Reservoir Docs Acquires Goth Documentary ‘Dark Blossom’ for International Sales Ahead of CPH:DOX, Hot Docs Screenings (EXCLUSIVE)

Justice League director Joss Whedon “threatened [her] career” during reshoots for the movie.Late last year, Gadot said her experience working with Whedon on the set of the Justice League reshoot “wasn’t the best one, but I took care of it there and when it happened.

Wonder Woman 1984 star Gal Gadot has accused Joss Whedon of threatening her career on the set of the Justice League reshoots. Cyborg actor Ray Fisher previously spoke out against the director's alleged "abusive, unprofessional" behaviour on set, leading to further claims and a now-concluded investigation by Warner Bros.

Lockdown Drive-In cinema is coming to Falkirk, and this time it's all for a good cause.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorNew York City-based global documentary film sales agent Cargo Film & Releasing has nabbed world rights, excluding Denmark and Sweden, to Mads Hedegaard’s feature length documentary debut “Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest,” which premiered at last week’s CPH:DOX and plays this week at Hot Docs.The feel-good film centers on Kim Cannon Arm, who is not your average grandpa.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentDR Sales, the commercial arm of the Danish broadcaster, is set to start handling more children programming, kicking off with the animated series “Team Nuggets.” Currently in development, the comedy show was commissioned by DR’s streaming platform Ramasjang which targets children aged 4 to 8 years old and ranks as Denmark’s leading platform for kids content.

Ed Meza @edmezavarAs a feminist filmmaker, Antonia Kilian was inspired to travel to northern Syria after forces of the Kurdish autonomous region known as Rojava liberated the city of Minbij from ISIS militants.It was in Minbij that Kilian met Hala, a young Arab woman who had fled her conservative family and the prospects of a forced marriage and found safety and emancipation at a Rojavan military academy, where she trained to become a soldier in the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) — part of the

Ed Meza @edmezavarMalian filmmaker Ousmane Samassekou’s “The Last Shelter” won the top prize in Danish doc fest CPH:DOX’s main international competition on Friday, picking up the Dox:Award.A total of 11 films garnered prizes in the festival’s six international competitions, including five special mentions.“The Last Shelter” centers on the House of Migrants, located in the Malian city of Gao, on the edge of the Sahel desert, where the director meets travelers and migrants who find a temporary

health crisis.“There is no evidence that culture should take second place to supermarkets, zoos or any other activity that generates social contact,” they said.

Ed Meza @edmezavar“Behind the Headlines,” Daniel Andreas Sager’s thrilling look at how German investigative journalists triggered a political earthquake in Austria that toppled the country’s government, is having its world premiere at Danish doc fest CPH:DOX, where it’s competing for the Fact Award, before unspooling at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival and opening next month’s DOK.fest München.Sager is now at work on his next documentary project, a film that will accompany international peace

Ed Meza @edmezavarTed Hope, producer and former co-head of movies at Amazon Studios, offered a glimpse of hope for the documentary film industry while discussing streaming opportunities at Danish doc fest CPH:DOX on Tuesday.The discussion was part of the festival’s CHP:Conference program and its series of talks entitled “Redistribution:Economy,” which seeks to explore new economic models in the wake of the COVID pandemic that has laid bare the unequal nature of the global economy.Documentaries

Clara Rugaard, the Danish actress who starred in Netflix’s I Am Mother, is to lead the cast for Sky’s The Rising, a supernatural crime thriller that was originally inspired by Belgian drama Hotel Beau Séjour.

France’s Eric Vuillard, Jewish-Russian family history “In Memory of Memory” by Russian writer Maria Stepanova and imaginative short-story collection “The Dangers of Smoking in Bed” by Argentina’s Mariana Enriquez.The other finalists are war story “At Night All Blood is Black,” by France’s David Diop, science-themed story collection “When We Cease to Understand the World” by Chile’s Benjamín Labatut and futuristic workplace novel “The Employees” by Danish writer Olga Ravn.The award, run alongside

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Ed Meza @edmezavarReflecting the big issues examined in this year’s film lineup, the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival’s (CPH:DOX) industry section likewise grapples with such major topics as climate change, biodiversity and the tectonic shifts being felt far and wide in the global political and economic order.The industry sidebar comprises the Forum financing and co-production event; the Conference series; the on-demand Market screening platform; the Lab talent development program; the Hub

Ed Meza @edmezavarClimate protection, the growing threats to ocean life, the FBI’s smear campaign against Martin Luther King Jr.

Annika Pham Copenhagen-based DR Sales has picked up world rights to the Faroe Islands-set coming-of-age documentary “Skál,” produced by established production outfit Made in Copenhagen (“Motley’s Law,” “Putin’s Kiss”).