Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival has revealed to Variety the projects that the participants of its 2024 Emerging Producers program are working on. The producers were asked to deliver an elevator pitch for their projects. Every year since 2010, the festival has selected 18 up-and-coming producers
Sundance prizewinner Lemohang Mosese is in post-production with his fourth feature film, “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” which he’ll be presenting during the Venice Production Bridge’s Final Cut pics-in-post workshop for films from Africa and the Arab world. The film is described as “a deeply
Corey Yuen, the actor, action choreographer and director of “So Close” and “DOA: Dead or Alive,” died in 2022, the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers confirmed to Variety. Local and English-language reports say that Yuen died of COVID-19 on an undisclosed date in Hong Kong.
Fresh off the world premiere of Cannes Camera d’Or winner César Díaz’s Bérénice Béjo-starring “Mexico 86” in Locarno’s Piazza Grande, France’s Tripode Productions has come on board to co-produce the upcoming feature “Uptight Ass,” from writer-director Matija Gluščević and co-writer Dušan Zorić. The duo’s last
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Paraguay’s Paz Encina (“Eami”) and three first time fiction feature directors – El Salvador’s Enrique Bautista, Cuba’s Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo, Peru’s Fernando Mendoza – split the big prize on offer at this year’s Locarno Open Doors with Encina and Bautista taking
San Sebastian has unveiled the four titles set to pitch at this year’s WIP Europe sidebar, which will run Sept. 23-25. Previous participants at WIP Europe include Maria Trenor’s eventual Annecy competition player “Rock Bottom,” as well as a pair of Berlinale Panorama players in
Shout! Studios has secured North American rights to the animated feature “Panda Bear in Africa” from Cinema Management Group (CMG). “Panda Bear in Africa” tells the story of Pang, a young panda who travels from China to Africa to rescue his kidnapped friend, Jielong the
Camille Vasquez, one of the attorneys who worked for Johnny Depp during his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, has joined the Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Business Trial practice group. Also joining the practice are four other lawyers who worked on the trial: