All articles by Alexis Grivas – Page 12
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Magician conjures up top prize at Guadalajara
The 20th Guadalajara International Film Festival wrapped onFriday night (March 18) with The Magician( El Mago), by first time director Jaime Aparicio, named bestfilm in the Mexican competition section.The jury, which comprised Mexican screenwriter Paz AliciaGarciadiego and Spanish directors Gerardo Herrero and Fernando Trueba, handedthe best director prize to another ...
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Cannes to showcase Mexican cinema
Cannes is to throw a spotlight on the Mexican film industryat this year's film festival (May 11-22).The Cannes Classics section will be dedicated to Mexicothis year, showcasing a number of classic Mexican pictures whose restorationhas been funded by Fundacion Televisa, the cultural arm of Latin American mediagiant Televisa Group.Backed the ...
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British talent dominates FIPA prizes
British talent swept the floor at the awards ceremony of the 18th FestivalInternational des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz, which is run by Cannes Directors'Fortnight founder Pierre Henri Delleau.The BBC Northern Ireland TV production Gunpowder, Treason andPlot, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, was awarded the Golden Fipa in theseries and serials ...
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Greek film industry faces Olympic cuts
Director KyriakosKatzourakis and producer Costas Labropoulos make a perfect match.The first, a well knownpainter, made a splash in 2003 with hisdebut docudrama The Way To The West.His film, which was hailedas the "best ever" by local critics, stormed the Greek State Cinema awards,toured an impressive round of international festivals (Yamagata, ...
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Balkan funds back six new projects
Six filmprojects have received backing for script development and co-production from the Thessaloniki based BalkanFund and the Sarajevo co-production Market-Cinelink. The news was announced atlast week's Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF).Fourprojects were granted Euros 10,000 each by the Balkan Fund, a TIFF scriptdevelopment initiative created in 2003.Theprojects are:- The Only Love ...
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Greeks rush to embrace Alexander
Unlikeits limp performance in the US, Oliver Stone's Alexander has gone down a stormin the country that inspired the film - Greece.The filmopened in Greece this weekend and attracted 104,215 admissions nationwide on 85screens through local distributor Spentzos Film.Thestrong opening puts it on a par with hits such as Troy, ...
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Bitter Dream wins at Thessaloniki film festival
Social conflict-themed pictures dominated the awards at the45th Thessaloniki International Film Festival which wrapped yesterday.In the competition section - reserved to first and secondfilms, the Iranian entry Bitter Dream (Khab E Talkh) by Mohsen Amiryousefiwas awarded the Golden Alexander and Euros 37,000. The award comes at the endof a year ...
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Thessaloniki unveils festival line-up
TheThessaloniki International Film Festival has unveiled its full line-up for thisyear's event (Nov 19-28).The Festival celebrates its 45th anniversary with a 180 plusstrong programme representing 40 nations and kicks off with a double billopening.French star Isabelle Huppert, will present the worldpremiere of her latest film Les Soeurs Fachees directed by ...
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Fuse lights up Athens Panorama
Bosniandirector Pjer Zalica's Fuse was awarded the main prize in thecompetition section at the 17th Panorama of European Cinema (Oct 1-14) inAthens which wrapped with a gala presentation of Ken Loach's Ae FondKiss.The award, offered by the organiser of the event,Athens daily newspaper Elefterotypia, includes apurse worth Euros 6,000 to ...
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Dealer hits jackpot at Athens festival
Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf's Dealer wasnamed best film at the 10th Athens International FilmFestival-Opening Nights which wrapped on Sept 27 with the out of competitiongala presentation of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.The festival kicked off on Sept 17 with the presentation ofMichael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. One hundred and forty films, up ...
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Greece faces up to Olympic competition
Greece's distribution sector has already decided on onewinner of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games - the event itself.Having witnessed a slump in cinema admissions due to theunexpected success of the national soccer team In the European Football Cup,distributors and exhibitors have collectively decided not to open any new filmsduring the ...
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New Greek talent focuses on international market
Veteran Greekdirector Theo Angelopoulos is probablythe only name internationallyrecognisable among his local peers. If the Greekfilm industry has any hope of making an impact in the internationalmarket this lies with a handful of new directors who have the means and thetalent required.Womanwriter/director Olga Malea is probably the most prominent among ...
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Greek industry looks for success in int'l markets
For full Greek production listings, click HEREThe outlook for the Greek film industry seems quite gloomy in the local distribution/exhibition sectors - despite the recent record admissions of Touch Of Spice - but prospects look much more promising abroad.The year started with the acclaimed presentation of Theo ...
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Holy Cross leads sweep of FIPA prizes by Brit shows
British productions swept the floor at the awards ceremony of the 17th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz, run by former Cannes Quinzaine des Realisateurs director Pierre Henri Delleau.BBC Northern Ireland production Holy Cross, Mark Brozel's debut film about the story of two Belfast families, received the Golden ...
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Angelopoulos juggles pair of projects
Theo Angelopoulos - whose latest film Trilogy 1: The Weeping Meadow will screen in competition at next month's Berlinale - is preparing to shoot his next film.Angelopoulos is developing two projects. He told ScreenDaily.com: "I cannot determine right now which one will start rolling first but I am determined to ...
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Touch Of Spice eyes landmark box office haul
Greek hit Touch Of Spice looks set to pass the landmark one million admissions mark at the local box office.After seven weeks on release, the Tasos Boulmetis directed film has already scored 800,000 admissions, way ahead of the top performing foreign film Pirates Of The Caribbean with 440,000 admissions.Hitting the ...
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Russian Train rides off with Thessaloniki prizes
Russian feature The Last Train (Posledniy Poezd) by Alexei German, Jr swept the floor at the 44th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 21-30).The son of the celebrated director of Twenty Days Without War and My Friend Ivan Lapschitz, German's film tells the story of a German military doctor stranded in ...
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Balkan Fund hands out script grants at Thessaloniki
Four film projects from four southeastern European countries have received the first grants to be handed out by the Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF).The projects to receive 10,000 Euros each are: The Journey, writer/director/producer Artan Minarolli, Albania;Grbavica, writer/ ...
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44th Thessaloniki festival announces line-up
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has unveiled today the full line-up of its 44th edition.The Festival kicks off November 21, with Takeshi Kitano's Venice winner Zatoichi and closes with Jim Sheridan's In America on Saturday November 29. Vincent Gallo's controversial Brown Bunny is, in its new ...
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Greek multiplex expansion plans in jeopardy
The future expansion of multiplexes in Greece is in jeopardy following a legal dispute between country's Exhibitors Federation and the builders of a 10-screen new multiplex in the central Athens residential district of Ambelokipi. The planned opening this month of the City Plaza multiplex - leased by veteran film ...