Cannes Marché is The Real Thing for Screenbound
UK-based Screenbound International Pictures announced Marché sales activity on Simon Sheridan’s doc Everything, about the 1970s UK soul combo The Real Thing. The company is also handing sales on Audrey Rumsby’s vaudeville-themed Barry and Joan, screening June 26.
Cannes ACID review: Il Mio Corpo by Michele Pennetta
In the final part of his Sicilian trilogy, Michele Pennetta shows the economic/familial similarities between two marginalized characters sharing the sun-scorched island, a teenage boy and a young Nigerian immigrant.
Cannes Docs: The shock of the real
PARISDOC, the industry arm of Cinéma du Réel, presents four new projects at Cannes Marché, three of which are set in the US, one featuring the niece of murdered Minnesota resident George Floyd.
Cannes Docs: Geo-diversity assessed during Marché panel
During its Cannes Doc panel on June 24, Ji.hlava IDFF presented updated findings about geo-representation across international film festivals, prompting festival directors and programmers to discuss their selection rationale and modus operandi.
Hitting the Sweet Spot
“We are the new kids on the block on the sales agent documentary landscape,” Anna Berthollet says of Sweet Spot Docs, the company she and her colleagues Bojana Maric and Nevena Milasinovic set up in Switzerland 18 months ago.
Cannes Marché: Singing out for Sona
Mumbai-based Deepti Gupta’s Shut Up Sona (sold internationally by Brighton-based Espesso Media) has provoked howls of fury in India, the director tells Business Doc Europe.
Cannes Marché: New projects surface for Submarine
Dynamic Dutch production outfit and its LA offshoot SubLA have revealed details of their latest ventures.
Sector turns to Doc Society for relief
As the documentary community struggles with the financial challenges posed by the COVID-19 lockdown, London and New York based non-profit Doc Society is reporting a huge number of applications to its new Documentary Impact Producer Relief Fund.
Cannes Marché: The importance of human engagement
Marc Bauder’s Who We Were, which is presented June 24 and 26 at the German Producers Present forum, is a philosophical essay on the dire need for engagement with the world in which we live.
Cannes Marché: Home sweet home
Marc Isaacs’ new feature The Filmmakers’ House is labelled as “documentary.” Some doc purists, though, may be startled by the director’s freewheeling approach toward a project which was indeed shot in his own house.
