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NewsDanish director Boe starts shooting fourth feature
Danish director Christoffer Boe has begun shooting his fourth feature, which has the working title Everything Will Be Fine (Alting Bliver Godt Igen).
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NewsTIFF gets C$6m federal grant to promote Toronto
The Toronto International Film Festival will receive a two-year grant of $4.9m (C$6m) from the Canadian government to promote Toronto to the world.
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Jennifer Baichwal to direct documentary on Atwood’s Payback
Jennifer Baichwal is to direct a feature documentary based on novelist Margaret Atwood’sPayback: Debt And The Shadow Side Of Wealth, a non-fiction treatise on the notion of debt.
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Tribeca Sloan Fund gives $170,000 to five feature projects
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) Sloan Filmmaker Fund has given a total of $170,000 to five film projects that integrate science into cinema.
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NewsTribeca All Access wraps after 430 meetings, $55,000 in prizes
Tribeca All Access, the year-round diversity initiative of the Tribeca Film Institute, handed out a total of $55,000 in cash prizes with its awards last night in New York.
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How does the UKFC spend its money?
The UKFC has an annual budget of just over £60m, with around 46% coming from lottery funds, 40% from government support through grants, and the remainder from investments and other sources.
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Focus and Universal Pictures strike deal with UFA Cinema
Focus Features International (FFI) and Universal Pictures International (UPI) have formed a distributionand co-financing partnership with German film production and distribution operationUFA Cinema(UFA).
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Domenico Procacci announces film on 2001 G8 violence
Domenico Procacci, the founder of independent production company Fandango, has announced anew project called Diaz. It will be based on the police raids at Diaz School during the anti-globalisation protests at the G8 summit in Genoa 2001.
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Imprint dials up Mirovision for US remake of Phone
Seoul-based sales agent Mirovision has announced that it is teaming with LA-based Imprint Entertainment to co-produce a US remake of Ahn Byung-ki’s Korean horror film Phone.The film clocked up 2.2 million admissions on its local release in 2002 after a world premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan).Mirovision ...
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Hollywood is a 'cornerstone in America's creative economy' says MPAA
Hollywoodis a “cornerstone in America’s creative economy”, according to Dan Glickman, chairmanand chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America.
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NewsSwedish director Runge jumps from Simon And The Oaks
Swedish award-winning director Björn Runge has walked out on the $5m (SEK 45m) production of Simon And The Oaks (Simon Och Ekarna), claiming the film’s producers were limiting his freedom.
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In the Loop among 20 titles to get UKFC distribution support
British films In the Loop and Is Anybody There? received Prints and Advertising funding from the UKFilm Council.
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The Swedish Film Institute backs local productions
The Swedish Film Institute is backing Johan Brisinger’s upcoming feature Among Us (Änglavakt) with$1m (SEK 8m). Michael Nyqvist, star of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has already signed up to playthe lead.
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NewsGreeneStreet secures four-year credit facility through CIT Group
New York-based GreeneStreet Films has arranged a four-year secured revolving credit facility with bank holding company CIT Group Inc.
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GFI announces winter grant recipients
The Global Film Initiative has chosen seven film-makers from a pool of 66 candidates from 33 countries to receive production funding during the winter 2009 granting cycle.
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NewsFilm In Serbia launches at California's Locations Trade Show
A consortium of more than 20 Serbian production companies backed by the USAID Serbia Competitiveness Project announced the conception of Film In Serbia at the Locations Trade Show in Santa Monica over the weekend.
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Europe embraces 3D, but will it pay off?
The Cannes film festival’s surprise choice of Pixar’s Up as its opening film this May sends a symbolic message. By embracing a 3D film, the world’s most prestigious film festival is underlining the point that 3D is now not only part of the mainstream but that it is respected by ...
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Film London pushes locations to review costs
Film London has started talks with the city’s locations and boroughs as part of a move to make the capital cheaper and more accessible to productions.
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Italian Film Commission presents new tax credit in LA
The Italian Film Commission is presenting the country’s first film incentive at a meeting in Los Angelestoday (April 16). It will be held at Shutters in Santa Monica this evening.
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Eduardo Campoy named interim president of Spanish Film Academy
Leading film producer Eduardo Campoy has been named as the interim president of the Spanish FilmAcademy following the appointment of former chief, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, as minister of culture.