All Screen articles in 25 September 2002
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Wellspring acquires two for US from Celluloid Dreams
Wellspring Media has picked up US rights to two European films - Alexander Sokurov's acclaimed Cannes title Russian Ark and Bille Eltringham's UK DV thriller This Is Not A Love Song. Both films were sold by Paris-based sales outfit Celluloid Dreams. Russian Ark is slated for a release before the ...
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UK government backs festival to promote EU enlargement
The UK Government is spending£12,000 to back a London film festival showcasing Eastern European film - in a bid to help raise awareness of the planned enlargement of European Union in 2004. The New Europe Film Season opened at London's Barbican Screen on Thursday (19 September).According to a Foreign Office ...
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Open Hearts, The Sea do storming business in the Nordic region
US blockbuster Signs may have dominated many of the bigger European territories, but in the Nordic countries two home grown titles are generating big returns.In Denmark, Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's new film Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) (pictured), which screens in competition at San Sebastian this week, has again ...
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Moonstone sells Chen Kaige's Together to five territories
Etchie Stroh's Moonstone Entertainment has closed a slew of deals on Chen Kaige's latest film Together which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last week and was swiftly sold to United Artists for North America.Momentum Pictures bought the film for the UK, A-Film for Benelux, Vertigo for Spain, ...
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Hong Kong film industry hammers out crisis proposals
The creation of a Hong Kong Film Commission - centralising all of the territory's film support mechanisms - was one of the key proposals to emerge from a crisis conference held by the Hong Kong film industry yesterday (September 18).Conference delegates also suggested that the Hong Kong government underwrite bank ...
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Newmarket makes it four with Whale Rider
Marking its fourth film acquisition in the last two weeks, upstart US distribution outfit Newmarket Films has acquired all North American rights to Whale Rider, Niki Caro's magical fable from New Zealand, which won the AGF People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend.The film, which world ...
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Together (Han Ni Zai Yiki)
TOGETHER (HA NI ZAI YI QI)Screened at Toronto (Masters)Dir: Chen Kaige. China. 2002. 116mins.US buyers scrambled to buy Chen Kaige’s latest Chinese film when it world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival - and it’s easy to see why. Wearing its heart on its sleeve, Together is a crowd-pleasing ...
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Oscar hopefuls hit language barrier
Qualifying for the foreign language Oscars has long been the source of some confusion, but this year the imbroglio of the world's most important film trophy is boiling over into resentment. The Oscar for most angry country goes to Sweden, which argues that the criterion of language ghettoises national cinemas. ...
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London Screenings 'confident' buyers will come
Far from being dead, London's pre-Mifed film market is attracting increased interest from buyers. That is the verdict of londonscreenings.com, a buyers' rep acting for the London Screenings (the market organised by Fusion Events), the Raindance independent film festival and the Kodak Vision Screenings. "We remain convinced the market will ...
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San Sebastian festival kicks off with The Good Thief
Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28) kicks off what promises to be a star-studded 50th anniversary edition today with screenings of Official Section inaugural film The Good Thief and sidebar Zabaltegi opening title The Dancer Upstairs.Good Thief director Neil Jordan and co-star Tcheki Karyo will offer a press ...
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Bill Butler wins ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Veteran cinematographer BillButler will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) LifetimeAchievement Award presented annually to 'an individual who has created adistinguished and enduring body of work'. He will receive his tributeduring the 17th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awardscelebration on Feb 13, 2003, in Los Angeles.Butler has over 70 featurecredits ...
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Marrakech left deserted by Scorsese, Almodovar
The embarrassing absence ofboth Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodovar from this year's secondMarrakech International Film Festival stole much of the limelight away from anotherwise glittering event where an outdoor public screening of David Lynch'ssexually-charged Mulholland Drivefurther raised the temperature in this Islamic hot zone.On the eve of King MohammedVI presenting ...
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PGA announce Celebration Of Diversity
The Producers Guild OfAmerica (PGA) is to hold a brand new annual Celebration Of Diversity in LosAngeles to honour the contributions of African Americans, Asians, Latinos, gaysand lesbians and women to the industry. The event will take place on Oct 28 andwill honour Ang Lee, Danny Glover, Moctezuma Esparza, Marian ...
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Paradox Lake wins Athens festival
Paradox Lake, an American independent production by Polish-born, first-time director Przemyslaw Shemie Reut was named best film at the 8th Athens International Film Festival, which wrapped yesterday (Sept 19). The film, which received the Audience Award accompanied by a Euros6,000 prize, beat competition including Gus van Sant's Gerry John Sayles ...
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Critical acclaim boosts Irish film industry
After languishing in the doldrums for several years, things are beginning to look up for Irish film. Several local productions are about to start shooting and a slew of Irish helmed projects are hitting the world's cinema screens.Neil Jordan's latest film, The Good Thief, is getting raves. Similarly Jim Sheridan's ...
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Grimond parts company with Vivendi Universal
Vincent Grimond has left Vivendi Universal, the latest in a line of senior French executives to part with the troubled media concern.Grimond, the former chairman and CEO of production and distribution division StudioCanal, moved over to Los Angeles in January 2001 following the Vivendi-Universal-Canal Plus tie-up under Jean-Marie Messier. With ...
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Columbia TriStar holds on to Father Amaro
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International has taken up its first-look option to distributeMexican box office hit The Crime Of Father Amaro (El Crimen Del Padre Amaro) worldwide outside North America and Spain.Sal Ladestro, Columbiasenior vice president of marketing and distribution, acquisitions and localproductions, confirmed the move Friday at the San Sebastian ...
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Mad Pix, Madrid Film team for new digital lab
Spain's mostestablished film laboratory Madrid Film and Das Werk-backed post-productionhouse Mad Pix have created a new digital laboratory to be housed between thecurrent Madrid headquarters of the two companies.Speaking at the SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28), the companies said they hadinvested an initial Euros 2m in synchronizing their installations ...
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peppermint takes worldwide rights to When Pigs Fly
peppermint, the worldwidedistribution company that recently underwent a management buy-out from HelkonMedia AG, has acquired worldwide rights outside Germany, Austria andGerman-speaking Switzerland, on San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept19-28) competition entry Pigs Will Fly.The film, directed by EoinMoore, tells the story of Laxe, a Berlin policeman, who embarks on a ...
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Russian leading man, crew members feared dead
Sergei Bodrov Jr is missing, feared killed, after being caught in an avalanche in Southern Russia on Saturday.The 30 year-old star, who was most recently seen in his father Sergei Bodrov's Venice competition film The Bear's Kiss, was filming near the village of Karmadon, North Ossetia, on Friday when a ...