All Screen articles in 7 July 2006
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Germany's Senator to diversify business
Therevamped German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment will be developedinto integrated media company, new CEO Helge Sasse said. Speakingat their first annual general meeting since he became a majority shareholder inthe company with fellow board member Marco Weber at the end of last year, Sasse stressed that Senator's core activity would continueto ...
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Six South African writers win development competition
The UK Film Council'sDevelopment Fund and South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation's "25Words Or Less" competition has named its first six recipients of funding.The four South Africanprojects will each receive $18,504 (£10,000) in funding to develop a first draftof their project. Each will be helped by a script editor ...
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Five shorts up for Europe's Cartoon d'Or
UK animator Joanna Quinn's short Dreams & Desires - Family Ties,which won prizes at the Annecy and Zagreb animation festivalslast month, is among five European shorts nominated for the Cartoon d'Or. The awards recognise the work of new talents in theEuropean animation industry.The fivenominated films, selected from a longlist of ...
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New producers' alliance formed in Australia
After a couple of years oftrying, the two organisations representing Australian producers officiallyformed an alliance this week, just in time for the upcoming review intogovernment film financing.The Screen Producers'Association of Australia (SPAA) and Independent Producers' Initiative (IPI)have joined together to form the Independent Feature Film Producers ofAustralia Alliance (IFPAA).The new ...
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Pirates lands in three major markets including UK
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) has a big weekend lined up with six scheduled internationallaunches for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.The adventuresequel sets sail in three major markets - Australia on Jul 6, the UK on Jul 7,and South Korea on Jul 8 - as well as New Zealand and ...
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Fintage House to open Toronto office
Entertainment companyFintage House has announced an expansion of NorthAmerican operations. Maarten Melchior will transfer from Fintage's Netherlands-based headquarters to open an officein Toronto that will coordinate Fintage'sfilm and TV activity in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. The office will also work with Fintage's music activity. Fintage's US representativePaul Rogers ...
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Lynch's Empire, Labute's Wicker lined up for Sitges
Guillermo del Toro's Cannespremiere Pan's Labyrinth will openthe 39th annual edition of the International Film Festival of Catalonia, betterknown as Sitges, which has unveiled the first details of its 2006 lineup. Thefestival takes place from Oct 6 to 15.Labyrinth (El Laberinto Del Fauno) will form part of a Special Focus ...
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Lapointe's Secret Life to close Montreal World Film Festival
Quebec director StephaneLapointe's La Vie Secrete Des Gens Heureux (The Secret Life Of Happy People) will have its world premiere at the Closing Night presentation of theMontreal World Film Festival.Produced by Roger Frappierand Luc Vandal of Max Films, the film stars Gilbert Sicotte, Marc Paquet,Catherine de Lean, Marie Gignac, Gilles ...
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NZFC appoints new chairman and board members
The New Zealand FilmCommission, the country's principal investor in local films, has appointed anew chairman, David Cullwick, and four new people to the board. Cullwick, a business advisorwho was inaugural Professor of Marketing at Victoria University of Wellington, replacesBarrie Everard.Sydney lawyer Shane Simpson is one of the new faces on ...
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UK's digital network shows 50th film
Digitalfilm services company Arts AllianceMedia has announced that Momentum Pictures' District13, opening in the UK today, is the 50th feature they have beendigitally encrypted and shown on the UK Film Council's Digital Screen Network. TheDSN is Europe's largest 2K digital cinema network. The networkcurrently includes 56 screens, with a total ...
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Uruguayan film-maker Rebella commits suicide at 32
Juan Pablo Rebella, one ofLatin America's most talented young screenwriters and directors, is reported tohave committed suicide yesterday. His body was found at his house inMontevideo, Uruguay. He was only 32.Rebella and his longtimecollaborator Pablo Stoll co-directed two shorts and two acclaimed features.They made their debut with 25 Watts,a $26,000 ...
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Liman, Di Novi to produce Venice-set thriller Vaporetto 13
Mr And MrsSmith director DougLiman and veteran producer Denise Di Novi are teaming up to produce the $8.5mVenice-set thriller called Vaporetto 13 directed by Liman's longtime friend Gregor Von Bismarck.Based on RobertGirardi's novel of the same name, Vaporetto 13 follows an industrial diver whosepremonitions about a mysterious underwater church and ...
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North American rights to 10th And Wolf sold to THINKFilm
THINKFilm haspicked up all North American rights to Oscar-winning writer Bobby Moresco's 10th& Wolf.Moresco, whoco-wrote Crash, directed 10th And Wolf as well as co-writing it with ChazzPalminteri. The film stars James Marsden as a Marine who struggles to steerclear of his criminal past after he returns home to Philadelphia.Giovanni Ribisi,Brad ...
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Belgium's Kinepolis to digitise entire network
Belgian exhibitor Kinepolis is planning the first full nationwide digital conversion of a theatre network in Europe. Its 130 cinemas will be fitted with digital Barco projectors through a new deal Kinepolis struck with Thomson's Technicolor Digital Cinema. Technicolor will install the Barco 2K projectors, with about half of the ...
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German regional funds back new films from Ben Hopkins and Marc Rothemund
Newprojects by UK film-maker Ben Hopkins,Serbia's Moma Mrdakovic andIsrael's DrorZahavi are among a raft of internationalco-productions backed by German regional film funds.Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) and Leipzig-based MDM have both put productionsupport totalling $485,203 (Euros 380,000) into Hopkins' Turkish-language blackcomedy The Market, which will startshooting this summer in and around the ...
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Sarajevo festival to open with 12:08 East of Bucharest
Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest will openthe 12th Sarajevo Film Festival, the most important festival in the Balkan region.The film won the Camera D'Or at Cannes 2006. This year's Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award goes to renowned UK filmand theatre director Mike Leigh. The award is given in ...
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Telema has to pay damages over Tanguy
French production house Telema has been ordered to pay $63,657 (Euros 50,000) indamages to each of three screenwriters who claimed their script was highjacked in order to produce hit 2001 film Tanguy.Christophe Valee, Francois Villardand Philippe Barrassat contended they had shown ascript for Recherche Parents Desesperement to Telema,which then declined ...
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Beyond Films promotes Stephen Kelliher
Beyond Films haspromoted Stephen Kelliher to director of sales &marketing, effective immediately. Kelliher had mostrecently served as Sales Executive forterritories including Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.He will continueto report to Hilary Davis, Beyond's head of sales andacquisitions. "After nineyears with the company, we feel it only fitting that ...
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Reprise
Dir: Joachim Trier. Nor. 2006. 105mins.First-time director Joachim Trier makes a bright, frenetic and agile debut with Reprise, the story of two would-be Norwegiannovelists in their early twenties, trying to make it in the worlds of bothliterature and adulthood.The picture's main qualityis the immediacy of performances from a mostly non-professional ...
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Winter Journey (Winterreise)
Dir: Hans Steinbichler.Ger. 2006. 95mins.Diving into the depths of manic-depressive gloom withFranz Schubert's heartbreaking song cycle Winterreise as company is a toughassignment - while Hans Steinbichler's Winter Journey falls short, it does atleast rate some recognition for its courage.Following a sixtysomething businessman driven to bankruptcy as he losescontrol over his ...