NEWS
SHOOTING STARS IN PROFILE: EFP’S CLASS OF 2012
Mediabiz boosts finance
BY MIKE GOODRIDGE Montreal-based Mediabiz Inter- national Group has expanded its financing ability for senior and mezzanine debt financing for its film and TV productions. The newly created Mediabiz
Antonia Campbell- Hughes Ireland (Albert Nobbs)
Who are your inspirations? I admire Charlotte Gainsbourg. I’ve found the consistency in her choices very inspiring. I love Asia Argento’s bravery and how she is always redefining herself. Also Glenn Close, Sarah Polley and Kate Dickie.
Who would you like to work with? I’d love to work with Peter Webber and Darren Aronofsky. Or young directors like Gareth Edwards and Cary Fukunaga.
What are you doing next? The next films I have coming out are Kelly + Victor and Storage 24.
Delphis colours in Fuschia sales
Capital Fund, backed by private investors, a pension fund and debt financing, aims to deploy $100m in debt over the first two years.
The Mediabiz Group is active
both in financing through Media- biz Capital and in production through its Mediamax and Toonz Global divisions. Toonz Global is a joint venture
with Singapore-based Toonz Entertainment. Arnie Messer (Black Swan,
Shutter Island) of Phoenix Pictures has also joined Mediabiz Capital’s
investment committee. Patricia Jackson, formerly of Future Films and Royal Bank of Scotland, is co- head of Mediabiz Capital, in addi- tion to sitting on the investment committee. Mediabiz Capital focuses on
providing financial products for the entertainment industry, incl- uding gap, bridge and guaran- teed-revenues financing.
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Montreal-based sales outfit Del- phis Films has sold Dutch box- office hit Fuchsia The Mini-Witch to Spain (Flins Y Peliculas), France (97 Productions), Italy (Imago) and Germany (Telepool). Alfie The Little Werewolf (from
BosBros) has been pre-sold to Spain (Flins Y Peliculas), Indone- sia (Ram Indo), Poland (PolMedia) and the Czech Republic (Vapet). Czech fairytale Saxana has also
gone to Indonesia (Ram Indo) and to Russia and the CIS (Cen- tral Partnership). Also on Delphis’ EFM slate is Belgian thriller Code 37 by Jakob Verbruggen.
BERLINBRIEFS
DR dances with Autlook Danish distributor DR International Sales will partner with Austria-based sales outfit Autlook on its feature doc Ballroom Dancer. The deal was negotiated between DR’s Kim Christiansen and Sanne Arlo, and Autlook’s CEO Peter Jager. DR has a major presence at TV markets, while Autlook has extensive contacts with theatrical distributors.
North Sea pitches today UK-based Maeve Films has worked with Screen South to launch the North Sea Screen Partners Feature Screenwriters Development Programme. The programme’s selected writers — Jonas Grimas, Janet Mahoney, Anne Helene Soyseth, Peter Richardson, John Carnell, David Ince and Stephen Lloyd, Pouline Middleton and Aleksander Nordaas — are launching their scripts to producers and financiers here in Berlin at Soho House this afternoon. The focus is to attract co-productions to the North Sea region.
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