Netflix continues its expansion into far-flung foreign markets with plans announced Wednesday to launch its video-streaming service in Scandinavia before the end of the year. In separate news, the company has cut a deal with indie-film distributor Fortissimo Films to make about a fifth of its 300-st...
Read More »Fortissimo Films has acquired the international rights to "Miss Lovely," a debut feature from Indian director Ashim Ahluwalia. "Miss Lovely" will premiere at Cannes as part of the Official Selection, in Un Certain Regard. Three teasers for "Miss Lovely" are highlighted below.
Read More »The latest tribute to Fortissimo Films this, its twentieth-anniversary year, runs at New York's MOMA November 10 - 21. For "In Focus: Fortissimo Films," Curator Jytte Jensen has carefully culled 11 geographically concentrated features from the company's extensive and diversifi...
Read More »Fortissimo spoils us. The multinational-based sales company is very well respected by those in both the film biz and the symbiotic universe of criticism and programming. Perhaps that is why the "family" has received multiple tributes this, its 20th-anniversary, year. (I will write about th...
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