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Ed Meza

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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Ed Meza

    Beta Film Acquires ‘The Man from Milan’ and ‘Silent Nava,’ World Premieres ‘Queen Silvia’ at Mipcom (EXCLUSIVE) (opens the original)

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    The company's muscular lineup also includes such high-profile shows as 'Blindspot Berlin,' 'The Panini Family - Album of Dreams,' 'Portobello,' 'In Vitro: The Creation of Happiness' and the final season of 'Babylon Berlin' Beta Film, which is heading to Cannes with the world premiere of Swedish royal romance drama “Queen Silvia,” has acquired world distribution rights to Italy’s “The Man from Milan” and, from Ukraine, “Silent Nava.” The two new eight-part crime series will likewise make their ma

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Ed Meza,Naman Ramachandran

    Don Palathara’s Indian Drama ‘Monkey Play’ Selected for Vancouver’s Inaugural Works-in-Progress Lab (EXCLUSIVE) (opens the original)

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    “Monkey Play” (“Kurangukali”), the latest project by Indian filmmaker Don Palathara (“1956, Central Travancore,” “Family”), has been selected for the Vancouver Film Festival’s new Business Hub Works-in-Progress program, which showcases up to eight feature-length projects in the final stages of production. The film, which Variety unveiled last year, follows Sethu and Nikita, who, in the wake of their young daughter’s death, retreat to an isolated house in the hills of Idukki in the southern India

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Ed Meza

    Canada’s BetterHalf Films Joins Indonesia’s Studio Amarana on Animated Film ‘Galeo of the Seawalkers’ (EXCLUSIVE) (opens the original)

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    Andara Fembriarto’s adaptation of his fantasy novel will be presented at Vancouver's upcoming Business Hub Co-Production Forum Gursimran Datla’s Canadian-U.K. production company BetterHalf Films has boarded Andara Fembriarto’s Indonesian animated film “Galeo of the Seawalkers” (“Galeo Anak Segara”). The title is among the selected projects at the upcoming Vancouver International Film Festival’s newly launched Business Hub Co-Production Forum. BetterHalf Films, which operates offices in Toronto a

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Ed Meza

    Elevation Pictures Acquires Jason Lapeyre’s World War II Hybrid Doc ‘The Auschwitz Volunteer’ (EXCLUSIVE) (opens the original)

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    Currently in development, the VIFF Co-Production-bound project chronicles the true story of Polish soldier Witold Pilecki Elevation Pictures has boarded as Canadian theatrical distributor Jason Lapeyre’s World War II hybrid documentary “The Auschwitz Volunteer,” the true story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier who volunteers to go to a Nazi prison camp and start a resistance movement from the inside. Written, produced and set to be directed by Lapeyre, the project is currently in the late deve

  5. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Ed Meza

    ‘200 Meters’ Director Ameen Nayfeh on New Pic ‘Jo of Montreal’ and the Need for Family Films in West Asia (opens the original)

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    Shot in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the film faced some major challenges due to not only the U.S.-Iran conflict but also pushback against a feel-good family film from the region In making “Jo of Montreal,” Ameen Nayfeh, director of the award-winning Palestinian drama “200 Meters,” embarked on a very different kind of project than his debut feature, namely a feel-good family film that kids could enjoy. “Jo of Montreal” is about Yusuf (Hamzah Baareh), a spoiled 12-year-old boy visiting family in Jord

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