Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces and Guillaume Senez’s Our Struggles are also screening.
Naziha Arebi’s documentary Freedom Fields, about the creation of an all-women football team in post-revolution Libya, will open the sixth edition of the Doha Film Institute’s youth-focused Ajyal Film Festival, running Nov 28 to Dec 3.
Arebi, who has a Libyan father and British mother and grew up in the UK, received a grant for the production from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi) in 2012 when the project was still at the development stage.
The feature – which focuses on the personal stories of three team members as Libya...
Naziha Arebi’s documentary Freedom Fields, about the creation of an all-women football team in post-revolution Libya, will open the sixth edition of the Doha Film Institute’s youth-focused Ajyal Film Festival, running Nov 28 to Dec 3.
Arebi, who has a Libyan father and British mother and grew up in the UK, received a grant for the production from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi) in 2012 when the project was still at the development stage.
The feature – which focuses on the personal stories of three team members as Libya...
- 11/6/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Record 46% of feature slate directed by women.
Liz Garbus’ The Fourth Estate will close the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T and Drake Doremus’ Zoe has been selected as the Centerpiece Gala, festival brass announced on Wednesday (March 7) as they unveiled a feature slate featuring a record 46% of films directed by women.
The Fourth Estate follows The New York Times’ coverage of the Trump administration’s first year, while sci-fi romance Zoe (pictured) stars Ewan McGregor, Léa Seydoux, Rashida Jones, and Theo James. The festival runs from April 18-29.
The line-up includes world premieres for Martin Freeman in...
Liz Garbus’ The Fourth Estate will close the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T and Drake Doremus’ Zoe has been selected as the Centerpiece Gala, festival brass announced on Wednesday (March 7) as they unveiled a feature slate featuring a record 46% of films directed by women.
The Fourth Estate follows The New York Times’ coverage of the Trump administration’s first year, while sci-fi romance Zoe (pictured) stars Ewan McGregor, Léa Seydoux, Rashida Jones, and Theo James. The festival runs from April 18-29.
The line-up includes world premieres for Martin Freeman in...
- 3/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Record 46% of feature slate directed by women.
Liz Garbus’ The Fourth Estate will close the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T and Drake Doremus’ Zoe has been selected as the Centerpiece Gala, festival brass announced on Wednesday (March 7) as they unveiled a feature slate featuring a record 46% of films directed by women.
The Fourth Estate follows The New York Times’ coverage of the Trump administration’s first year, while sci-fi romance Zoe (pictured) stars Ewan McGregor, Léa Seydoux, Rashida Jones, and Theo James. The festival runs from April 18-29.
The line-up includes world premieres for Martin Freeman in...
Liz Garbus’ The Fourth Estate will close the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T and Drake Doremus’ Zoe has been selected as the Centerpiece Gala, festival brass announced on Wednesday (March 7) as they unveiled a feature slate featuring a record 46% of films directed by women.
The Fourth Estate follows The New York Times’ coverage of the Trump administration’s first year, while sci-fi romance Zoe (pictured) stars Ewan McGregor, Léa Seydoux, Rashida Jones, and Theo James. The festival runs from April 18-29.
The line-up includes world premieres for Martin Freeman in...
- 3/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A total of 35 projects supported in latest funding round.
Algerian director Merzak Allouache and Chilean writer-filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor have clinched funding in the autumn round of grants from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi).
Source: Idfa
Of Fathers And Sons
Allouache, whose last film Madame Courage premiered in Venice’s New Horizons sidebar in 2015, won backing for his upcoming drama Divine Wind, about an attack on an oil refinery which does not go to plan.
Double Rotterdam-winner Sotomayer’s grant is for her upcoming coming of age drama Late To Die Young about a group of youngsters living in an isolated community outside the city as they prepare for New Year’s Eve.
Other supported fiction feature projects include Syrian film-maker Soudade Kaadan’s The Day I Lost My Shadow about a woman who gets swept up in the Syrian war in 2012 after she takes the day off work to search for a gas cylinder.
Algerian director Merzak Allouache and Chilean writer-filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor have clinched funding in the autumn round of grants from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi).
Source: Idfa
Of Fathers And Sons
Allouache, whose last film Madame Courage premiered in Venice’s New Horizons sidebar in 2015, won backing for his upcoming drama Divine Wind, about an attack on an oil refinery which does not go to plan.
Double Rotterdam-winner Sotomayer’s grant is for her upcoming coming of age drama Late To Die Young about a group of youngsters living in an isolated community outside the city as they prepare for New Year’s Eve.
Other supported fiction feature projects include Syrian film-maker Soudade Kaadan’s The Day I Lost My Shadow about a woman who gets swept up in the Syrian war in 2012 after she takes the day off work to search for a gas cylinder.
- 12/21/2017
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Screen Daily Test
A total of 35 projects supported in latest funding round.
Algerian director Merzak Allouache and Chilean writer-filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor have clinched funding in the autumn round of grants from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi).
Source: Idfa
Of Fathers And Sons
Allouache, whose last film Madame Courage premiered in Venice’s New Horizons sidebar in 2015, won backing for his upcoming drama Divine Wind, about an attack on an oil refinery which does not go to plan.
Double Rotterdam-winner Sotomayer’s grant is for her upcoming coming of age drama Late To Die Young about a group of youngsters living in an isolated community outside the city as they prepare for New Year’s Eve.
Other supported fiction feature projects include Syrian film-maker Soudade Kaadan’s The Day I Lost My Shadow about a woman who gets swept up in the Syrian war in 2012 after she takes the day off work to search for a gas cylinder.
Documentary feature grantees...
Algerian director Merzak Allouache and Chilean writer-filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor have clinched funding in the autumn round of grants from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi).
Source: Idfa
Of Fathers And Sons
Allouache, whose last film Madame Courage premiered in Venice’s New Horizons sidebar in 2015, won backing for his upcoming drama Divine Wind, about an attack on an oil refinery which does not go to plan.
Double Rotterdam-winner Sotomayer’s grant is for her upcoming coming of age drama Late To Die Young about a group of youngsters living in an isolated community outside the city as they prepare for New Year’s Eve.
Other supported fiction feature projects include Syrian film-maker Soudade Kaadan’s The Day I Lost My Shadow about a woman who gets swept up in the Syrian war in 2012 after she takes the day off work to search for a gas cylinder.
Documentary feature grantees...
- 12/21/2017
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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