Singapore Filmmakers Ponder Myriad Routes to Short Film Funding in Southeast Asia

Naman Ramachandran International Film Trust (IFT) has sold several international territories on action thriller “Dangerous,” starring Scott Eastwood and Mel Gibson.Territories sold include Koch for Germany, You Planet for Spain, Eagle for the Middle East, Top Film for the CIS, Programme 4 Media for Eastern Europe, and Pris for Portugal.Eastwood plays a reformed sociopath, who, after the death of his brother, heads to a remote island which soon falls under siege from a deadly gang of

coronavirus pandemic and split into two parts later in 2021, organizers said Friday.The “Berlinale” had been scheduled for February in the German capital but cannot go ahead due to the likelihood that coronavirus restrictions on large gatherings will continue, organizers said.To give the film industry a venue to market their products in the first quarter, however, a virtual Berlinale will be held online in March.

Far from the movie viewers may expect when they hear the words "German serial killer," Effigy: Poison and the City takes a dignified, old-fashioned approach to homicidal insanity that befits its early-19th century setting.

Also on this day: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, is declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

At one point, the 71st Berlin Film Festival was planning on being held as planned. An in person festival, held in February, was always a long shot, but hope sprung eternal.

Berlin Film Festival, one of the world’s leading gathering points for the international film industry, is set to radically alter its 71st edition, Variety has learned exclusively.The festival was originally scheduled to run as a physical event from Feb. 11-21, but rising COVID-19 infections in Germany have forced a rethink.

Nick Mulvey has shared a cinematic new short film – watch Begin Again first on NME below.The film expands on the themes set out in the singer’s 2020 EP of the same name, which came out back in July.“I see chaos but I also see the opportunity for a new world, and a more beautiful one,” Mulvey says of the short film, which tackles the idea of a fresh start following the coronavirus, as well as topics such as nature, sustainability and family.“We are living through an incredible shift.

Veteran German producers Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and Michael Lehmann will adapt Max Sprenger's best-selling autobiography Tsunami im Kopf (Tsunami in the Head), about Sprenger's life with locked-in syndrome, for the screen. German director Marco Petry (Heiter bis wolkig) will helm the feature and co-write the script with partner Janina Petry.

Blossoms have unveiled a new, animated short film, Christmas Eve (Soul Purpose).

Heidi Klum has some sweet words for her 16-year-old daughter Leni after posing with her on the cover of Vogue Germany.

Italian drama Hidden Away, German literary adaptation Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Spanish sci-fi horror ThePlatform are among the winners in the technical categories of this year's European Film Awards. Hidden Away, Giorgio Diritti's portrait of self-taught Italian painter Antonio Ligabue, won European Film honors for best cinematography (for cameraman Matteo Cocco) and for Ursula Patzak for best costume design.

Rumours have been swirling in Europe this week that the Berlin Film Festival will be postponed amid continuing high coronavirus numbers in Germany and across the continent.

Travel blog by Travels of Adam (Hipster Blog) – Travels of Adam (Hipster Blog) - For most of the past decade, I spent nearly every Christmas holiday in Germany. Living in Berlin, I loved the Christmas markets and all the holiday displays and of course the shopping.

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Reverend And The Makers, has today (December 4) shared ‘The River’ visuals – directed and produced by Manchester’s Flat Cat Films.‘The River’ follows October’s ‘If‘, which is the lead single from Cosens’ forthcoming album ‘Fortunes Favour’ (out January 29, 2021).Cosens said in a press release that it’s taken him a decade “to find the confidence” to release material as a solo artist.‘Fortunes Favour’ eventually took shape after the artist abandoned attempts to decide on a sound and instead let

Ann-Marie Corvin Show Me the Fund, a new resource aimed at helping Latin American producers navigate a myriad of little known funding opportunities, was the focus of Wednesday’s Ventana Sur session on international funding.The initiative – a partnership between film export bodies Brazilian Content and Cinema do Brasil and the AV support organization Projeto Paradiso – wants to support an industry dealing with the corrosive effects of politics and the coronavirus pandemic on cultural funds by

Naman Ramachandran Film co-productions are on the rise in South East Asia, but their growth brings tricky choices for producers.Leading practitioners Monday shone a useful light on how to navigate the often tricky paths of co-productions at a Singapore International Film Festival panel discussion.

Kaleem Aftab Screenwriter-playwright Christopher Hampton, who won an Oscar for “Dangerous Liaisons” and was Oscar nominated for “Atonement,” has penned a screen version of his one-woman play “A German Life,” about the life of Brunhilde Pomsel, the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.