All Screen articles in 25 September 2009 – Page 8
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NewsSerbia reconsiders Oscar selection over English dialogue concerns
Serbia is reconsidering its decision to submit Darko Lungulov’s Here And There as its nominee for foreign-language Oscar over concerns about the level of English dialogue it contains.
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NewsPGA doubles number of best produced film nominees to ten
The Producers Guild Of America (PGA) has followed the Academy’s lead and announced that the number of film nominees in the 2010 Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award will expand from five to ten.
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NewsKaohsiung fest removes controversial doc from line-up
In an attempt to minimise controversy, Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City Government has decided to separate the screening of documentary 10 Conditions Of Love from the upcoming Kaohsiung Film Festival in October.
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NewsCalifornia wine country to host premiere of Japanese Sideways
The world premiere of Fox International’s Japanese re-imagining of Alexander Payne’s Sideways will close the Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival on September 27.
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NewsTaking Woodstock, Inglourious Basterds bookend Rio de Janeiro Film Festival
More than 300 films from more than 60 countries will screen over 15 days at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival starting on September 24.
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NewsUp flies high overseas for Disney as $200m beckons
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) celebrated a return to the top of the overseas charts as Up led the way on an estimated $13.7m.
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NewsSwitzerland submits Meier's Home to Academy
Ursula Meier’s feature debut Home has been selected by Switzerland to be entered for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
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NewsRezende's Salve Geral gets Brazilian nod for Oscars
Brazil has named Sergio Rezende’s true life drama Salve Geral as the country’s entry for the foreign language Oscar.
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NewsSony basks in sunny $30.1m launch for Meatballs
Sony’s 3D family film Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs eclipsed the competition in a weekend that also saw Inglourious Basterds become Quentin Tarantino’s biggest domestic hit.
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NewsTaipei Golden Horse reveals 25 projects for third FTPP
Taiwan’s Leon Dai, French filmmaker Lorenzo Recio and Israel’s Micha Kinsbruner are among the filmmakers who have had projects selected for the third edition of the Taipei Golden Horse’s co-production market.
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NewsDick Cook steps down as Disney chairman
In a shock announcement buried late on Friday evening [18], Dick Cook said he was stepping down as chairman of Disney, effective immediately.
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NewsFilmNation's overseas buyers keep up with The Joneses
Glen Basner’s FilmNation has virtually sold out international territories on The Joneses, Derrick Borte’s social satire that received its world premiere in Toronto.
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Features
Le Pedaleur De Charme
Docufiction about the rise and fall of the Zurich racing cyclist Hugo Koblet who the first international star Switzerland had after the Second World War.
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Der Albaner
Migration drama seen from the perspective of an illegal immigrant who loses everything at home in Albania because he has looked for his luck abroad.
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Cindy Liebt Mich Nicht
Adaptation of Jochen-Martin Gutsch and Juan Moreno’s novel of the same name about two men in love with the same elusive woman.
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Schwarzer Strand (Black Beach)
A young couple in love must escape their lives as addicts in order to survive. Their plans to start afresh in New Zealand are threatened when fate tears the lovers apart.
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Lena's Liebe (aka Der Flur)
An arthouse film about German history as three people travel in a red Volvo from Poland to Germany
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Father, Son & Holy Cow
Bogdan has recently lost his wife. Full of grief, he retreats to his mother’s farm. When one of his cows begins to act strangely, Bogdan believes that his missed love has come back.
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NewsCinereach names 12 latest grant recipients
Cinereach, the non-profit dedicated to supporting film-makers, has awarded grants totalling $250,000 to 12 films from a pool of 636 submissions.