All Screen articles in 9 March 2008 – Page 4
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Jerwood hands out three prizs to UK moving image artists
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation has announced the three winners of the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards.The winners are Evensong by Sophie Clements, Procrastination by Johnny Kelly and Sea Change by Rosie Pedlow and Joe King. Each gets an award of $19,783 (£10,000).The awards are for artists working in digital moving ...
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Wilco Wolfers confirmed as managing director of A-Film
Confirming recent reports in Screen, Wilco Wolfers has been appointed managing director of Netherlands-based A-Film Distribution.He succeeds Pim Hermeling, whose departure was announced last week when his shares were transferred to investment company W2Media.Wolfers is currently managing director of Warner Bros Netherlands and will take up the new post as ...
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Religare, Vistaar launch India's first film fund
Religare Enterprises and Vistaar Entertainment Ventures have joined hands to launch the Vistaar Religare Film Fund (VRFF), touted as India’s first regulated film fund.AMC Vistaar Religare Capital Advisors Limited has filed for approval with the Indian stock exchange board as a venture capital fund (VCF). The fund will be close-ended ...
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Guadalajara to open next week with El Cafe De Los Maestros
The 23rd Guadalajara International Film Festival will open next Friday with Mguel Kohan's El Cafe De Los Maestros, a documentary about the glory days of Argentinian Tango.Argentina is the featured country this year and ten Argentinian films will screen this year, while the festival will also act as a meeting ...
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Mika Kaurismaki to shoot new Finnish feature in July
Finnish director-producer Mika Kaurismaki will return to local filmmaking to shoot The House of Branching Love (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo), his first feature in Finnish since Zombie and the Ghost Train in 1991.Credited with such films as Helsinki Napoli All Night Long, Rosso, The Clan and The Worthless, Kaurismaki - who ...
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Meistrich's NEHST unveils development slate
Larry Meistrich has unveiled the 2008 slate of features being out together at his NEHST Studios, which launched at Cannes 2007.President of NEHST Creations - production group Dana Offenbach will oversee production on the titles, which includes Sridhar Reddy's India-set martial arts adventure The Killing Moon, Ron Kanecke's supernatural drama ...
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Bird, Kandhari to share the Leadership Award from IFFLA
Walt Disney International chairman Andy Bird and PricewaterhouseCoopers India partner and leader of the entertainment media practice Timmy Kandhari will share the 2008 Industry Leadership Award from the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles' (IFFLA).The award was created to recognise the achievements of industry executives who have had 'a substantial ...
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Belgrad & Tolmach named presidents of Columbia Pictures
Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach have each been named president of Columbia Pictures and have extended their contracts to 2011.The executives have been running production at the studio since 2003 and overseen titles such as the Spider-Man franchise, Casino Royale, Superbad, The Da Vinci Code, Hitch, Ghost Rider and many ...
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Breakfast With Scot to open 10th Miami Gay & Lesbian festival
The East Coast premiere of Laurie Lynd's comedy Breakfast With Scot and Thomas Gustafson's Were The World Mine bookend the 10th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which is set to run from Apr 25-May 4.Avi Nesher's drama The Secrets starring Fanny Ardant is the centerpiece screening. Killer Films ...
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THINKFilm takes Sundance critics' favourite Momma's Man
THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to Azazel Jacobs' drama Momma's Man, which premiered at Sundance in January.The film reunites THINKFilm with Half Nelson producers Alex Orlovsky and Hunter Gray and executive producer Paul Mezey and will get its New York premiere at the Museum of Modern Art on Mar ...
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Wachowskis' Speed Racer set for simultaneous IMAX release
Warner Bros has announced that the Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer will be released on IMAX screens simultaneous with its conventional release May 9, 2008.Produced by Joel Silver, written and directed by The Matrix filmmakers and based on the anime series by Tatsuo Yoshida, the film stars Emile Hirsch as the ...
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Joan Chen, Zhao Tao to star in Jia Zhangke's 24 City
Joan Chen and Zhao Tao will star in Jia Zhangke's 24 City, which will begin shooting at the end of March. They will portray female factory workers in the 1980s. Also starring in the film are TV veterans Chen Jianbin and Lu Liping, according to Jia, who is now in ...
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Eros International releases Heyy Babyy on Blu-Ray format
India's Eros International has released Hindi comedy Heyy Babyy on Blu-ray, marking the first global release of a Bollywood film on the format. The film is the first of a slate of planned Blu-ray releases by Eros.Heyy Babyy, directed by Sajid Khan and starring Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Ritesh Deshmukh ...
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Neo's Money No Enough 2 starts shooting in Singapore
Singapore's film industry is witnessing a big surge in output with Jack Neo's latest comedy Money No Enough 2 being one of the four local productions that starts filming this month. The new picture marks the debut project of Neo Studios, set up by Neo and former fund manager Philip ...
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Sarajevo selects five low-budget short projects for City of Film
Sarajevo Film Festival's Talent Campus project Sarajevo City of Film has selected five low-budget short film projects for the new initiative from the Bosnian Government and its Ministry of Culture and Sports. Participants of the first Talent Campus, held during the 13th edition of the festival in August 2007, applied ...
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EFP backs eight European projects in Guadalajara
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support initiative is backing a range of European films at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in March for the second year.Eight European films are being supported for promotional campaigns via their sales agents at the festival (March 7-14).The films and their sales companies are: Stephan ...
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Momentum, Sky partner for DVD/VOD release of Vegas, Baby
Momentum Pictures and Sky have struck a deal to simultaneously release Vegas, Baby on DVD and Sky Box Office and Sky Anytime on PC.The release date is March 31 for Sky and DVD sales, which is two weeks after the DVD rental release.The Sky platforms will the pay-per-view/VOD offering for ...
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Richard Curtis starts rocking Boat for Universal/Working Title
Universal Pictures and Working Title Films started principal photography yesterday for Richard Curtis' new comedy The Boat That Rocked.Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh star. Hoffman, Nighy, Ifans and Frost play iconoclastic DJs while Branagh plays a government official out to get the lawbreakers.The ...
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Dragon Hunters opens 10th Cartoon Movie market in Babelsberg
This year's Cartoon Movie co-production forum for European animation feature films will open in Potsdam on Wednesday evening March 5 with an avant-premiere screening of Dragon Hunters.The film's producers Futurikon, Trixter, LuxAnimation and Mac Guff Ligne are also among the nominees for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes which are awarded ...
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Three leads line up for Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer
Director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy) has chosen three actors from three different countries to play Li Cunxin in Mao's Last Dancer.Chi Cao, principal dancer at the Birmingham Royal Ballet since 2002 and winner of the gold medal in 1998 at the Varna ballet competitions, will play the ...