All Screen articles in 27 November 2006 – Page 2
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The One And Only takes Mannheim Grand Prix
Belgian director GeoffreyEnthoven's The Only One (Vidange Perdue),a touching story of a second spring in the winter of old age, won the GrandPrix at this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.The international jury,which included Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye and Macedonian actress-producer LabinaMitevska, awarded the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize to Norwegian Erik ...
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Wootliff takes Northern Lights short prize
The Northern Lights FilmFestival presented the Orange North Star Short Film Award was presented toLondon-based Harry Wootliff for her pitch Trip,which whe will write and direct. Wootliff previously directedBafta-nominated short Nits. She willmake the new film in the summer of 2007 either on film or digitally andNewcastle-based Yipp Films will ...
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Sherrybaby takes top honours in Stockholm
US director Laurie Collyer became the second woman to receive the grandprix - the Bronze Horse - at the Stockholm International Film Festival, as thejury Saturday (Nov 25) named her feature debut, Sherrybaby, best film in competition with another 19 entries, andits star Maggie Gyllenhaal was named best actress.The jury ...
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Dragon Fruit wins top prize at Taiwan projects market
Ivan C. Shih's ambitious 3D animation fantasy project The Adventures Of Dragon Fruit took the main prize at the second Taiwan Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) event in Taipei yesterday. The presentations were a major component of the 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital Contents Exhibition, held Nov ...
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Exile , Love share top honours at Golden Horse Awards
Aaron Kwok secured best actor for the second consecutive year at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards in Taipei on Saturday night for his role in Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile. The film also took best film and best supporting actor for child star Goum Ian Iskandar. Jackie Chan had ...
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Rotterdam names first three competition titles
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced the first three films in its VPRO Tiger Awards competition. They are How Is Your Fish Today' by Xiaolu Gao (China/UK), Love Conquers All by Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia) and Ex-drummer by Koen Mortier (Belgium). The competition jury will include Summer Palace director ...
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Heaven wins grand prize at Tokyo Filmex
Djamshed Usmonov's To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die was awarded the Grand Prize at the conclusion of the 7th Tokyo Filmex film festival (Nov 17-26). The award carried a cash prize of $8,640 (Y1m). The ceremony was followed by a screening of Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want ...
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Korean film picks up Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki
Korean Kim Tae-yong's second film Family Ties (Gajokeui Tansaeng) won the Golden Alexander for best film at the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the $48,000 (37,000 Euros) cash prize.The film was chosen from 14 first or second film titles by a seven-strong jury, led by US independent producer Christine ...
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Wallace And Gromit add to BAFTA honours
Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit was named as best film at the British Academy Children’s Film and Television Awards.
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Sony strikes North American deal for Vitus
Sony Pictures has pickedNorth America rights to Fredi M. Murer's Vitus, which is Switzerland's official entry in theforeign-language Oscar race and was the winner of the audience award for bestfeature film at AFI Fest earlier this month. The film's sales agent MediaLuna Entertainment also sealed a deal at the AFM ...
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Wallace And Gromit add to Bafta honours
Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit was named as best film at the British Academy Children's Film and Television Awards.The award follows wins at the Oscars and the main Bafta event earlier this year.Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire won the public vote, however, taking ...
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Rotterdam names first three competition titles
The International FilmFestival Rotterdam has announced the first three films in its VPRO Tiger Awardscompetition. They are How Is Your Fish Today' by Xiaolu Gao (China/UK), Love Conquers All by Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia) and Ex-drummer by Koen Mortier (Belgium). The competition jury willinclude Summer Palace directorLou Ye and Toronto ...
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Universal partners for burnable DVDs in Australia
Universal PicturesAustralasia and ReelTime Media Ltd have partnered to launch the first studiofilm download-to-own service that will let users burn their own DVD. The service, which launchesNov 29 through portal reeltime.tv, will release films online in Australia andNew Zealand on the same date as their retail DVD release.The three-copy DTO ...
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Singapore's MDA, RGM set up loan guarantee scheme
Australian talent managementcompany RGM has set up a loan guarantee facility with Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) for theproduction of international films that include a Singapore production component.RGM relocated itsheadquarters to Singapore 18 months ago and established a media financing unitto provide gap finance for English-language film projects.The new loan ...
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Heaven wins grand prize at Tokyo Filmex
Djamshed Usmonov's To Get To Heaven First You Have To Diewas awarded the Grand Prize at the conclusion of the 7th Tokyo Filmex filmfestival (Nov 17-26). The award carried a cashprize of $8,640 (Y1m). The ceremony was followed by a screening of Tsai Ming-liang'sI Don't Want to Sleep Alone.The Filmex ...
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Veritas launches new facilities in Newcastle
Veritas Broadcast, which wasestablished in 2003, has refurbished its facilities based in Newcastle and is launching its new £1m post-production andgraphics suite. The company said it wantedto encourage film-makers to work more from the North East, not just in London.The new facilities includetwo Final Cut Pro edit suites, a Quantel ...
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UK's First Light changes priorities of young film-makers
First LightMovies, the UK's film-making initiative for youngpeople, has changed its priorities to give greater emphasis to children underage 12 and groups from Wales, Northern Ireland and rural Scotland. The programmelaunched in 2001 and has funded more than 750 short digital films by 5- to18-year-olds. The scheme distributes £1.1m of ...
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SPRI scores record international year, fuelled by Casino Royale
James Bond dominated the international arena for a secondconsecutive weekend as Casino Royale added an estimated $66.2m from 6,600 prints in 50territories through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) to raise thetally to $128.2m.The muscular performance (could it be any other way') produced thesixth biggest overseas weekend of the year and, ...
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Ferrara begins shooting screwball comedy in Italy
Principalphotography began this week [Nov 27] on Abel Ferrara's Italian-US screwballcomedy Go Go Tales starring WillemDafoe, Bob Hoskins and Matthew Modine.Theproject charts the fall-out when a cabaret impresario is told his club facesimminent foreclosure. Asia Argento and Lou Doillon also star. Go Go Tales is shooting at Rome's Cinecitta Studios ...
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McAvoy and Minghella on Orange Rising Star jury for Bafta
BAFTAhas announced the jury for this year's Orange Rising Star Award. Thejury is comprised of actors James McAvoy and Thandie Newton, BAFTA's DuncanKenworthy and David Parfitt, director Anthony Minghella, producer SarahRadclyffe, casting director Fiona Weir, and journalists Ian Freer, DavidEdwards, Alex O'Connell, Dylan Jones and Charles Gant. Thejury has cast ...