All Screen articles in 23 April 2006 – Page 2
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Christen to head Tokyo operations for Unifrance
French film export body Unifrance has named Valerie-Anne Christen to head up its operations in Tokyo.The posting was announced Wednesday with Christen set to run Asian affairs for the organisation outside China, Hong Kong and Taiwan which are overseen by Christine Pernin based in Beijing.Christen was formerly head of international ...
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Cannes Europe Day takes global distribution theme
The CannesFilm Festival has announced plans for its fourth annual Europe Day to take placeon May 23.The maintheme to be discussed will be "European Films Go Global;" with discussionscentering on getting European films seen on as many screens around the world aspossible.Filmprofessionals will gather with European culture ministers and representativesof ...
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Cannes Europe Day takes global distribution theme
The CannesFilm Festival has announced plans for its fourth annual Europe Day to take placeon May 23.The maintheme to be discussed will be "European Films Go Global;" with discussionscentering on getting European films seen on as many screens around the world aspossible.Filmprofessionals will gather with European culture ministers and representativesof ...
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Quebecois drama opens Manchester Commonwealth festival
Sebastian Rose's Life With MyFather (La Vie Avec Mon Pere) opens the Manchester annualCommonwealth Film Festival (ComFEST06) tommorow night.The event features nine strands with films fromCommonwealth countries, including India, Australia and Canada.It will also include its established Queerscreensection of gay and lesbian cinema.'Notonly will COMFEST06 provide a fascinating showcase for ...
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French-Canadian drama opens Manchester Commonwealth festival
Sebastian Rose's Life With MyFather (La Vie Avec Mon Pere) opens the Manchester annualCommonwealth Film Festival (ComFEST06) tommorow night.The event features nine strands with films fromCommonwealth countries, including India, Australia and Canada.It will also include its established Queerscreensection of gay and lesbian cinema."Notonly will COMFEST06 provide a fascinating showcase for ...
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Czech parliament approves big boost to state film fund
Film-makers have welcomed the decision of the lower house ofthe Czech parliament to approve an amendment to film law which would morethan triple the size of the State Fund for the Support and Development of CzechCinematography. But the decision has upset exhibitors, broadcasters andrental shops who will be expected to ...
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Scalpel picks up rights to first Paraguayan film in 30 years
PierreMenahem's Scalpel Films has picked up international sales rights to the firstfilm from Paraguay in more than three decades, the Cannes title Hamaca Paraguaya.And theinternational campaign has kicked off in advance of the film's Un CertainRegard screening with ID Distribution taking French rights.Directedby first-timer (and thus Camera D'Or contender) Paz ...
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Middletown
Dir: Brian Kirk. UK-Ire. 2006.90mins.The feature debut of Northern Ireland-born TV andcommercials director Brian Kirk, Middletownis a melodramatic brew of family rivalries and religious fervour set in anisolated Irish village in the 1960s. The film is marked out by some strongacting, and its theatrical prospects will certainly be boosted by ...
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Horizon picks up international on Thai/US co-production Journey
Vancouver-based Horizon Entertainment has picked up allinternational rights to Vietnamese-American director Ham Tran's Thai-US co-productionJourney From The Fall.The story follows a family'sescape from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War and charts the contrastinglives of those who make it to America and those who remain in the re-educationcamps. Kieu ...
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Universal hires Duncan Clark as international distribution evp
Universal Pictures has made a key appointment ahead of next year'smove towards complete autonomy in overseas operations, hiring Duncan Clark asexecutive vice president of international distribution.Clark, who spent 13 years at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI) and the last four as president, will be based in London and reportdirectly to ...
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TIFFG establishes children's international film collection
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) hasestablished a children's international film collection following a $500,000 donationfrom the Toronto-based Harbinger Foundation.The unprecedented collection lays the groundwork for thedevelopment of TIFFG youth education programmes and will be named the John VanDuzerChildren's Film Collection in honour of Harbinger Foundation president JoanVanDuzer's late ...
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International Film Circuit buys US on Words
Boutique distributor International Film Circuit has acquired allUS rights to Lesley Ann Patten's documentary Words Of My Perfect Teacher and plans a summer domestic release.The ZIJI Film and Television and National Film Board of Canada co-productionfollows three students on a quest for wisdom, all the while watched closely byKhyentse Norbu, ...
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Annaud feature in talks for Iberian shoot
Spanish studio Ciudad De LaLuz is in advance negotiations to bring Jean-Jacques Annaud'slatest feature to its sound stages. Minor,which is billed as a mythological and pagan comedy set in an era before Homer,is scheduled to shoot around the end of the year.The French film-maker's newproject - produced with Xavier Castano ...
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Universal takes domestic on 2929's We Own The Night
Universal Pictures has picked up domestic rights from 2929Productions to crime drama We Own The Night starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg,Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes.James Gray, who directed Phoenix and Wahlberg in 2000's TheYards, wrote and isdirecting the project, which is currently shooting in New York.Universal previously acquiredrights for the ...
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Cannes festival line-up
Opening filmThe Da Vinci Code (dir:Ron Howard)Closing filmTransylvania (Tony Gatlif)Official selection - Out Of Competition special screeningsUnited 93 (Paul Greengrass)X-Men 3: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)Over The Hedge (Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick) Official selection: Midnight screeningsShortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)Election 2 (Johnnie To)Guisi (Silk) (Su Chao-pin)Salle Bunuel Out Of Competition ...
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Brad Anderson returns with Transsiberian
Spain's Filmax has unveiled the first details ofdirector Brad Anderson's follow-up to well-received horror film The Machinist, a new thriller called Transsiberian.Principal photography is setto crank up in October with an international cast shooting between Spain and Eastern Europe.Horror title The Machinist, produced and sold bySpanish mini-studio Filmax, starred Christian ...
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MD Herrmann leaves Senator in management shake-up
BenjaminHerrmann, managing director of Senator Entertainment's production anddistribution divisions, is leaving the company "by mutual agreement"on April 30 as part of the group's ongoing management restructuring.Herrmannhad headed up Senator Film Produktion and Senator Film Verleih since 2000 andbeen responsible for such productions as The Miracle Of Bern, TheExperiment, Lammbock and ...
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Innsbruck festival honours Tunisian director
TheInnsbruck International Film Festival (May 23-28) will be celebrating its 15thyear with a retrospective and exhibition dedicated to the Tunisian directorNacer Khemir, whose latest film Bab' Azizwill open the festival on May 23.TheInternational Competition of seven titles:Cinema,Aspirins And Vultures by Marcelo Gomez (Brazil)GrainIn Ear by Zhang Lu (China/South Korea)NineEmotions by ...
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Kingsley to headline Dahl mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mob comedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolar Productions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to start before the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley, ...
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Border Post unites former Yugoslav states
Croatian director Rajko Grlic has scored a highly significant hit throughout the former Yugoslavian states with Border Post (Karaula).Grlicwas one of the most important representatives of the Prague film school whoenjoyed a series of successes with You Only Love Once (1981)and In The Jaws Of Life (1984), and made influential ...
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