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Visual Effects Society elects officers for 2012
Jeffrey A Okun was re-elected as board chair for a fourth one-year term at the Visual Effects Society’s (VES) board meeting on Jan 18. Okun is also the head of visual effects for Prana Studios.
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Delight, surprise, humility mark day of Oscar reactions
Producer Graham King, whose best picture nomination for Hugo marks his fourth collaboration with acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, said on Tuesday (24), “I dedicate my whole career to [Scorsese]. I think he’s the greatest director that’s ever lived, so for me I’m in great company.”
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Joel Cox, Doug Ibold to receive ACE lifetime recognition
The veteran editors will be honoured with the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Lifetime Career Achievement Award at the Eddie Awards Feb 18 in Beverly Hills.
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Sony Pictures to distribute drama Johnny Two Guns
Oak Street Films and Zero Gravity Management will produce the film, which follows a failed musician who becomes an enforcer for a violent Nashville gangster.
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GoDigital to handle digital distribution on Adopt Films slate
The first film under the deal will be Marie Losier’s award-winning The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye which opens theatrically on Mar 8. GoDigital will exploit VoD and EST rights.
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Hot Docs, Shaw disperse $198k in eighth funding cycle
The Canadian documentary festival and Shaw Media will hand out grants and no-interest loans to 11 projects.
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Tribeca Film Institute announces $150,000 in grants
The Institute has selected 10 emerging filmmakers to receive a total of $150,000 in grants towards their projects after receiving 630 submissions from more than 40 countries.
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Capri, Hollywood Fest to honour The Artist, Bejo, Fassbender
The festival, set to run in Italy from Dec 27-Jan 2, has named The Artist film of the year and will present the award to writer-director Michel Hazanavicius on Dec 30.
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Former child star Susan Gordon dies at 62
Child star Susan Gordon, also known as Susan L Aviner, whose credits include her role as Dorothy Nichols in TheFive Pennies, died on Dec 11 following a battle with cancer. She was 62.
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Baghdad’s Independent Film Centre launches workshop
The Independent Film Centre in Iraq has launched a workshop in advanced 35mm filmmaking for its 20 students.
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Kevin VanHook to adapt Specific Impulse for Rainmaker
Comic book creator and filmmaker Kevin VanHook will write the screenplay based on the first novel in the sci-fi trilogy by former NASA pilot Charles Justiz.
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Sean Faris joins Cypress Moon’s Bonnie and Clyde remake
Faris will play Clyde Barrow in The Story Of Bonnie And Clyde opposite True Blood’s Lindsay Pulsipher in the role of Bonnie Parker.
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Film Movement acquires North American rights to Foreign Letters
Ela Thier’s autobiographical drama is based on her short A Summer Rain and charts her childhood and friendships as a young Israeli immigrant.
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Production starts in Ontario on First Generation Films’ The Lesser Blessed
Benjamin Bratt stars alongside newcomer Joel Evans and other actors of native descent including Kiowa Gordon and Tamara Podemski.
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Judd Hirsch joins cast of The Red Robin
Former Academy Award nominee Hirsch is joined by Ryan O’Nan, C S Lee, Jaime Ray Newman, Caroline Lagerfeld and Joseph Lyle Taylor.
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Mary McGuckian and Larry Mullen Jr
Elnaz Toussi caught up with McGuckian and Mullen Jr to chat about their collaboration on the The Man On The Train, which Tribeca Film has just released on VOD in the US.
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Australian short film event Tropfest comes to New York
Tropfest, which organisers claim to be the world’s largest short film festival after launching in a café in Sydney, Australia, almost 20 years ago, is expanding to the US and will touch down in New York next June.
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Blessed Benefit wins Abu Dhabi Film Commission's 2011 Shasha Grant
Writer-producer Mahmoud Al Massad reveives a grant totalling $100,000 in addition to development support from the film commission.
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Sundance, President’s Committee select 10 for Film Forward
Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee On The Arts And The Humanities have renewed their initiative to promote cinema to diverse global audiences.
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Stan Lee to receive PGA 2012 Vanguard Award
The comic book legend will collect the honour at the 23rd awards ceremony in Beverly Hills on Jan 21, 2012.