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Chong's The Fourth Portrait takes three major prizes at Taipei Film Awards
The 12th Taipei Film Festival closed on Saturday with documentary Let The Wind Carry Me by Chiang Hsiu-chiung and Kwan Pun-leung taking the grand prize of Taipei Awards, the top award of the festival.
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Sarajevo jurors to include Cristi Puiu, Christine Vachon
Sarajevo Film Festival has announced its feature, documentary and short film competition juries.
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NewsEclipse rules overseas as $81m sinks tough competition
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse reigned supreme over a spectacular international weekend thanks to an estimated $81.1m fuelled by number one launches in the UK, France and South Korea.
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FeaturesProfile: Vertigo Films
The success of StreetDance 3D has given UK producer-distributor Vertigo Films ambitions for larger-scale films. Wendy Mitchelltalks to Rupert Preston and James Richardson.
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Andreas Wiseman joins Screen as reporter
Andreas Wiseman has joined Screen International as a reporter. Wiseman has worked on a freelance basis at Screen International since 2009.
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NewsFilm4 to kick off Somerset House series with Knight and Day
Film4’s programme of open-air screenings at London’s Somerset House will kick off with summer blockbuster Knight and Day.
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Tech institute works with Sheffield for shorts competition
The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) has teamed up with Sheffield Doc/Fest to launch a short film competition which aims to explore the effects of information technology in the UK.
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BFI to start building new Archive storage facility in autumn
Work is finally set to begin in the autumn on the building of the British Film Institute’s new £12 million National Film Archive “sub-zero storage facility.” The aim is to have the new facility, housed at Gaydon in Warwickshire, by early 2012.
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Babelgum strikes deal with Cox, Sundberg for Bengali Detective
Online and mobile platform Babelgum and UK production outfit Native Voice Films have struck a deal for online, mobile, broadcast and feature platform release of a new fly-on-the-wall documentary series set in India, The Bengali Detective.
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NewsJan Vrijman Fund backs 23 projects from developing countries
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam’s Jan Vrijman Fund latest funding round was decided last week, backing 23 documentary projects from developing countries.
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Ledesma to start The Tunnel shoot in Sydney this month
Shooting is due to commence at the end of this month on Carlo Ledesma’s feature debut, The Tunnel, a Sydney based underground thriller which will be distributed for free via internet networks.
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NewsRoman Polanksi 'a free man' after Swiss reject US extradition request
Swiss authorities have announced that they will not extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States.
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CommentInside Sundance Labs
Sydney Freeland reveals what it’s really like to attend the Sundance Directors Lab, and to learn to be more spontaneous on set.
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NewsPeccadillo takes Loose Cannons for UK
Peccadillo Pictures has acquired the UK and Irish rights to Ferzan Ozpetek’s Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti).
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IMAX signs deal with Japan's United Cinemas for up to five theatres
IMAX Corporation and United Cinemas have announced a joint venture agreement to instal up to five digital IMAX theatre systems in Japan.
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Sundance Selects adds Colin Fitz Lives! to VOD pipeline
VOD platform Sundance Selects has acquired rights to Robert Bella’s dark comedy Colin Fitz Lives!
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NewsWasted on the Young to go out through Paramount in Australia
Paramount Pictures has finally announced that it will be releasing Sydney Film Festival competition title Wasted On The Young, directed by Ben C Lucas, in its home market of Australia.
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NewsUK box office: Eclipse has biggest UK opening of 2010
E1 Films’ release of the third instalment in the Twilght Saga eclipsed all rivals at the UK box office in its debut weekend.
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NewsIrish Film Board to seek new head as Simon Perry's tenure ends
The Irish FIlm Board has announced that it will be searching for a new Chief Executive to run the organisation from January 2011.
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FeaturesHow small screen success translates to the big screen
Films adapted from or inspired by television series have been around nearly as long as TV sets ― but there is no guarantee that success on the small screen will transfer to the international box office. Leonard Klady reports