All Screen articles in 2 February 2002 – Page 6
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Japanese pick-up for Brussels Avenue
Brussels-based world sales outfit Brussels Ave has picked up world distribution rights on Japanese documentary filmmaker Seiichi Motohashi's Alexei And The Spring (Alexei To Izumi) which will be screened in the International Forum of New Cinema at the forthcoming Berlinale. In addition, Brussels Ave is handling Anne Wild's short drama ...
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IMAX symposium during Berlinale
The large-format films Skydance and Horses: The Story Of Equuus, Kilimanjaro are to be screened during this year's Berlinale by Euromax, the European association of the large format industry at its 8th European Large Format Filmmakers Symposium .The four-day event, which will be held from Feb 10-13 at the Cinestar ...
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UK arthouse scheme branded
One of the UK's state-supported regional cinemas has slammed proposals from the Government-backed film body the Film Council to create a centrally run art-house circuit as an "insult".The Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, part of the UK's regional film theatre circuit, this week issued a statement saying the proposal would drive ...
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UK gets new Comedy Shorts scheme
As part of a short film scheme created last August, The Film Council's New Cinema Fund and FilmFour's experimental arm FilmFour Lab have teamed with Elisabeth Murdoch's film and television company Shine Entertainment to produce the Comedy Shorts Scheme.Aiming to form links between TV and cinema industries by finding and ...
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Five newcomers can't down Black Hawk
Four new studioopeners and the wide release of I Am Sam couldn't dislodge Columbia/Revolution's epic BlackHawk Down from thenumber one position, signalling it as the first smash of the new year and nodoubt its first $100m grosser. The Ridley Scott-directed movie took anestimated $18.2m at 3,101 theatres to bring its ...
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S.A. funding strategy comes under scrutiny
Strong criticism, including accusations of misappropriation of funds and nepotism have been levelled at South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) following its recent allocation of grants of just over $530,000 (R6m) as part of its 2001/2 funding cycle. According to reports in South Africa's Mail & Guardian, the ...
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Constantin expands successful partnership
Germany's Constantin Film is to expand its successful relationship with Achterbahn Film (AF) to include a first-look deal on AF's first live-action production, Wie Die Karnickel, written by Der Bewegte Mann author Ralf Koenig.The new deal goes beyond the current distribution agreement, which covers the theatrical release of the next ...
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Three Euro training bodies set to merge
In a bid to increase the efficiency of talent and project development, three of Europe's key film training organisations are to link together under the banner AMA. The three - story editor training body Arista, script development outfit Moonstone and producer finishing school ACE - are all backed by the ...
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Berlusconi to privatise state-run TV channels
Three weeks before Italy's Berlusconi-led government appoints a new board of directors at state broadcaster Rai, the premier and media magnate who owns rival private broadcaster Mediaset has confirmed plans to privatise two of Rai's three television channels. During an interview broadcast by France's Europe 1 radio, Berlusconi is reported ...
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Reviews
Alexei's Spring (Alexei To Izumi)
Dir: Sei'ichi Motohashi. Japan. 2001. 104mins.Located deep in a Belarus pine forest , the village of Budische was devastated when radiation from the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power station fell from the skies on April 26, 1986. Most villagers left, but when documentarian Sei'ichi Motohashi arrived in Budische in early 2000, ...