All articles by Alexis Grivas – Page 11
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Golden prize night ends groundbreaking Guadalarajara
The 21stGuadalajara International Film Festival handed out a record $525,000 in prizemoney on a glittering awards night.TheGolden Mayahuel for the best Iberoamerican film - with a $50,000 purse -was shared jointly by Rodrigo Moreno's Argentinian/ Uruguayan/ French/ Germanco-production El Custodio and Brazilian Marcelo Gomes' AspirinasE Urubus (Movies, Aspirins and Vultures).In ...
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Uruguayan project wins $300,000 award at Guadalajara
Uruguayan film Eighteen Cigarettes and a Half (18 cigarillos y medio)was the first winner of the Tornasol award at the Guadalajara FIlm Festival.The prize guarantees co-production services worth $301,449 (Euros 250,000).Twenty projects participated for the top prize in thesecond Iberoamerican Co-production Meeting which came to a close today. Thewinning project ...
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Fortissimo buys world rights for Mexican feature
Fortissimo`s Wouter Barendrecht has secured world sales outside the US for the Mexican feature Broken Sky (El cielodividido) at theGuadalajara International Film Festival. The deal was concluded after the Fortissimoco-chairman saw the film during its Mexican premiere in the event's officialsection.This is the second time the HongKong/Amsterdam sales company has ...
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Carlos Saura's Iberia to open Guadalajara Film Festival
The 21st edition of the Guadalajara Film Festival starts FridayMarch 24 with the gala presentation of Carlos Saura'sIberia.Mexico's most establishedfestival and a major one within Latin America finds itself at aturning point as it needs to redefine its image and scope after it turned intoa fully-fledged international event last year. ...
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Brisk business for close of Thessaloniki doc fest
TheThessaloniki Documentary Festival-Images of the 21stCentury and its concurrent Doc FilmMarket wrapped over the weekend.VictorKossakovsky's Svyato (Russia), Dani Menkin's 39 Pounds ofLove (USA), the Kimon Tsakiris'Greek production Sugar Town-TheBridegrooms as well as Angelos Kovotsos' Kleon Krantonellis and Yorgos Papakonstantinou's Takis Zenetos (from thePortraits of Greek Architectsseries) received the Audience Awards, ...
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Debut feature film wins the Grand Prix-Golden FIPA
Wega-Film production Mein Morder (MyMurderer), the debut feature of Austrian former documentary director and journalistElisabeth Scharang received the Grand Prix-Golden Fipa in the Fiction section of the 19th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz January24-29. The five-memberjury headed by Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi and including among others ...
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Greek company Audiovisual Enterprises buys Prooptiki
Audiovisual Enterprises, the only publicly listed Greekentertainment media group, has bought out its rival Prooptiki.The acquisition worth $25.3m (21m Euros) places Audiovisual at the forefront oftheatrical distribution and further consolidates its lead position in video-DVDdistribution. Prooptiki's former share holders, Managing Director Mitropoulos and deputy Irini Souganidou will head updistribution of ...
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Greek Sirens attract more admissions than Kong
A stellar performance from local comedy Sirens in the Aegean has left Greece as the only European territory other than Italy in which King Kong failed to storm the box office.To the astonishment of many, the comedy managed 200,000 admissions in its second week, leaving King Kong a distant second ...
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Belgian takes top honours at Thessaloniki festival
Belgian Fien Troch was awarded the Golden Alexanderand $43,000 (37,000 Euros) for Someone Else's Happiness (EenAnder Zijn Geluk) at the 46thThessaloniki International Film Festival. VittorioStoraro's seven-strong jury also handed the film awards for Troch's screenplay, a shared BestActress award for Ina Geerts and a Special Mention for Natali Broods as ...
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46th Thessaloniki festival breaks all-time records
The ThessalonikiInternational Film Festival has unveiled today its full line-up for this year'sevent (Nov 18-27).The festival celebratesits 46th anniversary with an all-time record number of 255 filmsrepresenting 42 nations.The event, the firstunder the new team of president George Corraface and director Despina Mouzaki, promises to bethe most star-studded ever, while ...
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Happiness takes top honours at Athens festival
Just days after winning theGolden Shell for Best Picture at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Czech-Germanco-production Something Like Hapiness (Sesti) directed by Bodhan Slamawas named best film at the 11th Athens International Film Festival-Opening Nights.The Golden Athena awardcarrying together a Euros 5,000 purse was received by the leading actress ofthe ...
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Athens festival kicks off with Costa Gavras' Axe
The 11th Athens International Film Festival-Opening Nightskicks off today (Sept 15) with the gala presentation of Costa Gavras' TheAxe (Le Couperet).Gavras will be on hand tointroduce the film, to offer a master class and to receive a Golden Athena, thefestival's trophy, for his career.He will be joined during the festival ...
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Corraface named president of Thessaloniki festival
Greek-French actor George Corraface(Giorgos Chorafas) has been named president of the Thessaloniki InternationalFilm Festival.The post has been vacant forfive months following film-maker Pandelis Vougaris' resignation as president inMay, just one month after he was appointed to takeover from fellow film makerTheo Angelopoulos.Corraface will work closelywith artistic director Despina Mouzaki.Corraface's nomination ...
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Greeks act to revitalise embattled box office
Greekdistributors have agreed to move back film release dates to Thursdays in anattempt to revitalise the country's embattled local box office. Until now,Fridays have been the traditional opening day for films. The move takes effectfrom today (August 18). Admissionsin Greece have plateaued in the past five years, at an estimated ...
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Greek festival boosted by business among home distributors
The third RhodesInternational Film Festival has enjoyed a marked increase in activity amonglocal buyers.Stroke, German film-maker Katerina Peters' portrayal of herhusband's battle against disability, became the subject of a bidding warbetween local majors Prooptiki and Playtime. Swiss sales agent Firsthandfilmsis expected to announce a deal later this week.Meanwhile Spentzos Filmstook ...
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Greeks look to bed down tax financing initiative
Launching a film financing initiative worth up to 30% ofa budget to attract foreign shoots is probably the best thing has ever happenedto the Greek film industry.Foreign productions, which used to be welcome source offoreign exchange, have dried up in recent years dueto the lack of studios and the emergence ...
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Melancholia spreads around the world
Three Rooms Of Melancholia, the latest documentary byveteran Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo (Flame, Cannes 1980, TheFire-Eater, AFI Grand Prix 1998) emerged as the hottest title at theThessaloniki Documentary Festival and the Doc Film Market that wrapped hereyesterday.The film looks set to join the growing number of full-lengthdocumentaries that secure extensive ...
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Angelopoulos replaced as Thessaloniki president
Thessaloniki International Film Festival president TheoAngelopoulos and artistic director Michel Demopoulos have been removed fromtheir posts. The move follows a series of sweeping changes to state subsidisedfilm institutions announced today by The Greek Ministry of Culture. Withinfilm circles, the move is regarded as political one that comes just over a ...
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Fonda to star in Leduc's El Cobrador
A string of internationalproduction outfits have come together to finance the next film by Mexicandirector Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva)ElCobrador - In God We Trust, which stars Peter Fonda, isproduced by veteran Mexican producer Berta Navarro (Cronos, The Devil'sBackbone, Cronicas) through her Salamandra Productions outfit.It is backed by Pedro andAgustin ...
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Blue Eyelids wins Guadalajara project market
Mexican project Blue Eyelids (Parpados Azules) byErnesto Contreras, a former Berlinale Talent Campus participant, was named thewinner of the first Ibero-American Co-production Meeting at last week'sGuadalajara International Film Festival.Blue Eyelids beat nineteen other projects to takethe prize. All of the projects were presented by their respective directors toa jury during ...