All Screen articles in 5 December 2008
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Tony Manero takes top prize at Turin Film Festival
Chilean director Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero has won the top prize at the Turin Film Festival.The film also took the Fipresci prize as well as best actor honours forAlfred Castro's portrayal of a 50-year old impersonator of Tony Manero - John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever.Previously seen at Cannes ...
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Waltz With Bashir takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
Director Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir was awarded the grand prize at the conclusion of the 9th edition of Tokyo Filmex (Nov 22-30).The award carried a cash prize of $10,470 (Y1m). The film's animation director Yoni Goodman was on hand to receive the honour.An Israel-France-Germany co-production, Waltz With Bashir is ...
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Frozen River wins Stockholm's Bronze Horse
US director Courtney Hunt left Stockholm with 16lb excess luggage, as her feature debut, Frozen River, was awarded the Bronze Horse - the heavy grand prix - of the 19th Stockholm International Film Festival, which ended on Sunday (Nov 30).The jury chaired over by Finnish veteran producer-director Jorn Donnergave the ...
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Expose of the Burmese dictatorship win Amsterdam doc award
Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country has won the VPRO Joris Ivens Award 2008, the main competition at IDFA (the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam).The film, described by jury member Bianca Stigter, as 'a harrowing reminder of the power and the weakness of images,' was directed by Dane, Anders ...
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International Screenwriters Festival moves date and venue
The fourth edition of the International Screenwriters' Festival is to have a new date and venue.The event will shift to October 26-29 at the famous Cheltenham Ladies College school in the Cotswolds town.The event has established itself in recent years as a must-attend event, bringing together writers and the wider ...
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Sony picks up Spanish rights to El Juego Del Ahorcado
Sony Pictures Spain has picked up Spanish distribution rights to renowned director Manuel Gomez Pereira's romantic drama El Juego Del Ahorcado.Based on the novel by Imma Turbau, El Juego tells the story of a young boy and girl, Sandra (Clara Lago)and David (Alvaro Cervantes), who fall in love with each ...
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SPRI's Quantum stays top in international with $20.1m weekend
Bond stayed on top of his game as Sony Pictures Releasing International's Quantum Of Solace added a further $20.1m from 8,755 screens in 73 markets to raise the estimated tally to $340.1m.The $482m worldwide running total will cross the half-billion mark by next weekend. The only new overseas release was ...
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Slumdog Millionaire wins best film at BIFAs
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner at this year's British Independent Film Awards.The film won both best film and best director at the BIFAs, hosted by James Nesbitt at London's Old Billingsgate Market. Slumdog Millionaireactor Dev Patel was also named newcomer of the year.Boyle were presented with the ...
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New Line's Four Christmases leads Thanksgiving box office parade
Ticket sales over the Thanksgiving weekend climbed 3.7% on last year as Warner Bros' comedy Four Christmases - a New Line hand-me-down following the merger earlier this year - starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn dethroned Twilight on an estimated $46.7m over five days and $31.7m over three.Buoyed by excellent ...
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Katyn, Moscow Belgium among winners at Denver Film Festival
Andrzej Wajda's Polish wartime drama Katyn won the best narrative feature in the Starz People's Choice Awards as the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival came to a close last week.Daniel Junge's They Killed Sister Dorothy was named best documentary and Nicky Phelan's Granny O'Grimms Sleeping Beauty won the best short ...
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NewsShowbox Mediaplexpicks up Breathless, The Pot from Pusan line-up
Korea’s Showbox Mediaplex has picked up for international sales two independent films -Yang Ik-june’s Breathless and Kim Tae Gon’s The Pot - from the recent Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) line-up.
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Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country wins Amsterdam top prize
Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country has won the VPRO Joris Ivens Award 2008, the main competition at IDFA (the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam). Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country consists largely of material filmed in secret by a group of reporters during the uprising against ...
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Conn appointed CFO of Universal's International Film Groups
Rowan Conn has been appointed to the newly combined role of chief financial officer for Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) and Universal Pictures International (UPI). He will oversee the financial departments of both the home entertainment and theatrical film businesses outside the US. The position is effective from 1st January ...
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Linda Agran to receive TV Pioneer Award at LA Women's Showcase
UK TV executive Linda Agran will receive the Television Pioneer Award on Dec 7 at the first ever Women's International Film & Television Showcase in Los Angeles.Agran started her career working in the UK offices of Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros before joing Euston Films, a subsidiary of ...
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First ever Norway-Spain co-production The Frost completes filming
Co-produced by Spanish Alta Realitat and Norwegian Frost Media, The Frost, is a mystical drama inspired by Henrik Ibsen's play Little Eyof. The first feature by Spain's, Ferran Audi, The Frost has an international cast with Sweden's Lars Noren as a screen writer (Details), and Spain's David Omedes as the ...
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Direction for Copenhagen Pix 2009 announced
The focus of the first edition of the Danish film festival Copenhagen Pix will be new industry trends and talents it was announced today. Copenhagen Pix will replace the NATFilm festival and the Copenhagen International Film festival, with its first editionon April 16 - 26 2009.The festival's full programme will ...
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ID opens London office, hires Rupert Fowler as vice president
Well-known UK publicist Rupert Fowler has left London-based agency Public Eye Communications to head up a new London office for US entertainment PR firm ID.Fowler joins ID as vice president after six years at Public Eye where his clients included James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Andrew Garfield, Jamie Parker and others. ...
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Toronto critics launch C$10,000 Canadian film prize
The Toronto Film Critics Association will this year inaugurate the first Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, a C$10,000 ($8,000) prize to be presented to the year’s best Canadian feature as judged by the group. The prize will presented at the 11th annual TFCA dinner on January 6, 2009.‘The TFCA wants ...
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At A Glance: The Media Festival
Screen's sister paper Broadcast gives a video guide to some of the speeches and sessions at the recent Media Festival in Manchester.Click here for more