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Costa Rican film-maker wins Buenos Aires Film Lab
Agua Fria Del Mar (Cold Water of the Sea), a project by Costa Rica's Paz Fabrega, won the first prize of the fourth Buenos Aires Lab (BAL), which ended on Sunday as part of the Buenos Aires Film Festival (BAFICI). The prize was presented by European cultural TV network Arte ...
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Buenos Aires to welcome 150 international guests to first Inter-Cine
The 9th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) will kick off tomorrow with plans to show 470 features and shorts in 13 days. The Event will open with two films running out of competition: Mauritian Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and Argentinian Ariel Rotter's Berlinale double award-winning El Otro. The ...
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Set report: The City Of Your Final Destination
It is January in Argentina's isolated Pampas region but El Destino, an authentic hacienda from 1890, is a hive of activity. The principal shooting location of James Ivory's The City Of Your Final Destination is 100 miles outside Buenos Aires, and while the 120-strong crew consists of people from a ...
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The City Of Your Final Destination: James Ivory
How do you feel working without Ismail Merchant for the first time'We miss his energy. He was in all the details without ever losing his sense of humour. He was laughing all the time. There is a sense of sadness, loss and emptiness, but Paul (Bradley), Richard (Hawley) and all ...
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Argentinian location: San Luis
Six years ago the government of San Luis - population 370,000 - took the bold step of launching financial incentives to attract local and overseas productions to the province.Since greenlighting film investment regulations in 2001, San Luis Cine, the province's film council, has invested $20m into more than 30 local ...
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The City Of Your Final Destination: Anthony Hopkins
How was the experience of shooting in Argentina'Great. This place is like paradise with its beautiful old haciendas, amazing gardens and gaucho traditions. I've spent New Year's Eve and my birthday here.Did you find any significant differences from working in other countries'Not in technical skills. The crew was competent and ...
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Latin American locations: Argentina
Since the economic meltdown of 2002, Argentina has seen an upturn in foreign shoots as producers seek to take advantage of low costs while utilising the territory's stunning locations.Shooting in Buenos Aires can be 20% cheaper than Canada, South Africa or New Zealand, and 40% cheaper than Madrid, according to ...
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Latin American locations: Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay
Chile is making every effort to compete with Argentina in attracting foreign production spend. In November last year a new commission, FilmChile, was set up with offices in Santiago and New York to assist film-makers. The territory can offer low costs, skilled bilingual production crews, post-production facilities and a fully ...
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Europeans dominate Mar del Plata prizes
European films dominated the awards at the 22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival, which closed yesterday with a record attendance of 190,000 spectators.Catalan film-maker Cesc Gay received the Golden Astor prize for Fiction, a drama about a director trying to finish the script of his next movie at a friend's ...
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Argentina - Father figure
Talented young Argentinian director Ariel Rotter premiered his first feature, Just For Today (Solo Por Hoy), at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001.The Wong Kar-wai-influenced film quickly became a festival hit, won a string of local awards, and Rotter prepared to shoot his next feature, The Other.Financing problems set ...
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Argentinian co-productions go global, new deals announced
Argentina's film institute (INCAA) announced at Mar del Plata Film Festival new co-production agreements with China, Israel, France, Germany and Switzerland to be signed in the next weeks. 'We are very hopeful about the future. We have signed a similar agreement with Spain four years ago, and now more than ...
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Argentina to sign co-production deals with China, France others
Argentina's film institute INCAA announced at the Mar del Plata Film Festival yesterday that new co-production agreements were due to be signed with China, Israel, France, Germany and Switzerland in the coming weeks.'We are very hopeful about the future. We signed a similar agreement with Spain four years ago, and ...
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Mar Del Plata introduces Latin American competition, fund plans
The 22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival will kick off Thursday with plans to show more than 300 features and shorts. The major addition to this year's edition is a Latin American competition reserved for 16 first and second features and documentaries, most making their world premieres. They will compete ...
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120 features, 180 shorts to screen at Mar del Plata
The 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 8-18) has announced its line-up.In his fifth and final year as Argentina's main festival director Miguel Pereira told Screen the event is increasing its focus on Latin America's emerging talents with a new cash award of $50,000 for the best film ...
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$50,000 cash prize for Latin American films launched
The 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 8-18) is set to launch the Ernesto Che Guevara prize with a cash award of $50,000 for Best Film in a new section reserved for first and second Latin American features and documentaries, which will run parallel to the official competition. ...
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Caetano set for $10m drug war epic Leopard
Acclaimed Uruguayan-born film-maker Israel Adrian Caetano, whose Chronicle Of An Escape was a hit in Cannes competition last year, is to direct $10m Argentina/France/US co-production Leopard In The Sun. The film is based on Laura Restrepo's best-selling 1993 novel about a feud between two Colombian drug families which escalates into ...
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Argentinian admissions fall but ticket price rises boost box office
Cinema attendance figures in Argentina dropped by an estimated 1.6% in 2006. The period saw 35.4 million admissions as opposed to 36 million in 2005. However, total box office gross was 20% up from last year because of continued rise in the average ticket price from $ 2.3 to 3.1. ...
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The Hands dominates Argentinian Academy Awards
The Argentinian Academy ofFilm Arts and Sciences awarded Alejandro Doria's The Hands (Las Manos) with eight Sur prizes, including best film,director, actor (Jorge Marrale) and actress (Graciela Borges), at a gala heldin Buenos Aires on Tuesday.The local Academy, comprisedof 222 renowned professionals (directors, producers, screenwriters, actors andtechnicians), also named Rodrigo ...
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Spanish producers partner in Argentinian production outfits
Two new production companies have been launched inArgentina with the backing of Spanish partners.Pampa Films is owned by Pablo Bossi --former president ofleading production house Patagonik Film Group-- in association with directorJuan Pablo Buscarini and renowned Spanish producers Julio and Carlos Fernandezfrom Filmax.Haddock Films is a partnership between Vanessa Ragone, ...
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Argentine actor Darin to direct The Signal
Ricardo Darin, Argentina's most renowned actor, announced he willdirect his first film, The Signal, a film-noir set in 1950s Buenos Aires.The Signal, based on Eduardo Mignogna's 2002 best-seller novel, wasready to begin shooting this December, but Mignogna died on Oct 6.The $2.5m Argentinian-Spanish co-production between Pablo Bossi'snew company Pampa Films, ...
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