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News26 YouTube contributors heading to Sundance for Life In A Day premiere
Kevin Macdonald directed the unique film drawing on 4,500 hours of footage submitted to YouTube.
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Fujifilm Motion Pictures UK expands
The company’s new, larger London branch in 17 Soho Square has become the Head Office for European operations.
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Sundance Selects acquires The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
VOD platform Sundance Selects has taken worldwide rights excluding the UK and Mexico to Zeina Durra’s political drama The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
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MPAA hires ex-Verizon executive to head technology policy
Paul Brigner has joined the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) in the newly created post of senior vice-president and chief technology policy officer.
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Eight receive Hot Docs funding support
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Shaw Media have announced the eight projects selected to receive a total of $203,000 in grants and no-interest loans.
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NewsMeyer, Schaberg team with Bold and OddLot on Sierra / Affinity
The partnership between Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg’s Sierra Pictures, Michel Litvak’s Bold Films and Gigi Pritzker’s OddLot Entertainment heralds the arrival of a major new entity on the sales circuit in the run-up to Berlin.
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NewsInception, HP7, Tron on Oscar effects shortlist
Seven films have made it on to the shortlist for the visual effects Academy Award.
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Roadside takes US to Sundance opener The Music Never Stopped
Roadside Attractions has made a preemptive buy for US theatrical rights to the Sundance opening night gala film The Music Never Stopped.
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Screen Media, XYZ strike deal on Phasma Ex Machina
Screen Media Films acquired Matt Osterman’s debut feature Phasma Ex Machina, which has been a pupular player on the festival circuit.
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Twelve Sundance shorts to screen via YouTube
Sundance Institute and YouTube will make 12 short films from the festival available in the YouTube Screening Room, running from January 6 to February 3.
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NewsSony gives Social Network renewed push to reach global $200m
Sony is re-releasing its Oscar contender in the US to ensure the Facebook drama grosses the $3m required to cross $200m worldwide.
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FeaturesDarryl Macdonald and Helen du Toit
As the 22nd Palm Springs International Film Festival gets underway, festival director Darryl Macdonald and director of programming Helen du Toit talk to Jeremy Kay about the fest’s international scope and this year’s programming trends.
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FeaturesEgypt's New Wave
A new wave of Egyptian filmmakers came under the spotlight at the recent Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) – writers and directors who are working outside Egypt’s major studios and tackling controversial subjects and themes.
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NewsHAF unveils line-up of 28 projects
Hong Kong’s Stanley Kwan and Death Note director Shusuke Kaneko from Japan are among the filmmakers who have had projects selected for this year’s edition of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).
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FeaturesAndrew Garfield -- actor, The Social Network
The Golden Globe nominee talks about the process of making The Social Network, and the creative freedom on the current shoot for Spider-Man.
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NewsRotterdam's Bright Future selections include Septien, Tyrannosaur, Artificial Paradises
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has unveiled its Bright Future programme of first and second feature films, comprised of 80 films from 38 countries.