NEWS BERLIN BRIEFS
Stink acquires Ginz’s Diary UK-based Stink Films has acquired the rights to The Diary Of Petr Ginz to be directed by Bafta-winning Gaelle Denis and produced by Daniel Bergmann, Robert Herman and Luke Schiller. The account of family life in German-occupied Prague in the early 1940s will be brought to life by a mixture of live action and animated sequences, drawing upon Ginz’s unique imagination. The producers are in Berlin looking for co-producers for this feature debut, which will be shot in Prague.
You Instead gets an encore Bankside Films has added another screening of David Mackenzie’s concert-set romance You Instead, due to market demand. It will screen on Tuesday at 11.30am at CinemaxX.
Benelux deals gather pace
Key Benelux buyers have been busy taking on Berlinale and Sundance titles. Cinéart has taken Wim
Wenders’ 3D doc Pina from HanWay. Lumiere has taken Margin Call from Myriad and Bye Bye Blondie from Wild Bunch. Pim Hermeling’s Wild Bunch
Benelux has also been on a mini-acquisition drive, taking on Lucy Walker’s Oscar-nominated doc Waste Land and Sébastien Pilote’s The Salesman, both from Entertainment One, and Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, from Protagonist. Geoffrey Macnab
Komplizen on board with Gomes, Albert
BY MARTIN BLANEY Komplizen Film, behind competi- tion title Sleeping Sickness, will co- produce two international features by Miguel Gomes and Barbara Albert this year. Shooting began at the end of
2010 in Portugal for Gomes’ drama, Tabu; it will continue this spring in Mozambique. Portugal’s O Som E A Furia is producing with France’s Shellac Sud, Brazil’s Gullane and broadcaster ZDF/ Arte. The Match Factory is han- dling international sales. In addition, the Berlin/
Munich-based company will be a partner on Coop 99’s production of Albert’s Otherworld (Die Leb- enden Und Die Toten), which will shoot later this year.
Chinese distributor Dadi and Myung Films are partnering to release the Korean production house’s first feature animation, Leafie: A Hen Into The Wild. They have signed a co-operation agreement to release Leafie in China, with a projected release of about 1,000 screens. This will be day-and date in the summer with the Korean release.
Jean Noh Beijing invites fest submissions
BY JEAN NOH Organisers of the inaugural Bei- jing International Film Festival (BJIFF) are in Berlin, taking sub- missions for the festival to be held April 23-28 this year. “We want to build a platform
for diversified film gems in Bei- jing. It’s the cultural centre of
Young sailer gets drama, doc
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Dutch producer Pieter Van Huys- tee is readying two fi lms — one a documentary and the other a dra- matic feature — about teenage Dutch sailor Laura Dekker. The 15-year-old Dekker, cur-
rently midway through her attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world, and her parents are participating fully with Van Huystee. Dekker was at the centre of a
global media storm in 2009 when Dutch social workers attempted to stop her sailing trip because of her age. Last summer, a Dutch family
Laura Dekker
court gave her permission to make her voyage. Van Huystee is mak- ing the fi lm in collaboration with Peter Wingender of Screentime Entertainment BV. The film-makers have already
started fi lming Dekker. “This is a very young girl and
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China, and our ambition in the long term is to turn Beijing into the centre of fi lm in the East,” said one of the organisers, Pang Wei. Incorporating the former Bei-
jing Screen ings, BJIFF will have a market, forums for discussion and about 100 local fi lms as well as 100 foreign fi lms.
it’s a very special story,” van Huys- tee said. “She is taking time, enjoying her trip but also facing all the adventure and trouble of coming of age.” The film-makers are not
allowed on Dekker’s boat but it is equipped with tiny cameras and Dekker is able to communicate intermittently via Skype. At the same time as they shoot
their documentary, Van Huystee and Wingender are preparing a feature fi lm script. They have financed the early
part of the documentary them- selves but public broadcaster KRO is reportedly circling the project. The documentary will be available in both theatrical and TV versions.
Durst rocks out with Pawn Shop
BY JEREMY KAY Fred Durst, the frontman of US rock band Limp Bizkit, is lining up the action caper Pawn Shop Chronicles. The project charts the mayhem
which ensues when a wedding ring goes missing, and meth addicts, skinheads and an Elvis impersonator join the fray. Pawn Shop Chronicles will be
Durst’s third directorial outing after The Education Of Charlie Banks and The Longshots. Lionsgate has been introducing
the project to buyers here and is also talking about the upcoming Kim Jee-woon project Last Stand, with Liam Neeson attached to star, as well as BFF And Baby.
Fred Durst Lorenzo di Bonaventura is pro-
ducing Last Stand, about a man on the run from the FBI. Kat Coiro’s BFF And Baby
stars Kate Bosworth, Krysten Rit- ter and Rachel Bilson, and is cur- rently in post. The comedy follows a party girl who falls pregnant.
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Ocelot plans Kirikou sequel
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Animation supremo Michel Oce- lot is to direct Kirikou And Men And Women, a third instalment in his popular Kirikou series. The new feature will be the fi rst
in the franchise to be shot in 3D. Speaking to Screen, Ocelot
described the fi lm as “memories of Kirikou’s childhood, which at the same time tackle humanity”. “We are doing the modelling of
the heroes. It takes place in a vil- lage with a lot of people. The series is becoming more and more serious,” he continued. Paris-based animation outfit
Les Armateurs, which also pro- duced Ocelot’s 1998 animation Kirikou And The Sorceress and 2005’s Kirikou And The Wild Beasts, will produce, while Studio- Canal distributes in France and is handling international sales. Ocelot expects the feature to be
completed for a Christmas 2012 release. The acclaimed director also detailed a Paris-based anima- tion story he intends to make with previous production collaborator Nord-Ouest Films: “I’m prepar- ing a new and original feature taking place in Paris in 1900.” Ocelot’s Tales Of The Night is
screening in competition here at the Berlinale.
Icon ushers in US consultant
BY JEREMY KAY Icon Entertainment International (IEI) has brought in Preferred Content as a US-based consultant to source projects. Preferred Content’s head of
sales and financing Christine D’Souza will serve as the point person in the new arrangement.
“The Preferred Content team
brings a wealth of exp erience to complement Icon Entertainment International’s growing ambi- tions,” IEI managing director Hugo Grumbar said. “We’re pleased that Christine
will be leading this effort on our behalf.”
Talent Campus targets Tokyo, Durban has DocStation
BY MARTIN BLANEY Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) could become the next venue to host one of the Berlinale Talent Campus (BTC) Campus Abroad programmes. “We are discussing if we can set
up something there,” BTC pro- gramme manager Matthijs Wouter Knol told Screen. BTC has Campus Abroads in
Sarajevo, Buenos Aires, Guadala- jara and Durban, and had previ- ous editions in Cape Town, Kiev and New Dehli.
Matthijs Wouter Knol Meanwhile, this year’s Campus
Abroad in Durban will introduce the DocStation, where selected documentary projects are given feedback from international experts.
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