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Tallinn Black Nights: 6 Takeaways From Hollywood Glamour to New Studios in Estonia, Fest Deals, Catalonia and a Producer’s Guide to Surviving Headwinds
[ad_1] TALLINN, Estonia — Has Estonia’s Tallinn Film Festival ever had it so good? Since Festival Director Tiina Lokk launched the event in 1997, it has emerged as one of...
Tallinn Black Nights Festival Awards: Family Dramas ‘The Good Daughter’ and ‘The Well’ Win Big at a Still Growing Event
[ad_1] Two weeks after a triumphal opening to the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with “They Will be Dust,” Catalan cinema, honored by a Focus at Tallinn this year, closed...
Iran’s Underground Cinema in Tallinn Competition with ‘Duality’
[ad_1] TALLINN, Estonia — “Duality,” the new hybrid feature written, directed and produced by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Nezamdoost world-premiered this week in Tallinn’s main competition, marking a bold entry from...
Dan Löwenstein Boards Night Train Media U.K. Microdrama as Tallinn Talks Vertical Storytelling Boom (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] British director Dan Löwenstein, known for vertical dramas like ReelShort’s “Pride & Prejudice,” is set to direct and produce a new and as-yet untitled U.K.-made microdrama currently in development...
Tallinn Black Nights Grand Prix Winner Sengedorj Janchivdorj Returns in Competition With ‘The Muralist’
[ad_1] TALLINN, Estonia — Mongolian filmmaker Sengedorj Janchivdorj is back in competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with “The Muralist,” one of 16 world premieres in the main...
Tallinn TV Beats: Feelgood ‘Wool,’ Linking Serbia, Iceland and Germany, Bags Big Award as Baltic TV Drama Gets Global Push
[ad_1] This year’s two-day Industry @ Tallinn & Baltic Event’s TV drama showcase TV Beats Forum which closed last night, was about celebrating togetherness and how to survive the changes...
‘Easy Girl’: Hille Norden’s Buzzy Debut, on Trauma and Friendship, Competes at Tallinn Black Nights
[ad_1] German writer-director Hille Norden makes her debut with “Easy Girl,” a candy-colored, flamboyant and deeply personal film about trauma, friendship and survival. Its international sales repped by Reason8 at...
‘Querer’ Co-Writer Júlia de Paz Solvas Unpacks ‘The Good Daughter,’ One of the Big Catalan Highlights at Tallinn
[ad_1] “My parents didn’t just argue,” Carmela confides in her best friend at school, her face darkening. But she doesn’t go into detail. “Have you ever seen your dad act...
Series Mania Institute Launches Serial Bridges Baltics in Tallinn with New Shows From Raitis Abele, Gabija Siurbytė, Raoul Suvi (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] In a move to boost series from the Baltics and their ties to Europe’s market, the Series Mania Institute has launched Serial Bridges Baltics, a new workshop for Baltic...
Alpha Violet Boards Tallinn Competition Pics ‘18 Holes to Paradise’ by João Nuno Pinto and French-Nepalese Doc ‘Goodbye Sisters’ (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] Paris-based auteur-driven sales boutique Alpha Violet has acquired world distribution rights to two titles set to world premiere in competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), running...
Tallinn Unveils 18 Works in Progress: Cannes-Selected Kristijonas Vildžiūnas and Rising Talents Josef Brandl, Claudia Estrada Tarascó Make the Cut (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] The psycho thriller “Lex Julia” by Finland’s Laura Hyppönen (“Live East Die Young”) and fantasy drama “Dice-Ching-o-Mat” by Lithuania’s Kristijonas Vildžiūnas, who was selected for Cannes Un Certain Regard...
Eran Riklis on Tallinn TV Beats-Bound ‘The Abduction of Yossele Schumacher’ and the Challenge of Raising Financing When the Israeli Film Industry Faces Boycott (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] Prominent Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, known for his Middle-East set humanistic films “Lemon Tree,” “The Syrian Bride” and most recently “Reading Lolita in Tehran” feels angry and frustrated over...