Moscow Business Square’s Best Pitch Award has been won by Valeria Gai Germanika for her planned update of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
Germanika, who focusses on coming-of-age films, is known as Russian cinema’s ‘enfent terrible’ and receied the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 2008 for her feature film Everybody Dies But Me..
Her latest project, The Dream-God, is a contemporary reworking of Christian Andersen’s Ole-Luk-Oie. The $2.45m (€1.875m) production by Andrey Sigle’s St Petersburg-based Proline Film already has $1.6m (€1.25m) in place.
The film’s action centres on a seven-year old boy haunted by a friendly monster called The Dream-God who visits him every night in the form of a Goth singer from the poster in his elder sister’s bedroom.
Proline’s Leonid Choub revealed during the pitching at the Business Square that they intend to cast a Western rock star in the role of the Dream-God and feature his music...
Germanika, who focusses on coming-of-age films, is known as Russian cinema’s ‘enfent terrible’ and receied the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 2008 for her feature film Everybody Dies But Me..
Her latest project, The Dream-God, is a contemporary reworking of Christian Andersen’s Ole-Luk-Oie. The $2.45m (€1.875m) production by Andrey Sigle’s St Petersburg-based Proline Film already has $1.6m (€1.25m) in place.
The film’s action centres on a seven-year old boy haunted by a friendly monster called The Dream-God who visits him every night in the form of a Goth singer from the poster in his elder sister’s bedroom.
Proline’s Leonid Choub revealed during the pitching at the Business Square that they intend to cast a Western rock star in the role of the Dream-God and feature his music...
- 6/26/2013
- ScreenDaily
New projects by Peter Greenaway, Pavel Lungin and Valeria Gai Germanika are among 18 feature films selected to be pitched at the fifth edition of Moscow Business Square’s Co-Production Forum.
This will be the second time that Greenaway is at the Forum after presenting his project Food Of Love, based on Thomas Mann’s novella Death In Venice, there last year. His pitch then won him the $40,000 (€30,000) Best Pitch award sponsored by the new Moscow production complex Glavkino.
This time the Welsh-born director will be introducing Eisenstein In Guanajuato, which recounts the time the 33-year-old Russian director fell briefly, but intensely in love in a small Mexican town while researching for the never completed picture Que viva México! in Mexico between 1929-1931.
At last year’s Odessa International Film Festival, Greenaway told ScreenDaily that “99% of the financing” was in place for this project and he hoped at the time to shoot in Mexico at the end of...
This will be the second time that Greenaway is at the Forum after presenting his project Food Of Love, based on Thomas Mann’s novella Death In Venice, there last year. His pitch then won him the $40,000 (€30,000) Best Pitch award sponsored by the new Moscow production complex Glavkino.
This time the Welsh-born director will be introducing Eisenstein In Guanajuato, which recounts the time the 33-year-old Russian director fell briefly, but intensely in love in a small Mexican town while researching for the never completed picture Que viva México! in Mexico between 1929-1931.
At last year’s Odessa International Film Festival, Greenaway told ScreenDaily that “99% of the financing” was in place for this project and he hoped at the time to shoot in Mexico at the end of...
- 6/12/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
'Home' takes Pacific Meridian top honors
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Hong Kong director Zhang Yang's "Getting Home" won the top prize Friday as the fifth edition of Russia's Pacific Meridian film festival, which showcases films from Asia Pacific region, came to a close.
The film, Zhang's fifth, tells the story of man who keeps his promise to a friend who dies during a drinking party, taking his corpse on an epic journey across thousands of miles of China.
Two other top awards went to Japanese actress-turned-director Mamoi Kaori, who took both best director and best actress for "Faces of a Fig Tree", in which she also stars.
The film, about a family torn apart by a tragic accident, is her directorial debut.
Best actor went to Russian theater actor Sergey Puskepalis, who plays a doctor in Alexei Popogrebsky's "Simple Things". The film won the top prize at Kinotavr, Russia's national film festival.
A special jury prize went to New Zealand's Taika Waititi for odd couple comedy "Eagle vs Shark".
Best short film, which also screened closing night, went to Russian director Leonid Rybakov's 19-minute film "Stone People", an ironic black comedy about the pilots and crews who seed the clouds above Moscow to ensure that parades held on Red Square are rain-free.
The film, Zhang's fifth, tells the story of man who keeps his promise to a friend who dies during a drinking party, taking his corpse on an epic journey across thousands of miles of China.
Two other top awards went to Japanese actress-turned-director Mamoi Kaori, who took both best director and best actress for "Faces of a Fig Tree", in which she also stars.
The film, about a family torn apart by a tragic accident, is her directorial debut.
Best actor went to Russian theater actor Sergey Puskepalis, who plays a doctor in Alexei Popogrebsky's "Simple Things". The film won the top prize at Kinotavr, Russia's national film festival.
A special jury prize went to New Zealand's Taika Waititi for odd couple comedy "Eagle vs Shark".
Best short film, which also screened closing night, went to Russian director Leonid Rybakov's 19-minute film "Stone People", an ironic black comedy about the pilots and crews who seed the clouds above Moscow to ensure that parades held on Red Square are rain-free.
- 9/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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