Ella Blumenthal was a young woman when the Nazis invaded her native Poland. Over the next few years she was bounced around Europe by Hitler’s forces, experiencing firs-thand the horrors of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. She even participated in the failed Warsaw Uprising in 1943,...
After a pandemic induced 2020 hybrid edition, the 10th edition of the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival will take place as a wholly in-person event. The festival will open with Benito Zambrano’s Mallorca-set literary adaptation “Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake” (Spain). Zambrano will be present with principal cast. It...
Jeff Goldblum has signed up to star opposite Asa Butterfield in The Liar, a film adaptation of Stephen Fry’s semi-autobiographical novel that will shoot in the UK next month. Goldblum will play Cambridge don Donald Trefusis in the pic, which will be directed by Tony Hagger,...
Ahead of the virtual Cannes market, Metro International is launching sales on WWII drama Late In Summer, which will star BAFTA winner Emily Watson (Chernobyl) and Farming and Suicide Squad actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between...
UK-based sales firm Metro International Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Jordy Sank’s documentary I Am Here, about the life of Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal. Metro will launch sales on the title at next week’s online European Film Market (EFM, March 1-5). The South African film is...
Metro International Entertainment has secured additional deals on Nick Moran’s rock ‘n’ roll biopic Creation Stories. The film has sold to Australia-New Zealand (Kismet Movies), Japan (Pony Canyon), Canada (levelFILM), CIS (Planeta), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Middle East (Front Row), Eastern Europe (HBO), Spain (Twelve Oaks) and...
The Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has revealed the programme for its 2021 edition (Feb 24-March 7), which includes several award-winning festival favourites and a focus on South Korea. The 17th edition of GFF, which recently announced it would shift online-only due to the ongoing virus crisis,...
UK outfit Metro International is handling sales at the EFM on The Laureate, which finished shooting last week. Set in the mid-1920s, the period drama directed by William Nunez is the story of the complex love triangle between wartime poet Robert Graves, his wife Nancy and...
Together Films has acquired UK rights to Damon Gameau’s climate change documentary 2040. The Australian film premiered out of competition in the family-friendly Generation Kplus section at the 2019 Berlinale. Together is planning a UK-wide theatrical release on November 15. It will open the Into Film Festival...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Colin McIvor’s family adventure Zoo. Art Parkinson, Penelope Wilton, and Toby Jones star in the story of friends during the Second World War who fight to save a baby elephant during the Belfast Blitz bombings in 1941. Katy...