All Screen articles in 19 June 2009
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NewsSchwarz promoted to SVP at Participant
Participant Media has promoted Liana Schwarz to Senior Vice President, Campaign Development & Operations.
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NewsTelluride picks Payne as guest director for 2009 festival
Alexander Payne will serve as the guest director for the 36th Telluride Film Festival, which will run September 4-7.
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NewsDigital Britain to allow commercial access to orphan works
The British Film Institute (BFI) is set to benefit from plans to allow commercial access to orphan works; content where the rights owner can not be identified or found.
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NewsDigital Britain: Industry Reaction
ScreenDaily rounds up the industry reaction to key proposals for film industry from the Digital Britain report.
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NewsRevenant takes CineVegas audience prize
The 11th annual CineVegas Film Festival has announced the winners of its audience awards, with Kerry Prior’s The Revenant winning best narrative and Ben Steinbauer’s Winnebago Man winning best documentary.
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NewsWeather Girl to get US theatrical release via producers
Secret Identity Productions will handle the US theatrical release of Weather Girl, which plays this week at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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NewsSmartJog strikes digital server deal with Europalaces
French cinema chain Europalaces, which owns Gaumont and Pathe cinemas, has struck a deal to use SmartJog Digital Cinema Central Library Servers.
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NewsHungary selects Goda's Chameleon as Oscar entry
It may not be officially summer yet, but the Hungarians are entering the Oscar-season race with Chameleon.
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NewsSundance boosted Utah economy by $92m, study says
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival had an overall economic impact worth a record $92.1m in Utah, the Sundance Institute announced.
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NewsHere completes merger with Planet Out
Here Networks has completed its merger deal with PlanetOut Inc. The new public company will be called Here Media.
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NewsOverture swoons for Rashida Jones' Forever
Overture Films has acquired romantic comedy Celeste and Jesse Forever, co-written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack.
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NewsNew BAMcinemaFEST kicks off with Don't Let Me Drown
New York City’s newest film festival, BAMcinemaFEST, kicks off tonight in Brooklyn with the opening night presentation of Cruz Angeles’ Brooklyn-based love story Don’t Let Me Drown.
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NewsLiddell/Freestyle plan July US launch for The Collector
Liddell Entertainment has acquired US theatrical rights to Marcus Dunstan’s horror-thriller The Collector.
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NewsLee Ginsberg, Chris Libby launch new PR firm
Public relations veterans Lee Ginsberg and Chris Libby are partnering to launch new PR firm Ginsberg Libby.
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NewsE J-yong starts shooting ensemble drama Actresses
Untold Scandal director E J-yong has started production on his upcoming film Actresses (working title) with an ensemble cast of six of Korea’s top female thespians.
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NewsPiano, Goodbye Ani take top prizes at Shanghai’s CFPC
Zhang Meng’s The Piano In The Factory and Kwok Jae-yong’s Goodbye Ani took the top two prizes at China Film Pitch and Catch (CFPC), the projects market of the Shanghai International Film Festival, last night.
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CommentDigital Britain's clear vision
Digital Britain lays an impressive and abitious framework for the future of communications in the UK, but leaves many questions unanswered.
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FeaturesPlaying Away
The Oscar winner Sam Mendes tells Mike Goodridge why his Edinburgh opener Away We Go is a far cry from big-budget Hollywood.
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CommentPutting the foreign first
As the blockbuster success of Angels & Demons outside the US is proving, a number of major studio films are being crafted and targeted with international markets in mind.
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CommentThe road to independents
IM Global is one of the few international sales companies that seems to be making headway in a tepid foreign-sales market. Founder and CEO Stuart Ford explains the principal causes of the current market conditions