Greece’s Evia Film Project Brings Environmentally Focused Filmmaking to the Fore

Anna Marie de la Fuente Opening the 26th Fantasia Int’l Film Festival in Montreal on July 14, writer-director KC Carthew’s “Polaris” is her sophomore pic after her multi-award-winning debut feature, “The Sun at Midnight” (2017). A teaser, bowing exclusively in Variety, reveals a dystopian thriller set in a frigid, snow-blanketed wasteland.An expansion of her award-winning short film “Fish out of Water,” which also bowed at Fantasia in 2015, “Polaris” turns on Sumi, a young girl who has been raised by a polar bear.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterDetective Benoit Blanc is taking his talents back to Canada.“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” the follow-up to director Rian Johnson’s crowd-pleasing whodunit “Knives Out,” will have its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The 47th edition of TIFF is taking place from Sept.

And just like that, the fall festival season commences. Today, the Toronto International Film Festival revealed its first world premiere, Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” The first “Knives Out” debuted at the 2019 edition of the festival.

The Toronto Film Festival said Wednesday that Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson’s follow-up to his hit 2019 murder mystery pic, will world premiere at this year’s edition of the festival, which runs September 8-18.

Real Housewives of Dubai star Caroline Stanbury and her family have been robbed while vacationing in Greece.

Visa-free travel for UK passport-holders travelling to the EU will end, it’s been confirmed. The EU’s visa waiver policy will officially come into force next May, meaning Brits will need to pay for a new electronic permit.

 saga. The film's star, Nia Vardalos took to Instagram to confirm the news after photos of the cast began circulating online.«I have an announcement,» Vardalos began in the video shared to her feed Tuesday.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 is finally happening!

Production has started on “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”.

Carson Burton “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3” has started filming in Athens, Greece. The franchise’s writer and star Nia Vardalos made the announcement on her  Instagram page, and she also revealed that she is directing this third installment. The film will mark Vardalos’ next feature directorial outing after 2009’s “I Hate Valentine’s Day.”“We are in Greece filming ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’ and thank you for all the lovely messages of just waiting,” Vardalos said.

Millie Mackintosh has been soaking up the sun in Greece with her husband Hugo Taylor and their two young daughters, Sienna and Aurelia. The former Made In Chelsea star, 32, recently jetted off with Hugo, 36, on a fun family getaway alongside two year old Sienna and seven month old Aurelia.The couple, who recently attended a charity ball alongside fellow MIC star Binky Felstead, have been documenting their sun-soaked family holiday on Instagram, with Millie continuing to show off her incredible outfits.

Instagram with a video, while also thanking her producers at Playtone, Gold Circle, HBO and Focus Features.“Much love and gratitude to you all for your support as we waited to film. Greece baby.

Crystal Globe Competition“America,” Ofir Raul Graizer (Israel, Germany, Czech Republic)“Chemi otakhi” (“A Room Of My Own”), Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze (Georgia, Germany)“Edna provintsialna bolnitsa” (“A Provincial Hospital”), Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva (Bulgaria, Germany)“F—ing Bornholm,” Anna Kazejak (Poland)“Hranice lásky” (“Borders of Love”), Tomasz Wiński (Czech Republic, Poland)“Isihia 6-9” (“Silence 6-9”), Christos Passalis (Greece)“The Ordinaries,”  Sophie Linnenbaum (Germany)“Slovo” (“The Word”), Beata Parkanová (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland)“Tabestan Ba Omid” (“Summer with Hope”), Sadaf Foroughi (Canada)“Tenéis que venir a verla” (“You Have to Come and See It”), Jonás Trueba (Spain)“Tooi tokoro” (“A Far Shore”), Masaaki Kudo (Japan)“Vesper,” Kristina Buožytė, Bruno Samper (Lithuania, France, Belgium)Proxima Competition“A pak přišla láska…” (“And Then There Was Love…”),  Šimon Holý (Czech Republic)“Los Agitadores” (“Horseplay”), Marco Berger (Argentina)“Au grand jour” (“In Broad Daylight”), Emmanuel Tardif (Canada)“Balaye aseman zire ab” (“Like a Fish on the Moon”), Dornaz Hajiha (Iran)“Głupcy” (“Fools”), Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland, Romania, Germany)“Još jedno proleće” (“Another Spring”), Mladen Kovačević (Serbia, Qatar)“La pietà” (“Piety”), Eduardo Casanova (Spain, Argentina)“Ramona,” Andrea Bagney (Spain)“Stric” (“The Uncle”), David Kapac, Andrija Mardešić (Croatia, Serbia)“Tinnitus,”Gregorio Graziosi (Brazil)“Zkouška umění” (“ART talent show”), Tomáš Bojar, Adéla Komrzý (Czech Republic)“Zoo Lock Down,” Andreas Horvath (Austria)Special Screenings“BANGER.” Adam Sedlák (Czech Republic)“June Zero,” Jake Paltrow (USA, Israel)“The Killing of a Journalist,” Matt Sarnecki (Denmark, USA, Czech

Christopher Vourlias For the first edition of the Evia Film Project, a new initiative launched by the organizers of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, the festival’s industry arm, Agora, hosted a series of events looking to bring both environmentally focused films and sustainable film production to the fore. The program was designed to help revitalize Greece’s second-largest island, which was hit by a devastating series of wildfires last summer.Speaking to Variety ahead of the festival, Agora head Yianna Sarri stressed the importance of getting the global film community to rethink its ways of doing business in order to make the industry more environmentally friendly.

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Al Pacino was constantly on the verge of getting fired from The Godfather but director Francis Ford Coppola saved the role that launched his career by shifting around shooting sequences to move up a scene – the one where Michael Corleone commits to the family business by popping another mobster and a crooked cop in a restaurant.