
Geoffrey Macnab
Writer and Reporter at The Independent
Writer at Screen Daily
Writer on film for @Independent, @Screendaily, @FinancialTimes and the i. Author of Stairways To Heaven and other titles.
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1 week ago |
businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab
“Actually, and this is absolutely true, me and Sun met the first time at a road side rest stop between Pyongyang and DMZ (The Korean Demilitarised Zone),” Norwegian director Morten Traavik describes his highly unlikely first encounter with Sun Kim, his co-director on North South Man Woman (a world premiere in international competition at Sheffield DocFest). This chance meeting in a lay-by in North Korea happened in 2012. Traavik had been organising a festival of Norwegian culture in North Korea.
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1 week ago |
screendaily.com | Geoffrey Macnab
Source: Courtesy of Lumiere EXCLUSIVE: Belgian film distributor Lumiere is moving back into independent distribution in the Netherlands. The Flemish company, which also runs cinemas as well as production company Lunamine, has appointed Thomas Fransman as head of theatrical and acquisitions. He will start work at the Amsterdam office in early September. Lumiere aims to release eight films theatrically across the Benelux each year.
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1 week ago |
businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab
When they made their 2022 film When Spring Came to Bucha, Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz were not expecting that the war the raging in Ukraine would still be going on more than three years later. They had arrived in Bucha not long after the Russian occupying force had left and they had witnessed at first hand the death and destruction in the city. “Probably it was quite naive but then, among those first months of the war, among all the pain and suffering, we felt an incredible solidarity.
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2 weeks ago |
nordiskfilmogtvfond.com | Geoffrey Macnab
Why are so few films made in the Nordic countries in which disabled people are able to tell their own stories? Some see signs of systemic discrimination. In a hard-hitting interview, 39-year-old Norwegian filmmaker Mari Storstein, whose debut feature My First Love (Min første kjærlighet) will premiere later this year, has claimed that stories featuring disabled people, or told by them, are currently “almost completely missing from the screen” in the Nordic countries.
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3 weeks ago |
screendaily.com | Geoffrey Macnab
Source: Rob Latour/Shutterstock for PEOPLE When Hasan Hadi’s debut feature The President’s Cake won the Camera d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival it became the latest ‘Purple List’ film to garner serious industry accolades.
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