All Screen articles in February 24 2017 – Page 59
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NewsBFI Flare to close with erotic thriller ‘Night Stage’
The festival also announced “Dreams In Nightmares’ as a special presentation.
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NewsEdinburgh Filmhouse appoints Andrew Simpson as executive director
Andrew Simpson joins from Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle.
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FeaturesAdam Elliot on taking eight years to make ‘Memoir Of A Snail’ and telling Australian stories
Australia’s Adam Elliot continues his celebration of heroic misfits with stop-motion tragicomedy Memoir Of A Snail. Screen talks to the Oscar-nominated filmmaker.
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News‘Another Simple Favor’ starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively named SXSW opening night premiere
Fest runs March March 7–15. Previously announced Opening Night TV Premiere is The Studio.
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NewsDirector Jerome Salle and Federation Studios team for film and TV production venture Syzygy
First project is the English-language thriller series ’Okavango’.
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NewsCPH:DOX launches human rights initiative and film programme with art institution
Human:Rights aims to communicate the topic of human rights through lived experiences.
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FeaturesIn profile: the 2025 Bafta Film Awards shorts contenders
The diverse films competing in Bafta’s two shorts categories encompass body horror, the Ukraine war, bull-jumping, distressed pets and personal filmmaker excavations.
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NewsReason8 acquires post-apocalyptic New Zealand horror ‘Forgive Us All’ (exclusive)
An Australia-NZ theatrical release is planned for the second quarter of 2025 through Rialto Distribution.
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Reviews‘Perla’: Rotterdam Review
A Slovak woman’s new life in 1980s Vienna is threatened by secrets from her past
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FeaturesAwards Whispers: voters discuss the Oscar and Bafta nominations – “a lot of the movies don’t feel as Oscar-baity”
“A category rather than film gripe: do we really need 10 options for outstanding British film?”
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NewsItaly’s PiperFilm to sell Eagle Pictures films including hit ‘The Boy With The Pink Trousers’ (exclusive)
Leading Italian companies strike partnership agreement that will also see Eagle handle home video releases of PiperFilm’s movies.
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NewsPathé International adds musical comedy drama ‘Bye Bye’ to EFM slate (exclusive)
Amelie Bonnin’s debut feature stars popular French singer and actress Juliette Armanet.
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NewsUK film and TV industry at risk of worker “exodus” due to mental health crisis, according to charity
Production downturn and lack of support have been cited as contributing to poor mental health.
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NewsFour talking points from Sundance 2025
Low deal count, genuine discoveries, talk of 2027 and beyond.
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NewsJuliette Binoche named 2025 Cannes jury president
French star won best actress on the Croisette in 2010 for Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy.
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NewsKorean thriller ‘A Girl With Closed Eyes’ lands sales ahead of EFM premiere
The feature stars Minha Kim from Apple TV+ series ‘Pachinko’.
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NewsLuminescence EFM-bound with sales rights to Animotion Media Group’s Finnick 2’ (exclusive)
Adventure is follow-up to 2022 original.
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News‘Ne Zha 2’, ‘Detective Chinatown 1900’ takes China box office to $1.1bn over Lunar New Year
The animated sequel and a ’Detective Chinatown’ prequel helped break the single-day record at the box office.
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NewsJames Norton, Cosmo Jarvis join Guy Ritchie’s ‘Wife & Dog’ as filming begins in the UK for Black Bear
Paddy Considine and Pip Torrens have also joined the cast for Black Bear.
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NewsUpgrade to launch sales on Australian horror thriller ‘Penny Lane Is Dead’ at EFM (exclusive)
Production on Sanctuary Pictures project scheduled to begin in second quarter of the year.