All Screen articles in 10 June 2008 – Page 4

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    Diving Bell writer Harwood joins Screenwriters Festival

    2008-06-04T15:58:00Z

    The Screenwriters' Festival (July 1-3) continues to add high-profile speakes to its line-up. New to the programme is novelist/playwright/screenwriter Ronald Harwood, who will interviewed onstage by psychiatrist Raj Persaud. Harwood has worked on screenplays for Roman Polanski's The Pianist and Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.This presentation, sponsored ...

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    Joe Pavlo joins post house Men From Mars

    2008-06-04T15:43:00Z

    Joe Pavlo has joined post-production company Men From Mars as senior VFX supervisor/head of 2D.He won an Emmy for BBC/HBO's Rome and has also worked on features including Batman Begins and The Da Vinci Code.In addition to on-set and in-house vfx supervision, Pavlo will spearhead the expansion of Men From ...

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    TVE now on board for Almodovar's Broken Embraces

    2008-06-04T14:26:00Z

    Spanish public broadcaster TVE has joined forces with El Deseo on Pedro Almodovar's new film Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos), which starts shooting this week in Lanzarote.TVE previously worked with Almodovar on his films Bad Education and Oscar winning Volver. The broadcaster also worked with El Deseo on Lucrecia Martel's ...

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    Taormina lauds Turkish cinema, ramps up industry plans

    2008-06-04T14:00:00Z

    Turkish cinema and an industry initiative that aims at uniting international buyers and distributors with the Sicilian Film Commission are all on the agenda of the 54th Taormina Film Festival, under the artistic direction of Deborah Young for the second year.Additionally, Young's line up reflects the 'Mediterranean and beyond' format ...

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    Moszkowicz elected to head European Producers Club

    2008-06-04T11:56:00Z

    The European Producers Club has elected Martin Moszkowicz, from Constantin Film in Germany as its new president. Jean Cazès, who previously served as president, h as been elected vice-president.This move marks the first time since the EPC's founding in 1993 that the group has a non-French president. The group said: ...

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    Icon takes UK rights forKen Loach's Looking For Eric

    2008-06-04T11:38:00Z

    Icon Film Distribution has acquired UK theatrical and home entertainment rights to Ken Loach's new feature, Looking For Eric, shooting now on location in Manchester.Wild Bunch is selling the film, which came about through a series of conversations between Loach, writer Paul Laverty, footballer Eric Cantona and producer Rebecca O'Brien. ...

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    Rome Cinema Foundation's Bettini steps down

    2008-06-04T10:56:00Z

    Rome's Cinema Foundation president Goffredo Bettini has resigned from his role presiding over the Rome Film Fest, which will be ushering in its third edition Oct 21-31.In a wave of shake-ups that are effecting the culture sector here after Silvio Berlusconi's right wing government took over from Romani Prodi's left ...

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    Czech government rejects tax incentive for filmmakers

    2008-06-04T10:50:00Z

    The Czech government has rejected a proposal to create a tax rebate for filmmaking, saying such an incentive would create special, beneficial tax conditions to a single industry.The proposal would have offered a 20% tax rebate on producers' Czech spend and would have allowed the government to specify what costs ...

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    Cecchi Gori arrested in Rome in ongoing legal battles

    2008-06-04T10:44:00Z

    Oscar-winning film producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori whose credits include Life is Beautiful and Cinema Paradiso is behind bars in at Rome's Regina Coeli prison after he was arrested late in the afternoon Tuesday as he returned to his Palazzo Borghese residence in the center of Rome.A spokesperson for Cecchi Gori ...

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    Asia Culture Technology Investment launches $15m content fund

    2008-06-04T09:32:00Z

    Korean venture capital firm Asia Culture Technology Investment (ACTI) has completed a $15m fund for films, TV drama series, performing arts, animation, and games. In what is being called a first for a city council investing such a significant sum in a fund, Busan Metropolitan City is participating with $2m, ...

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    Sans Arme to open Festival du Film de Tremblant in Canada

    2008-06-04T05:56:00Z

    French filmmaker Jean-Paul Rouve's Sans Arme, Ni Haine, Ni Violence will make its North American premiere in competition at the third Festival du Film de Tremblant. The film, in which Rouve portrays the mastermind of France's most sensational bank robbery, opened in France in April through Warner Bros. Rouve present ...