All Screen articles in 23 April 2006

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  • News

    Japan's Talk takes best film at Singapore fest awards

    2006-04-28T20:30:00Z

    Japanese director RyuichiHiroki's It's Only Talk won best filmat last night's [April 28] Silver Screen Awards, held as part of the SingaporeInternational Film Festival which closes today with Royston Tan's 4:30.The tragicomedy, whichfocuses on the life of a single woman, was chosen as it "reveals the lonelinessof daily life in ...

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    Media Luna adds six new films to Cannes sales slate

    2006-04-28T17:30:00Z

    TheCritics' Week title pingpong,director Matthias Luthardt's feature film debut, isone of six new titles acquired by Cologne-based Media Luna Entertainment forits Cannes sales line-up this year.Dutch-bornLuthardt's family drama was produced by Berlin production house Junifilm with the broadcaster MDR, the Academy for Film& Television (Konrad Wolf) in Babelsbergand KOPP Film. ...

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    Fortissimo boards Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone

    2006-04-28T14:41:00Z

    FortissimoFilms has acquired worldwide sales rights to Tsai Ming-liang'sI Don't Want To Sleep Alone, set in Malaysia.Thefilm is one of the seven New Crowned Hope (NCH) projects, which willbe shown at Vienna's NCH festival inNovembercelebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.IDon't Want To Sleep Alone stars LeeKang Sheng and Chen ...

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    Warner Bros ends home entertainment distribution in Czech Republic

    2006-04-28T13:19:00Z

    Warner Bros' European homeoffice has decided to cease home video distribution in the Czech market, WarnerBros Czech Republic managing director Ladislav Stastny told ScreenDaily.com.Stastny cited an increase in piracy which, combined with adecrease in pricing, resulted in dramatic decline in revenues from 2004 to2005. According to a report broadcast on ...

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    CineLink selects 11 projects for 2006 market

    2006-04-28T12:52:00Z

    CineLink, the Sarajevo Film Festival'sco-production market for South Eastern Europe created in 2002 in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart, hasselected 11 projects for this year. The 2006 CineLink selection is:Alive, written and directed by Artan Minarolli, AlbaniaCircus Fantastikus, written and directed by Janez Burger, SloveniaFrom Belgrade With Love, written and directed ...

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    Asia, Latin America boost involvement in Cannes Market

    2006-04-28T10:29:00Z

    Despite the lack of Asian films in official selection this year, producers,distributors and sales agents from the region are upping their participation atthe Cannes Market.Market president Jerome Paillard told ScreenDaily.comthat the current overall inscription rate is up 8% over last year with morethan 10,000 participants.Most notably, Asian involvement is up ...

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    Spain's Dygra Films to launch sales division

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Spanish animation producer Dygra Films will launch an international sales departmentat the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.Dygra executive producer Tania Pinto DaCunha, formerly of London's HanWay and Spain's Lolafilms, will head thenew Madrid-based department, working with sales executive Lucas Mackey.Lumina Films' Marina Fuenteswill act as temporary sales consultant and continue to ...

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    Epstein rejoins Littles at Little Film Company

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Los Angeles-based productionand worldwide sales company Little Film Company has hired Clay Epstein as vicepresident of sales and acquisitions.Epstein will report directlyto company chiefs Robbie and Ellen Little and will oversee sales, distributionand marketing of the slate, as well as identifying potential acquisitions.Prior to joining The LittleFilm Company, Epstein served ...

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    Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces starts for Serendipity Point in Canada, Greece

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Production has begun inToronto and the Greek islands of Lesbos and Hydra on Serendipity Point Films'long-gestating drama Fugitive Pieces.The film marks a return tomovies for Jeremy Podeswa, a now experienced TV director who hasn't made a feature since The Five Senses in1999. Toronto-based SerendipityPoint founder Robert Lantos is producing the ...

  • Reviews

    Tirante El Blanco: The Maidens' Conspiracy

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Dir. Vicente Aranda. Sp-UK-It. 2005. 122mins.One of Spain's most revered classics - it is sometimescompared to Don Quixote in importance - Tirante El Blanco(or Tirant lo Blanc in its original Valencian), has been transferred to the screen by Vicente Aranda for a big, handsome period production.Unfortunately,the 15th-century Byzantine sets and ...

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    Palfrey, Wittering among titles at Jackson Hole

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Dan Ireland's Mrs PalfreyAt The Claremont, David Scheinmann'scomedy The West Wittering Affairand Jackie Oudney's VagaBond Shoesare among the line-up in the upcoming Jackson Hole Film Festival in Yellowstone,US.Also screening are severalSundance entries, among them UK filmmakers Nick and Marc Francis' coffeedocumentary Black Gold, Hilary Brougher'sdrama Stephanie Daley, and HamTran's Vietnamese ...

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    Meltdown to soar past $350m for Fox International

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Ice Age 2: The Meltdown was due to cross $350m by the end of the week andFox International executives expect it to remain the dominant tile heading intothe three-day weekend.Strong holdovers in allmarkets will add considerably to the $349m international running total reportedby the close of Apr 27. China will ...

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    The Works takes on Scenes of a Sexual Nature

    2006-04-27T17:39:00Z

    The Works International hastaken on international sales for Ed Blum's Scenesof a Sexual Nature, which will have its market debut at Cannes. The film, written by Aschlin Ditta, follows sevencouples during a summer afternoon around London's Hampstead Heath. Blum also produced the film, with VadimJean and Suran Goonatilake servingas executive ...

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    Cronica De Una Fuga moves into Cannes competition

    2006-04-27T17:11:00Z

    As Cannes Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux predicted, there has been an addition to theofficial competition for this year's festival.CronicaDe Una Fugaby Adrian Caetano has moved from Un Certain Regard tothe main competition section while Murali K. Thalluri's debut Two Thirty 7, has been placed in UnCertain Regard. The first ...

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    Princess, The Host are early picks for Directors Fortnight

    2006-04-27T16:36:00Z

    The Cannes Directors Fortnight sidebar will open with Danishanimated/live-action film Princess. This is the first time in 29 years that a Danishfilm has made the Fortnight cut.The 80% animated, 20% live-action work is directed by first-time featuredirector Anders Morgenthaler, whose short Araki- The Killing of a Japanese Photographer was shown ...

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    Canadian, Greek shoot starts for Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces

    2006-04-27T16:21:00Z

    Serendipity Point Films has started principal photography on its drama Fugitive Pieces. Jeremy Podeswa isdirecting and also adapted the screenplay from Anne Michaels' book of the samename. The story follows a Jewish-Polish boy who is orphaned during WWII, saved bya Greek archaelogist, and later finds love as an adult living ...

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    Finland's Salmenpera starts Man's Job shoot

    2006-04-27T16:05:00Z

    Finnishdirector Aleksi Salmenpera has started shooting his second feature Man's Job (Miehen tyo).Salmenpera also wrote Man'sJob, the story of an unemployed man who becomes a gigolo to support hisfamily. The cast features Tommi Korpela, JaniVolanen and Maria Heiskanen. Petri Jokiranta and TeroKaukomaa are producing forBlind Spot Pictures. They expect delivery ...

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    Cannes police threaten symbolic strike on festival's opening day

    2006-04-27T16:00:00Z

    Municipal police in Cannes have threatened to strike for less than one houron the opening day of the Cannes Film Festival, May 17.Agence France Presse reports that disgruntled police officers unhappy withsanctions, pressures and insufficient safety measures have said they willregister their formal intent to strike on May 10 should ...

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    Bavaria sells Into Great Silence to four more territories

    2006-04-27T15:22:00Z

    TheUK's Soda Pictures and Australia's DendyFilms are among the latest distributors to have picked up Philip Groening's documentary IntoGreat Silence on life in the legendary Carthusianorder of monks.Salesagent Bavaria Film International has also sold all rights to Canada's Mongrel Media and France's Diaphana,joining previous sales made since the film's premiere ...

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    German media funds lobby for access to private capital

    2006-04-27T15:07:00Z

    The German mediafund lobby group Bundesverband PrivatkapitalFilm & Medien (BPFM) has entered the debate onthe future of film financing in Germany as the Angela Merkel administrationprepares to unveil a new financial instrument by July 1. In a ten-pointplan, BPFM managing director and media lawyer Robert Strassercalled for "a practical regulation ...