All Screen articles in 5 December 2005 – Page 4
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Charlotte Rampling to be jury president at Berlinale 2006
Britishactress Charlotte Rampling will head up the main juryat next year's Berlinale (February 9-19, 2006). Describingher as a "fascinating woman and brilliant artist", festival directorDieter Kosslick noted that, through her work,[Charlotte Rampling] has come to stand for unconventionaland memorable cinema."Theremainder of the international jury, which will preside over Berlin's main ...
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Nicaragua ready for first production in 16 years
Germany's Shotgun Pictures will co-produce producer-directorFlorence Jaugey's feature debut La Yuma whichwill be the first feature film to be produced in Nicaragua for 16 years. French-born Jaugey, who took upresidence in Nicaragua set up her production company Camila Filmswith Nicaraguan filmmaker Frank Pineda in 1990.Budgeted at Euros 350,000and scheduled to ...
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Unknown White Male
Dir: Rupert Murray. UK. 2005. 88mins.A bizarre case of amnesia yields philosophical foodfor thought as well as an unorthodox character study in Unknown White Male, a thought-provoking documentary by Britishfilm-maker Rupert Murray.The film's subject is afriend of Murray's - a 35-year-old Englishman named Douglas Bruce who suddenlyand inexplicably lost all ...
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Gravehopping (Od Groba Do Groba)
Dir/scr: Jan Cvitkovic. Slovenia, 2005. 103mins.A darkly comic curio, the second filmfrom Bread And Milk director Jan Cvitkovic has been flying the festival flag for Sloveniaever since its debut at San Sebastian - where it picked up the New Directors Award- and has since won best film prizes at Cottbus ...
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Tusk joins HDNet Films as head of development
&ManMark Tusk has joined HDNetFilms as head of development and will help company chiefs Jason Kliot and JoanaVicente package the next wave of features. Tusk has worked in the NewYork film scene for close to two decades. He joined Miramax in 1988 as managerof acquisitions, where he recommended such titles ...
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Grupo Pi reveals string of deals in the US
Spanish consortium Grupo Pi hasclosed a string of sales on its slate of local films, including a USpay TV and video deal with HBO for first-time feature director Guillem Morales' thriller The Uninvited Guest.Grupo Pi general directorGeraldine Gonard said: "It is not easy forSpanish-language films to break into the USmarket ...
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German-French co-production finds favour with Filmstiftung NRW
TwoGerman-French co-productions attracted the bulk of the $7m (6m Euros)production support allocated by Filmstiftung NRW atits last funding session. Thelargest sum of $3m (2.5m Euros) was awarded to Jo Baier'sadaptation of Heinrich Mann's historical novel, Henri Quatre. Berlin-based Ziegler Filmwill be the producer with France's GTV as a three-partmini-series with ...
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Squid, Brokeback lead Spirit nominations
Brokeback Mountain, Capote,Good Night, And Good Luck, TheSquid And The Whale and The ThreeBurials Of Melquiades Estrada willvie for best feature honours at Film Independent's 2006 Independent SpiritAwards on Mar 4.Noah Baumbach's TheSquid And The Whale leads the packwith six nominations for Samuel Goldwyn Films including best director andscreenplay for ...
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Squid, Brokeback lead Spirit nominations
Brokeback Mountain, Capote,Good Night, And Good Luck, TheSquid And The Whale and The ThreeBurials Of Melquiades Estrada willvie for best feature honours at Film Independent's 2006 Independent SpiritAwards on March 4.Noah Baumbach's TheSquid And The Whale leads the packwith six nominations for Samuel Goldwyn Films including best director andscreenplay for ...
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London forum maps out future for European Box Office
Screen International next week hosts the European Box Office Forum.The event on December8th at the Waldorf Hilton, London. will analyse the most up-to-date European boxoffice figures - and demystify the various measuring tools used to devise those figures.Major industry figures and experts will help correct the many false assumptions concerning ...
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Drouot takes MD role at Flemish Audiovisual Fund
PierreDrouot has been appointed managing director of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund(VAF), it was announced late last week. Hesucceeds former MD Luckas vander Taelen, who made an abrupt exit from the Fundearlier this month.Drouotalready worked for the Fund in various capacities, for instance as a mentorguiding young filmmakers and as a ...
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Grierson Trust Honours Kahn's My Architect
The Grierson Trust's British Documentary Awards have announced its 2005 winners. Most of the awards are given to TV documentaries, but the UK Film Council award for best international cinema documentary went to Nathaniel Kahn's My Architect. Other winners were Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi's Sisters in Law for the ...
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Troika launches London-based talent agency
Talent industry veterans Michael Duff, Conor McCaughan and Melanie Rockcliffe have formed a new London-based talent agency, Troika.Troika will represent actors, comedians and presenters for film, TV and theatre work. The company's clients include Paul Bettany, Paddy Considine, Keeley Hawes, David Morrissey, Graham Norton, Matt Lucas and David Walliams."The new ...
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Sundance unveils US and world competition sections for 2006
The Sundance Film Festivalunleashed a typically challenging American and world cinema competition line-uptoday [Monday] that bore the festival's hallmarks of eclectic,socially-conscious story-telling.The American dramatic andcompetition each feature 16 titles from more than 1,760 submissions, and arematched this year by their world cinema counterpartsSince launching in 2005 thenumber of entries in ...
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