SOURCE: http://thecreatorsproject.com Just when you thought you’d seen every conceivable form of zombie, along comes the mind-chilling sight of zombie babies playing with eyeballs, bloodied bones, and sucking on pacifiers made from dismembered fingers. That’s the motif directors David Altobelli and Jeff Desom went for in their short film for HEALTH‘s “Tears,” a track off [...]

SOURCE: http://www.variety.com Jeremie Renier (“The Kid With a Bike”), Audrey Fleurot (“The Intouchables”) and Bouli Lanners (“Rust and Bone”) have boarded “The Brotherhood of Tears,” a $7 million concept-driven thriller from up-and-comer Jean-Baptiste Andrea (“Dead End”). The suspenser was acquired by Films Distribution for international sales, and Rezo Films for French distribution. Films Distribution will [...]

SOURCE: http://nisileaks.wordpress.com Call for Participants: Experimental Film Workshop in Bucharest- November 2012 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 21! Organized by NISI MASA European Network of Young Cinema in association with Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF). With support provided by European Union ‘Youth in Action’ Programme. TO WHOM? Call for filmmakers, perfomance artists and composers aged [...]

SOURCE: http://www.molodist.com Ayshea Halliwell’s short film “What About Rob?” will be screened at the Molodist festival in Ukraine, October 20 to 28th. Synopsis: A dark, yet touching comedy. When his sudden illness causes a power vacuum at work, some of Rob’s coworkers rush to advance their careers while Rob realises he has to rearrange his [...]

SOURCE: http://www.wort.lu Rony Hotin, qui a passé quatre ans au Luxembourg dans le cadre de sa formation et qui travaille pour Disney, poursuit son petit bonhomme de chemin dans le monde du cinéma. Mercredi soir, il a remporté un Audi Talent Award pour son court-métrage intitulé “Pour une poignée de conserves”. Rony Hotin, âgé de [...]

SOURCE: http://www.variety.com While the Netherlands and Luxembourg remain modest in their efforts to attract foreign film shoots, incentives are burgeoning in Belgium. Practical and financial aid for visiting crews continues to develop, complementing coin available through the country’s tax shelter. The tax shelter channels coin into film productions with European identity and a local co-producer. [...]

SOURCE: http://www.chicagotribune.com Roth spies on ‘Mobius’: He joins French stars in helmer Rochant’s thriller Elsa Keslassy – Variety Tim Roth has joined Gallic stars Jean Dujardin and Cecile de France in Eric Rochant’s spy thriller “Mobius.” Roth is in Cannes as prexy of Un Certain Regard jury and to promote Rufus Norris’ Critics Week-preeming “Broken,” [...]

SOURCE: http://cineuropa.org NISI MASA’s European Short Pitch had its final session in Maribor, Slovenia from March 2 – 4. During the European Pitch and Coproduction Forum, young filmmakers and scriptwriters had the chance to meet industry professionals and producers from all over Europe… Maribor, Slovenia is one of this year’s European Capitals of Culture. This [...]

SOURCE: http://www.wort.lu “I am driven by the belief that cinema is an experience” by Cordula Schnuer With the classics of cinema long available on DVD, the traditional cinémathèque as a place of cinematic worship has had to adapt. In Luxembourg, Claude Bertemes has been leading the film archive and cinema for 15 years, right into [...]

SOURCE: http://onesmallwindow.com When I encountered the Rear Window Timelapse video it had already been viewed over 300,000 times. In five days. Of which, the first three days had generated 22 views. I cannot adequately articulate all the ways in which it is awesome but let me just say that there is something in here for [...]