All Screen articles in 21 November 2006 – Page 4
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Skillset and Film London launch bursary scheme
UK agencies Skillset and Film London have launched a bursary scheme providing up to 80% of the cost of short course training for film professional.The initiative covers training in business, technical and craft skills as well as related issues like health and safety.The bursaries are funded by Skillset's Film Skills ...
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Besson gets permissions for Cinema City project
The mayor of Saint-Denis has signed the construction permit for Luc Besson's Cinema City project, it was announced Friday. Didier Paillard, mayor of the Parisian suburb, gave the go-ahead for the long-gestating project which will see soundstages, workshops, offices and other amenities built on a 65,000 square metre site.In a ...
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Serra's Honor from Spain wins Turin Film Festival
Spanish director AlbertSerra's Honor de Cavalleria tookbest film honors at the 24th annualTurin Film Festival which wrappedSaturday in the Northern Italian city.Cavalleria was awarded the Euro 20,500 ($26,000) Lancia Prizein the fest's international feature film section dedicated to the discovery ofnew filmmakers. The jury called Serra's film "a moving, elegant, ...
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Kenny takes top film prize at IF Awards
The hit comedy Kenny tonight took home four Inside Film Awards, includingbest film and best script, while Ten Canoes and Suburban Mayhem took home three each. Ten Canoes, the first Australian feature to be made entirely inthe indigenous language, earned Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr best director,and Crusoe Kurddal ...
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Transilvania festival will expand to two cities in 2007
Nextyear's Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held in twoRomanian cities - Cluj Napoca and Sibiu - in recognition of the latter's statusas a European Capital of Culture in 2007 along with Luxembourg.Speakingexclusively with ScreenDaily during the Connecting Cottbus market forum,TIFF's honorary director Tudor Giurgiu explained that the sixth ...
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Global Film Initiative moves from New York to San Francisco
The Global Film Initiative (GFI) is moving its headquarters fromNew York to San Francisco.GFI, which champions small films that illustrate cross-culturalsimilarities, aims to capitalise on emerging technologies under development inthe Bay Area.'Great storytelling is one of the best ways to shareexperience and open up new worlds,' GFI's new executive director ...
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Casino Royale off to strong start in UK
Casino Royale has set a strong early pace, and given a glimpse of theanticipation and intrigue surrounding the title, in the UK on its first day ofrelease. Launching Thursday in the UK the film, which reinvents theJames Bond franchise as a gritty, more real-world action adventure with DanielCraig taking the ...
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Leeds honours I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes
The 20th Leeds InternationalFilm Festival (Nov 2-12) has awarded its jury prize, the Golden Owl, to Belgiandirector Guillaume Malandrin's I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes. A special mention went to Mohamed Al Daradji's Ahlaam. In the Louis Le Prince shortfilm competition, Oliver Klein's Bhai Bhai took top honours with ...
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Canadian film and TV performers move closer towards strike
Canada's film and televisionperformers edged closer to a strike position as their representative ACTRAannounced it will begin mailing strike ballots to members.The move follows the latestround of negotiations between the performers union and the production communityrepresented by the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA)and the Association de Producteurs de ...
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Borat marches into France, Spain for Fox International
The Boratinvasion spreads to five new territories this weekend as Fox Internationallooks forward to the comedy sweeping past $50m.Borat iscurrently on $48.6m and approaches its third weekend with openings scheduled infive territories.Anti-American sentiment in France should ensure a robust debutthere when Boratlaunches on Nov 15, and studio executives are also ...
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Quinn to win emerging film-maker award from IDA for God Grew Tired Of Us
Christopher Quinn will receive the International Documentary Association's(IDA) Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award for God GrewTired Of Us.God Grew Tired Of Us won both the Sundance grand jury prize and audience awards andchronicles the experiences of three Sudanese war refugees as they adjust to anew life in the US.Quinn ...
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BAFTA launches public short competition
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) has launched a new short film competition,60 Seconds of Fame, in association with Orange and supported by BBC Nations and Regions and the UK's regional screen agencies.Anyone over 16 is open tosubmit a 60-second short on the theme "celebrate," to honour ...
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RGM starts shoots for first two productions
The Girl In The Park, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winningauthor David Auburn, and Pushing UpDaisies, a black comedy written and directed by Chaz Thorne, both went intoproduction this week and are the first two films to carry the name RGM, one ofAustralia's most prominent agencies.RGM director Robyn Gardinerand ...
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MGM picks up Mackinnon's The Flying Scotsman
MGM has acquired worldwide rights, excluding selectterritories, to Douglas Mackinnon's TheFlying Scotsman.Jonny Lee Miller stars inthe true story of Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, who battled mental illness andbroke world records after designing his own bicycle.The film world premiered asthe opening film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and recentlyscreened at ...
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Irish Film Board gets 15% funding increase for 2007
The Irish Film Board is setto receive funding of $21.3m (Euros 19.659m) in 2007, it was revealed in nextyear's pre-budget spending estimates, published today by Ireland's Finance Minister, Brian Cowen. This represents a15% increase on the Board's allocation this year.The Minister for Arts, Sport& Tourism, John O'Donoghue, said, 'This increase ...
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Sundance selects Chicago 10 to open 2007 festival
The world premiere of BrettMorgen's Chicago 10 will be the opening film at the 2007 Sundance FilmFestival.Morgen, who previouslyco-directed 2002 Sundance favourite TheKid Stays In The Picture, wrote and directed this"innovative" documentary combining storytelling, archival footage, interviewsand animation about the 1968 anti-war protests at the Democratic NationalConvention in Chicago and ...
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Russian feature backed by German regional fund
Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's second feature Dau, which was pitched at last year's Connecting Cottbus market forum, is one of the new feature films to be backed by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in its latest round of funding.Khrzhanovsky's new project, which is based on the life of the great Russian physicist and ...
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Five films share World Cinema Fund awards
The Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF) has awarded a total of $288,000 (Euros 225,000) to five film projects from Peru, Chile and Jordan, chosen from 82 projects submitted from 27 countries.In the fifth round of funding, the WCF jury selected four feature films and one documentary (Recycle) for support:They are: ...
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Aria Films appointed to support Cinecitta in the UK
Aria Films has been appointed as the UK intermediary of Rome-based studio, Cinecitta.Carlo Dusi's London-based Aria will help its Italian partner try to expand its international production work, with particular emphasis on post-production facilities. "Cinecitta' can clearly compete on an international playing field in terms of their post-production facilities, pricing ...
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First Dutch-South African co-production starts shooting
Principal shooting started this week in Cape Town on Threes Anna's The Bird Can't Fly - the first Dutch-South African co-production.The $2.3m (Euros 2m) flm is a co-production between Dutch 24FPS Features, (lead producer Anton Scholten), South African IMG-films and Irish Borderline Productions. Investors have come from the Netherlands, including ...