All Screen articles in 23 October 2006

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    Donner, Juonifilmi on board for The Border

    2006-10-23T17:15:00Z

    Oscar-winning Finnishproducer Jorn Donner will return to filmmaking after a six-year hiatus, asproducer of Lauri Torhonen's The Border, which marks the first feature from productioncompany Juonifilmi. Scripted by Aleksi Bardy, The Border is based on the real-lifestory of Donner's father, which Donner told Torhonen as they collaborated onthe 1986 film ...

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    Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race

    2006-10-23T14:35:00Z

    The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race to ...

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    Germany's FFA backs next Glawogger film

    2006-10-23T13:25:00Z

    New feature films fromAustria's Michael Glawogger, theatre/film director Leander Hausmann and the directorialduo Marcus Mittermeier and Jan Henrik Stahlberg are among seven projectsawarded a total of $2.8m (Euros 2.25m) production support by the German FederalFilm Board (FFA).Glawogger received $313,937(Euros 250,000) for Contact High, thesequel to his comedy Nacktschnecken, which will ...

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    EFA documentary nominees Groening and Hopkins

    2006-10-23T12:45:00Z

    The European Film Academy hasannounced the nominees for this year's Prix Arte for documentary film. The eight nominees are:37 Uses For A Dead Sheep by BenHopkins (UK)Into Great Silence (Die Grosse Stille)by Philip Groening (Germany)Dreaming By Numbers by Anna Bucchetti(The Netherlands)Grandmother's House (La Casa De MiAbuela) by Adan Aliaga (Spain)Maradona, ...

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    UK's AAM adds downloads-to-own from Sony

    2006-10-23T12:01:00Z

    Following on their VOD deal announced in August, Arts Alliance Media (AAM) and Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) have struck anagreement for downloads-to-own. Starting today, AAM's partner sites LoveFilm and AOL UK will offer UK-only downloads-to-own of select Sony Pictures films.The initial 40 films onoffer include The Da Vinci Code, ...

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    Flanders Fest awards top prize to Ten Canoes

    2006-10-23T11:43:00Z

    The Flanders InternationalFilm Festival closed its 33rd edition with its top award going to Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer and PeterDjigirr. The grand prize for bestfilm came with a $25,116 (Euros 20,000) award to help with distribution costsin Flanders and Brussels. Producer Jan Harlan chairedthe jury, which also included ...

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    Berlinale gets cooking with new culinary cinema sidebar

    2006-10-23T11:03:00Z

    Berlinale festivaldirector Dieter Kosslick is introducing a new film programme of features,documentaries and shorts entitled Look & Cook - Culinary Cinema at the 2007festival. Held at the Wintergartenvariete theatre ten minutes away from Potsdamer Platz, the programme will includescreenings complemented by discussions and tastings as top German chefs will beinvited ...

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    Animaker plans Finland's highest-budget feature

    2006-10-23T03:00:00Z

    Following Help! I'm a Fish and The Ugly Duckling And Me!,Danish director Michael Hegner stays in animal kingdom for his next feature, The Way To The Stars.Staged by Finnish productionhouse Animaker, and co-directed by Finnish director Kari Juusonen, the $7.7m(Euros 6.1m) CGI-animated feature - the most expensive productionever in Finland ...

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    Gothams honour Winslet, Norton, unveil nominations list

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    KateWinslet and Edward Norton will receive 2006 Gotham Tributes at the upcoming16th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Nov 29.TheGotham Awards will also honour multiple filmmakers with its first annual WorldCinema Tribute. This year, the tribute will be presented to the Mexican trio ofAlfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and ...

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    Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Thenominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema wereannounced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film arePatrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.MusicalPerhapsLove dominates the race to thefinishing line with 12 nominations ...

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    MPAA teams up with City Of New York to crack down on piracy

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    TheMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has teamed up with the city of NewYork to crack down on piracy through new legislation and noise abatement laws.Thecity will introduce legislation to criminalise illegal recording of copyrightedworks and will coordinate with the MPAA to use nuisance abatement laws to shutdown piracy operations ...

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    Fireworks from Iran wins Gold Hugo at Chicago Film Festival

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Asghar Farhadi's Iranian drama Fireworks Wednesday won the Gold Hugo for bestfilm at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.The Silver Hugo Special Jury Prize went to Rachid Bouchareb'sAlgerian foreign-language Oscar submission Days Of Glory, and the Silver Hugo was awarded toGyorgy Palfi's Hungarian drama Taxidermia.The Gold Hugo award for best ...

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    Telefilm Canada overhauls film funding regime

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Canada's principal public sector film funder, TelefilmCanada, has announced a much-anticipated overhaul of its methods of investment- and re-investment - in the nation's indigenous production and distributionindustry. The changes affect the $71m (C$81m) Canadian Feature FilmFund (CFFF) as it is applied in both English-lanuage and French-languagesectors in the 2007-2008 allotment.The ...

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    Brazil's Two Sons wins music-themed Turks & Caicos festival

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Thefirst annual Turks & Caicos International Film Festival closed at theweekend [21] as Breno Silveira's Brazilian drama Two Sons Of Francisco was named best feature and The Hip Hop Project, on which Queen Latifah and Bruce Willis served asexecutive producers, won best documentary honours.MarkBecker was named best director for Romantico, ...

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    Lien's Bothersome Man takes top honours at The Hamptons

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Jens Lien's Norwegian comedy-horror movie The Bothersome Man won the Golden Starfish for bestnarrative feature at the 14th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival,while Georgi Lazarevski's Voyage In G Major won corresponding documentary honours.The Bothersome Man also won the Kodak Award For Best Cinematography for JohnChristian Rosenlund.The Zicherman Family Foundation Award ...

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    Frank Stirling leaves Boeing for digital cinema unit at Panorama Labs

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Frank Stirling has been named president of Panorama Labs' digital cinemastrategic business unit.Effective immediately, Stirling becomes responsible for managing day-to-dayoperations, including overseeing development of a digital cinema projector fortheatrical exhibition. He will be based in Los Angeles.Stirling previously served as executive director of Boeing DigitalCinema, where he deployed 31 operational ...

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    Bigelow enters The Hurt Locker for Voltage Pictures

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Kathryn Bigelow has begun pre-production on Iraq-set action drama TheHurt Locker, whichVoltage Pictures will commence selling at AFM next month.The Hurt Locker follows the exploits of an elite bomb disposal unit and is basedon a screenplay Bigelow co-wrote with war reporter Mark Boal.Greg Shapiro is producing and principal photography is ...

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    Henson's Fraggle Rock headed for the big screen

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    The Jim Henson Company is developing a full-length feature basedon its 1980s television show Fraggle Rock.The story will follow the adventures of Fraggle Rockresidents Gobo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red as they venture outside theirhome and encounter new creatures.Ahmet Zappa is writing the screenplay and will serve as executive produceralongside ...

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    Isabella wins best film at Bangkok World film fest

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Pang Ho Cheung's Isabella from Hong Kong was awarded best film at the 4th World Film Festival of Bangkok onSunday night (October 22).The jury reached thedecision unanimously for the film's multiple merits which include "the powerfulperformance of both its lead actors, the dynamic direction as well as theimpressive cinematography and ...

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    Screenwriting guru Field to receive honour from Big Break Awards

    2006-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Syd Field will collect Final Draft's 2006 Hall Of FameAward at the 7th Annual Big Break! Awards in Hollywood on Oct 26.Winners of the Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest willalso be announced at the event.The Hall of Fame Award recognises entertainment industry luminarieswho foster the art of scriptwriting and nurture ...