All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 49
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Rotterdam's CineMart sows seeds for Berlin
The Berlin International Film Festival and market may only have unfolded this week, but the mating game for development and production finance partners is already in full swing.It kicked off in earnest earlier this month at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam which staged the 17th CineMart gathering for financiers, talent ...
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Fresh talent picks up Tigers at Rotterdam
Three fledgling directors from three different international territories walked away with a VPRO Tiger Award at the close of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam on Saturday night. The winning directors were: China's Lou Ye for his Suzhou River; Argentinean Pablo Trapero's Mundo Grua (Crane World) and Katrin Ottarsdottir from ...
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Artificial Eye unveils debut productions
UK specialist distributor Artificial Eye Film Company is kickstarting its long-planned move into production with Working Up To Winter, a contemporary road movie written and to be directed by Sarah Turner. The project, set to go into production this summer, was developed with support from FilmFour Lab, the experimental wing ...
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Belgium caught in funding war
An angry war of words has broken out among Belgium's regional and national governments over the thorny issue of funding policies for the audio-visual industry.The Walloon regional government unveiled plans this week to allocate an extra BEF400m (euro10m) each year to support the development of a local audio-visual industry. The ...
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Flanders chief plans Ghent film commission
Flanders International Film Festival director Jacques Dubrulle is drawing up plans that could lead to Ghent becoming the first Belgian city to launch a film commission. Dubrulle, who was approached by the Ghent city authorities to help with the project, put Ghent on the map as home for the Flanders ...
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Soccer pic producers score in battle against BSkyB
UK film-making duo Mary McGuckian and John Lynch have succeeded in their bid to prevent satellite broadcaster BSkyB from carrying the film Best on one of its movie channels.The duo secured a court injunction against the satellite powerhouse in the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday to prevent the film from ...
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Soccer pic producers take BSkyB to court
UK film making duo Mary McGuckian and John Lynch are applying for a court injunction to prevent satellite broadcaster BSkyB from carrying the film Best on one of its movie channels.Best, starring Lynch as Irish footballing hero George Best, is due to air on satellite before it has secured a ...