All Screen articles in 11 January 2002 – Page 4
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Freccero, Iwanowski promoted at Sundance Channel
Paola Freccero and KirkIwanowski have been promoted to senior vice presidents at The Sundance Channel.Freccero is now senior vice president, film programming, and Iwanowski issenior vice president, marketing.In her new position,Freccero, who was formerly vice president, international, will oversee theacquisition, programming and scheduling of all acquired films on SundanceChannel, as ...
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Vortex to sell Cage-directed Sonny, two more
Vortex Pictures, the newlyformed financing and sales outfit run by Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro, hasacquired three more films for international sales including NicolasCage's directorial debutSonny.The company is at Sundanceand Slamdance later this week with 13 Moons, the latest film from director Alexandre Rockwell,which opens the Slamdance Film Festival, and ...
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ApolloProMedia fund to back Borderline
Evelyn Purcell's psychological thriller Borderline, starring Gina Gershon (Driven) and Chris Noth (Sex And The City), is to be backed by the German ApolloProMedia private film fund.This is the second feature to be backed by the new fund after it committed to back Michael J. Bassett's Untitled Great War Project ...
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Argentina slashes cinema ticket prices again
Reeling from its worst economic crisis ever, Argentina has moved to slash ticket prices to local films once again. Last November, admissions leapt 1,000 % compared with the previous week as a result of a two-day national campaign. Regular ticket prices of up to $8 were cut to $2 with ...
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Catherine Buresi named chief exec of EAVE
Catherine Buresi has been named the successor to Raymond Ravar as chief executive of the MEDIA Programme-supported, Brussels-based European producers training programme EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs De L'Audiovisuel Europeen).A graduate herself of EAVE's 1995 session, Buresi was in charge of the audiovisual policy of the City of Strasbourg and head of ...
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Danish Film Institute appoints Geertsen
The Danish Film Institute has appointed 45-year-old Anders Geertsen new area manager for distribution and marketing. Geertsen comes from a job as MD of publisher Munksgaards Forlag, and takes the long-vacant seat left by former DFI manager Peter Wolsgaard from April 1. "Anders Geertsen has a very interesting and diverse ...
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Local film releases on the rise in Europe
The number of locally-produced films released annually is on the increase across Europe, with homegrown films now accounting for an average 16% of new releases, according to new figures from Screen Digest. This compares to just 12% a decade ago.Unsurprisingly, France is Europe's strongest market for domestically produced films. In ...
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Japan BO passes $1.5bn for first time in history
According to figures compiled by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper, Japanese box office passed the $1.5bn (Y200 billion) mark in 2001 for the first time since records began in 1955.At the same time, Japan's cinemas recorded a total of 160 million admissions in 2001 - the highest figure in fifteen ...
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Local industries boost world film production
Global film production totalled some 3,540 films in 2000, an increase of 76 films from 1999, according to research by industry periodical Screen Digest.With some of the smaller territories still to release production data for 2000, the figures are not exhaustive, but the trend is unmistakable: world-wide film production is ...
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Rotterdam fest unveils competition titles
The 31st International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 23 - Feb 3) has selected sixteen features (all world, international or European premieres) for its VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. First- or second-time directors from around the world will compete for three equal prizes, the VPRO Tiger Awards, each worth Euro 10,000 plus ...
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Apted wins filmmaker prize at Palm Springs
Michael Apted will receive the International Filmmaker Award at the Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan 12. The award, which is given to an actor or director who has "broken through the barrier of language and crossed over the borders of culture to become a film-maker of ...
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