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Pusan Promotion Plan bites for Mushroom Watermelon
The Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) project market closed today (Oct 13) with top Pusan Award of $20,000 going to Ogigami Naoko’s Mushroom Watermelon.
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Hubert Bals Fund backs 24 new projects
The International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund has announced its latest round of funding, giving grants to 24 film projects from 13 African, Asian or Latin American countries.
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NewsJeremy Thomas to give keynote at London Production Finance Market
Oscar-winning British producer Jeremy Thomas will give the keynote address at the fourth Film London Production Finance Market (Oct 20-21).
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NewsChannel 4 boosts Film4 budget by 50% to £15m per year
Channel 4 has announced that it will boost Film4’s budget to $23.8m (£15m) per year for the next five years.
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NewsMelbourne festival backs five films including a Patrick remake
MIFF Premiere Fund backs five new projects.
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New Zealand Film Commission backs new feature from Samoa
Writer/director Tauti Tusi Tamasese’s The Orator, billed as a story about a small man with a big heart who must find the strength to speak up for those that he loves, starts six weeks of principal photography on Oct 27.
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Norwegian fund to back non-Western films
Backed by the Norwegian Foreign and Culture Ministries, Films from the South (Film fra Sør) – Oslo’s international film festival, which has since 1991 presented an annual programme of 100 features and documentaries from Asia, Africa and Latin America – has set up a fund to support film production in ...
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NewsSouth Africa's film rebate cap is doubled
South Africa’s two-tier Department of Trade and Industry rebate system for filmmakers has received a major boost with the approval last week of proposals to extend the “cap” for the system.
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NewsScreen Film Summit to offer Vaizey speech online
Ed Vaizey’s speech at the Screen International Film Summit 2010 will be streamed on ScreenDaily.com later that day (Oct 13).
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ThinkFilm, Capitol declared bankrupt by US judge
ThinkFilm and Capitol Films Development, two of the companies in financier David Bergstein’s troubled film empire, have been effectively pushed into bankruptcy by a US Federal judge.
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NewsAsian projects take the lead for Australia financing market
Two of the seven Australian projects chosen for the financing market held in mid-November during the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia are substantially or wholly set outside Australia.
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Some UK producers question Freeway fee
Freeway maintains that it has received mostly positive feedback from clients.
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Seven projects chosen for CentEast Market
The 6th CentEast Market will feature seven selected projects from Central and Eastern Europe.
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Uncle Boonmee German co-producer backed by new regional film fund
Hans W. Geissendoerfer, one of the co-producers of this year’s Golden Palm winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, has become one of the first film producers to benefit from a new regional fund based in South Tyrol.
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Beijing's LeTV receives 15m loan from Bank of Hangzhou for film investment
China’s Bank of Hangzhou announced $14.73m (RMB100m) loan to Beijing-based film investment and production firm LeTV Pictures on the company’s film investment projects in the coming year.
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NewsHong Kong’s OSGH invests in Legendary Pictures
Hong Kong’s Orange Sky Golden Harvest (OSGH) is forging a partnership with LA-based Legendary Pictures to work on film and media ventures in mainland China.
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NewsKing, Schlessel, Berney unveil FilmDistrict
Following months of speculation, GK Films’ Graham King and Tim Headington have unveiled a new distribution, production and financing company FilmDistrict in association with GK Films president Peter Schlessel and new president of theatrical distribution Bob Berney.
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FeaturesKazakhstan steps up as international co-producer
Located at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, Kazakhstan is in the right geographical spot to become an international co-producer, and now with a burgeoning local film industry, it’s developing the talent and the financing power too.
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Ukranian government's new laws to boost film industry
New laws, scheduled to come into effect in Ukraine from Jan 1, are expected to help to provide the recovery of the country’s film industry, which has been in decline since the collapse of the USSR.
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Swiss national fund backs five international co-productions
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture (BAK) has awarded over $2.6m (CHF 2.5m) to five international co-productions in the latest round of funding from its film section.