love story between Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva and the Indian raj Brajesh Singh in the mid-1960s. It will be produced by Anastasia Perova, Olga Kolegaeva and Konstantin Nafikov with Karsten Stöter of Germany’s Rohfilm,which was a co-producer of Ritesh Batra’s Cannes hit The Lunchbox (€25,000);
Manifestation, the feature debut by Georgian-born film-maker Anna Sarukhanova...
An international expert group of producers that selected the projects included Sergei Selyanov (Ctb Film Company), Artem Vasiliev (Metrafilms), Riina Sildos (Amrion), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic) and Berlin-based sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon of Films Boutique.
The films they selected each have the fate of a woman at their centre:
The Woman From Ingria, to be produced by Pavel Odynin, is based on the biography of a simple woman in the north-western corner of Russia during the 20th century (€25,000);
Svetlana follows the real love story between Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva and the Indian raj Brajesh Singh in the mid-1960s. It will be produced by Anastasia Perova, Olga Kolegaeva and Konstantin Nafikov with Karsten Stöter of Germany’s Rohfilm,which was a co-producer of Ritesh Batra’s Cannes hit The Lunchbox (€25,000);
Manifestation, the feature debut by Georgian-born film-maker Anna Sarukhanova...
- 9/2/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Indian film critic and director of the Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (India), Indu Shrikent will preside over the Jury of “Pardi di domani” section at the 64th Locarno International Film festival.
The festival which will take place from August 3-13, 2011 announced its Jury on Monday.
“I’m very honored to be on the short film Jury of one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Locarno is known for its absolutely fantastic selection of films. Moreover, there is lot of focus on India in the 2011 edition of the festival,” Shrikent told DearCinema.
“Pardi di domani” is an international competition section which presents short films by directors who are yet to make a full-length feature. Shrikent will be accompanied by Georgian director Bakur Bakuradze (Shultes, 2008; The Hunter, 2011 ), Israeli director and film critic Tom Shoval (Petach Tikva, 2007), Swiss producer Luc Toutounghi (Peter & the Wolf, 2006; The Lost Town of Switez,...
The festival which will take place from August 3-13, 2011 announced its Jury on Monday.
“I’m very honored to be on the short film Jury of one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Locarno is known for its absolutely fantastic selection of films. Moreover, there is lot of focus on India in the 2011 edition of the festival,” Shrikent told DearCinema.
“Pardi di domani” is an international competition section which presents short films by directors who are yet to make a full-length feature. Shrikent will be accompanied by Georgian director Bakur Bakuradze (Shultes, 2008; The Hunter, 2011 ), Israeli director and film critic Tom Shoval (Petach Tikva, 2007), Swiss producer Luc Toutounghi (Peter & the Wolf, 2006; The Lost Town of Switez,...
- 6/21/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Bakur Bakuradze is a director of great tenacity, of strong stylistic choices, of clear standpoints in the way he looks at Russia to design his stories.
All the qualities he showed in his previous works, including the beautiful documented-fiction short Moscow, are reflected in his film in Un Certain Regard, The Hunter.
The main character of this new film takes something from Bakuradze's previous anti-hero Shultes: a man of not many words and of a strong physical presence (Bakuradze's talent in casting and actors' direction is exceptional). The mise-en-scène (precise even when elliptical, always at the right distance) takes the best from its semi-documentary position to tell of a man, of his handicapped son (how to help him conquer his autonomy), of his lover (a woman prisoner he hired from the town prison manager to work in his farm), of his family and environment.
The film, soft-paced yet filled with tension,...
All the qualities he showed in his previous works, including the beautiful documented-fiction short Moscow, are reflected in his film in Un Certain Regard, The Hunter.
The main character of this new film takes something from Bakuradze's previous anti-hero Shultes: a man of not many words and of a strong physical presence (Bakuradze's talent in casting and actors' direction is exceptional). The mise-en-scène (precise even when elliptical, always at the right distance) takes the best from its semi-documentary position to tell of a man, of his handicapped son (how to help him conquer his autonomy), of his lover (a woman prisoner he hired from the town prison manager to work in his farm), of his family and environment.
The film, soft-paced yet filled with tension,...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
Moscow -- For a second year running, Kinotavr, Russia's main film festival, ended with a surprise victory by a first-time director.
As the 20th edition came to a close Sunday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, the festival jury gave the top award to "Volchok" (Spinning Top), the debut feature by Vasili Sigarev, who was previously known as a playwright. The drama about a complicated relationship between mother and daughter in a Russian provincial town also collected the screenplay prize.
Last year's winner, "Shultes" by Bakur Bakuradze, was also the director's debut feature. Overall, the festival was regarded as a victory for the younger generation of local filmmakers, who took practically all the main prizes.
Ivan Vyrypayev picked up the best director's award for his sophomore feature, "Kislorod" (Oxygen), a sophisticated musical youth drama loosely based on the Ten Commandments, which was also awarded for best music.
"Spinning Top...
As the 20th edition came to a close Sunday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, the festival jury gave the top award to "Volchok" (Spinning Top), the debut feature by Vasili Sigarev, who was previously known as a playwright. The drama about a complicated relationship between mother and daughter in a Russian provincial town also collected the screenplay prize.
Last year's winner, "Shultes" by Bakur Bakuradze, was also the director's debut feature. Overall, the festival was regarded as a victory for the younger generation of local filmmakers, who took practically all the main prizes.
Ivan Vyrypayev picked up the best director's award for his sophomore feature, "Kislorod" (Oxygen), a sophisticated musical youth drama loosely based on the Ten Commandments, which was also awarded for best music.
"Spinning Top...
- 6/15/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Moscow -- The Kiev International Film Festival Molodist, which came to a close Sunday in the Ukrainian capital, saw this year's Grand Prix shared by Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" and the Russian film "Shultes," by Bakur Bakuradze.
The international jury, headed by U.S. actor Armand Assante, awarded them with Scythian Deer statuettes and cash prizes of $10,000 each during the closing ceremony.
Separately, the prize for best first feature was awarded to Serbia's "Huddersfield" by Ivan Zivkovic, while Switzerland's Tobias Nolle collected the best short-film prize for "Rene" and Bulgaria's Ilian Metev was awarded the best student film nod for "Goleshovo."
The festival's Fipresci jury honored "Versailles" by French director Pierre Scholler and the ecumenical jury gave its prize to Makhmalbaf's "Buddha." The audience award went to the French short "Hold On" by Damien Roussineau.
The 38th edition of the festival, which focuses on young filmmakers,...
The international jury, headed by U.S. actor Armand Assante, awarded them with Scythian Deer statuettes and cash prizes of $10,000 each during the closing ceremony.
Separately, the prize for best first feature was awarded to Serbia's "Huddersfield" by Ivan Zivkovic, while Switzerland's Tobias Nolle collected the best short-film prize for "Rene" and Bulgaria's Ilian Metev was awarded the best student film nod for "Goleshovo."
The festival's Fipresci jury honored "Versailles" by French director Pierre Scholler and the ecumenical jury gave its prize to Makhmalbaf's "Buddha." The audience award went to the French short "Hold On" by Damien Roussineau.
The 38th edition of the festival, which focuses on young filmmakers,...
- 10/27/2008
- by By Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Highlighted by the presence of Jim Jarmusch (who will be receiving a special award called the Carrosse d’Or), the 40th year of the Director's Fortnight doesn't look as strong on paper as the previous edition, but the quality of this year's fair will be better determined in ten days or so. Containing a good amount of French productions, the section offers many first time efforts from filmmakers who get to tell their children that they took part in an event that showcases auteur cinema from the greats. Here are five to look out for. Boogie (Radu Muntean) It seems that every year a Romanian film shows up at Cannes andt steals the thunder away from other eastern European producing countries. After her career-defining role in 4 months..., Anamaria Marinca next stars in Radu Muntean's portrait - think a coming-of-age film for a grown up male who hasn't got his yeah yeahs out.
- 5/14/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Offering no shortage of world premieres from auteur filmmakers, the 40th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight contains exactly half of the films being produced or co-produced from the fest’s home turf, this year it will be a mostly French affair. Among the more popular names we find the festival opener slot (announced yesterday) belonging to the long-awaited return of Jerzy Skolimowski and his latest and we also find the likes of former folk who’ve contributed to the section in the past: Joachim Lafosse (Private Property) and Bertrand Bonello (Tiresia) and Claire Simon (Ça brûle). A common meeting place for auteur cinema, a special film was designed to recall the history of the section with testimonies from a who's who of favorite directors in Todd Haynes, Jacques Rozier, Costa Gavras, Michael Raeburn, Ken Loach, Alain Tanner, Carlos Diegues, Werner Herzog, Theo Angelopoulos, André Téchiné, Chantal Akerman, the Taviani brothers,
- 4/25/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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