Karlovy Vary E-Show Daily Number Four

TOP STORIES: Georgian Film 'Corn Island,' Elle Fanning Win Big at Karlovy Vary Film Festival; Ka...

Karlovy Vary eSHOW DAILY NUMBER FOUR 07.12.14

TOP STORIES Georgian Film 'Corn Island,' Elle Fanning Win Big at Karlovy Vary Film Festival By Leo Barraclough Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili's "Corn Island" took top prize Saturday at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, the leading movie event in Central and Eastern Europe. The film, which brought together partners from Georgia, Germany, Fran... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Fest Director Karel Och on Testing the Audience and Looking Ahead By Guy Lodge It's been four years since Karel Och took over as artistic director of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, during which time the fest's famously youthful audience has multiplied, while the programming has maintained its commitment to new voices ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Variety Critics' Choice Director Daniel Wolfe on 'Catch Me Daddy' and Future Plans By Guy Lodge Of the ten up-and-coming European directors showcased in Variety's Critics' Choice selection at this year's Karlovy Vary Film Festival, only one can claim to have already directed Jake Gyllenhaal in a slasher film of sorts. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians and Poles Talk Co-Prods in Karlovy Vary By Will Tizard Karlovy Vary fest bizzers are closely studying pacts allowing small nations to join forces for coin, facilities, talent and distribution, having packed into an antique cinema hall to hear from producers of four pending productions that have ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Films Boutique Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' with 'Monument to Michael Jackson' By Leo Barraclough Berlin-based sales company Films Boutique has kick-started international sales on comedy "Monument to Michael Jackson," which world premiered Tuesday at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Sale demonstrates the fest's ability to be a launch-pad ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Latvia Looks to Use European Film Awards to Strengthen Links With International Biz By Leo Barraclough Dita Rietuma, the new director of the National Film Center of Latvia, was at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week for the world premiere of Signe Baumane's competition entry "Rocks in My Pocket," which the Film Center backed. She met wit... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Peter Strickland on Making the Leap to 'Bjork: Biophilia Live' By Guy Lodge British writer-director Peter Strickland's 2012 feature "Berberian Sound Studio" may have been a surreal exploration of sonic artistry, but he's still not the first person one might expect to see at the helm of a Bjork concert film. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Venice's Biennale College Spawns Microbudget Movies That Travel Worldwide By Nick Vivarelli Among titles competing this year in Karlovy Vary's Forum of Independents is the experimental "Memphis," by U.S. helmer Tim Sutton, which owes its existence to the Venice Film Festival's recently launched Biennale College, a groundbreaking pr... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Belgrade's Art & Popcorn Bets on War Drama 'The General' By Emiliano De Pablos Serbian shingle Art & Popcorn is joining forces with Russia's Vita Aktiva and CTB Film Company to co-produce war drama "The General," the third feature by Georgian-born Bakur Bakuradze. Shot in Serbia, in Serbian and Russian, and now in ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Rocks in My Pockets' By Alissa Simon Boasting a narrative of extraordinary complexity and density, stuffed with irony, humor and tales-within-tales, the imaginative animated memoir "Rocks in My Pockets" merges a mini-history of 20th-century Latvia with that of helmer Signe Baum... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Bjork: Biophilia Live' By Guy Lodge Since Bjork, that eternally eccentric spirit animal of contemporary pop, largely rejected screen acting following an untoppable turn in Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," a concert film is the closest thing to a starring vehicle that her... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Sherry Lansing on Female Film Execs, Hollywood Movies, Cancer Research, Education By Leo Barraclough Sherry Lansing, the former prexy of 20th Century Fox, and chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures for 12 years, was at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week with her husband, William Friedkin, who received the Crystal Globe for outstanding... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Jury Prexy Ahmet Boyacioglu on Turkey's Blossoming Film Scene By Nick Vivarelli Prominent Turkish film industry multi-hyphenate (fest programmer, producer, director, promoter) Ahmet Boyacioglu is this year's chairman of the East of the West jury at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, which recently added Turkey and Greece to it... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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