All Screen articles in 20 January 2004 – Page 5
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Film-makers Alliance, Cinema Libre launch indie video collection
The independent film-making collective the Film-makers Alliance (FA) has partnered up with production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio to launch The Film-makers Alliance Collection, a video label that the partners have styled as a response to the studio-dominated distribution system.The collection's initial slate comprises five festival hits, the first ...
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Cold Mountain leads Bafta nominations
Cold Mountain has emerged as the front runner for this year's Bafta awards, taking an impressive 13 nominations including best film and best director.Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is just behind with 12 nominations, while Girl With A Pearl Earring has ten, Lost In Translation and ...
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Cold Mountain heads Bafta nominations
Cold Mountain has emerged as the front runner for this year's Baftas, taking an impressive 13 nominations including best film and best director.Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is just behind with 12 nominations, while Girl With A Pearl Earring has ten, Lost In Translation and Master ...
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Cinema Libre unveils distribution banners
Production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio is in the process of expanding its domestic distribution operation with three new labels under the Cinema Libre Distribution division.The entertainment entity will seek to acquire new films for Liberation Pictures, The Film Cafe and Doc Workers labels during Get IN!, an event ...
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Cinema Libre unveils distribution banners
Production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio is in the process of expanding its domestic distribution operation with three new labels under the Cinema Libre Distribution division.The entertainment entity will seek to acquire new films for Liberation Pictures, The Film Cafe and Doc Workers labels during Get IN!, an event ...
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Cinema Libre unveils distribution banners
Production and distributionoutfit Cinema Libre Studio is in the process of expanding its domesticdistribution operation with three new labels under the Cinema LibreDistribution division.The entertainment entitywill seek to acquire new films for Liberation Pictures, The Film Cafe and DocWorkers labels during Get IN!, an event it is hosting at Sundance ...
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Bollore increases stake in France's Gaumont
The Bollore Group has upped its stake in French major Gaumont to 10.06%.Controlled by the Bollore family and more specifically mogul Vincent Bollore, the group now holds 6.77% of voting rights to the world's oldest film company.Bollore previously took a 5% stake in Gaumont in February 2002.In a statement, the ...
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Sundance sees dynamite deal-making spree
Theannual Sundance Film Festival buying spree got off to an unexpectedly briskstart this year with five films finding at least North American distributionfor a collective price tag upwards of $18m. And that was after just three full andfrenetic screening days in Park City.Thekey acquisitions so far are:- Garden State, Zach ...
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Motorcycle Diaries
Dir: Walter Salles. US-Argentina-Chile-Peru. 2003. 128minsA stirringly compassionate road movie that charts Ernesto "Che" Guevara's political awakening over the course of one seminal year, Motorcycle Diaries proved the early revelation at this year's Sundance Film Festival where Focus Features swept it up within hours of its world premiere screening on ...
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Rotterdam director joins UK production outfit Illuminations
Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) co-director Simon Field is to become a director of UK production company Illuminations Films.Field will take up the position at the end of this year's festival, which runs from Jan 21 until Feb 1. Sandra Den Hamer, who has been co-director with Field for several ...
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Emerging Pictures, Full Frame plan syndicated documentary festival
New York-based EmergingPictures and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival are developing anationally syndicated festival using Emerging Pictures' digital cinema network.The syndicated festival willrun at the same time as the flagship festival in Durham, North Carolina, in itsusual April slot and will play in up to 20 cities.The Full Frame ...
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Nordic film industries look to increased government funding
For full Nordic listings click HEREAlthough the Nordic film industries can look back on 2003 as a year when local market shares either boomed - as in Norway and Finland - or maintained a solid streak - as in Denmark and Sweden - the many unresolved issues of ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
Andrei Zvyagintsev's drama TheReturn was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panel ofinternational critics at the 15th Palm Springs International FilmFestival's closing ceremony last night (18).In other awards, the JohnSchlesinger Award for first feature went to Yann Samuell's French Film Galalove story, Love Me If You Dare. The ...
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FRANCE
The Lord Of The Rings still rules the French box office followed closely by favourite son Mathieu Kassovitz's first foray into English, Gothika.Good news for art house pics with Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation breaking in at number 4 following seriously good press. Nathalie, starring Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardant ...
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Garden State
Dir: Zach Braff. US. 2004. 112mins.Screening in Dramatic Competition at Sundance, Zach Braff's promising first feature has three of the elements that make debut films appealing: a new face, a fresh voice and a distinct way of seeing the world, all embodied in the triple threat that is Braff: director, ...
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NEW ZEALAND
At last The Return Of The King - the epic adventure that features fabulous New Zealand scenery - has been overhauled at the home box office. All-action newcomer The Last Samurai - another epic adventure that features fabulous New Zealand scenery - topped the takings (NZ$629,295) and the screen averages ...
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Berlinale unveils Talent Campus 2004
520 young film talents from 84 countries have been selected for this year's Berlinale Talent Campus 2004, where they will be tutored by guest professional filmmakers such as Eleanor Bergstein, Anthony Minghella, Walter Murch, Nicolas Philibert, Zbigniew Preisner, Alan Parker and Wim Wenders.Compared to last year the total number of ...
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Italian government approves new cinema law
The Italian government has approved culture minister Giuliano Urbani's new cinema law.Under the new law, state funding for Italian films will now only cover up to 50% of a project's budget, compared to 70-80% under the current system.The new system, which has received widespread backing from the local film industry, ...
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UK based steel billionaire to invest in Indian film
UK based Indian billionaire Lord Swraj Paul has announced that his steel and engineering conglomerate Caparo Group plans to invest more in India in areas such as films, fashion and tourism.Lord Paul's son Angad Paul was the executive producer of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.Lord Paul told Indian press ...