Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Visibility, Networking, Support – For Filmmakers in Germany
BERLIN (December 6, 2022) – The Berlinale stands for the long-term promotion of talent. The section Perspektive Deutsches Kino is underlining its commitment to up-and-coming creatives in Germany with a special focus on supporting and granting visibility to all film skills. Because film is a collective work: script, camera, costume design or make-up, editing, music composition, directing, producing, acting, stage design and sound design all join forces to give of their best. In the supplementary film series Perspektive Match, in future the special talent from a film discipline will also be honoured in Perspektive-films. The selected talents will be brought into exchange with established colleagues from the Deutsche Filmakademie through a mentorship. In cooperation with Berlinale Talents, a film in which the mentor was involved will be shown publicly at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1) theatre on four afternoons. This will be followed by a panel discussion between the mentor and the Perspektive talent. The aim is to share experiences, open up new perspectives, and celebrate the art of filmmaking together with the audience. “I am delighted that the new series, already conceived by Linda Söffker but postponed due to Covid-19, can now take place in its entirety! It gives filmmakers from a wide range of disciplines the chance to exchange experiences and offers the audience an exciting insider’s view of filmmaking,” says the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section head, Jenni Zylka. Perspektive Match is a cooperation between Perspektive Deutsches Kino, the Deutsche Filmakademie and Berlinale Talents.
European Film Awards: countdown begins for the 35th edition
BERLIN (December 6, 2022) – This Saturday, 10 December 2022, the 35th edition of the European Film Awards will take place in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík. Many prominent guests from across Europe are expected at the yearly celebration honouring the greatest achievements in European cinema. The festive gala will take place at the Harpa concert hall, whose façade has been designed by world renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Ólafur Elíasson. Icelandic actress, screenwriter and politician Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir and Icelandic artist, author and stand-up comedian Hugleikur Dagsson welcome the approximately 600 guests as masters of ceremony.
- 10 December, 19.15h at Harpa concert hall in Reykjavík
- Live streams and broadcasts in 29 countries
- Awards in 26 categories, main categories to be revealed in festive gala
- Unique sustainable Art Carpet leads guests into Harpa
About the European Film Academy:
The European Film Academy seeks to support and connect its 4,400 members and celebrates and promotes their work. Its aims are to share knowledge and to educate audiences of all ages about European cinema. Positioning itself as a leading organization and facilitating crucial debates within the industry, the Academy strives to unite everyone who loves European cinema, culminating annually in the Month of European Film and the European Film Awards, by including European film heritage in its portfolio and by expanding its focus on young audiences through the European Film Club. — Deed News website: http://www.deed.news/ Deed News publication on Google News: http://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMPPbsQswgPfIAw/ Deed News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeedNews Deed News on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeedNewsAgency Deed News company page on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/deed-news Deed News on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deed.news/ Deed News channel on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/filmfestivalnews/ Deed News channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@deednewsSingapore Film Festival announces winners for 2022
SINGAPORE (December 5, 2022) — The 33rd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) drew to a close on Sunday night after 11 days of film screenings and off-screen programmes that celebrated and showcased the best of independent cinema from across the region. More than 100 film titles from 55 countries were screened across 6 theatres, including a special Double-Bill Fundraiser with a screening of Singapore Panorama feature film ‘Baby Queen’ followed by a live performance by protagonist Opera Tang and her fellow Queens. ● Over 8,000 tickets were issued across 82 film screenings and VR sessions
- Silver Screen Awards, the prestigious regional ceremony’s 31st edition saw 14 prizes being given out, with Audience Choice Award being awarded to How to Save a Dead Friend by Marusya SYROECHKOVSKAYA
- Applications for SGIFF Film Fund open on 7 December, and aims to support 8 projects with the Tan Ean Kiam Foundation-SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary (SEA-DOC) Grant and the SGIFF Southeast Asian – Short Film (SEA-SHORTS) Grant
2022 Singapore International Film Festival winners
2022 Silver Screen Awards
This year, a total of 14 awards were presented across six categories: Asian Feature Film Competition, Southeast Asian Short Film Competition, Southeast Asian Film Lab, Youth Critics Programme, Audience Choice Award, and the Outstanding Contribution to Southeast Asian Cinema Award. This year’s ceremony was held at Hard Rock Cafe, with notable filmmakers in attendance including winners Laha MEBOW (Gaga) and Sorayos PRAPAPAN (Arnold is a Model Student). The much-anticipated Audience Choice Award was presented to How to Save a Dead Friend by Russian director Marusya SYROECHKOVSKAYA, a coming-of-age story about two kindred spirits who find solace in each other amidst an alienating existence where hope at time feels out of reach as despair threatens to overwhelm. Against the backdrop of autocratic Russia and alienating social conditions, the documentary recounts their joys and struggles with bracing honesty and emotional intensity, through the careful editing of home videos and street footage. The Outstanding Contribution to Southeast Asian Cinema Award went to In-Docs, a pioneering organisation that continues to platform the regional exchange of ideas and mutual support amongst a stalwart of Southeast Asia’s filmmaking communities – documentary filmmakers. Celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, SGIFF wanted to recognise In-Docs’ considerable dedication to championing the region’s tireless spirit of documentary filmmaking.Asian Feature Film Competition
Best Asian Feature Film
AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Makbul MUBARAK The Best Film Award goes to a film that impressed with its control and clarity of vision. Autobiography is a vivid character study, a powerful allegory of national trauma, an urgent dissection of the fascist mindset and how it persists.Best Director
Laha Mebow for GAGA Best Director goes to a filmmaker who has made a drama of great warmth and sensitivity. Laha Mebow brings to life a world they know well and beautifully guides an ensemble cast of non-professional actors.Best Performance
Zukhara Sansyzbay for CONVENIENCE STORE The Best Performance goes to Zukhara Sansyzbay who brings restraint and enormous power to a character of great resilience and complexity.Special Mention Award
ARNOLD IS A MODEL STUDENT by Sorayos PRAPAPAN Arnold is a Model Student is a film that brings a fresh and unusual tone to political subject matter, approaching the theme of authoritarianism with wit and irreverence.Southeast Asian Short Film Competition
Best Southeast Asian Short Film
VANIA ON LIMA STREET by Bayu Prihantoro Filemon Vania on Lima Street broaches an important part of a country’s dark history in a powerful yet subtle way. By offering kindness and empathy, it suggests healing of social trauma through intergenerational hope.Best Singapore Short Film
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES by Alvin Lee Relevant and humorous, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes manages to explore how grief works, whether performative or real in a profound way.Best Director
Le Lam Vien for FIX ANYTHING A finesse of the craft and the mise-en-scene are clearly displayed in this stylish and chaotic adventure with a signature style of an exciting future blockbuster film director, Le Lam Vien.Best Performance
Bopha Oul, female lead in FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY By Cambodian filmmaker, Polen Ly Bopha Oul expressed the authenticity and strength in the face of unending uncertainty through her moving and intimate portrayal of a young woman in Further and Further Away, torn between memories of her past and the prospect of moving to the big city in search of a different future.Special Mention Award
DIKIT by Gabirela Serrano A film with sure-handed direction; Dikit was presented the Special Mention Award for its use of film form effectively to tell a feminist horror story in the manner of alluring female Southeast Asian monsters.Southeast Asian Film Lab
Most Promising Project
Giovanni Rustanto for A BALLAD OF LONG HAIR For a story that magically weaves together music, fantasy, youth resistance and politics, Giovanni’s storytelling displays sheer originality.Fellowship Prize
- Gabriela Serrano for PLEASE BEAR FOR ME
- Rein Maychaelson for THE BURNING LAND
Special Mention Award
Gladys NG for EVERY MALL BURNS THE SAME Gladys’ unique voice is distinct in previous works and the festival believes in the playful, poetic universe she can create in a feature project.Youth Critics Programme
Youth Critic Award
Benjamin YAP Kee Siang The winning essay this year is a beautiful and insightful exploration of disability in cinema. It responds to the empathetic treatment of deafness in Sho Miyake’s SMALL, SLOW, BUT STEADY. At the same time, it also critically points out that the film’s use of intertitles is often jarring and abrupt, exposing cinema’s fundamentally uncomfortable relationship with what is usually thought of as different, or “abnormal”, experiences of sight and sound. The winning films for Audience Choice Award, Best Singapore Short Film, Best Asian Feature Film and Best Southeast Asian Short Film will be re-screened on 10th December, from 4.30pm onwards at Projector X: Picturehouse to mark the finale of the 33rd Singapore International Film Festival. “There is an enormous pool of film talent in the region that deserve to have their works screened or be part of the festival’s capability development and networking programmes. Our role has always been important in galvanising the pipeline of new talent and supporting them on their cinematic storytelling journey. Likewise, the annual Silver Screen Awards honour the exceptional contribution of filmmakers who have helped shape regional cinema, and celebrate their achievements as they continue to illuminate and bring thought-provoking stories to life. Huge congratulations to all award winners and we hope to continue providing a safe and nurturing space for all filmmakers in the region to grow and shine on the international stage,” shared Thong Kay Wee, Programme Director, SGIFF.SGIFF Film Fund 2023
Dedicated to supporting filmmakers with compelling stories to tell, SGIFF Film Fund offers two film grants for Southeast Asian film projects. Supported by C47 Investment and White Light Post, the SGIFF Southeast Asian – Short Film Grant (SEA-SHORTS) aims to fund the brightest upcoming names in filmmaking with four grants available. Each recipient will receive a cash amount of S$4,000 and post-production support worth S$4,000. The grant is open to all genres including drama, animation, and experimental short films. The Tan Ean Kiam Foundation – SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary (SEA-DOC) Grant is awarded to four mid-length or feature projects annually, and champions important and compelling stories told through the art of documentary filmmaking in the region. The grant has been made possible by the support of the Tan Ean Kiam Foundation since 2018. For the first time this year, the grant is awarded to three production projects, with special consideration to fund an additional project in this category, with each recipient receiving S$30,000 in cash. One post-production project will also be awarded S$20,000 in cash. “We appreciate the relentless pursuit of documentary filmmakers throughout the pandemic, telling stories from the region that illuminates, resonates and inspires local audiences. As they return in full force in this post-pandemic era, we have increased funding towards production projects, in a bid to elevate support for these filmmakers in capturing narratives unique to the region. We remain committed to assisting them in bringing their films to the big screen, driving necessary conversations while making positive impacts,” said TAN Keng Leck, Vice Chairman of the Tan Ean Kiam Foundation. The 33rd edition of SGIFF includes selections from past Film Fund recipients: Further and Further Away by Polen LY (SEA-SHORTS 2020) and Divine Factory by Joseph MANGAT (Tan Ean Kiam Foundation – SEA-DOC Grant, Post-Production 2021). Applications for the annual film fund open on 7 December 2022 and close 31 January 2023. More information on submission guidelines can be found at SGIFF.com. SGIFF is an event of the Singapore Media Festival (SMF), hosted by Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA).About SGIFF
Founded in 1987, the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is the largest and longestrunning film event in Singapore. It has become an iconic event in the local arts calendar that is widely attended by international film critics; and known for its dynamic programming and focus on ground-breaking Asian cinema for Singapore and the region. Committed to nurturing and championing local and regional talent, its competition component, the Silver Screen Awards, brings together emerging filmmakers from Asia and Southeast Asia while paying tribute to acclaimed cinema legends. With its mentorship programmes, masterclasses and dialogues with attending filmmakers, the Festival also serves as a catalyst for igniting public interest, artistic dialogue, and culture exchanges in the art of filming. The SGIFF is organised by the Singapore International Film Festival Ltd, a non-profit organisation with Institution of a Public Character (IPC) status. For more information, visit SGIFF.com. — Deed News website: http://www.deed.news/ Deed News publication on Google News: http://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMPPbsQswgPfIAw/ Deed News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeedNews Deed News on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeedNewsAgency Deed News company page on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/deed-news Deed News on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deed.news/ Deed News channel on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/filmfestivalnews/ Deed News channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@deednewsPantelis Voulgaris retrospective
The Film Library of Greece, the Film Library of Thessaloniki and the Thessaloniki Film Festival, with the support of the Hellenic Film Center, are honoring Pantelis Voulgaris with a retrospective of his fiction films, which will be presented in Athens from December 8 to 15, in the large hall of Film Library of Greece. A unique opportunity to see 12 of his beloved feature films on the big screen: from ANNA’S ENGAGEMENT to his most recent creation, THE LAST NOTE, with the presence of actors from each film. Four short films by the great Greek creator will also be screened. The Pantelis Voulgaris retrospective, presented with great success a few days ago in Thessaloniki, explores the complex and fascinating aspects of the work of one of the leading directors of Greek cinema. As Maria Komninou, president of the Film Library of Greece, points out, “Voulgaris was one of the main exponents of the new current of Greek Cinema (NEK), and he decisively contributed to the renewal of his writing and perspective. Already from his first film, Anna’s Consul (1972), he shapes his personal writing and wins 3 prizes at the Berlin Film Festival, while he is in exile from the junta.” “Voulgaris, forms a long path with beloved and important films – narratives that focus on the transition of society from the politics of exclusions and discrimination (Happy day, Stone Years) to the politics of identities (Everything is a road, Brides). Let’s remember that in Brides, Norman, the photographer, is perhaps even closer to the director himself, who insists on photographing-filming the small things that others pass by. This is the look of Voulgaris: he insists on portraying the humble, the insignificant people that others pass by…” The opening of the tribute will take place on Thursday, December 8, with the film ANNA’S ENGAGEMENT (To proxenio tis Annas) in the presence of Pantelis Voulgaris and the film’s protagonist Anna Vagena. The iconic Greek director will be present at the screenings of the tribute to welcome his favorite collaborators in front of and behind the camera who will preface the films. And of course, the writer Ioanna Karystianis, his partner in life as well as in art, could not be missing, since she has signed the script of many of his films. *Three films in the program will be screened with special subtitles for K/deaf and hard of hearing and visually impaired people, and with audio description for blind and visually impaired people (Universally accessible SDH / AD screening). For more information about the tribute, visit: www.tainiothiki.gr. To buy tickets online, visit official website of The Film Library of Greece’s at tickets.tainiothiki.gr. — Deed News website: http://www.deed.news/ Deed News publication on Google News: http://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMPPbsQswgPfIAw/ Deed News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeedNews Deed News on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeedNewsAgency Deed News company page on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/deed-news Deed News on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deed.news/ Deed News channel on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/filmfestivalnews/ Deed News channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@deednews
“DEED NEWS asks” series debuts
“DEED NEWS asks” is an interview series by DEED NEWS, a popular film industry online publication. The series is created by Editor-in-Chief Navid Nikkhah Azad, and it features exclusive interviews with well-known film figures. In the premiere episode of “DEED NEWS asks,” director Alejandro Loayza Grisi talks about his film UTAMA, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and is representing Bolivia at the 95th Academy Awards. Watch trailer for the premiere episode of “DEED NEWS asks”: The debut feature by Alejandro Loayza Grisi, UTAMA, premiered in January 2022 at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize in the World Dramatic Competition. The Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner has won awards at Málaga Film Festival, Transilvania International Film Festival and Guadalajara International Film Festival, among others. UTAMA is Bolivia’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. Oscar nominations for 2023 will be announced on January 24. The acclaimed movie by Alejandro Loayza Grisi has been nominated for a Goya in the Best Ibero-American Film category. The Goya Awards are Spain’s main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The UK-Ireland distributor CONIC has released UTAMA in UK cinemas on November 25, 2022. For Cinema Listings visit: www.conic.film/films/utama. On December 12, “DEED NEWS asks” will premiere with an exclusive interview with Alejandro Loayza Grisi on the Bolivia’s 2023 OSCARS entry, UTAMA. — Deed News website: http://www.deed.news/ Deed News publication on Google News: http://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMPPbsQswgPfIAw/ Deed News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeedNews Deed News on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeedNewsAgency Deed News company page on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/deed-news Deed News on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deed.news/ Deed News channel on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/filmfestivalnews/ Deed News channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@deednews
Olympia International Film Festival For Children and Young People celebrates 25th anniversary
The 25th Olympia International Film Festival For Children and Young People and the 22nd Camera Zizanio have returned to theaters without restrictions to celebrate 25 years of the biggest youth film festival. The opening of the Festival took place yesterday at the packed “Apollo” in Pyrgos, the heart of the event, with two former “Zizania” presenters: Maria Asmi and Irini Zeza – a choice representative of the Festival’s philosophy of actively involving children – who they start as spectators and along the way become a “part” of it. The ceremony began with a small tribute to the great creator Robiros Manthoulis (1929-2022), a dear friend of the Festival, who recently passed away. Having participated many times in the Olympia Festival, passing on to children the precious essence of his cinematic knowledge, Robiros Mantholis was unforgettable for young and old alike. In the short video shown, Nikos Theodosiou recorded some of these moments, with Manthoulis himself confessing how he was introduced to the cinema: “I was young, and while watching a movie from a hole in Serres, I tripped and fell on a electrified wire that the cinematographer had put up, to deter viewers like me. “I was shaken, but maybe from this electric shock I became a director!” Elsewhere he characteristically says, “What an entire state does not do, within thousands of hours of public education lessons, that is to introduce children to audiovisual art, the Olympia Festival does with enormous success.” Taking the floor, the Mayor of Pyrgos, Takis Antonakopoulos, welcomed the visitors “to the cradle of Olympic values, where, just as Apollo prevailed in his battle with Mercury, so art fights its own battle to win the souls of children. As a Municipality, we are proud that Pyrgos is the start of the Festival, which is now an institution, and we are happy that with the help of the Region, its future permanent facilities have been secured, a project announced by the previous government and continued by the current government. Because Culture unites and we resist the black cloud of war as best we can.” Afterwards, the prizes of the 3rd Panhellenic Student Competition “Gender in the foreground” on the topic of gender discrimination, held in collaboration with the General Secretariat of Demographic and Family Policy and Gender Equality, were awarded. It is worth mentioning that the prize-winning children of the 4th Gymnasium of Alexandroupoli “Theodoros Kastanos” were inspired by the script for their film “You Can” “from the murder of Xevrie who succumbed to her injuries a year ago”. And from all the unfortunate women – victims of gender-based violence, exploitation and sexual abuse. “No one is alone, no one is alone” concluded the message sent by the children from Alexandroupolis, causing warm applause. Their own prize for the film “The Cycle of Violence” was received by the children of EPAL Almyros Magnesia themselves, who, as their teacher said, are already working on a program on gender violence. Then the judging panels and the four competition programs of the Olympia Festival were presented: Long Fiction Films, Short Fiction Films, Short Animation Films, “KIDS & DOCS” (documentaries for children). The popular Camera Zizanio, which this year presents 210 films from 31 countries, awarding prizes by age category. This year’s program of the Festival includes dozens of film workshops in various cities of Ilia and of course in Pyrgos (for the first time also in Xystri Park). And this year there were people, who crossed half the planet to come to the festival, one of the most important of its kind internationally. Only in the multinational filmmaking workshop Mythos Project, 100 children from 17 countries participate. As part of this year’s event, an important version of the Festival will be presented: the emblematic “Cinema case” by Alain Bergala, president of this year’s jury. The presentation of the book will take place on Friday, together with a masterclass of the important French critic, former editor-in-chief of the legendary Cahiers du Cinema, and professor of Cinema Pedagogy. The program of the coming week also includes masterclasses by the veteran cinematographer Nikos Kavoukidis in collaboration with the Skasiarcheo, as well as the 5th Olympia Creative Ideas Pitching Lab for film professionals, who plan a short film for children and young people. The deputy regional governor for culture and tourism, Nikolaos Korovesis, addressing the organizers of the festival, said: “You have been educating our children for 25 years now and you are raising issues that are more relevant than ever with what is happening next to our homes… At the same time, you are strengthening the extroversion and economic development of area. So the Region must support you. We have already renewed our programming contract for the next three years. The Region of Western Greece will support this important institution.” Taking the floor, the artistic director and “soul” of the Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Dimitris Spyrou, gave a small retrospective of the institution: “We started at the end of the last century: in 1997. We decided to make Pyrgos and Amaliada a point of reference for cinema for children and young people and for film education in Greece. Unknown words then. But because we were well aware that audiovisuals have a great influence on children and young people, it was necessary to take this initiative.
In these 25 years we have implemented a number of innovative programs, important publications, screenings in all prefectures of the country, collaborations with public bodies, universities, schools, programs for social groups with limited access to art, the disabled, young prisoners, refugees, second chance schools . For us, it was and is very important that the Public School has access to audio-visual art.” “In these 25 years, a lot has changed in society and in education, the needs of the children themselves have also changed, so the Festival itself is also changing. But something never changes: the protagonists of the Olympia Festival are the children themselves. We are simply fellow travelers and animators of this effort. And we know very well that if children do not come into contact with art during their school years, it is most likely that they never will. And this is very negative for their mental development…” In closing, he emphasized that “yes, 25 years is a quarter of a century. And there is a great need to create infrastructure. Our new space at the raisin factory of ASO, in Pyrgos, can take off the Festival, stimulate the cultural life of the city, and contribute to the economic development of the region. I thank the teachers of Ilia Prefecture from the bottom of my heart. The Festival cannot function without them. Also, the local government and of course the citizens who proved that all these years they deserve this festival and much more than this Festival”. In closing, Vassilis Yiannopoulos, deputy governor of Ilia and chairman of the Organizing Committee, officially announced the start of the Festival. “For another year, the Festival of our hearts is here, 25 years now, far from restrictions and discrimination. Looking back to 1997, I want to commemorate three people: the initiator of the festival Dimitris Spyrou, the tireless and always young Nikos Theodosiou and of course the cornerstone, the president of the Steering Committee Christos Konstantopoulos. Who would have imagined that this Festival would develop into one of the most important internationally?” And he underlined “This year’s Festival, beyond its 25th anniversary, I believe has a special significance: we should highlight and remind its important founding values and its child-centered view in a society where the phenomena of child abuse are increasing. We don’t sweep such issues under the carpet! On the contrary, we need such actions to fight the social rot that is around us”. The opening ceremony ended with the Orchestra and Choir of the School of Byzantine Music of the Ilia Metropolis performing three wonderful songs by Mikis Theodorakis. This Sunday, at 7 pm, the Kids & Docs Opening Event will take place at the Cine Cinema in Amaliada. It is worth mentioning that the film “Touching the dream” (10′) of the Alimos Music School will be shown, which records the interaction and experiences between sighted and visually impaired students in the classroom, during breaks and in the school’s music ensembles . An example of inclusion to fight stereotypes and discrimination and accept diversity. The children – actors of the film will attend the screening, while after the film the children’s band will play live. For More information about the 25th Olympia International Festival For Children and Young People visit olympiafestival.gr. This year’s festival will be held until December 10 in 12 cities, but immediately after its physical presence, part of its activities will be transferred online from December 10 to December 18 for children and young people from all over Greece to participate through the digital platform online.olympiafestival.gr. Participation in the screenings and other activities of the 25th Olympia International Festival For Children and Young People and the 22nd Camera Zizanio is free. The Olympia International Festival For Children and Young People is organized on the basis of a programming contract of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Region of Western Greece and KOINSEP Olympia Festival with the cooperation of the Youth Plan. — Deed News website: http://www.deed.news/ Deed News publication on Google News: http://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMPPbsQswgPfIAw/ Deed News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeedNews Deed News on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeedNewsAgency Deed News company page on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/deed-news Deed News on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deed.news/ Deed News channel on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/filmfestivalnews/ Deed News channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@deednews
Deed News Editor’s Picks: Top Stories of November
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A NEW HOME, St. Louis’ Bosnian Community documentary, streams on Amazon Prime Video
A NEW HOME by Joseph Puleo follows up its festival run on Amazon Prime Video as it continues to introduce viewers across the country to St. Louis’ Bosnian community. The latest collaboration from Director/Producer Joseph Puleo and Executive Producer Rio Vitale, debuted this past summer where the filmmaking team once again achieved unprecedented success. Their showing was the most attended film as part of the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase and took home both Best Documentary & Best Sound (Documentary). A coveted feature screening slot at the 31st St. Louis International Film Festival also provided local theater-goers an encore viewing opportunity this past November. “I greatly admire the way Joseph Puleo shows our city and our civic heritage in cinematic love letters to St. Louis, highlighting ethnicities that have made a vital and lasting impact on the place we all call home,” explains Cinema St. Louis Artistic Director Chris Clark. “His films are perfectly crafted, well-oiled machines that always draw a crowd due in no small part to his endless drive and passion to promote both his own work and the events themselves.” In a follow up to America’s Last Little Italy: The Hill, the duos new film examines the story of Bosnian War refugees fleeing to St. Louis, Missouri, 30 years ago. As the war in Ukraine continues to rage and thousands of its citizens are displaced and seeking new homes, the plight of the Bosnians remains as relevant as ever. When Bosnians fled their homes to escape the war in 1992, many ended up in St. Louis, largely because of its affordable housing and available jobs. The new arrivals began assimilating, starting their own businesses and transforming a once dilapidated South City neighborhood in the shadow of the Bevo Mill into a thriving “Little Bosnia.” Over the ensuing three decades, an estimated 70,000 Bosnians have migrated to St. Louis, making it the most inhabited area for Bosnians outside of Bosnia itself. A New Home tells the story of these refugees’ perseverance and determination to not only start life over but prosper. Pre-production on A New Home began in the spring of 2021 with hours of VHS footage and more than a thousand photographs generously donated to the project to utilize during the editing process. The film also includes interviews with luminaries including Patrick McCarthy, author of After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis; Ben Moore, Senior Researcher at the Center for Bosnian Studies; Anna Crosslin, past president of the International Institute of St. Louis; former Missouri congressman Russ Carnahan; and Doug Moore, a former journalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as well as 5 Bosnian War survivors and refugees. “A New Home is a fascinating documentary that I highly recommend,” states former Mayor of St. Louis, Francis Slay, who is also featured in the film. “I hope everyone in the St. Louis area gets a chance to watch and not only be entertained but learn about their Bosnian neighbors’ struggle for safety and freedom and the lasting impact they have had on our entire region.” “This documentary was a complete labor of love,” said Puleo. “To be trusted with telling the harrowing and triumphant story of the Bosnians in St. Louis was not a responsibility that I took lightly and their courageous resolve inspired me to give this film all I could give. The audience response so far has been overwhelmingly positive and we cannot wait for more people to get the opportunity to see A New Home through Amazon’s portal.” About the creators:
Joseph Puleo, Director/Producer
Joseph Puleo was born on July 13, 1992, in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Lindenwood University and graduated from their school of film in 2014. His short film, Top Son (2016) was a Top 5 finalist in Kevin Hart’s LOL Network “Eat My Shorts Competition” where it screened at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. His debut feature-length documentary, America’s Last Little Italy: The Hill (2020) was shown on PBS stations across the country and received multiple awards.Rio Vitale, Executive Producer
Rio Vitale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and has 40 years of experience in the financial brokerage industry. In 2014, Vitale published his first book, St. Louis’s The Hill. In 2016, he was knighted by the Italian government for his extensive work in the Italian community. In 2020, Vitale began a new venture into film production, executive producing the award-winning feature-length documentary, America’s Last Little Italy: The Hill. — Deed News website: http://www.deed.news/ Deed News publication on Google News: http://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMPPbsQswgPfIAw/ Deed News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeedNews Deed News on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeedNewsAgency Deed News company page on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/deed-news Deed News on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deed.news/ Deed News channel on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/filmfestivalnews/ Deed News channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@deednewsThe Theme of Berlinale Talents 2023: “You Must Be Joking – Humour in Serious Times”
BERLIN (November 30, 2022) – In its 21st edition, the Berlin International Film Festival‘s talent development initiative is dedicated to humour in serious times and appeals to the strengthening and restorative powers of this universal human trait. Film is and always has been entertainment, even under challenging circumstances. So what about humour in cinema today, and what are we allowed to laugh about, despite serious issues? Or maybe precisely because of serious issues? Christine Tröstrum and Florian Weghorn, the heads of Berlinale Talents, have a clear stance on this: “War and crisis demand our full commitment, and we stand in solidarity with the people who are risking their lives for freedom in Ukraine, Iran and elsewhere, including many alumni of Berlinale Talents. The Berlinale stands for active engagement, and with humour we emotionally strengthen this community and are able to connect with each other on the serious issues.” Because this is the very nature of jokes. In what are probably the shortest stories people have told each other since time began, there is great skill in ingeniously condensing truth and delivering the punchline message with flair to another person, sometimes below the belt. Comedies, rom-coms and satires are furthermore a million-dollar business worldwide. How do emerging and experienced filmmakers explore this broad genre in new ways, incorporating cultural contexts and political challenges? Berlinale Talents would like to shed light on all this and more in a programme of talks and workshops for the public and the invited Talents. The first guest in Berlinale Talents‘ popular public programme will be Ruben Östlund, whose stinging social satire Triangle of Sadness is currently both provoking and thrilling audiences in cinemas across the world. Cheerful at first glance and complex in detail, illustrator Leandro Alzate and graphic designer Miriam Jacobi have interpreted the different dimensions of humour and bring warm colours into the cold February with their key visual for the 2023 annual theme “You Must Be Joking – Humour in Serious Times”. Berlinale Talents is going to take place from February 18 to 23, 2023 at the theatre HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin. It is one of the most important platforms for emerging film professionals and offers 200 selected creatives from the fields of film and series networking opportunities and access to a global community of soon to be 10,000 Talents. The collaborative interaction of all film disciplines as well as the involvement of the cinema-loving festival audience have been the most important features of Berlinale Talents in Berlin from the very beginning. The initiative considers each of its 14 film disciplines and their representatives as equal in the artistic process, allowing this vision of a diverse and fair cultural industry to be a practical experience for all.
About Berlinale Talents
Berlinale Talents is a Berlinale Pro* initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a division of Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, and is supported by the Minister of State for Culture and Media, Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Federal Foreign Office, German Federal Film Board, Mastercard and ARRI. — Deed News website: http://www.deed.news/ Deed News publication on Google News: http://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMPPbsQswgPfIAw/ Deed News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeedNews Deed News on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeedNewsAgency Deed News company page on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/deed-news Deed News on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deed.news/ Deed News channel on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/filmfestivalnews/ Deed News channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@deednewsUrsula von der Leyen to accept the first European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate during European Film Awards
BERLIN (November 30, 2022) – During the 35th European Film Awards on 10 December in Reykjavík Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, will accept the newly introduced European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate 2022 on behalf of the European Commission. The award is given to the ambitious and revolutionary programme “European Green Deal”, that was launched by the Commission under von der Leyen’s Presidency. The European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate aims to award a European institution, company, or film for an “Outstanding European contribution to sustainability in film”. The initiative is a partnership between the European Film Academy and the World Bank Group’s programme for creative communications and climate action, Connect4Climate. The World Bank Group is the largest multilateral financier of climate action in developing countries. Through Connect4Climate, with its network of over 500 partners worldwide, the programme implements creative campaigns, amplifies impactful stories, elevates the voices of young people and mobilizes audiences through specific initiatives, including Film4Climate.Believing that powerful storytelling on both big and small screens can spark meaningful social change, Film4Climate works with filmmakers, producers and organizations to champion climate and environmental action in the film industry through both content and production. The objective of the European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate is to celebrate more than just films that are produced according to the most state-of the art sustainable standards, but to encourage the film industry to drive its influential impact towards a sustainable approach to economy, society and environment, promoting real impact in individuals’ lives. The winner will receive a native tree from the country hosting the European Film Awards ceremony, that will be planted locally after the Award ceremony.