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Angelina Nikonova Says ‘Welcome Home’ to Olga Dykhovichnaya
Screen Daily have learned that filmmaker Angelina Nikonova (pictured on the right) will once again team up with Olga Dykhovichnaya (the star and co-writer of her Venice Days and TIFF showcased debut feature film Twilight Portrait) on a film item that carries a whole other DNA. Welcome Home will most likely be followed by a third project by the pair -- they are looking for Japanese co-producers to board "a Russian-Japanese story set in the early 20th century Japan."
Sundance 2012: Cannes Preemed Pair, Philip Dorling’s Prediposed and Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End Added to Slate
A foursome of films have been added to the 2012 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. Joining Sundance's "Spotlight" section (which showcases films that have made their mark on the festival circuit in the previous year) we've got a couple of Cannes films in Paolo Sorrentino's oddball comedy/travelogue/revenge pic (This Must Be The Place) and Joachim Trier, who will be attending the Sundance Screenwriting labs the week before will extend his stay in the state of Utah by showing one of our favorites of the year in, "Oslo, August 31st."
Eurimages Fund: Mungiu, Kechiche, Pastor Bros and Tomm Moore Receive Coin
Here is some great news for fans of the long take. Cannes' 2007 Palme d'Or winning director Cristian Mungiu (4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and Golden Lion winning director Abdellatif Kechiche (La Graine et le mulet) are two of the 18 European co-productions that have received coin from Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund.
2012 Rotterdam’s CineMart Loaded in Talent with Ostlund, Reichardt, Antoniak and Tsangari
New film projects by the likes of Aktan Arym Kubat (The Light Thief), Athina Rachel Tsangari (ATTENBERG), Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark), Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff), Úrszula Antoniak (Code Blue and Nothing Personal), Quentin Dupieux (Rubber and the Sundance selected Wrong), Florin Serban (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle), Ruben Östlund (Play) and Aditya Assarat (Wonderful Town) are among the 36 projects participating in Rotterdam’s 29th co-production market CineMart (where a whopping 850 potential co-financiers add coin to future projects).
Sundance Institute’s 2012 January Screenwriters Lab: Mulloy, Uricaru and Mansbach Among 12 Selected
The week before the beast known as Sundance gets unleashed, 12 projects and their writers/directors will hit the Sundance Resort in Utah and get to work with such names as Lisa Cholodenko, Nicole Holofcener and Joachim Trier on what they hope will one day become feature film projects. This year appears to have more stories that go beyond U.S. borders and worth noting several of the mentioned lab attendees have a bit more "clout".
