With co-production an ever-popular resource for independents and emerging talent, the Madrid Film School (Ecam), hailed as one of the leading film schools in the world, has launched Ecam Forum, a new co-production initiative to run June 10 – 13 in Madrid.
An Open Call ending April 9 has been announced March 18 for submissions from local Spanish feature film projects in development or in post-production, and series projects in development.
Said Ecam director Gonzalo Salazar Simpson at a press conference in late Feb.: “I believe that the key to the Forum’s success will have to do with the presence of decision makers and international professionals. Ecam’s ability to attract this kind of people has been growing for about 10 years or so. I have no doubt we will be able to attract them.”
The forum is aimed at producers, directors and screenwriters, and seeks to foster audiovisual production, promote emerging talent and...
An Open Call ending April 9 has been announced March 18 for submissions from local Spanish feature film projects in development or in post-production, and series projects in development.
Said Ecam director Gonzalo Salazar Simpson at a press conference in late Feb.: “I believe that the key to the Forum’s success will have to do with the presence of decision makers and international professionals. Ecam’s ability to attract this kind of people has been growing for about 10 years or so. I have no doubt we will be able to attract them.”
The forum is aimed at producers, directors and screenwriters, and seeks to foster audiovisual production, promote emerging talent and...
- 3/18/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Light-hearted drama won Sundance audience award.
The Oldenburg Film Festival (Sept 16-20) is to close with Umrika, an Indian drama from writer-director Prashant Nair’s that stars Life of Pi’s Suraj Sharma and The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Tony Revolori.
The film, first seen at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the audience award, is set in the mid-1980s and centres on a small village in India that is invigorated when one of their own travels to America and details his adventures through letters home.
But when the letters mysteriously stop, his younger brother Rama ( Sharma) sets out on a journey to find him. With the help of his best friend Lalu (Revolori), Rama retraces his brother’s steps and charts a path of his own.
The Hindi-language film will be jointly released in German cinemas on Nov 19 by Ascot Elite and CaminoFilmverleih.
Highlights at this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival include the world...
The Oldenburg Film Festival (Sept 16-20) is to close with Umrika, an Indian drama from writer-director Prashant Nair’s that stars Life of Pi’s Suraj Sharma and The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Tony Revolori.
The film, first seen at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the audience award, is set in the mid-1980s and centres on a small village in India that is invigorated when one of their own travels to America and details his adventures through letters home.
But when the letters mysteriously stop, his younger brother Rama ( Sharma) sets out on a journey to find him. With the help of his best friend Lalu (Revolori), Rama retraces his brother’s steps and charts a path of his own.
The Hindi-language film will be jointly released in German cinemas on Nov 19 by Ascot Elite and CaminoFilmverleih.
Highlights at this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival include the world...
- 9/4/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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