All Screen articles in 16 June 2006
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Indian Film Awards headed to Yorkshire
The International IndianFilm Academy (IIFA) Awards has selected Yorkshire to host the 2007 ceremony. The winning bid, beating cities including New York, was madeby Regional Screen Agency, Screen Yorkshire, Regional Development Agency,Yorkshire Forward and Yorkshire Tourist Board. The IIFA Awards will be held over four days, including theceremony, a world ...
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Nacho Libre
Dir: Jared Hess. US. 2006.90mins tbc.Mostly an interminable journey through corny accentsand gross sight gags, Jared Hess' lowbrow Mexican-wrestling comedy Nacho Librecomes alive only when Jack Black frees himself from its puerile screenplay andromps in all his wild-haired, flabby-tummy glory.In such moments,which are too infrequent and mostly come at the ...
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Britdoc plans sessions for science and politics
Theinaugural Britdoc festival has lined up a series ofnetworking events for documentary film-makers to meet experts outside the filmworld.Thefestival, to be held July 26-28 at Keble College in Oxford, is presented by theChannel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation.Thefestival has organised two "would like to meet" networking sessions toencourage collaboration between ...
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Strongroom and Air combine post-production business
The post-productiondivisions at Strongroom and Air have been combined asBreathe Post Production. Breathewill offer a range of HD editing, graphics and finishing facilities for videoand audio post production at both its Hampstead and Shoreditch locations in London. Formerpost production co-ordinator for Air Sally Drury has been named post productionmanager for ...
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New Madrid Screenings boasts 51 new films
The first edition of theSpanish Film Screenings of Madrid kick off this weekend with an anticipated 105international buyers flying in to screen a selection of recent Spanish featurefilms.The new three-day event(June 18-20) picks up where the Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote,cancelled this year after six editions, left off.Already Madrid anticipates ...
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Raintree, Eyeworks to co-produce Tattooist
Following the signing of theNew Zealand-Singapore co-production treaty in 2004, Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is set to co-producethe first NZ-Singapore feature, TheTattooist, with Eyeworks Touchdown.The two companies,represented by MediaCorp Raintree CEO Daniel Yun and Eyeworks Touchdown CEOJulie Christie, are scheduled to sign a letter of intent this Sunday in Auckland, ...
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Hoffman signs on to star in Capitol's Lumet-directed thriller
Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in Capitol Films' Before TheDevil Knows You're Dead,which is set to begin shooting in July in New York City.Sidney Lumet is directing the story about two brotherswhose plan to rob their parents' jewellery store leads to a devastating climax.Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney and Marisa Tomei ...
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Ginsberg promoted to vice president at LA-based Block-Korenbrot PR
Lee Ginsberg has beenpromoted to vice president of motion picture publicity at Los Angeles-based Block-KorenbrotPublic Relations, effective immediately.Ginsberg, who has served atthe company since September 2003, will continue to report to co-presidents MelodyKorenbrot and Ziggy Kozlowski.In addition Rebecca Fisherand Lisa Danna have joined the company as senior publicists.Fisher previously served ...
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Universal's Tokyo Drift speeds into UK, Australia
Fox International's horror remake The Omen has taken $37m since last week's subduedday-and-date launch and the studio will be hoping for solid holds heading intothe second weekend.Fox won't get any respite from the World Cup, which is alreadygripping world audiences.Meanwhile the studio opens X-Men: The Last Stand in its final ...
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THINKFilm boards Shortbus for North America
THINKFilm has acquired allNorth American rights to John Cameron Mitchell's sexual odyssey Shortbus following its out-of-competition screening atCannes, and plans an autumn release.Shortbus, which overcame its sexually explicit nature tobecome one of the most hotly pursued titles at the festival, follows the livesof several characters in New York as they ...
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Buried Alive commences for Odd Lot in New Mexico
Odd Lot Entertainment'sgenre label Dark Lot has begun principal photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico,on the horror project Buried Alive starringTerence Jay and newcomer Leah Rachel.Bob Kurtzman is directingthe tale of college friends who awaken an ancient spirit during a sororityinitiation ceremony at an abandoned ranch house.Tobin Bell and SteveSandvoss ...
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Honor De Cavalleria
Dir/scr: Albert Serra. Sp. 2006. 112mins.Don Quixoteand his faithful servant Sancho Panzaare intriguingly lost in La Mancha in Honor De Cavalleria,Albert Serra's ultra-minimalist take on Cervantes'enduring classic, which allies itself militantly with an older generation of arthouse masters: Bresson, Pasolini, Olmi. Sadisticallyslow, the film demands a patience, which few at ...
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The Bothersome Man (Den Brysomme Mannen)
Dir: JensLien. Nor-Ice. 2006. 95mins.A darkly comicNorwegian fable, The Bothersome Manimagines the after-life as a vacuous Scandinavian social democracy: it's theglossy dystopia of The Truman Showtransported to the land of designer sofas, 30-hour weeks and sweet blonde girlscalled Ingeborg. Lien's debut, the similarly quirky Johnny Vang,did only modest box office ...
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Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs)
Dir/scr: Jean-Claude Brisseau.Fr. 2006. 100mins.One audience's erotic fantasy is another's cold shower in Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs), the latest overcooked psychodrama fromveteran writer/director Jean-Claude Brisseau. Theconcept of a fifty-something male filmmaker exploring transgressivefemale behaviour may sound like a venture into Catherine Breillatterritory but here it seems like a fig ...
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EuropaCorp's Le Pogam adds post at FAEM
EuropaCorp. principal Pierre-Ange Le Pogam has been named to the post of president of theCommission of Funds in aid of Multimedia Publishing (FAEM). France'sNational Cinema Center (CNC) announced the news Thursday morning in Paris.The FAEM is run in support of the creationof innovative multimedia content in such areas as video-game ...
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Belgrade plans three regional pitching prizes
TheBelgrade International Film Festival (also known as FEST) will award threeprizes for the best pitches made at the second "B2B" IndustryMeetings to be held from March 2-4 next year.Speakingto ScreenDaily.com at this week's Kinotavr festival in Sochi, festival and B2Bproducer Miroslav Mogorovicexplained that the prizes of $8834 (Euros 7,000) would ...
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London to host second Short Film Summer School
London's Curzon Soho is hosting thesecond Short Film Summer School (SFSS) from July 12-15. The SFSS willscreen 66 shorts as well as hosting workshops, panel discussions, networkingevents, demonstrations, and young people's programming. A market will run eachday.Screen International will host a panel about the future ofthe short film and digital ...
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Haneke withdraws from jury duty in Moscow
Austrian director Michael Haneke has refused to head the main jury in the MoscowInternational Film Festival (June 23-July 2), the festival's general director Renat Davletyarov announced atthe first festival press conference on Wednesday.Haneke'swithdrawal came despite earlier written confirmation that he would serve as themain jury president and the festival's formation ...
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Revitalised PiFan to open with Ghost Theatre
Resurfacing from last year'scontroversy, Korea's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) willkick off July 13 with opening film GhostTheatre (working title), a Korean musical directed by Jeon Gye-soo. The closing film is Berlinale-awardedHK-China production Isabella by PangHo-cheung which screens on July 20. The festival will hold itsusual two extra days ...
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Guantanamo takes top prize at Newport International Film Festival
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Road To Guantanamo won the jury prize for best narrativefeature at the 9th Annual Newport International Film Festival.Kelly Reichardt won the narrative jury prize for best director forOld Joy, Emily Riostook actress honours for Quinceanera, and the ensemble acting award went to the cast ...