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HIGH SOCIETY at Paris Screenings
July 4-8 2010
HIGH SOCIETY (TFL Production Award 2008) has been invited to screen 20 minute rough cuts for distributors at Paris Screenings during July 4-8. Paris Screenings is a sidebar event of the Paris Projects project market.
More, Aditya is the recipient of the 2010 Silpathorn Award for film. The Award is given annually to a living Thai contemporary artist by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture of the Ministry of Culture of Thailand. The awards were established in 2004 to promote Thai contemporary artists who are considered to be in their mid-career and who have already made notable contributions to Thai fine arts and culture.
Aditya joins Penek Ratanaruang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wisit Sasanatieng, Thunska Pansittivorakul, Nonzee Nimibutr, and Pimpaka Towira as the seventh recipient. The official ceremony will be held on July 29 where Aditya will be presented with the Silpathorn brooch.
LE QUATTRO VOLTE wins the CineVision Award at the Munich Film Festival
July 3rd 2010
LE QUATTRO VOLTE, TFL Production Award 2008, continues its success. The film by Michelangelo Frammartino has won the CineVision Award (€ 12,000). The prize goes to a first or second non-German film in the Filmfest München program that is innovative, goes in new aesthetic directions and is an outstanding contribution to the cinematic arts. The CineVision Award is selected by an independent jury and is intended to encourage new filmmakers as well as to foster new tendencies in cinema.
The Jury explains the motivation: "Through images composed with bright clearness and with a soundtrack made only of natural sounds, the scenes of this film tell us of an ancient world, survived until nowadays. The film fades away and actually observes the relationship among men, animals and plants in a remote village at the southernmost tip of Italy; it reflects on everyday life as well as on great themes such as Nature, Religion, Life and Death, without wanting to patronize his spectators. A pure cinematographic adventure, an invitation to the freedom of seeing // sight"
At the moment LE QUATTRO VOLTE has been sold in: Austria (Filmladen), Germany (NFP), France (Les Films du Losange), Benelux (Lumière and Eye - former Filmmuseum), UK / Ireland : New Wave, Portugal (Atalanta), Hungary (Anjou Lafayette), Poland (New Horizons / Gutek), former Yugoslavia (Megacom), Romania (Clorofilm), Bulgaria (A Plus Cinema), Taiwan (Filmware), Argentina/Paraguay/Uruguay (Zeta Films), Brazil (Mostra International), Australia/New Zealand (Potential Films), Middle East (Irib Media Trade for Iran), Switzerland (Frenetic Films)
Pixel Market applications open until August 6
Power to the Pixel is delighted to announce its groundbreaking Pixel Market which will take place on 13 and 14 October 2010 in London.
Applications are now open to find 20 of the world’s best cross-media projects.
Each project will be based on stories that can span any combination of film, TV, online, mobile, interactive, publishing, live events and gaming.
On 13 October up to 10 of the teams will compete for the £6,000 ARTE PIXEL PITCH PRIZE at Power to the Pixel’s public event, The Pixel Pitch at BFI Southbank.
Producers will present their cross-media project to a handpicked roundtable of international judges made up of decision-makers, commissioning executives and financiers working in film, broadcast, publishing, online, advertising, gaming, the arts and interactive media.
On 14 October The Pixel Meetings will allow all 20 project teams to take part in one-to-one business meetings with potential investors and partners from across the tech, online, interactive, film, broadcast, arts, publishing and gaming industries.
Entries are invited from producer-led teams with projects at an advanced stage of development. Producers should have a strong track record in film, broadcast, interactive media or other relevant creative industries. Projects must include the use of new tools, platforms, services and devices, and can span any combination of film, TV, online, mobile, interactive, publishing, live events and gaming.
The Pixel Market is part of Power to the Pixel’s Cross-Media Forum, which this year will be held 12 - 15 October 2010 in association with The BFI London Film Festival. The annual event has helped develop an agenda for digital change for creatives and businesses, gathering together some of the smartest and most pioneering media professionals and digital experts in the world.
Deadline for applications is 6 August.
Further information can be found at Power to the Pixel’s website.
Last year’s Pixel Pitch competition saw seven cross-media projects presented to international companies including Summit International, Babelgum, Sony Computer Entertainment, BBC, YouTube, BBH Labs, Channel 4, UK Film Council, Arts Council of England, CAA and ARTE France. New York-based Desedo Films’ Heart of the City was awarded the Babelgum Pixel Pitch Prize 2009.
The Pixel Market is supported by the Media Programme of the European Union, ARTE and The BFI London Film Festival.
For more information please contact:
market@powertothepixel.com
+ 44 207 025 1930
www.powertothepixel.com
THE SLUT shooting starts on June 8th 2010
June 2010
THE SLUT goes into production on June 8th 2010.
The project, directed by the Israel writer/director Hagar Ben Asher and produced by Marek Rozenbaum(Transfax Films Productions), won a Production Award (100.000 €) at Torino Film Lab Meeting Event in 2009.
Shootings will take place in the north and the center of Israel during 5 weeks.
Members of cast: Hagar Ben Asher, Yshai Golan, Stav Yanai, Darya Furman.
TFL at the Italian Co-production Forum
Friday, June 11th 2010
The Italian Co-production Forum on Friday 11th June at BAFTA, London, will explore partnership options between British and Italian producers.
This Italian Cinema London project is supported by BAFTA, Roma Lazio Film Commission, UK Film Council, MEDIA Desk UK, MEDIA Desk Italia, Antenna MEDIA Torino and ANICA.
Following the introductory sessions chaired by Isabel Davis (UK Film Council), the attending British industry will meet the panelists Ludovica Baldan (ANICA), Laura Marcellino (TorinoFilmLab), Marta Donzelli (Vivofilm Producer), Simone Bachini (Arancia Film Production), Fabio Massimo Cacciatori (Film Investment Piedmont), Tina Bianchi (Roma Lazio Film Commission), Fabrizio Mosca (Acaba Production) in one-to-one meetings.
Massoud Bakhshi wins ARTE International Relations Award of Cinéfondation
Arte awarded Massoud Bakhshi with 6,000 euros for KHORRAMSHAHR.
Each year, L'Atelier selects about fifteen feature length projects from around the world, and invites their directors to the Festival de Cannes in order to put them in contact with film professionals.
Cannes 2010, LE QUATTRO VOLTE wins Europa Cinemas Label
The Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino has won the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in the Directors Fortnight.
Frammartino's LE QUATTRO VOLTE will receive the support of the Europa Cinemas exhibitors with an additional promotion and an extended run.
The jury explains the motivations: "Never didactic or sentimental, the director takes creative risks and manages to pull them off. At a time when original film-making is so threatened, we feel it is entirely appropriate to award and to offer European audiences the opportunity of enjoying such a life-affirming view of a remote corner of our continent".
EP2C – A one-week Post-Production Management training programme
Deadline for applications: 20 June 2010
The EP2C (European Post Production Connection) is an initiative of Belgian production company Entre Chien et Loup, with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Wallimage Entreprises and in partnership with the TorinoFilmLab.
The post-production stage of the filmmaking process is becoming ever more challenging due to constantly changing technology and the fact that coproduction requirements often split up the post-production process between several countries.
EP2C (European Post Production Connection) will explore, with the participant producers, the process of effective coproduction, budget constrains and artistic ambitions of a film from the post-production point of view.
This training programme offers in-depth knowledge of image and sound workflows and technical possibilities, post-production management methods, and connections with industry partners.
Participants will be tutored by two experienced European producers, Diana Elbaum (Belgian company Entre Chien et Loup – 2009 European Co-production Prize Eurimages) and Bettina Brokemper (German company Heimatfilm – 2008 European Co-production Prize Eurimages). They will accompany the participants throughout the whole training course, and will be available after the workshop to continue an online follow-up of your projects and provide advice on specific questions.
In addition to them, and the expertise of several trainers, participants will also be followed by two well-recognized postproduction supervisors, Dutch Michel Schöpping (Sound postproduction consultant) and French Christina Crassaris (Post production Supervisor)
Workshop dates : 1st to 6th of October 2010
Location : Belgium
Application deadline : 20th of June 2010
Target group : European producers with projects in development, and postproduction supervisors
For further information :
www.ep2c.com
info@ep2c.com
TORINOFILMLAB in Cannes
Tuesday, April 20th 2010
LE QUATTRO VOLTE (THE FOUR TIMES), by Michelangelo Frammartino, will be in Cannes at La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, where it will be officially screened for the first time. The project won a Production Award (150.000 €) at the TFL Meeting Event in November 2008, and started the production in March 2009. The film is produced by Vivo Film (Italy), Invisibile Film (Italy), Ventura Film (Switzerland) and Essential Filmproduktion (Germany). International distribution and sales: Coproduction Office (France/Germany).
LE QUATTRO VOLTE will be screened on Sunday 16th of May, at 09:00 and 17:00.
Edmund Yeo (TFL Training 2010) will also be at La Quinzaine with the project THE TIGER FACTORY, which he has produced and co-written. The feature film is a Malaysian-Japanese co-production directed by Woo Ming Jin.
RITA by Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia (TFL Development and Production Award 2009) will be at Cannes Film Festival. In the frame of the Semaine de la Critique, the screening will be held on Thursday 20th of May.
The Pixel Lab: extended deadline!
The deadline for The Pixel Lab applications has now been extended to Friday, April 23.
The Pixel Lab is a brand new residential course to be held 4 - 10 July 2010 in the 5* St. David’s Hotel & Spa in Cardiff. The cross-media lab is open to European media professionals with a strong track record in their sector, and has a particular focus on the creation, finance and distribution of cross-media properties to create sustainable European media businesses. The Pixel Lab will enable European film producers and other media professionals to tap into the business knowledge-base of the film, online, broadcast, gaming and mobile industries.
A Programme for the event is also available online: http://powertothepixel.com/news/uncategorized/pixel-lab-programme-online.
RITA Screenings & Awards
The short film RITA, by the writers-directors Antonio Piazza & Fabio Grassadonia, which is an exploration of the female character in their feature project SALVO (TFL Development and Production Award 2009), has been screened and awarded at the Festival D'Angers Premiers Plans (prix ARTE Courts Metrage Europeens), Tampere Film Festival (Diploma of Merit), the International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Prize for the Best Short Film), Aspen ShortFest (Award for the Direction) and Bratislava International Film Festival (Prize for the Best Short Film).
On June 2010 RITA will be screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
NO NAME receives funding
NO NAME, by Marco van Geffen (TFL Training 2009) received development funding within the 'Oversteek' programme, a funding programme originated from the Dutch Filmfund, in cooperation with three broadcasters, NPS, AVRO and VPRO. The programme funds second features. Furthermore Marco is starting to shoot his first feature AMONG US, the first part of the trilogy about THE DRAMA OF THE HAPPY FAMILY, of which NO NAME is part.
A POLITICIAN'S WIFE
A POLITICIAN’S WIFE, by Jan Bonny (TFL Training 2009) received 20.000 Euro development funding from the Filmstiftung NRW.
The Filmstiftung NRW supports writers, producers, directors, distributors and cinema owners, high-budget and low-budget productions as well as outstanding international films for television. In order to react in a flexible way to the needs of filmmakers and producers, the Filmstiftung NRW supports almost all the phases of a film production: screenplay, project development, production and post-production, and even the distribution and sales of the final product. After the foundation of the ifs - international film school cologne gmbh - it has also been contributing to the qualification of the next generation, while the Film Commission provides advice on the selection of shooting locations. In addition, it helps producers to establish contacts with service providers in NRW.
L'Atelier du Festival de Cannes select two TFL's projects
The projects KHORRAMSHAHR by Massoud Bakhshi (TFL Training 2009 and Development 2010) and POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO by Edwin (TFL Development and Production Award 2009) have been selected by the L'Atelier du Festival de Cannes. Each year, L'Atelier selects about 15 feature length projects from around the world, and invites their directors and producers to the Festival de Cannes in order to put them in contact with film professionals, international financiers and to speed up the production process.
Thomas Mai workshop
Tuesday, 27 April 2010 – Cineporto, Turin
MEDIA Antenna Turin in collaboration with TorinoFilmLab hosts an intensive one-day workshop with the international sales expert Thomas Mai about new models to promote, finance and distribute films:
“Learn how to connect and build a database of fans before, during and after you have made a film. Learn how to create merchandise for free that you can sell to fans even before you have made your film. The Internet has taken out the expensive middleman in any other business and now the time has come to the film business. VOD, COD, DOD and crowdfunding are tools that are available today. By using these tools filmmakers will have more time to focus on their films and become truly independent film makers”. T. Mai
The workshop is organized by the Antenna MEDIA Torino, information office for the MEDIA Programme of the EU, in collaboration with TorinoFilmLab, Maia Workshops, and TOP-IX, with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte.
For any information about the programme and participation modalities: T: +39.011.539853 – E: info@antennamediatorino.eu - www.antennamediatorino.eu
Interchange kicks-off with its first workshop in Turin
May 2nd - 7th, 2010
13 scriptwriters from Europe and Arab countries will gather in Turin from the 2nd to the 7th of May 2010 for the first workshop of Interchange - Development and Co-production Workshops for the Arab World.
This new initiative launched by TorinoFilmLab, the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE thanks to the support of Media International, wants to build cooperation between film professionals from Europe, the Gulf countries and selected countries of the Middle East (Bahrain, Iraq , Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), selecting 12 teams of writer/director + producer and bringing them together for 2 residential workshops and on-line sessions.
During this first workshop the scriptwriters will work on developing their scripts under the guidance of 3 Interchange tutors: Italian story editor Gino Ventriglia, French story editor and scriptwriter Antoine Le Bos, Lebanese scriptwriter Jacques Akchoti. Lectures and pitching training will be part of the workshop schedule.
Afterwards the participants will continue to develop their projects during the online sessions, and reach the final step during the second workshop, which will take place during the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2010. On this occasion the scriptwriters will attend the workshop in team with their producers. The final workshop comprise one pitching event and one-to-one meetings with film industry professionals from EU and Arab regions.
The following 11 projects will participate in Interchange 2010:
- KOSHER SWINE FLU, writer/director Basil Khalil (Palestine), producer Christopher Simon (Lebanon/Australia)
- ABUNDANCE, writers/directors Firas Khnaisser (Lebanon) & Samer Ghorayeb (Lebanon), producer Tinatin Kajrishvili (Georgia)
- HABIBI 99, writer/director Mousaed Khaled (Kuwait), producer Talal Al-Muhanna (Kuwait)
- BEIRUT, I LOVE YOU, writers/directors Zena El Khalil (Lebanon) & Gigi Roccati (Italy), producer Marta Donzelli (Italy)
- STUFFED MARROWS, writer/director Zaid Abu Hamdan (Jordan/Lebanon), producer Heba Abu Musaed (Palestine/Jordan)
- THIS WAR ON LOVE, writer/director Hind Shoufani (Palestine), producer Dima Ansari Hamoud (Kuwait)
- KHSARA: VOID AFTER EXPIRATION, writer/director Suha Araj (Palestine), producer Rumzi Araj (Palestine)
- HEAVEN SENT, writer/director Wissam Charaf (Lebanon), producer Charlotte Vincent (France)
- A PLANE FOR MY SOUL, writer/director Maythem Ridha (Iraq), producer Manda Popat (United Kingdom)
- A PERSONAL OBLIGATION, writer/director Haifaa Al Mansour (Saudi Arabia), producer Amr Al Kahtani (Saudi Arabia)
- SMILE! YOU’RE IN JEDDAH, writer/director/producer Ahd Kamel (Saudi Arabia), producer Amr Waked (Egypt)
THE PIXEL LAB: THE CROSS-MEDIA FILM WORKSHOP is open for applications
Sunday, February 14th 2010
TorinoFilmLab is partner of The Pixel Lab, the new workshop launched by Power to the Pixel which has been announced during the Berlin International Film Festival. This new initiative is centred in developing, producing and distributing cross-media stories – stories that can span film, TV, online, mobile, gaming. The Lab is open to anyone with a strong track record in the European film and related media industries.
The Pixel Lab will enable European film producers and other media professionals to tap into the creative and business knowledge-base of industries such as tech, online, film, broadcast, gaming, mobile and help promote collaboration and co-operation between European audiovisual professionals.
The workshop will take place from 4 – 10 July 2010. Teaching will be led by international cross-media pioneers and will be a mixture of group work, one-to-one meetings, plenary sessions and case studies. Non-producer participants will be assigned to a project which they will work on, together with the producer, over the course of the week.
Power to the Pixel will select up to 40 European participants– 20 producers with cross-media projects and 20 audio-visual professionals without a project.
Producer participants will additionally benefit from focused distance learning project-work between the end of the residency and October, when they will be invited to attend Power to the Pixel’s Cross-Media Forum in London and present their projects to potential international partners.
Deadline for applications is 16 April 2010.
For full information and application form please visit website - http://www.powertothepixel.com
AGUA FRIA DE MAR wins a Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010
Friday, February 5th 2010
AGUA FRIA DE MAR by writer-director Paz Fábrega (Costa Rica, France, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico, 2010), winner of one TorinoFilmLab Production Award (120.000 €) in November 2008, has won the competition in the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The jury has assigned the Tiger Award because 'the superb editing ensures an organic flow of images, whilst the strong directing and disturbing atmosphere create tension.'
AGUA FRIA DE MAR, first feature film produced by Costa Rica, was selected in summer 2008 to participate in the TorinoFilmLab Development Programme and has gained afterwards one of the 5 Production Awards which were assigned during that edition. The award has allowed the film to go immediately into production, in February 2009.
Interchange entries: extended deadline until February 22!
February 2010
Thanks to the support of Media International, in 2010 TorinoFilmLab, the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE are launching Interchange: Development and Co-production Workshops for the Arab World. The workshops aim to build cooperation between film professionals from Europe, the Gulf countries and selected countries of the Middle East (Bahrain, Iraq , Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), selecting 12 teams of writer/director + producer and bringing them together for 2 residential 5-day workshops: one in Torino in April –dedicated to the writers- and one in Dubai in December – dedicated to the writers and the producers. The training is designed to match the needs of experienced professionals who want to develop their skills by concrete work on their projects, under the expert guidance of international tutors, and who are ready to share their ideas with colleagues and involve themselves in discussions in order to improve and increase their knowledge.
The call for applications are open on http://www.torinofilmlab.it/interchange.php. The applicant producers should have a demonstrable track record of producing in their own country and perhaps internationally. This could include the production of feature films, documentaries, music videos, advertising. European applicants must be able to demonstrate a clear relationship to or involvement with the countries indicated above and proposed projects should come from or be related to them.
TorinoFilmLab presents the selection for its Development Programme 2010
29 January 2010
For its third edition in 2010, TorinoFilmLab has selected altogether 11 projects for its Development Programme.
Out of over 50 submissions, the selection team of TorinoFilmLab has invited the following 5 filmmakers to participate with their first or second feature film project in its Development Programme 2010 and compete for one of TFL’s production grants (between 50.000 and 200.000 €):
BAIT by Aida Begic (Bosnia and Hercegovina), 2nd feature
LEONES by Jazmín López (Argentina), 1st feature
IL SUD È NIENTE by Fabio Mollo (Italy), 1st feature
IN WHAT CITY DOES IT LIVE? by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia), 2nd feature
FEED ME WITH YOUR WORDS by Martin Turk (Slovenia), 1st feature
TorinoFilmLab is glad to welcome Aida Begic, whose first feature Snow won the Grand Prix at “Semaine de la Critique” of the Cannes Film Festival 2008. She will join our Development Programme with her new project BAIT.
Following an initial meeting with Jazmín López at Buenos Aires Lab 2009, where she won the ARTE award, TFL’s scouts are happy to select her project LEONES, just after her participation in the Binger Film Lab’s Writer’s Programme.
With the selection of Fabio Mollo’s first feature IL SUD È NIENTE, TFL continues to seek out Italian projects which combine personal vision with artistic integrity.
Liew Seng Tat, another award-winning director with his first feature Flower in the pocket (Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam Rotterdam 2008), will participate with his new project IN WHAT CITY DOES IT LIVE?, developed at the Résidence du Festival de Cannes.
After having participated in TFL’s training programme Script&Pitch Workshops in 2007, Martin Turk is back with his new project FEED ME WITH YOUR WORDS, which he also developed at the Résidence du Festival de Cannes.
Both LEONES and FEED ME WITH YOUR WORDS have been selected for CineMart at the 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010.
In addition to the 5 invited projects, six out of the 20 Training participants from the 2009 selection have gained a Development Award during the Final Event, allowing them to enter TFL’s Development Programme, and thereby continue working with TorinoFilmLab for another year.
They are:
- KHORRAMSHAHR by scriptwriter-director Massoud Bakhshi, Iran (producer Marianne Dumoulin and Jacques Bidou for JBA Production).
- DEAD SEA by scriptwriter-director Ihab Jadallah, Palestine/France (producer Lucas Rosant for MPM Films).
- THE SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY by scriptwriter-director Kirsi Marie Liimatainen, Finland (producer Kaarle Aho for Making Movies Oy).
- HEAVY WATER by scriptwriter-director Fabrice Main, France (producer Philippe Liegeois)
- WOLF by scriptwriter-director Bogdan Mustata, Romania (producer Marcian Lazar).
- WALL OF FOG by scriptwriter-director Tobias Nölle, Switzerland.
