Locarno SwissBiz Panel: COVID-19 Not the Only Problem Facing Swiss Distribution, Exhibition

The car belonged to a member of the public who lives near the garage. The kitten had no injuries and is now in the care of the Scottish SCPA’s Lanarkshire Animal Rescue and Rehoming Centre in Hamilton's Bothwell Road.

Justin Timberlake has opened up on how he took influence from David Bowie‘s ‘Rebel Rebel’ while writing his 2006 hit ‘Sexyback’.He told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe: “I was listening to ‘Rebel Rebel,’ which essentially is about a cross-dresser.“And so I was picturing guys, girls, all iterations of that in a club, singing this to each other.

Animal lovers are being urged to donate much needed Iams complete kitten food to the SSPCA Animal Rescue and Rehoming Centre in Hamilton.Scotland’s animal welfare charity has seen a baby boom in recent weeks at the centre and are desperately in need of food for the newborns.Centre manager Gillian Boyle said: “We’re currently caring for around 30 kittens of various ages.“It can be a struggle to keep up with so many hungry mouths to feed.“We also need disinfectant because with this amount of young

A protest was held Aug. 11 at the state capitol. (Photo courtesy of the PBFC)

Jamie Lang Tehran-born filmmaker Abtin Sarabi’s “Land Lot S7” featured in this year’s Pardi di domani short film competition at the Locarno  Festival. Now, the director is prepping two feature length documentaries, and has shared early details of each with Variety.“The mad proliferation of the wind gives the trees strange outlines,” reads “Land Lot S7’s” cryptic synopsis.

Jamie Lang Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ last Locarno experience was one to remember, culminating in a Special Jury Prize for her 2017 feature “Good Manners,” which played in competition.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSwitzerland’s Tristan Aymon, director of short film “Black Hole” (“Trou Noir”), the only title to win two prizes at the 2020 Locarno Festival – a Pardino d’Argento in Swiss Competition and a Youth Jury best Swiss short – is preparing “Skate,” his feature debut.Written by Aymon and Marianne Brun, his co-screenwriter on “Black Hole,” “Skate” will tap into the same context, themes and, above all, emotions of “Black Hole,” a low key and laid-back but

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLaureled way back in 1995 for her short “Dead King” in feature anthology “Historias Breves,” a Sundance/NHK Award winner for the screenplay of her debut feature “The Swamp” in 1999, Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel is no stranger to jury prizes, handing them out as president of the Venice Film Festival main competition jury last year.That said, her top Pardo 2020 prize in the Locarno Festival’s The Films After Tomorrow – awarded Friday – may be special,

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentUpcoming movies from two Argentine filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel’s “Chocobar” and Mari Alessandrini’s “Zahori,” won the top Pardo 2020 Awards at the Locarno Film Festival’s The Films After Tomorrow, its highest-profile competition, the festival announced Friday.Of other major plaudits in The Films After Tomorrow, a section highlighting COVID-19-hit productions, “Savagery,” from Portugal’s Miguel Gomes, scooped the strand’s Special Jury Prize.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticWalt Disney World has established free, on-site coronavirus testing for employees and their families, drawing applause from Actors’ Equity Association after a two-month-long stand-off over the matter.Equity announced today that it has signed an agreement with the resort to allow union members to return to work at the Florida amusement park.“We have been consistent that testing is an important part of ensuring a safe workplace for Equity performers, and

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentZurich-Berlin based Tellfilm, producer of “Blue My Mind” from “Killing Eve” director Lisa Brühlmann, is set to go into production on Aug.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorLos Angeles County director of public health Barbara Ferrer said Monday that there were 19 new deaths reported in the region from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total in the cities of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Pasadena to 4,996 since the outbreak began in March.The new total does not include delayed data from the state, which Ferrer says they have not received and have not processed.Still, the latest county coronavirus numbers released today

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentUnsurprisingly the coronavirus crisis has prompted an uptick in views of classic and heritage cinema titles on streaming platforms, even spawning new online outlets for vintage films.Now the hope is that this increased interest can serve as a stimulus to foster greater preservation of the world’s cinematic patrimony before it’s too late.That is one of the key considerations that surfaced from a Locarno Pro webinar on the distribution of heritage and

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAmka Films, the Swiss indie shingle founded by prominent producer Tiziana Soudani – who sadly passed away in January – is carrying on its activities under a trio of women led by her daughter Amel Soudani.The company is known for its involvement in prizewinning films by prominent directors from nearby Italy, such as Alice Rohrwacher (“The Wonders”), Silvio Soldini (“Bread and Tulips) and Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo (“Bad Tales”) as well as by emerging

Naman Ramachandran A producer on Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Endless Poetry” is fighting to reclaim a $200,000 loan repayment as part of an ongoing legal dispute with the cult filmmaker’s Satori Films banner.A Paris tribunal has directed Satori Films to pay Amir Abbas Nokhasteh, an executive producer on “Endless Poetry,” almost $200,000 in repayment of a loan from the producer that was used to make the 2016 film.A March 2020 court order from the Judicial Tribunal of Paris, seen by Variety, required