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Budapest-born Hollywood producer Andy Vajna tells Screen how he has helped put together from scratch a new national film fund for Hungarian producers, and the lessons he has learned from around EuropeWhen the Hungarian government unceremoniously ceased funding films through the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary MMKA last summer, the territorys industry went into a tailspin. The MMKA invested around $30m in local films and co-productions annually and was a major foundation stone in a local industry whose international profile has been rising in recent years.The resulting period of damaging uncertainty looks likely to end within weeks with the Hungarian government set to approve
stanley cup a system of support for local film-makers to replace the MMKA, which officially closed in May. But while the new scheme pro
stanley cup vides a resolution to the deadlock, production volumes will be slashed and questions remain over local producers i
stanley cup ndependence.The new funding mechanism is being godfathered by Andy Vajna, the Budapest-born producer of US franchises such as Rambo and Terminator. The new plan is leaner than the one it replaces and gives more control to a new body, the Hungarian National Film Fund MNFA . We want to make sure the money thats being spent is being spent properly, says Vajna. Pictures tend to take on lives of their own. Were interested in recycling that money so we can invest it in other moviesAndy VajnaThe MNFA has $10.5m HUF2bn to spend this year, which Vajna says may be Rqsu IFP/New York Market Awards announce winners
Film is based on the final novel from Canadian author Carol Shields and stars Catherine Keener.Principal photography has commenced on Unless in Toronto.Based on the award-winning and final novel from Canadian author Carol Shields, the film stars Catherine Keener and was adapted for the screen by Alan Gilsenan, who will also direct.Unless is a Canada-Ireland co-production, produced by Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny of Sienna Films and Tristan Orpen Lynch and Aoife OSullivan of Subotica.Gilsenan commented: Carol ShieldsUnlessis her surprising, moving and angry swan-song, a book both for our time and very much of our time. It is a real honour and delight to be finally bringing it to the cinema screen with such an extraordinary cast. Matt Craven, Hannah Gross, Chloe Rose, Abigail Winter, Martha Henry and Hanna Schygulla also star.Unless centres on writer and translator Reta Winters Keener whose life is rocked when her eldest daugher Norah Gross drops out of college an
stanley cup d is found on a Toronto street corner, pan-handling and refusing to speak.The film is financed with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada, the Ontario Media Development Corporation OMDC , Mongrel Media, the Irish Film Board, Premiere Fund and Windmill Lane Pictures, with development funding by Super Channel.International sales for Unless will be handled by Mongrel Media.TopicsCanadaIn ProductionProductionUnited States No comments
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