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NewsSwedish Film Institute backs eight new features with $5.8m
Films backed include new projects from Måns Mårling & Björn Stein [pictured], Daniel Alfredson and Stig Björkman.
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NewsSlated unveils roster of strategic alliances
The online private marketplace for film financing and dealmaking has struck a slew of partnerships with companies involved in every step of the film-making process.
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NewsWoman With A Camera, Red Wedding win IDFA WorldView Award
Films awarded grant of £10,000 towards their production.
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NewsBanks' thumbs-up for Creative Europe's proposed guarantee facility
The European Commission’s proposed guarantee facility for the cultural and creative sectors within the framework of Creative Europe from 2014 has been given a resounding thumbs-up by leading representatives of the banking sector.
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NewsRolf de Heer to direct fourteenth feature
de Heer’s Charlie’s Country is one of a number of projects to receive Screen Australia backing, also including Wolf Creek 2 and Predestination.
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NewsEuropean cinema exhibitors: 'Safeguarding the cinema-going experience should be a top priority'
International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), CICAE and Europa Cinemas urge policy-makers to put cinema at centre of “new agenda for film”.
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NewsTIFFCOM unveils projects market, partners with ACE
Tokyo International Film Festival’s contents market TIFFCOM (October 23-25) has announced the participants and partners for its reworked projects market.
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NewsCreative Scotland financing new Scottish Shorts initiative
Initiative will be jointly managed by Hopscotch Films and DigiCult.
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Hyde Park Imagenation, Troika, Merced team on Careful
Hyde Park Imagenation, Troika Pictures and Merced Media Partners will finance and produce the thriller Careful What You Wish For.
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NewsBackup strikes partnership with Groupe 1
EXCLUSIVE: Film finance company Backup Films has struck up a new partnership with Daniel Marquet’s Groupe 1.
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NewsCascade strikes first look deals with Pari Passu, Culmination
UK-based finance outfit Cascade Pictures is launching with first-look deals in place with producers Jessica Parker and Jessica Malik of Pari Passu Films and Tom Butterfield and Emily Man of Culmination Productions.
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Bela Tarr: Hungarian Film Fund 'unacceptable and illegitimate'
Hungarian director [pictured] responds to confirmation that the Film Fund - run by Andy Vajna - was to take over the property of the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary.
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NewsEurimages confirms Canada and Israel in talks to join fund; Gulf countries could follow
Roberto Olla, executive director of Eurimages (The Council of Europe’s film fund) has again raised the possibility that Eurimages will become a fund “that goes beyond the geographical limit of Europe.”
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NewsToronto's IFF selects 41 features including Terence Davies' Dickinson biopic
Other projects for the OMDC International Financing Forum include Gemma Arterton thriller, Cliff Curtis’ directorial debut, Maude Lewis biopic to star Rachel McAdams and dozens more.
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FeaturesThe UK public funding boom
Are we in a golden era for public film funding? The UK is stumbling through a prolonged recession and yet the film industry has seemingly emerged largely unscathed from the ongoing cuts. Geoffrey Macnab analyses where the cash is headed.
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NewsLionsgate UK, BFI partners in £100k Games for Films competition
Competition to promote upcoming releases aimed at games developers; prizes total £100,000.
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NewsPreferred Ventures buys into digital distributor GoDigital
FreeCreditReport.com Founder and former Experian Interactive CEO Ed Ojdana and former Facebook chief privacy officer and founder of Kelly Investments Chris Kelly have acquired a majority stake in Logan Mulvey’s digital distributor.
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NewsMEDIA programme sends €14m to UK audiovisual industry in 2011, report says
Last year’s €14m included €1.5 million for the Europe-wide distribution of The Iron Lady; report comes as some politicians question sustainability of MEDIA successor Creative Europe.
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NewsUK creative leaders urged to take risks; Working Title bosses point to end of studio era
The willingness to take risks will keep Britain’s cultural industries relevant in a rapidly changing world, experts told today’s Creative Content Summit in London.