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Brought to the screen by the twin daughters of infamous East End rogue Les Falco, Nicola and Teena Collins have produced a ‘gangster documentary’ that’s not only hard-hitting but tragic, funny, smart, stylish and brutally honest.
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New film The End interviews a selection of veteran East Ender persons previously associated with criminality (they don’t like being called gangsters). If their testimonies are to be believed, Guy Ritchie is the most accurate social documentarian of our age.
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This year’s festival kicked off with a film called The End, a documentary about gangsters from East London which has already won three awards at international film festivals.
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Der südafrikanische Dokumentarfilmer Steven Silver entwickelt einen Spielfilm mit dem Titel “The Bang Bang Club”. Die kanadisch-südafrikanische Koproduktion basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Buch von Greg Marinovich und Joao Silva, die als Kriegsfotografen zusammen mit zwei Kollegen die Auseinandersetzungen während der letzten Tage der Apartheid in Südafrika dokumentierten.
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“Watchmen” star Malin Akerman and Ryan Phillippe will star in indie drama “The Bang Bang Club,” set in apartheid-era South Africa.
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Bavaria Film International distributes German and international films on the global market. The portfolio ranges from German Academy Award winner Nowhere in Africa (2002), multiple European Film Award winner and B.O. hit Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) to Golden Berlin Bear winner Head-On (2004), double Silver Berlin Bear winner Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (2005) or creative documentary Into Great Silence (2005).
This label features films that were co-produced with international partners, shot in a language other than German and / or shot in other countries.
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The Anarchist’s Wife
It is the winter of 1937 and a young woman called Manuela walks the streets of the besieged city with her daughter Paloma. Her husband, a lawyer whose name is Justo Álvarez, combats Franco on two fronts: at his radio station, where he has become ‘the voice of revolution’, and in the trenches that surround the city of Madrid. For him, his family is his most valuable possession. This is why he risks his life every day, since he would like them to live a worthy life, and that will only be possible in a climate of political freedom.
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Die Frau des Anarchisten
Während des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges kamen über eine Million Menschen ums Leben, zwei Millionen wurden gefangen genommen und eine halbe Million ausgewiesen.
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Laura Harring, Jill Marie Jones and Oded Fehr are teaming for writer-director Nancy Kissam’s dark comedy “Drool,” winner of the 2006 Slamdance screenplay competition.
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Film fans and anyone interested in the history of anarchism during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) will want to check out La Mujer del Anarquista (Trans: The Anarchist’s Wife)
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Mit dem neuen Geschäftszweig Instinctive Management baut die berliner Instinctive Film ihr Portfolio weiter aus.
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Presented at the 1st Downtown Film Festival in Los Angeles, The End is a brutally honest portrait of post-World War II London’s East End and the men who grew up there.
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THE END(2008)-First-time director Nicola Collins creates a fascinating, tour-de-force documentary about East End kids that grew up during the war-torn, aftermath of World War II that later became members of London’s notorious, underground crime world in the 60’s-80’s.
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Die deutsch-spanisch-französische Koproduktion “Die Frau des Anarchisten” hat den “Bernhard Wicki Filmpreis Die Brücke - Der Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films” erhalten. Die mit 10.000 dotierte Auszeichnung wurde am Donnerstag auf dem Filmfest München verliehen.
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“The End” opens with a very “Se7en"-esque aesthetic. Black and white film footage amid skipping titles… you get the feeling, with the menacing music and the dark voice-over, that you’re about to see a documentary about the Devil, or at the very least, Hell itself. Which is partially true, as “The End” recounts the exploits and adventures of a very violent group of gangsters from post-World War II London’s East End.
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Rachael Leigh Cook and Seymour Cassel have boarded “The Disposables.”
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UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 continues to build its sales slate with a world sales deal for The Disposables.
Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling is executive producing.
Daniel Gillies is directing and producing. Gillies also stars in the film with Rachael Leigh Cook and Seymour Cassel.
Other producers are Darryn Welch from Instinctive Film and John Lyons Murphy for Holy Monster.
K5 is pre-selling the film starting in Cannes. The shoot will start this summer.
The Disposables is a drama with three different stories weave their way from the slums of Bogata to the artifice of Los Angeles. Characters include a 12-year-old prostitute, an eccentric American writer, a Colombian university student, and an LA day-care teacher with a secret.
Gillies said: “I couldn’t be more excited about K5 International’s alliance with our project. They share the kind of passion and initiative that has been the spirit of this creation so far. We are in good hands.”
K5’s Stephens added: “The Disposables is an excellent script, full of passion, emotion and energy that will connect with the buyers. We look forward to having those discussions this week.”
Gillies has acted in Bride And Prejudice and Spider-Man 2 and also wrote and directed 2007’s Wait For Me.
The deal was negotiated between Gillies, John Lyons Murphy (on behalf of Holy Monster), Darrny Welch (on behalf of Instinctive Film) and Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver Simon at K5 International.
K5’s Cannes slate also includes Get Low, The Visitor, Ping Pong Playa and Wonderful World.
Wendy Mitchell in Cannes
17 May 2008 20:49
The Berlin-based international film production and finance company Instinctive Film - previously known as Invicta Entertainment - is boarding its first local German-language film, Frieder Wittich’s coming-of-age student comedy 13 Semesters. The film begins shooting in Darmstadt next Monday (March 31).
Instinctive Film will co-produce the debut feature with Munich-based Claussen-Woebke+Putz Filmproduktion and broadcasters Hessischer Rundfunk and Arte with backing from Hessen Invest, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the German Federal Film Board (FFA).
Max Riemelt, Robert Gwisdek, and Alexander Fehling star in the story of two friends from an East German backwater coming to study Business Mathematics in Darmstadt and passing through the highs and lows of student life over the course of six-and-a-half years.
13 Semesters is the third film after Marco Kreuzpaintner’s Krabat and Maggie Peren’s Special Escort to come under the multi-picture distribution deal producer Claussen+Woebke-Putz Filmproduktion sealed with Twentieth Century Fox Germany in 2006.
In addition, Instinctive Film is in preproduction on writer-director Daniel Gillies’ film The Disposables, starring the director, Rachel Leigh Cook and Seymour Cassel, which will start principal photography in Bogota and Los Angeles at the end of April, and is planning a June start for a psychological teenage angst thriller Piece By Piece, written by Adam Schaub and directed by Lee Donaldson, to be shot in and around Berlin and Potsdam.
The company is also set to be involved as a co-producer with Nehst Studios in a pilot film of an updated version of the 1960s The Saint TV series to be directed by Barry Levinson with James Purefoy to play the debonair international thief Simon Templar. The screenplay is being written by Jorge Zamacona and William J. Macdonald.
Roger Moore - who played the original Templar in the British series in the 1960s - and his son Geoffrey Moore are involved in the TV pilot which is being produced by Levinson and Tom Fontana.
Other projects in Instinctive Film’s development slate include Bruce Beresford’s period biopic Fever and the psychological drama Blanks.
Producer Darryn Welch’s company was launched in Berlin at the beginning of this year to produce films in the $1m-$10m range for the international market.
Martin Blaney in Berlin
28 Mar 2008 11:16
Instinctive Film will co-produce Barry Levinson’s remake of “The Saint,” starring James Purefoy.
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Britain’s string of exceptional documentaries continues with another astonishing look at the criminal fraternity.
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