FilmCouncil_Screen_Tues17May 10/5/11 15:08 Page 1 NEWS BackUp plans Heysel film


BY NANCY TARTAGLIONE Financing specialist BackUp Films is packaging Jean- Stéphane Sauvaire’s In The Crowd, based on the book about the 1985 Heysel Sta- dium disaster during foot- ball’s European Cup final. The film will follow a


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In the Spotlight: Christine Langan 10.00-11.00


As Head of BBC Films, Christine Langan has produced/executive produced hit films including The Queen, Fish Tank, Bright Star and 2011 Cannes Official Selection film, We Need to Talk About Kevin. Christine will discuss the ideas that grab her attention, how she drives them from script to screen, and what she’s looking for next.


Inside the Press Camilla Lackberg 11.00-12.00


In today's crowded marketplace, getting the press's attention is high on every filmmaker's list of priorities. Damon Wise, freelance journalist and contributing editor for Empire magazine, chairs a panel discussion on how to work with the media: what works, what can go wrong, what you can do to maximise interest in your project - and when to stop!


The magic hour: Cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro DFF in conversation with Ron Prince, Editor, British Cinematographer


13.00-14.00


Award-winning cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro DFF (Reconstruction) talks about his visually stunning work on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (In Competition, Cannes 2011). Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in Melancholia a beautiful film about the end of the world, written and directed by von Trier.


Closing the deal: International co-production


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UK producers, Pippa Cross (Chalet Girl) and Julia Taylor-Stanley (Coriolanus) with European producers and representatives from the Northern European Partnership, North Sea Screen Partnership and Cine Regio discuss how to make a co-production work.


Scots on film: Financing and funding opportunities


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When considering working with the UK there is a wealth of opportunity in Scotland from financing, public funding, creative talent to locations. Learn more about production possibilities in Scotland with experienced producers. Followed by 17.00-18.00 Creative Scotland reception and 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011 programme announcement.


TODAY’S 1-2-1 SURGERIES: Co-producing with the UK


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How to qualify as a British film: the Cultural Test Filming in the UK


Making your first feature film: Do’s and don’ts


Have you got what it takes? International co-production pitching panel


Without Borders: A teenager’s journey through film


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HEADWINDS PICKED UP: Perrine Teze’s PTZ International has closed deals on Headwinds. Deals are for Eastern Europe (SPI), Switzerland (Filmcoopi) and Turkey (Duka Films). Universal is handling in France, Cinéart will release in Benelux through Artemis.


Baute joins Headline


BYGEOFFREYMACNAB Stewart Mackinnon’s Headline Pictures has appointed Christian Baute (ex-Celluloid Dreams) as head of production. Here in Cannes, Mackin-


non has confirmed pro- ducer/director Ridley Scott has boarded Reykjavik, the cold war drama which Headline is developing with Participant Media. The film, written by


Kevin Hood, is about the meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev in 1986. Headline is also pushing


ahead with Peter Pan In Scarlet, Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet and The Invisible Woman by Abi Morgan, as well as TV project The Driv- ers, executive produced by Scott Free.


The Interrupters


Dogwoof has acquired UK theatrical and home- entertainment rights to Steve James’ The Interrupters, which premiered at


series of different charac- ters whose paths will cross


Leslie Holm


Swedish novelist Camilla Lackberg is in Cannes to talk up The Fjallbacka Murders, a mammoth TV and movie project based around her bestselling crime series set in the sleepy coastal town of the title. TrustNordisk is pre-selling the project here which consists of ten 90-minute episodes and two 110-minute theatrical films. Based on books five (The German Child) and six (The Mermaid), the films will be ready in 2013 and 2015 respectively. “To me the books are like my children and I wanted to hand them over to someone who would take care of them,” Lackberg said. “I had a first meeting with Tre Vanner and we were on the same page from the start. The books are partly crime story, partly the story of a couple.” Read the full interview on ScreenDaily.com


Mike Goodridge Scots get $1.6m boost


BY WENDYMITCHELL Creative Scotland has unveiled a $1.6m (£1m) investment into new models for film. The funding will be divided among four pilot initiatives: Sigma Releas- ing, helping the production company co-release its films; the MacKendrick Fund, a co-venture with Aegis and Prescience to offer debt and equity finance to local or interna-


tional films with Scottish elements; the Virtuous Cir- cle (SDI Productions), to test documentary financing through crowdsourcing; and La Belle Allée/Savalas Sound Post Equity Fund, for investment to attract inter- national production to Scot- land and discounts for local features. Creative Scotland is


investing up to $5m (£3m) this year in film and TV.


Sundance. The doc is about former gang members in Chicago who try to prevent violent situations. The deal was negotiated by Dogwoof’s Andy Whittaker and executive producer Teddy Leifer, of UK-based RISE Films. Dogwoof plans an autumn theatrical launch, followed by the BBC broadcast. Wendy Mitchell


Gewirtz joins mobster pic


BY JEREMY KAY Brian Oliver’s Cross Creek Pictures has hired Inside Man screenwriter Russell Gewirtz to write Black Mass, about the FBI and the Bos- ton mob. Oliver, whose Black Swan


has crossed $300m, is eye- ing an autumn start in Bos- ton for the $35m project and


will produce with colleague Todd Thompson and Brett Granstaff of Ridgerock. Black Mass is based on a


previous script by Mark Mal- louk and the book by The Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill. Mallouk will be an executive producer. CAA represented Gewirtz in the deal.


on their way to the game and through to the tragic events. A budget of $11m (¤8m)


is being put together with Anna Lena Films produc- ing. “It’s very strong in terms of European identity, but it’s not Europudding,” BackUp principal Jean- Baptiste Babin told Screen.


Meanwhile, El Frances is


the true story of a man who in the 1980s was sent to Ecuador by the French authorities to help investi- gate the drug trade. Jose Garcia will star in the Olivier Van Hoofstadt film. BackUp recently worked


on the Full House-pro- duced 7 Days In Havana.


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