All Screen articles in 16 March 2006 – Page 3
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Tribeca announces 33 projects in All Access Connects programme
The Tribeca Film Institute has announced the 33 winning projectsfor this year's Tribeca All Access Connects programme.The programme was set up to foster stronger relations betweenUS-based filmmakers of colour and industry executives.To facilitate this, organisers have arranged approximately 500meetings with representatives from more than 100 companies during the festivalfrom May ...
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Matzner's Dreamland to open 11th Gen Art in New York
Jason Matzner's familydrama Dreamland and Gregg Kavet and AndyRobin's crime caper Live Free Or Diebookend the 11th Gen Art Film Festival, which runs from Apr 5-11 in New YorkCity.For the first time thefestival will honour a festival breakout talent with the juried Stargazer Awardfor excellence in acting.The award joins the ...
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UK's First Light launches new competition in North East
FirstLight, the UK Film Council's youth filmmaking scheme, has started a newcompetition in the North East. The Futures in Motion competition will be opento 170 schools and 43 youth groups.Studentswill submit a short film proposal about how Lottery funding has impacted theircommunity. The winning group will work with film and ...
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Six titles chosen for Films in Progress financing initiative
The Films in Progresscompletion financing initiative of the Latin American Film Festival of Toulouseand the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival has announced the six titles participating in the upcoming 9thedition March 23-24 in Toulouse.The films, chosen from 67entries from across Latin America and Spain, will screen for companies and festivals whichcould ...
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Aardman's double triumph at European animation awards
TheUK's Aardman Animations scored a double triumph by taking home two of theCartoon Movie Tributes voted on by representatives of the European animationindustry attending this year's co-production forum at the Babelsberg Studiosfrom March 9-11.Thefilmmaking duo Nick Park and Steve Box were named Best European Director of theYear for Wallace & ...
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Brodlie, Stier swell ranks at Paramount specialty division
Matt Brodlie has been named senior vice president of production andacquisitions and Geoff Stier senior vice president of production anddevelopment at Paramount's fast-expanding specialty division.Brodlie, who joins from TriStar Pictures, and former producerStier will both report to executive vice president of production andacquisitions Amy Israel."I am thrilled that we were ...
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Eurimages puts more than $4.2m into nine projects
Strasbourg-based pan-European co-production fund Eurimages has backed nineprojects with more than $4.2m (Euros 3.6m).The first funding selection of 2006 includes new features by the Taviani brothers, Carlos Saura, Nana Djordjadze, and Milcho Manchevski. The largest sum, $772,849 (Euros 650,000) was awarded tothe Tavianis' story of the massacre of the Armenianpeople ...
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You And Me (Toi Et Moi)
Dir: Julie Lopes Curval.Fr. 2006. 94mins.Writer-director Julie Lopes Curvalleapt into the front rank of promising Gallic auteur talent with her debutfeature, Seaside (Bord De Mer), a dramatic ensemble piece setin a once-fashionable seaside resort town, which won the prestigious Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2002. Three years on, she now ...
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Im's Thousand Year Crane cranks up with Prime backing
Korean maestro ImKwon-taek's 100th film has started production with backing from start-up studioPrime Entertainment which is contributing 40% of the $3.8m budget and willdistribute the film. In addition, producer Kino2officially announced Cho Jae-hyun, whose credits include Kim Ki-duk's Bad Guy, as the male lead.Im's Cheon-nyun-hak, which translates literally as One ...
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Panther steals $9.2m for Fox, while Narnia powers on
The Pink Panther was the number one international picture of the weekend thanks toa raft of major market launches through Fox International that generated anestimated $9.2m.The comedy remake now stands at $30m. It opened top in Germany andAustria on $2.1m from 540 screens and $510,000 from 60 respectively.France generated $1.4m ...
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Sundance favourite Quinceanera lands at SPC
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked-up North American andLatin American rights to the double Sundance winner Quinceanera directed by Richard Glatzer and WashWestmoreland.The coming-of-age story chartsthe ups and downs of an East LA girl as she approaches her fifteenth birthdaycelebrations while juggling concerns about her boyfriend, pregnancy and hertroubled cousin. ...
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Beresford to direct Rachmaninoff romance Rhapsody
Bruce Beresford will direct the Sergei Rachmaninoff romance Rhapsody for producers Ed Pressman, and FrederickMuller and Floyd Bradley of London-based Prelude Features.Beresford will direct from a screenplay by Timothy Prager aboutthe life and loves of the Russian composer.Prelude obtained exclusive rights to the story from AlexandreRachmaninoff in Switzerland, as well ...
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Failure is anything but at domestic box office
Paramount's romantic comedy Failure To Launch was anything but a failure in itsopening weekend, soaring to number one on an estimated $24.6m weekend haul.Buena Vista's comedy The Shaggy Dog - the picture that had beenexpected to dominate the weekend - opened in second place on $16m,marginally ahead of Fox Searchlight's ...
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Accused, Life In Colour take top prizes at Miami
The Miami International Film Festival concluded on Saturday nightwith the announcement of three juried awards offering cash sums of $25,000each. Presentations were made at a closing ceremony introduced by festivaldirector Nicole Guillemet and hosted by actors Alice Braga and Jose Antonio.Life In Colour from Spain's Santiago Tabernero won the top ...
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San Francisco doc fest will open on May 12 with Long Gone John
Gregg Gibb's The Treasures Of Long Gone John will open the sixth San FranciscoDocumentary Film Festival, which runs from May 12-21.The picture chronicles the artand musical obsessions of independent record producer Long Gone John, whohelped launch the careers of The White Stripes, Hole and Rocket From The Crypt.Also screening is ...
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Lionsgate to handle US release of Peaceful Warrior
Lionsgate will handle US distribution of Peaceful Warrior, the film based on Dan Millman'sself-help international bestseller Way Of The Peaceful Warrior which was produced by Mark Amin's Sobini Films.Lionsgate-based Sobini recently bought back domestic rights fromBlockbuster after producing the picture with DEJ Productions. Los Angeles-basedInferno Distribution retains international rights.The picture ...
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Water to open fourth Indian Film Festival of LA
Deepa Mehta's 1930s Varanasi-set social drama Water will open the fourth annual Indian FilmFestival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on Apr 19.The festival's executive director Christina Marouda also announcedthat the award-winning sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar will receive theLifetime Achievement Award."We are truly delighted to be hosting the Los Angelespremiere of ...
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Sight, Pounds take audience awards at NY Israel Film Festival
DanielSyrkin's mystery Out Of Sighttook the Panavision Audience Choice Award at the 21st Israel Film Festival,which ran in New York from Feb 23-Mar 9.Dani Menkin's 39 Pounds Of Love won the corresponding Audience Choice Awardfor best documentary, while Leonid Prudozsky took home the student film prizefor Dark Night.The Visionary Award ...
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Akeelah, Sweet Land bookend Cleveland Film Festival
Doug Atchison's spelling bee drama Akeelah And The Bee and Ali Selim's Minnesota-set romance SweetLand bookend the 30thCleveland International Film Festival, which runs from Mar 16-26.Alongside the Eastern European Film Competition and the Nesnadny +Schwartz Documentary Film Competition, the inaugural Greg Gund MemorialStanding Up Film Competition will celebrate films about ...
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Akeelah to open 200-film Philadelphia Film Festival on March 30
Daniel Atchison's drama Akeelah And The Bee will open and Nicole Holofcener's LosAngeles-set friendship drama Friends With Money will close the 15th Philadelphia FilmFestival.This year's event, which runs from Mar 30 to Apr 11, introducesnew sections catering to families and music lovers and honours Susan Sarandonwith the Artistic Achievement Award.Among ...
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