Mubi Podcast: Encuentros returns this week with a new episode.The third episode features:Verónica Llinás, an Argentine actress of theater, film and television, recognized in particular for her comedy skills. In her long film career, she has worked with important Argentine filmmakers such as Martín Rejtman, Sebastián Borensztein, and the production company El Pampero Cine. In 2015, she starred in and co-directed with Laura Citarella La mujer de los perros (Dog Lady), a fictionalized and contemplative self-portrait that premiered at Rotterdam, in which she admirably explored the possibilities of non-verbal language.The second guest is Vladimir Durán, a Colombian actor and director based in Buenos Aires. In 2011 he competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his short film Soy tan feliz (I Am so Happy), and in 2018 his first feature film, Adiós entusiasmo (So Long Enthusiasm), premiered at the Berlinale Forum. He has acted in films by Franco Lolli,...
- 12/6/2022
- MUBI
Category A festival in Argentina ran November 3-13.
Brazilian Haroldo Borges’ exploration of thorny adolescence in Bittersweet Rain took the best film award at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mdpiff) which wrapped Saturday.
Also a winner of industry prizes at Guadalajara and Ventana Sur and Málaga’s work-in-progress sections, Bittersweet Rain follows fatherless 15-year-old Bruno from a small town as he faces a degenerative eye disease.
Moreover, the drama claimed the audience award and received a special mention for the entire cast. Shot with non-professional actors, it is Borges’ first solo directorial outing after Son Of Ox and Noches desveladas.
Brazilian Haroldo Borges’ exploration of thorny adolescence in Bittersweet Rain took the best film award at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mdpiff) which wrapped Saturday.
Also a winner of industry prizes at Guadalajara and Ventana Sur and Málaga’s work-in-progress sections, Bittersweet Rain follows fatherless 15-year-old Bruno from a small town as he faces a degenerative eye disease.
Moreover, the drama claimed the audience award and received a special mention for the entire cast. Shot with non-professional actors, it is Borges’ first solo directorial outing after Son Of Ox and Noches desveladas.
- 11/13/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Category A festival in Argentina ran November 3-13.
Brazilian Haroldo Borges’ exploration of thorny adolescence in Bittersweet Rain took the best film award at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mdpiff) which wrapped Saturday.
Also a winner of industry prizes at Guadalajara and Ventana Sur and Málaga’s work-in-progress sections, Bittersweet Rain follows fatherless 15-year-old Bruno from a small town as he faces a degenerative eye disease.
Moreover, the drama claimed the audience award and received a special mention for the entire cast. Shot with non-professional actors, it is Borges’ first solo directorial outing after Son Of Ox and Noches desveladas.
Brazilian Haroldo Borges’ exploration of thorny adolescence in Bittersweet Rain took the best film award at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mdpiff) which wrapped Saturday.
Also a winner of industry prizes at Guadalajara and Ventana Sur and Málaga’s work-in-progress sections, Bittersweet Rain follows fatherless 15-year-old Bruno from a small town as he faces a degenerative eye disease.
Moreover, the drama claimed the audience award and received a special mention for the entire cast. Shot with non-professional actors, it is Borges’ first solo directorial outing after Son Of Ox and Noches desveladas.
- 11/13/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
“We’re not thieves,” insists the ringleader of a heist in “Heroic Losers,” a South American crowd-pleaser about a rural collective seeking justice against big-city banking elites. He may be wrong in the most literal sense, but like an Argentinean Danny Ocean, he’s assembled a group of amateurs who have no intention of filling their coffers with ill-gotten gains — they just want their money back. Adding to a tradition of modest heist comedies like “Going in Style” and “Big Deal on Madonna Street,” . That populist touch has put it on track to be the year’s biggest box-office hit in its home country, and other territories will surely pounce after its international premiere in Toronto.
Anchoring this motley ensemble is Ricardo Darín, the durable star of Borensztein’s previous two films, “Chinese Take-Out” and “Kóblic,” though international audiences will likely remember him from “Nine Queens,” which also placed him...
Anchoring this motley ensemble is Ricardo Darín, the durable star of Borensztein’s previous two films, “Chinese Take-Out” and “Kóblic,” though international audiences will likely remember him from “Nine Queens,” which also placed him...
- 9/8/2019
- by Scott Tobias
- Variety Film + TV
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Vladimir Durán's So Long Enthusiasm (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from July 5 - August 4, 2018 as a Special Discovery.It’s become almost commonplace to observe that Kafka’s novella Metamorphosis isn’t about an ugly-looking bug, but instead about the inner workings of a family in a time of crisis. When we can’t depend on the support of others, what personal inner resources might we reveal?A similar question drives the Colombian filmmaker Vladimir Durán’s feature debut, So Long Enthusiasm (2017), in which members of a tight-knit family—three sisters in their 20s and an eleven-year-old boy, Axel (Camilo Castiglione)—find themselves cooped up in their apartment in Buenos Aires, with guests and friends coming and going, as their mother, Margarita (Rosario Bléfari) convalesces, locked up in her bedroom.“Dysfunctional...
- 7/6/2018
- MUBI
I haven’t traveled all I have to Buenos Aires and back to tell you about how this festival, alongside Mar del Plata and Valdivia (this last one in Chile), form the triad of the most important festivals of Latin America, because if you know about it, you know about it. People that have travelled to Argentina for the past 17 years in April have felt the presence of cinema in the streets—and Buenos Aires is a big city. The importance of a festival that brings over 300 titles, some of them for the first time crossing an ocean, is fundamental for the Latino viewer, as well for those who want to make the effort and come to see the movies that play here. On a closer look, what plays here may seem to be eclectic at times, it is purely due to what seems to be the motto of the festival: discovery.
- 6/8/2015
- by Jaime Grijalba Gómez
- MUBI
Alexander Skarsgård and Kristen Wiig in Marielle Heller's The Diary Of A Teenage Girl
Stevan Riley's Listen To Me Marlon, Simone Rapisarda Casanova's The Creation Of Meaning (La Creazione Di Significato), Lukas Valenta Rinner's Parabellum, and Goodnight Mommy directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz are films to look out for.
Bas Devos (Violet); Stéphane Lafleur (Tu Dors Nicole); Shim Sung-bo (Haemoo); Kornél Mundruczó (White God); Britni West (Tired Moonlight); Darhad Erdenibulag (K); Naji Abu Nowar (Theeb); Bill Ross and Turner Ross (Western); Yohei Suzuki (Ow); Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher); Benjamin Crotty (Fort Buchanan); Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás (Dog Lady); Salomé Alexi (Line Of Credit); Chaitanya Tamhane (Court); Sarah Leonor (The Great Man); Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again); Oscar Ruiz Navia (Los Hongos) are filmmakers scheduled to participate in post-screening Q&As.
The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 44th...
Stevan Riley's Listen To Me Marlon, Simone Rapisarda Casanova's The Creation Of Meaning (La Creazione Di Significato), Lukas Valenta Rinner's Parabellum, and Goodnight Mommy directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz are films to look out for.
Bas Devos (Violet); Stéphane Lafleur (Tu Dors Nicole); Shim Sung-bo (Haemoo); Kornél Mundruczó (White God); Britni West (Tired Moonlight); Darhad Erdenibulag (K); Naji Abu Nowar (Theeb); Bill Ross and Turner Ross (Western); Yohei Suzuki (Ow); Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher); Benjamin Crotty (Fort Buchanan); Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás (Dog Lady); Salomé Alexi (Line Of Credit); Chaitanya Tamhane (Court); Sarah Leonor (The Great Man); Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again); Oscar Ruiz Navia (Los Hongos) are filmmakers scheduled to participate in post-screening Q&As.
The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 44th...
- 3/15/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Marielle Heller’s Berlin Generation 14plus grand prix winner The Diary Of A Teenage Girl will open the 44th instalment of the New York-based festival, set to run from March 18-29.
The event will screen 26 international features and 16 shorts in total. Diary Of A Teenage Girl (pictured) premiered at Sundance. For the full line-up click here.
The previously announced Entertainment, the latest from director Rick Alverson, will close New Directors/New Films.
The line-up includes Dog Lady (Argentina) from Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe (Ukraine), Stéphane Lafleur’s Tu Dors Nicole (Canada), Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court (India), Kornél Mundruczó’s Un Certain Regard winner White God (Hungary) and Shim Sung-bo’s Haemoo (South Korea).
“If I had to boil down the aspirations of New Directors/New Films to one word, it would be ‘unexpected’,” said chief curator of film at The Museum Of Modern Art, Rajendra Roy.[p...
The event will screen 26 international features and 16 shorts in total. Diary Of A Teenage Girl (pictured) premiered at Sundance. For the full line-up click here.
The previously announced Entertainment, the latest from director Rick Alverson, will close New Directors/New Films.
The line-up includes Dog Lady (Argentina) from Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe (Ukraine), Stéphane Lafleur’s Tu Dors Nicole (Canada), Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court (India), Kornél Mundruczó’s Un Certain Regard winner White God (Hungary) and Shim Sung-bo’s Haemoo (South Korea).
“If I had to boil down the aspirations of New Directors/New Films to one word, it would be ‘unexpected’,” said chief curator of film at The Museum Of Modern Art, Rajendra Roy.[p...
- 2/23/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Marielle Heller’s Berlin Generation 14plus grand prix winner The Diary Of A Teenage Girl will open the 44th instalment of the New York-based festival, set to run from March 18-29.
The event will screen 26 international features and 16 shorts in total. For the full line-up click here.
The previously announced Entertainment, the latest from director Rick Alverson, will close New Directors/New Films.
The line-up includes Dog Lady (Argentina) from Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe (Ukraine), Stéphane Lafleur’s Tu Dors Nicole (Canada), Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court (India), Kornél Mundruczó’s Un Certain Regard winner White God (Hungary) and Shim Sung-bo’s Haemoo (South Korea).
“If I had to boil down the aspirations of New Directors/New Films to one word, it would be ‘unexpected’,” said chief curator of film at The Museum Of Modern Art, Rajendra Roy.
“Familiarity is great when you spend an evening at a multiplex with a bucket...
The event will screen 26 international features and 16 shorts in total. For the full line-up click here.
The previously announced Entertainment, the latest from director Rick Alverson, will close New Directors/New Films.
The line-up includes Dog Lady (Argentina) from Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe (Ukraine), Stéphane Lafleur’s Tu Dors Nicole (Canada), Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court (India), Kornél Mundruczó’s Un Certain Regard winner White God (Hungary) and Shim Sung-bo’s Haemoo (South Korea).
“If I had to boil down the aspirations of New Directors/New Films to one word, it would be ‘unexpected’,” said chief curator of film at The Museum Of Modern Art, Rajendra Roy.
“Familiarity is great when you spend an evening at a multiplex with a bucket...
- 2/23/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás represent Argentina with their directorial debut “La Mujer de los Perros”. Festival director Rutger Wolfson made the announcement that the ‘Hivos Tiger Awards Competition’ includes projects from Latin America, Thailand, U.K. & U.S.
The 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) will be held January 21 to February 1, 2015, overlapping this year with Sundance (January 22 – 31) which is coming later than usual
Iffr’s line-up for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015 consist of 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from across the world competing for three prizes of €15,000 each, awarded by the Festival’s five Tiger jury members. From its inception in 1995, the Competition has been dedicated to discovering, celebrating and awarding emerging international film talent. Eleven of the 13 competing films are World Premieres and the remaining two are International Premieres.
Contenders, “La Mujer de los Perros” and “Vanishing Point” were both partly financed by Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) as were “Another Trip to the Moon” by Ismail Basbeth, “La Obra del Siglo” by Carlos Quintela and “Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes” by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero.
The Hivos Tiger Awards jury is comprised of acclaimed stage and screen actress Johanna ter Steege, director of the Filmoteca Española Jose Maria Prado Garcia, Dutch born, Australian auteur Rolf de Heer, award winning Japanese producer Shozo Ichiyama and former Tiger Award winning director Maja Miloš. The winners, selected by the jury, will be announced at the Hivos Tiger Award Ceremony on Friday, January 30th.
Hivos Tiger Awards Competition Full Line-Up
“Above and Below” by Nicolas Steiner (Switzerland/ Germany) – International Premiere
The film is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A mind-blowing, cinematic exploration of contemporary existence in the U.S.
Trip to the Moon" by Ismail Basbeth (Indonesia) – World Premiere
The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
“Bridgend" by Jeppe Rønde (Denmark) – World Premiere
Over a five-year period in Bridgend, Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for this mysterious social drama. Hannah Murray convinces as the 'new girl in town' in Danish Rønde’s feature debut.
“Gluckauf" by Remy van Heugten (The Netherlands) – World Premiere
Social drama about the oppressive relationship between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted Dutch province of Limburg.
“Haruko’s Paranormal Laboratory” by Lisa Takeba (Japan) – World Premiere
Haruko is a girl who prefers to cuddle up to her old-fashioned TV set. In this wondrous story, a television can transform into a man: and this is by no means the end of the strange cheerfulness.
“Impressions of a Drowned Man” by Kyros Papavassiliou (Cyprus/ Greece/ Slovenia) – World Premiere
A man who doesn’t know who he is meets his former love. She tells him he is a famous poet, Kostas Karyotakis, who killed himself in 1928. Every year he returns on the anniversary of his death.
“La Mujer de los perros” (Dog Lady) by Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás (Argentina) – World Premiere
The protagonist of Dog Lady is a woman who lives in a poor area with a pack of dogs, in a house like so many other humble shacks in the urban sprawl of Greater Buenos Aires.
“Norfolk” by Martin Radich (U.K.) – World Premiere
As a man's unspeakable past starts to catch up with him, two very different worlds collide and he is finally forced to confront what is right and what is wrong in order to protect his family's future.
“La Obra del siglo” (Work of the Century” by Carlos Quintela (Cuba/ Argentina/ Germany) – World Premiere
Three Cuban men, obliged by circumstance to live together under the same roof, pass their days in the ElectroNuclear City.
“Parabellum” by Lukas Valenta Rinner (Argentina/ Austria/ Uruguay) – World Premiere
In the company of housewives, professionals and a retired tennis instructor, Hernán is part of a middle-class community that is preparing for the eventual arrival of the end of the world at a holiday resort in the marshy Tigre delta.
“Tired Moonlight” by Britni West (U.S.) – International Premiere
Combustible dreams fail to ignite as a lonely, middle-aged woman is confronted by lost love in a glorified-pit-stop town.
“Vanishing Point” by Jakrawal Nilthamrong (Thailand) – World Premiere
A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.
“Videophilia (And Other Viral Syndromes) by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero (Peru) – World Premiere
Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world. Cinema meets digital psychedelia.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) offers carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, short films and media art. The festival's Tiger Awards Competitions, Bright Future, Spectrum and Limelight sections contain new work by auteurs from all over the world including many World Premieres. In the Signals section, Iffr presents retrospectives and themed programmes. Iffr actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through numerous industry initiatives including co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund and Rotterdam Lab.
The 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) will be held January 21 to February 1, 2015, overlapping this year with Sundance (January 22 – 31) which is coming later than usual
Iffr’s line-up for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015 consist of 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from across the world competing for three prizes of €15,000 each, awarded by the Festival’s five Tiger jury members. From its inception in 1995, the Competition has been dedicated to discovering, celebrating and awarding emerging international film talent. Eleven of the 13 competing films are World Premieres and the remaining two are International Premieres.
Contenders, “La Mujer de los Perros” and “Vanishing Point” were both partly financed by Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) as were “Another Trip to the Moon” by Ismail Basbeth, “La Obra del Siglo” by Carlos Quintela and “Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes” by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero.
The Hivos Tiger Awards jury is comprised of acclaimed stage and screen actress Johanna ter Steege, director of the Filmoteca Española Jose Maria Prado Garcia, Dutch born, Australian auteur Rolf de Heer, award winning Japanese producer Shozo Ichiyama and former Tiger Award winning director Maja Miloš. The winners, selected by the jury, will be announced at the Hivos Tiger Award Ceremony on Friday, January 30th.
Hivos Tiger Awards Competition Full Line-Up
“Above and Below” by Nicolas Steiner (Switzerland/ Germany) – International Premiere
The film is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A mind-blowing, cinematic exploration of contemporary existence in the U.S.
Trip to the Moon" by Ismail Basbeth (Indonesia) – World Premiere
The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
“Bridgend" by Jeppe Rønde (Denmark) – World Premiere
Over a five-year period in Bridgend, Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for this mysterious social drama. Hannah Murray convinces as the 'new girl in town' in Danish Rønde’s feature debut.
“Gluckauf" by Remy van Heugten (The Netherlands) – World Premiere
Social drama about the oppressive relationship between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted Dutch province of Limburg.
“Haruko’s Paranormal Laboratory” by Lisa Takeba (Japan) – World Premiere
Haruko is a girl who prefers to cuddle up to her old-fashioned TV set. In this wondrous story, a television can transform into a man: and this is by no means the end of the strange cheerfulness.
“Impressions of a Drowned Man” by Kyros Papavassiliou (Cyprus/ Greece/ Slovenia) – World Premiere
A man who doesn’t know who he is meets his former love. She tells him he is a famous poet, Kostas Karyotakis, who killed himself in 1928. Every year he returns on the anniversary of his death.
“La Mujer de los perros” (Dog Lady) by Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás (Argentina) – World Premiere
The protagonist of Dog Lady is a woman who lives in a poor area with a pack of dogs, in a house like so many other humble shacks in the urban sprawl of Greater Buenos Aires.
“Norfolk” by Martin Radich (U.K.) – World Premiere
As a man's unspeakable past starts to catch up with him, two very different worlds collide and he is finally forced to confront what is right and what is wrong in order to protect his family's future.
“La Obra del siglo” (Work of the Century” by Carlos Quintela (Cuba/ Argentina/ Germany) – World Premiere
Three Cuban men, obliged by circumstance to live together under the same roof, pass their days in the ElectroNuclear City.
“Parabellum” by Lukas Valenta Rinner (Argentina/ Austria/ Uruguay) – World Premiere
In the company of housewives, professionals and a retired tennis instructor, Hernán is part of a middle-class community that is preparing for the eventual arrival of the end of the world at a holiday resort in the marshy Tigre delta.
“Tired Moonlight” by Britni West (U.S.) – International Premiere
Combustible dreams fail to ignite as a lonely, middle-aged woman is confronted by lost love in a glorified-pit-stop town.
“Vanishing Point” by Jakrawal Nilthamrong (Thailand) – World Premiere
A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.
“Videophilia (And Other Viral Syndromes) by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero (Peru) – World Premiere
Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world. Cinema meets digital psychedelia.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) offers carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, short films and media art. The festival's Tiger Awards Competitions, Bright Future, Spectrum and Limelight sections contain new work by auteurs from all over the world including many World Premieres. In the Signals section, Iffr presents retrospectives and themed programmes. Iffr actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through numerous industry initiatives including co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund and Rotterdam Lab.
- 1/9/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The International Film Festival Rotterdam opens on January 21 with Tom Hooper's War Book and runs through February 1, when J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year wraps the 44th edition. Today, the festival's announced the lineup for its Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015, with 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from around the world—new work by Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, Jeppe Rønde, Martin Radich, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Ismail Basbeth, Carlos Quintela, Juan Daniel Fernández Molero and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The International Film Festival Rotterdam opens on January 21 with Tom Hooper's War Book and runs through February 1, when J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year wraps the 44th edition. Today, the festival's announced the lineup for its Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015, with 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from around the world—new work by Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, Jeppe Rønde, Martin Radich, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Ismail Basbeth, Carlos Quintela, Juan Daniel Fernández Molero and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/6/2015
- Keyframe
Hivos Tiger Awards Competition includes films from Latin America, Thailand, the UK and Us.Scroll down for full list of titles
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has confirmed its line-up for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015, with 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from across the world competing for three prizes of €15,000 each.
Eleven of the 13 competing films will receive their world premieres at Iffr with the remaining two films screening as international premieres.
The five Tiger jury members include actress Johanna ter Steege; Filmoteca Española director Jose Maria Prado Garcia; Dutch born, Australian auteur Rolf de Heer; Japanese producer Shozo Ichiyama; and former Tiger Award winning director Maja Miloš.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Jan 30.
The selection includes La Mujer De Los Perros, from Argentinan filmmakers Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, which centres on a woman who lives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires with a pack of dogs...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has confirmed its line-up for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015, with 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from across the world competing for three prizes of €15,000 each.
Eleven of the 13 competing films will receive their world premieres at Iffr with the remaining two films screening as international premieres.
The five Tiger jury members include actress Johanna ter Steege; Filmoteca Española director Jose Maria Prado Garcia; Dutch born, Australian auteur Rolf de Heer; Japanese producer Shozo Ichiyama; and former Tiger Award winning director Maja Miloš.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Jan 30.
The selection includes La Mujer De Los Perros, from Argentinan filmmakers Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, which centres on a woman who lives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires with a pack of dogs...
- 1/6/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Hivos Tiger Awards Competition includes films from Latin America, Thailand, the UK and Us.Scroll down for full list of titles
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has confirmed its line-up for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015, with 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from across the world competing for three prizes of €15,000 each.
Eleven of the 13 competing films will receive their world premieres at Iffr with the remaining two films screening as international premieres.
The five Tiger jury members include actress Johanna ter Steege; Filmoteca Española director Jose Maria Prado Garcia; Dutch born, Australian auteur Rolf de Heer; Japanese producer Shozo Ichiyama; and former Tiger Award winning director Maja Miloš.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Jan 30.
The selection includes La Mujer De Los Perros, from Argentinan filmmakers Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, which centres on a woman who lives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires with a pack of dogs...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has confirmed its line-up for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015, with 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from across the world competing for three prizes of €15,000 each.
Eleven of the 13 competing films will receive their world premieres at Iffr with the remaining two films screening as international premieres.
The five Tiger jury members include actress Johanna ter Steege; Filmoteca Española director Jose Maria Prado Garcia; Dutch born, Australian auteur Rolf de Heer; Japanese producer Shozo Ichiyama; and former Tiger Award winning director Maja Miloš.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Jan 30.
The selection includes La Mujer De Los Perros, from Argentinan filmmakers Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás, which centres on a woman who lives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires with a pack of dogs...
- 1/6/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) of International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has selected fourteen film projects from nine countries across Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East to receive post-production, script and project development grants totaling €180,000. In its Fall 2014 selection round, the Hbf provides financial support to outstanding projects from nine established filmmakers, which this year includes award winning Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s, and five first-time feature filmmakers. In addition, €100,000 has been awarded to Oak Motion Pictures and Viking Film through Hubert Bals Fund Plus, whereby the Netherlands Film Fund provides the funding to Dutch producers who are co-producing a Hbf supported film.
Script and project development
A script and project development grant can be used for the further development of the script or presentation of the project to financiers or other potential partners at (international) co-production meetings or film festivals. Based on his 2012 short "Nuclear Waste," Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s new feature film project "The Luxembourg" was selected for a grant in this category and tells a gripping tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of Chernobyl’s nuclear wasteland. Slaboshpytskiy’s previous film, "The Tribe," winner of the Grand Prix, Semaine de la Critique 2014, was also supported by the Hbf and will screen in the Limelight section of Iffr 2015.
Hbf has selected several projects by new and promising filmmakers in the script and project development category, including two debut feature films by filmmakers who previously screened their short films at Iffr. Julia De Simone (Brazil), presented The Harbor in the Iffr 2014 Spectrum Shorts section and Hbf is now providing financing for her debut feature, "Corte Real," a layered hybrid story of the history of slavery in Brazil. Argentinean director Mónica Lairana presented her short films at Iffr in 2010 (Rosa) and 2013 (Maria) and her Hbf-supported debut feature "La Cama" is an intimate and touching portrait of an aging married couple.
Fall 2014 projects selected for script and project development support:
"A Young Executioner," Li Luo, China "Corte Real," Julia De Simone, Brazil "Diamond Island," Davy Chou, Cambodia "La Cama," Mónica Lairana, Argentina "Neonboy," Marcio Reolon & Filipe Matzembacher, Brazil "Shanghai Youth," Wang Bing, China "The Center of the Earth," Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil "The Luxembourg," Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine "The Uunfound (UFO)," Sattha Saengthon, Thailand "To All Naked Men" Bassam Chekhes, Syria
Post-production
A post-production grant can be used for different activities in the post-production process varying from editing to sound mixing. Promising Peruvian director and 2010 alumni of Iffr’s Trainee Project for Young Film Critics, Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, has been awarded a post-production grant for his second feature "Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)," a modern and visually psychedelic take on youth culture in Lima. In total four film projects have been selected to receive post-production grants and all are expected to join the recently completed Hbf-supported films that have been selected for Iffr 2015.
Fall 2014 projects selected for post-production support:
"La Mujer de los Perros," Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás, Argentina "La Obra del Siglo," Carlos Quintela, Cuba "Vanishing Point," Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Thailand "Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)," Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, Peru
Hubert Bals Fund Plus
Now in its ninth year, the successful Hubert Bals Fund Plus programme of The Netherlands Film Fund and Iffr gets Dutch producers involved in Hbf-supported, international co-productions. This Fall Hbf Plus support is granted to Oak Motion Pictures for the realisation of "The Wound," John Trengove’s first feature film on the ritual circumcision of a teenage gay Xhosa boy in South Africa. The second grant goes to Viking Film for "Oscuro Animal" by Colombian filmmaker Felipe Guerrero, on the journey of three women forced to flee their homes following the violent conflict in their region. Hbf Plus has now supported five projects this year, including the three projects announced last May.
Fall 2014 projects selected for Hbf Plus support:
"The Wound," John Trengove, South Africa. Produced by Oak Motion Pictures (The Netherlands), Urucu Media (South Africa), Sampek (France), and Salzgeber (Germany). "Oscuro Animal," Felipe Guerrero, Colombia. Produced by Viking Film (The Netherlands) mutokino (Colombia), Gema Films (Argentina), and ma.ja.de. filmproduktion (Germany)
About the Hubert Bals Fund : Hbf is an initiative of International Film Festival Rotterdam. The Fund has been designed to offer financial support to remarkable and unique feature films by talented filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. Since its creation 25 years ago, over 1,000 projects from over 100 countries have received support from the Hbf. As of 2015, the Hbf provides support in the following funding categories:
Hbf Script and Project Development (max. €10,000) – next deadline 1 March 2015 Hbf Post-production (max. € 20,000) – next deadline 1 August 2015 Hbf Plus - A minority co-production programme for Dutch producers- in collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund (€ 50,000) – next deadline 1 April 2015 Hbf+Europe – Minority co-production support (€ 55,000) – next deadline 1 April 2015 Hbf+Europe - Distribution support for international co-productions (€ 20,000) – next deadline 1 September 2015
The Hbf is funded by the Creative Europe – Media programme of the European Union, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hivos, the Dioraphte Foundation, the Tiger Friends Foundation and the Lions Club Rotterdam: L’Esprit du Temps.
Information about the Fund and the application procedures can be found via www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/hubertbalsfund .
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) offers a high quality line-up of carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, short films and media art. The festival's Tiger Awards Competitions, Bright Future, Spectrum and Limelight sections contain new work by auteurs from all over the world including many World Premieres. In the Signals section, Iffr presents retrospectives and themed programmes. Iffr actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through numerous industry initiatives including co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund and Rotterdam Lab.
Script and project development
A script and project development grant can be used for the further development of the script or presentation of the project to financiers or other potential partners at (international) co-production meetings or film festivals. Based on his 2012 short "Nuclear Waste," Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s new feature film project "The Luxembourg" was selected for a grant in this category and tells a gripping tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of Chernobyl’s nuclear wasteland. Slaboshpytskiy’s previous film, "The Tribe," winner of the Grand Prix, Semaine de la Critique 2014, was also supported by the Hbf and will screen in the Limelight section of Iffr 2015.
Hbf has selected several projects by new and promising filmmakers in the script and project development category, including two debut feature films by filmmakers who previously screened their short films at Iffr. Julia De Simone (Brazil), presented The Harbor in the Iffr 2014 Spectrum Shorts section and Hbf is now providing financing for her debut feature, "Corte Real," a layered hybrid story of the history of slavery in Brazil. Argentinean director Mónica Lairana presented her short films at Iffr in 2010 (Rosa) and 2013 (Maria) and her Hbf-supported debut feature "La Cama" is an intimate and touching portrait of an aging married couple.
Fall 2014 projects selected for script and project development support:
"A Young Executioner," Li Luo, China "Corte Real," Julia De Simone, Brazil "Diamond Island," Davy Chou, Cambodia "La Cama," Mónica Lairana, Argentina "Neonboy," Marcio Reolon & Filipe Matzembacher, Brazil "Shanghai Youth," Wang Bing, China "The Center of the Earth," Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil "The Luxembourg," Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine "The Uunfound (UFO)," Sattha Saengthon, Thailand "To All Naked Men" Bassam Chekhes, Syria
Post-production
A post-production grant can be used for different activities in the post-production process varying from editing to sound mixing. Promising Peruvian director and 2010 alumni of Iffr’s Trainee Project for Young Film Critics, Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, has been awarded a post-production grant for his second feature "Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)," a modern and visually psychedelic take on youth culture in Lima. In total four film projects have been selected to receive post-production grants and all are expected to join the recently completed Hbf-supported films that have been selected for Iffr 2015.
Fall 2014 projects selected for post-production support:
"La Mujer de los Perros," Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás, Argentina "La Obra del Siglo," Carlos Quintela, Cuba "Vanishing Point," Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Thailand "Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)," Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, Peru
Hubert Bals Fund Plus
Now in its ninth year, the successful Hubert Bals Fund Plus programme of The Netherlands Film Fund and Iffr gets Dutch producers involved in Hbf-supported, international co-productions. This Fall Hbf Plus support is granted to Oak Motion Pictures for the realisation of "The Wound," John Trengove’s first feature film on the ritual circumcision of a teenage gay Xhosa boy in South Africa. The second grant goes to Viking Film for "Oscuro Animal" by Colombian filmmaker Felipe Guerrero, on the journey of three women forced to flee their homes following the violent conflict in their region. Hbf Plus has now supported five projects this year, including the three projects announced last May.
Fall 2014 projects selected for Hbf Plus support:
"The Wound," John Trengove, South Africa. Produced by Oak Motion Pictures (The Netherlands), Urucu Media (South Africa), Sampek (France), and Salzgeber (Germany). "Oscuro Animal," Felipe Guerrero, Colombia. Produced by Viking Film (The Netherlands) mutokino (Colombia), Gema Films (Argentina), and ma.ja.de. filmproduktion (Germany)
About the Hubert Bals Fund : Hbf is an initiative of International Film Festival Rotterdam. The Fund has been designed to offer financial support to remarkable and unique feature films by talented filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. Since its creation 25 years ago, over 1,000 projects from over 100 countries have received support from the Hbf. As of 2015, the Hbf provides support in the following funding categories:
Hbf Script and Project Development (max. €10,000) – next deadline 1 March 2015 Hbf Post-production (max. € 20,000) – next deadline 1 August 2015 Hbf Plus - A minority co-production programme for Dutch producers- in collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund (€ 50,000) – next deadline 1 April 2015 Hbf+Europe – Minority co-production support (€ 55,000) – next deadline 1 April 2015 Hbf+Europe - Distribution support for international co-productions (€ 20,000) – next deadline 1 September 2015
The Hbf is funded by the Creative Europe – Media programme of the European Union, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hivos, the Dioraphte Foundation, the Tiger Friends Foundation and the Lions Club Rotterdam: L’Esprit du Temps.
Information about the Fund and the application procedures can be found via www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/hubertbalsfund .
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) offers a high quality line-up of carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, short films and media art. The festival's Tiger Awards Competitions, Bright Future, Spectrum and Limelight sections contain new work by auteurs from all over the world including many World Premieres. In the Signals section, Iffr presents retrospectives and themed programmes. Iffr actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through numerous industry initiatives including co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund and Rotterdam Lab.
- 11/17/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Some 14 films selected to receive post-production, script and project development grants.
For its autumn selection round, the Hubert Bals Fund has selected 14 film projects to receive post-production, script and project development grants totaling €180,000 ($225,000).
The projects come from nine countries across Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The selection includes nine established filmmakers, including award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (The Tribe), and five first-time feature filmmakers.
In addition, €100,000 ($125,000) has been awarded to Oak Motion Pictures and Viking Film through Hubert Bals Fund Plus, whereby the Netherlands Film Fund provides the funding to Dutch producers who are co-producing a Hbf supported film.
Script and project development
Based on his 2012 short Nuclear Waste, Slaboshpytskiy’s new feature film project The Luxembourg was selected for a grant in the script and project development category, which can be used for the further development of the script or presentation of the project to financiers or other potential partners at (international...
For its autumn selection round, the Hubert Bals Fund has selected 14 film projects to receive post-production, script and project development grants totaling €180,000 ($225,000).
The projects come from nine countries across Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The selection includes nine established filmmakers, including award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (The Tribe), and five first-time feature filmmakers.
In addition, €100,000 ($125,000) has been awarded to Oak Motion Pictures and Viking Film through Hubert Bals Fund Plus, whereby the Netherlands Film Fund provides the funding to Dutch producers who are co-producing a Hbf supported film.
Script and project development
Based on his 2012 short Nuclear Waste, Slaboshpytskiy’s new feature film project The Luxembourg was selected for a grant in the script and project development category, which can be used for the further development of the script or presentation of the project to financiers or other potential partners at (international...
- 11/12/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 12 projects have been selected for the second edition of Venice filmmaking scheme, the Biennale College - Cinema, a programme for training young filmmakers and producing micro-budget films.
The 12 teams, made up of directors and producers, come from Argentina, Belgium, UK, India, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, Romania, Hungary and the Us.
They will introduce their projects at a special session held today (October 14) in Venice introduced by president Paolo Baratta and the director of the Venice International Film Festival Alberto Barbera.
Three teams will then be chosen to take part in two further workshops to be held in December 2013 and January 2014, before going into production on their microbudget films, each of which will receive a €150,000 contribution and will be screened at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014.
The sessions will be led by Michel Reilhac, Gino Ventriglia and Amy Dotson, with industry support from production and script consultants including Vincent Wang, Mike Ryan, [link...
The 12 teams, made up of directors and producers, come from Argentina, Belgium, UK, India, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, Romania, Hungary and the Us.
They will introduce their projects at a special session held today (October 14) in Venice introduced by president Paolo Baratta and the director of the Venice International Film Festival Alberto Barbera.
Three teams will then be chosen to take part in two further workshops to be held in December 2013 and January 2014, before going into production on their microbudget films, each of which will receive a €150,000 contribution and will be screened at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014.
The sessions will be led by Michel Reilhac, Gino Ventriglia and Amy Dotson, with industry support from production and script consultants including Vincent Wang, Mike Ryan, [link...
- 10/14/2013
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.