All Screen articles in 6 August 2006 – Page 2
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Walters, Serkis and Mackintosh on board for Sugarhouse Lane
NewUK-based digital film production and distribution company Slingshot will beginshooting its debut feature Sugarhouse Lane on Aug 21.DirectorGary Love makes his feature film debut, with a script by Dominic Leyton basedon his stage play Collision. MichaelRiley is producing.Sugarhouse Lane will star StevenMackintosh as a middle-class boy who becomes involved ...
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Film London continues festival and training funds
Film London has continued new rounds of funding for itsFilm-makers' Festival Fund and Events and Training Providers' Fund. The Film-makers' Festival Fund provides travel supportfor individual film-makers to attend key festivals where their film will playin competition. The fund also contributes towards striking a first film print ordigital master. In ...
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Hot Docs to spotlight Central, Eastern Europe
Central and Eastern European documentary cinema will beshowcased at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival aspart of the festival's National Spotlight programme.Films from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia will be considered forinclusion. In addition, Hot Docs will devote its Made In... sidebar ...
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Korean film exports down 58% on last year
Korean filmexports for the first half of 2006 are down 58% year-on-year, according tofigures released by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Total exports came to$17.4m, compared to $41.8m in the first six months of 2005. The main reasonfor the sharp decline in sales is that Japan, Korea's biggest buyer, has ...
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Sarajevo sets competition films and jury
The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug18-26) has announced its competition programme andmain jury. Eightcompetition films will compete for the awards of best film, special jury award,best actor and best actress: Das Fraulein, Switzerland/Germany/Bosnia andHerzegovina, dir: Andrea StakaThe Paper WillBe Blue (Hartia Va Fi Albastra), Romania, dir: RaduMunteanKythera, Hungary, dir: Peter ...
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Schloendorff plans Kazakhstan shoot for Ulzhan
Germandirector Volker Schloendorff will be reunited withactor David Bennent, the child star of his 1979Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) as Oskar Matzerath, for his next feature Ulzhan which begins shooting in Kazakhstan from September.TheFrench-Kazakh co-production between Regis Ghezelbash'sFly Times Pictures and the Kazakh Film Studio is based on ...
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Sao Paulo to host new film market Aug 23-25
Anewly created film market in Sao Paulo has been set up to boost thebusiness of Brazilian audiovisual industry. The numbers are still very modestwhen compared to the largest American and European film markets but the first InternationalFair of the Cinema and Audiovisual Industry (FIICAV) expects its 150 exhibitorsto attract 15,000 ...
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Serambi
Dirs: Garin Nugroho, Tonny Trimarsanto, Viva Westi,Lianto Luseno. Ind'sia-Fr. 2006. 75mins.Concentrating on the events after 2004's Asiantsunami disaster, the documentary Serambifunctions best as a companion piece to Garin Nugroho's previous work Of Love And Eggs, itself an ebullient pieceabout an Indonesian marketplace. Presenting through its collage of images thehuman and ...
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Just Like The Son
Dir/scr: Morgan J Freeman. US. 2006. 86minsEssentially a road movie for kids, with the adultssimply straight men and women to a wisecrackingsix-years-old, Morgan J Freeman's Just LikeThe Son joins the plethora of undemanding matinee products targeted at thechildren's crowd.While its plot motor - adultkidnaps boy - hardly sounds ethical, audience ...
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Toronto launches 'envelope-pushing' Vanguard sidebar
The Toronto International Film Festival is launching a newprogramme, Vanguard, with four world premieres to back up the sidebar'sambition to showcase films that are "stylistically bold, structurally playfuland appeal to adventurous, risk-taking audiences." The four world premieres are, from Australia, GeoffreyWright's contemporary adaptation of Macbeth;from France, Chacun Sa Nuit byPascal ...
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Shim named managing director of Fox Korea
Jay Shim has beenappointed managing director of Fox Korea, replacing Jesse Lee who was recentlynamed general manager of Fox Japan.Shim will assume the new role immediately and reports to vice president of theAsia/Pacific region Sunder Kimatrai.Shim most recently served as vice president of Popcorn Film, where he managedthe production of ...
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Off Screen leads charge in Cinemavault sales
Cinemavault ReleasingInternational has notched up a string of sales, headed by Pieter Kuijpers' OffScreen.The Dutch hostagethriller has been picked up for the US by Image Entertainment, with furtherdeals for France (Melimedias), Brazil (California), Greece (Spentzos Film), andthe former Yugoslavia (A.G. Market).Georgina Riedel's comedy How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer ...
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The Bubble (Ha'Bua)
Dir: Eytan Fox. Is. 2006. 90mins.Film-maker Eytan Foxdisappointingly follows Walk On Water, one of Israel's strongest exports of recenttimes, with The Bubble, asurprisingly feeble drama which picks up on similar themes but frames them indisorganised fashion.Set in Tel Aviv's Shenkin neighbourhood, the Israeli capital's equivalent ofGreenwich Village, the drama addresses ...
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Montreal's FNC bags new Trier comedy
Lars von Trier's The Boss Of It All will makes it North American premiere at Montreal'sFestival du Nouveau Cinema, which runs from October 18 to 28. The film will have its worldpremiere at the Copenhagen International Film Festival in September. The Danish-language comedy, which stars such von Trierregulars as Peter ...
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Hilary Bevan Jones takes chairman post at Bafta
HilaryBevan Jones has taken over as chairman of the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta), succeeding Duncan Kenworthyafter his two-year stint.Bevan Jones will be the first woman to chair the Academyin its 60-year history, after having served as deputy chairman for one year. Kenworthy will now take ...
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Sundance names seven Annenberg fellows
Sundance Institutehas announced the seven recipients of this year's Annenberg awards, which givefilmmakers a $10,000 grant and extended creative and financial support over atwo-year period to assist development.This year's screenplays touch on issues ranging from the struggles of younglove in a post-9/11 New York to the challenges and small victories ...
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MonteCristo kicks off japan shoot on Apartment 1303
New York-based salesand distribution company MonteCristo Entertainment has begun principalphotography in Hamamatsu, Japan, on the horror tale Apartment 1303.Ataru Oikawa is directing the project about the terrifying circumstancessurrounding a rental apartment, which is expected to be ready for delivery byAFM and stars Noriko Nakagoshi.Oikawa adapted the screenplay from Kei Oishi's ...
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Deauville to open with Burger's The Illusionist
Neil Burger's The Illusionist, starring EdwardNorton, will open the 32nd Deauville Festival ofAmerican Film, which is slated to run Sept 1-10 in the Normandytown. The official line-up was announced on July 31 andincludes Jason Reitman's Thank You For Smokingstarring Aaron Eckhart, David Slade's Hard Candywhich is set to be released ...
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UIP takes on UK release for Clerks II
United InternationalPictures (UIP) will distribute Kevin Smith's Clerks II in the UK. The deal was official confirmed as UIP set thebelated sequel to Smith's 1994 cult hit for a Sept 22 release in the territory.Clerks IIsaw its world premiere out of competition as Cannes in May and will receive its ...
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Fortissimo takes on sales for Hula Girls
FortissimoFilms has acquired the worldwide rights, excluding Japan and Korea, to Hula Girls, the latest film from director Lee Sang-il.Thefilm, based on real events, is set in northern Japan in 1965, and tells thestory of a poor village's efforts to build the country's first Hawaiian Village tourist attraction. Hula Girls ...
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