Swiss cinema is to be put in the spotlight in Mexico and Brazil over the next two years.
At the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 5-15), Swiss Films’ MD Catherine Ann Berger revealed details to ScreenDaily about how Switzerland will be a guest country at next year’s Guadalajara Film Festival (March 4-13) against the backdrop of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Switzerland.
“To begin with, we will have a historical retrospective of Swiss cinema in the Cineteca in Mexico City this December, and then in March, there will be a programme in Guadalajara of Swiss films from the past two, three years,” Berger explained.
“In addition, there will be an industry dimension with co-production meetings and the opportunities for professionals from both countries to meet and discuss partnerships,” she added, pointing out that the focus in Mexico will be the first major project of its kind that she is preparing since coming to Swiss...
At the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 5-15), Swiss Films’ MD Catherine Ann Berger revealed details to ScreenDaily about how Switzerland will be a guest country at next year’s Guadalajara Film Festival (March 4-13) against the backdrop of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Switzerland.
“To begin with, we will have a historical retrospective of Swiss cinema in the Cineteca in Mexico City this December, and then in March, there will be a programme in Guadalajara of Swiss films from the past two, three years,” Berger explained.
“In addition, there will be an industry dimension with co-production meetings and the opportunities for professionals from both countries to meet and discuss partnerships,” she added, pointing out that the focus in Mexico will be the first major project of its kind that she is preparing since coming to Swiss...
- 8/12/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Above: Das Magische Band.
For the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Oberhausen Manifesto, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen seems to have deployed an expected reminder and canonization: a retrospective. But the reality is far from this conventionality. Instead, the festival has activated a series, sequence and near-simultaneity of films programmed by Ralph Eue and Olaf Möller called Mavericks, Mouvements, Manifestos that form a complex, varied and nuanced international constellation of absolutely necessary, engaged and reactive short films from the 1950s-1960s. It is not a look back, as most retrospectives inevitably are, but a bracing engagement with a reality, both historic and contemporary, that proves to be still absolutely crucial to our understanding of the world and its cinema.
The opening ceremony of the festival capped an endless series of introductions—which included an unexpected but moving reminder of and plea about the economic ghettoization of cultural...
For the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Oberhausen Manifesto, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen seems to have deployed an expected reminder and canonization: a retrospective. But the reality is far from this conventionality. Instead, the festival has activated a series, sequence and near-simultaneity of films programmed by Ralph Eue and Olaf Möller called Mavericks, Mouvements, Manifestos that form a complex, varied and nuanced international constellation of absolutely necessary, engaged and reactive short films from the 1950s-1960s. It is not a look back, as most retrospectives inevitably are, but a bracing engagement with a reality, both historic and contemporary, that proves to be still absolutely crucial to our understanding of the world and its cinema.
The opening ceremony of the festival capped an endless series of introductions—which included an unexpected but moving reminder of and plea about the economic ghettoization of cultural...
- 5/9/2012
- MUBI
Thoma seated on Golden Camera jury
COLOGNE, Germany -- German TV industry legend Helmut Thoma, the former head of leading commercial channel RTL, has joined the jury for the 2008 Golden Camera awards.
The Golden Cameras, a gala honoring the best in German and international television, film and pop music, on Wednesday announced several prominent names to join its 2008 jury.
In addition to Thoma, the jury for the 43rd annual Golden Camera awards will include TV director and two-time Golden Camera winner Dieter Wedel; television journalist and talk show host Maybrit Illner; TV personality Jorg Pilawa; and actress Vera Tschechowa -- a German film prizewinner for Herbert Vesely's "The Bread of Those Early Years" (1962).
Together with six members from Golden Camera sponsor, TV listings magazine Horzu, the jury will choose the winners for what is one of Germany's best-known awards shows.
Thomas Gottschalk, the presenter of top-rated entertainment show "Wanna ... Bet?" will host the Golden Camera gala Feb. 6 in Berlin.
The Golden Cameras, a gala honoring the best in German and international television, film and pop music, on Wednesday announced several prominent names to join its 2008 jury.
In addition to Thoma, the jury for the 43rd annual Golden Camera awards will include TV director and two-time Golden Camera winner Dieter Wedel; television journalist and talk show host Maybrit Illner; TV personality Jorg Pilawa; and actress Vera Tschechowa -- a German film prizewinner for Herbert Vesely's "The Bread of Those Early Years" (1962).
Together with six members from Golden Camera sponsor, TV listings magazine Horzu, the jury will choose the winners for what is one of Germany's best-known awards shows.
Thomas Gottschalk, the presenter of top-rated entertainment show "Wanna ... Bet?" will host the Golden Camera gala Feb. 6 in Berlin.
- 11/8/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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