All Screen articles in 26 January 2006
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Nagasaki Shunichi opens Rotterdam festival
TheRotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) opened last night with NagasakiShunichi's Heart, Beating in the Dark."TheNagasaki Shunichi's movie looks back, redefines, and finds new directions, just like the festival," said festival director Sandra den Hamer."The IFFRstays loyal to independent film, auteur film."Some 14 films will compete for this year's three Tiger ...
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Rome festival promises to serve both industry and public
The new Rome Film Festival (13-21 Oct, 2006) is planning to become a major event for both the public and international industryprofessionals.At a packed press conference in Rome's town hall, city mayorWalter Veltroni said buyers, producers and executives will be able to meet fromOct 13-16 in a business area along ...
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Spanish government launches action plan for film
Spain'sMinistry of Culture has unveiled an "action plan" for Spanish film, including increased subsidies and the creation of a new mutual guarantee fund.Presentedin Madrid by Minister of Culture Carmen Calvo, the initiative targets production, distribution and exhibition.The most significant measure is an increase to the 2006 budget of the Spanish ...
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Spain claims 20-year production record
Spainproduced more feature films in 2005 than in any year in the past two decades,according to new figures released by the Ministry of Culture.Some142 features were made in Spain last year, nine more than the previous year,with another 30 currently in post-production.Ofthose 142, 53 were international co-productions. The mostfrequent co-producing ...
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Rialto picks up Science Of Sleep
Rialto Distribution hasacquired writer/director Michel Gondry's TheScience Of Sleep for Australia and New Zealand, hot on the heels of its sale to Warner IndependentPictures for North America and the UK at Sundance. The inventive film starsGael Garcia Bernal (The MotorcycleDiaries) and Charlotte Gainsbourg as young neighbours in a playful andtouching ...
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Dir. Kirby Dick. US. 2005. 100minsAlight-hearted but ultimately serious exploration of the cultural chill imposedby the Motion Picture Association Of America's ratingsystem, Kirby Dick's new documentary exposes the process for the sham it is.Financed by US cable network IFC TV anddirect-to-home video distributor NetFlix, This Film Is Not Yet Rated ...
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Downfall wins BBC international cinema award
Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall won the BBC Four World Cinema Award last night.The ceremony was hosted by Jonathan Ross at London's National Film Theatre.
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Art School Confidential
Dir. Terry Zwigoff. US.2006. 102mins.TerryZwigoff's ArtSchool Confidential doesn't achieve the promise of its intriguing premise -how far will an aspiring artist go to achieve recognition' ScreenwriterDaniel Clowes' answer' Far.But his script doesn't work hard enough to merit this cynical if trueconclusion.Audiences will be left wondering what tothink about a movie ...
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Annapolis
Dir. Justin Lin. US. 2006. 103mins.Justin Lin's studio debut, Annapolis is a peculiarly engineered piece of Reagan-style swaggercouched in the form of popular entertainment. It ends with the sound ofmilitary drumbeat - and audiences are likely to feel bludgeoned by what hasgone before.It is capably ifdistractedly made, though it has ...
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Americans in Paris boost inward production
Film production in the Ile De France, whichincludes Paris, was up last year, figures have revealed.Statistics released by the National Film Centre show that on any one dayin 2005, 10 film or TV productions were being shot on the region's boulevards,parks or studios, amounting to 3,363 shoot days.Feature films accounted ...
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Korean government unveils $400m film support fund
Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism is establishing a $400m Korean FilmDevelopment Fund to run over five years.The plan was announced by Minister of Cultureand Tourism Jeong Dong-chae this morning (Jan 27) as a counter-measureto the halving of Korea's Screen Quota and strong industry protests.The support plan will createa $400m ...
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Arista's Adept 3 goes to Cinemart
Arista Development has announced that it has entered a new sponsorship and partnership agreement with Cinemart at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Participating writers and directors on Arista's Adept 3 scheme will attend a special series of screenings, workshops, and producers meetings during Cinemart, which runs January 29 through February ...
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New Screenwriters Festival to launch in London
The new international Screenwriters' Festivalwill hold a Londonlaunch on Monday (January 30) to announce details of its inaugural event, whichwill be held in Cheltenhamfrom June 27-30. Screen Internationalis one of the sponsors of the festival.Festival supporters who will appear at thelaunch include producer Gina Carter, BAFTA chairman Duncan Kenworthy,producer and ...
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Salvatores lines up big-budget international feature
Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatoresis lining up a big-budget international feature about a ship's last voyage,entitled Cargo.The film, which Salvatores iscurrently writing with Umberto Contarello, isinspired by the true story of an Indian beach where old ships lie abandoned.The picture will focus on one ship's last voyage, across the sea ...
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Celluloid Dreams strengthens sales slate for Berlin
French sales agentCelluloid Dreams is flexing its muscles pre-Berlin, boarding yet moreEnglish-language productions in advance of the European Film Market.New toCelluloid's roster is Bille August's Goodbye Bafana, based on the diaries of Nelson Mandela's formerprison guard. Co-produced by Banana Films with France's ARSAM, Goodbye Bafana traces Mandela's prison guard, James ...
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Adelaide festival offers cash prize for new competition
The biennial Adelaide Film Festival has introduced a feature film competition which will see the director of the winning film go home $19,400 (A$25,000) richer.Festival director Katrina Segwick says the move means Adelaide is now one of a small number of festivals throughout the world that offers substantial cash awards. ...
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A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints
Dir/scr: Dito Montiel. US.2006.103mins.Adapting his 2003 memoir of the same title, debut writer-directorDito Montiel reveals himselfas a promising new voice in American cinema with A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, a featurethat summons the sting of memory, evoked in moments simultaneously fond, joyous,bitter, sad and tragic.Despite a problematic start -a ...
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Unfolding Florence
Dir: Gillian Armstrong. 82mins.Aus. 2006.Feature director Gillian Armstrong (Charlotte Grey, Oscar And Lucinda) makes a successfulswitch to factual film-making with Unfolding Florence, her packed and perceptivedocumentary about the "many lives" of feisty high society proto-feminist,opportunist and self-reinventor Florence Broadhust.The project - originallyplanned as a one-hour TV documentary until Armstrong signed ...
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The Hawk Is Dying
Dir: Julian Goldberger. US. 2006. 112mins.The second featurefrom Julian Goldberger after his 1999 work Trans,The Hawk Is Dying is an admirable thoughfailed effort to graft the film-maker's poetic aesthetic to the demands of narrativefilm-making.A meditation on the thin veneer between obsession and madness, it has somesharp visual interludes and neat ...
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Lionsgate enters Sundance fray with global deal on Door
As Sundance started to wind down, Lionsgate took worldwide rightsto Chris Gorak's dirty bomb thriller Right At Your Door, which gathered rapid momentum this weekfollowing its Monday world premiere.In another deal - the first for a documentary at this Sundance -IFC acquired North American rights to Patrick Creadon's crossword documentary ...