Italian producer Massimo Cristaldi, who as a production manager worked with masters such as Federico Fellini and Francesco Rosi before setting up his own company and shepherding films including prizewinning drama “Sicilian Ghost Story,” has died. He was 66.
Cristaldi’s death was announced over the weekend by his Rome-based company Cristaldi Pictures in a statement that did not specify the cause.
Born in 1956, Massimo Cristaldi was the only son of prominent producer Franco Cristaldi, the triple Oscar-winner who made Pietro Germi’s “Divorce Italian Style,” Federico Fellini’s “Amarcord” and Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso.”
In 1974 Massimo Cristaldi started cutting his teeth in the film business first as a production assistant and eventually, starting in the 1980s, becoming a line producer on many of his father’s productions, working with Fellini, Rosi, Tornatore, and many other Italian cinema greats.
After Franco Cristaldi’s death in 1992, he took over management of...
Cristaldi’s death was announced over the weekend by his Rome-based company Cristaldi Pictures in a statement that did not specify the cause.
Born in 1956, Massimo Cristaldi was the only son of prominent producer Franco Cristaldi, the triple Oscar-winner who made Pietro Germi’s “Divorce Italian Style,” Federico Fellini’s “Amarcord” and Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso.”
In 1974 Massimo Cristaldi started cutting his teeth in the film business first as a production assistant and eventually, starting in the 1980s, becoming a line producer on many of his father’s productions, working with Fellini, Rosi, Tornatore, and many other Italian cinema greats.
After Franco Cristaldi’s death in 1992, he took over management of...
- 4/11/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Produced by Germany’s Gringo Films, “Stitch Head” will pitch at March’s Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux, a leading European event for animation coming down the pipeline. Fellow German studios Lavalabs and Studio Rakete co-produce.
“Stitch Head” will be a stereoscopic 3D animated feature directed by Toby Genkel, co-director –alongside Reza Memari– of the successful “A Stork’s Journey,” a German production from Ulysses Filmproduktion which secured a U.S. release through Grindstone and Lionsgate, and was sold by Global Screen.
“Stitch Head” is a family entertainment adventure-comedy intended for mainstream audiences. According to its producers, it’s a fun take on the Frankenstein myth, where the monsters are the good guys, and the humans are scary.
“It’s based on a simple premise: If a mad professor is obsessively bringing monstrous creatures to Almost-Life in his castle’s laboratory… then who takes care of the monsters? Who keeps them fed and clean?...
“Stitch Head” will be a stereoscopic 3D animated feature directed by Toby Genkel, co-director –alongside Reza Memari– of the successful “A Stork’s Journey,” a German production from Ulysses Filmproduktion which secured a U.S. release through Grindstone and Lionsgate, and was sold by Global Screen.
“Stitch Head” is a family entertainment adventure-comedy intended for mainstream audiences. According to its producers, it’s a fun take on the Frankenstein myth, where the monsters are the good guys, and the humans are scary.
“It’s based on a simple premise: If a mad professor is obsessively bringing monstrous creatures to Almost-Life in his castle’s laboratory… then who takes care of the monsters? Who keeps them fed and clean?...
- 2/14/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
There are 27 features and documentaries amongst this year’s festival selection.
Haifa International Film Festival (Oct 15-24) has revealed the line-up of Israeli titles for its 32nd edition.
The programme will include 13 Israeli feature films, 14 Israeli documentary films, 48 shorts and animated films and 10 student and recent graduate films.
See the full list below, including synopses.
Full line-up of Israeli titles:
Israeli feature film competition:
(Synopses provided by festival)
Antenna, dir. Arik Rotstein (Wp)
On a bright morning, Joshua, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, discovers that a cellular communications antenna has been installed on the roof of his home. It turns out that his neighbor has leased his part of the roof to a cellular company. Joshua feels that a terrible injustice was done. The radiation must be the cause for all his aches and pains. There is nothing for it - Joshua declares war on the offending neighbor and drags his wife Sarah and three adult sons with...
Haifa International Film Festival (Oct 15-24) has revealed the line-up of Israeli titles for its 32nd edition.
The programme will include 13 Israeli feature films, 14 Israeli documentary films, 48 shorts and animated films and 10 student and recent graduate films.
See the full list below, including synopses.
Full line-up of Israeli titles:
Israeli feature film competition:
(Synopses provided by festival)
Antenna, dir. Arik Rotstein (Wp)
On a bright morning, Joshua, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, discovers that a cellular communications antenna has been installed on the roof of his home. It turns out that his neighbor has leased his part of the roof to a cellular company. Joshua feels that a terrible injustice was done. The radiation must be the cause for all his aches and pains. There is nothing for it - Joshua declares war on the offending neighbor and drags his wife Sarah and three adult sons with...
- 9/8/2016
- ScreenDaily
Film about female empowement in a conservative Bedouin community wins showcase.
Elite Zexer’s first feature Sand Storm and Eitan Anner’s A Quiet Heart have won the First Look Award in Locarno’s showcase, which was dedicated this year to selected Israeli films in post-production.
Jury member Karel Och, director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, presented the first prize of $66,000 (€60,000) worth of picture post-production services sponsored by Rotor Film to Sand Storm’s producers Haim Mecklberg and Estee Yacov-Mecklberg for its “mature, deeply observant storytelling and courageous depiction of the layered struggles of several generations of women”.
Sand Storm centres on a Bedouin mother and daughter testing the limits of their conservative community.
Fellow jury member, Sundance programming director John Nein handed over the second prize - $6,000 (€5,500) worth of advertising donated by the French trade magazine Le Film Francais - to A Quiet Heart’s producer Gal Greenspan of Green Productions for its “urgency...
Elite Zexer’s first feature Sand Storm and Eitan Anner’s A Quiet Heart have won the First Look Award in Locarno’s showcase, which was dedicated this year to selected Israeli films in post-production.
Jury member Karel Och, director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, presented the first prize of $66,000 (€60,000) worth of picture post-production services sponsored by Rotor Film to Sand Storm’s producers Haim Mecklberg and Estee Yacov-Mecklberg for its “mature, deeply observant storytelling and courageous depiction of the layered struggles of several generations of women”.
Sand Storm centres on a Bedouin mother and daughter testing the limits of their conservative community.
Fellow jury member, Sundance programming director John Nein handed over the second prize - $6,000 (€5,500) worth of advertising donated by the French trade magazine Le Film Francais - to A Quiet Heart’s producer Gal Greenspan of Green Productions for its “urgency...
- 8/11/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Berlinale Co-Production Market
Thirty-eight film projects from twenty-five countries have been selected for the eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market which will run from February 13 to 15, 2011. The producers and directors of these projects will meet with 450 potential co-production and financing partners during the event. No Indian project has found a place in the 38 projects that have been chosen out of 352 entries.
Three projects have also been chosen for the “Rotterdam-Berlinale Express”, in collaboration with CineMart Rotterdam. These projects will participate in both the CineMart and the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
In cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, eleven projects by newcomers have been selected from 270 additional entries for the “Talent Project Market”.
The official selection of projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2011:
Love Isreal (dir: Julia von Heinz), 2Pilots Filmproduction, Germany
They Are All Dead (dir: Beatriz Sanchis), Avalon P.C., Spain
Saints (dir: Seyfi Teoman), Bulut Film, Turkey
Darkness by Day (dir: Martin Desalvo), Doménica Films,...
Thirty-eight film projects from twenty-five countries have been selected for the eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market which will run from February 13 to 15, 2011. The producers and directors of these projects will meet with 450 potential co-production and financing partners during the event. No Indian project has found a place in the 38 projects that have been chosen out of 352 entries.
Three projects have also been chosen for the “Rotterdam-Berlinale Express”, in collaboration with CineMart Rotterdam. These projects will participate in both the CineMart and the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
In cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, eleven projects by newcomers have been selected from 270 additional entries for the “Talent Project Market”.
The official selection of projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2011:
Love Isreal (dir: Julia von Heinz), 2Pilots Filmproduction, Germany
They Are All Dead (dir: Beatriz Sanchis), Avalon P.C., Spain
Saints (dir: Seyfi Teoman), Bulut Film, Turkey
Darkness by Day (dir: Martin Desalvo), Doménica Films,...
- 1/14/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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