All Screen articles in 17 June 2008
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Choke wins narrative feature prize at Maui Film Festival
Clark Gregg's Choke starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston won the narrative feature prize at the 2008 Annual Maui Film Festival while Charles Kinnane's The Human Experience took the documentary award.In the world cinema programme, Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed was named best narrative feature and Christian Karim Chrobog's War ...
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Christian Gaines leaves AFI for Withoutabox.com
Christian Gaines has joined IMDb's festival and networking community 0Withoutabox.com as film festival director.Gaines previously served as director of festivals at the American Film Institute (AFI) where he oversaw festival and film programming projects including AFI FEST.He was heavily involved with the inception of Silverdocs and AFI Dallas International Film ...
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Daryn Okada elected president of ASC
Daryn Okada has been elected to serve a third one-year term as president of the American Society Of Cinematographers.The other officers are: vice presidents Michael Goi, Owen Roizman and Richard Crudo; treasurer Victor J Kemper; secretary Isidore Mankofsky; and sergeant-at-arms John Hora.The board members include Curtis Clark, Caleb Deschanel, John ...
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Pope's Toilet rides into US with Film Movement
Film Movement has acquired Cesar Charlone and Enrique Fernandez' Uruguayan comedy The Pope's Toilet and plans a limited release in October followed by DVD roll-out in 2009.The story centres on the people of a small town who prepare to capitalise on an upcoming visit from the Pontiff.The Pope's Visit played ...
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Tim Sommerfeld named svp of creative advertising at Summit
Tim Sommerfeld has been appointed senior vice president of creative advertising at Summit Entertainment.Sommerfeld gets to work straight away on upcoming releases Fly Me To The Moon, Twilight, Sex Drive, The Brothers Bloom, Push and Knowing.He most recently served as creative director and producer at The Ant Farm, where he ...
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Universal acquires graphic novel series The Last Call from Oni
Universal has acquired the graphic novel series The Last Call from Oni Press and has hired Evan Spiliotopoulos to adapt the screenplay.The Last Call was first published in 2007 and centres on two joyriders who have the misfortune to get hit by a train that happens to be an inter-dimensional ...
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Passchendaele to open Toronto Film Festival on Sept 4
Paul Gross' WWI epic Passchendaele will open the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 4. Written, directed and produced by Gross, who also takes the lead role, the film is coproduced by Niv Fichman, Frank Siracusa and Francis Damberge. The film also features Caroline Dhavernas, Gil Bellows and ...
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Beresford on board for Grahame biopic Banking On Mr Toad
Bruce Beresford is attached to direct Banking On Mr Toad, which is set to shoot in Dublin and nearby Irish locales in early 2009. The biopic of Kenneth Grahame is being readied as his classic The Wind In The Willows celebrates its 100th anniversary.The film's budget is $22m. Casting is ...
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Film Agency For Wales offers development funds for Mr Manchester
The Film Agency For Wales is backing Cardiff-born writer Phil Charles' feature comedy Mr Manchester, now in development.Lee Ruette and Britt Harrison's Snowball Pictures will produce.The Manchester-set comedy is about a macho cash-strapped builder who enters a gay beauty competition.Charles has been working as a TV writer and previously made ...
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Amado's granddaughter makes directorial debut with Captains
Cecilia Amado, the granddaughter of the late Brazilian author Jorge Amado, will direct the big-screen adaptation of his Captains Of The Sands.Since its publication in 1937, the book has been published in 16 languages and has sold more than 5 million copies. 'The novel has as a new relevance today,'' ...
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Jersey to host new film festival in September
The island of Jersey, a British Crown dependency between England and France, will host the first Branchage Jersey International Film Festival from Sept 25-28.The festival describes itself as 'boutique,' to show the 'best new independent British and international films.' Branchage plans to reflect the local communities by showing Eastern European ...
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Mei Ah, Guangdong Film Corp set up distribution joint venture
Hong Kong's Mei Ah Entertainment and Guangdong Province Film Corporation have set up a joint venture, Hua Tian Xia Film Distribution, which aims to distribute 20 Chinese-language films a year in the mainland market. The Guangzhou-based distribution company has been established with capital of $2.9m (RMB20m). It will mainly focus ...
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Toronto to kick off with premiere of Paul Gross's Passchendaele
The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival will open with the gala world premiere of Paul Gross's Passchendaele on Sept 4.Canadian film-maker Gross wrote, directed and produced and also stars. The prolific actor previously directed 2002's Men With Brooms.Niv Fichman (Blindness), Frank Siracusa and Francis Damberger co-produced. Passchendaele is a Rhombus ...
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Ning launches production, management outfit Stoneman
Hot up-and-coming Chinese director Ning Hao has established a film production and artist management company, Stoneman Films. Daniel Yu, former COO of Andy Lau's Focus Films and producer of Ning's sleeper hit Crazy Stone, will serve as Ning's producer, overseeing his filmmaking projects. The young director is currently preparing a ...
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Danish Film Institute offers production funding for mobile films
In a new industry innovation, the Danish Film Institute has allocated about $125,000 (600,000 Danish Kroner) for production of mini features for mobile phones. This marks the first large scale public funding for the mobile format, with these shorts earmarked to run 90 seconds to three minutes. Oscar winner Martin ...
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Melbourne film festival to open with Not Quite Hollywood
The 57th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will open on July 25 with the world premiere of Not Quite Hollywood, writer-director Mark Hartley's long-awaited tribute to the Australian films of the 1970s and 80s that were high on horror, nudity and car chases. This year's festival is a historic one ...
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Ng calls for changes to China's co-production policy
The chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, Ng See-yuen, called for a rethink of co-production policy at a seminar on Sino-foreign co-production at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Tuesday. While highlighting positive developments in the China market, Ng said that Hong Kong filmmakers are 'worried that ...
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Investors assess risks, rewards in China film market
China's booming film industry could provide huge returns to venture capitalists, funds and other investors, but the market is still in its infancy and it'sstill not clearin which areas to invest. These were some ofthe messages to emerge at a seminar at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Monday ...
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Moviemobz takes Brazilian rights to The Sandman
Moviemobz, the first distribution operation which programmes its titles in theatres equipped with digital projection technology supplied by Rain Network, has acquired theatrical rights in Brazil to Jose Manuel Gonzalez's Spanish romantic drama The Sandman (El Hombre De Arena).Moviemobz plans to release the film in theatres in the next six ...
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James Gunn to deliver keynote speech at IFTA Production Conference
Film-maker James Gunn will deliver the keynote speech at the Independent Film & Television Alliance's (IFTA) 10th Annual Production Conference in Los Angeles on June 27.Gunn started out with Troma Entertainment where he wrote Tromeo And Juliet. His writing credits include Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Slither and the 2004 ...