Screen
02 Dec 2010
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A bigger stage
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Dec 2), now in their fourth year, aim to boost the profile and earning potential of films from the region — on awards night and beyond. Sandy George reports -
Amanda Nevill
After this week’s announcement that the BFI would be taking on a number of key activities formerly overseen by the Film Council, Screen’s Wendy Mitchell spoke to BFI Director Amanda Nevill about how the BFI would have to change moving forward. -
Americine developing Argentina-set Camino a New Orleans
Americine’s CEO Javier Krause confirmed during Ventana Sur that the company has two new films in development. -
Arrow picks up three for UK, including Hatchet 2
Growing UK distributor Arrow has announced three more all-rights acquisitions. -
Berlin invites Jafar Panahi to join 2011 jury
Not yet known if Iranian director will be able to join jury. -
Celestial starts shoot for first production My Kingdom
Celestial Pictures is co-producing with Beijing-based Skyland Films and production company DW Films Limited. -
China's Aftershock wins APSA for best feature
Other winners include Poetry and Lebanon. -
Costa gears up for Cabral's feature debut to shoot in Canada, Asia
Costa Films is now setting up Juan Cabral’s feature directorial debut Two/One as an English-language project to shoot in Canada and an Asian location such as Hong Kong or Thailand. -
Foreign affairs
Screen profiles all 65 films submitted for this year’s foreign-language Academy Award — a true smorgasbord of styles, genres and personal and political subjects -
Gillian Anderson, Jack Gold become Honorary Associates of LFS
Mike Leigh and LFS director Ben Gibson to present awards at graduation ceremony on Friday. -
Investors hope to build Europe's largest studio in St. Petersburg
AFK Sistema, the largest diversified public financial corporation in Russia, is planning to establish the Europe’s largest film studio on the base of Lenfilm, one of Russia’s oldest and largest film studios, based in St.Petersburg. -
Jonathan Coe to curate From Page To Screen event
Author Jonathan Coe (The Rotter’s Club) will be the artistic director of the UK film festival From Page To Screen. -
Karel Och replaces Eva Zaoralova as Karlovy Vary artistic director
Och, a KV programmer since 2001, takes over duties of outgoing Zaoralova as of Jan 1. -
League of nations
The 2010 European Film Awards, held December 4 in Tallinn, Estonia, is trying to open doors for the continent’s film-makers — both within and beyond Europe. Geoffrey Macnab reports -
LevelK takes on Zandvliet's Applause and new Passer project
LevelK has taken on rights to the two films by rising Danish writer-director Martin Zandvliet. -
My Joy wins in Tallinn, Baltic Event expanded further East, but fewer buyers
In co-pro market, Hungarian director Arpad Bogdan and his producer Gabor Sipos from Laokoon Filmgroup won for thriller Necromancer. -
Northern Film & Media backs production of United
Regional screen agency Northern Film & Media and Northstar Ventures have come on board to invest 150,000 in United, shooting now starring David Tennant. -
One Night In Tallinn
The European Film Awards turned 23 last weekend in Estonia and the event has found a comfortable groove and a fixed place on the calendar. -
Pact re-elects Debbie Manners as chair of council
Members of UK production group Pact have re-elected Debbie Manners as Pact chair in the elections for Pact council. She is the fomer COO of Hat Trick Productions and now serves as director of Manned Media. Manners said: “Pact’s work has undoubtedly contributed to the strong growth of the independent production sector over the last decade, and we want to build on this success. This is going to be a period of challenges and opportunities, from the new Communications Act, which will encom -
Parallel lives
Arguably India’s biggest film star, Aamir Khan has had a prolific year as a producer, with Peepli Live named this year’s Indian Oscar submission. But he also chose to star in his latest production Dhobi Ghat and, Khan tells Mike Goodridge, he wants his fanbase to know what to expect when this lo -
Screen Australia backs four new films, including new Rolf de Heer film
Rolf de Heer will be putting his directing boots back on and three directors, Tony Krawitz, Wayne Blair and Miro Bilbrough, will be making their debut features in 2011 thanks to investment decisions made this week by Screen Australia. -
Sony strikes UK deal for Jon Wright's Grabbers
Sony Pictures Releasing has come on board for UK rights to comedy-horror Grabbers, which is shooting now. Principal photography is underway in Belfast and Donegal, Ireland, on director Jon Wright’s comedy-horror.Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley and Russell Tovey head the cast in screenwriter Kevin Lehane’s story of a rural Irish fishing -
Spain’s Molinare and Infinia to merge their post production companies
Imagina’s post production outfit Molinare and competitor Infinia, part-owned by Filmax, are in advanced negotiations to merge their two companies. -
Stallabrass, Kray to lead De Lane Lea ADR team
De Lane Lea has appointed Nick Kray and Andy Stallabrass as its ADR team, following Peter Gleaves’ decision to leave De Lane Lea at the end of 2010. -
The King's Speech leads winners at BIFAs
Other prizes include Gareth Edwards winning best director for Monsters, and Carey Mulligan taking best actress for Never Let Me Go. -
Thessaloniki hands out more than $133,000 in industry prizes
Cash awards go to Israeli, Croatian, Serbian, Turkish and Greek projects at the script development, co-production and works in progress sections of the Thessaloniki’s Agora/Market. -
Thessaloniki kicks off first edition under new director Dimitri Eipides
The 51st Thessaloniki international film festival (TIFF) kicks off today with the gala screening of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours. It will wrap Dec 12 with Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. -
UK-Irish co-production Citadel starts shoot in Glasgow
Aneurin Barnard (pictured) stars with James Cosmo and Wunmi Mosuka. -
UPDATED: Polanski's Ghost Writer has record-setting wins at EFAs
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer was the big winner at the 23rd European Film Awards which took place in Tallinn, Estonia, on Saturday night. -
Ventana Sur panel calls for more LatAm co-production
One step forward will be a Brazil-Argentina bilateral co-production agreement to be unveiled on Saturday. -
Ventana Sur screenings move online with Cinando
As Ventana Sur closes up shop tonight in Buenos Aires, screenings will continue online. -
Ventana Sur wraps with attendance up and a few hot titles emerging
The Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires has seen about 2,000 admissions as of the start of its closing day. -
Vertigo plans Foursquare promotion for Monsters
UK distributor Vertigo Films is launching an innovative online marketing campaign to coincide with the UK release of Gareth Edwards’ Monsters on Friday -
Vital signs at AFM
The sales business may be going through challenging times, but this year’s AFM showed there are still opportunities to be found — and the international arena is vital. Jeremy Kay reports -
Weir at BAFTA lecture: Cinema is becoming 'more childish'
The Australian director of Master and Commander and The Way Back says he is unlikely to make another studio film. -
WestEnd heats up with deals on Garcia's Albert Nobbs
Joining Glenn Close in the cast will be Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Brendan Gleeson and Brenda Fricker. -
Winter's Bone wins in Turin
Turin Film Lab winners include Bosnia’s Aida Begic for Bait. -
World In Action
Screen profiles the 65 films submitted for the foriegn-language film Oscar, including first-time entrants Ethiopia
