All Screen articles in 5 December 2005
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Sundance unveils US and world competition sections for 2006
The Sundance Film Festivalunleashed a typically challenging American and world cinema competition line-uptoday [Monday] that bore the festival's hallmarks of eclectic,socially-conscious story-telling.The American dramatic andcompetition each feature 16 titles from more than 1,760 submissions, and arematched this year by their world cinema counterpartsSince launching in 2005 thenumber of entries in ...
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Troika launches London-based talent agency
Talent industry veterans Michael Duff, Conor McCaughan and Melanie Rockcliffe have formed a new London-based talent agency, Troika.Troika will represent actors, comedians and presenters for film, TV and theatre work. The company's clients include Paul Bettany, Paddy Considine, Keeley Hawes, David Morrissey, Graham Norton, Matt Lucas and David Walliams."The new ...
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Grierson Trust Honours Kahn's My Architect
The Grierson Trust's British Documentary Awards have announced its 2005 winners. Most of the awards are given to TV documentaries, but the UK Film Council award for best international cinema documentary went to Nathaniel Kahn's My Architect. Other winners were Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi's Sisters in Law for the ...
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Drouot takes MD role at Flemish Audiovisual Fund
PierreDrouot has been appointed managing director of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund(VAF), it was announced late last week. Hesucceeds former MD Luckas vander Taelen, who made an abrupt exit from the Fundearlier this month.Drouotalready worked for the Fund in various capacities, for instance as a mentorguiding young filmmakers and as a ...
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London forum maps out future for European Box Office
Screen International next week hosts the European Box Office Forum.The event on December8th at the Waldorf Hilton, London. will analyse the most up-to-date European boxoffice figures - and demystify the various measuring tools used to devise those figures.Major industry figures and experts will help correct the many false assumptions concerning ...
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Squid, Brokeback lead Spirit nominations
Brokeback Mountain, Capote,Good Night, And Good Luck, TheSquid And The Whale and The ThreeBurials Of Melquiades Estrada willvie for best feature honours at Film Independent's 2006 Independent SpiritAwards on Mar 4.Noah Baumbach's TheSquid And The Whale leads the packwith six nominations for Samuel Goldwyn Films including best director andscreenplay for ...
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Squid, Brokeback lead Spirit nominations
Brokeback Mountain, Capote,Good Night, And Good Luck, TheSquid And The Whale and The ThreeBurials Of Melquiades Estrada willvie for best feature honours at Film Independent's 2006 Independent SpiritAwards on March 4.Noah Baumbach's TheSquid And The Whale leads the packwith six nominations for Samuel Goldwyn Films including best director andscreenplay for ...
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German-French co-production finds favour with Filmstiftung NRW
TwoGerman-French co-productions attracted the bulk of the $7m (6m Euros)production support allocated by Filmstiftung NRW atits last funding session. Thelargest sum of $3m (2.5m Euros) was awarded to Jo Baier'sadaptation of Heinrich Mann's historical novel, Henri Quatre. Berlin-based Ziegler Filmwill be the producer with France's GTV as a three-partmini-series with ...
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Grupo Pi reveals string of deals in the US
Spanish consortium Grupo Pi hasclosed a string of sales on its slate of local films, including a USpay TV and video deal with HBO for first-time feature director Guillem Morales' thriller The Uninvited Guest.Grupo Pi general directorGeraldine Gonard said: "It is not easy forSpanish-language films to break into the USmarket ...
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Tusk joins HDNet Films as head of development
&ManMark Tusk has joined HDNetFilms as head of development and will help company chiefs Jason Kliot and JoanaVicente package the next wave of features. Tusk has worked in the NewYork film scene for close to two decades. He joined Miramax in 1988 as managerof acquisitions, where he recommended such titles ...
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Gravehopping (Od Groba Do Groba)
Dir/scr: Jan Cvitkovic. Slovenia, 2005. 103mins.A darkly comic curio, the second filmfrom Bread And Milk director Jan Cvitkovic has been flying the festival flag for Sloveniaever since its debut at San Sebastian - where it picked up the New Directors Award- and has since won best film prizes at Cottbus ...
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Unknown White Male
Dir: Rupert Murray. UK. 2005. 88mins.A bizarre case of amnesia yields philosophical foodfor thought as well as an unorthodox character study in Unknown White Male, a thought-provoking documentary by Britishfilm-maker Rupert Murray.The film's subject is afriend of Murray's - a 35-year-old Englishman named Douglas Bruce who suddenlyand inexplicably lost all ...
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Nicaragua ready for first production in 16 years
Germany's Shotgun Pictures will co-produce producer-directorFlorence Jaugey's feature debut La Yuma whichwill be the first feature film to be produced in Nicaragua for 16 years. French-born Jaugey, who took upresidence in Nicaragua set up her production company Camila Filmswith Nicaraguan filmmaker Frank Pineda in 1990.Budgeted at Euros 350,000and scheduled to ...
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Charlotte Rampling to be jury president at Berlinale 2006
Britishactress Charlotte Rampling will head up the main juryat next year's Berlinale (February 9-19, 2006). Describingher as a "fascinating woman and brilliant artist", festival directorDieter Kosslick noted that, through her work,[Charlotte Rampling] has come to stand for unconventionaland memorable cinema."Theremainder of the international jury, which will preside over Berlin's main ...
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BAFTA to consider 246 films for nominations
Thereare 246 films being considered for BAFTAnominations this year. Ina change in BAFTA policy, films were required to be entered for considerationfor the first time this year. In past years, every film released in UK cinemas wasautomatically considered, which meant that last year about 450 films wereeligible for nominations. Filmswere ...
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New Locarno director announces changes
Locarno's new artistic directorFrederic Maire has announced a series oforganisational and programme changes two months after taking up his post onOctober 1.Speakingat press conferences in Zurich and Bellinzona,Maire revealed that the next edition of the festivalfrom August 2-12, 2006 will no longer stagethe Video Competition and will transform the Film-makers ...
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Baltic Event launches its first co-production market
New filmsby Latvia's Alexander Hahn, Lithuania's Algimantas Puipa, Norway's MariusHolst, and Romania's Cristian Mungiu are among 12 projects being presented atthe first Baltic Event Co-Production Market to be held in Tallinn from December1-2.Now in itsfourth year, the Baltic Event had originally been launched to present theBaltic Screenings programme of films ...
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Bashing scores top prize at Tokyo's FILMeX
MasahiroKobayashi's drama Bashing has taken the Grand Prize at the Tokyo FILMeXfilm festival, together with a Y1 million ($8,400) cash award . Premiered in thisyear's Cannes competition, the film tells the story of a young woman who, afterbeing taken hostage in a Middle Eastern country, returns to Japan only to ...
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Brighton hosts convergence conference
The Screen East MediaNetwork will host d-media, the Digital Media Conference, on December 1-2 at theGrand Hotel in Brighton. The theme of the conference is "convergence is areality: how to thrive in the 'converged' world."Theconference will discuss the changing role of games, TV, film and animation andemerging distribution platforms. The ...
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Lago weighs in on Lynch's Surveillance
Jennifer Lynch's long-gestating project Surveillance will go into production with Germany's Lago Film backing the $10m production.Previously announced for a 2004 start date, the filmco-written by Kent Harper tells the story of an FBI agent who is tracking aserial killer with the help of three would-be victims, all of whom ...