• $9.99
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    $9.99

    2008-09-08T22:30:00Z

    Dir. Tatia Rosenthal.Israel/Australia, 2008. 78 mins.Dealing with such lightweight issues as ‘the meaning of life’ and ‘happiness’ may seem a bit excessive for a stop-motion animated film weighing in at less than 78 minutes. But the film doesn’t take itself that seriously after all, defusing some ...

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    Film Finance Corporation Australia to fund two new features

    2006-03-22T11:34:00Z

    Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) today gavefinal approval on its investments in the animated feature $9.99 and a feature-length documentary investigating discreditedauthor Norma Khouri.The stop-motion animation for adults, $9.99, is the first officialbig-screen co-production between Australian and Israel.Israeli director Tatia Rosenthal wrote the scriptwith Etgar Keret and hasbeen working with ...

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    First co-production between Israel and Australia gets underway

    2007-03-26T13:07:00Z

    Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan have joined Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia as the voice cast for the animated film $9.99, the first co-production between Israel and Australia. The project has just started shooting in Sydney. New York-based director Tatia Rosenthal co-wrote the film with Israeli writer Etgar ...

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    Toronto reviews

    2008-09-04T14:37:00Z

    Gala PresentationsBurn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser)The Duchess (Saul Dibb)Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland)La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell)Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie)One Week (Michael McGowan)The Other Man (Richard Eyre)Passchendaele (Paul Gross)Pride And Glory (Gavin O'Connor)Rachel Getting ...

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    Finalists selected for Sundance/NHK awards

    2001-11-11T22:02:00Z

    The Sundance Institute and Japanese broadcaster NHK have selected eleven finalists for the 2002 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The winners, one from each of four global regions (Latin America, Europe, USA and Japan) will take home a cash award of $10,000 and a guarantee from NHK to acquire the Japanese ...

  • Features

    A new departure

    2009-04-24T14:02:00Z

    When Yojiro Takita’s Departures was named best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards ceremony on March 3 this year, there was a gasp of surprise from many. But four men sitting in the second mezzanine level of the Kodak Theatre were cheering with delight. For Paul Colichman, Stephen Jarchow, Mark ...

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    Two movies share Sundance/Maryland prize

    2002-03-07T07:16:00Z

    The Sundance Institute and the Producers Club Of Maryland have named two films as the recipient of the 2002 Producers Club Of Maryland Fellowship: Jacob & Josh Kornbluth's The Best Thief In The World and Tatia Rosenthal & Etgar Kerets' $9.99.The annual fellowship helps fund a film-maker's post-Sundance Lab and ...

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    CineMart unveils 2003 projects

    2002-12-03T00:00:00Z

    The CineMart project market (Jan 26-30) held under the umbrella of the Rotterdam film festival, unveiled what its organisers claimed is one of its strongest ever line-ups. "We had a terribly difficult time making the final selection," said Ido Abram, Cinemart chief. "That was because we had more projects thatn ...

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    UK's Nicola Usburne wins Silverman Fellowship

    2001-02-13T05:12:00Z

    Nicola Usborne, the UK producer of FilmFour's Sundance hit Jump Tomorrow, has been selected as the recipient of the 2001 Mark Silverman Fellowship which supports "visionary independent producers who have committed to a film project and still face the challenge of moving forward into production."The award is bestowed by The ...

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    New Directors/New Films to open with Amreeka, close with Push

    2009-02-12T22:00:00Z

    Cherien Dabis' Amreeka will open the New Directors/New Films 2009 programme presented by New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Amreeka is about a single mother and her teenage son who move from Ramallah to middle America.The series will have its first ever closing ...