Eric Lavallée

“Finisterrae” the film debut of the director of the electronic music festival “Sónar”, Sergio Caballero, was awarded with the top prize at the International Rotterdam Film Festival. The film, produced by the prolific and off-beat Luis Miñarro whose name is attached to award-winning films such as “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” and “La Mosquitera”.

Major deals are being made in Berlin this weekend on titles that we might eventually see premiere in Cannes -- and I think the consensus on Pawel Pawlikowski's The Woman In the Fifth for a possible Croisette showing is -- the Brit filmmaker certainly fits the scene but this doesn't appear to be fit for this party, at least it doesn't come across as a Main Competition title. ATO Pictures are definitely not concerned with the quality of the picture - as they picked up theatrical distribution rights to the psychological thriller starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. We imagine that a pegged date will come after festival premiere has been realized.

How does do you grab two Oscar-caliber actors with one stone? Wait until Hollywood's A-list actors are in town to schmooze during awards campaign season and then cast the net. If this happens to be more than just a coffee meeting, it appears that Park Chan-wook might have landed Oscar-nominated Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman - they would join Mia Wasikowska in Stoker, the South-Korean filmmaker's first foray into English-language film which begins filming this spring.

They collected a handful from Cannes, including the Camera D'or winning film (Leap Year) and the Palme d'or winning film (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) and now they've picked up one of the better offerings from Sundance in Paddy Considine’s feature directing debut. Tyrannosaur looks destined for a release within the next six months and should be a title that brings in some acting accolades.

We wanted to be very precise in how we shot the suspense scenes, but we also wanted the film to feel lose and natural. Finding that balance was one of our biggest challenges and I'm really proud of the approach that Andrew Reed, our director of photography, and I arrived at.