Med Film Factory - Lebanese participation

Med Film Factory's participating teams & projects (2nd cycle) from Lebanon:

'1982' – writer/director Oualid Mouness & producer Feyrouz Serhal - Lebanon.

'COLD COFFEE' – writer/director Toufic Khreich & producer Lara Ayoub - Lebanon.

'TREES ALSO DIE' – writer/director Rabih Al Amine & producer Ihab Al Amine - Lebanon.

For more info on Med Film Factory click here

Want to support a great SHORT FILM?

Abu Rami - a short film in the making by Sabah Haidar

To support the film, go to: http://www.aflamnah.com/en/abu-rami/

Seven tips to gather an audience for your film online

At Euromed Audiovisual’s third conference in Cannes, Domenico La Porta, editor-in-chief of Cineuropa, gave tips on how to market a film online. 

Watch the video here:

http://euromedaudiovisuel.net/2012/p.aspx?t=news&mid=21&cid=8&l=en&did=782

DFI unveils first funding round of 2012

The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has unveiled the 23 features, documentaries and short films that will receive funding as part of its 2012 grants programme.

This year’s grant recipients also reflect a rise in applicants from Algeria including Yanis Koussim’s featureAlgiers By Night and documentaries The Foreign Son, about a man returning to his homeland, and Matoub Lounes: The Story Of A Legend, about the famous Berber singer.

More than 40 film projects from over 10 countries received funding during DFI’s 2011 grants cycles, with most applying for production and post-production support. The DFI will also oversee a second round of funding in 2012.

Grant recipients for 2012 so far include:

Feature Narrative – Production:

A Concert – Nadim Tabet (Lebanon)

Amira and her friends plan a concert in Beirut to help fund their own apartment and independence. Life has other plans.

The Cinéfondation Selection

Fifteen films have been selected out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 film schools across the globe. For the first time, a Lebanese school features in the selection, which covers fiction and animation and highlights films sharing the same film-making ambition and the expression of a very personal vision.


http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/58874.html

CASTING CALL

Pour les besoins d’un film sur la jeunesse et l’univers de la musique (tournage au Liban prévu en Septembre 2012), nous recherchons de jeunes gens, avec ou sans expérience d’acteur, ayant entre 17 et 24 ans et parlant le Français, l’Anglais et l’Arabe.

Au cas où cela vous intéresse, n’hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos photos et à contacter Jean-Roch :

Téléphone : 71 522 886

E-mail : jean-roch@neabeyrouth.org

Merci d’avance,

L’équipe du film

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For the purposes of a film about youth and the world of music (shooting in Lebanon scheduled for September 2012), we are looking for young people, with or without acting experience, having between 17 and 24 years and speaking French, English and Arabic.

In case you are interested, please send us your photos and contact Jean-Roch :

Phone: 71 522 886

E-mail: jean-roch@neabeyrouth.org

Thank you in advance,

The Film Crew

Simon Abkarian prépare un long métrage en tant que réalisateur

L'acteur qui a déjà mis en scène plusieurs pièces de théâtre, passe au long métrage avec Franck Chorot.

L'Atelier de la CINEFONDATION, CANNES 2012

Depuis sa création en 2005, L’Atelier de la Cinéfondation encourage le cinéma de création et favorise l’émergence d’une nouvelle génération de cinéastes originaires du monde entier. 115 réalisateurs en ont ainsi bénéficié, 72 films ont été réalisés et 20 sont actuellement en pré production. En 2012, L’Atelier a sélectionné 15 projets venus de 14 pays pour leur qualité artistique et l’originalité de leur propos. Les réalisateurs participeront avec leurs producteurs au Festival de Cannes, où des rendez-vous individuels seront organisés du 18 au 25 mai avec tous les professionnels intéressés par leur projet et susceptibles de compléter le financement de leur film.

Parmi les films selctionnes:

3000 Nights

Mai Masri

Palestine / Liban

''The Fund Book- Marché du Film Cannes 2012''

For the 2nd year the Marché du Film, in collaboration with OLFFI (Online Film Financing), publishes The Funds Book, an essential guide to sources of public funding for cinema.
As an official publication of the Marché, this guide is distributed in every Market Bag – 11 000 copies in total. The book presents each Fund and their main characteristics. In addition, a map is included to allow for quick and easy location of the various Funds and their representatives in Cannes.

Roberto Olla reconduit à Eurimages

Le comité de direction du fonds de soutien du Conseil de l'Europe, réuni le 9 mars, a décidé "à l'unanimité et par acclamation", de recommander au Conseil de l'Europe le renouvellement du mandat de Roberto Olla.

Entertainment One et Wild Bunch annoncent un partenariat de distribution

La société canadienne Entertainment One (eOne) et Wild Bunch ont  signé un partenariat de distribution de films et de fictions pluri-annuel pour la France, qui prendra effet le 1er juin 2012.

CNC's "World Cinema Aid" approved by the European Commission

Financial support is now available foreign audiovisual works co-produced with France

Through a decision passed on February 6, 2012, the European Commission has authorised the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC) to establish selective aid packages for international initiatives which are co-produced with companies operating in France, so-called “World Cinema Aid”.

This new measure, conceived by the CNC in collaboration with the Mister for Culture and Communication, the Foreign and European Affairs Minister and the President of the French Institute, was one of the proposals notified to the European Commission in 2011 and which, due to the delay in the Commission’s decision, it was not possible to implement immediately on January 1, 2012.

Variety

Merry Christmas: ..né.à Beyrouth's NEW website is online!

Find out THE SECRET and all of our latest productions

Le « pays rêvé » des Libanais de l’étranger

Article de L'Orient-Le Jour - par Carole Dagher


Malgré la nuit glaciale, nombreux sont ceux qui ont bravé une température sibérienne au-dehors pour venir assister à la première du film de Jihane Chouaib, Pays rêvé, au cinéma Saint-André des Arts. La jeune réalisatrice a présenté son premier long-métrage devant un parterre d’amis, de cinéphiles, de professionnels, et en présence des acteurs, producteurs et membres de l’équipe de tournage. Avec ses yeux qui ont conservé quelque chose de l’enfance, et sa voix qui est l’exact miroir de ses émotions, elle a remercié les présents, la société de production Iskra, l’équipe libanaise « qui a travaillé dans des conditions difficiles », Orjouane production, les techniciens et tous les coéquipiers de son aventure. Car ce projet est bel et bien une aventure, professionnelle autant que personnelle. Une aventure réussie en tous points.


Suite de l'article à lire ici.

MIPDoc International Pitch

MIPDoc International Pitch launches a call for application for all creators and producers looking for financing partners to develop their documentary projects.

Application deadline: 21 February 2012

MIPDoc International Pitch call for application

Six of the best applications received will be pitched live in front of an international panel of commissioning editors and broadcasters. The live pitch session will be gathering an international audience of producers, distributors and journalists from around the world.

Films in developement

"Woman in Mediterranean Sea" (working title)
by Jocelyne Saab 
Lebanon/France

"After the Last Goal"
by Mahdi Fleifel
Lebanon/United Kingdom

Lebanese Films selected at the IFFR (Roterdam)

"E.D.L."
Siska, 2012, Lebanon, 21 min.
A video portrait of Lebanon’s national electricity building as an homage to a modernist project, linked to the very construction of Lebanon’s modern state. 

The video portrays Lebanon’s national electricity building, shot on Super-8 and accompanied by droning noises reminiscent of experimental electronic sounds of the 1950s and 1960s. It presents an homage to a modernist project linked to the very construction of Lebanon’s modern state.

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/films/e-d-l/

"Bombes"
Sandra Ghosn, 2011, France, Lebanon, 5 min.
Why do we want to be seen on Facebook? And how? To find out, the artist decided to emulate the profile pictures of a number of Facebook members. 

The artist imitates a succession of profile pictures of Facebook users in a reflection on the social networking site as a breeding ground for narcissism. With its audio track evolving from bomb sounds to entertaining J-pop, the piece evokes an evolution from harsh reality to denial.

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/films/bombes/

Aid for films from the South: the recovery ?

On the occasion of the International Film Festival Rotterdam Festival, the Hubert Bals Fund is preparing to bring together the reprentatives of the South’s different film funds based in Europe. This meeting aims to harmonise the procedures and to facilitate access to information for beneficiaries.  It is taking place in a context of a spectacular fall in amounts allocated. 2011 has in fact been a year of financial scarcity in the course of which the sum total granted by the seven main participating funds has fallen by almost a third compared to the previous year. 


here the link to Euromed

Academy's Foreign-Language Oscar Shortlist Stirs Up Controversy Yet Again

In what has become something of an annual tradition, this year's best foreign language film Oscar shortlist -- which was announced earlier this morning by the Academy -- is prompting outrage in some circles, and I can understand why.


article from the Hollywood Reporter to read here