NEWS BERLINBRIEFS
Jinga sinks teeth into US deals on vampire tale Jinga Films has sold all Canadian rights to Scott Leberecht’s urban vampire film Midnight Son to Mongrel Media. Image Entertainment has acquired US rights and both distributors aim to release in August. Jinga also sold the US on Zombie Undead, The Hunt and The Scar Crow to Music Video Distribution (MVD).
TLA gets Yellow Affair’s Kiss TLA Releasing has snapped up UK rights for Alexandra-Therese Keining’s lesbian drama Kiss Me from Stockholm-based The Yellow Affair. TLA also bought the US, Canada, UK and Ireland rights to gay politician story Four More Years. Another deal clinched by The Yellow Affair is for Mika Kaurismaki’s black comedy Brothers with Starlet Media for all rights in Russia.
DIFF sets 2012 dates The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has confirmed its dates this year, to run from Sunday, December 9 to Sunday, December 16.
Hendel dances to fellowship Annekatrin Hendel was awarded the festival’s first Made in Germany — Perspektive Fellowship, worth $19,850 (€15,000), for her treatment of the documentary film Disko (Disco).
Buyers shine for Intandem on A Bright Day
BY WENDYMITCHELL Intandem Films has closed a number of deals on Comes A Bright Day which premieres in Generation 14plus today. Simon Aboud’s debut feature
has sold to Australia (Vendetta), CIS (Carmen), Middle East (Falcon) and Portugal (Luso- mundo). Other deals are currently in negotiation. Christine Alderson (Irina
Palm) produces the romantic thriller set during an armed rob- bery in London. The cast features Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots, Kevin McKidd and Timothy Spall.
Mike Figgis started principal photography in London on February 6 for his psychological thriller Suspension Of Disbelief. Sebastian Koch and Lotte Verbeek star, with Vito di Rosa producing.
The project, sold by Content, is
about a renowned screenwriter and literature professor who becomes implicated in the murder of a mysterious young French woman in a story that blurs the lines between reality and fiction.
Minerva Films goes gangster with Take 5
BY GEOFFREYMACNAB Minerva Films is readying a summer shoot for Take 5, the Naples-set gangster film from writer-director Guido Lombardi (La-Bas). The $2m film is being packaged as an Italy-France-Ger- many co-production. RAI Cinema has already boarded in Italy. Minerva has also been selling
Tatanka by Giuseppe Gagliardi. Both titles have been sold to Pal- ace Films for Australia. The company, also a distribu-
tor, has snapped up Italian rights to Dolph Lundgren film Battle Of The Damned from Bleiberg.
Procacci keeps Diaz case alive
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Daniele Vicari’s Panorama Special entry Diaz — Don’t Clean Up This Blood charts the brutal raid by Ital- ian riot police on a group of pro- testers sleeping in a school during the Genoa G8 summit in 2001. “In Italy we have a habit of
forgetting acts like these,” says Fandango producer Domenico Procacci. “What happened was too important to forget but hopefully this film will remind people. That was the project’s starting point.” The multi-language film was shot mostly in Bucharest, Genoa
and Italy’s Alto Adige region, and is a co-production between Fandango, Le Pacte and Roma- nia’s Mandragora. The international cast includes
Jennifer Ulrich and Monica Bar- ladeanu alongside Elio Germano and Claudio Santamaria. In Romania, the production
rebuilt the fateful Diaz school and surrounding streets. “There were two reasons we
wanted to shoot in Romania,” recalls Procacci. “We wanted to work without interference and in peace [from Italian press attention] and also because one
Pre-AFM film finance market to be launched this year The MediaXchange Interna-
BYMIKE GOODRIDGE An invitation-only finance market is being launched this year in Santa Monica in advance of the American Film Market.
tional Finance Market (MIFM), being organised by Katrina Wood’s MediaXchange, will offer leading producers the opportunity
Daniele Vicari and Domenico Procacci
of my co-producers is previous collaborator Bobby Paunescu of Mandragora.”
to connect with global financiers to fund film projects and slates. The advisory board includes
producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity), Karine Martin of Media-
biz International Group, sales executive Cassian Elwes, John Sloss of Sloss Eckhouse LawCo and Cinetic Media, producer and consultant Lorna Tee and Michael J Werner of Fortissimo Films. MIFM (October 29-31) will
The trials surrounding the Diaz
case are continuing and prosecu- tors face a race to achieve convic- tions before Italian law closes the case due to a legal expiration loop- hole. “This film is about keeping the subject alive,” says Procacci. Fandango Portobello handles
sales; Fandango’s regular colla- borator Le Pacte distributes in France and Fandango in Italy. Fandango’s sales slate also
includes Matteo Garrone’s dark- comedy Big House (working title), currently in post, and Ferzan Ozpetek’s comic ghost story Magnifica Presenza, also in post.
include a regional focus on Scan- dinavia, a session dedicated to remakes, and lunches with a focus on agents, managers and lawyers. Screen International is media
partner to the event and Mediabiz is among the sponsors.
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