Is it an airport? Is it a mall? Is it a business center? No. It’s Berlin’s clean 5 storey elevated secured acclimatized homeless-proof trainstation.
All good Talents left their hostel before 8:30 am.
The opening of the BTC 2011, at HAU1.
Lounges at HAU2 & HAU3, where BTC lectures and workshops take place.
Queuing is a sport.
Peter Belsito’s (american producer, Talent Campus lecturer) drawing of how filmmakers are in purgatory, but they all want to go to distribution heaven.
God bless (…)
♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go !
Monday 28 February 2011the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011, in 800x600 pixels
By Cristina Grosan (Romania), 28 February 2011 | Berlinale 2011 |Translations: [en]
Friday 25 February 2011Berlinale Talent Campus, user’s guide
By Cristina Grosan (Romania), 25 February 2011 | Blog |Translations: [en]
So you’ve done a film. A short film, perhaps you’re a student in your final year, or have just graduated. Or you didn’t attend film school but have done films and taken them to festivals. Perhaps you’ve composed the soundtrack/edited/shot/sound designed for other people’s films.
And then you hear about the BTC. That it’s big, that they’ve got the budget to call all these young people over to Berlin for a week and train them in one way or another. You’re not quite sure what this is all (…)
And then you hear about the BTC. That it’s big, that they’ve got the budget to call all these young people over to Berlin for a week and train them in one way or another. You’re not quite sure what this is all (…)
Thursday 24 February 2011Waiting for the Bears
By Maria Dicieanu (Romania), 24 February 2011 | Berlinale 2011 |Translations: [en]
Waiting for the Bears
A week and two days ago I engaged on a journey that would bring me for my first time to the Berlinale. I didn’t really know what to expect from the festival and its selection, since all movies sound amazing in their press release, but I was nonetheless excited to see that there was a link established between art-house and mainstream cinema through the presence of True Grit and Unknown. After seeing 15 of the 22 films from the official program (my greatest omission (…)
A week and two days ago I engaged on a journey that would bring me for my first time to the Berlinale. I didn’t really know what to expect from the festival and its selection, since all movies sound amazing in their press release, but I was nonetheless excited to see that there was a link established between art-house and mainstream cinema through the presence of True Grit and Unknown. After seeing 15 of the 22 films from the official program (my greatest omission (…)
Asshole
By Maria Dicieanu (Romania), 24 February 2011 | Berlinale 2011 |Translations: [en]
Asshole (Gandu)
By Kaushik Mukherjee
India
Panorama
If you thought Indian cinema = Bollywood, think again because director Kaushik Mukherjee (otherwise known as Q) is coming and his advertising - music video - documentary background is changing things big time! The story itself is rather classical for a movie dealing with the problems of adolescence. Young, rather poor Gandu (played by Anubrata) lives with his sister under the constant threat of being thrown into the street for his (…)
By Kaushik Mukherjee
India
Panorama
If you thought Indian cinema = Bollywood, think again because director Kaushik Mukherjee (otherwise known as Q) is coming and his advertising - music video - documentary background is changing things big time! The story itself is rather classical for a movie dealing with the problems of adolescence. Young, rather poor Gandu (played by Anubrata) lives with his sister under the constant threat of being thrown into the street for his (…)
Sunday 20 February 2011Devotional Cineaste
By Marcella di Palo Jost, 20 February 2011 | Rotterdam 2011 |Translations: [en]
Portrait: NATHANIEL DORSKY
By Marcella di Palo Jost, 20 February 2011 | Rotterdam 2011 |Translations: [en]
Fifty dollars for three and a half minutes of film, including the processing and the work-print. The American filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, 68, a native New Yorker, has a lifelong experience in shooting with his 16mm Bolex. His current one is only his third in more than 40 years of activity. He knows what he wants and how to get it, without using a lightmeter, but just trusting his experience and the quality of the film he’s using - Kodachrome until few years ago. When they stopped (…)
Wednesday 16 February 2011Direct-to-DVD #1
By Geoffrey Crété (France), 16 February 2011 | Direct-to-DVD |Translations: [en]
The mysterious "Direct-to-DVD" category may seems quite uninteresting for those who only want to see the top box office hits or most critically-acclaimed works. Yet, for unknown or awful reasons, some wonderful films are banished there, awaiting the more curious cinephiles. In this regular column, I intend to reveal just a few of these hidden gems…
When a movie doesn’t entirely satisfy a studio’s expectations - and we’re talking about money, not art - several things can and will happen. A (…)
When a movie doesn’t entirely satisfy a studio’s expectations - and we’re talking about money, not art - several things can and will happen. A (…)
Greetings from the Marathon
By Cristina Grosan (Romania), 16 February 2011 | Berlinale 2011 |Translations: [en]
Before I go on, I need to say that it’s 12am, I`m in the hostel lobby which has been taken over by the Berlinale Talent Campus people. To my left, there’s a Jordanian, in his slippers and comfy pants, who has transformed his corner into a small office. To my right, there are a few people exercising Russian, confronting their maps of Berlin. It’s been already three days in the capital of the "poor but sexy". All 350 of us are heavily populating the means of transport of Berlin (mainly bus (…)
Tuesday 15 February 2011Margin Call
By Maria Dicieanu (Romania), 15 February 2011 | Berlinale 2011 |Translations: [en]
Margin Call
By JC Chandor (USA)
Berlinale Competition
There is little doubt that the Wall Street crash from 2008 will be a hot film subject in the years to come, being approached in several productions - documentaries and fiction. None, however, are likely to have such a wide range of characters, from the youngest analyst to the company’s owner, so closely observed, by both the director and the audience, as Margin Call. The magical dream cast starring Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul (…)
By JC Chandor (USA)
Berlinale Competition
There is little doubt that the Wall Street crash from 2008 will be a hot film subject in the years to come, being approached in several productions - documentaries and fiction. None, however, are likely to have such a wide range of characters, from the youngest analyst to the company’s owner, so closely observed, by both the director and the audience, as Margin Call. The magical dream cast starring Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul (…)
Heaven’s Story
By Maria Dicieanu (Romania), 15 February 2011 | Berlinale 2011 |Translations: [en]
Heaven’s Story
By Zeze Takahisa (Japan)
Berlinale Forum
If you’re up for a 4 ½ hours “Bunraku-play meets soap-opera” movie, then Heaven’s Story is definitely the one to watch. The narrative revolves around a series of characters whose lives have been turned around after being exposed to irrational murders either from the position of killers, or as victims’ relatives. Throughout the film, the initially apparently separate narrative threads mingle and interconnect, while characters interchange (…)
By Zeze Takahisa (Japan)
Berlinale Forum
If you’re up for a 4 ½ hours “Bunraku-play meets soap-opera” movie, then Heaven’s Story is definitely the one to watch. The narrative revolves around a series of characters whose lives have been turned around after being exposed to irrational murders either from the position of killers, or as victims’ relatives. Throughout the film, the initially apparently separate narrative threads mingle and interconnect, while characters interchange (…)
Berlin, here we come!
By Maria Dicieanu (Romania), 15 February 2011 | Berlinale 2011 |Translations: [en]
If due to a series of very unfortunate events you had to miss going for the 61st edition of Berlin International Film Festival, you need not to worry as NISI MASA members are already on their way to promptly report the most exciting events and screenings happening during the upcoming 10 days.
We’ve infiltrated ourselves not only in the press department but also in the Berlinale Talent Campus (every film student’s 6-day dream workshop) where our spies are more than ready to absorb the advice (…)
We’ve infiltrated ourselves not only in the press department but also in the Berlinale Talent Campus (every film student’s 6-day dream workshop) where our spies are more than ready to absorb the advice (…)
Monday 14 February 2011Berlinale Talent Campus 2011
By Cristina Grosan (Romania), 14 February 2011 | Berlinale 2011 |Translations: [en]
As it seems to me, every big film festival starts with a long queue. So did the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011. The queue is long, and excitement fills the room. And you can’t help but let your eyes travel the distance and meet people that, for now, are strangers. They’re mostly young people, and they’re wearing their youth. In less than 10 minutes I get to meet a young Vietnamese who is trying to figure out how public transportation works, a Mexican, a Columbian, and a guy who says he’s (…)
Friday 11 February 20112010 in cinema
By Matthieu Darras (France), 11 February 2011 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Remember Y2K? The millennium bug that is. Imagine it really happened. After New Year’s Eve, let’s say we would all have woken up directly in 2010, January the 1st, shortcutting all the 2000’s. Going to the nearby multiplex to start the year, we would witness James Cameron’s last piece Avatar monopolizing all the screens. No surprise given the global success of Titanic three years before. And if Leonardo DiCaprio was not pairing with Cameron anymore, we could enjoy his presence in two hits of (…)
Wednesday 2 February 2011View from the press room
By Maartje Alders (The Netherlands), 2 February 2011 | Rotterdam 2011 |Translations: [en]
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