Swiss-born filmmaker Rebecca Panian working on project.Beki Probst, the grande dame of the international film world and outgoing president of Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm), is to be the centre of a feature documentary with the working title Beki, which is being directed by the Swiss-born filmmaker Rebecca Panian.Speaking exclusively to Screen, Panian said that Zurich’s Dschoint Ventschr is producing the project which has been in the making for the past three years.
The idea for a film about Probst was proposed by her close friend Edi Stöckli.”She is such an impressive woman for what she has done at the Berlinale over the past 30 years and I also want to show the next phase where she is now going to launch a film school in Lausanne, Switzerland, with a focus on scriptwriting from this autumn,” Panian explained.Panian had accompanied Probst to Jerusalem in 2015 for a memorial to the late Jerusalem Film Festival
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