All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 2
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NewsIva Radivojević’s ‘When The Phone Rang’ wins main prize at Connecting Cottbus
The Serbian director’s second feature explore the concept of home and trauma.
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FeaturesHow DOK Leipzig’s Animation Lab is working hard to bring documentary and animation closer together
The Lab’s second edition will feature UK filmmaker Daniel Gough’s hybrid feature debut ’Night Gardener’
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NewsEdith Wharton adaptation ‘The Custom Of The Country’, directed by Josie Rourke, wins German funding
Sofia Coppola had previously been planning to adapt The Custom of the Country as a series for Apple TV+.
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NewsFive Swiss producers join forces to launch Swiss Studios alliance
Dr. Malte Probst appointed chairman and CEO of production alliance.
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Features“Collaboration not competition”: DOK Leipzig’s Nadja Tennstedt on the 2024 industry programme
DOK Industry is designed to facilitate creative cooperation and encourage best practice at all levels
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FeaturesFilmmakers are focusing on beauty and enrichment, says DOK Leipzig’s Christoph Terhechte
The festival’s artistic director hopes to raise the profile of animation and documentary in all their forms.
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NewsFilmotor picks up DOK Leipzig world premiere ‘Morichales’ (exclusive)
Chris Gude’s docu-fiction follows a fictional explorer as he travels along the Amazon’s Orinoco river.
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News“Kenya is losing $2.2m a day to piracy”: Challenges, opportunities for African distributors in spotlight
The debate took place at the International Film Distribution Summit (IFDS) in Cologne.
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NewsLightdox picks up ‘Valentina And The MUOSters’ doc ahead of DOK Leipzig
The Swiss-Italian feature, set on the island of Sicily, will play in international competition.
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NewsEuropean Work In Progress pitching event awards €60,000 worth of prizes
The jury included Edinburgh International FIlm Festival director Paul Ridd.
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NewsChristine Tröstrum, former project manager of Berlinale Talents, dies aged 52
Tröstrum extended the concept by helping to create the international Berlinale Film Residences
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NewsGerman box office falls 16% for first nine months of 2024
Disney’s Inside Out 2 is the most successful release of 2024 to date.
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NewsDOK Leipzig unveils full competition line-up
The titles in the international, German, animation and audience competitions have been revealed.
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News‘The Duel’ starring Aidan Gillen, wraps principal photography in Poland
The €7.3m film is one of the biggest productions to shoot in Poland this year.
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News‘Riddick 4: Furya’ starring Vin Diesel secures €2m funding from Germany’s FFF Bayern
Fourth instalment of David Twohy’s space western will largely shoot in Bavaria, as well as Spain and the UK,
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NewsFilmfest Hamburg celebrates triumphant record-breaking edition
The German festival donated the vaue of floral bouquet gifts to the charitable Afghan Volunteer Women’s Association.
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NewsMohammad Rasoulof to head jury at Kyiv’s Molodist film festival
Exiled Iranian director named as jury president of Ukrainian film festival.
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NewsBerlinale Pro’s Tanja Meissner, Hamburg’s Malika Rabahallah talk role models, work/life balance and imposter syndrome
They were joined by producer Wiebke Andresen and cinema owner Verena von Stackelberg of Wolf Kino at FIlmfest Hamburg.
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NewsHamburg Production Awards salute Red Balloon Film, Neue Bioskop Film producers
The German partners of Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays and Chiara Fleischhacker’s Vena each won cash prizes of €25,000.
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NewsEuropean Work in Progress Cologne selects 29 projects for 2024 edition
Selection includes Bulgarian filmmaker Stephan Komendarev’s seventh feature Made In EU.