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Germany’s Studio 100 Film has sealed multiple deals for animated films Miss Moxy and Northahead of the European Film Market.

All rights have been sold for Belgian filmmaker and visual artist Vincent Bal’s Miss Moxy, co-directed with Wip Vernooij,to Poland (Nowe Horyzonty), UK/ Ireland (Dazzler), Bulgaria (Profilms), Hungary & Romania (Ads-Services), Czech Republic & Slovakia (Donart), former Yugoslavia (Blitz), and Portugal (Outsider Film).

The 3D CGI feature is about a cat that gets lost and has to make its way home across Europe. It is aDutch-Belgian co-production by Phanta Animation and BosBros with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and AVROTROSm...

Germany’s Studio 100 Film has sealed multiple deals for animated films Miss Moxy and Northahead of the European Film Market.

All rights have been sold for Belgian filmmaker and visual artist Vincent Bal’s Miss Moxy, co-directed with Wip Vernooij,to Poland (Nowe Horyzonty), UK/ Ireland (Dazzler), Bulgaria (Profilms), Hungary & Romania (Ads-Services), Czech Republic & Slovakia (Donart), former Yugoslavia (Blitz), and Portugal (Outsider Film).

The 3D CGI feature is about a cat that gets lost and has to make its way home across Europe. It is aDutch-Belgian co-production by Phanta Animation and BosBros with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and AVROTROSm...

The first three recipients of internationally focused scheme revealed.

Jaap van Heusden’s drama In Alaska, Vincent Bal and Sem Assink’s animation Miss Moxy and Tallulah Schwab’s travelling magician story Mr K are the first three feature films to be supported through the Netherlands Film Fund’s ambitious Cinescoop scheme.

They will each receive €1.8m (1.9m) from the fund that focuses on commercial, internationally-facing Dutch features.

“We want to give the strongest possible boost to films with a high level of ambition,” said Bero Beyer, CEO Netherlands Film Fund.

In Alaska is produced by IJswater Films’ with Canada’s Uuktimiaq Studios,...

October’s here and it’s time to get spooked. After last year’s superb “’70s Horror” lineup, the Criterion Channel commemorates October with a couple series: “Universal Horror,” which does what it says on the tin (with special notice to the Spanish-language Dracula), and “Home Invasion,” which runs the gamut from Romero to Oshima with Polanski and Haneke in the mix. Lest we disregard the programming of Cindy Sherman’s one feature, Office Killer, and Jennifer’s Body, whose lifespan has gone from gimmick to forgotten to Criterion Channel. And if you want to stretch ideas of genre just a hair, their “True Crime” selection gets at darker shades of human nature.

It’s not all chills and thrills, mind. October also boasts a Kirk Douglas repertoire, movies by Doris Wishman and Wayne Wang, plus Manoel de Oliveira’s rarely screened Porto of My Childhood. And Edgar Wright gets the “Adventures in Moviegoing” treatment,...

New films from Vincent Bal, Koen Mortier and Caroline Strubbe among 47 films at virtual showcase.

A new drama from Cannes award-winner Lukas Dhont (Girl) and a film produced in lockdown by Milo Rau are among 47 projects to be showcased at Re>Connext, the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image.

The event, which serves as an export platform for film and TV drama made in Flanders, will run online from October 5-31 after the physical showcase was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Usually taking place over three days under the banner Connext, the virtual edition has been...

The new partners have several films in the pipeline, including €9m animated feature Miss Moxy,

Legendary Dutch producer Burny Bos, founder of BosBros, and Petra Goedings, CEO of Phanta Vision, have revealed details of their new production partnership. Under their alliance, all of Bos’ new films and TV projects will now be made through the Phanta group.

Over the last 30 years, since BosBros was founded in 1989, the company has overseen a string of box-office hits in the family film genre, including Miss Minoes, Winky’s Horse and Alfie, The Little Werewolf. The idea behind the collaboration is to allow Bos...

The Chicago International Film Festival 2016 announced its full lineup, and it includes Julia Ducournau's Raw, the previously announced 4K restoration of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Eyes of My Mother, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe, starring Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch.

Press Release: Chicago (September 13, 2016) ­ The Chicago International Film Festival today announces Opening and Closing Night selections, as well as the full slate of films included in the Festival’s U.S. Indies, Spotlight: Musicals and After Dark categories. Chicago will play host to gala screenings of Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival as respective bookends to the 52nd Festival, opening on October 13th and closing on October 27th. A full list of these newly announced programs is below and at www.chicagofilmfestival.com. Tickets for these events and all film screenings go on sale September 21st for Cinema/Chicago members...

Eisenstein in Guanajuato among ten productions to receive support from the Screen Flanders economic fund.

Ten productions have received funding from the Screen Flanders economic fund, including Peter Greenaway’s feature Eisenstein in Guanajuato.

Finnish actor Elmer Bäck is attached to star as the pioneering Russian filmmaker in Greenaway’s film about the short-lived but passionate love affair between Eisenstein and his guide in Mexico.

The funding body gave out €2.2m ($3m) to the projects which will spend part of their budget in the Flanders region.

Amounts per project vary between € 90,000 ($123,000) and €400,000 ($546,680) per project.

The Screen Flanders fund has processed three calls since its launch in 2012. A total of 40 applications have been approved for a total of €9.2 million ($12.5 million) repayable support.

The 10 projects to receive Screen Flanders support in this call:

Bevergem Dir: Gilles Coulier; Main/Belgian prod: De Wereldvrede (Be); Be; fictionBloed, zweet en tranen Dir: Diederick Koopal; Main prod: Lemming Film (Nl); Belgian co-prod: A Private...

Batul Mukhtiar won the Golden Elephant trophy for Best Live Action Director for Kaphal in the Competition International Live Action section at the International Children’s Film Festival of India.

Tamaash or The Puppet by Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh won the Golden Elephant trophy for Best Short, Children’s Jury. The film was competing in the International Shorts section.

Shilpa Ranade’s Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Artwork and Arnab Chaudhuri’s Arjun won a Golden Elephant trophy for Best Animation Feature, Children’s Jury. Both films were competing in the International Animation competition section.

The 18th edition of the festival was held in Hyderabad from November 14 – 20, 2013.

Complete list of winners:

Competition Little Directors

Golden Elephant trophy for Best Little Director – Breaking The Silence by Siddhanth Joshi and Tamatar Chor by Pawanjot Singh.

Golden Plaque for Second Best Little Director – Ecole Mondiale World...

The 18th International Children’s Film Festival of India has announced the competition lineup for 2013. Some of the well-known Indian films in competition are Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry [Read interview], Shilpa Ranade’s Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya [Read interview] and Batul Mukhtiar’s Kaphal.

Organized by the Children’s Film Society of India, the biennial festival also known as The Golden Elephant will be held from November 14-20, 2013 in Hyderabad.

Competition Live Action

A Horse on the Balcony

Dir.: Hüseyin Tabak (Austria)

Tainá – an Amazon Legend

Dir.: Rosanne Svartman (Brazil)

Havanastation

Dir.: Ian Padrón (Cuba)

The Great Bird Chase

Dir.: Christian Dyekjær (Denmark)

Horizon Beautiful

Dir.: Stefan Jäger (Ethiopia, Switzerland)

Windstrom

Germany

Igor and the Cranes’ Journey

Dir.: Evgeny Ruman (Germany, Israel, Poland)

Fandry

Dir.: Nagraj Manjule (India)

Kaphal

Dir.: Batul Mukhtiar (India)

Good Fellows

Iran

7 Days of Himmawari and her Puppies

Dir.: Emiko Hiramatsu (Japan)

Mother,...

The 37th Toronto International Film Festival® will roll out the red carpet for hundreds of guests from the four corners of the globe in September. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Rian Johnson, Noah Baumbach, Deepa Mehta, Derek Cianfrance, Sion Sono, Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Lu Chuan, Shola Lynch, Barry Levinson, Yvan Attal, Ben Affleck, Marina Zenovich, Costa-Gavras, Laurent Cantet, Sally Potter, Dustin Hoffman, Francois Ozon, David O. Russell, David Ayer, Pelin Esmer, Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Andrew Adamson, Michael McGowan, Bahman Ghobadi, Ziad Doueiri, Alex Gibney, Stephen Chbosky, Eran Riklis, Edward Burns, Bernard Émond, Zhang Yuan, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Newell, Miwa Nishikawa, Margarethe Von Trotta, David Siegel, Scott McGehee, Gauri Shinde, Goran Paskaljevic, Baltasar Kormákur, J.A. Bayona, Rob Zombie, Peaches and Paul Andrew Williams.

Actors expected to attend include: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Chan, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Bill Murray, Robert Redford,...

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Carice van Houten is a cat-turned-women in Miss Minoes.

A cat who transforms into a young woman to help a timid journalist and protect their town from a nefarious industrialist in the 2001 Dutch family fantasy film Miss Minoes.

Carice van Houten (who’s currently making noise on premium cable TV as the magical priestess Melisandre in HBO’s Game of Thrones) stars in the title role of a woman who still enjoys purring, rubbing her face against other people’s faces, sleeping in a box, and, of course, communicating with her fellow cats—all of whom still recognize her from her days as a local feline. Miss Minoes uses her crack team of news-gathering kitty friends to assist a shy but talented journalist (Theo Maasen) to become a star reporter and then uncover the nefarious plans of a scheming factory owner.

Trailer, poster and images for Vincent Bal's Miss Minoes starring Carice Van Houten Pic opens in New York and Chicago on December 23rd, and is helmed by Vincent Bal, who wrote the script alongside Tamara Bos and Burny Boss, based on the novel by Annie M.G. Schmidt. Miss Minoes won the Golden Calf Award for Best Actress and Best Film at the Utrecht, Holland Film Festival as well as the Children’s Jury Prize for Best International Live Action Feature Film at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival This utterly charming classic family film tells the tale of Miss Minoes, a cat who is transformed into a young woman (Carice van Houten) and befriends Tibbe (Theo Maassen), a shy bumbling cub reporter for the local newspaper. Miss Minoes, still recognized as a cat by the neighborhood felines despite her new appearance, organizes them into a news-gathering service and helps.

Trailer, poster and images for Vincent Bal's Miss Minoes starring Carice Van Houten Pic opens in New York and Chicago on December 23rd, and is helmed by Vincent Bal, who wrote the script alongside Tamara Bos and Burny Boss, based on the novel by Annie M.G. Schmidt. Miss Minoes won the Golden Calf Award for Best Actress and Best Film at the Utrecht, Holland Film Festival as well as the Children’s Jury Prize for Best International Live Action Feature Film at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival This utterly charming classic family film tells the tale of Miss Minoes, a cat who is transformed into a young woman (Carice van Houten) and befriends Tibbe (Theo Maassen), a shy bumbling cub reporter for the local newspaper. Miss Minoes, still recognized as a cat by the neighborhood felines despite her new appearance, organizes them into a news-gathering service and helps.

Trailer, poster and images for Vincent Bal's Miss Minoes starring Carice Van Houten Pic opens in New York and Chicago on December 23rd, and is helmed by Vincent Bal, who wrote the script alongside Tamara Bos and Burny Boss, based on the novel by Annie M.G. Schmidt. Miss Minoes won the Golden Calf Award for Best Actress and Best Film at the Utrecht, Holland Film Festival as well as the Children’s Jury Prize for Best International Live Action Feature Film at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival This utterly charming classic family film tells the tale of Miss Minoes, a cat who is transformed into a young woman (Carice van Houten) and befriends Tibbe (Theo Maassen), a shy bumbling cub reporter for the local newspaper. Miss Minoes, still recognized as a cat by the neighborhood felines despite her new appearance, organizes them into a news-gathering service and helps.

Movies.com is pleased to bring you the premiere of the Us poster for the Dutch children's film Miss Minoes, which has been collecting several awards on the film festival circuit around the world and will be heading to select Us theaters on December 23rd thanks to Music Box Films. The film, directed by Vincent Bal, stars Carice van Houten (Black Book) as a woman with a strange secret: she's also a cat. Here's the official synopsis: A cat who turns into a young woman (Minoes) retains some of her feline characteristics and helps a journalist to gather news for the front page of his local newspaper. With the help of Minoes, who can talk to the cats in the small town, he soon discovers that the popular chairman of the “Club For Friends of Animals” and boss of a...

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