Promotional body will host networking opportunities throughout the market.
Cinema do Brasil returns to Cannes with a screening of co-production El Ardor [pictured] and five sessions dedicated to promoting Brazilian productions to the market.
The promotional body represents 32 associate companies and will host networking opportunities for filmmakers throughout the Cannes market.
Cinema do Brasil is supporting El Ardor, a co-production involving associate Bananeira Filmes, via its Sales Agent Support scheme.
The five productions from associate companies receiving market support are: The Boy and the World by Alê Abreu (Elo Company); Desert World of Black Souls by Ruy Veridiano (Heavybunker); Gonzaga by Breno Silveira (Jangada Filmes); RioCorrente by Paulo Sacramento (One Eyed Films sales agent); and Memories of the Desert by Jorge Durán (Bogeydon Licensing sales agent).
Other Brazilian films on offer at the market include The Way He Looks via Films Boutique, Praia do Futuro through The Match Factory and Rio, I Love You...
Cinema do Brasil returns to Cannes with a screening of co-production El Ardor [pictured] and five sessions dedicated to promoting Brazilian productions to the market.
The promotional body represents 32 associate companies and will host networking opportunities for filmmakers throughout the Cannes market.
Cinema do Brasil is supporting El Ardor, a co-production involving associate Bananeira Filmes, via its Sales Agent Support scheme.
The five productions from associate companies receiving market support are: The Boy and the World by Alê Abreu (Elo Company); Desert World of Black Souls by Ruy Veridiano (Heavybunker); Gonzaga by Breno Silveira (Jangada Filmes); RioCorrente by Paulo Sacramento (One Eyed Films sales agent); and Memories of the Desert by Jorge Durán (Bogeydon Licensing sales agent).
Other Brazilian films on offer at the market include The Way He Looks via Films Boutique, Praia do Futuro through The Match Factory and Rio, I Love You...
- 5/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Above: Something Must Break
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
Tiger Awards Competition
Afscheid van de Maan/Farewell to the Moon by Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, 2014, world premiere)
Visual artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature revolves around 12-year-old Dutch and his family in the hot summer of 1972, when the Americans launch their last mission to the moon. Tuinder contrasts the tragicomic adventures of his protagonists with the lost illusions of that transitional year, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and approaching oil crisis. Iffr showed many of Tuinder’s short films, as well as his first feature Winterland (2009).
Anatomy of a Paper Clip by Akira Ikeda (Japan, 2013, European premiere)
Akira Ikeda's crazy and funny second feature is a dark fairytale revolving around Kogure, a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory, a man without characteristics and a stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in his flat. She becomes his wife,...
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
Tiger Awards Competition
Afscheid van de Maan/Farewell to the Moon by Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, 2014, world premiere)
Visual artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature revolves around 12-year-old Dutch and his family in the hot summer of 1972, when the Americans launch their last mission to the moon. Tuinder contrasts the tragicomic adventures of his protagonists with the lost illusions of that transitional year, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and approaching oil crisis. Iffr showed many of Tuinder’s short films, as well as his first feature Winterland (2009).
Anatomy of a Paper Clip by Akira Ikeda (Japan, 2013, European premiere)
Akira Ikeda's crazy and funny second feature is a dark fairytale revolving around Kogure, a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory, a man without characteristics and a stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in his flat. She becomes his wife,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has completed the lineup for its Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
These 10 titles join the five previously announced. All 15 first or second features will compete for three equal Tiger awards worth €15,000 each.
Elia Suleiman will lead the jury, also comprised of of Nanouk Leopold, Edwin, Violeta Bava and Kiki Sugino.
The selections (listed in full below) including Dutch artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature after Winterland, a 1972-set Dutch family story entitled Farewell To The Moon; Syria-set debut feature Arwad by Samer Najari and Dominique Chila; Busan audience award winner Han Gong-ju by Lee Su-jin; producer Luis Minarro’s first fiction feature Falling Star, about the lonely king of Spain in 1870; and Mark Jackson’s Us production War Story starring Catherine Keener.
The titles confirmed today are:
Farewell To The Moon (Afscheid van de Maan)
Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, world premiere)
Arwad
Samer Najari and Dominique Chila (Canada)
Casa grande
Fellipe Barbosa (Brazil, world...
These 10 titles join the five previously announced. All 15 first or second features will compete for three equal Tiger awards worth €15,000 each.
Elia Suleiman will lead the jury, also comprised of of Nanouk Leopold, Edwin, Violeta Bava and Kiki Sugino.
The selections (listed in full below) including Dutch artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature after Winterland, a 1972-set Dutch family story entitled Farewell To The Moon; Syria-set debut feature Arwad by Samer Najari and Dominique Chila; Busan audience award winner Han Gong-ju by Lee Su-jin; producer Luis Minarro’s first fiction feature Falling Star, about the lonely king of Spain in 1870; and Mark Jackson’s Us production War Story starring Catherine Keener.
The titles confirmed today are:
Farewell To The Moon (Afscheid van de Maan)
Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, world premiere)
Arwad
Samer Najari and Dominique Chila (Canada)
Casa grande
Fellipe Barbosa (Brazil, world...
- 1/10/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
First five films selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards announced.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
- 12/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
First five films selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards announced.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
- 12/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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