Rooftop Films folks have announced the grant recipients for the large swath of filmmakers’ funds and in the narrative feature categories we have the likes of Carlos López Estrada, Andrew Thomas Huang, Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli grabbing some coin. Estrada who has directed Sundance selected Blindspotting and Summertime has Kill Yr Idols in the works. Tandem of Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli who gave us the TIFF-Sundance preemed Violation will next be working on Honey Bunch. A lab fellow at Sundance, Andrew Thomas Huang continues to piece together his directorial debut in Tiger Girl. Here is the complete list of 2023 Rooftop Filmmakers Fund short and feature film grant recipients:
Water Tower Feature Film Cash Grants (Feature Film)
Carlos López Estrada – “Kill Yr Idols”
Jodie Mack – “Early Mourning, Tarpon Springs/Lindsey’s Color Service”
Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli – “Honey Bunch”
Reid Davenport – “Life After”
Eastern Effects Equipment Grant (Feature Film)
Alex Ross Perry...
Water Tower Feature Film Cash Grants (Feature Film)
Carlos López Estrada – “Kill Yr Idols”
Jodie Mack – “Early Mourning, Tarpon Springs/Lindsey’s Color Service”
Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli – “Honey Bunch”
Reid Davenport – “Life After”
Eastern Effects Equipment Grant (Feature Film)
Alex Ross Perry...
- 4/6/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Rooftop Films has announced the recipients of their 2023 Filmmakers Fund grants. A total of 21 cash and service grants will be awarded to a variety of independent filmmakers to support the production of their next short or feature film. Four Rooftop Films Water Tower Feature Film cash grants will be exclusively awarded with support from the Laurence W. Levine Foundation.
Rooftop Filmmakers Fund grants are made accessible to Rooftop Films alumni directors who have had their work screened during the annual Sumer Series in New York City. This years grantees include a demographic of over 60% women, 30% people of color and 10% people a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
“We’re unbelievably excited about the projects we’ve had the privilege of helping to fund this year! Every single one of these filmmakers approach their subjects in ways that are wholly unique to their style and vision, and we can’t wait to see the finished works,...
Rooftop Filmmakers Fund grants are made accessible to Rooftop Films alumni directors who have had their work screened during the annual Sumer Series in New York City. This years grantees include a demographic of over 60% women, 30% people of color and 10% people a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
“We’re unbelievably excited about the projects we’ve had the privilege of helping to fund this year! Every single one of these filmmakers approach their subjects in ways that are wholly unique to their style and vision, and we can’t wait to see the finished works,...
- 4/6/2023
- by McKinley Franklin
- Variety Film + TV
Icelandic writer-director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson (“Under the Tree”) makes a smooth transition to English-language directing with the high-concept comedy “Northern Comfort,” co-written with longtime collaborators Halldór Laxness Halldórsson and Tobias Munthe. It centers on a disparate group of people who share a disabling fear of air travel, which they are trying to overcome through a high-end fearless flyers course. As a final challenge, the class is scheduled for a short, roundtrip “exposure” flight during which they should face and conquer their phobias. But this practical plan soon runs into some literal and figurative turbulence. Combining human drama and absurdist comedy, “Northern Comfort” should fly into other festivals before making a comfortable landing at a boutique art-house distributor or streamer.
Inwardly and outwardly quaking as they leave Gatwick for a fateful trip to Iceland are successful property developer Sarah; Edward (Timothy Spall), a special forces veteran turned best-selling crime writer; and a social media influencer couple,...
Inwardly and outwardly quaking as they leave Gatwick for a fateful trip to Iceland are successful property developer Sarah; Edward (Timothy Spall), a special forces veteran turned best-selling crime writer; and a social media influencer couple,...
- 3/12/2023
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
“Succession” has added another intriguing piece to the Season 3 puzzle.
Swiss actor Ella Rumpf, best known for her leading role in Julia Ducournau’s fleshy horror pic “Raw,” is set to play a guest starring role in the HBO drama’s upcoming third outing, Variety has learned exclusively.
Although the exact nature of her role is being kept under wraps, sources say Rumpf already finished shooting the part in Italy, where Season 3 production has been ongoing since June.
A role in the series marks the second major WarnerMedia project for Rumpf, who is also will appear in HBO Max’s highly anticipated “Tokyo Vice.” Starring opposite Ansel Elgort, Rumpf will play Polina, an Eastern European expat to Tokyo and a new hostess at a night club with Samantha (Rachel Keller). Sources tell Variety that Rumpf recently wrapped production on the part.
Following her murderous turn in “Raw,” Rumpf played the...
Swiss actor Ella Rumpf, best known for her leading role in Julia Ducournau’s fleshy horror pic “Raw,” is set to play a guest starring role in the HBO drama’s upcoming third outing, Variety has learned exclusively.
Although the exact nature of her role is being kept under wraps, sources say Rumpf already finished shooting the part in Italy, where Season 3 production has been ongoing since June.
A role in the series marks the second major WarnerMedia project for Rumpf, who is also will appear in HBO Max’s highly anticipated “Tokyo Vice.” Starring opposite Ansel Elgort, Rumpf will play Polina, an Eastern European expat to Tokyo and a new hostess at a night club with Samantha (Rachel Keller). Sources tell Variety that Rumpf recently wrapped production on the part.
Following her murderous turn in “Raw,” Rumpf played the...
- 8/5/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
The new outfit is run by producers Pauline Striebeck and Estella Suplit.
Wild Bunch Germany has launched a new production label, Mia Wallace Productions (Mwp), which will specialise in stories told from a female perspective. It is run by producers Pauline Striebeck and Estella Suplit.
Mwp already has several projects in development. Among these is a film adaptation of the Spotify audiobook The Very Last Interview by the author and rap journalist Visa Vie. It tells the story of Clara, who breaks into the German rap scene with just one goal in mind: to conduct the very last interview with...
Wild Bunch Germany has launched a new production label, Mia Wallace Productions (Mwp), which will specialise in stories told from a female perspective. It is run by producers Pauline Striebeck and Estella Suplit.
Mwp already has several projects in development. Among these is a film adaptation of the Spotify audiobook The Very Last Interview by the author and rap journalist Visa Vie. It tells the story of Clara, who breaks into the German rap scene with just one goal in mind: to conduct the very last interview with...
- 7/1/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Newly expanded advisor roster spans filmmaking disciplines.
Projects from South Africa, China and Turkey are among 10 selected for the 2020 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs, which have been reconfigured as a digital event amid the pandemic lockdown.
The event will take place on Sundance Co//ab and as always is designed to connect selected filmmaker Fellows with creative advisors and industry mentors across multiple disciplines.
The Directors Lab runs from June 1-19 when filmmakers will participate in a schedule of advisor presentations, scene analysis sessions, directing exercises, one-on-one meetings, and inaugural conversations across a wide range of industry disciplines, including casting,...
Projects from South Africa, China and Turkey are among 10 selected for the 2020 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs, which have been reconfigured as a digital event amid the pandemic lockdown.
The event will take place on Sundance Co//ab and as always is designed to connect selected filmmaker Fellows with creative advisors and industry mentors across multiple disciplines.
The Directors Lab runs from June 1-19 when filmmakers will participate in a schedule of advisor presentations, scene analysis sessions, directing exercises, one-on-one meetings, and inaugural conversations across a wide range of industry disciplines, including casting,...
- 5/28/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
A multidisciplinary visual effects artist who has previously worked with the likes of Perfume Genius, Thom Yorke, Fka Twigs and most notably Björk (he presented the Vr project Stonemilker at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival), West Coast based Andrew Thomas Huang has been making inroads into film most recently with the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival preemed short, Kiss of the Rabbit God. He is now working on Tiger Girl, which is set in 1966 Los Angeles and is a coming of age fantasy about a repressed Chinese American teenage girl haunted by a tiger lurking in her attic. This future feature was undoubtedly informed by his most recent project in the short film, Lily Chan & The Doom Girls (2020).…...
- 3/30/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Variety’s “10 Europeans to Watch” were feted Saturday night at a party held by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg at Berlin’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Co-hosting the evening were Kirsten Niehuus and Helge Jürgens, managing directors of Medienboard, the regional film, TV and digital-media funding body.
Pictured above are U.K. filmmaker and rapper Andrew Onwubolu, known by his alias Rapman, Irish producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, Italian director Carlo Sironi (“Sole”), German director Leonie Krippendorff (“Cocoon”), Estonian director Tanel Toom, Germany-based Kosovan director Visar Morina (“Exile”), and Hungarian actor Abigél Szõke (“Those Who Remained”).
Before welcoming to the stage some of Europe’s most promising stars of tomorrow, Variety executive VP of content Steven Gaydos noted: “Variety is celebrating our 115th year covering international entertainment, before people were watching movies.”
He also shared the story of local producer Sol Bondy, who met Russian producers Ilya Stewart and Murad Osmann at Variety’s “10 Producers to...
Pictured above are U.K. filmmaker and rapper Andrew Onwubolu, known by his alias Rapman, Irish producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, Italian director Carlo Sironi (“Sole”), German director Leonie Krippendorff (“Cocoon”), Estonian director Tanel Toom, Germany-based Kosovan director Visar Morina (“Exile”), and Hungarian actor Abigél Szõke (“Those Who Remained”).
Before welcoming to the stage some of Europe’s most promising stars of tomorrow, Variety executive VP of content Steven Gaydos noted: “Variety is celebrating our 115th year covering international entertainment, before people were watching movies.”
He also shared the story of local producer Sol Bondy, who met Russian producers Ilya Stewart and Murad Osmann at Variety’s “10 Producers to...
- 2/23/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Odessa Young (Assassination Nation) and Ella Rumpf (Raw) are the latest to join HBO Max’s forthcoming series Tokyo Vice as series regulars. Michael Mann cast the pair and they join previously announced cast members Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe in the adaptation of Jake Adelstein’s book of the same name. Mann is set to direct the pilot with a script written by Tony-winning playwright J.T. Rogers. Endeavor Content is set to produce.
The 10-episode series is based on Adelstein’s real-life, first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat. Elgort is set to play Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. It chronicles Jake’s daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem.
Young will step into the role of Samantha, an American expat living in late 90s Tokyo.
The 10-episode series is based on Adelstein’s real-life, first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat. Elgort is set to play Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. It chronicles Jake’s daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem.
Young will step into the role of Samantha, an American expat living in late 90s Tokyo.
- 2/19/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2020 edition of European Shooting Stars has unveiled the 10 young acting talents it will spotlight, with participants arriving with credits including Polish Oscar shortlisted feature Corpus Christi.
On the list is Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia, whose turn as an amateur priest in Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi has already earned him acting awards at the Stockholm, Chicago and El Gouna film festivals.
He is selected alongside Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne, who has appeared in Hlynur Palmason’s Winters Brothers and Isabella Eklöf’s 2018 Sundance pic Holiday; she has won two Danish Academy awards (Bodils).
Also named is Swiss actress Ella Rumpf, who lead the cast of Julia Ducournau’s 2016 Cannes selection Raw, which won her the Révelation prize at the 2018 César Awards, and Jakob Lass’s 2017 Berlin title Tiger Girl. Rumpf will also appear this year in upcoming German Netflix series Freud.
Portuguese talent Joana Ribeiro makes the 2020 cut...
On the list is Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia, whose turn as an amateur priest in Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi has already earned him acting awards at the Stockholm, Chicago and El Gouna film festivals.
He is selected alongside Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne, who has appeared in Hlynur Palmason’s Winters Brothers and Isabella Eklöf’s 2018 Sundance pic Holiday; she has won two Danish Academy awards (Bodils).
Also named is Swiss actress Ella Rumpf, who lead the cast of Julia Ducournau’s 2016 Cannes selection Raw, which won her the Révelation prize at the 2018 César Awards, and Jakob Lass’s 2017 Berlin title Tiger Girl. Rumpf will also appear this year in upcoming German Netflix series Freud.
Portuguese talent Joana Ribeiro makes the 2020 cut...
- 1/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Sundance Institute has announced the 15 screenwriters who have been chosen for the January 2020 Screenwriters Lab, which will go from the 17th-22nd. Those selected will have the opportunity to develop their independent projects by immersing themselves in the creative process and working with the mentorship of Creative Advisors.
Creative Advisors are Artistic Director Scott Frank, Michael Arndt, Suha Arraf, Ritesh Batra, Andrea Berloff, D.V. DeVincentis, Gonzalo Maza, Doug McGrath, Walter Mosley, Nicole Perlman, Howard Rodman, Susan Shilliday, Zach Sklar, Dana Stevens, Joan Tewkesbury, Bill Wheeler, and Tyger Williams.
“We’re so excited to welcome this singular and bold group of artists to our January Screenwriters Lab,” said Michelle Satter, the feature film program founding director. “Our program provides a safe and protected space for writers to be rigorous in their creative process as they develop new work that’s a true reflection of their unique voice and power as storytellers.
Creative Advisors are Artistic Director Scott Frank, Michael Arndt, Suha Arraf, Ritesh Batra, Andrea Berloff, D.V. DeVincentis, Gonzalo Maza, Doug McGrath, Walter Mosley, Nicole Perlman, Howard Rodman, Susan Shilliday, Zach Sklar, Dana Stevens, Joan Tewkesbury, Bill Wheeler, and Tyger Williams.
“We’re so excited to welcome this singular and bold group of artists to our January Screenwriters Lab,” said Michelle Satter, the feature film program founding director. “Our program provides a safe and protected space for writers to be rigorous in their creative process as they develop new work that’s a true reflection of their unique voice and power as storytellers.
- 12/17/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Komplizen Film will work on Vanessa Jopp’s adaptation of Daniel Glattauer novel.
Komplizen Film, the producer of Maren Ade’s offbeat comedy Toni Erdmann, is to partner with Sony Pictures on Vanessa Jopp’s forthcoming adaptation of Austrian writer Daniel Glattauer’s international bestseller Love Virtually.
Sony’s German production arm will serve as Komplizen Film’s co-producer alongside Erfttal Film, with Sony Pictures releasing the film theatrically in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Former European Shooting Star Alexander Fehling (Three Peaks) and Nora Tschirner (Rabbit Without Ears) are to headline the cast which will also include Swiss actress Ella Rumpf who appeared in last year’s Panorama title Tiger Girl.
UK-born, Hamburg-based screenwriter Jane Ainscough has adapted Glattauer’s epistolary novel about a love affair conducted entirely by email for Jopp, whose previous films include drama Happy As One.
“I would like to make a wonderful, warm and profound romantic film which will have poetic, magic moments...
Komplizen Film, the producer of Maren Ade’s offbeat comedy Toni Erdmann, is to partner with Sony Pictures on Vanessa Jopp’s forthcoming adaptation of Austrian writer Daniel Glattauer’s international bestseller Love Virtually.
Sony’s German production arm will serve as Komplizen Film’s co-producer alongside Erfttal Film, with Sony Pictures releasing the film theatrically in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Former European Shooting Star Alexander Fehling (Three Peaks) and Nora Tschirner (Rabbit Without Ears) are to headline the cast which will also include Swiss actress Ella Rumpf who appeared in last year’s Panorama title Tiger Girl.
UK-born, Hamburg-based screenwriter Jane Ainscough has adapted Glattauer’s epistolary novel about a love affair conducted entirely by email for Jopp, whose previous films include drama Happy As One.
“I would like to make a wonderful, warm and profound romantic film which will have poetic, magic moments...
- 2/16/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
This year, Fantastic Fest turned 13, a number that felt apt if you’ve been following the news. Most conversations started like this:
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
- 9/29/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- Indiewire
German Film in 2017 is alive and highly visible at film festivals such as Toronto, Venice, Cannes, Berlin and all the way to the Academy Awards. The best new German, Austrian, and Swiss Cinema will once again be celebrated at the American Cinematheque, during the 11th Annual German Currents Film FestivaL from Friday, October 13th — Monday, Oct 16th, 2017 at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
Over the past decade, German Currents has offered a unique insight into German speaking cinema, bringing diverse and thought-provoking narratives, and “must-watch” documentaries to Los Angeles. German Currents once again features an impressive line-up of new German cinema during the four day festival, including U.S. and L.A. premieres, documentaries and films for children and families.
German Currents 2017 begins with an opening night gala and red carpet with some of Germany’s brightest stars on Friday, Oct. 13th.
In addition to film screenings, German Currents...
Over the past decade, German Currents has offered a unique insight into German speaking cinema, bringing diverse and thought-provoking narratives, and “must-watch” documentaries to Los Angeles. German Currents once again features an impressive line-up of new German cinema during the four day festival, including U.S. and L.A. premieres, documentaries and films for children and families.
German Currents 2017 begins with an opening night gala and red carpet with some of Germany’s brightest stars on Friday, Oct. 13th.
In addition to film screenings, German Currents...
- 9/22/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Author: Competitions
To mark the release of Raw on 14th August, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
Unsuspecting Justine (Garance Marillier) enrolls into veterinary school without the slightest idea that she’d graduate as a fully-fledged carnivore with an insatiable desire for human flesh. This young woman soon pays the price of trying to fit in when she is tempted into a hazing ritual which involves eating a piece of raw meat, thereafter her animalistic desires spiral out of control. Before she knows it Justine has bitten off more than she can chew, and will soon face the terrible consequences of her actions as her true self begins to emerge.
Ducournau’s breakthrough French speaking film with English subtitles, Raw, has received award wins at Cannes, Toronto and London Film Festivals. Starring an all-French cast, Garrance Marllier as Justine (Junior, It’s Not a Cowboy Movie...
To mark the release of Raw on 14th August, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
Unsuspecting Justine (Garance Marillier) enrolls into veterinary school without the slightest idea that she’d graduate as a fully-fledged carnivore with an insatiable desire for human flesh. This young woman soon pays the price of trying to fit in when she is tempted into a hazing ritual which involves eating a piece of raw meat, thereafter her animalistic desires spiral out of control. Before she knows it Justine has bitten off more than she can chew, and will soon face the terrible consequences of her actions as her true self begins to emerge.
Ducournau’s breakthrough French speaking film with English subtitles, Raw, has received award wins at Cannes, Toronto and London Film Festivals. Starring an all-French cast, Garrance Marllier as Justine (Junior, It’s Not a Cowboy Movie...
- 7/31/2017
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Movies love bad girls. Lashing out against the patriarchal establishment, kicking men to the curb, fighting for their right to existence. Put this in hand with youthful rebellion, and watch these women soar, sometimes (though not always) with a moral imperitive or point. Jakob Lass' Tiger Girl gives us two such bad girls, somewhat aimless, revelling in their youth and power, with little regard for the consequences. Vanilla (Maria-Victoria Dragus) has flunked the police academy exam, and takes a job as a security guard. In the midst of a very bad day, she encounters Tiger (Ella Rumpf), a parking lot attendant and badass. Later that day, Tiger rescues Vanilla from a guy who is trying to force her home with him, and the girls become fast...
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- 7/28/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Screen critics recommend the top films at this year’s Berlinale.
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
- 2/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
Screen critics recommend the top films at this year’s Berlinale.
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
- 2/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
Screen critics recommend the top films at this year’s Berlinale.
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
- 2/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
Screen critics recommend the top films at this year’s Berlinale.
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
- 2/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
Take a modern day, edgy Thelma & Louise and combine with it a female Fight Club, and you have Jakob Lass’ latest German flick, Tiger Girl! A Berlinale panorama special, this film is a daring, fast-paced, action packed story of Vanilla, a good girl gone bad, who receives her appropriate nickname by Tiger, a“new friend” and savior of sorts, whom she encounters during a time of duress. Tiger, played by the striking Ella Rumpf (quite reminiscent of a young Angelina Jolie), is a carefree, aggressive badass, who doesn’t take shit from anyone. She is a street-fighter with a conscience. Straddling the fine line between a menace to society and supergirls, the girls’ friendship is both strengthened and threatened as their various escapades test the limits of morality.
Pushing the boundaries of what’s socially acceptable, Jakob takes the same spontaneous Fogma approach in directing this film as he did with his last film,...
Pushing the boundaries of what’s socially acceptable, Jakob takes the same spontaneous Fogma approach in directing this film as he did with his last film,...
- 2/19/2017
- by Jenny Karakaya
- LRMonline.com
Exclusive: German sales agent boards next project from the director of Phoenix [pictured].
The Match Factory has boarded international sales for Christian Petzold’s next feature Transit, a contemporary reworking of Anna Seghers’ 1944 novel about refugees attempting to flee through Marseille after the Nazi invasion of France in 1940.
Paula Beer, who won the best newcomer award at Venice last year for iFrancois Ozon’s Frantz, and Franz Rogowski (Tiger Girl) lead the cast on the film, which will begin a 40-day shoot in Marseilles from mid-May.
Transit will mark the 11th collaboration between Petzold and Berlin-based production company Schramm Film after such films as The State I Am In, Yella, Barbara and Phoenix. Schramm Film is in this year’s Competition with Thomas Arslan’s road movie Bright Lights, which is also handled by The Match Factory.
Transit has received €500,000 funding from the German-French Funding Committee and €350,000 from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Marseille-based Neon is on board as co-producer and Piffl...
The Match Factory has boarded international sales for Christian Petzold’s next feature Transit, a contemporary reworking of Anna Seghers’ 1944 novel about refugees attempting to flee through Marseille after the Nazi invasion of France in 1940.
Paula Beer, who won the best newcomer award at Venice last year for iFrancois Ozon’s Frantz, and Franz Rogowski (Tiger Girl) lead the cast on the film, which will begin a 40-day shoot in Marseilles from mid-May.
Transit will mark the 11th collaboration between Petzold and Berlin-based production company Schramm Film after such films as The State I Am In, Yella, Barbara and Phoenix. Schramm Film is in this year’s Competition with Thomas Arslan’s road movie Bright Lights, which is also handled by The Match Factory.
Transit has received €500,000 funding from the German-French Funding Committee and €350,000 from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Marseille-based Neon is on board as co-producer and Piffl...
- 2/13/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
This is the first great discovery of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival - it's an excellent film that deserves to break out. Tiger Girl is a low key indie comedy, directed by Jakob Lass, about two women who becomes friends and start taking out the patriarchal trash. It's essentially a "girls fight back" movie and it's so badass and so much fun. Ella Rumpf plays the woman known as "Tiger", a drifter who doesn't take crap from anyone, especially guys; and Maria-Victoria Dragus plays her friend she nicknames "Vanilla", a young woman who fails her entrance exam to the police academy. She's not tough enough, but through this friendship she learns how to kick ass and fight back. It close to being a dark comedy, but either way it's worth seeking out. This story could've easily been a cheesy mainstream comedy, with the worst kind of jokes, but thankfully it stays...
- 2/12/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A wimpy security trainee is taught to stand up for herself by a daring street fighter, but learns her lesson too well, in Jakob Lass’s aggressive modern parable Tiger Girl. Barely out of film school, the young German director makes another sassy screen essay in his third feature, again produced under the “Fogma” label as an edgy mix of structured narrative and improv. It doesn’t hurt that the leads are two of Europe’s top up-and-coming actresses. Ella Rumpf is the cool, aggressive, mocking queen of attitude, as she follows her French cannibal film Raw with the meaty title role, comically aided...
- 2/11/2017
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: New film from Jakob Lass premieres in Berlin.
Screen can reveal the first English-language trailer for ‘Tiger Girl’ from
The latest project from Jakob Lass (Love Steaks) will receive its world premiere as the opening film of the Panorama Special in Berlin.
Watch the trailer below, or Here on mobile. (Warning: includes swearing)
The film stars Maria-Victoria Dragus as Vanilla, who is saved from a pushy colleague by the tough and confident Tiger, played by Ella Rumpf. A strong friendship develops between two women, one in which conventional value systems begin to unravel.
Enno Trebs and Orce Feldschau co-star.
Berlin-based sales and distribution company Picture Tree International has acquired international rights to Tiger Girl.
The film is set for an April release in Germany via Constantin Film.
The previous film from Lass, Love Steaks, won the German Cinema New Talent Award in all four categories at the Filmfest München as well as the Max Ophüls Prize...
Screen can reveal the first English-language trailer for ‘Tiger Girl’ from
The latest project from Jakob Lass (Love Steaks) will receive its world premiere as the opening film of the Panorama Special in Berlin.
Watch the trailer below, or Here on mobile. (Warning: includes swearing)
The film stars Maria-Victoria Dragus as Vanilla, who is saved from a pushy colleague by the tough and confident Tiger, played by Ella Rumpf. A strong friendship develops between two women, one in which conventional value systems begin to unravel.
Enno Trebs and Orce Feldschau co-star.
Berlin-based sales and distribution company Picture Tree International has acquired international rights to Tiger Girl.
The film is set for an April release in Germany via Constantin Film.
The previous film from Lass, Love Steaks, won the German Cinema New Talent Award in all four categories at the Filmfest München as well as the Max Ophüls Prize...
- 2/7/2017
- ScreenDaily
Picture Tree International line-up also includes Jakob Lass’ Tiger Girl.
Picture Tree International (Pti) has confirmed its line-up for the upcoming edition of Efm at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (February 9 - 19, 2017).
In its fourth year, the Berlin-based sales and distribution company returns with a slate including Jakob Lass’ Tiger Girl, which will receive its world premiere as a Panorama Special in Berlin; action-comedy Hot Dog, starring Til Schweiger and Matthias Schweighöfer; and Zaza Urushadze’s (Oscar nominated for 2013 drama Tangerines) The Confession.
Tiger Girl, for which Pti has acquired international rights, is Lass’ second feature, following Love Steaks (2013).
In Hot Dog, Schweiger and Schweighöfer will play two friends who make it their mission to free the daughter of the Moldovan ambassador from her kidnappers.
The film is currently being shot in Berlin and is expected to be released in autumn 2017 by Warner Bros. Pictures Germany.
The Confession (formerly titled Monk) centres on a former film director...
Picture Tree International (Pti) has confirmed its line-up for the upcoming edition of Efm at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (February 9 - 19, 2017).
In its fourth year, the Berlin-based sales and distribution company returns with a slate including Jakob Lass’ Tiger Girl, which will receive its world premiere as a Panorama Special in Berlin; action-comedy Hot Dog, starring Til Schweiger and Matthias Schweighöfer; and Zaza Urushadze’s (Oscar nominated for 2013 drama Tangerines) The Confession.
Tiger Girl, for which Pti has acquired international rights, is Lass’ second feature, following Love Steaks (2013).
In Hot Dog, Schweiger and Schweighöfer will play two friends who make it their mission to free the daughter of the Moldovan ambassador from her kidnappers.
The film is currently being shot in Berlin and is expected to be released in autumn 2017 by Warner Bros. Pictures Germany.
The Confession (formerly titled Monk) centres on a former film director...
- 2/2/2017
- ScreenDaily
Berlin’s Panorama lineup also includes new films from Us, China and Brazil.
Berlin’s Panorama strand is now complete following the addition of 24 additional titles.
A total of 51 works from 43 countries have been chosen for screening in the section, including 21 in Panorama Dokumente and 29 feature films in the main programme and Panorama Special. 36 of these films will be getting their world premieres at the Berlinale.
The German production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass will open this year’s edition of Panorama Special at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema, along with the previously announced Brazilian production Vazante.
Among newly confirmed films are UK Sundance title God’s Own Country, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, feminist fairy tale The Misandrists by Berlinale regular Bruce Labruce, Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice and Belgian-French-Lebanese co-production Insyriated which stars Hiam Abbass as a woman trapped in an apartment during war.[p...
Berlin’s Panorama strand is now complete following the addition of 24 additional titles.
A total of 51 works from 43 countries have been chosen for screening in the section, including 21 in Panorama Dokumente and 29 feature films in the main programme and Panorama Special. 36 of these films will be getting their world premieres at the Berlinale.
The German production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass will open this year’s edition of Panorama Special at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema, along with the previously announced Brazilian production Vazante.
Among newly confirmed films are UK Sundance title God’s Own Country, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, feminist fairy tale The Misandrists by Berlinale regular Bruce Labruce, Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice and Belgian-French-Lebanese co-production Insyriated which stars Hiam Abbass as a woman trapped in an apartment during war.[p...
- 1/25/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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