• News

    Focus announces five film-makers selected for Africa First

    2008-11-04T05:46:00Z

    Focus Features announced the first five film-makers to benefit from the company's Africa First initiative announced earlier this year.The five film-makers of African nationality and residence arrived in New York last weekend to take part in workshops with the likes of Focus CEO James Schamus and production chief John Lyons.The ...

  • News

    Focus names five winners in Africa First programme

    2008-09-25T07:24:00Z

    Focus Features CEO James Schamus announced late today [September 24] the five winners in Focus' Africa First Programme designed to support emerging film-makers of African nationality and residence.Earlier this year Focus offered participating film-makers the chance to win financing for production and/or post-production on their narrative short films made in ...

  • The Runaways, Twelve, Buried screen out of competition at Sundance
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    The Runaways, Twelve, Buried screen out of competition at Sundance

    2009-12-07T06:59:00Z

    World premieres of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Jack Goes Boating, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s The Extra Man, Joel Schumacher’s closing night film Twelve, the Untitled Duplass Brothers Project, Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me and The Runaways starring Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett populate Sundance 2010’s Premieres section.

  • Toronto International Film Festival line-up
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    Toronto International Film Festival line-up

    2009-08-19T12:39:00Z

    Screen International brings you the comprehensive 2009 Toronto line-up.