As the fund restructures, several previous grantees spoke on a Rotterdam panel about their struggles in local markets.
After the recent announcement that International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund is restructuring, the scheme’s outgoing manager Iwana Chronis was at Iffr on Monday (Jan 30) with several fund recipients to discuss their distribution experiences.
Filmmakers Michel Lipkes (Mexico), John Torres (Philippines) and Marina Meliande (Brazil) praised the development and production fund for supporting independent films in less financially-able countries, but also took the opportunity to highlight the constant struggle of releasing their films in their respective home territories.
Lipkes, whose feature Malaventura screened at Iffr in 2012, said the fund enabled his film to also receive support from the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, a grant he may not have received if he had not had the backing of the Hbf fund.
However, his inability to screen the film for more than one week in Mexico’s multiplexes...
After the recent announcement that International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund is restructuring, the scheme’s outgoing manager Iwana Chronis was at Iffr on Monday (Jan 30) with several fund recipients to discuss their distribution experiences.
Filmmakers Michel Lipkes (Mexico), John Torres (Philippines) and Marina Meliande (Brazil) praised the development and production fund for supporting independent films in less financially-able countries, but also took the opportunity to highlight the constant struggle of releasing their films in their respective home territories.
Lipkes, whose feature Malaventura screened at Iffr in 2012, said the fund enabled his film to also receive support from the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, a grant he may not have received if he had not had the backing of the Hbf fund.
However, his inability to screen the film for more than one week in Mexico’s multiplexes...
- 2/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
We have a report or two from the International Film Festival Rotterdam on the way, so this'll be something of a supplementary roundup, collecting reviews, impressions and so on from the festival that runs through Sunday. The first main event would have to be the world premiere of the film Takashi Miike is now calling Ace Attorney. The Iffr has posted a video record of Gawie Keyser's "Big Talk" with Miike that took place on Saturday. The introduction's in Dutch, and it's followed by a trailer with English subtitles (much longer, too, than the first trailer) and the conversation itself is a mingling of questions in English and answers in Japanese with Dutch subtitles. Miike obsessives, though, will be able to sort out what's being said.
"The Iffr and Miike have been friendly towards each other ever since Audition had a few legendary screenings over here back in 2000, and it...
"The Iffr and Miike have been friendly towards each other ever since Audition had a few legendary screenings over here back in 2000, and it...
- 2/1/2012
- MUBI
Today's announcement from the International Film Festival Rotterdam lays out the full lineup for the Bright Future program. With descriptions from the festival:
World premieres
A la cantábrica (To La Cantábrica), Ezequiel Erriquez, Argentina. A "coming of age film set in the outskirts of Buenos Aires during the economic crisis of the late 1990s." Blog.
Corta, Felipe Guerrero, Colombia, Argentina, France. Guerrero "associates the work of sugar cane harvesters with the process of 16mm filmmaking. This film is a beautiful, cinematic meditation reminiscent of the work of Sharon Lockhart or Ben Russell." The Ultimate Pranx Case, Influenz Films, Canada. "In 2010, three boys had a prank with a girl at school and streamed it live on Internet. What started as an innocent joke soon got completely out of hand." Par exemple, Electre (Electre, For Instance), Jeanne Balibar and Pierre Léon, France. "In this eclectic homage to the Greek tragedy, Balibar and...
World premieres
A la cantábrica (To La Cantábrica), Ezequiel Erriquez, Argentina. A "coming of age film set in the outskirts of Buenos Aires during the economic crisis of the late 1990s." Blog.
Corta, Felipe Guerrero, Colombia, Argentina, France. Guerrero "associates the work of sugar cane harvesters with the process of 16mm filmmaking. This film is a beautiful, cinematic meditation reminiscent of the work of Sharon Lockhart or Ben Russell." The Ultimate Pranx Case, Influenz Films, Canada. "In 2010, three boys had a prank with a girl at school and streamed it live on Internet. What started as an innocent joke soon got completely out of hand." Par exemple, Electre (Electre, For Instance), Jeanne Balibar and Pierre Léon, France. "In this eclectic homage to the Greek tragedy, Balibar and...
- 1/15/2012
- MUBI
Esteemed Mexican film critic Carlos Bonfil makes an interesting point in a recent article for La Jornada, independent Mexican films which garner critical acclaim in the international film circuit and are therefore perceived as the state of Mexican films, are rarely if ever seen by the general public in its own country. Without attempting to deconstruct the business that enables this paradox, its safe to say that the support Mexican films receive from abroad goes a long way in helping these independent voices continue to be heard. Notice I did not mention the word "made", and that's because Mexican film schools and government grants do fund many of these, it’s the lack of distribution support that is broke. Here are but just a few upcoming directing debuts and brand-spanking new Mexican films to be on the lookout for in 2011. Some may have already made their debut in 2010 and will...
- 1/5/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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