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Davide Abbatescianni


2113 articles available in total starting from 12/09/2017. Last article published on 04/07/2025.

The Berlinale announces its full Panorama line-up

The Berlinale announces its full Panorama line-up

Opened by Alain Guiraudie’s Nobody’s Hero, this year’s programme will include a total of 29 films from 33 countries and 25 world premieres  

18/01/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Panorama

Lone Scherfig’s new feature The Movie Teller to commence filming on 21 March

Lone Scherfig’s new feature The Movie Teller to commence filming on 21 March

German-Spanish star Daniel Brühl is set to lead the cast, playing the role of a European outsider who earns the respect of the families he encounters at a Chilean mine  

18/01/2022 | Production | Funding | Spain/France/Chile/UK

HBO enjoys major growth in the Nordics and adds over 635,000 subscribing households following Max launch

HBO enjoys major growth in the Nordics and adds over 635,000 subscribing households following Max launch

The new figures disclosed by Mediavision show that the streaming giant is now back in the region’s top three, with an average household penetration of just below 20%  

17/01/2022 | Distribution | Releases | Exhibitors | Sweden/Denmark/Finland/Norway/USA

The Berlinale announces a raft of new titles for its Generation and Series strands

The Berlinale announces a raft of new titles for its Generation and Series strands

Generation’s line-up will explore how youngsters “perceive the world, how they appropriate it or how they oppose it”, whilst Berlinale Series will see a return to crime scenes and courtrooms  

17/01/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Generation

The Netherlands Film Fund invests €7.9 million in 19 new productions

The Netherlands Film Fund invests €7.9 million in 19 new productions

These contributions are set to generate more than €30.2 million in production spend in the Netherlands  

14/01/2022 | Production | Funding | Netherlands

Roderik Smits  • Film academic

Interview: Roderik Smits • Film academic

“The question is to what extent film festivals with international appeal will continue to function as premiere events and provide a springboard for the distribution of high-profile films”

The academic shared some key findings from his recent study titled European Film Festivals in Transition? Covid and Beyond  

13/01/2022 | /Europe

The Berlinale announces a new concept for an in-person event, opens with François Ozon’s Peter von Kant

The Berlinale announces a new concept for an in-person event, opens with François Ozon’s Peter von Kant

Meanwhile, the European Film Market, the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents and the World Cinema Fund will unspool digitally  

12/01/2022 | Berlinale 2022

Women still represent less than 25% of European film directors, as revealed by a European Audiovisual Observatory report

Women still represent less than 25% of European film directors, as revealed by a European Audiovisual Observatory report

The study shows that the gender gap is less pronounced among producers, lead actors and screenwriters, whilst female DoPs and composers struggle to reach 10% of the continent’s audiovisual workforce  

12/01/2022 | Industry | Market | Europe

Smithsonian Channel greenlights Cassius X: Becoming Ali

Smithsonian Channel greenlights Cassius X: Becoming Ali

The two-part documentary, produced by Scotland’s Two Rivers Media and helmed by Muta’Ali, will portray the transformation of Cassius Clay into international boxing icon and activist Muhammad Ali  

12/01/2022 | Production | Funding | UK

Juliette Le Baron and Alicia López Ríos  • Project manager for International Development and project developer for the UK and Ireland, filmfriend

Interview: Juliette Le Baron and Alicia López Ríos • Project manager for International Development and project developer for the UK and Ireland, filmfriend

“The platform is dedicated to libraries – primarily, public and university ones”

During our conversation, we discovered how the filmfriend platform helps public and university libraries to build a vast film catalogue  

28/12/2021 | /Germany/Austria/Switzerland

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