Emma Rozanski's debut feature film, PAPAGAJKA (SXSW Premiere), is now available to watch on VOD via FANDOR in Canada and the USA.
You can watch if you are a subscriber of Fandor, via Apple TV, or you can sign up for a free trial subscription (there are loads of amazing movies on the platform so it's well worth a try)
Here's the link to @Fandor:
Congratulations to Emma Rozanski, whose debut feature film, PAPAGAJKA, has been awarded several prizes at The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival:
Best Narrative Feature Film
Best Director, Emma Rozanski
Best Cinematography, Malte Rosenfeld
Best Actress, Susanna Cappellaro
http://www.massiff.org/
An update on the film happenings of our Stefan Malešević:
In May, Gora, a 78min documentary shot in Kosovo, won the Best Camera award and Best Film award at the BelDocs international film festival in Belgrade.
In August, Gora was screened at DokuFest in Prizren, where it got a Special Mention from the BalkanDox jury.
In August, Stefan was a member of the jury for documentaries at the Montenegro Film Festival in Herceg Novi.
Mr Cole's movie Amateri, or The Lost Innocents, will play at Sarajevo Film Festival next week. As you may remember, the video was produced as part of an artist residency at Kino Klub Split, and is a poetic interpretation and perversion of the history and culture of the Kino Klubs of the region of the former Yugoslavia.
EVENT: Amateri at Sarajevo Film Festival
PROGRAM: BH Film
WHERE: Art Cinema Kriterion, Obala Kulina bana 2, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
WHEN: Tuesday, 15th August 2017, 15.00
COST: 5KM (€2.55) (buy online)
Slow cinema at its best!
Four of our filmmakers - Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Aleksandra Niemczyk, Pilar Palomero and Graeme Cole - have short films playing at The Slow Short Film Festival right now:
- 15th of August is the premiere of Aleksandra Niemczyk's new short film "Investigations of a dog" during Sarajevo Film Festival in BiH Section.
https://films.sff.ba/en/detail/?film=Investigations-of-a-Dog
Saturday the 12th of August is the premiere of Aleksandra Niemczyk's adaptation of "King Ubu" a play by Alfred Jarry - in 21 Contemporary Theater Festival Zadar, Croatia.
In August, Emma Rozanski's debute feature film PAPAGAJKA will play in The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival...
WHEN: SAT August 26th
WHERE: The Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
TICKETS & INFO:
http://www.massiff.org/films2017http://www.massiff.org/films2017
Anton Petersen's film, Balada, is now playing VOD here:
https://tao-films.com/film/494aba64-5393-43d9-873a-90d004ed1813
Go forth and watch it!
The first episode of Mr Cole's absurdist time-travel adventure serial/artist film series UNIVERSAL EAR, which premiered at Abandon Normal Devices in 2012, is finally available to view online.
Emma Rozanski's feature debut, Papagajka, will have its UK premiere in London at the East End Film Festival - she and some cast and crew will also be there for a Q&A afterwards.
Where: The Rio Cinema, Dalston E8
When SAT June 17th 3:45pm
Screening details: http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/papagajka/
Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=9428549
-Mamonga, Stefan's first fiction feature, is in pre-production - A three-part film, set in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Shooting starts on winter in Tuzla, Bosnia. The project was selected for Kino Der Kunst Project Pitch in Munich, part of the film festival by the same name, held this April, where 8 alumni of European film academies have been selected to compete for the main prize (post-production funding by ARRI), awarded by the jury presided by Doryun Chong, main curator of M+ museum in Hong Kong.
The festival will also screen his short film "The Bucket Rider" as a part of their official program.
Cartegena Film Festival recently held a retrospective of the work of Bistrik7's film.factory teacher and mentor Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Gonzalo Escobar Mora, who was also screening work in the festival, took the opportunity to catch up with him and also filmed an interview with him for Fandor.
Here it is:
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL EXPLAINS HIMSELF
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/apichatpong-weerasethakul-explains
Anton Petersen has bee selected to receive fund from the Faroe Islands National Film Fund for his new feature project, and will be filming this upcoming fall in the Faroes.
STEFAN MALEŠEVIĆ's feature-length documentary, GORA, will be screened at the BelDocs festival in Belgrade in May.
Stefan is also developing his next two documentary projects - 'Gone with the Southern Wind', about the rise and fall of the most popular Yugoslav band, called the Southern Wind (Južni Vetar) - and a film about the peculiar Bektashi Islamic sect in Macedonia and Albania.
Mr Cole's latest picture, Amateri, or The Lost Innocents, will premiere at Kino Klub Split in Croatia as part of the cineclub's 65th Anniversary celebrations.
The video was made in collaboration with the Klub during his artistic residency in April-May 2016, and is inspired by the club's specific history and the culture of the Kino Klubs of the region of the former Yugoslavia in general.
A selection of films made by the students of the Institute's roaming art school, Unfound Peoples Videotechnic, will also play.
EVENT: Amateri at Smotra Vi – 65 Godina Kino Kluba Split
WHERE: Kino Klub Split, Ulica slobode 28, 21000 Split
WHEN: Friday, 24th March 2017, 19.00
COST: Free
Aleksandra Niemczyk has an exhibition of her latest paintings in Oslo:
from 24th of March, Gallery Ramfjord
http://www.galleriramfjord.net/
Pilar Palomero's film, The Night of all things, will we playing in the following festivals (in march and april):
Lucca Film Festival (Italy)
Philosophical Film Festival (Macedonia)
부산국제단편영화제 Busan International Short Film Festival (Corea)
Euregion Shorts (Netherlands)
watch the trailer:
New review of Aleksandra Niemczyk's film CENTAUR:
http://www.worldcinemaguide.com/centaur/
Gonzalo Escobar Mora's short film (a Bosnian/Colombian co-production) POOL VERSION screens this week in South America's oldest film festival, FICCI, in Cartagena Colombia.
Info and screenings: https://tinyurl.com/zr4ycur
The festival is also paying tribute to one of our film.factory teachers/mentors, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (http://www.kickthemachine.com): http://ficcifestival.com/pelicula.php?p=XG3C6fwmZmJn9egB1nwASvgCXG3C6fwm