By Kristin Feeley, Director, Documentary Film & Artist Programs “… the memories of your elders … [are] a scaffolding for you to build your identity on — and they will not always be accessible to you.” — Emma Fulenwider Most Sundance Institute labs begin in a circle. Participants share a little about their backgrounds, […]
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Tim Roth, Sofia Carson and Kate Beckinsale are among the top talents booked to attend the upcoming ninth edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, which will be held June 25-28 on the island of Sardinia. Roth, who most recently starred in “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” and “Seven Snipers,” is expected to make the […]
The definitive restoration of F.W. Murnau’s silent classic “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” opened the 40th edition of Italy’s Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival on Saturday, with some 7,000 spectators packing Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore square to catch the 1927 masterpiece accompanied by a new score performed live by the Teatro Comunale di Bologna orchestra. The […]
The new Musée du cinéma d’animation (Museum of Animated Film) in Annecy, France, is featuring a collection of films and artifacts from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), with many of the iconic works and archival treasures set to join the museum’s permanent exhibition as part of a partnership agreement. The Animated Film Museum […]
Matīss Kaža, producer and co-writer of Gints Zilbalodis’ animated feature Oscar winner “Flow,” has boarded “Insectarium” (“Indsectario”) the upcoming and hugely awaited feature debut of Mexican stop-motion maestro Sofia Carrillo. Kaža joins the project as a producer, as does Daniela Mujica’s Montreal-based Productions Ocho. They join “Roma” producer Pimienta Films in Mexico and Spain’s Inicia […]
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival closed June 21 with its clearest statement yet on what the industry values most: new voices, deep pipelines, and an embrace of artificial intelligence that it insists will complement rather than displace the humans making films. Whether the industry believes that last part is another matter. Debut Directors Had […]
Canadian kids content creation company Epic Storyworlds has inked a deal with French on-demand streaming platform TV5Monde+ for its Quebec-made hit children’s animated series “Guiby the Super Baby” The deal will bring the 30 x 7’ series to more than 60 million screens across the French-speaking world in 160 territories, spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, the […]
Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra and Chinese auteur Bi Gan had only just met for the first time last month in Paris, but at the Shanghai International Film & TV Market the two directors sat down together as if they’d been arguing about literature for years. The panel, “Stories Travel Further: Literature & Cinema in Spain-China […]
Rolling off its eyecatching portfolio of premium, high-end kids titles, Banijay Kids & Family has clinched a raft of package deals in Latin America, announced strategically in the run-up to this year’s Annecy MIFA market. In a banner deal, Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America has acquired teen girl undercover agent series “Totally Spies!” Season 8 […]
“Secret in the Box,” a period thriller revisiting Hong Kong’s 1974 Happy Valley Box Murder, held its press conference at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, with director Frankie Tam Kwong-yuen and lead actor Zhang Songwen discussing the real cold case at the heart of the Golden Goblet Awards main competition entry. Directed by Hong […]