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On September 11th, Loulé Film Office initiated and hosted an event of about 20 film industry professionals from the Algarve to meet Julian Hicks, CEO of MBX and Moviebox Premiere and Kit Monkman, Managing Director of Viridian FX Studio. Julian and Kit shared further details about the Moviebox project, under which the MBX Studios will be built...

Picturehouse’s historical drama Fatima will come out on digital Oct. 13 and DVD Oct. 27 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The film is based on the story of one of the Catholic Church’s most fabled places of pilgrimage. In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations...

Netflix announced last week the start of the Glória series, its new original project, produced by the SPi production company of Grupo SP Televisão and co-produced with RTP. An original series by Pedro Lopes, and directed by Tiago Guedes, Glória will be shooted in Ribatejo region and in Lisbon. The series takes place in the...

Juliet Landau, who is best known for her role as the mean girl vampire in the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, has signed a distribution deal with Modern Films for her feature film directorial debut A Place Among The Dead. Peter Ogunsalo, Spy Manor Productions producer and business development executive is as a contributor to the Film’s Journey....

Algarve Production company, Monte Productions, in association with Spy Manor Productions, Bad Penny Productions &  Moviebox are currently filming feature film “There’s Always Hope “ in the Loule Algarve region. The production  features actor Colm Meany and is for international release . The film is part of an intended slate of films to be shot...

The 21st edition of the Festa do Cinema Francês will take place from October 8 through November 4 in six cities in Portugal, with more than 50 films presented, and many related events. Now a key and unmissable event on Portugal’s fall cultural calendar, this year the Festa do Cinema Francês offers a sterling program, including sixteen features presented at...

In Partnership with Production Algarve and with the seal of approval of The Portugal Film Commission and Loulé Film Office, Spy Manor Productions will host a three-day workshop free of charge to ten pre-selected local screenwriters, that will later be pitched to international streaming services. The selected few will be given the chance to take...

By Harry Klunder; Production Manager at Monte Productions It’s a big responsibility, the job of protecting people in a highly tactile and collaborative environment, especially for independent filmmakers. During the preproduction and budgetting of Tim Lewinston’s “There’s always Hope” I estimated that safety measures cost as much as 10% of the production budget, and it...

The Algarve Indie Scriptwriters Workshop completed last week in Ferragudo with the selection of two storylines created by scriptwriters who live and work in Portugal, which will later become a new TV series filmed and produced in the Algarve. Eight experienced producers and scriptwriters from Portugal and the UK spent three days working alongside ten...

Via screendaily.com By Michael Rosser The 70th Berlin International Film Festival is to open with Philippe Falardeau’s My Salinger Year, starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley. The Canadian-Irish co-production is based on the international bestseller of the same name by US author Joanna Rakoff and will receive its world premiere at the Berlinale Palast on February 20....