Today we spoke to Karel Och, Artistic Director of the 48th KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE • 29 March 2013 This year we have a special program called ‘Imagina’ and it focuses on films which, if I wanted to simplify, I would call them experimental but let’s say films with a highly unusual narrative – something […]
Claire French
Claire French is the Marketing and Communications Director at FFL. Her editorial training is grounded in Arts Management, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Communications and Media, Notre Dame University, Fremantle. Her film experience includes her position as Festival Director of Perth's Bamboo Mainstage Amphitheater. Reach her at claire@filmfestivallife.com
SilverDocs Film Festival
Today we spoke to Sky Sitney, Artistic Director of the 11th SILVERDOCS DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL DEADLINE • 15 March 2013 Every time we launch our call for submissions – rather than approach it with an agenda, scouring through it hoping to see things that will match that agenda – we try to stay open and allow the […]
How To’s of Distribution with Beasts of the Southern Wild Producer Philipp Engelhorn
‘We can do the interview in English or German,’ I said. German NYC based Philipp Engelhorn answered, with more enthusiasm than I had prepared myself for ‘No, English, please, English would be great’. Showing such stand out adaptability, Engelhorn is the type of runaway success story we love to be reminded of: studied at […]
Short, Sexy, Hard: Interfilm opens for 2012
Interfilm like it short so lets try to follow their lead: The venue is Volksbühne. In all its theatricality, this big trophy of Berlin’s east is made for events like Interfilm Short Film Festival. In its 28th edition, Interfilm also happens to be about the same age as its high energy crowd attending the Opening Night, […]
Better times ahead: ALFILM forms new ways to view Arabic culture
The Arab Film Festival hold open the doors to Berlin’s Babylon Cinema this week, celebrating its fourth year offering a new lens through which to see the Arab world. In its Opening Night, Monday 5th October, we were welcomed by the warmly lit faces of the festival family to it’s beautifully subtle prologue, FIDAÏ by […]
Drive on, Grove: Elliot Grove’s Best of Berlin and how Berlin can do it better
Live! Ammunition! by Raindance Film Festival Sputnik Kino, 26 October 2012 Live! Ammunition! signaled our attention last Friday, stepping into Berlin’s Sputnik Kino, for a serious relay of 2 minute pitching. Screenwriters, directors or filmmakers of any calling were given the opportunity to lure the jury into their dream […]
Jury Member Jana Cisar on Warsaw Film Festival’s Future
Warsaw Film Festival 2012, 28th edition Jury member, Jana Cisar Documentary Competition Thanks to the team at the Warsaw Film Festival 2012, we were able to plan a quicky eastward to enjoy the final resolutions in its last days. Nested in the spaces between some fierce film competition, we met a few interesting people, […]
Israel Film Festival Berlin, ‘POLICEMAN’ and the stink of masculinity
Festival ground report. Israel Film Festival, 18 October 2012, 20:00 Moviemento Cinema Berlin, Germany The trial. Upon discovering the Israel Film Festival, I had to stop myself from glaring judgmentally into it’s flaws. It, and the Porn Film Festival Berlin shared the same format: 70 or so films all within four days at […]
He sleeps with Polanski: Marcin Łuczaj on his Polish love affair with Żubroffka
Taking place in a city which uniquely ‘hangs’ between Europe’s East and West, Żubroffka International Short Film Festival is an event we continue to check up on; always energized by it’s entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe’s festival circuit. With the major expansion planned for their seventh edition, 5-9 December 2012, we joined fresh faced programmer […]
DIE LETZTE STADT to Hollywood • 48 Hour Film Project • Berlin 2012
Festival ground report. 48 Hour Film Project 9 October 2012, 20:00 Babylon Cinema Berlin, Germany Hundreds of filmmakers. Running a little late, I screeched the back breaks of my bike to the racks footing Berlin’s Babylon, camera balancing in my fingertips, phone in the other hand (dialing our FFL camera […]