Martin Blaney
Martin Blaney covers Germany for Screen.
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NewsEuropean Work In Progress pitching event awards €60,000 worth of prizes
The jury included Edinburgh International FIlm Festival director Paul Ridd.
NewsChristine Tröstrum, former project manager of Berlinale Talents, dies aged 52
Tröstrum extended the concept by helping to create the international Berlinale Film Residences
NewsGerman box office falls 16% for first nine months of 2024
Disney’s Inside Out 2 is the most successful release of 2024 to date.
NewsDOK Leipzig unveils full competition line-up
The titles in the international, German, animation and audience competitions have been revealed.
News‘The Duel’ starring Aidan Gillen, wraps principal photography in Poland
The €7.3m film is one of the biggest productions to shoot in Poland this year.
News‘Riddick 4: Furya’ starring Vin Diesel secures €2m funding from Germany’s FFF Bayern
Fourth instalment of David Twohy’s space western will largely shoot in Bavaria, as well as Spain and the UK,
NewsFilmfest Hamburg celebrates triumphant record-breaking edition
The German festival donated the vaue of floral bouquet gifts to the charitable Afghan Volunteer Women’s Association.
NewsMohammad Rasoulof to head jury at Kyiv’s Molodist film festival
Exiled Iranian director named as jury president of Ukrainian film festival.
NewsBerlinale Pro’s Tanja Meissner, Hamburg’s Malika Rabahallah talk role models, work/life balance and imposter syndrome
They were joined by producer Wiebke Andresen and cinema owner Verena von Stackelberg of Wolf Kino at FIlmfest Hamburg.
NewsHamburg Production Awards salute Red Balloon Film, Neue Bioskop Film producers
The German partners of Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays and Chiara Fleischhacker’s Vena each won cash prizes of €25,000.
NewsEuropean Work in Progress Cologne selects 29 projects for 2024 edition
Selection includes Bulgarian filmmaker Stephan Komendarev’s seventh feature Made In EU.
NewsRuben Östlund, David Wnendt projects receive backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Regional funding board also backs films by Jutta Brückner and Ulrike Ottinger in latest funding round
NewsHow Germany’s Junafilm has become a go-to international partner for genre and family films
The world premiere of English-language horror title ‘Spirit In The Blood’ is taking place at Filmfest Hamburg.
FeaturesHelge Albers on Hamburg’s MOIN film fund slate and working with Filmfest Hamburg
CEO of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein’s regional film fund MOIN has a budget of around €16.9m.
FeaturesFilmfest Hamburg heads talk changes, challenges and future plans
This year’s event is the first with new festival director Rabahallah at the helm.
NewsFilmfest Hamburg sets 2024 Industry Days programme
Industry programme will explore topics such as creativity, risk and reward, and experiences of women in leadership programme.
NewsEast–West co-production market connecting cottbus unveils 2024 line-up
Connecting cottbus runs as part of Germay’s FilmFestival Cottbus in early November.
NewsBFI’s Mia Bays, Nostradamus Report’s Johanna Koljonen to headline Filmfest Hamburg’s Explorer Conference
The Explorer Conference will launch Filmfest Hamburg’s industry programme.
NewsGermany’s DOK Leipzig 2024 unveils co-pro market selection
The event will showcase a wide range of creative international documentary projects.
NewsFilmfest Hamburg reveals 2024 line-up, opening with Cannes award-winner ‘Holy Cow’
Pedro Almodovar’s Golden Lion winner ‘The Room Next Door’ set as the closing film