After six-days of intense pitching and networking from 2,023 accredited docu industry guests, Copenhagen’s Cph:dox industry showcase wrapped Thursday with an awards ceremony, where two urgent projects tackling the current war in Ukraine and the complex Israeli and Palestinian conflict were handed out prizes.
The Ukrainian documentary “Timestamp” by Kateryna Gornostai scooped the biggest cash prize of €30,000 associated to the new Eurimages Outreach Award. The project, to be delivered later this year, chronicles the wartime school years 2023-24, through the everyday lives of kids and their teachers during martial law. Ukraine’s 2Brave Productions is producing, together with Dutch outfit Rinkel Film & Docs.
Praising the film’s “highly cinematic film that avoids traditional narrative structures, the jury said in its motivation statement: “This war movie takes place far from the frontline where soldiers, mostly men, fight for their country. It is the story of teachers, mostly women, who fight to...
The Ukrainian documentary “Timestamp” by Kateryna Gornostai scooped the biggest cash prize of €30,000 associated to the new Eurimages Outreach Award. The project, to be delivered later this year, chronicles the wartime school years 2023-24, through the everyday lives of kids and their teachers during martial law. Ukraine’s 2Brave Productions is producing, together with Dutch outfit Rinkel Film & Docs.
Praising the film’s “highly cinematic film that avoids traditional narrative structures, the jury said in its motivation statement: “This war movie takes place far from the frontline where soldiers, mostly men, fight for their country. It is the story of teachers, mostly women, who fight to...
- 3/21/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Filmfest Hamburg has 17 films funded by Moin screening at the festival.
Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein’s regional film fund Moin will have a strong presence at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg.
17 films funded by Moin will screen at the festival, including international productions such as Nicolaj Arcel’s King’s Land and Alice Troughton’s The Lesson as well as Isabal Herguera’s animated feature Sultana’s Dream and Leiv Igor Devold’s Norwegian Dream.
Other Moin backed features include new works by German filmmakers ranging from Sven Halfar (Heaven Can Wait - Wir Leben Jetzt) through to Stephan Rick (The Roots...
Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein’s regional film fund Moin will have a strong presence at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg.
17 films funded by Moin will screen at the festival, including international productions such as Nicolaj Arcel’s King’s Land and Alice Troughton’s The Lesson as well as Isabal Herguera’s animated feature Sultana’s Dream and Leiv Igor Devold’s Norwegian Dream.
Other Moin backed features include new works by German filmmakers ranging from Sven Halfar (Heaven Can Wait - Wir Leben Jetzt) through to Stephan Rick (The Roots...
- 9/28/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The 2023 Venice Immersive program has been unveiled.
The annual programming features 44 projects from 25 countries, with Singing Chen serving as jury president. The selection of projects for the Xr – Extended Reality section will take place during the 80th Venice International Film Festival from August 30 to September 9. The official program is hosted on the Venice Immersive Island (island of Lazzaretto Vecchio), a short distance from the Lido di Venezia.
Venice Immersive is entirely devoted to immersive media and includes all Xr means of creative expression: 360° videos and Xr works of any length, including installations and virtual worlds. Twenty-eight projects are debuting in Competition, with 10 projects Out of Competition which have already been released or premiered elsewhere internationally in the past year since the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival.
The Venice Immersive World on VRChat will present a virtual presentation, with the Worlds Gallery section showcasing a selection of 24 virtual worlds,...
The annual programming features 44 projects from 25 countries, with Singing Chen serving as jury president. The selection of projects for the Xr – Extended Reality section will take place during the 80th Venice International Film Festival from August 30 to September 9. The official program is hosted on the Venice Immersive Island (island of Lazzaretto Vecchio), a short distance from the Lido di Venezia.
Venice Immersive is entirely devoted to immersive media and includes all Xr means of creative expression: 360° videos and Xr works of any length, including installations and virtual worlds. Twenty-eight projects are debuting in Competition, with 10 projects Out of Competition which have already been released or premiered elsewhere internationally in the past year since the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival.
The Venice Immersive World on VRChat will present a virtual presentation, with the Worlds Gallery section showcasing a selection of 24 virtual worlds,...
- 7/20/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Gdm explores where VR meets film.
The biggest-ever Geneva Digital Market (Gdm) is taking place this week, bringing together groundbreaking creators and technology with traditional filmmakers looking to keep up with the latest innovations in the field.
The 10th edition of the industry platform of Geneva International Film Festival (Giff) is running November 7-11 as an hybrid event for the second year in a row – reflecting the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic – with an emphasis on virtual, augmented and extended reality (Xr) storytelling.
“The big difference this year is that we have a more balanced, geographic representation from all across Europe and beyond,...
The biggest-ever Geneva Digital Market (Gdm) is taking place this week, bringing together groundbreaking creators and technology with traditional filmmakers looking to keep up with the latest innovations in the field.
The 10th edition of the industry platform of Geneva International Film Festival (Giff) is running November 7-11 as an hybrid event for the second year in a row – reflecting the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic – with an emphasis on virtual, augmented and extended reality (Xr) storytelling.
“The big difference this year is that we have a more balanced, geographic representation from all across Europe and beyond,...
- 11/7/2022
- ScreenDaily
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