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Savage Film producer Bart Van Langendonck is in Cannes to present his Brussels-based production outfit's new three-year slate. Besides brand new projects from the directors the company started with five years ago (i.e. Michaël R. Roskam and Bram Van Paesschen), young filmmakers such as Hans Van Nuffel, Matthias Schoenaerts and Robin Pront are now joining the producer's growing talent pool to develop their own feature-length projects.
Equator is the second feature by Hans Van Nuffel, the 2011 European Film Award® Discovery of the Year winner (for Oxygen). This ambitious project will take us to Congo and South Africa where the daughter of a recently deceased Belgian businessman tries to discover what really happened to her father.
The Faithful (Le fidèle) is the second feature film project from Oscar® nominated director Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead). Described as an amour-noir, the film is set against the background of a crime gang in Brussels in the early 90's.
Franky will be the directorial debut of critically acclaimed Flemish actor Matthias Schoenaerts' who plays opposite Marion Cotillard in Jacques Audiard's Cannes competition entry Rust & Bone (De rouille et d'os), and could also be seen in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead. The film is a portrait of Schoenaerts' one-legged friend Franky, filmed over the course of two years. It's a powerful feature-length documentary about loss, courage, bad luck, friendship and social (in)justice.
The Ardennes is a disturbing Belgian road movie written by Jeroen Perceval (the actor playing the supporting role in Bullhead), to be directed by first-time feature director Robin Pront.
Welcome to Chocolate City is the final part of a feature documentary trilogy directed by Bram Van Paesschen (whose Savage Film produced Empire of Dust won the award for best Belgian documentary at last week's Docville fest in Leuven).
Savage Film is also in the process of finalizing the financing on Wim Vandekeybus' first feature Galloping Mind, Douglas Boswell's youth drama The Labyrinth and Pieter-Jan De Pue's feature doc The Land of the Enlightened. Currently in production is Frank Theys' Lab-Life, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed Technocalyps documentary trilogy.
New co-productions include Fabrice du Welz' feature film Alleluia (prod. La Parti - Belgium), The Life according to Nino (prod. Family Affairs/Waterland Film - The Netherlands), a youth drama written by Urszula Antoniak and directed by Simone Van Dusseldorp, and the feature documentaries The Last Hijack (prod. Submarine - The Netherlands) by Tommy Pallotta & Femke Wolting, Thomas Wallner's Gardenia (prod. Gebrüder Beetz - Germany) and Ciaran Cassady's documentary The Disappearance (prod. Fastnet Films, Ireland), among others.
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ANTON CORBIJN INSIDE OUT, a documentary by Klaartje Quirijns, will be released today in Belgium. The film will open in all major cities: Antwerp (Cartoon's), Brussels (Flagey), Ghent (Studio Skoop), Genk (Euroscoop), Sint-Niklaas (Siniclub), Hasselt (Zebra Delux), Koersel (The Roxy), Kortrijk (Buda), Aalst, Brugge and Mechelen.
ANTON CORBIJN INSIDE OUT is an intimate and revelatory portrait of an influential artist. It's the product of more than two years filming by director Klaartje Quirijns, whose close personal relationship with Anton allowed her unprecedented access to both the man and his work.
Produced by Gertjan Langeland & Sander Verdonk for LEV PICTURES (NL) and co-produced by Bart Van Langendonck for SAVAGE FILM (B), Denis Wigman for CTM FILMS (NL), Klaartje Quirijns for EYESWIDEFILMS (UK), Morgan Bushe for FASTNET FILMS (IE) and VPRO (NL). With the support of the Netherlands Film Fund, CoBo Fund, Irish Film Board and the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF).
Saturday night, Bram Van Paesschen's EMPIRE OF DUST has won the SCAM award for best Belgian documentary at Docville International Documentary Film festival in Leuven! EMPIRE OF DUST has been previously selected at IDFA, DOK Leipiz, Kassel Documentary Film & Video festival, a.o.
More info: www.docville.be
This weekend, during the closing ceremony of the 8th edition of the
Cinémondes film festival in Lille (France), PORTABLE LIFE has won a
'Papillion d'argent'. Fleur Boonman's roadmovie was awarded
with the 'Prix d'Etudiant', the main festival prize which is granted by a
jury of film students. The 'Prix d'Etudiant' is the first award for Boonman's film. More info about the festival here.
PORTABLE LIFE was produced by Savage Film and Fu Works and supported
by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund. It has been selected for several
European festivals such as Oostend and Münster.
Meanwhile, Academy Award nominated director Mike Figgis' THE
CO(TE)LETTE FILM is now available on iTunes for only € 13,99 (rental: €
3,99). It's the first Flemish film supported by the Flanders Audiovisual
Fund which can be downloaded from the platform.
THE CO(TE)LETTE FILM is the cinematic adaptation of the award winning
dance production Co(te)lette by Flemish choreographer Ann Van den
Broek. Both the original stage production and the film production were
performed by Van den Broek's company Ward/Ward. The film was produced by
Bart Van Langendonck (Savage Film), Vito Di Rosa (Red Mullet) and
Monique Van Beeck (Ward/Ward) and supported by the Flanders Audiovisual
Fund, the Dutch Media Fund and NTR.
The film was selected for more than twenty festivals and has won
awards in Los Angeles (Dance Camera West - Best of Festival), San
Francisco (Visionary Award), Nicosia (Best dance film) and Brussels
(festival l'Iselp - Prix du Film sur l'Art).
Douglas Boswell's debut feature 'The Labyrinth' was granted yesterday production support by the CCA - Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel while it received last week production aid from the Dutch Film Fund. The coproducer in Holland is Floor Onrust for Family Affair Films.
Also Pieter-Jan De Pue's documentary about Afghanistan 'The Land of the Enlightened' received production aid from the Dutch Film Fund. Both productions will be released in 2013.
Check the teaser of 'The Land of the Enlightened' here.
US distributor Drafthouse Films has announced that Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award-nominee BULLHEAD will open Friday, February 17th in New York, Los Angeles and Austin and hopes to expand to new markets following its initial limited release. Only a few days later, Michael R. Roskam's debut feature will be widely released in France (22th of February). Attached French distributor is Ad Vitam.
Meanwhile, in its home territory BULLHEAD is still a strong prize favorite, winning last weekend four Magritte Awards (best script, best actor, best editing and best co-production), three Machins Awards and the Cutting Edge Award for best film.
BULLHEAD is nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The award ceremony will take place on Sunday, February 26th in Los Angeles.
Michael R. Roskam's critically acclaimed debut BULLHEAD has been nominated for the Oscars in the category Best Foreign Film. The nominees were announced by Jennifer Lawrence and Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on January 24th. Other nominees are Footnote (Israel), In Darkness (Poland), Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) and A Separation (Iran).
The 84th Academy Award Ceremony will be held on February 26th in Los Angelos.
Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards® and RUNDSKOP / BULLHEAD / TÊTE DE BOEUF is one of them ! Sixty-three films had originally qualified in the category.
The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 24.
Last week, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) granted a production subsidy of € 550.000 to Douglas Boswell's first feature THE LABYRINTH. The Labyrinth is a modern family film written by Pierre Declercq (Come as you are, Storm Force). Principal shooting will start next summer and will take place in Belgium. Co-producers are Eyeworks (Belgium) and Family Affair Films (The Netherlands).
Savage Film received in November production support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) for the documentaries THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED (Pieter-Jan De Pue) and SILENT VISITORS (Jeroen Van der Stock).
Michael R. Roskam‘s Bullhead keeps on racking up wins and notice throughout the festival season. At the Afi Fest in Los Angeles, director Michael Roskam won the Audience award in the New Auteurs section while Bullhead star Matthias Schoenaerts was granted the Acting Award Prize "for his nuanced and intensely physical embodiment of bruised masculinity." Last month, Schoenaerts already won the Heroes Award in Moscow for his tremendous performance.
We are very proud to announce that Michaël R. Roskam's first feature Rundskop (aka Bullhead), starring Matthias Schoenaerts in a tour-de-force main role, will be representing Belgium at the 84th Academy Awards! The nominations will be announced on January 24th. The award ceremony will take place on February 26th.
Last Saturday Rundskop won no less than 6 Flemish Film Awards as well as the main award at the 'Etrange Festival' in Paris on Sunday.
Today Fleur Boonman's first feature film starring Ella-June Henrard and Rutger Hauer has its world première at the Film Festival of Ostend in Belgium. The film is released in Belgian theatres from September 21st. More details and a list of cinema's where you can see the film on www.portablelife.be
Michaël R. Roskam's box office hit BULLHEAD (RUNDSKOP) has won the main 'Propeller' award for best film at the Motovun Film Festival in Croatia and best debut at Montreal Fantasia Film Festival earlier this month. The film was also shown in festivals in Melbourne, Karlovy Vary, 2 Rivers Festival in Poland, Pusan (Korea), and is now heading for Athens, Helsinki, Austin Fantastic, Vancouver, The Hamptons, Chicago, the Hamptons, Washington (Silver Spring), Hawai, Kiev, Minsk, Zurich, Goa, Osaka, Taipei, Doha Tribeca, Québec, Cambridge, Moscow, a.o.
The film has been nominated in 8 categories for the Flemish Film Awards 2011. The award ceremony takes place on September 10.
Pieter-Jan De Pue's documentary THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED has a new teaser online. This video has been shot during the last recce in April-June 2011. Check it out here.
Academy Award nominated director Mike Figgis' THE CO(TE)LETTE FILM is now available on UniversCine for only € 1,99.
Meanwhile TenduTV, the leading digital network for dance programming in the U.S., announced this weekend at the Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles that it has acquired exclusive digital rights in its territories to THE CO(TE)LETTE FILM.
THE CO(TE)LETTE
FILM is the cinematic adaptation of the award winning dance production Co(te)lette by Flemish
choreographer Ann Van den Broek. Both the original stage and film productions
were performed by Van den Broek's company Ward/Ward.
More info: www.universcine.be - www.tendu.tv