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24 January 2013

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Educating Mirren

Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren has revealed what she learnt from Harrison Ford, Robert Altman and Brigitte Bardot at a BAFTA event celebrating her career.
The Berlin File

Dir/scr: Ryoo Seung-wan. South Korea. 2013.120mins
A.C.O.D.

Dir: Stu Zicherman. US. 2013. 88mins
Academy announces final voting round schedule

Final balloting will begin on Feb 8 at 8 am PT and close on Feb 19 at 5pm PT.
After Tiller

Dirs: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson. US. 2012. 85mins
Afternoon Delight

Dir/scr: Jill Soloway. US. 2012. 102mins
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Dir/scr: David Lowery. US. 2013. 106mins
Amour continues winning streak at French Lumière Awards

Rust and Bone, Camille Rewinds (Camille Redouble) also come away with prizes.
Amour scores hat trick at London Critics’ awards

Michael Haneke’s Amour has picked up awards for Best Film, Actress and Screenwriter at the 33rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
Austenland

Dir: Jerusha Hess. US-UK. 2012. 97mins
Bankside appoints Howson, Salas joins Focus

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Howson, formerly of Kudos and Shine, joins London sales team after Antonio Salas’ departure.
Before Midnight

Dir: Richard Linklater. US. 2012. 108mins
Ben Affleck’s box office takes off with Argo

Ben Affleck’s switch to the director’s chair has brought steadily increasing gains at the global box office. Ian Sandwell assesses his appeal.
Berlin market on Asia's radar, Probst feted by the Swiss

EXCLUSIVE: Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM) is now firmly on the Asian film industry’s radar, according to market director Beki Probst.
Berlinale competition adds Before Midnight, Dark Blood, Prince Avalanche

New films from Richard Linklater, Bille August, David Gordon Green among final competition titles.
Berlinale serves up 'culinary' selection

The world premiere of Amit Gupta’s Jadoo is to feature in the line-up of Culinary Cinema - the food and environmental strand of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Berlinale unveils Best First Feature jury

A total of 27 films from various strands have qualified for the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Beta Cinema secures Berlin competition title Child’s Pose

German sales group Beta Cinema has acquired the world rights for Romanian drama Child’s Pose, which will premiere next month in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
BFI launches revamped £4m Distribution Fund

New-look fund introduces new application criteria and strands.
BFI Mediatheque to open in Scotland

The BFI is to extend its Mediatheque facility to Scotland for the first time in February.
Biennale College select Memphis, Year of June, Yuri Esposito

Three projects were selected from the 15 previously selected projects from around the world.
Big Sur

Dir: Michael Polish. US. 2012. 74mins
Blood Brother

Dir: Steve Hoover. US. 2012. 93mins
Breathe In

Dir: Drake Doremus. US. 2012. 97mins
Broken City

Dir: Allen Hughes. US. 2012. 109mins
Byrne, DeVito, Roth, Whedon among confirmed guests for Dublin

11th edition of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival runs Feb 14-24 and will open with Rufus Norris’ Broken [pictured].
C.O.G.

Dir: Kyle Patrick Alvarez. US. 2013. 89mins
CA Media acquires majority stake in Graphic India

CA Media, the Asian investment arm of The Chernin Group, has acquired a large majority stake in comic-book and animation company Graphic India.
Casting By rights picked up by Autlook

Documentary sales agent Autlook has secured ‘rest of world’ rights for star-studded feature Casting By, which debuted at Toronto in September.
Channel 4 subscribes to Lovefilm VoD service

Channel 4 has signed a digital content distribution deal with Lovefilm that will see a raft of shows including Peep Show and Father Ted added to the VoD service.
China box office round-up 2012: China becomes world's second biggest market

China’s box office grew by 30% to reach $2.74bn (RMB17.07bn), according to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), making it the second biggest box office territory in the world.
Chong lines up Peas for sophomore outing

Singaporean actress/director Michelle Chong’s second directorial outing 3 Peas In A Pod has cast K-pop star Alexander Lee Eusebio and Taiwanese pop star Calvin Chen from the boy band Fahrenheit.
Citizen Koch

Dirs: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin. US. 2012. 110mins
Clear Vision takes multiple territories for Mission To Lars

AV Pictures handles sales and has also closed deals for Japan and Australia/New Zealand.
Codex Digital expands in 2013

Four of this year’s best picture nominees were recorded on Codex technology.
Coixet, Philibert and Longinotto join Berlinale Panorama

Premieres of the latest films from Isabel Coixet, Nicolas Philibert and Kim Longinotto are among the new titles that complete the Panorama line-up of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Computer Chess

Dir/scr: Andrew Bujalski. US. 2013. 91mins
Concussion

Dir: Stacie Passon. US. 2012. 96mins
Content secures international rights to Concussion

Content Film has acquired all foreign rights to Concussion, following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday [19].
Crystal Fairy

Dir/scr: Sebastian Silva. Chile. 2012. 100mins
Curacao festival starts new regional competition

As it heads into its second year, the Curacao International Film Festival Rotterdam is starting a new competition for emerging talents from region around the Caribbean Sea.
D Films takes Canadian rights to Third Person

Paul Haggis’ upcoming film follows the connected love stories of three couples around the world and stars Mila Kunis, Liam Neeson, James Franco, Olivia Wilde, Adrien Brody, Kim Basinger, Olivia Wilde and Maria Bello.
Digital Cinema Media hires Rob Tomalin

Digital Cinema Media (DCM) has appointed Rob Tomalin as head of business development at the UK market leader in cinema advertising. The move follows the promotion of Joe Evea as commercial director.
Django Unchained helps Icelander receive double arm transplant

Quentin Tarantino and his cast have offered up a signed clapperboard for auction, in order to help Gudmunder Felix undergo a double arm donor transplant.
Django Unchained rules international on $48.1m debut

Quentin Tarantino’s revenge Western opened on 6,235 screens in 54 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) in an emphatic launch that finished some 30% higher than the aggregated opening weekends of Inglourious Basterds in the same markets.
Don Jon’s Addiction

Dir/scr: Joseph Gordon-Levitt. US. 2013. 90mins
Doron Weber, The Alfred P Sloan Foundation

Doron Weber talks to Jeremy Kat about the Foundation’s development grants and lab fellow grants which they distribute through their partner film schools and festivals, including Sundance.
Double Negative, Apollo Productions, Pinewood pact for production drive

EXCLUSIVE: VFX specialists teams with Steve Norris and Pinewood to expand film and TV production activities.
DreamWorks begins shooting on WikiLeaks drama

Bill Condon directs Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate, which is set for a Nov 15 North American release through Touchstone in time for awards consideration. Disney, DreamWorks, Reliance and Mister Smith split the international release.
Dubai reveals dates for 2013 fest

Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has announced their 2013 dates and revealed figures of “its most successful edition” to date.
Eat Sleep Die and Call Girl sweep Sweden's Guldbagge awards

Directors Gabriela Pichler and Mikael Marcimain took the lion’s share of the Guldbagge – Sweden’s national film prize – when the Swedish Film Institute presented the awards last night (Jan 21) at a televised gala in Stockholm’s Cirkus.
Editor Tim Squyres cuts down 3D tigers on Life of Pi

Squyres talked with ScreenTech about his work on Life of Pi and the challenges of editing a movie where one of your main characters is a digitally created tiger.
El Deseo to co-produce Damián Szifrón’s Wild Tales

EXCLUSIVE: Almodóvar’s company also working on new title by Lucrecia Martel.
Embankment grows team

DDA’s Sharon Lee joins sales outfit as licensing and marketing exec.
Epoch Founder Mindy Goldberg expands role

The managing director at the New York, Los Angeles and London-based production company will continue to chart the long-term vision of the production and extends day-today oversight of operations.
Exclusive Releasing nabs US, UK, CIS on Two Mothers

The Naomi Watts-Robin Wright Sundance drama will get a day-and-date release; marks Exclusive Releasing’s first acquisition.
FilmMcQueen and Marteau Films team for comedy thriller

FilmMcQueen and Marteau Films are to partner on Slate and Kelly, a thriller comedy to be shot in Paris.
FilmNation adds Hugh Grant rom-com to EFM roster

Castle Rock Entertainment is producing Marc Lawrence’s untitled project that reunites the writer-director with his lead from Music And Lyrics and Two Weeks Notice and also stars Marisa Tomei. Glen Basner will handle all international sales.
Fire In The Blood

Dir/scr: Dylan Mohan Gray. UK. 2013. 84mins
Freestyle Digital Media acquires Norman for DVD, VoD

Jonathan Segal’s drama stars Emily VanCamp, Dan Byrd, Richard Jenkins, Adam Goldberg and Billy Lush.
French films up 88% at international box office in 2012

Unifrance study reveals record year on back of international success of Intouchables, Taken 2 and The Artist.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation gets limited IMAX release

Paramount, MGM and Skydance Productions’ follow-up to the 2009 action film will launch in select international theatres in remastered IMAX 3D on Mar 28 and embark on a one-week run in North America the following day, when it opens wide across the continent.
German incentive supports record 115 projects in 2012

The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme supported a record 115 projects, including 40 international co-productions and a new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, totalling $78.2m (€58.4m) in 2012.
Germany’s Commerzbank doubles film finance to $400m

Commerzbank, the second biggest bank in Germany, is planning to double its commitment to the financing of film and TV production for the next four years.
Google And The World Brain

Dir/scr: Ben Lewis. UK-Spain. 2013. 89mins
Gravitas Ventures snaps up Slamdance trio

The VoD distributor has acquired rights to Steven Feinartz’s documentary The Bitter Buddha, Michael Urie’s comedy He’s Way More Famous Than You and Peter Baxter’s Shrovetide Football documentary Wild In The Streets.
Halley

Dir: Sebastian Hofmann. Mexico . 2012. 84mins
High street blues

HMV and Blockbuster have gone into administration in the UK, yet the physical sale of DVDs is still a viable market. Geoffrey Macnab looks at the implications for distributors and what the future could hold.
Hong Kong's box office grows by 12%

Although now dwarfed by the mainland China market, Hong Kong’s box office continues to grow; reaching $200.7m (HK$1.56bn) in 2012, a 12% increase on $177.8m (HK$1.38bn) the previous year.
Horror tale Mama opens top in US on $28.1m

Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain stars in the top two releases in North America after Mama debuted at number one and Zero Dark Thirty slipped one place to number two. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first starring role in almost a decade, The Last Stand, flopped in tenth place.
Hot projects on Screenbase

Shooting has commenced in Denmark on Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Someone You Love; while cameras are set to roll this spring in the UK on a film based around the winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2012 - talented canine Pudsey.
In A World…

Dir/scr: Lake Bell. US. 2012. 93mins
In Fear

Dir/scr: Jeremy Lovering. UK. 2013. 85mins
Jean-Philippe Tirel to quit Wild Bunch Distribution

French distribution veteran, with eye for US independent fare, to launch acquisition company called Selective Films at Cannes.
Jeremy Thomas, Kon-Tiki

Oscar-winning UK producer Jeremy Thomas tells Leon Forde about his mission to bring epic adventure Kon-Tiki to the screen.
Jessica Chastain: 'It was very, very intense'

Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain tells Jeremy Kay about shooting Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller - and her long road to fame.
K5 takes on Sundance picks Mother of George and Narco Cultura

K5 continues close ties with producers Parts & Labor.
Kate Gerova departs Soda to join Birds Eye View

Birds Eye View founder and chief executive Rachel Millward will continue at helm; organisation eyes international expansion and more industry involvement.
Kathleen Kennedy: the power of the President

It may be directed by Steven Spielberg and star Daniel Day-Lewis, but Lincoln’s journey to the screen was not easy. Jeremy Kay speaks to producer Kathleen Kennedy.
Kill Your Darlings

Dir: John Krokidas. US. 2012. 104mins
Kim Jee-woon, The Last Stand

The acclaimed Korean genre filmmaker talks to Ian Sandwell about his English language directorial debut The Last Stand which also marks Arnold Schwarzenegger’s solo return to the big screen.
Kim Ki-duk produces action thriller Rough Play

Venice Golden Lion winner Kim Ki-duk has written and is producing action thriller Rough Play, directed by Shin Yeon-shik.
Kosslick reveals plans for Berlinale's future

Quality international television and VoD are on festival director Dieter Kosslick’s agenda for the Berlinale’s future.
Lasting

Dir/scr: Jacek Brocuch. Poland-Spain. 2013. 95mins
Les Misérables holds high note at UK box office

Sony’s Django Unchained failed to take down Universal’s musical epic, which recorded a second straight week at number one.
Life Of Pi reaches $400m international, $500m worldwide

Fox 2000’s epic adventure and multiple Oscar nominee crossed both milestones on Tuesday [22].
Life of Pi: Eye of the tiger

For his adaptation of Life of Pi, Ang Lee opted to work in 3D for the first time and returned to shoot in Taiwan. The film-makers speak to Jeremy Kay about tackling the epic story of a boy and a Bengal tiger
Lincoln Center to honour Barbra Streisand

The iconic performer, who starred in recent release The Guilt Trip [pictured], will collect the Film Society Of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award on Apr 22.
Lionsgate and StudioCanal appoint Dersley to head Elevation Sales

StudioCanal and Lionsgate UK have appointed Kevin Dersley as managing director of joint home entertainment venture Elevation Sales.
Lovelace

Dirs: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman. US. 2013. 93mins
Madman acquires Australia, New Zealand for Blackfish

UPDATE: The distributor plans a theatrical release later this year after rights holder Submarine brokered a North American sale earlier this week with Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films. Meanwhile talks were intensifying on S-VHS and Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.
Magic Magic

Dir/scr: Sebastián Silva. US-Chile. 2013. 98mins
Manhunt

Dir: Greg Barker. US-UK. 2013. 90mins
m-appeal picks up two Berlinale titles

Berlin-based m-appeal has taken on international distribtion for two films from Cuba and Greece selected for this year’s Berlinale.
Martin Scorsese to exec produce British drama Tomorrow

London based Burn Hand Film Productions is to produce the feature directorial debut of Martha Pinson, Scorsese’s long time script supervisor.
Miami International Film Festival announces competition jurors

Knight Ibero-American Competition jury members are Morena Films co-founder Juan Gordon, Chilean film-maker Cristián Jimenez and film-maker Whit Stillman.
Michael Gambon, Alfred Molina join Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange

Parts & Labor announced the casting on Friday [18] and said the romance was scheduled to commence shooting in New York this summer.
Michael Noer, Northwest

Michael Noer’s Northwest, which premieres at Rotterdam and Göteborg, explores life in a crime-ridden Copenhagen neighbourhood. The director tells Wendy Mitchell about the search for truth in his characters.
Michael Winner dies aged 77

British film director Michael Winner has died aged 77.
Minding the store

Why the industry needs the ‘50-quid man’.
New DaVinci Resolve release features support for Retina displays

DaVinci 9.1 will be able to run on the 15” Retina MacBook Pro at the best image quality setting.
New German sales/production outfit launched

EXCLUSIVE: Andreas Rothbauer and Alec Schulmann have joined forces to launch the Berlin-based integrated sales and production outfit Picture Tree International (PTI).
NFTS to run BFI Film Academy's Talent Campus

Scheme will offer training course for 54 participants aged 16 to 19.
Park Road Post's 48fps journey for The Hobbit

It took two and a half years of R&D and testing to create the workflow.
Persbrandt, Dyrholm reunite for Someone You Love

Shooting on Pernille Fischer Christensen’s [pictured] new film begins tomorrow [Jan 23].
Prince Avalanche

Dir: David Gordon Green. US. 2012. 94mins
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer

Dirs: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin. Russia-UK. 2012. 90mins
Rodar y Rodar unveils biggest ever slate

An English remake of The Orphanage and Julia’s Eyes are in the pipeline as well as new films by Oriol Paulo and Santiago Amodeo.
Rosario Dawson joins Queen Of The Night

The thriller is based on an original story by Atom Egoyan. eOne Films handles international sales, while eOne will distribute in Canada and ARP Selection in France.
Rotterdam addresses cuts on opening night

The 42nd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) opened last night with the world premiere of Guido van Driel’s Resurrection Of A Bastard (De wederopstanding van een klootzak.)
Rotterdam Lab to welcome 74 young film producers

Participants of CineMart’s successful event for emerging producers have been nominated by the 29 Rotterdam Lab partner organisations.
Rotterdam opens with a bang...and a Bastard

A stylish local film, opening night speeches that were (gasp!) entertaining and a cloud installation get the 42nd IFFR started in style.
Rotterdam: Hearing new African voices

New York-based film-maker Jeremy Teicher talks about his Senegal-set Tall As The Baobab Tree.
San Sebastian's Pearls to be independent section

San Sebastian has announced that from its 2013 festival, its film section Pearls, which was part of the Zabaltegi programme, will now run as an independent section.
Scotland's Stepping Up skills and training scheme launched

Scheme aims to nurture Scotland’s existing creative talent and helping them to ‘step-up’ to more senior roles
Screen Yorkshire unveils £2m production slate

Screen Yorkshire has added five major international film and TV investments to its production slate, including new titles from Ecosse Films, World Productions, Warp Films and Emu Film, with £2m investment from the Yorkshire Content Fund.
Screen Yorkshire unveils new development schemes

Screen Yorkshire is set to launch two new development schemes that will place up to 30 trainees on major film and TV productions in the region.
Simon Cowell, Vertigo to produce Pudsey: The Movie

EXCLUSIVE: Syco Entertainment and Vertigo Films are to co-produce a film about Britain’s Got Talent winners Pudsey and Ashleigh.
Sir Alan Parker to receive BAFTA Fellowship

British director Sir Alan Parker is to receive the Academy Fellowship at the upcoming BAFTA awards.
Sky switches on mobile downloads

Sky is beefing up its IPTV service Sky Go to allow subscribers to download shows from Sky 1 and Sky Atlantic to view offline without internet access.
Slamdance, JuntoBox Films announce screenplay contest

This year’s Grand Prize by collaborative studio JuntoBox Films is the largest offered by Slamdance to the winning writer in the 19 years of the competition’s history.
SnagFilms closes $6m financing round

The capital investment will enable the online distributor to expand its 4,000-strong film library to 5,000 by the middle of the year.
Sony production admin chief Gary Martin retires

The executive has served 32 years at Columbia Pictures and 51 years in the industry overall.
Sony unleashes Django in more than 60 markets

UPDATED JAN 18: Sony Pictures Releasing International launches Quentin Tarantino’s best picture Oscar nominee this weekend in the UK, Germany, Russia and France.
Sotomayor, Klimiewicz pact for short film

Dominga Sotomayor [pictured], one of last year’s Rotterdam Tiger winners for Thursday Till Sunday, is co-writing and co-directing a new short film, The Time Before, with European Film Award winner Katarzyna Klimiewicz.
Stoker

Dir: Park Chan-wook. US. 2012. 98mins
Studio figures hit sky high

With three films passing $1bn worldwide, 2012 was a banner year for studios at the global box office.
Submarine author to curate From Page To Screen fest

Joe Dunthorne, whose novel Submarine was adapted for the big screen by Richard Ayoade, has been named guest curator of literary adaptation festival From Page to Screen - which is now open for submissions.
Sundance Channel takes five at festival

AMC/Sundance Channel has picked up five indie titles from this year’s festival and locked fresh distribution agreements around the world.
Sundance rocks

Sundance is always a great occasion to catch live music but few gigs will match the sheer logistical ambition and star-power of Sound City Players, who played to a sold-out Park City Live on Friday [18].
Sundance: Dirty Wars finds home at Sundance Selects

Sales representative Submarine and distributor Sundance Selects have concluded negotiations for a North American deal on Richard Rowley’s documentary, their second piece of business together in two days following Saturday’s deal for The Summit.
Sundance: Elle Driver takes int’l rights to Twenty Feet

Elle Driver/Wild Bunch negotiated the deal for the opening night film with busy Submarine in the run-up to the EFM in Berlin next month. Separately, HBO Documentary Films has snapped up US television rights to Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer.
Sundance: Ford Foundation lends support to eight films

The Foundation’s social justice fund JustFilms has awarded grants totalling $20m to films and film-makers over the last two years.
Sundance: gender study reveals five causes of imbalance

Women comprised 29.8% of film-makers from all Sundance Film Festival Entries between the years 2002 and 2012, Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam and Women In Film Los Angeles president Cathy Schulman announced on Monday [21].
Sundance: IFC finds Love, A24 gets Spectacular

UPDATED JAN 21: IFC’s North American deal for The Look Of Love closed on Sunday evening following a negotiation with StudioCanal. Meanwhile A24 confirmed it had acquired North American rights to The Spectacular Now for what was believed to cost $1.5m after Screendaily was the first to report on Sunday night that the film had sold.
Sundance: Madman takes Australia, New Zealand for The Summit

Submarine Entertainment announced the deal on Monday afternoon [21], several days after the North American deal closed with Sundance Selects.
Sundance: Mahindra, Focus Forward winners announced

Sundance Institute and India’s Mahindra Group announced on Tuesday [22] the four winners of the 2013 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards.
Sundance: Mundial bulks up EFM slate with Dayani Crystal

The joint sales venture between IM Global and Canana has made its first international rights acquisition on the eve of Berlin.
Sundance: Outfest names Kristin Pepe director of programming

Monday morning’s [21] announcement came out of the annual Outfest Queer Brunch, when it was revealed that Pepe would replace Kim Yutani, who has been named artistic director.
Sundance: RADiUS-TWC buys Twenty Feet From Stardom

UPDATE: In the first on-site deal of the festival the distributor has acquired North American rights in a low seven-figure deal and plans a theatrical release this summer. Separately, Anchor Bay has acquired Leland Orser’s drama Morning.
Sundance: RADiUS-TWC swoops again on Inequality For All

The distributor’s fourth buy of the festival follows a deal for all English-speaking rights to Jacob Kornbluth’s disparity of wealth documentary.
Sundance: RADIUS-TWC, eOne, Magnolia in deals action

The Park City deals continued to roll in as RADiUS-TWC made its third acquisition of the festival on Lovelace, while eOne picked up US rights to cannibal film We Are What We Are and Magnolia bought Prince Avalanche.
Sundance: Relativity takes Don Jon, TWC picks Fruitvale

UPDATED: The traditional Monday landslide kicked in as Relativity paid around $4m and made a $25m p&a commitment for US rights to Don Jon’s Addiction, while The Weinstein Company stumped up between $2-3m for North American and English-speaking distribution rights and international sales rights to Fruitvale.
Sundance: SPWA goes to Austenland, RADiUS gets Concussion

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions made the announcement on Monday afternoon [21] and said that SPC will distribute the comedy in North America. Meanwhile RADiUS-TWC confirmed it had picked up North American rights to Concussion.
Sundance: Talks intensify on Don Jon, Look Of Love

Don Jon’s Addiction’s North American sales representatives CAA and WME have been spending Sunday hearing marketing pitches from around seven suitors as the asking price is understood to have reached $4-5m.
Sundance: The Summit sells to Sundance Selects

UPDATE JAN 19: Heading into Sunday, acquisitions teams including The Weinstein Company and Relativity Media were understood to be in the mix for Don Jon’s Addiction, while another Friday premiere, The Spectacular Now, was also drawing heat.
Sundance: Way Back, Blackfish, Darlings in deals avalanche

As deals continued to explode out of Park City, Fox Searchlight paid just under $10m for North America and select major territories to Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s feature directorial debut The Way, Way Back. Meanwhile SPC has acquired Kill Your Darlings and CBS Films picked up Toy’s House.
Sundance: Women In Film awards $30,000 in grants

The organisation announced the awards at its seventh annual Sundance Filmmakers Panel discussion and brunch on Sunday.
S-VHS

Dirs: Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans, Jason Eisener. US/Canada. 2013. 96mins
Sweetwater

Dirs: Logan Miller, Noah Miller. US. 2012. 93mins
Technicolor provides custom lab for Boyle’s Trance

Technicolor provided full processing and digital lab support for the feature.
Texas Instruments announces all-new DLP Pico chip architecture

The new Tilt & Roll Pixel architecture will allow increased efficiency and brightness, less power resolution and twice the resolution in products employing it.
The Best Man cast reunite for Universal comedy sequel

Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Monica Calhoun, Melissa De Sousa and Regina Hall will reprise their roles nearly 14 years after the original hit theatres.
The East

Dir: Zal Batmanglij. US. 2012. 117mins
The Look Of Love

Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2013. 105mins
The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman

Dir: Fredrik Bond. US. 2013. 108mins
The Spectacular Now

Dir: James Ponsoldt. US. 2012. 99mins
The Way, Way Back

Dir: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash. US. 2013. 96mins
Tina Gharavi: the BAFTA nominee with the Argo-esque story

BAFTA nominee Tina Gharavi, whose provocative first feature I am Nasrine has garnered interest from TWC and Fox Searchlight, talks to Screen about the film’s hazardous journey, signing with Independent Talent and her next feature projects.
Tom Hooper: "If it's not convincing, all is lost"

Tom Hooper took the bold step of shooting his Les Misérables adaptation with live singing. The director tells Michael Rosser about how the method gave power back to the actors.
Tony Drury's Megan's Game set for big screen treatment

Oscar nominated writer Crispian Sallis is currently developing the screenplay, with a shoot aimed for August 2013.
Touchy Feely

Dir/scr: Lynn Shelton. US. 2013. 89mins
Two Mothers

Dir: Anne Fontaine. Australia-France. 2012. 112mins
UK Film Brunch at Sundance

Photos from the UK Film Brunch at Sundance 2013, run by the BFI, BFC and the British Consulate-General Los Angeles.
Upstream Color

Dir/scr: Shane Carruth. U.S. 2012. 96mins
Vartiainen to head MEDIA unit; Commission launches pilot project

Finland’s Sari Vartiainen has succeeded Constantin Daskalakis as the new head of the MEDIA unit at Brussel’s Education, Audiovisual, and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), with responsibility for the operational management of the EU’s MEDIA Programme.
Very Good Girls

Dir/scr: Naomi Foner. US. 2012. 90mins
Wallonia Brussels commission backs 45 new projects

Among the projects supported are 17 feature films and 17 documentaries; total funding amounts to $4.5m (€3.4m).
War Witch, A Royal Affair join SBIFF line-up

Programming chiefs at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival have added 15 films to the roster, the festival announced on Monday [21].
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

Dir/scr: Alex Gibney. US. 2012. 127mins
Who Is Dayani Cristal?

Dir: Marc Silver. UK. 2012. 80mins
Wide secures Silent Ones rights

Ricky Rijneke’s debut feature film, Silent Ones, will be sold by French agent Wide management.
Wirthwhile Entertainment starts development on One Week In Hollywood

Sheri Sussman, who wrote the screenplay to Sundance 2001 entry MacArthur Park, wrote the screenplay about a week in the life of a writer in Hollywood and will direct.

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