All Screen articles in 21 April 2008
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Bornedal's The Substitute wins audience award at Sprockets
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal's The Substitute won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the 11th Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children. The story follows a group of school children who suspect their substitute teacher may be an alien. Best animated film honours went to US filmmaker ...
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Grain, Ch'tis win critics, audience awards at COLCOA in LA
Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar-winning The Secret Of The Grain won the first ever critics award at the 12th annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) in Los Angeles over the weekend.COLCOA, a week of French film premieres in Hollywood, ended on Sunday and also announced that Dany Boon's smash hit ...
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Momentum signs first-look deal with producers See-Saw
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has signed a first-look deal with the new London- and Sydney-based production company See-Saw Films.Momentum previously worked with one of See-Saw's founders, Iain Canning, with Anton Corbijn's hit Control.See-Saw, formed by Canning and producer Emile Sherman, is concentrating on producing and executive producing UK and Australian ...
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Momentum signs first-look deal with producers See-Saw
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has signed a first-look deal with the new London- and Sydney-based production company See-Saw Films.Momentum previously worked with one of See-Saw's founders, Iain Canning, with Anton Corbijn's hit Control.See-Saw, formed by Canning and producer Emile Sherman, is concentrating on producing and executive producing UK and Australian ...
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London's Salt signs first-look deal with Alcove Entertainment
London-based sales and finance company Salt (formerly Lumina Films) has signed a reciprocal first-look with Alcove Entertainment.Salt will be given first look to take on sales for productions by the London-Los Angeles-Dubai production and finance company. Also, Salt will bring new films into Alcove for production financing.Alcove is finalising the ...
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Princess Ka'iulani wraps in Hawaii and moves to UK shoot
Princess Ka'iulani, formerly titled Barbarian Princess, has ended the four-week Hawaiian leg of its shoot. The production will now move to shoot for 10 days in Norfolk, England by the end of April.Matador Pictures and Island Film Group's project is based on the true story of a Hawaiian princess who ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink adds Austria to regional co-production market
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced the selections for CineLink, its regional co-production market created in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart. The market will take place from Aug 20-23 and the 15 projects will be divided in two groups: CineLink and CineLink+.CineLink includes 12 projects that will participate ...
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Pathology
Dir. Marc Schoelermann, US, 2008, 93 minutesPathology is a cut-em-up thriller that follows a young physician into a snarl of medical residents who make sure that they always have a steady supply of freshly-killed bodies to examine, no matter what it takes. If your taste runs to sawed-open chests and ...
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ReviewsThe Children Of Huang Shi
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode, 2008, China/Australia/Germany, 125 minutes.The Children of Huang Shi is the epic tale of a journalist seeking adventure who leads an orphanage of Chinese boys to safety from Japanese invaders in the late 1930’s. Yet the real test of endurance is on the shoulders of an audience challenged ...
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Korean admissions drop by 10% in first quarter
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced first quarter figures that show an estimated 10% drop in admissions year-on-year. South Korea saw 35.58 million admissions to the tune of $233.13m (KW231.2bn) from Jan 1- March 31, 2008. KOFIC's report notes that, considering the fact that the number of releases for ...
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Redpath steps up to become director of Berlinale's Generation
Maryanne Redpath has been appointed the new director of the Berlinale's children's and youth film section Generation.Dieter Kosslick announced the appointment, which takes effect May 1.Redpath is currently co-director of Generation and has worked for the festival since 1993.Florian Weghorn, who has been with Generation since 2002, will now be ...
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Ruby Blue, Kill Kill win top prizes at London International fest
At the London Independent Film Festival, Jan Dunn's Ruby Blue won best UK feature and Gareth Roberts' Kill Kill Faster Faster won best international feature.For the UK award, sponsored by Prime Focus London, writer/director Dunn and her producer Elaine Wickham won post-production finance worth about $100,000.Julian Richards was named best ...
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Special People wins Germany's Britspotting prize
Justin Edgar's Special People won the best feature audience award at Britspotting, the British & Irish Film Festival in Germany. The film wins a post-production/editing prize worth $22,200 (Euros 14,000).Dominic Coleman, Sasha Hardway, Robyn Frampton, David Proud and Jason Maza star in the story of four kids in wheelchairs who ...
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The Match Factory to handle Petzold's new feature Jerichow
The Match Factory will handle international sales on Christian Petzold's new feature Jerichow which begins shooting in the east German town of Wittenberge, the Prignitz region and along the Elbe from today. It is the sales agent's second Petzold film after his 2007 competition film Yella and marks the director's ...
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Edinburgh programmes 22 docs, with gala for Man On Wire
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced that its programme will include 22 documentary features this year.There will be three galas for Chris Waitt's A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures, James Marsh's Man On Wire and Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure.In addition, festival's Document section will show 19 ...
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Citizen Havel, Everything Is Relativein firstDoc Alliance showcase
Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav Janek's Citizen Havel and Danish filmmaker Mikala Krogh's Everything Is Relative are among five creative theatrical documentaries to be showcased by a new venture called Doc Alliance created by five leading European documentary film festivals.Doc Alliance's first lineup is: Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav ...
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Baby Mama
Dir: Michael McCullers . US. 2008. 98 mins.A smart comedy for adults, Baby Mama is a consistently funny pleasure, filled with charismatic performances and a nicely understated emotional element. Though superficially an Odd Couple-style look at two mismatched women - one hired to carry the other's child to term - ...
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Twelve titles to compete for Plzen's Golden Kingfisher
The 21st Finale festival of Czech films begins April 21 in Plzen, Czech Republic. The annual event is a competitive and comprehensive overview of Czech feature-length films released in the past year.Twelve titles will compete for the Golden Kingfisher for Best Feature Film, including the French-UK-Czech co-production La Vie En ...
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Nayar, Grushow team up for digital studio Filmaka
LA-based producer Deepak Nayar and former Fox TV chief Sandy Grushow have officially launched Filmaka, an ambitious 'digital studio' and online creative community which plans to create a new model for identifying talent and developing entertainment properties.Nayar founded the company, which is based at www.Filmaka.com, in late 2006 as a ...
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Thailand's GTH has phobia for Cannes market
Leading Thai producer-distributor GMM Tai Hub (GTH) will debut a new portmanteau film 4bia (pronounced as 'phobia') at the Cannes Film Market. The new picture is directed by four horror gurus: Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun (the duo directors behind Shutter and Alone), Paween Purijitpanya (Body) and veteran filmmaker Yongyoot ...