All Screen articles in 23 January 2009 – Page 4
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The Glass House
Dir: Hamid Rahmanian.US-Iran. 2008. 92min. The Glass House, Hamid Rahmanian's documentary about young women who have fallen through the massive cracks in Iran's Islamic society, is a sampling of stories from Iran's underclass, a portrait of life in Tehran today that is anything but flattering. The rare unofficial glimpse into ...
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Marc Erlbaum launches Jewish production company Nationlight
Film-maker and social activist Marc Erlbaum has announced the launch of Jewish production company Nationlight Productions with the mission of producing positive content for mainstream audiences.Nationlight is supported by a team of experienced Jewish entertainment professionals and the company's advisory board includes Michael Helfant, who served as executive producer on ...
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E1 Films Canada picks up Sundance competitor Cold Souls
Canadian distributor E1 Films has acquired writer-director Sophie Barthes' Sundance US dramatic competitor Cold Souls. Although the film is represented at Sundance by E1's head of international sales Charlotte Mickie, the Canadian rights were acquired from Cinetic Media. John Hamilton and Richard Rapkowski negotiated on behalf of E1. The film ...
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TLA Releasing hires Derek Curl as head of production and development
TLA Releasing has named Derek Curl as head of production and development in association with Curl's New York-based company Caveat Films.The North American and UK-based distributor will produce six original gay films for 2009 across all genres. TLA Releasing and Caveat Films will also produce two gay short film compilations ...
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Lightning closes multiple deals on La Linea, Trailer Park Of Terror
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has closed key sales on a slew of titles including the crime drama La Linea and horror tale Trailer Park Of Terror.Rights to La Linea have sold to All-Interactive (Australia and New Zealand), Telepool (Germany), Film Depot (Russia), CCV (Scandinavia), Ster-Kinekor (South ...
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Elle Driver takes international rights to Wintour doc at Sundance
Elle Driver takes international rights to The September Issue.
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Berlinale's 70mm Restropective supported by opening director Twyker
Berlinale's 70mm Restropective will spotlight the heritage of wide-gauge with a series of classic films shot in 65mm and 70mm, expert panel discussions and the support of major US studios. In today's digital age, the programme proved a challenge with only a few film laboratories worldwide able to print material ...
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800 delegates for Rotterdam's CineMart
Rotterdam 's CineMart looks set for a busy 26th edition with the festival reporting that close to 800 international film professionals confirming their presence. Companies attending include: The Works Media Group; Bavaria Film International; Films Distribution; Fortissimo; Wild Bunch; The Match Factory; Celluloid Dreams; Visit Films; Trust Nordisk; Le Pacte; ...
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Dion, Oakes promoted in development roles at Bold Films
Garrick Dion has been promoted to senior vice president of development at Bold Films while Jon Oakes is promoted to vice president of development at Gary Michael Walters and David Lancaster's Los Angeles-based company.Rounding out the development team is creative executive Naia Cucukov. The promotions reflect the continued growth of ...
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UFA Cinema slate to include Robert Harris's Vaterland.
German producer-distributor UFA Cinema has added eight projects to its ambitious production slate, including a new screen adaptation of Robert Harris's international bestseller Vaterland. Vaterland was previously filmed by Chris Menaul in 1994 with Rutger Hauer in the lead. The company's executive managers Wolf Bauer, Thomas Peter Friedl, Nico Hofmann ...
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Record year for French film exports
Today, Friday, Unifrance announced a record year for export with preliminary figures for 2008 at 78 million tickets sold worldwide. The admissions represent a 16% increase over 2007. The US remains the premier consumer of French films with 17.8 million admissions. Russia is in second place with 7.2 million followed ...
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Yubari fest to premiere new films from Takashi Miike and Yojiro Takita
Takashi Miike's Crows Zero 2 and Departures director Yojiro Takita's Tsurikichi Sanpei (Sanpei The Fisherman) will be among the world premieres at this year's edition of the resurrected Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (YIFFF), which runs February 26 to March 2. YIFFF organizers announced that Takashi Miike's Crows Zero 2 ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Dada's Dance
Shoreline Entertainment has swooped on another Sundance title as the festival got ready to kick off last night [January 15], taking worldwide rights to Zhang Yuan's Chinese drama Dada's Dance.Shoreline's director of acquisitions Brandon Paine and director of worldwide distribution Sam Eigen signed the deal with Yuan, adding to the ...
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Profile:RandallMiller's Consolidated Picture Group
Randall Miller, who directed the 2008 Sundance entry Bottle Shock, returns to Park City in a different guise as president of acquisitions and film development at the new distributor Consolidated Pictures Group.Backed by equity investors, the company was set up after Miller and his producing partner Jody Savin were approached ...
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United States - Welcome visitors
New York-based Visit Films has established itself as a growing boutique sales company for the kind of smaller-budget festival hits that can become lost in the international marketplace."In the environment we started the company in, we quickly filled a niche," says co-founder Ryan Kampe.That niche, however, can be "hard to ...
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International - The only way is up
The second instalment of John Woo's war epic Red Cliff Part II stormed to the top of Screen's international chart for the January 9-11 weekend, after opening in China and Singapore. The film took $15.7m from 1,445 screens, giving the week's second-highest screen average of $10,900.Distributor China Film Group will ...
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Festival talk: Rutger Wolfson
Ahead of this year's festival, what are you looking forward to most'I'm very much looking forward to the films we've commissioned from Guy Maddin, Nanouk Leopold and Carlos Reygadas. We've asked them to make films for very large outdoor projections. Film-makers are used to making films for a very generic ...
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Eye on the tiger: Rotterdam International Film Festival preview
When Rutger Wolfson was named director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in autumn 2007, his appointment was on an interim basis. His contract was for only one edition and many expected him to return to his job as director of De Vleeshal, a Dutch centre for contemporary art, ...