More than 200 key European film professionals have published an open letter expressing their shock and concern over the unexplained, sudden firing of long-time Flanders Image boss Christian De Schutter.
Producer Mike Goodridge at Good Chaos, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) co-founder and head of industry Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen, German Films MD Simone Baumann, Tribeca Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer, Haut et Court Head Of Acquisitions Laure Calliol; Goodfellas Head Of Sales Eva Diederix and Oscar-nominated director Stijn Coninx are among the signatories.
“We the undersigned are professionals in the film industry who are concerned about the termination of employment of our well respected and long-time colleague, Christian De Schutter, from Flanders Image,” they wrote.
They said they had been shocked by both the termination and the manner in which it had been handled by Koen Van Bockstal, CEO of parent body Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf).
“We all learned of De Schutter...
Producer Mike Goodridge at Good Chaos, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) co-founder and head of industry Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen, German Films MD Simone Baumann, Tribeca Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer, Haut et Court Head Of Acquisitions Laure Calliol; Goodfellas Head Of Sales Eva Diederix and Oscar-nominated director Stijn Coninx are among the signatories.
“We the undersigned are professionals in the film industry who are concerned about the termination of employment of our well respected and long-time colleague, Christian De Schutter, from Flanders Image,” they wrote.
They said they had been shocked by both the termination and the manner in which it had been handled by Koen Van Bockstal, CEO of parent body Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf).
“We all learned of De Schutter...
- 1/12/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Hellbound Media have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a graphic novel collecting all of Slaughterhouse Farm in one collection Plus this new release will feature over ten Brand New pages, adding more deaths, gore, and kills, expanding the horror in true classic uncut horror style. These new ‘remastered’ deleted scenes are drawn by Arfon Jones and shaded by Atlantisvampir. This is the ultimate Slaughterhouse Farm graphic novel and the best way to experience the full Terror!
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So even if you have the original released 4 part series you Will want to get your hands on this release for all the new content included inside its gory pages.
Hellbound Media’s hugely popular grindhouse seventies-inspired slasher comic is being released as a brand new Collected Trade edition, featuring the entire story, plus at least Ten pages of brand new ‘deleted scenes’, restored with the help of Atlantisvampir. This book runs for over 130-pages of extreme carnage!
- 3/14/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Filmmaker Mark Cousins, Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allison Gardner and Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films expressed their sadness.
The industry has reacted with shock at the news announced yesterday (October 6) that Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen are to “cease trading immediately” as parent charity, Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), enters administration.
It is understood that 102 staff will be made redundant with immediate effect. A total of 107 staff were employed across all four of the Cmi’s businesses. Five staff have been kept on to assist with the administration process.
Cmi...
The industry has reacted with shock at the news announced yesterday (October 6) that Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen are to “cease trading immediately” as parent charity, Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), enters administration.
It is understood that 102 staff will be made redundant with immediate effect. A total of 107 staff were employed across all four of the Cmi’s businesses. Five staff have been kept on to assist with the administration process.
Cmi...
- 10/7/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
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Cate Blanchett has become a mainstay of the Venice Film Festival. She was named best actress in 2007 for her turn as a reimagined version of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There, and she served as the international jury president in 2020 as the festival emerged from Covid.
But her allegiance to Venice dates back to 1998, when, at age 29, the Australian actress made her first visit to the fest with Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth, in which she played the English queen as a young woman, earning her first Oscar nomination in the process.
Two years later, she returned with British director Sally Potter’s The Man Who Cried. In the film, set mostly in Paris on the eve of World War II, Christina Ricci played a dislocated Russian Jew who joins a singing and dancing troupe, where she is befriended by a Russian...
Cate Blanchett has become a mainstay of the Venice Film Festival. She was named best actress in 2007 for her turn as a reimagined version of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There, and she served as the international jury president in 2020 as the festival emerged from Covid.
But her allegiance to Venice dates back to 1998, when, at age 29, the Australian actress made her first visit to the fest with Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth, in which she played the English queen as a young woman, earning her first Oscar nomination in the process.
Two years later, she returned with British director Sally Potter’s The Man Who Cried. In the film, set mostly in Paris on the eve of World War II, Christina Ricci played a dislocated Russian Jew who joins a singing and dancing troupe, where she is befriended by a Russian...
- 9/1/2022
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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