Written by on Oct 30, 2014. Posted in On Location

Roman Coppola to headline Ciclope International Festival of Craft 2014

Filmmaker Roman Coppola will headline this year’s Ciclope International Festival of Craft in Berlin. Ciclope recognises the craft of storytelling in international audiovisual production and this year’s event takes place on 6 and 7 November. The Location Guide is a media partner of the event.

Roman Coppola is a director, screenwriter and producer, and will participate in a public interview as the festival’s finale on 7 November at Babylon in Berlin. As a producer, Coppola has worked on productions including The Bling Ring and Somewhere, both directed by his sister Sofia Coppola. His collaborations with filmmaker Wes Anderson include The Darjeeling Limited and Moonrise Kingdom, for which Coppola was nominated for an Academy Award.

Coppola founded music video and commercial production company The Directors Bureau in 1994 and is also president of American Zoetrope in San Francisco. His commercial and music video work includes promotions for Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire and The Strokes.

“The Location Guide is proud to continue our media partnership with the Ciclope International Festival of Craft,” said Jean-Frédéric Garcia, Publishing Director at The Location Guide.

“Focussing on storytelling craft makes Ciclope a unique event in the audiovisual industry and we’re very happy to be supporting it.”

Others confirmed to attend this year’s Ciclope festival include Ringan Ledwidge (Rattling Stick, UK), Georges Bermann (Partizan, France), Sarah Barclay (JWT, US), Morihiko Hasebe (Hakuhodo, Japan), Johannes Ahlund (B-Reel, Sweden), Sneha Iype (Nirvana Films, India), Fernando Nobre (Borghi/Lowe, Brazil), Gerrit Zinke (thjnk, Germany) and Jacqueline Zhang (Gwantsi, China).

To find out more about the Ciclope Festival click here.