All articles by Edna Fainaru – Page 3
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Terrorist drama sweeps board at Israeli Oscars
Josef Cedar's Time Of Favour (Hahesder), a topical drama about a paramilitary Jewish organisation that attempts to blow up the El Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, won six prizes at the Israeli Film and TV Academy Awards on Tuesday night, including best film and best script.The Cinema Factory production now automatically ...
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Desperado leads race for Israeli film awards
Benny Torati's Desperado Square has garnered the most nominations for this year's Israeli Film and TV Academy Awards, with 13 nods, one in each category. The winner of Best Film is automatically selected as Israel's candidate for best foreign-language Oscar.Desperado Square, which marks the debut of both director Torati and ...
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Israeli-Arab crisis hits Haifa fest
A slew of no-shows inevitably marred this year's Haifa "Neighbours" Film Festival, which was held despite the current Israeli-Arab crisis. Among the few who dared to make the trip was Irena Strzalkowska, head of Poland's Tor production company, Russian director Vladimir Khotinenko, Georgian directors Dito Tzintzadze and Nana Djordjadze, plus ...
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Fortissimo sells Venice titles to Canada, Brazil
Fortissimo Film Sales has sold Venice titles The Goddess Of 1967, which is screening in competition, and Thomas Est Amoureux, screening in the Present Cinema section, to Canada's Seville Films, Brazil's Imovision and Greece's Prooptiki.In addition, Australian title Goddess, directed by Clara Law, has been sold to Gemini in Mexico, ...
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Altman lines up UK-set manor house drama
In Venice to promote his latest feature, Dr T And The Women, director Robert Altman has revealed details of his next project, Gosford Park, which he plans to shoot in the UK from next March.Written by Julian Fellows, the film is set in 1933 - the year Hitler rose to ...
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Israel's Yes signs up first subscribers
Israeli digital satellite broadcaster Yes, which finally made its much-delayed debut on July 15, has reported that it has connected 10,000 subscribers. The figure is low but the broadcaster's operations have been restricted by an on-going confrontation with the country's cable operators which have been reluctant to share programming. As ...
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Angels Of The Universe (Englar Alheimsins)
Dir: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Ice-Nor-Swe-Ger-Den. 2000. 95mins.Prod co: Icelandic Film Corp with the support of the Icelandic Film Fund. Co-prods: Filmhuset (Norway), Peter Rommel Film Productions, SDF, Arte and ORD German, SVT Sweden, Zentropa Productions Copenhagen. Int'l sales: Trust Film Sales, tel: (45) 3686 8788. Prod: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Scr: ...
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Israel's Wolgin prize split between Besame, Sister
Josef Pitchhadze's Besame Mucho and Dan Wolman's Foreign Sister were jointly awarded the feature prize at this year's Wolgin Awards, a competition for domestic productions which runs as part the Jerusalem Film Festival (July 13-22).An additional script award went to The Investigation directed by Marek Rozenbaum from a script by ...
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First Love (Hatsukoi)
Dir: Tetsuo Shinohara. Japan. 2000. 115 mins.Prod co: First Love Production Committee. Int'l sales: Tokyo Broadcasting System (+81 3 5571 3085). Scr: Masahiko Nagasawa. DoP: Junichi Fujisawa. Ed: Yoshiyuki Okuhara. Mus: Jo Hisaichi. Main cast: Rean Tanaka, Mieko Harada, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mitsuru Hirata, Makoto Sato, Masaki Nishina.Pretty to look at ...
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Jadviga's Pillow (Jadviga Parnaja)
Dir: Krisztina Deak. Hungary. 1999. 130 mins.Prod co: Mafilm. Prod: Gyorgy Marosi. Scr: Pal Zavada, Krisztina Deak from Zavada's novel. DoP: Gabor Balogh. Ed: Zsuzsa Csakany. Prod des: Joszef Romvari, Janos Szabolcs. Mus: Gyorgy Selmeczi. Main cast: Ildiko Toth, Viktor Bodo, Roman Luknar, Mari Csomos, Eszter Onodi, Bela Fesztbaum, Djoko ...
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Israeli culture ministry unveils film commission
The Israeli culture ministry has launched a film commission which will be responsible for regulating all cinema activities in the country once the long-gestating Cinema Law has been passed. Film professionals are not allowed to run the commission under Israeli law, due to potential conflicts of interest, leading to cries ...
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon opens Jerusalem
Next month's Jerusalem Film Festival has finally opted for Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the opening night film after long deliberations.Lee is to attend the festival's 17th edition, which runs July 13-23, for the film's first screening after Cannes. The guest list also includes Kirk Douglas, German ...
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Israel's Sharanski set to close censorship board
Israel's interior minister Nathan Sharanski has announced that he plans to close the Israeli Film Censorship Board and replace it with a tougher movie ratings system based on age. The board has traditionally imposed outright bans on films thought unsuitable for Israeli audiences. However, Sharanski said he longer sees the ...
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Israel's Doc Aviv launches market
The Doc Aviv documentary festival (April 21-26) is to host a market for documentary projects looking for co-producers and broadcaster partners. The event's organisers, local documentary body the Israeli Documentary Forum (IDF), have selected 26 out of 87 proposed projects. The successful titles will be showcased to international broadcasters including ...
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Israeli government gives blessing to third channel
The Israeli parliament has given the greenlight to the launch of a third free-to-air terrestrial channel in a bid to increase competition in the Israeli television market.According to new legislation, the Third Channel will be operated by two companies. Israel's only existing commercial broadcaster, the Second Channel, is currently operated ...
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Deluxe backs Israeli film lab initiative
Almost four years after Israel's only film laboratory was closed down, the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Commerce has given its blessing to the opening of a new facility. Adam Greenberg, a Hollywood cameraman of Israeli origin whose credits include the Terminator movies and Ghost, his scientist brother Jan Greenberg ...
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Israeli cable operators agree to share with Yes
Israel's cable operators have caved in to government pressure and agreed to share programming with start-up digital satellite franchise holder Yes.Yes previously told Israel's ministry of communications that it would return its franchise unless the country's cable operators were forced to share their programming with the new outfit. The cable ...
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Israeli actors form breakaway union
A group of Israeli actors, which includes local stars such as Gila Almagor, Amos Lavi, Sami Houri and Shmil Ben Ari, has formed a breakaway actors'' union.Called Screen Actors Union (SAU), the organisation competes with existing union EMI (the initials stand for "Artists Union" in Hebrew), which SAU''s founding members ...
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Dindo, Fox to be feted at Doc Aviv
Tel Aviv''s second International Documentary Film Festival - Doc Aviv - will feature tributes to Swiss documentary maker Richard Dindo and UK film-maker Jennifer Fox.Fox will present four episodes from her nine-hour series An American Love Story at the event, which takes place April 21-26. Doc Aviv will also feature ...
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Water Drops On Burning Rocks
Dir: Francois Ozon. France. 1999. 90 mins.Prod cos: Fidelite Productions, Les Films Alain Sarde. Int'l sales: Roissy Films-Celluloid Dreams (+33 1 4970 0370). Prods: Olivier Dubosc, Marc Missonier. Scr: Francois Ozon, based on a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. DoP: Jeanne Lapoirie. Prod des: Arnaud de Moleron. Ed: Laurence Bawedin. ...
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