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The Match Factory Acquires Berlinale s Per Lucio, Directed by Martin Eden s Pietro Marcello (EXCLUSIVE)
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Leading arthouse sales and production house The Match Factory and Italian film director Pietro Marcello have teamed up for the third time following the company’s acquisition of his documentary “Per Lucio,” which world premieres in the Berlinale Special Gala section of the Berlin Film Festival.
They previously worked together on fantasy drama “Lost and Beautiful,” which played in competition at Locarno in 2015, and period drama “Martin Eden,” which competed at Venice in 2019, winning best actor, and screened at Toronto, where it won the Platform Award. “Martin Eden” was picked up by distributors around the world, and attracted more than 400,000 admissions across Europe.
Kamar Ahmad Simon to host WCF’s ‘Berlinale Spotlight’
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Kamar Ahmad Simon will host the special online screening titled, Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund . The special screening has been arranged by Goethe-Institut Bangladesh for the first time in four South Asian countries namely India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
The Auteur will conduct the live Q&A session with Berlinale s Caligari Film Prize and Buenos Aires International Festival winner Tamer. I agreed to the event after knowing of the scope to chat with contemporary art-house filmmakers around the world, shared Kamar who has also received World Cinema Fund (WCF) from Berlinale for his upcoming film Shikolbaha (Iron Stream). The film is currently in the post-production phase.