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Circus doc ‘Fantastique’ leads winners as Connext 2023 ends on a high
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Emmanuel Eckert, deputy director, acquisitions at French media giant Mediawan, gave a keynote speech.

Circus documentary Fantastique from director Marjolijn Prins won the Perfect Pitch award at Connext, the Flemish film and TV showcase that took place in Antwerp this week. It was one of four winners, sharing an estimated €80,000 worth of support. They were chosen by the international delegates attending the event via the Connext app.

The documentary about a female acrobat from Guinea who faces conflict at home as she goes in pursuit of her dreams is produced by Serendipity Films. The award comes with postproduction support from Flow,...
See full article at ScreenDaily
  • 10/11/2023
  • by Geoffrey Macnab
  • ScreenDaily
Circus doc ‘Fantastique’ leads winners as Connext 23 ends on a high
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Emmanuel Eckert, deputy director, acquisitions at French media giant Mediawan, gave a keynote speech.

Circus documentary Fantastique from director Marjolijn Prins won the Perfect Pitch award at Connext, the Flemish film and TV showcase that took place in Antwerp this week. It was one of four winners, sharing an estimated €80,000 worth of support. They were chosen by the international delegates attending the event via the Connext app.

The documentary about a female acrobat from Guinea who faces conflict at home as she goes in pursuit of her dreams is produced by Serendipity Films. The award comes with postproduction support from Flow,...
See full article at ScreenDaily
  • 10/11/2023
  • by Geoffrey Macnab
  • ScreenDaily
Programmers, execs look forward to first glimpse of buzzy Flemish projects at Connext 2023
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“The number of talents and good films is amazing,” says Renata Santoro, head of programming at Giornate Degli Autori.

Connext, Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase, taking place from October 9-10 in Antwerp, is fast growing its reputation on the international stage.

Paolo Bertolin, a member of the selection committee of the Venice Film Festival, visited the Antwerp-based showcase for the first time in 2022 with a simple ambition to meet Belgian talent and discover the best up -and- coming projects from the region.

Among the projects he saw was Fien Troch’s Holly, a then work-in-progress about a...
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  • 10/8/2023
  • by Geoffrey Macnab
  • ScreenDaily
Connext 2023 line-up includes Adil & Bilall project; Lukas Dhont to curate rising talent initiative
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‘Girl’ and ’Close’ director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five.

Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase Connext (October 9-10) will present new work from the region’s creatives including Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and see Lukas Dhont curate the first edition of new talent showcase The Future Five.

Girl and Close director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five, who will be presented to international industry attending Connext in Antwerp on the event’s first day. The initiative is in association with Screen International.

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  • 9/19/2023
  • by Orlando Parfitt
  • ScreenDaily
Connext 2023 line-up includes Adil & Bilall project; Lukas Dhont to curate rising talent scheme
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‘Girl’ and ’Close’ director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five.

Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase Connext (October 9-10) will present new work from regional filmmakers including Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and see Lukas Dhont curate the first edition of new talent showcase The Future Five.

Girl and Close director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five, who will be presented to international industry attending Connext in Antwerp on the event’s first day. The initiative is in association with Screen International.

Scroll down for line-ups

Among...
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  • 9/19/2023
  • by Orlando Parfitt
  • ScreenDaily
Lukas Dhont, Veerle Baetens, Olga Lucovnicova projects to showcase at Re>Connext
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A total of 46 films and 27 series will be showcased at the online-only event.

Lukas Dhont’s second feature Close and Olga Lucovnicova’s Last Letters From My Grandma are among the 46 feature and 27 series projects to be showcased at Re>Connext, the annual showcase for films and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels, Belgium.

Close is filmmaker Dhont’s follow-up to Girl, which won the Camera d’Or following its premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2018. Last year, the project was pitched at Re>Connext under the title The Invisible.

For this edition, drama Close returns as a work in progress,...
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  • 9/27/2021
  • by Mona Tabbara
  • ScreenDaily
‘Lockdown’ anthology starring Matthias Schoenaerts set for Re>Connext
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Collection of shorts was filmed with Covid-19 safety measures in place by directors including Michael R Roskam (‘Bullhead’).

A collection of films shot during lockdown with a cast that includes Matthias Schoenaerts is to be presented at Re>Connext (Oct 5-31), the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image.

A first look at The Lockdown Shorts, which spans drama, comedy, thriller and horror, will be presented as a works in progress project at the virtual event by producer-directors Gilles Coulier and Maarten Moerkerke.

All 12 films were shot under coronavirus-safe conditions on the same studio set: a prison visiting...
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  • 9/29/2020
  • by Michael Rosser
  • ScreenDaily
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