The four micro-budget projects will be presented at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival in 2016.
Biennale College - Cinema, the Venice International Film Festival’s emerging filmmakers initiative, has selected four 2015/16 projects to move into the production phase of the programme.
The four teams will receive $160,000 (€150,000) to produce their projects, and will premiere them at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival (Aug 30 - Sept 10).
Now in it’s fourth year, the Biennale College program aims to nurture new international filmmakers by helping them to develop micro-budget films through workshops and industry mentors.
The four teams were chosen from the 12 projects that participated in the first round of workshops earlier this year.
Traditionally, only three films are chosen, but this year Alessandro Aronadio’s Orecchie (Ears) has been added as a one-time exception due to the project’s quality and interest.
The second and final round in the program includes two more workshops held on Dec 3 - 6, 2015 and Jan 10 -...
Biennale College - Cinema, the Venice International Film Festival’s emerging filmmakers initiative, has selected four 2015/16 projects to move into the production phase of the programme.
The four teams will receive $160,000 (€150,000) to produce their projects, and will premiere them at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival (Aug 30 - Sept 10).
Now in it’s fourth year, the Biennale College program aims to nurture new international filmmakers by helping them to develop micro-budget films through workshops and industry mentors.
The four teams were chosen from the 12 projects that participated in the first round of workshops earlier this year.
Traditionally, only three films are chosen, but this year Alessandro Aronadio’s Orecchie (Ears) has been added as a one-time exception due to the project’s quality and interest.
The second and final round in the program includes two more workshops held on Dec 3 - 6, 2015 and Jan 10 -...
- 12/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl wins Queer Lion
Veteran director Marco Bellocchio’s Blood Of My Blood (Sangue Del Mio Sangue) has won the Fipresci Award at the 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).
The film is a vampire-themed period drama starring Alba Rohrwacher, who won last year’s Volpi prize for best actress with her performance in Hungry Hearts, as a 17th-century noblewoman who becomes a nun and seduces a young army officer and his twin brother. The film is sold by The Match Factory.
Venice’s ‘Collateral Awards’ - prizes assigned independently by film critics and cultural associations - also saw the Queer Lion Award go to Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as Danish artist Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery.
The film, which receives its North American premiere at Toronto tonight (Sept 12), is a hot contender for the upcoming awards season.
Fipresci AwardBest...
Veteran director Marco Bellocchio’s Blood Of My Blood (Sangue Del Mio Sangue) has won the Fipresci Award at the 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).
The film is a vampire-themed period drama starring Alba Rohrwacher, who won last year’s Volpi prize for best actress with her performance in Hungry Hearts, as a 17th-century noblewoman who becomes a nun and seduces a young army officer and his twin brother. The film is sold by The Match Factory.
Venice’s ‘Collateral Awards’ - prizes assigned independently by film critics and cultural associations - also saw the Queer Lion Award go to Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as Danish artist Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery.
The film, which receives its North American premiere at Toronto tonight (Sept 12), is a hot contender for the upcoming awards season.
Fipresci AwardBest...
- 9/12/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Cydel Gabutero and Peter Milari in Blanka. Kokei Hasei: 'I think many films are very violent but I wanted to share good humour and positive energy' Japanese director Kohki Hasei's feature debut Blanka is set in the slums of Manila where its eponymous heroine (Cydel Gabutero) gets by on her wits and whatever she can steal. When she meets a blind musician (Peter Millari) things begin to change for her and she hatches a plot to try to buy herself a mum. A warm fable that explores what the idea of 'home' really means for people on the fringes, the film is part of this year's Biennale College at Venice Film Festival and available to watch online via Salaweb. We talked to Hasei about making the film.
Aw: You've made documentaries in Manila prior to this film - did the people you met inspire you?
Kh: I visited Manila...
Aw: You've made documentaries in Manila prior to this film - did the people you met inspire you?
Kh: I visited Manila...
- 9/8/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Berlin-based sales outfit M-Appeal has swooped to add Venice Biennale College title Blanka to its autumn market slate.
Blanka received its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) on Saturday (Sept 5).
The feature is an Italian production shot in the Philippines by Japanese director Kohki Hasei, and produced by Flaminio Zadra from Italy.
The story follows 11-year-old Blanka, who survives alone in Manila, begging and stealing from tourists. One day, an absurd idea pops up: if she could buy a mother, she could have a good life. But she has to make countless efforts in order to collect enough money.
An opportunity arises when she meets Peter, a 55-year-old blind street musician, who teaches Blanka how to sing, a skill out of which she can make money.
Blanka was was produced within the Biennale College programme, an advanced training workshop for the development and production of micro-budget (€150,000) audio-visual works.
It also received...
Blanka received its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) on Saturday (Sept 5).
The feature is an Italian production shot in the Philippines by Japanese director Kohki Hasei, and produced by Flaminio Zadra from Italy.
The story follows 11-year-old Blanka, who survives alone in Manila, begging and stealing from tourists. One day, an absurd idea pops up: if she could buy a mother, she could have a good life. But she has to make countless efforts in order to collect enough money.
An opportunity arises when she meets Peter, a 55-year-old blind street musician, who teaches Blanka how to sing, a skill out of which she can make money.
Blanka was was produced within the Biennale College programme, an advanced training workshop for the development and production of micro-budget (€150,000) audio-visual works.
It also received...
- 9/7/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Venice Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has hailed the success of the Festival’s groundbreaking Biennale College - Cinema programme in nurturing new work from young filmmakers around the world.
“We have gone beyond every expectation,” Barbera said of the programme. which was launched in 2012 and has now inspired similar initiatives in music and theatre in Venice.
Barbara himself has taken a intimate role in the running of the programme. The idea is to give 12 teams of emerging film directors and producers the chance to participate in high level workshops with feature film projects. Three of the projects will be commissioned and fully financed.
The 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) is screening all three films greenlit last year:
grotesque, surrealistic comedy Baby Bump by Kuba Czekaj;
Blanka by Japanese director Kohki Hasei (but which was shot in the Philippines) , about a young girl who survives in Manila begging and stealing from tourists; and
Us indie drama The Fits...
“We have gone beyond every expectation,” Barbera said of the programme. which was launched in 2012 and has now inspired similar initiatives in music and theatre in Venice.
Barbara himself has taken a intimate role in the running of the programme. The idea is to give 12 teams of emerging film directors and producers the chance to participate in high level workshops with feature film projects. Three of the projects will be commissioned and fully financed.
The 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) is screening all three films greenlit last year:
grotesque, surrealistic comedy Baby Bump by Kuba Czekaj;
Blanka by Japanese director Kohki Hasei (but which was shot in the Philippines) , about a young girl who survives in Manila begging and stealing from tourists; and
Us indie drama The Fits...
- 9/2/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Smack dab in the middle of the fall film fest season, the Venice Film Festival via Sala Web screening room (September 3rd to 16th) will be serving up fifteen offerings (12 feature films in the Orizzonti Competition and 3 feature films from the Biennale College) for the streaming VOD platform set up by the Festival Scope folks. Among the titles that lovers of world cinema will have the unique opportunity to see the likes of Italian Gangsters from helmer Renato De Maria (Tiff preemed La prima linea) and Jake Mahaffy’s long-awaited sophomore film, Free in Deed (see pic above). The films will be made available for five days after the films have premiere screenings at the festival. You can view all the films listed below and grab your tickets at the official Festival Scope channel.
Orizzonti Films
Neon Bull (Boi Neon), by Gabriel Mascaro – From September 3rd
Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands; 101’ Portuguese
Iremar works at the Vaquejadas,...
Orizzonti Films
Neon Bull (Boi Neon), by Gabriel Mascaro – From September 3rd
Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands; 101’ Portuguese
Iremar works at the Vaquejadas,...
- 8/18/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Venice’s “virtual festival” will feature 15 world premieres this year.Scroll Down For Full List
The fourth edition of Sala Web, the “virtual festival” at the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12), has revealed it’s line-up for 2015.
This year’s selection of films includes 15 world premieres: 12 from the Orizzonti Competition and three features from the Biennale College, Venice’s laboratory that supports micro-budget films.
Directors having their films featured include Merzak Allouache (The Rooftops), Jake Mahaffy (Wellness) and Gabriel Mascaro (August Winds), as well as numerous first-time filmmakers.
The selected films will again be streaming on VOD platform Festival Scope and will be available for five days after the films have premiere screenings at the festival.
Full list:
Synopses provided by Venice Film Festival
Orizzonti Films
Neon Bull (Boi Neon) dir. Gabriel Mascaro
Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands; 101’ Portuguese
(Available from September 3)
Iremar works at the Vaquejadas, a rodeo in the Northeast of Brazil, where two men...
The fourth edition of Sala Web, the “virtual festival” at the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12), has revealed it’s line-up for 2015.
This year’s selection of films includes 15 world premieres: 12 from the Orizzonti Competition and three features from the Biennale College, Venice’s laboratory that supports micro-budget films.
Directors having their films featured include Merzak Allouache (The Rooftops), Jake Mahaffy (Wellness) and Gabriel Mascaro (August Winds), as well as numerous first-time filmmakers.
The selected films will again be streaming on VOD platform Festival Scope and will be available for five days after the films have premiere screenings at the festival.
Full list:
Synopses provided by Venice Film Festival
Orizzonti Films
Neon Bull (Boi Neon) dir. Gabriel Mascaro
Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands; 101’ Portuguese
(Available from September 3)
Iremar works at the Vaquejadas, a rodeo in the Northeast of Brazil, where two men...
- 8/18/2015
- ScreenDaily
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