MIKE FLEMING at Deadline Hollywood Well, it took a couple weeks beyond the conclusion of the Sundance Film Festival. But finally, there’s a big, big deal on the verge of happening. I hear that Joel Silver and his Dark Castle label distributed by Warner Bros is in the last stages of closing a distribution deal […]
Brian Newman of Springboard Media gives us his 20 tips My 20 tips for SunSlamdance by Brian Newman I’ve been making the trek to Park City for too many years to remember, but not too many to get too jaded about it. Most of my industry friends like to bemoan that they have to go […]
By Ted Hope Published: December 28, 2009 on The Wrap Earlier this year, while looking at Atlantic Magazine’s list of Brave Thinkers across various industries, I started to wonder who are of this ilk in our sector of so-called Independent Film. What is it to be “brave”? To me, bravery requires risk, going against the […]
Steven Beer’s take on the coming decade of independent film distribution. Originally printed at indiewire.com For many independent filmmakers and producers, 2010 – starting with the upcoming Sundance Film Festival – figures to be a watershed year and the beginning of a Decade of Filmmaker Empowerment. After years of disenchantment with traditional all-rights distribution deals, […]
Toronto Jewish Film Festival Presents Brothers Directed by Igaal Niddam Sunday January 17, 2010 Country: Switzerland Language: Hebrew, Spanish with English subtitles Brothers Dan and Aaron meet in Israel after many years apart, only to discover how different they have become. Dan is a secular Jew living on a kibbutz, while Aaron is an Orthodox […]
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Keren Yedaya Germany/Israel/France, 2009, 105 min. by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Toronto’s International Diaspora Film Festival (IDFF), focusing on themes of migration, immigration, and cultural diversity, closed on Nov.8 with a thoughtful drama about Jews and Arabs. Jaffa is an Israeli port south of Tel Aviv where Jews and Arabs delicately co-exist. Billed as a […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Toronto’s second annual KinoArt Festival, devoted to Russian film, opened on Nov. 4 with Sergey Solovyev’s adaptation of the classic Tolstoy novel, ANNA KARENINA. The book sired one of the most famous lines in literature which opens the film: “Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in […]
The jury of the youngsters of the Ghent Film Festival gives the Mine Xplore Award to the Israelian film Ajami of the directors Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani. The distributor will get a free media campaign in the daily De Morgen and on the radio Studio Brussel with a value of 20.000 euro and an […]
