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Today marks the start of the 26th Film By The Sea film festival, held in the harbor city of Vlissingen (or Flushing as some English-speakers call it), which is in the Southwest of the Netherlands. It is one of the largest Dutch festivals with over a hundred films being shown and more than 40,000 tickets sold each year. It features a mix of local and international films, with a heavy slant towards literary adaptations. The festival is a remarkably glossy affair, with red carpets and glamour, and it often features a number of interesting world premières. This year, one of its world premierès is a bit of all: A Beautiful Imperfection is a sumptuous Dutch international co-production, and an adaptation of Arthur Japin's acclaimed novel...

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When an individual is addressed as being a Casanova, there is the predisposition to assume that quite a bit of this fellow's time is spent on seduction and the accumulation of multiple lovers. Not bereft of attention, what happens when this individual falls in love with one imperfect person out of a multitude? Such a tale is in the offing with the release of the first look image from Dutch director Michiel van Erp's romantic costume drama, A Beautiful Imperfection which centers on the love adventures of one of the famous Casanova brothers, Giacomo Casanova.

Firm has hired Eric Mabillon as head of business and legal affairs

Paris-based Urban Group has hired Eric Mabillon as head of business and legal affairs and has made a number of key appointments across its sales, distribution and production divisions.

Urban Group is home to sales companies Urban Sales and Reservoir Docs, French distributor Urban Distribution and production arm Urban Factory.

Mabillon has joined Urban Group as head of business and legal affairs. He has previously been head of business and legal affairs at Paradis Films and Celluloid Dreams as well as in charge of legal affairs for Le Pacte...

Michiel van Erp’s Casanova drama ‘A Beautiful Imperfection’ stars Jonah Hauer-King and Dar Zuzovsky.

German sales outfit Global Screen has added two new titles to its busy Cannes market line-up.

The Munich-based company has taken on international rights, excluding Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy, for Michiel van Erp’s A Beautiful Imperfection, a romantic costume drama telling the story of the love affair between a young woman and the notorious Italian adventurer and womaniser Giacomo Casanova.

The project is in post-production and Global Screen will have a first promo for pre-sales at the Cannes Market.

Jonah Hauer-King stars as...

Italy’s Kino Produzioni, the indie shingle that co-produced 2022 Berlin Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs,” is ramping up production with new films by emerging Italian filmmakers Carlo Sironi, Laura Luchetti and Irene Dionisio, as well as also Dutch director Michiel Van Erp and Argentine filmmakers María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat.

“We reached a turning point last year that started out well with the ‘Alcarràs’ victory,” said Kino chief Giovanni Pompili, speaking at the EFM. He noted that in 2022, the Rome-based outfit shot four films, “which for us was pretty challenging, but worked out well.”

Meanwhile, the Kino team has grown. Producer Lara Costa-Calzado, who has been working for a decade between the U.S. and Europe on films such as Eliza Hittman’s Silver Bear winner “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” Sally Potter’s “The Roads Not Taken” and Halina Rejin’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” has joined Kino as head of production.

The English-language Dutch film is now shooting in Italy and the Netherlands.

UK actor Aneurin Barnard, whose credits include TV series Peaky Blinders and Dunkirk, and Israel’s Dar Zuzovsky have joined the cast of Dutch director Michiel Van Erp’s costume drama A Beautiful Imperfection, about Casanova and the woman with whom he falls in love.

Barnard is set to play Casanova’s brother Barrnard while Zuzovsky has been cast as Maria, the woman with whom Giacomo Casanova (the more famous of the Casanova brothers) is played by Jonah Hauer-King.

The film is based on the novel In Lucia...

The English-language Dutch film is now shooting in Italy and the Netherlands.

UK actor Aneurin Barnard, whose credits include TV series Peaky Blinders and Joe Wright’s Dunkirk, and Israel’s Dar Zuzovsky have signed to star in Dutch director Michiel Van Erp’s costume drama A Beautiful Imperfection, about Casanova and the woman with whom he falls in love.

The film is based on the novel In Lucia’s Eyes by Arthur Japin and tells the story of the love affair between Casanova and a courtesan who becomes disfigured by smallpox and flees Italy for Amsterdam.

The €5.5 million English-language...

Michiel van Erp’s ’A Beautiful Imperfection’ will be an English-language romantic drama.

Dutch Filmworks has pre-bought Benelux rights to and is co-producing Michiel van Erp’s 5.7m (€5.5m) English-language romantic drama A Beautiful Imperfection.

Shooting started this week in Amsterdam and Italy on the film, which tells the story of the love affair between a young woman and Italian adventurer and libertine Giacomo Casanova.

The producer is Maarten Swart of Kaap Holland Film, with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and Italy’s Kino Produzioni. Backers are the Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders’s Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), CoBo Fund and broadcaster Avrotros.

Michiel van Erp’s ’A Beautiful Imperfection’ will be an English-language romantic drama.

Dutch Filmworks has pre-bought Benelux rights to and is co-producing Michiel van Erp’s 5.7m (€5.5m) English-language romantic drama A Beautiful Imperfection.

Shooting started this week in Amsterdam and Italy on the film, which tells the story of the love affair between a young woman and Italian adventurer and libertine Giacomo Casanova.

The producer is Maarten Swart of Kaap Holland Film, with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and Italy’s Kino Produzioni. Backers are the Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders’s Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), CoBo Fund and broadcaster Avrotros.