All articles by Elnaz Toussi – Page 7
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Tribeca Film acquires North American rights to Death Of A Superhero
Tribeca plans to release Ian Fitzgibbon’s animation-drama in theatres and on VOD in 2012.
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MPAA to showcase eight US-China co-productions in November
Two private screenings will be held on Nov 1 and 2 at the MPAA screening room for the US-China co-productions.In addition, public screenings will take place in the Washington DC area on Nov 3 to 10 in the Kentland Stadium 10 cinemas.Films that will be shown include Love In Space, ...
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Ballet In Cinema adds two performances to November schedule
The Ballet In Cinema series will add two performances to be presented in November by Emerging Pictures and National CineMedia’s Fathom Events.
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D&E Entertainment to distribute UFC biopic The Hammer
The distributor has raised p&a funds to release the film on Oct 27 in more than 90 theatres.
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GFI announces summer grant winners
Ten films will be awarded production funding by the Global Film Initiative during the summer 2011 granting cycle, with each filmmaker set to receive $10,000.
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Elvis Mitchell lifts LACMA with laughter
Screen caught up with film critic, broadcaster and now curator Elvis Mitchell, head of the film series staged by Los Angeles County Museum Of Art (LACMA) and Film Independent.
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Africa First Awards five emerging filmmakers $10,000 apiece
Focus Features’ Africa First programme has awarded five emerging filmmakers $10,000 each to finance pre-production, production and/or post-production on their short films.
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New York to host inaugural Dialogue Of Cultures festival
The Dialogue Of Cultures International Film Festival (DCIFF) will hold its first film festival in New York from Oct 20-27 when 16 world features and docs will screen.
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Pink joins cast of Stuart Blumberg’s Thanks For Sharing
The performer, aka Alecia Moore, is collaborating on The Kids Are All Right screenwriter’s feature directorial debut as principal photography gets underway.
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Slater Brothers acquires domestic rights to My Uncle Rafael
Slater Brothers Entertainment has secures North American rights to My Uncle Rafael following its success at the Arpa International Film Festival, the annual LA event celebrating the Armenian diaspora.
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Self-help publisher Hay House launches film, TV units
Reid Tracy, president and CEO of the renowned publisher, will head Hay House Films and Hay House Television and serves as executive producer working alongside production chief Michael Goorjian.
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Two years after arrest, Polanski collects Zurich honour
The filmmaker was in Switzerland to accept his lifetime achievement award, two years after he was first invited to collect the honour before being promptly arrested on a 30-year-old charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
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2011 LA Irish Film Festival to honour Fionnula Flanagan
The US premiere of Dreaming The Quiet Man and The Swell Season are among the line-up at the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival, set to run from Sept 30-Oct 2.
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Shooting on Serafini’s The Healer earmarked for Sept 14
Isabelle Fuhrman of The Hunger Games, James Le Gros of Mildred Pierce and Joel Courtney of Super 8 are set to star in the supernatural thriller.
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New work from Ken Loach, Cedric Kahn to feature at OMDC market
The Ontario Media Development Corporation announced that 41 projects have been accepted for the sixth annual International Financing Forum (IFF), set to take place during the Toronto International Film Festival from Sept 11-12.
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Maryam Keshavarz
Writer and director Maryam Keshavarz talks about Circumstance, her directorial debut that stars newcomers Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy and Reza Sixo Safai. The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year where it won the audience award.
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Tribeca Film takes North America on Ed Burns’ Newlyweds
Tribeca Film has acquired US and Canadian rights following the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier in the year and plans a late 2011 release across multiple platforms.