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Alankrita Shrivastava on her new film 'Lipstick Under My Burkha'
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Alankrita Shrivastava discusses her second feature, Lipstick Under My Burkha, which follows four women and their journey to break free from the constraints of society.
Writer-director Alankrita Shrivastava’s second feature, Lipstick Under My Burkha, had its world premiere at Tokyo International Film Festival in October, where it won the Spirit of Asia Award, and also screened at Mumbai Film Festival, where it was presented with the Oxfam Award for best film on gender equality.
The film follows four women in small-town India — a housewife who secretly works as a salesperson (played by Konkona Sensharma); a widow who is having a phone affair (Ratna Pathak Shah); a student trying to fit in with her peers at college (Plabita Borthakur); and a two-timing beautician (Aahana Kumra).
Produced by Prakash Jha, who was also behind Shrivastava’s first feature, Turning 30!!! (2011), the film began its journey at Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab in 2012. It returned to Film Bazaar the following year when »
- uditaj@gmail.com (Udita Jhunjhunwala)
TorinoFilmLab reveals 2016 winners
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Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda wins two prizes at the event.
Production awards worth more than €470,000 were handed out at the 2016 TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (Nov 23-25), held within the Torino Film Festival.
Three films were awarded Tfl co-production awards worth €50,000 each; Danielle Lessovitz’s Port Authority; Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever and Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda.
Yalda also took home the audience award, voted for by attendees at event, worth €30,000.
Tehran-born Bakhshi’s feature debut, A Respectable Family, premiered at Cannes in 2012.
The international jury, which was chaired by the Venice Film Festival’s Artistic Director Alberto Barbera, also awarded production awards worth €40,000 each to three films; The Guest by Duccio Chiarini; The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat and The Staffroom by Sonja Tarokić.
New award
A new prize this year was the Lago development award, worth €5000, which went to Jan-Ole Gerster’s Imperium.
Apprentice by Boo Junfeng, Felicity by Alain Gomis, Jesús by [link »
Fox, Curzon, eOne execs selected for Future Leaders in Distribution 2017
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The female-focused initiative is run by Birds Eye View Film and backed by Creative Skillset and the Fda.
The 2017 participants of Birds Eye View Film’s Future Leaders in Distribution scheme have been unveiled.
The course supports female distribution executives with seven-plus years’ of experience, offering mentoring from leading industry figures. Creative Skillset provide funds and the course is endorsed by the Film Distributors’ Association.
Mentors on the initiative include Robert Walak of Focus Features International and Sue Bruce Smith of Film4.
They are joined by: Kezia Williams of eOne, Nicola Pearcy of Lionsgate, Trish Long of Disney, Eve Gabereau of Soda, Jill Tandy of Inside Pictures, Alison Thompson of Cornerstone Films and Anna Godas of Dogwoof.
Future Leaders In Distribution 2017 participants:
Cathy Anderson, Head of Publicity, Twentieth Century Fox UKAna Santos, Freelance Acquisitions Business & Legal Affairs ConsultantSally Hodgson, Producer of Marketing & Distribution, Pipoca in NottinghamVicky Hine, Senior Marketing Manager, Theatrical, eOneTiina »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Les Arcs: Nyoni, Omerzu, Nyholm selected for works-in-progress
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Les Arcs unveils 16 projects due to be presented in the work-in-progress selection.
Upcoming films by the UK’s Rungano Nyoni, the Czech Republic’s Olmo Omerzu and Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm are among 16 works-in-progress projects due to be presented at the eighth edition of the Les Arcs Coproduction village (Dec 10-13).
Footage from the films, which are all in post-production, will be shown on Dec 11. The festival’s artistic director Frédéric Boyer made the selection.
British-Zambian director Rungano Nyoni will show first footage from her debut satire I Am Not A Witch [pictured top] about a nine-year-old girl who is a victim of a witch-hunt, which is shot by Embrace Of The Serpent’s DoP David Gallego.
Nyholm will present his second feature Koko-di Koko-da - after The Giant which premiered at Tiff this year - revolving around a couple whose camping trip takes a strange turn when a circus troupe turns up.
Two awards »
Film Summit: 'I, Daniel Blake' producer talks UK co-production challenges
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Rebecca O’Brien, who has worked with Ken Loach for last 25 years, warned that Brexit is likely to exacerbate the problem.
I, Daniel Blake producer Rebecca O’Brien has warned that co-productions are becoming trickier for UK film-makers.
Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winner was a UK, French and Belgium co-production, and the BAFTA-winning O’Brien [pictured below] has been putting together similar international deals for the last 25 years.
She explained that the co-production landscape is not getting any easier.
“I think the main difficulty in terms of indigenous productions seeking co-production is that it’s very difficult for us to reciprocate,” she said at yesterday’s (Nov 24) Screen Film Summit, held at London’s Picturehouse Central.
“We don’t have a co-production fund in this country anymore that supports films that people come to us with. One of the things about co-productions is that it ought to be a reciprocal arrangement, it doesn’t »
'Fantastic Beasts' conjures up UK buzz on social media
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The Harry Potter spin-off continues to dominate social media buzz, ahead of Disney animation Moana.
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, the latest film in the Harry Potter film franchise, continues to dominate this week’s social media buzz chart, according to marketing firm Way To Blue.
The Warner Bros film, which has surged to an estimated $261m worldwide, has amassed almost 50,000 comments across social media, news, forums and blogs from November 17 to November 23.
Of those commenters, 16% expressed an intent to view.
The week’s second buzziest title is Disney’s latest animated offering Moana, which earned more than 4,000 comments with 616 commenters expressing an intent to view. The upcoming feature, which opened yesterday (November 23) in the Us, bows in the UK on December 2.
Bad Santa 2 and A United Kingdom, which saw openings this week, joined the ranks as the next buzziest titles on social media, scoring 2,124 and 1,718 comments respectively.
For an explanation »
'The Crown' producer lifts lid on Netflix, Amazon collaborations
20 hours ago
Pilot for upcoming Amazon sci-fi costs $15m.
Left Bank Pictures CEO Andy Harries has lifted the lid on what it is like working with Netflix, the famously secretive online giant which fully-financed the company’s £100m series about the royal family, The Crown.
During a Screen Film Summit session about high-end TV, Harries described the Svod service as “the most supportive and hands-off – while also being available – partner I have ever worked with.”
However, even after Netflix committed to the show during its first meeting with Harries, writer Peter Morgan and director Stephen Daldry, it will not disclose to the producer how the series has performed on the service.
“We absolutely don’t know how it’s doing,” he admitted. “We have no indication on how it has done. I’m not sure they will ever tell us. I’ve asked them. We’ll have to wait to see its next trading results to maybe get a sense »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Once Again, Buddhagram scoop Facebook awards
20 hours ago
Film Bazaar: Kanwal Sethi’s drama Once Again and creative documentary Buddhagram won the inaugural Facebook Awards at the close of this year’s Film Bazaar (November 20-24).
Once Again, which screened in Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab, stars Neeraj Kabi and Shefali Shah in the story of a romance between a widow and an ageing star.
Kabir Mehta’s Buddhagram, which was selected for the Film Bazaar Recommends section, is a mixed media verite style of documentary about flamboyant Goan cricketer Buddhadev Mangaldas. The two Facebook awards came with $10,000 of vouchers for Facebook advertising.
India’s Prasad Labs also gave out two awards, which cover the costs of each project for digital intermediate. Ridham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep And The Sacred Mountain, which was filmed in the rare Pahari language, won the Prasad award for a Wip Lab project, while Sanalkumar Sasidharan’s Sexy Durga won the Prasad award in Film Bazaar Recommends.
Sexy »
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Film Summit: Susanne Bier, female vision is still considered "threatening"
22 hours ago
Speaking at the Screen Film Summit, The Night Manager director also said that taking on a Bond film “would be a lot of fun”.
Susanne Bier, the Oscar and Emmy-winning Danish filmmaker behind the TV series The Night Manager, has said that working in television currently offers her more creative opportunities than the film industry.
“In recent years, some of the strongest manifestations of singular [auteur] visions have been in television,” she said during a keynote and in conversation at the Screen Film Summit in London.
“At higher budgets, TV has shown less tolerance for the predictable and the generic which is so evident in the summer movie calendar.”
“[The Night Manager] as a film would have competed with James Bond or Jason Bourne, but as a television programme it was up against an endless list of instantly accessible high quality titles: House Of Cards, Better Call Saul, Westworld, The Crown.”
“The market logic of big budget television dictates that producers »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Susanne Bier: female vision is still considered "threatening"
22 hours ago
Speaking at the Screen Film Summit, The Night Manager director also said that taking on a Bond film “would be a lot of fun”.
Susanne Bier, the Oscar and Emmy-winning Danish filmmaker behind the TV series The Night Manager, has said that working in television currently offers her more creative opportunities than the film industry.
“In recent years, some of the strongest manifestations of singular [auteur] visions have been in television,” she said during a keynote and in conversation at the Screen Film Summit in London.
“At higher budgets, TV has shown less tolerance for the predictable and the generic which is so evident in the summer movie calendar.”
“[The Night Manager] as a film would have competed with James Bond or Jason Bourne, but as a television programme it was up against an endless list of instantly accessible high quality titles: House Of Cards, Better Call Saul, Westworld, The Crown.”
“The market logic of big budget television dictates that producers »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Susanne Bier: TV industry still considers female vision "threatening"
22 hours ago
Speaking at the Screen Film Summit, The Night Manager director also said that taking on a Bond film “would be a lot of fun”.
Susanne Bier, the Oscar and Emmy-winning Danish filmmaker behind the TV series The Night Manager, has said that working in television currently offers her more creative opportunities than the film industry.
“In recent years, some of the strongest manifestations of singular [auteur] visions have been in television,” she said during a keynote and in conversation at the Screen Film Summit in London.
“At higher budgets, TV has shown less tolerance for the predictable and the generic which is so evident in the summer movie calendar.”
“[The Night Manager] as a film would have competed with James Bond or Jason Bourne, but as a television programme it was up against an endless list of instantly accessible high quality titles: House Of Cards, Better Call Saul, Westworld, The Crown.”
“The market logic of big budget television dictates that producers »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Film Summit: Brexit presents opportunities, say UK film financiers
24 November 2016 6:36 AM, PST
Film finance experts discussed the short and long term consequences of Brexit at today’s Screen Film Summit.
Brexit is having a positive impact for some film investors, but the long-term picture is more murky, according to a panel of film finance experts speaking at today’s Screen Film Summit (Nov 24).
Talking at London’s Picturehouse Central, Tim O’Shea, senior investment director at Ingenious, said: “For us in the short term there is certainly opportunities for producers.
“We are seeing much more interest since the vote. The falling value of the sterling means North American producers want to shoot over here because their dollars will go further, coupled with our tax credits, world leading crew and services. There are many opportunities here.”
While the prevailing mood in the UK film industry has been glum in response to the referendum result, Paul Brett, director at Prescience Film, said the strength of the UK film industry still makes it »
Brexit presents opportunities, say UK film financiers
24 November 2016 6:36 AM, PST
Film finance experts discussed the short and long term consequences of Brexit at today’s Screen Film Summit.
Brexit is having a positive impact for some film investors, but the long-term picture is more murky, according to a panel of film finance experts speaking at today’s Screen Film Summit (Nov 24).
Talking at London’s Picturehouse Central, Tim O’Shea, senior investment director at Ingenious, said: “For us in the short term there is certainly opportunities for producers.
“We are seeing much more interest since the vote. The falling value of the sterling means North American producers want to shoot over here because their dollars will go further, coupled with our tax credits, world leading crew and services. There are many opportunities here.”
While the prevailing mood in the UK film industry has been glum in response to the referendum result, Paul Brett, director at Prescience Film, said the strength of the UK film industry still makes it »
Film Summit: UK on course to release 900 movies in 2016
24 November 2016 5:07 AM, PST
UK box office is up 2% year-on-year and has surged past £1bn but attendance figures remain static.
Worldwide box office is on the rise but challenges remain in a saturated theatrical market, according to Lucy Jones of data analyst ComScore and David Hancock of research firm Ihs.
Speaking at today’s (Nov 24) Screen Film Summit at Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, the two executives highlighted that the growing number of films produced and released is not correlating with demand.
This year will see close to 900 films distributed theatrically in UK cinemas, a record figure that equates to an average of 16 films per week.
“Even if you went twice a day you would not see every film that is released,” added Jones.
Admissions have remained relatively static over the last decade at an average of 2.7 visits per person per year. This has led to the highest-profile theatrical releases garnering a greater market share.
“The top 40 releases »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
UK on course to release 900 movies in 2016
24 November 2016 5:07 AM, PST
UK box office is up 2% year-on-year and has surged past £1bn but attendance figures remain static.
Worldwide box office is on the rise but challenges remain in a saturated theatrical market, according to Lucy Jones of data analyst ComScore and David Hancock of research firm Ihs.
Speaking at today’s (Nov 24) Screen Film Summit at Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, the two executives highlighted that the growing number of films produced and released is not correlating with demand.
This year will see close to 900 films distributed theatrically in UK cinemas, a record figure that equates to an average of 16 films per week.
“Even if you went twice a day you would not see every film that is released,” added Jones.
Admissions have remained relatively static over the last decade at an average of 2.7 visits per person per year. This has led to the highest-profile theatrical releases garnering a greater market share.
“The top 40 releases »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
'Cold Of Kalandar' triumphs at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
24 November 2016 5:00 AM, PST
I Am Not Madame Bovary’s Feng Xiaogang took the best director prize.Scroll down for full list of winners
The jury of the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) has awarded the best film prize to Mustafa Kara’s Turkish drama Cold Of Kalandar. The film won a total of three prizes at the regional film awards, which took place tonight (Nov 24) in Brisbane, Australia.
The best director prize went to Chinese director Feng Xiaogang for his satirical critique of bureaucratic indifference to the populace of mainland China, I Am Not Madame Bovary.
Cold of Kalandar’s Apsa best film win comes after similar honours at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Turkey’s Istanbul and Antalya film festivals.
In September it was selected as Turkey’s candidate for the foreign language Oscar.
The film depicts an impoverished family’s attempt to make a living through farming in Turkey’s mountainous northern region. Tensions between »
Studiocanal takes Icelandic horror 'I Remember You' for UK
24 November 2016 3:17 AM, PST
Sales agent TrustNordisk scores key distribution deals in Germany, Turkey and Hungary.
Studiocanal has acquired UK distribution rights to Icelandic horror film I Remember You after a promo screening at the American Film Market.
The horror film is the second feature by director Oskar Thór Axelsson, following his 2013 crime thriller Black’s Game.
I Remember You marks the second collaboration between the director and actors Thor Kristjansson and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, who both appeared in Black’s Game. They are joined by a cast including Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir (City State), among others.
After an elderly woman commits suicide, a psychiatrist discovers the woman’s obsession with the disappearance of the doctor’s son. Across the bay in an abandoned village, three city dwellers restoring a home realise it is haunted. The two stories intertwine when the discovery of a child who vanished 60 years ago becomes the missing link of the film.
The genre film »
Tallinn: Ghost town doc wins Screen Best Pitch award
24 November 2016 2:24 AM, PST
The prize offers editorial coverage during the winning film’s life-cycle.
The 15th edition of Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market saw Screen International’s Best Pitch award being presented to Luxembourg-based producer Marion Guth of a_BAHN for UK artist filmmaker Vicki Thornton’s hybrid docu-fiction (N)Ostalgia.
a_BAHN currently has the UK’s Roastbeef Production and Norway’s Oya Films supporting the project about a remote Soviet ghost town on the edge of the Arctic Circle and its transformation into a tourist spectacle.
The Best Pitch Award - which is decided on by the co-production market’s participants and offers editorial coverage during the film’s life-cycle - was presented in the past to such projects as Finnish filmmaker Petri Kotwica’s suspense drama Rat King; Russian director Alexei German Jr.’s Under Electric Clouds; and the first pan-Baltic fiction co-production Seneca’s Day by Kristijonas Vildziunas.
Guth had also »
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Russell Peters joins Judy Greer and Grace Park in comedy 'Public Schooled'
23 November 2016 11:23 PM, PST
Exclusive: Kaleidoscope boards world sales on feature which kicks off in Vancouver this week.
Kaleidoscope has boarded world sales (excluding Canada) on comedy feature Public Schooled, which begins principal photography in Vancouver this week.
Cast includes Archer and Ant-man star Judy Greer, comedian Russell Peters (Source Code) Grace Park (Hawaii 5-0) and, newcomer Daniel Doheny who will take the lead role of Liam.
Public Schooled is the story of socially awkward boy who has been home-schooled his whole life. When Liam falls in love with a popular one-legged girl, he abandons his mother’s suffocating love and enrols in public school - entering an eye-opening world of sex, drugs and social mayhem.
Directed by Kyle Rideout, the film is based on the original script by Motion 58 founders Rideout and Josh Epstein (both Eadweard).
Epstein will also be producing, alongside co-producer Adam Folk (Stake Land) and executive producer Justine Whyte (Rhymes for Young Ghouls)
Public Schooled is being »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Mia Hansen-Love's 'Maya' heads to India for 2017 shoot
23 November 2016 6:01 PM, PST
Exclusive/Film Bazaar: Indian newcomer Aarshi Banerjee joins cast.
French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love is shooting her next film, Maya, in India in the last quarter of 2017. Indian newcomer Aarshi Banerjee has joined the cast alongside Roman Kolinka and Cédric Kahn.
Produced by France’s Les Films Pelleas, the film will be line produced in India by Mumbai-based La Fabrique Films. Germany’s Razor Films and Arte are co-producing, while Les Films du Losange has French rights and will handle international sales.
The film follows a French hostage returning from Syria who heads to India after his traumatic experiences.
“We’re very excited to be part of this film; around two thirds will shoot in India at locations including Goa, Hampi and Bangalore,” said La Fabrique Films’ co-founder Deborah Benattar. “Also, the Indian crew is excited that the film is shooting on 35mm.”
Helene Louvart is on board as DoP of the film, which will also »
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