All Screen articles in 5 December 2005 – Page 3

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    KOFIC and Singapore's MDA join forces

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The Korean Film Council of the Republic ofKorea (KOFIC) has inked a co-operation agreement with Singapore'sMedia Development Authority for film production under the Korean-Singapore FreeTrade Agreement (KSFTA).KSFTA, made in August this year, is Korea'sfirst FTA with an Asian country. The new co-operation agreement was signedtoday by MDA chairman Tan Chin ...

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    Hong Kong's Focus turns to Father And Son

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Hong Kong's Focus Films has picked up international rights toPatrick Tam Ka-ming's Father And Son,starring Aaron Kwok (Divergence) andCharlie Young (Seven Swords), whichstarts shooting this month in Malaysia. The film marks Tam'slong-awaited return to directing after a stint teaching screenwriting anddeveloping the story of Father And Son.Regarded as one of ...

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    Little Sky takes top prize at Damascus

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The Golden Award of the 14thDamascus International Film Festival went to Little Sky (El Cielito)by Maria Victoria Menis (Argentina) while the Jury Special Award wentto The Willow Tree by Majid Majidi (Iran). The Golden Award for the bestshort film went to the Russian film TheDoor by Vladimir Kott. Feature Film ...

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    Pang brothers sign to direct The Darkness for Platinum

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    LosAngeles-based Platinum Studios and Blue Star Pictures have signed Danny andOxide Pang to direct The Darkness, based on the Top Cow Productions comic book.Platinumwill finance 50% of the production that is at Miramax with a progress toproduction clause through January 2006. The project is currently out towriters.Platinum is alsoteaming up ...

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    Parasol takes UK video rights to Bollywood and Vine

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Parasol Peccadillo Releasing has licensed UK home video rights to Edward Jordon and Donald Farmer's comedy Bollywood and Vine. Parasol plans a video and DVD release in spring 2006. Skye Aubrey, J.R. Jones and Jamey Schick star in the film, described as a romantic satire of Hollywood films from the ...

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    Capote takes best feature prize at Gothams

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Capote stole an early march on its awards seasonrivals by winning best feature at IFP's annual Gotham Awards in New York lastnight.Director BennettMiller also scooped the breakthrough director award. His film is released inthe US through Sony Pictures Classics and is regarded as one of the strongcontenders for Academy Awards ...

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    Balhetchet named chair of UK's WFTV

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    UK-based Women in Film and Television has appointed Sophie Balhetchet as its new chair. Balhetchet is a founding member of WFTV and also a producer of TV dramas as well as the co-founder of Cougar Films. At Cougar, she and partner Lynda La Plante have produced the feature Imagine Me ...

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    Palm launches new US DVD label Arthouse Films

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    PalmPictures has launched DVD label Arthouse Films and kicks off with the Feb 142006 releases of William Eggleston In The Real World and new acquisition Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Impassioned Eye.Thelabel is targeted at art enthusiasts and collectors and will utilise Palm'straditional retail distribution network (Universal Music and VideoDistribution) and non-traditional sales ...

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    CineLink announces three award winners

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    CineLink, the Sarajevo FilmFestival's co-production market for projects from Albania, Bosnia andHerzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia andMontenegro, had its third edition at this year's, 11th festival (Aug 19-27,2005). CineLink has announced the winners with thetotal prize fund of $58,5000 (50,000 Euros) provided by theSarajevo Film Festival, ...

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    Promising signs for Singapore digital animation

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Singapore is boasting a first in digitalanimation with the release of Zodiac, The Race Begins, the city-state's first 3D animation feature.The $2m animation which is about themythical race of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals, is the debut film project ofCubix International, initially a branding consultancy firm in Singapore beforebranching out ...

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    Fuji TV, animation house join forces for digital studio

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    TheFuji Television Network and Production IG animation houseplantojointlyunderwrite and launcha new post-productionstudio, Fuji TV has announced. Called FILM LLP (Fuji IG Laboratory for Movies),the new studio will open in January of 2006. Fuji TV will supply 86% andProduction IG the remaining 14% of the $2.4m (Y200m)initialinvestment.Equippedwith the latest Apple Computer ...

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    Gondry, Demme, Cassavetes among Sundance premieres

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The Sundance Film Festival hasunveiled its Premieres section, the final major featureprogramme of the upcoming 2006 jamboree with 17 titles featuring a glitteringarray of Hollywood movie stars such as Bruce Willis, Jennifer Aniston, SharonStone, Winona Ryder, Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Justin Timberlake and JoshHartnett.World premieres of films byMichel Gondry, Terry ...

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    Blossoming takes top award at inaugural AFFF

    2005-11-30T20:30:00Z

    Filipino film The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros,directed by Auraeus Solito, was awarded best feature at the inaugural AsianFestival of First Films (AFFF) in Singapore last night (Nov 30).Producer Raymond Lee was onhand to receive the top award. The film has also been selected to screen at theSundance Film Festival next ...

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    Sundance creates new Spectrum section with 24 titles

    2005-11-30T07:00:00Z

    Work by Anders ThomasJensen, Bent Hamer, Stewart Copeland, Matthew Barney and Larry Clark will playin the out-of-competition Spectrum, Frontier and Park City at Midnightcategories at Sundance.Encompassing the strandspreviously known as American Spectrum and Special Screenings, the 2006 theSpectrum programme has expanded to include international titles.Its line-up of 24 entriesincludes Jensen's ...

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    Lago weighs in on Lynch's Surveillance

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Jennifer Lynch's long-gestating project Surveillance will go into production with Germany's Lago Film backing the $10m production.Previously announced for a 2004 start date, the filmco-written by Kent Harper tells the story of an FBI agent who is tracking aserial killer with the help of three would-be victims, all of whom ...

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    Brighton hosts convergence conference

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The Screen East MediaNetwork will host d-media, the Digital Media Conference, on December 1-2 at theGrand Hotel in Brighton. The theme of the conference is "convergence is areality: how to thrive in the 'converged' world."Theconference will discuss the changing role of games, TV, film and animation andemerging distribution platforms. The ...

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    Bashing scores top prize at Tokyo's FILMeX

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    MasahiroKobayashi's drama Bashing has taken the Grand Prize at the Tokyo FILMeXfilm festival, together with a Y1 million ($8,400) cash award . Premiered in thisyear's Cannes competition, the film tells the story of a young woman who, afterbeing taken hostage in a Middle Eastern country, returns to Japan only to ...

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    Baltic Event launches its first co-production market

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    New filmsby Latvia's Alexander Hahn, Lithuania's Algimantas Puipa, Norway's MariusHolst, and Romania's Cristian Mungiu are among 12 projects being presented atthe first Baltic Event Co-Production Market to be held in Tallinn from December1-2.Now in itsfourth year, the Baltic Event had originally been launched to present theBaltic Screenings programme of films ...

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    New Locarno director announces changes

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Locarno's new artistic directorFrederic Maire has announced a series oforganisational and programme changes two months after taking up his post onOctober 1.Speakingat press conferences in Zurich and Bellinzona,Maire revealed that the next edition of the festivalfrom August 2-12, 2006 will no longer stagethe Video Competition and will transform the Film-makers ...

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    BAFTA to consider 246 films for nominations

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Thereare 246 films being considered for BAFTAnominations this year. Ina change in BAFTA policy, films were required to be entered for considerationfor the first time this year. In past years, every film released in UK cinemas wasautomatically considered, which meant that last year about 450 films wereeligible for nominations. Filmswere ...