Exclusive: Météore Films acquires feature for France ahead of Cannes premiere.
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has taken on sales of Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s delocalisation comedy-drama The Nothing Factory (A Fabrica De Nada) ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The feature – combining drama, comedy and the occasional musical number - revolves around a group of factory-workers who turn-up for their shift one morning to discover the management has removed its machinery overnight.
It is the first sign of a massive lay-off. Most of the workers refuse to cooperate in redundancy negotiations and start to occupy the site, but when the factory bosses simply disappear, they left are high and dry. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.
In a first deal for Mfi, Mathieu Berthon’s Paris-based Météore Films has snapped up rights for France ahead of its Cannes debut.
It is a timely acquisition for the company on the...
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has taken on sales of Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s delocalisation comedy-drama The Nothing Factory (A Fabrica De Nada) ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The feature – combining drama, comedy and the occasional musical number - revolves around a group of factory-workers who turn-up for their shift one morning to discover the management has removed its machinery overnight.
It is the first sign of a massive lay-off. Most of the workers refuse to cooperate in redundancy negotiations and start to occupy the site, but when the factory bosses simply disappear, they left are high and dry. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.
In a first deal for Mfi, Mathieu Berthon’s Paris-based Météore Films has snapped up rights for France ahead of its Cannes debut.
It is a timely acquisition for the company on the...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Météore Films acquires feature for France ahead of Cannes premiere.
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has taken on sales of Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s delocalisation comedy-drama The Nothing Factory (A Fabrica De Nada) ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The feature – combining drama, comedy and the occasional musical number - revolves around a group of factory-workers who turn-up for their shift one morning to discover the management has removed its machinery overnight.
It is the first sign of a massive lay-off. Most of the workers refuse to cooperate in redundancy negotiations and start to occupy the site, but when the factory bosses simply disappear, they left are high and dry. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.
In a first deal for Mfi, Mathieu Berthon’s Paris-based Météore Films has snapped up rights for France ahead of its Cannes debut.
It is a timely acquisition for the company on the...
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has taken on sales of Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s delocalisation comedy-drama The Nothing Factory (A Fabrica De Nada) ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The feature – combining drama, comedy and the occasional musical number - revolves around a group of factory-workers who turn-up for their shift one morning to discover the management has removed its machinery overnight.
It is the first sign of a massive lay-off. Most of the workers refuse to cooperate in redundancy negotiations and start to occupy the site, but when the factory bosses simply disappear, they left are high and dry. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.
In a first deal for Mfi, Mathieu Berthon’s Paris-based Météore Films has snapped up rights for France ahead of its Cannes debut.
It is a timely acquisition for the company on the...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
The Golden Leopard of Locarno Film Festival’s 68th edition went to Right Now, Wrong Then by South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo.Scroll down for full list of winners
The top award comes two years after Sang-soo picked up the Leopard for Best Direction for his previous feature, Our Sunhi.
A previous winner of Locarno’s top award from South Korea was Bae Yong-kyun for Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Dalmaga dongjogeuro gan kkadalgeun) in 1989.
Right Now, Wrong Then – which is handled internaitonally by Fine Cut - also received the Best Actor Leopard for Jung Jae-Young and a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury.
The International Jury – which included German actor Udo Kier, Israeli filmmaker Nadiv Lapid and veteran Us director Jerry Schatzberg awarded its Special Jury Prize to Avishai Sivan for Tikkun, and the Leopard for Best Direction to the veteran Polish director Andrzej Zulawski for Cosmos, his first film...
The top award comes two years after Sang-soo picked up the Leopard for Best Direction for his previous feature, Our Sunhi.
A previous winner of Locarno’s top award from South Korea was Bae Yong-kyun for Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Dalmaga dongjogeuro gan kkadalgeun) in 1989.
Right Now, Wrong Then – which is handled internaitonally by Fine Cut - also received the Best Actor Leopard for Jung Jae-Young and a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury.
The International Jury – which included German actor Udo Kier, Israeli filmmaker Nadiv Lapid and veteran Us director Jerry Schatzberg awarded its Special Jury Prize to Avishai Sivan for Tikkun, and the Leopard for Best Direction to the veteran Polish director Andrzej Zulawski for Cosmos, his first film...
- 8/15/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
World premieres for new films by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Hong Sangsoo, Ben Rivers; Southpaw, Trainwreck among Piazza Grande titles.
The 68th Locarno Film Festival (August 5-15) will open with Jonathan Demme’s musical comedy-drama Ricki And The Flash, in which Meryl Streep stars as a musician who tries to make things right with her family after giving up everything to pursue her dream of rock-and-roll stardom.
Written by Diablo Cody, the film gets a Piazza Grande berth alongside Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, Catherine Corsini’s La Belle Saison and Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw.
Also playing is Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter. Cimino is being honoured with a Pardo D’onore Swisscom and will be taking part in an onstage conversation.
14 of the 18 films competing in the festival’s International Competition section for the Golden Leopard Award are world premieres including Andrzej Zulawski’s Cosmos, Ben Rivers’ The Sky...
The 68th Locarno Film Festival (August 5-15) will open with Jonathan Demme’s musical comedy-drama Ricki And The Flash, in which Meryl Streep stars as a musician who tries to make things right with her family after giving up everything to pursue her dream of rock-and-roll stardom.
Written by Diablo Cody, the film gets a Piazza Grande berth alongside Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, Catherine Corsini’s La Belle Saison and Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw.
Also playing is Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter. Cimino is being honoured with a Pardo D’onore Swisscom and will be taking part in an onstage conversation.
14 of the 18 films competing in the festival’s International Competition section for the Golden Leopard Award are world premieres including Andrzej Zulawski’s Cosmos, Ben Rivers’ The Sky...
- 7/15/2015
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
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