Screen
23 Sept 2010
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Dogtooth enters the Oscar race for Greece
Giorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (Kynodontas) will represent Greece in this year’s Foreign Language Academy Awards race. -
Latido takes sales rights to Ventura Pons’ A Thousand Fools
Juan Torres joins Latido’s international sales team. -
Spain selects Even The Rain for Oscar race
The Spanish Film Academy has selected multi award-winning director Iciar Bollain’s drama Even The Rain to represent Spain for the foreign-language Oscar, beating off competition from prison drama Cell 211 and historical romantic epic -
Uncle Boonmee German co-producer backed by new regional film fund
Hans W. Geissendoerfer, one of the co-producers of this year’s Golden Palm winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, has become one of the first film producers to benefit from a new regional fund based in South Tyrol. -
Artificial Eye buys 11 including Essential Killing, Silent Souls, Route Irish
Artificial Eye has been on a buying spree. The voracious UK distributor has announced 11 high profile acquisitions including a number of award winners from the recent Cannes, Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. -
Beijing's LeTV receives 15m loan from Bank of Hangzhou for film investment
China’s Bank of Hangzhou announced $14.73m (RMB100m) loan to Beijing-based film investment and production firm LeTV Pictures on the company’s film investment projects in the coming year. -
Besa joins Oscar race for Serbia
The Serbian Academy Of Film Arts And Sciences has chosen veteran director Srdjan Karanovic’s Besa (Solemn Promise) as Serbia’s candidate for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards. -
Chinese film libraries set for digital reboot
The shifting distribution models that have changed the library business globally may lead to a slightly more hopeful picture for the Chinese-speaking world. -
Constantin Film and Michael Steiner plan future collaborations
Constantin Film Schweiz and Michael Steiner, director of Zurich Film Festival’s opening film Sennentuntschi, are to collaborate on film projects in the future. -
ContentFilm takes on Welsh films Separado!, A Bit of Tom Jones?
ContentFilm International has acquired international rights to two new films, documentary Separado! and comedy A Bit of Tom Jones?, ahead of MIPCOM. -
Denmark picks Bier's In a Better World for Oscar race
Danish director Susanne Bier will have a second chance at the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, after the Danish Oscar committee yesterday [23] decided to submit her eleventh feature, In A Better World (Hævnen), as Denmark’s candidate for the nominations this year. Bier’s After the Wedding (Efter Brylluppet) was the Danish ticket in 2007. -
Disney Research gets Swiss innovation award
Disney Research Zurich (DRZ) has been awarded the Tell Award “for most significant Swiss Technology and Innovation Investment in 2009” in recognition of the Walt Disney Company’s inward investment into the Greater Zurich Area. -
Doha unveils programme including new 10-film Arab competition
The second Doha Tribeca Film Festival (Oct 26-30) has announced its lineup, kicking off with Rachid Bouchareb’s Algerian drama Outside The Law and closing with Justin Chadwick’s -
Dubai Film Festival teams up with San Sebastian's Cinema In Motion
Arab filmmaking promoted in Europe. -
EFA finalises short film nominees
Bálint Szimler’s Hungarian short Here I Am completes the line up after being selected at the International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece. -
EMI/Virgin to release Swedish House Mafia film
EMI and Virgin Records will release Christian Larson’s Take One on DVD and download on Nov 29. -
Groen to direct UK-Dutch co-pro Lilet Never Happened
Dutch filmmaker Jacco Groen has written and will direct Lilet Never Happened, a drama about child prostitution in the Philippines, which is based on a real story. -
Hot projects on Screenbase
Italian comedy Come Non Detto and Spain’s La Banda Picasso, are among the host of new films on Screenbase. -
Hot projects on Screenbase this week
New films on the online production listings, Screenbase, include an array of French co-productions including Des Vents Contraires, Les Amants De Low Life as well as German film -
Human Resources Manager enters Oscar race for Israel
Eran Riklis’ The Human Resources Managerhas been chosen as the Foreign Language Oscar submission from Israel. -
Iceland selects Mamma Gogo for Oscar race
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s Mamma Gogo will represent Iceland in this Foreign-Language Oscar race. -
Investment group Shamrock acquires stake in Screenvision
Disney investment arm Shamrock Capital Growth Fund II has acquired ITV’s stake in cinema advertising firm Screenvision for $80m. -
Italy selects The First Beautiful Thing for Oscar race
Paolo Virzi’s bittersweet comedy The First Beautiful Thing (La Prima Cosa Bella) has been selected as Italy’s candidate to the foreign Oscar. -
Karl Spoerri: Zurich can become German-language film hub
The German-language film industry can become more successful by working together on more co-productions, Zurich Film Festival director Karl Spoerri told Screen as the festival kicked off last night. -
Kawasaki's Rose enters Oscar race for Czech Republic
The Czech Film and Television Academy selected Kawasaki’s Rose as this year’s Czech Oscar Entry. -
Kazakhstan steps up as international co-producer
Located at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, Kazakhstan is in the right geographical spot to become an international co-producer, and now with a burgeoning local film industry, it’s developing the talent and the financing power too. -
Loft
Producer Rachel van Bommel of Millstreet Films and director Antoinette Beumer discuss their new feature Loft, a Dutch remake of Erik Van Looy’s runaway Flemish hit of the same name. As they reveal, the film, currently in post-production, was an eventful and sometimes very hazardous shoot. -
London Film Festival adds Inside Job
The 54th BFI London Film Festival has added Charles Ferguson’s documentary Inside Job to its line up. -
Markus Welter starts shoot for 3D slasher film One Way Trip
Shooting begins today at Swiss locations on Markus Welter’s 3D horror slasher film One Way Trip. -
Montreal Nouveau Cinema to present more than 295 'eclectic' films
Festival to open with Daniel Grou-Podz’s 10½. -
Mumbai fest's Business Centre to welcome 25 top international buyers and sellers
Mumbai Film Festival to offer 200 films from 58 countries. -
Neracher hopes to talent spot on Zurich jury duty
Swiss producer Christof Neracher may have two films about to start shooting and several more in development, but he’s not going to let that get in the way of his jury duties at this week’s Zurich Film Festival. -
Netherlands Film Festival ticket sales up despite Dutch doubts
Netherlands Film Festival Director Willemien van Aalst has called on any new Dutch Government to respect the “social significance” of Dutch cinema. -
Pellegrino sets up new company with writer-director Birgit Stein
Producer-financier Roland Pellegrino has set up the Stuttgart-based production outfit PS-Filmproduction with writer-director Birgit Stein to produce her feature debut No Mercy. -
Peter Mullan's drama Neds wins Golden Shell at San Sebastian
Neds from director Peter Mullan picked up the Golden Shell award for best film at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, while Raul Ruiz took the Silver Shell best director prize for his four and a half hour epic Mysteries Of Lisbon. -
Producer and director behind 180º plan class reunion story
Producer Anne Walser of C-Films and writer/director Cihan Inan are already at work on another project together, after the world premiere of 180º here in Zurich. -
Reykjavik festival kicks off today, presenting 140 films
The seventh Reykjavik International Film Festival kicks off tonight with Cyrus by Jay and Mark Duplass. -
Sennentuntschi's long road to Zurich opening night
Michael Steiner had several years of waiting for last night’s world premiere of his much-anticipated fourth feature Sennentuntschi. -
Seven projects chosen for CentEast Market
The 6th CentEast Market will feature seven selected projects from Central and Eastern Europe. -
Simon Glass to make feature debut with East End thriller
UK director Simon Glass is to make his feature debut with noir thriller The Existentialist: and The MysteriousMurder of God, which will be produced by Arid Pictures. -
Soda strikes UK deal for Meek's Cutoff
UK distributor Soda Pictures has continued its autumn buying by acquiring Kelly Reichardt’s Venice and Toronto title Meek’s Cutoff. -
Stealth, Premiere start new fund for film and TV finance
Stealth Media Group (SMG) and financier Premiere Picture have partnered to create a joint venture TV and film finance fund, Premiere Stealth Securities (PSS), set to launch at MIPCOM. -
Stockholm to present masterclasses by Meadows, Herbert, Edwards
Also, Works In Progress presentations include Ulrich Thomsen’s feature directorial debut. -
Swiss Films awaits news of changing government support
It could be interesting times ahead for promotional agency Swiss Films. The group’s government backing is currently in place, but Francine Brücher said: “At the moment there is a lot of talk and debate concerning the film law. There might be some possibly changes, the subsidy is in discussion, we’ll know at the end of the year. Nicolas Bideau is leaving as head of the film department at BAK. “So things always change with a new administration,” she added.It’s a strong year -
Swiss national fund backs five international co-productions
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture (BAK) has awarded over $2.6m (CHF 2.5m) to five international co-productions in the latest round of funding from its film section. -
Swiss Oscar entry nominated for Prix Europa
Switzerland’s Oscar entry La Petite Chambre by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond is among fiveSwiss films nominated in this year’s Prix Europa competition, being held in Berlin from October 16 to23. -
TVE increases film spend and stands firm on sales business
Major Spanish public broadcaster TVE has increased its investment in films by 20% to $47m (€35m) for 2010 and will continue its film sales activities, despite former TVE head of cinema insisting sales activities would be wound down. -
Ukranian government's new laws to boost film industry
New laws, scheduled to come into effect in Ukraine from Jan 1, are expected to help to provide the recovery of the country’s film industry, which has been in decline since the collapse of the USSR. -
Zurich Film Foundation doles out $1m; Film Office plans afoot
New feature films from Oliver Paulus, Isabel Kleefeld and Friederike Jehn are among the projects supported with over USD 1m (CHF 1m) by the Zurich Film Foundation at its latest sitting.
