Four Letters Apart [pictured] and Becoming an Actor among winners.
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Tdf) and its concurrent Doc Film Market has unveiled the winners for its 2014 edition.
At the Tdf, the Peter Wintonick Audience Award for a foreign feature length documentary went to Four Letters Apart by Erlend E. Mo (Denmark), while Dimitris Koutsiabasiakos’ Becoming an Actor was the recipient of the Tdf Audience Award for Greek features.
Four Letters Apart centres on three children at odds with themselves and the world around them, at a time when more and more are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd). The film, produced by Lise Lense-Møller, is sold by Danish outlet Magic Hours Films.
Becoming an Actor deals with a group of young actors, chronicling their anxieties and dreams throughout a three-year course of study. Produced by Koutsiabasiakos, the film is sold by the Greek production company KinoLab.
This is the second year in a row...
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Tdf) and its concurrent Doc Film Market has unveiled the winners for its 2014 edition.
At the Tdf, the Peter Wintonick Audience Award for a foreign feature length documentary went to Four Letters Apart by Erlend E. Mo (Denmark), while Dimitris Koutsiabasiakos’ Becoming an Actor was the recipient of the Tdf Audience Award for Greek features.
Four Letters Apart centres on three children at odds with themselves and the world around them, at a time when more and more are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd). The film, produced by Lise Lense-Møller, is sold by Danish outlet Magic Hours Films.
Becoming an Actor deals with a group of young actors, chronicling their anxieties and dreams throughout a three-year course of study. Produced by Koutsiabasiakos, the film is sold by the Greek production company KinoLab.
This is the second year in a row...
- 3/25/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Janos Szasz’s Le Grand Cahier walked away with the Crystal Globe at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Scroll down for full list of winners
The Hungarian film impressed jury and industry alike with its depiction of 13-year-old twins sent to their grandmother during the Second World War (it is based on Agota Kristof’s award-winning novel The Notebook).
The producer of the film, Sandor Soth [pictured], picked up the award in front of a delighted audience. Le Grand Cahier was co-produced with Austria (Amour Fou), France (Dolce Vita) and Germany (Intuit), and it is the first completed feature to be backed by the new Hungarian Film Fund (the Hungarian production company was Hunnia Film Studio.
The Kviff top prize comes with $25,000 to be split by director and producer. The film also won the Europa Cinemas Label.
Ben Wheatley won the special jury prize (worth $15,000) for A Field In England and appeared in a special video thank...
The Hungarian film impressed jury and industry alike with its depiction of 13-year-old twins sent to their grandmother during the Second World War (it is based on Agota Kristof’s award-winning novel The Notebook).
The producer of the film, Sandor Soth [pictured], picked up the award in front of a delighted audience. Le Grand Cahier was co-produced with Austria (Amour Fou), France (Dolce Vita) and Germany (Intuit), and it is the first completed feature to be backed by the new Hungarian Film Fund (the Hungarian production company was Hunnia Film Studio.
The Kviff top prize comes with $25,000 to be split by director and producer. The film also won the Europa Cinemas Label.
Ben Wheatley won the special jury prize (worth $15,000) for A Field In England and appeared in a special video thank...
- 7/7/2013
- ScreenDaily
Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours) was a surprise no-show in Cannes this year (his film debuted theatrically in France the previous month) but the stage is set for an opening gala opening ceremony for the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Among the slew of titles that were announced today, at the top of must see list we find Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England making its world premiere in the Main Competition category, a pic we thought would end up showing on the Croisette. Another item we had short-listed for a Cannes showing but will be shown in the Spa village backdrop, we have János Szasz’s The Notebook, and making it’s international debut after a stellar Tribeca debut, Lance Edmands’ Bluebird will compete against a pack that also includes hometown favorite Jan Hřebejk and his his psychological thriller Honeymoon. In the Docu...
- 6/4/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England is to receive its first screening at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as one of the 14 titles in Competition.
The psychedelic horror film, set during the English Civil War in the mid-17th century, will screen at the festival in the Czech Republic on July 4.
As previously reported, it will be the first UK film to be released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, free TV and VoD. This will take place on July 5.
Scroll down for full line-up
The main section of Karlovy Vary will include a further six world and seven international premieres, with new films from six returning directors – two of whom have already won Crystal Globes for Best Film at the festival in recent years.
Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, who won at Kviff in 2005 with My Nikifor, will compete for the third time with the story of Papusza, the first Roma...
The psychedelic horror film, set during the English Civil War in the mid-17th century, will screen at the festival in the Czech Republic on July 4.
As previously reported, it will be the first UK film to be released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, free TV and VoD. This will take place on July 5.
Scroll down for full line-up
The main section of Karlovy Vary will include a further six world and seven international premieres, with new films from six returning directors – two of whom have already won Crystal Globes for Best Film at the festival in recent years.
Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, who won at Kviff in 2005 with My Nikifor, will compete for the third time with the story of Papusza, the first Roma...
- 6/4/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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