Iran-born French filmmaker Mehran Tamadon’s The Last Days Of The Hospital won the inaugural €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award at Visions du Réel’s industry awards last night (April 17).
The documentary is set in a French psychiatric hospital where patients begin taking on jobs in the ward amid a health sector crisis.
A second €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award – focused on supporting Ukrainian projects - went to Fixing The War from Vadym Ilkov and Clare Stronge, about the importance of journalists.
The Visions Sud Et Award was given to the Columbian documentary The Shadow Of Yolüja by Hanz Rippe Gabriel. The film,...
The documentary is set in a French psychiatric hospital where patients begin taking on jobs in the ward amid a health sector crisis.
A second €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award – focused on supporting Ukrainian projects - went to Fixing The War from Vadym Ilkov and Clare Stronge, about the importance of journalists.
The Visions Sud Et Award was given to the Columbian documentary The Shadow Of Yolüja by Hanz Rippe Gabriel. The film,...
- 4/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Two new cash prizes introduced this year in Swiss film festival Visions du Reel’s industry section, VdR-Industry, were among a flurry of awards handed out as the program wrapped in Nyon, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, created to promote the fund’s role in encouraging international co-production from the initial stages of a project, and which comes with a cash prize of €20,000, went to “The Last Days of the Hospital” by Mehran Tamadon.
Set in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Paris, it tells the story of a group of patients invited to take over the wards as the health personnel gradually leave amid a crisis in the health sector.
A visibly moved Tamadon picked up the award, thanking the entire VdR-Industry team for organizing “such amazing pitching sessions.” The Franco-Iranian director was thrilled with the prize which he told Variety was a great stepping...
The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, created to promote the fund’s role in encouraging international co-production from the initial stages of a project, and which comes with a cash prize of €20,000, went to “The Last Days of the Hospital” by Mehran Tamadon.
Set in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Paris, it tells the story of a group of patients invited to take over the wards as the health personnel gradually leave amid a crisis in the health sector.
A visibly moved Tamadon picked up the award, thanking the entire VdR-Industry team for organizing “such amazing pitching sessions.” The Franco-Iranian director was thrilled with the prize which he told Variety was a great stepping...
- 4/17/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
On Wednesday, “Fixing the War,” about news fixers in Ukraine, won the Special Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel. It was one of 15 projects selected in this year’s edition of VdR-Pitching, the event’s international co-production and financing platform. Variety accompanied the team as they pitched to potential partners.
The film’s producers Gary Lennon of Plainsong Films and Oleksandra Kravchenko of Moon Man were in Nyon to pitch the film, which is directed by Clare Stronge and Vadym Ikov. “Fixing the War” was pitched as the first film to show the vital role of local field producers, otherwise known as “fixers” in the journalism community – locals hired to help a journalist working in a foreign country navigate everything from logistics to translations or safety issues.
The pair started with a 12-minute pitch to a room full of industry professionals, during which they outlined...
The film’s producers Gary Lennon of Plainsong Films and Oleksandra Kravchenko of Moon Man were in Nyon to pitch the film, which is directed by Clare Stronge and Vadym Ikov. “Fixing the War” was pitched as the first film to show the vital role of local field producers, otherwise known as “fixers” in the journalism community – locals hired to help a journalist working in a foreign country navigate everything from logistics to translations or safety issues.
The pair started with a 12-minute pitch to a room full of industry professionals, during which they outlined...
- 4/17/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel has unveiled its program for film professionals, VdR-Industry, which includes 29 projects in various stages of production. These will be pitched during the four-day event that runs April 14 through April 17, alongside the fest.
VdR-Industry, which sees more than a thousand film professionals descend on the small Swiss town of Nyon on the edge of Lake Geneva, aims at providing an opportunity to connect filmmakers with financing and distribution opportunities at a time when the documentary sector is faced with a contraction of funding from streamers and increased corporate consolidation.
Speaking to Variety, VdR’s new head of industry, Alice Burgin, says she’s excited to welcome a raft of new players this year such as the U.S.’s the Points North Institute and the Whickers Foundation, which support emerging nonfiction storytellers, the Catapult film fund, which backs doc filmmakers in the early stages of funding,...
VdR-Industry, which sees more than a thousand film professionals descend on the small Swiss town of Nyon on the edge of Lake Geneva, aims at providing an opportunity to connect filmmakers with financing and distribution opportunities at a time when the documentary sector is faced with a contraction of funding from streamers and increased corporate consolidation.
Speaking to Variety, VdR’s new head of industry, Alice Burgin, says she’s excited to welcome a raft of new players this year such as the U.S.’s the Points North Institute and the Whickers Foundation, which support emerging nonfiction storytellers, the Catapult film fund, which backs doc filmmakers in the early stages of funding,...
- 3/15/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel has unveiled the projects to be presented at its 2024 industry programme VdR-Industry, taking place April 14-17, including features from Iran-born French filmmaker Mehran Tamadon and Chilean director Tana Gilbert.
A total of 29 projects have been selected. 15 projects in development will be part of VdR–Pitching, and six projects in finishing stages will be presented at the VdR–Work In Progress pitch. Four projects have been selected for both the VdR–Rough Cut Lab and the VdR–Development Lab respectively.
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The line-up includes a number of returning Visions du Réel directors.
A total of 29 projects have been selected. 15 projects in development will be part of VdR–Pitching, and six projects in finishing stages will be presented at the VdR–Work In Progress pitch. Four projects have been selected for both the VdR–Rough Cut Lab and the VdR–Development Lab respectively.
Scroll down for full list of projects
The line-up includes a number of returning Visions du Réel directors.
- 3/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
Distributor set to release film in New York and Los Angeles in mid-August.
Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights for the documentary The Farthest, which chronicles Nasa’s Voyager mission.
Emer Reynolds wrote and directed the film that tells the story of the Voyager space mission which defied all odds by visiting our solar system’s outer planets for the first time before achieving humankind’s first journey into interstellar space.
The film will be released theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on August 11, with additional one-night event screenings around the country to follow.
The Farthest has screened multiple film festivals including Edinburgh, Seattle, Sydney, Tribeca, and the Audi Dublin International Film Festival (Adiff) where it won the Audi-ence award as well as best Irish documentary and the George Byrne Maverick Award, which was presented to Reynolds.
John Murray and Clare Stronge produced for Crossing the Line, while [link=nm...
Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights for the documentary The Farthest, which chronicles Nasa’s Voyager mission.
Emer Reynolds wrote and directed the film that tells the story of the Voyager space mission which defied all odds by visiting our solar system’s outer planets for the first time before achieving humankind’s first journey into interstellar space.
The film will be released theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on August 11, with additional one-night event screenings around the country to follow.
The Farthest has screened multiple film festivals including Edinburgh, Seattle, Sydney, Tribeca, and the Audi Dublin International Film Festival (Adiff) where it won the Audi-ence award as well as best Irish documentary and the George Byrne Maverick Award, which was presented to Reynolds.
John Murray and Clare Stronge produced for Crossing the Line, while [link=nm...
- 8/2/2017
- ScreenDaily
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