NEWS BERLINBRIEFS


The Reel deals Reel Suspects has sold erotic portmanteau film X Femmes to Sweden (Njuta Films) and Brazil (Imovision). The Jean Rollin Collection has gone to South Korea (Linetree).


Smiths guitarist joins Oticons Film-composers agency Oticons has added Craig Gannon, formerly of The Smiths, to its roster of 16 movie composers.


SHOOTING STARS IN PROFILE: EFP’S CLASS OF 2012


Max Hubacher Switzerland (The Foster Boy)


Who are your inspirations? There are so many great actors. One of the best for me is Heath Ledger because he used to play very different and complex roles. He was amazing as the Joker in The Dark Knight.


Talent Campus attendees ready slate of features


BY WENDY MITCHELL UK producer Emma Biggins, who is taking part in the Berlinale Tal- ent Campus, is to produce sci-fi thriller The Calling for her com- pany, Multistory Films. Writer-director Jeff Norton is


developing the feature, about five teenage strangers who wake up in a high-tech prison, only to dis- cover they are on a man-made spaceship. Multistory is also in post on


Ben Crowe’s feature directorial debut, Verity’s Summer. Other UK talents attending the


campus include 19-year-old Rob Savage, who is in post with his debut feature. The film, backed by the BFI for post-production, is about a German exchange student (Philine Lembeck) who has a rela- tionship with a shy UK boy. Enrico Tessarin is executive producing. Lou McLoughlan is planning a Scotland-Iceland co-production


for her first feature, 16 Years Til Summer. And Kristof Bilsen is in pre-production on documentary feature White Elephants, A Congo Trilogy. Mike Lerner from Roast Beef is producing and the film has grants from Cinereach and CBA/ Worldview. The British Council is the part-


ner for UK talent at the Talent Campus, helping more than 30 UK participants to attend in the campus’ 10th anniversary year.


Angelopoulos to be remembered with screening


BY WENDY MITCHELL The Berlinale is honouring the late Theo Angelopoulos by show- ing his 2004 film Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow today at 21:00 at CinemaxX 9. Dieter Kosslick will introduce


the screening (the original version with German subtitles). Author Petros Markaris, who collaborated


with Angelopoulos, and Phoebe Economopoulos, his widow and producer of many of his films, are expected to attend the screening. Angelopoulos — who died at


the age of 76 in a road accident on January 24 during the shoot of his latest film The Other Sea — was a regular at Berlin, most recently with The Dust Of Time in 2009.


Wide House moves Nuclear Nation to US


BY GEOFFREY MACNAB French outfit Wide Manage- ment’s documentary branch Wide House has closed a raft of deals in the market. US company First Run Fea-


tures has taken all rights for Nuclear Nation by Atsushi Funa- hashi. The Forum documentary deals with refugees from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. Meanwhile, Mouna GmbH has


taken Wide House’s ballet collec- tion for German-speaking territo- ries. This includes the Marlene Ionesco collection with A Life For Ballet, a history of classical ballet spanning 60 years. The German distributor will also release Danc- ing Across Borders and a docu- mentary about choreographer Merce Cunningham. Mouna GmbH has also taken


Theo Angelopoulos


theatrical rights to another Wide title, Crulic — The Path To Beyond, the Romanian animated docu- mentary.


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