SOFIA’S LAST AMBULANCE premiered in the competition section at Semaine de la Critique, Cannes in 2012. This was the green light for the first feature documentary film from Bulgarian filmmaker Ilian Metev. Since then, SOFIA’S LAST AMBULANCE (Poslednata lineika na Sofia) has been honored with the awards including France 4 Visionary Award at Cannes, Best […]
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Victor Orozco Ramirez: Reality 2.0, DIY and the Importance of Festivals
‘I came to the Berlinale through the backdoor,’ explains filmmaker Victor Orozco Ramirez with his sparkling creative vision. The FFL member recently won the First Steps Award, plummeting his animated documentary short film REALITY 2.0 into the competitive 2013 Berlinale program. With major festivals including Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin, Cartagena International Film Festival and DOK […]
Friederike Jehn: How ‘SUMMER OUTSIDE’ helped shine her career internationally
She premiered at Hof with her award-winning debut DANCING ON AND ON (Weitertanzen). She won the Eastman Award for young talent in 2008. Her second feature SUMMER OUTSIDE (Draussen ist Sommer) got a shot on the international parquet, premiering at ‘A’ film festival San Sebastian this year. She is Friederike Jehn, German filmmaker whose name is hot in […]
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 […]
Meet Damian Schipporeit on Scholarships, ‘LINE 102’ and distribution’s dirty work
‘Sorry, I have to eat something, do you mind…?’ A fuzzy-haired-head comes into the room and two big brown eyes look at me. ‘No. No, of course not.’ We are in a nice little cafe called ‘Marktkaffee’ in Linden, an upcoming area in Hannover, close to Damain Schipporeit’s company Filmblick. Filmblick is a production company […]
Reclaim the Vision! Between Animation and Reality
Last week Leipzig allowed the world renowned DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival For Documentary and Animated Film to claim its city. Based in Saxony, the festival presented a one week mammoth program: 360 films from 62 countries. For 55 years, the festival has dedicated itself to national and international documentary. What I seeked […]
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 […]
CANNES OFFICIAL SELECTION 2012
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its full competition line-up for 2012! The festival is one of the most important and popular festivals worldwide and one of the circuit’s highlights for both film professionals and film enthusiasts. This year, Cannes kicks off on May 16th and ends on the 27th. Opening film of the 65th […]
MUBI x Film Festivals
A trend is spreading in the film festival world. More and more festivals finally start embracing the web as an extention to their event. This is not only realized under the wing of the festivals organizations, like Tribeca’s own Online Film Festival, IDFA TV or Oberhausen Films Online, but also through collaborations with online video […]
Cool Free Tribeca Events
Are you located in New York, or perhaps visiting the city for Tribeca Film Festival, and up for some entertainment? Than you have the option this week to visit downtown NY and enjoy the Festival’s free events: the Tribeca Drive-In (April 21-23), NY Film and Entertainment Soccer Tournament (April 23), Family Festival Street Fair (April […]