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TRAPPED (Nov. 08)
EastWest Filmdistribution are pleased to announce that they have acquired the worldwide rights to the film TRAPPED (aka Anton). Trapped is set in the 1970s and tells the story of Anton O'Neill, a young man who gets caught up in a world of violence and his struggle to protect his family. “An impressive debut with stirring performances.” (The Sunday Times). The film will be screened at the AFM American Film Market 2008.
London, September 23rd, 2008 - Helen Loveridge joins EASTWEST FILMDISTRIBUTION
Vienna and London-based EastWest Filmdistribution is increasing its sales force in anticipation of several major acquisitions set for the coming months.
Helen Loveridge, one of the stalwarts of the international sales scene, will be joining the company and working out of the London sales office alongside Head of Sales, Alan Rudoff, and recent recruit. Barbara Dias. Helen will be responsible for sales in Germany, France, Benelux and Scandinavia with Barbara handling Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America.
‘I am absolutely delighted that Helen has agreed to join our team. We are at last hitting our stride and need Helen’s experience to complement our enthusiasm and drive.’
One of the founders of Fortissimo, Helen worked extensively in the international sales business before a four year stint as director of the Seattle Film Festival.
For more information, please contact Steve Walsh in EastWest’s London office + 44 (0)20 7580 6553
2 Awards for A HERO'S WELCOME (Aug. 08)
EastWest Filmdistribution are pleased to announce that A
HERO’S
WELCOME has won 2 awards: best feature film at the First Step Award 2008 (Germany) and the award for Best Actor for Hanno Koffler at the Durban IFF 2008 …´for his subtle, nuanced performance and convincingly conveying his inner turmoil.'
2 Awards for THE INVESTIGATION (July 08)
THE INVESTIGATION has won two prizes.
The main prize in the Best Scripted Film Competition at the 14th Film and Art Festival Film Summer in Warsaw (“for a creative attitude towards the question of boundaries between good and evil”), as well as the Award for Best Director at the Bucharest Film Festival (“Iglika Triffonova successfully expresses a simple story and achieves excellence in subjective and social narrative”).
MIDSUMMER MADNESS Cinema Release in Latvia
MIDSUMMER MADNESS is enjoying a second successful run in cinemas in Latvia. The film has now been on release for five weeks.
Award for A HERO’S WELCOME
Brigitte Maria Bertele has won the NDR award for the best first feature film at the Emden international Filmfestival.
A HERO’S WELCOME
EastWest Filmdistribution have acquired the worldwide rights to A HERO’S WELCOME (original title "Nacht vor Augen"), a disturbing and topical story of a young soldier’s return from Afghanistan to the quiet of his Black Forest home. He is clearly disturbed by what he did there and soon his life begins to spiral out of control. The film was part of the Forum of Young Films screenings at this year’s Berlinale and its director Brigitte Maria Bertele’s stunning feature debut.
THE INVESTIGATION & LETTER TO AMERICA
EastWest Filmdistribution are also pleased to announce that they have acquired the worldwide rights to two highly praised films from Bulgarian writer and director Iglika Triffonova: THE INVESTIGATION, a gripping psychological drama, where investigator and investigated, accuser and accused face each other in a battle of wills and the moving LETTER TO AMERICA, a story of love, yearning and death across thousands of miles. THE INVESTIGATION won Best Film at the Festival of Eastern European Cinema in Cottbus in 2007, Best Feature and Best Balkan Film at the Sofia IFF in the same year and the Critic’s award and Special Jury prize at the Golden Rose, Varna in 2006.
EASTWEST AT CANNES
EastWest will be presenting the followng films at this year's Cannes Film Market: THE INVESTIGATION, WORLDREVOLUTION, A HERO'S WLCOME, THE BIRD CAN'T FLY and YARIK. See the Festivals and Markets section for screening times.
THE WEDDING
THE WEDDING is being released right across Europe: Wojtek Smarzowski’s black comedy opened in the UK in December and is due to be released in Bulgaria in April, in Germany in May and in Austria this autumn.
FACTS BEHIND YARIK
EastWest Filmdistribution has commissioned a journalist to investigate the facts behind “Yarik”, the story of a little boy lost in Moscow who falls into the hands of one of the world’s most evil trades – the trade in humans themselves.
Every year in Russia, approximately 12,000 children disappear, their fate largely unknown.Our research tells the story behind this staggering figure, a story many governments, the Russian government included, would rather leave hidden in the shadows. Read the facts here