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Iran - Need to know - Names in the frame
Business playersAmir Esfandiari, market directorEsfandiari began his government career as head of Farabi's co-production department and by the mid-1990s was head of international affairs, setting up the Fajr International Film Festival market in 1997. The key government figure charged with taking Iranian cinema abroad.Contact: Farabi, fcf1@dpi.net.irMohammad Attebai, producer, distributorAttebai, who ...
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In Focus - The Oscar nominations in full
Best PictureBabelThe DepartedLetters From Iwo JimaLittle Miss SunshineThe QueenBest DirectorAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, BabelClint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Paul Greengrass, United 93Stephen Frears, The QueenMartin Scorsese, The DepartedBest ActorLeonardo DiCaprio, Blood DiamondRyan Gosling, Half NelsonPeter O'Toole, VenusWill Smith, The Pursuit Of HappynessForest Whitaker, The Last King Of ScotlandBest ActressPenelope Cruz, ...
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Intrepid explorers
Intrepid Pictures makes "the kind of movies we grew up on and that we still go see," says co-founder Marc Evans. Examples include the company's thriller remake The Hitcher, which opened wide in the US last weekend, and Neil Marshall's sci-fi thriller Doomsday, currently shooting in the UK and South ...
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Screen Yorkshire staff expands by four
UK regional screen agency Screen Yorkshire has made four new appointments. Neil Preston has joined as finance director, Tony Parker as head of industry development, Andrew Craske as head of communications, and Joan Whale as project monitoring manager.
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Editorial - Screen says Trend of an era
By far the most enjoyable anomaly in the Oscars nominations is the one for adapted screenplay for the improvised Borat. Twentieth Century Fox's publicity for the film hailed "a new form of film-making for an age in which reality and entertainment have become increasingly intertwined".Perhaps here is the future of ...
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Dunn promotion at Tartan Video
Tartan Video label manager Sam Dunn has been promoted to deputy managing director.
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Fortissimo promotes Driessen and Mackey
Sales company Fortissimo Films has announced that Nelleke Driessen has been promoted to managing director, based at its head office in Amsterdam. She had been the co-managing director since 2004. Also, Nicole Mackey is promoted to executive vice-president international sales, and managing director of Fortissimo UK. She had been senior ...
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Until Doomsday: the Intrepid Pictures slate
Balls Of Fury: Action comedy set in the world of clandestine ping-pong tournaments. Directed by Robert Ben Garant, starring Dan Fogler, George Lopez, Maggie Q and Christopher Walken. Completed. US release April 27.Strangers: Horror thriller about a young couple terrorised by unknown assailants. Directed by Bryan Bertino, starring Liv Tyler ...
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Iran - International development
Iranian auteurs have been collaborating with French producers since the 1990s: Abbas Kiarostami with CiBy 2000 on 1994's Through The Olive Trees, for example, and Mohsen Makhmalbaf with MK2 on Gabbeh in 1996.Amir Esfandiari, head of international affairs for Farabi, notes that there has been a rise in co-productions over ...
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Cervantes Vs Shakespeare
Miguel & William, a period romantic comedy that pits literary giants Cervantes and Shakespeare against each other, represents many firsts for writer-director Ines Paris.After more than a decade writing and directing television sitcoms and two successful Spanish-language romantic comedies, co-directed with Daniela Fejerman, Miguel & William is Paris' first solo ...
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Capturing the moment
As a London-based photographer, Sean Ellis worked with some of the biggest names in showbusiness, including Elton John, Kylie Minogue and Takeshi Kitano. But his future became clearer when he collaborated with David Lynch on a series of fashion photos. "I was a fashion photographer who was a frustrated film ...
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Bateman heads Rushes Soho Shorts festival
Joe Bateman has joined Rushes Soho Shorts Festival as festival director, effective February 19.
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BackUp bonanza
French financing specialist BackUp Films is celebrating its fifth anniversary in style at Sundance, where its first English-language film, Zoe Cassavetes' Broken English, is playing in dramatic competition.A uniquely European outfit, BackUp structures projects and puts together financing packages for creative producers. While this approach to business is well known ...
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In Focus - Reach out to audiences
We produce more movies to play to audiences than ever before. The way we reach this audience may be changing, but we still need to have consumers for our films or the equation doesn't work."Richard Fox, vice-president, international, at Warner Bros, was articulating the obvious but all too often forgotten ...
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Selling Spanish main attraction
The 2.2% year-on-year drop in Spanish box office for 2006 has split opinion about cinema's health. Admissions were down to 124 million, from 126 million, while ticket sales rose slightly to $839m (EUR648m) thanks to higher prices.According to Nielsen EDI, which compiled the figures, it was a reasonably strong year. ...
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Free agent
US president George W Bush may not seem to be furthering the cause of independent political cinema, but according to Philippe Diaz, the French producer and director who heads US production, post-production, distribution and international sales operation Cinema Libre Studio, his election in 2000 gave political film-making a shot in ...
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In Focus - Academy awards and the nominees are..
The nominations for the 79th Academy Awards see Dreamgirls leading the race. But the hit musical has been shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also received three nominations for best song, meaning that it can only win five Oscars at most.Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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Stephens heads K5 sales
Bill Stephens will handle sales and marketing for new sales company K5 International, formed with K5 Film of Munich. Stephens will remain in the UK. In Munich, Oliver Simon will oversee production and Daniel Baur will head business affairs. Karin Binnberg will assist in sales and marketing.
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Iran - Fajr film festival at 25
Iran supports a plethora of film festivals, culminating in the Fajr International Film Festival, which is now in its 25th year and described by Farabi managing director Alireza Rezadad as "the most important cultural event in Iran". Local audiences pack screenings of international and local films included in a range ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend January 19-21 - Crowds still flocking to Museum
Night At The Museum continues to dominate the international box office raking in $14.8m at the weekend across 4,391 screens, bringing its total to $173.8m. The family film could not be uprooted from the top spot despite a 26% decline after opening in an additional six territories. Sony's The Pursuit ...
