PRODUCTION JOURNAL: Berlinale 2015 Roundup


Berlinale 2015 Roundup (Mubi):



GOLDEN BEAR

Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
Our takes: 12 

SILVER BEAR GRAND JURY PRIZE

The Club (Pablo Larraín)
Our takes: 12

ALFRED BAUER PRIZE 

Ixcancul Volcano (Jayro Bustamente)
Our take: 1

BEST DIRECTOR

Radu Jude (Aferim)
Malgorzata Szumowska (Body

BEST ACTRESS

Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
Our take: 1 

BEST ACTOR

Tom Courtenay (45 Years)
Our take: 1  

BEST SCRIPT

Patricio Guzmán (The Pearl Button)
Our take: 1 

OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION

"Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for the camera in Victoria"
"Evgeniy Privin and Sergey Mikhalchuk for the camera in Under Electric Clouds"


ACQUISITIONS
Weinstein Company Acquires Holocaust Drama 'The Eichmann Show' ~~ Indiewire (+ reviews, trailers, clips and interviews)


Reviews of the television dramas:
"While reading coverage of the festival, I was interested to see that some international TV dramas were premiered as part of the programme, and that a number of these had a pronounced crime/thriller/spying dimension. 
Alessandra Stanley’s excellent article in the New York Times provides a good overview, and also discusses how such series are beginning to be picked up in the States (and not always to be remade in English either), which is a very good sign." ~~ Mrs. Peabody Investigates

"The Berlinale always has been a seller's market, and as competition for product grows fiercer, U.S. presales are rising. "There are only a few English-language films in the official program each year, and many domestic buyers are in town with little else to distract them," says Micah Green,co-head of CAA's film-finance group.
..."It can be easier to capture a distributor's attention in Berlin," says Green. "At Sundance, Toronto and Cannes, you are competing with more movies. Berlin has a shorter supply." ~~ The Hollywood Reporter

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