The day kicks off with a lecture about the Berlinale Co-Production market. Described as a facility for putting together financiers and filmmakers, this is something that you apply for before the festival and it sets up two days of meetings about your project.
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Max Sobol at the Berlin film festival: Saturday
In the inner sanctum at the film Market I nurse a fresh orange juice (which cost almost twice as much as a beer!) and do some research regarding the films that I want to try and catch. For the moment I’m just waiting and watching, like all good hunters should, I’ll scope the joint and […]
Max Sobol at the Berlin film festival: Friday
My Attorney advises me over breakfast that I misspelt the word Attorney quite horrifically yesterday and spends several minutes playing Eternal from Youtube on his laptop. Embarrassing in many ways.
Max Sobol’s Berlin film festival: haircut!
Today was the first day of the festival and honestly -there wasn’t a lot going on. There were very few screenings, the biggest being Tom Tykwer’s opener The International. Rather the day is mostly spent gearing up for the festival; people arrive, check into hotels, receive accreditations and generally scope things -and each other -out. […]
Max Sobol’s Berlin film festival report. Introduction
In the first of his series from The Berlin film festival, Devon filmmaker Max Sobol explains just what he’s doing there – other than looking for £400,000 for his feature, that is. So, it’s 2009, Obama is president, Britain has spent the last few days under a carpet of snow and we’re in the grips […]