"Mediterranean Fever" in the Official Selection of 75th Cannes Film Festival!!!!!
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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #147. Sous le ciel d’Alice – Chloé Mazlo
Sous le ciel d’Alice
For her directorial debut, celebrated short film director Chloé Mazlo will have Sous le ciel d’Alice (translated as Under Alice’s Sky) on hand for 2020. Produced by Moby Dick Films’ Frederic Niedermayer (Mademoiselle de Joncquières), Mazlo has nabbed Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher and Lebanese-Quebecois playwright Wajdi Mouawad (Incendies, 2009) to headline the production. Cinematographer Hélène Louvart (Happy as Lazzaro, 2018; Invisible Life, 2019) is lensing the Moby Duck Films production. Mazlo’s 2015 short “The Little Stones” received a Cesar while her animated 2010 short documentary “Deyrouth” was well-received and well-traveled on the festival circuit.
Torna a casa, Jimi!
Coming this February: Przemycic Hendrixa (Smuggling Hendrix) on HBO and Cinemax in Poland
Coming this February: Przemycic Hendrixa (Smuggling Hendrix) on HBO and Cinemax in Poland!
You can now watch Smuggling Hendrix, up in the air on all Inflight Entertainment of Emirates
You can now watch Smuggling Hendrix, up in the air on all Inflight Entertainment of Emirates
SEE Cinema Network: AMP Filmworks Puts Cyprus on Film Map
Connecting Cottbus 2018: Patchwork
COTTBUS: Cyprus makes a rare appearance at the 20th edition of Connecting Cottbus, taking place 8-9 November 2018, with producer Janine Teerling of AMP Filmworks and director Petros Charalambous pitching the project Patchwork.
The film’s story, set in the patriarchal Balkan society, is the drama of a young mother troubled by her ambiguous feelings about motherhood and the broken relationship with her own mother.
The 800,000 EUR production has 484,000 EUR in place, coming from the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture for production, and development funding from the SEE Cinema Network. The film has a Greek coproducer attached, Boo Productions, and is awaiting funding results from the Greek fund and TV. The producers are seeking a third coproducer, possibly from the Balkans.
The film, which will be the director’s second feature, is scheduled to go into production in the second half of 2019.
Production information:
Producer: AMP Filmworks (Cyprus)
Coproducer: Boo Productions (Greece)
Credits: Director: Petros Charalambous Writer: Janine Teerling Producers: Janine Teerling, Marios Piperides
Italy, Repubblica Interview - Smuggling Hendrix
Un cane nella Cipro divisa fra greci e turchi: con 'Torna a casa Jimi' la commedia si fa politica
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Marios Piperides and Janine Teerling - Smuggling Hendrix
“Smuggling Hendrix” delivers a dark comedy about the borders and occupation in the island of Cyprus, through the journey of a man and his dog. Part of Cyprus has been occupied by Turkish forces since 1974 and this divided island is the origin of ethnical and political issues.