All Screen articles in 8 July 2004
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Thumbs up for inaugural UK Film Focus
Last week's inaugural UK London Film Focus (June 30-July 2)has received a qualified thumbs-up from the filmmakers, buyers and sales agentswho participated. Few deal memos were signed, some distributors questioned theoverall strength of the selection of British movies on display, but there hasbeen widespread praise of the way in which ...
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Ramallah festival revs up with Motorcycle
The inaugural Ramallah International Film Festival (RIFF)kicks off today (July 8) with a special screening of Walter Salles' TheMotorcycle Diaries.RIFFis the first ever international film festival to be held in the PalestinianTerritories, and launches with a programme of some 70 films including MarcoBellocchio's Buongiorno, Notte, Michael Winterbottom's In This Worldand ...
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New NYC film festival launched for young women film-makers
A new film festival wasunveiled in New York City yesterday for young, emerging female film-makersbetween the ages of 16 and 25. Entitled Reel Girls Filmmakers On The Verge,the festival will run Nov 4 to 6.Organised by artsorganization Gen Art and teen magazine YM, the event will feature three seriesof ...
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Nair launches Sundance Institute of the East
Film-maker Mira Nair haslaunched a film-maker laboratory dedicated to developing and supportingvisionary screenwriters and directors from East Africa and South Asia. CalledMAISHA, the initiative is based on the Sundance Institute model.The first annual MAISHA labwill focus on screenwriting and is scheduled to take place in Aug 2005 inKampala, Uganda. From ...
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Warner Japan launches Spicy Asia DVD label
Warner Entertainment Japan has announced the launch of a newDVD label specialising in Asian films.Called Spicy Asia, the label will be overseen by the WarnerHome Video division.The first two titles, Kim Sung-su's 2001 period drama MusaThe Warrior and Chung Ji Woo's 1999 romantic drama Happy End, willbe released on August ...
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Artificial Eye snags Moolaade for UK
ArtificialEye has picked up Moolaade, the winner of best film in Un Certain Regardat Cannes this year.TheUK distributor is opening the film in March next year. Directed by veteran Senegalese filmmakerOusmane Sembene, it deals with the subject of female genital mutilationcircumcision and is dedicated to women struggling to abolish the ...
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DVD specialist Anchor Bay goes theatrical
Anchor Bay UK is to take the plunge into British theatricaldistribution. The DVD company, which has built its reputation on the back ofits restorations of classic and cult pictures, has three titles already slatedfor release in British cinemas later this year.The Manson Family is out on July 23rd in London.Don ...
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France told to overhaul film advertising law
The European Commission hasformally demanded that France revisit its laws regarding advertising for filmsand books.France is one of the rare countriesto have legislation outlawing television adverts for films and books. TheCommission noted that the laws "violate the freedom of those who offer theseservices." Should France not respond favorably to the ...
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Day After Tomorrow sweeps past $500m for Fox
The Day After Tomorrow, 20th Century Fox's eco-disaster epicdirected by Roland Emmerich, has passed the $500m mark at the worldwide boxoffice after six weeks on release.As of Tuesday July 6, thefilm's domestic gross was $177.28 and its international gross was $322.84m,bringing its wordwide total to $500.12m.The film opened with 108number ...
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Japanese filmmakers turn to the past
It's not surprising that Japanese producers are making morefilms with the aid of digital technology, from DG cameras to animation paintprograms. Much of it is developed in Japan, even if its products are no longermade there. (The Japanese are almost as eager to outsource manufacturing andtech jobs as the Americans ...
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Five new Swedish features get state funding
Five newSwedish feature films have been greenlit after securing support from theSwedish Film Institute.HenryMeyer's drama Four Weeks In June (Fyra Veckor I Juni), about a girl whois fed up with men and love, will be produced by Peter Kropenin of OmegaFilm. The film received $653,000 (SEK5m) in state funding and ...
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Hollywood Film Festival teams with IDA for documentary showcase
The HollywoodFilm Festival has teamed up with the International Documentary Association(IDA) for a special focus on documentaries at this year's festival which runsOct 12 to 18 in Los Angeles.The documentaryfocus is comprised of Hollywood Docs Showcase which will screen documentarieswith a special focus on social and humanitarian themes, and the ...
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Korea unveils international co-production fund
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has unveiled its firstsupport fund targeted at international co-productions.For 2004, one co-produced film will be selected by aspecially-appointed jury of film industry representatives, and granted amaximum of $250,000 (WON 300m).The fund applies to feature films (of at least 70 minutes)in the development, pre-production or production ...
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European box office set for steady mid-term growth
Box office revenues across the seven major Western Europeanterritories are set to reach $5.5bn by 2008 according to a new report byindustry analysts Dodona Research - a rise of 42% on current levels.Although the seven territories saw a combined admissionsslump of 50 million last year, box office revenues across Austria, ...
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Docs join Sarajevo's Human Rights Award competition
Fernando Perez's melancholy portrait Suite Habana which is the talk of town in Cuba this summer, AndreiNekrasov's investigation into a 1999 apartment bombing in Moscow in Disbelief, and Jehane Noujaim'schronicle of Al Jazeera in Control Roomare among ten documentaries selected for the Panorama Documentary sidebar ofthis year's Sarajevo Film Festival.The ...
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Karlovy Vary maintains its youth appeal
With both the wet Czech summer and loss of the nationalfootball team playing in the Euro 2004, the 39th edition of the Karlovy VaryFilm Festival got off to a good start on July 2, as audiences could commit tothe films without distraction.Early fears that Sunday night's Championship final wouldovershadow the ...
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Moolaade
Dir:Ousmane Sembene. Senegal-Fr. 2004. 123minsBest intentions donot always make best films, and though there is no doubt about the relevance ofan issue as painful as female genital mutilation in Africa, Ousmane Sembene'streatment looks too much like an over-extended politically-correct tract thatwill not go far beyond the strict confines of ethnographic ...
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Obituary: Fred Turner
FredTurner, former head of Rank Film Distributors (RFD), has died aged 71.Turnerjoined Rank as a tea boy in 1946. He first worked for Eagle Lion, then Rank'soverseas distribution arm, before working his way up through the company tobecome financial controller and, in 1981, managing director.Heremained at Rank until 1997, when ...
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Motorcycle Diaries keeps on cranking in Italy
Amidall the fervour over Michael Moore's documentary sensation Fahrenheit 9/11, there has been another modestly budgetedindependent film quietly showing box office promise in the face of stiffcompetition from the onslaught of big budget Hollywood blockbusters. Only thisparticular sleeper happens to have been made in the Spanish language.WalterSalles' The Motorcycle Diaries,which ...
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Filmstiftung NRW bankrolls Euro co-productions
New feature projects byRaoul Ruiz, Michael Caton-Jones and Cedric Kahn are among several Europeanco-productions receiving production support from Filmstiftung NRW in its latestround of funding.A total of Euros 7.1m wasallocated to 36 projects. The largest amount - Euro 1m - was given to CedricKahn's Franco-German co-production L'Avion about a magical ...