Geoffrey Macnab

6 days ago | screendaily.com | Geoffrey Macnab

The acrimonious dispute between Cineworld-owned Picturehouse Cinemas and the landlord at its flagship Trocadero site in central London looks set to continue. Last Friday (May 23), Picturehouse won a judgment against the landlord London Trocadero LLP over the overcharging of commission on insurance rent at Picturehouse Central, with the landlord now required to repay the cinema operator an amount reportedly above £700,000.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Discussing his new feature doc Tooth and Nail, which he co-directed with Mihai Gavril Dragolea and which has been screening in Documentary Competition at Krakow this week, Romanian documentary maker Radu Mocanu can’t help but invoke the spirit of Charlie Chaplin. The famous screen comedian and “tramp” famously observed that the same incident that seems hilarious in long shot is tragic when you witness it up close.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

It’s 50 years now since the end of the Vietnam war. A still largely unchronicled aspect of the conflict is the plight of the “Amerasian” children born to Vietnamese mothers but abandoned by their American GI fathers. Sang, the subject of Weronika Mliczewska’s new doc Child of Dust (sold by Rise and Shine and in competition at Krakow FF) is one of these lost souls. The film world-premiered at Thessaloniki Doc Fest.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

You probably don’t know it, but without silver your cell phone wouldn’t work. There wouldn’t be mirrors, electronics, cameras or artificial intelligence either. This doesn’t mean those who mine the silver are getting rich. In Potosi, Bolivia, the Indigenous people have been exploited for 500 years and are still being killed in pursuit of the precious metal. “Over 8 million people are believed to have died here since silver was discovered in 1545. They were enslaved.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Yes, Gar O’Rourke did himself try the mud treatment when he was preparing his new feature doc Sanatorium(selected for Documentary Competition at KFF and sold by MetFilm Sales). He has also done the salt pools the electro-massages and everything else between. The film is set in Kuyalnik, a huge Soviet era spa in Odesa in Ukraine. Guests aren’t nearly as plentiful there now as normal. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia obviously has something to do with that.