All Screen articles in 11 September 2006 – Page 6
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Dry Season (Daratt)
Dir/scr: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Fr-Bel-Chad-Aust. 2006. 95mins.The third feature from Mahamat-SalehHaroun, the director of Bye Bye Africa (at Venice in 1999) and Abouna (which wasat Cannes in 2002), is a pared-back revenge tale with a twist, set against thebackground of the long trail of civil and ethnic strife in Haroun'snative Chad.One ...
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Beta takes on sales for German hit Hui Buh
BetaCinema has taken on the international sales for Sebastian Niemann'sfamily entertainment film Hui Buh, which has been seen by 1.8m cinema-goers since Constantin Film released it in Germany in earlyJuly.The story about the lovable, bumbling castle ghost HuiBuh, played by Michael 'Bully' Herbig of Manitou'sShoe and Dreamship Surprise fame, also ...
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The Works adopts Bragason's Children
The Works International has taken on international sales forRagnar Bragason's Icelandic feature Children. The sales company will startnegotiating for the film at the Toronto International Film Festival. Children will screen in the Zabaltegi-New Directors sectionat San Sebastian and has also beenselected for Pusan. Children is the first of two parent-and-child ...
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UK's Metropolitan Film School taps producer Jonny Persey as school director
The Metropolitan Film School, basedat London's EalingStudios, has appointed Jonny Persey as its new school director. Persey is an active film producer through APT Films,which is finishing Jerry Rothwell's documentary Deep Water. Perseypreviously produced films including WondrousOblivion and Everyone's Child. Healso has a background in education and training in London, ...
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Maja Dyekaer Giese joins Trust Film Sales as CEO
Maja Dyekaer Giese has been appointed CEO ofDenmark-based Trust Film Sales.Giese had been head of distribution andmarketing at the Danish Film Institute and previously worked as head of theatricaldistribution at Scanbox Entertainment. She will attend the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival with the Trust team, working on films including Susanne Bier's After ...
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Venice deals emerge for The Island and Falling
As theVenice Festival ends the final stretch, there has been a small flurry ofdeal-making on the Lido. Russiansales agent Intercinema has soldits competition title The Island by Pavel Longouine to Metropole Pathe for Switzerland and hasdeals pending with distributors in Mexico, Turkey, the UK and Greece for thetitle. Intercinema's Raisa ...
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Bobby's Estevez grateful for Weinstein support
It was hats off to Harvey time at yesterday's Venice press conference for Bobby as director Emilio Estevez and star Lindsay Lohan both paidtribute to Harvey Weinstein, the head of The Weinstein Company (which will bereleasing Bobby in the US.) "Bobby Kennedy stood for thelittle guy and the underdog. Perhaps ...
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UK tax credit financier Brighthaven on board for Magicians
Brighthaven, the new film financing venture formed byWaking Ned and Shooting Fish producer Richard Holmes, has agreed to board itsfirst feature film. Brighthaven will be cash-flowing thenew UK tax credit for Andrew O'Connor's Magicians,a comedy feature from the team behind the UK hit TV series Peep Show. Brighthaven was established ...
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Peccadillo gets UK rights to Maximo Oliveros and Beyond Hatred
Peccadillo Pictures hasacquired all UK and Irish rights to TheBlossoming of Maximo Oliverosby Auraeus Solito and Beyond Hatred by Olivier Meyrou. Both films won Teddy Awardswhen they played at the 2006 Berlinale. The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, soldby UFO, is a Filipino drama about a 12-year-old cross-dresser who strikes up ...
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Beirut Film Festival makes plans for October event
Despite last month's war in Lebanon, the organisers of the seventh Beirut InternationalFilm Festival have confirmed that their event will be going ahead from Oct 4-11.A range of international titles have already been invited including Mark Dornford-May's Son OfMan, Jafar Panahi's Offside, Cannes hit Paris Je T'Aime,and Pedro Almodovar's Volver.The ...
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Still Life (Sanxia Haoren)
Dir: Jia Zhankg-Ke. Chi. 2006. 107mins.The decision of the Mostradel Cinema to screen Jia Zhankg-Ke'sStill Life in the prestigioussurprise competition film slot at Venice - and then slap its two press andindustry screenings on at 11pm and midnight respectively - is not going to dothe director nor his film many ...
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PPS opens London post facility ilab
UK-based post-production company PPS hasmoved into its new ilab space on Poland Street in London.The company offers post-production services forfeature films, commercial and TV projects. In-house services at ilabinclude 16mm/35mm nefative processing with Photomec, (with an alliance with VTR)Telecine Rushes transfers via Spring DataCine.The ilab team consists of Nigel ...
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Metropolitan Opera to transmit live performances to US, Europe theatres
New York's MetropolitanOpera has announced plans to transmit high-defintion live performances of itsproductions to cinemas in North America and Europe. The multi-media initiative,which also encompasses webcasts, HD television and radio, will tap the growingnetwork of HD projection cinemas in circuits including National CineMedia (aventure of AMC Entertainment, Cinemark USA and ...
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THE INLAND EMPIRE
Dir/scr: David Lynch. US-Fr-Pol. 2006. 189mins.Around 10 minutes into INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch's baffling new cinematic mindgame,a guy with the head of a rabbit drones: "I do not think it will be much longernow". Wrong, bunny: it will be another two hours and 50 minutes of improvisedplotting, rumbling sound effects ...
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Gruberg joins MGM as senior vp, media operations, from DreamWorks
Amy Gruberg has joined MGM as senior vice president of media operationsfollowing a ten-year stint overseeing media operations at DreamWorks.Gruberg will be responsible for shaping MGM's media vision, which involvesoverseeing media strategy and placement on all theatrical and homeentertainment releases and network and cable broadcasts of titles, as well asmanaging ...
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Parasol ends pact with Peccadillo, completes work on documentary Thief Of Hearts
TheUK indie distributor formerly known as ParasolPeccadillo Releasing has now split into Parasol Pictures Releasing andPeccadillo Pictures, ending a five-year strategic alliance. Peccadillocontinues to be run by Tom Abell and Kahloon Loke. Parasol is run byChristian Martin. Meanwhile,Parasol said it has invested in a new HD edit suite ...
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Pusan to screen long-lost Shin Sang-ok classic
This year's PusanInternational Film Festival (PIFF) will present Bound By Chastity Rule, a long-lost film directed by recentlydeceased Korean master Shin Sang-ok.The late director was knownfor decades of work, including Mother andThe Houseguest (1961), as well as forhis dramatic kidnapping to and escape from North Korea with his wife, actress ...
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Marcoly promoted to president, sales & distribution, at BVI
Followingthe promotion of Mark Zoradi to president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group,Anthony Marcoly has been named president, sales and distribution, at BuenaVista International.Marcoly,who will continue to report to Zoradi, will take on a more comprehensivemanagement role overseeing all aspects of sales and distribution of Disney andTouchstone films internationally as ...
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Film Movement buys three from Match Factory including Madeinusa
Film Movement has picked up Claudia Llosa's Spain-Peru drama Madeinusa, Mani Haghighi's Iranian comedy MenAt Work, and Geraldo Olivares'Spain-Germany drama The Great Match.Madeinusa centreson a stranger's encounter with an innocent girl in a remote Peruvian villageand stars Magaly Solier, Carlos de la Torre, Yiliana Chong, and Ubaldo Huaman.The deal was ...
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Walk from Japan, Love from Brazil share Montreal prize
Nagai Sanpo (A Long Walk) by Eiji Okuda of Japan and O Maior AmorDo Mundo (The Greatest Love Of All) from Brazil's Carlos Diegues shared the top prize GrandPrix of the Americas at 30th Montreal World Film Festival which wrappedover the weekend. The jury, whichincluded US actress Kathy Bates, Canadian ...