All Screen articles in 20 January 2002

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  • News

    Personal Velocity speeds to victory at Sundance

    2002-01-20T20:42:00Z

    Low-budget digital video films came out the big winners at this year's Sundance Film Festival with Rebecca Miller's female-slanted triptych Personal Velocity winning the Grand Jury Prize and Gary Winick's first love comedy Tadpole starring Sigourney Weaver cited for best direction in the dramatic competition. Both films were made under ...

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    Bavarian Film Awards honour Berlin competitor

    2002-01-20T18:19:00Z

    With less than three weeks to go to the Berlin International Film Festival, Official Competition entry A Map Of The Heart (Der Felsen) was amongst the main winners at this year's Bavarian Film Awards.Directed by Dominik Graf, the melodrama won the producer prize for MTM Medien & Television Muenchen, which ...

  • News

    101 Reykjavik director heads to Flach Pyramide

    2002-01-18T17:28:00Z

    French foreign sales house Flach Pyramide International has acquired The Sea, by 101 Reykjavik director Baltasar Kormakur.The $2.4m comedic family drama tells the story of the owner of an Icelandic fishery who decides to step down. Produced by Jean-Francois Fonlupt's Emotion Pictures and co-produced by Kormakur's own Blue Eye Production, ...

  • News

    Shooting Stars assemble for Berlin festival

    2002-01-18T17:02:00Z

    Germany's Antonio Wannek, the UK's Lucy Russell and France's Rachida Brakni are among the up-and-coming actors and actresses being feted at the Berlin International Film Festival by the Shooting Stars initiative for promoting European talent.Oscar-winning director Istvan Szabo will introduce the 17 young actors and actresses to the press and ...

  • News

    Rotterdam, Berlin launch production partnership

    2002-01-18T16:24:00Z

    The Rotterdam and Berlin festivals are to share projects from Rotterdam's Cinemart co-production market as the first step in a new round of co-operation. The initiative, labelled the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express, will see six of the 43 part-funded Cinemart features transferring to Berlin, which opens on February 6 only days after ...

  • News

    Gothenburg secures premieres, Berlin previews

    2002-01-18T15:47:00Z

    A host of international premieres, along with at least two titles destined to go on to Berlin, will get an airing this month at Scandinavia's largest film event, the Gothenburg International Film Festival.Titles in the Nordic competition section include Muraren, a portrait of Swedish actor Thommy Berggren by veteran director ...

  • News

    Utopia Blues triumphs at Swiss Film Awards

    2002-01-18T15:45:00Z

    Utopia Blues was the big winner at this year's Swiss Film Awards.Directed by Stefan Haupt, the film took home the honours in the best feature and best actor categories at an awards ceremony held at this week's Solothurn Film Days. The film's star, Michael Finger, has also been selected as ...

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    Danes grab limelight at Berlin's Kinderfilmfest

    2002-01-18T15:42:00Z

    Denmark has a strong presence at next month's 25th anniversary edition of Kinderfilmfest at the Berlin International Film Festival.The children's film festival will showcase Danish fare such as Catch That Girl (Klatretosen), the debut of Hans Fabian Wullenweber in which a thirteen-year-old girl robs a bank to save her father's ...

  • News

    Fantasporto festival unveils genre selection

    2002-01-18T15:38:00Z

    Jack the Ripper story From Hell, Angel de la Cruz's Spanish 3D computer animation El Bosque Animado and German hit Das Experiment are amongst the films in the official section at leading European fantasy and genre festival, Fantasporto.The Portuguese event, more formerly known as the Oporto International Film Festival, will ...

  • News

    German crits awards snub triple nominees

    2002-01-18T03:37:00Z

    Christian Petzold's The State I Am In and Achim von Borries' England! picked up two awards each in this year's round of honours by the German film critics association Verband Der Deutschen Filmkritik. Andreas Dresen's The Policewoman (Die Polizistin) and Ben Verbong's family film The Slurb (Das Sams) both came ...

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    Tel Aviv film festival postponed for a year

    2002-01-18T03:27:00Z

    The ambitious Tel Aviv Film Festival has been postponed for a year.The city's government decided to push back the festival from March until late next year to coincide with the opening of a new Cinema Centre annexed to the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. The city has secured sponsorship worth $3m from ...

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    Thailand slashes tax as production incentive

    2002-01-18T03:23:00Z

    The Thai government has announced a series of measures, including substantial tax cuts, to entice foreign films to use Thailand as a production location.With Thailand pulling in an impressive $29m (baht1.27bn) in tax revenues from foreign film productions last year, more than double 2000's $12.6m (baht553 m), the measures ...

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    The rise and fall of Italian cinema admissions

    2002-01-18T03:18:00Z

    Annual box office revenues for Italy's new generation of multiplex cinemas appear to be growing at roughly the same rate as the decline in the profitability of the country's traditional theatres, according to latest industry estimates.Italian box office revenues rose by 4.89% to $384.6m in 2001 compared to $366.6m in ...

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    Weisbein to head StudioCanal international sales

    2002-01-18T03:07:00Z

    StudioCanal, the film and television arm of Vivendi Universal, is believed to be close to announcing the appointment of Pierre Weisbein as head of the outfit's international sales - a position which has been vacant since Daniel Marquet left to oversee the expansion of the studio structure across EuropeIn his ...

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    Scherfig commits to English-language Suicide

    2002-01-18T03:02:00Z

    Lone Scherfig, director of Denmark's foreign-language Oscar hopeful Italian For Beginners, is to make her first English-language film.Vilbur Wants To Commit Suicide will be produced by newcomer Sisse Graum Olsen, who recently made her debut with Niels Arden Oplev's black comedy Chop Chop (Fukssvansen) for Zentropa. The film will shoot ...

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    Regent launches gay division HERE

    2002-01-18T01:07:00Z

    Regent Entertainment is to launch a gay label called HERE Films which will provide gay films with domestic theatrical distribution capabilities (HERE Releasing) as well as international sales (HERE International) and a pay-per-view and video-on-demand service (HERE Network).The label was announced by Regent partners Paul Colichman and Stephen P Jarchow ...

  • News

    Slamdance TV to debut on Canada's Movieola

    2002-01-18T01:04:00Z

    Canadian short film TV channel Movieola has entered into a production agreement with Slamdance Entertainment to form Slamdance TV, a 26-part series giving an inside look at independent film-making. Slamdance Entertainment is a joint venture between Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline and the Slamdance Film Festival.The series will start playing on ...

  • News

    Sundance: Love to THINKFilm, Sex to Palm

    2002-01-18T01:02:00Z

    Two more acquisitions were closed in Park City yesterday in arguably the busiest Sundance on record for deals. New distributor THINKFilm, which yesterday completed its acquisition of Gus Van Sant's Gerry, has now taken North American rights on out-of-competition selection Love In The Time Of Money, while Chris Blackwell's Palm ...

  • News

    Ocean's Eleven moves on international market

    2002-01-17T16:58:00Z

    Steven Soderbergh's ensemble heist caper Ocean's Eleven has started its international roll-out to strong receptions. His follow up to Traffic, which earned Soderbergh an Academy Award for direction last year, Ocean's Eleven ousted The Lord Of The Rings from top spots in Australia and Switzerland.Taking the lead down under the ...

  • Reviews

    Intact (Intacto)

    2002-01-17T16:56:00Z

    Dir: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Spain. 108mins.Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has crafted an accomplished feature debut with Intact (Intacto), a thriller characterised by slick visuals and an imaginative storyline. The film has done well, although not spectacularly, in its home market, earning $1.17m (pts218.6m) in its first five weeks. International prospects, ...