Hailstone Films

26/02/2024

Berlinale 2024 was very special for us - Hector meeting dear friends for the first time, on the red carpet, and my first foray into work postpartum.

Thank you for making it so easy to participate with a baby, to my mum and John for holding the fort, and to for their support in attending.

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1, 4, 8. Marie Ahrendt
2, 7, 10. John
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6. Sibylle de Lucchi
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25/02/2024

A Border Between Us from director is in competition !

Watch on the big screen alongside 5 other shorts on Tue 21st March 2024 at 21:00 .

🎟️ Book your tickets on the website.

Thank you and the whole team.

25/02/2024

This week ARCHITECTON premiered in competition 🧡

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1. - pre-press conference
2. - on location Sicily
3. Prisca Beyer - photo call
4. - on location Austria - unbeknown to me pregnant with Hector!

01/02/2024

A24 will distribute the documentary in North America.

22/01/2024

ARCHITECTON is in competition at Berlinale!

Our latest collaboration with director Victor Kossakovsky will have its world premiere at the 74th Berlin Film Festival. This beautiful film has been an adventure from start to finish. It took the team to unexpected places in many ways, and it’s not often two babies are born during a production!

Thank you Victor and . It was a pleasure to be part of the team again as co-producer. And , thank you for welcoming us into your world.

Big thank you as well to for the selection - can’t wait to be back in the running for another Bear after 2022’s Crystal Bear for ’s Born in Damascus.

Congratulations to our marvellous team and partners 👏🙏🏻 including but far from limited to:

Ainara, Frank, Filippo, everyone at , , , , , , , Thomas, , Astrid, Estelle and , , , , .dreams, , , , Miika, Max, Abdul, Mauro, Davide, ,






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12/07/2023

Filmmaker Riad Arfin and I are very pleased to announce that A BORDER BETWEEN US will be premiering at Edinburgh International Film Festival at 15:00 on 19th August 2023. ✨

This film is part of Bridging the Gap from - you can get tickets for the showcase of 6 great short docs at Vue Omni by following the 🔗 in the bio.

Thank you to our wonderful team 🙏🏻
Editor: .manson
Composer:
Sound Designer:
Dubbing Mixer:
Colourists: .sanchezmartos &
Exec Producers: Flore Cosquer and Mark Thomas
and the teams at Scottish Documentary Institute and Screen Scotland for their support.

An extra special thanks to Aliki and Riad’s mum.

A Film by Riad Arfin
Produced by Charlotte Hailstone

Celebrating 20 years of Bridging the Gap.
is hosted this year by

26/01/2023

Nearing the end of my in Bratislava. 3 weeks diving into a new project!


Thank you to .darras for being a great host, and for arranging enlightening conversations including those with , and , and local filmmakers. All your feedback was so valuable.

And thanks to Emerging Producers for enabling this great opportunity.

I enjoyed the brief snow as much as the pigeons did.

05/10/2022

Over the moon that Born in Damascus will be going to so many great festivals in October and November, some of which director will be attending in person. Thank you to the festival teams for the invitations and selections!

🇫🇷 War on Screen Festival (Châlons en Champagne, France) in the International Competition. Showing 5 and 7 October.

🇬🇧 Take One Action Film Festival (UK). Online 21 – 30 October in “To Remember, To Reclaim: Archives for Future Love.”

🇬🇧 Folkestone Documentary Festival (UK). Showing 22 October with in person Q&A from Laura.

🇬🇧 Sunderland Shorts, Sunderland (UK). Showing 22 October.

🇦🇺 Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival (Gympie, Australia). Showing 28 October in “Tough Generation,” “Fringe Cuts” and “Tough World” programmes.

🇩🇪 doxs! Documentary Film Festival (Duisburg, Germany). Nominated for the Grosse Klappe award. Showing 10 November, which Laura will be attending in person.

🇫🇷 This is England British Short Film Festival (Rouen, France). 12-20 November. Laura will be attending in person.

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21/09/2022

Laura and I are thrilled that Born In Damascus has been selected in competition at . It will be screening as part of Stories of a Present Past next week on Wednesday, September 28 at Watershed Cinema in Bristol. Laura will be there for the screening and doing a Q&A afterwards.

Thank you and to for picking Born In Damascus as one of their top 10 Encounters shorts!

🔗 link in bio for tickets in person or online.

Watch this space for some more exciting festival announcements coming for Oct/Nov.

04/08/2022

I had a lot of fun with Aidan, Becky, Mark, a host of musicians and local film crew last summer production managing this collaborative ode to traditional music and the community of the Cowgate, Edinburgh’s Little Ireland.

Very pleased it will have its premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival on 15th Aug 2022. Tickets 🔗 link in bio.

A collaborative film by Aidan O’Rourke , Becky Manson .manson and Mark Cousins

A co-production by Edinburgh International Festival and John Archer, Hopscotch Films

29/06/2022

London friends, Born in Damascus will be at the BARBICAN on 8th July 2022 as part of SAFAR Futures Short Film Programme.

There will be a Q&A with director . We hope to see you there 🌝

🔗 link in bio to book your tickets to this celebration of emerging filmmaking here in the UK.

23/06/2022

Born in Damascus hits South Korea! 🇰🇷

Our Asian premiere is at Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival in the Spectrum section, “films that inspire you to never give up despite the hardships you face.”

Navalny, edited by our amazing consultant editor Maya will also be showing in the International Feature Competition.

Also look out for Nothing to See Here by - we were programmed together at Berlinale and I loved this film.

Thanks to for the selection and to our team again for their hard work on the film. The festival runs from 23 -28 June 2022.

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12/06/2022

We are delighted that Laura Wadha’s Born in Damascus has been selected for Doc Edge Schools Festival Sessions in New Zealand - homeland of our consultant editor, Maya 🇳🇿
 
The Virtual Classroom platform (schools.docedge.nz) enables Doc Edge to offer educational documentaries that inspire, explore and educate at no cost to students across the country who cannot visit the theatres, until 10 July 2022.

26/05/2022

Action!

✨CannesDocs Closing - so many friends and connections, old and new

✨Polaris - lucky enough to be Ainara’s plus one at the premiere of her beautiful film Polaris. Great to reunite with the Aquarela crew

✨Fellow Emerging Producer Natalia Libet and director Anna Buryachkova win a prize for their film When We Were 15. Can’t wait to see it when it’s finished

✨CannesDocs Opening

✨Sign of a good night at San Telmo…please leave

26/05/2022

Camera…

✨Emerging Producers host CannesDocs Happy Hour. Big thanks to Jarmila, Marek, Pierre-Alexis, Babette and team for the whole CannesDocs experience

✨So happy to see fellow Emerging Producer Natalia Libet and director Anna Buryachkova and their film When We Were 15 win at the Ukrainian Films Now pitch

✨Incredibly proud of dear friends Ainara Vera, Emile Hertling Peronard and Hayat Mokenache premiering their film Polaris - so beautiful, please go and see it!

✨Les Pires screening as part of Un Certain Regard. Very talented young cast

✨Final bonus of fellow EPs Kristian and Leonard playing paparazzi

26/05/2022

26/05/2022

I see you shiver with antici…

19/05/2022

✨The 75th Cannes Film Festival, and the 1st for me.

And a mini reunion of the Emerging Producers gang 🥰

Looking forward to seeing old friends (let me know if you’re about) and meeting lots of new ones. Cinema ❤️