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NewsOstlund's Play wins Nordic Council Film Prize
Ruben Ostlund and producer Erik Hemmendorff will receive the $61,000 award.
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NewsHalflife by Al Smith wins inaugural Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize
Al Smith has won the first ever Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize for Halflife, a coming-of-age love story about two brain-damaged teenagers on a road trip.
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NewsDogwoof to spin Ballroom Dancer in UK
Dogwoof picks up Raindance and Tribeca winner by directors Andreas Koefoed and Christian Bonke.
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NewsBeardsall and Minghella's Island Pictures goes on road trip with Kirk Jones
Island Pictures, the new London-based film and TV production company set up by Sarah Beardsall and Dominic Minghella, will partner with director Kirk Jones on Are We Nearly There Yet?.
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NewsFilm4 launches new iPad app
Information available on 500+ films from the company’s 30-year history.
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NewsTom Waller plans Thai executioner biopic
Thailand-based filmmaker Tom Waller will direct the story of Thailand’s last prison executioner, Chavoret Jaruboon in feature film Chavoret: The Last Executioner.
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FeaturesScreen Marketing & Distribution Awards 2012
Photos from the third Screen UK Marketing & Distribution Awards, held at The Grange St Paul’s Hotel on Oct 4.
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NewsAbu Dhabi Media Summit: Media growth seen in region
Al Mubarak says 3000 new jobs in media sector have been created in last four years.
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NewsAbu Dhabi Media Summit: WME's Emanuel says now is 'greatest time' for content creators
Ari Emanuel says range of distribution options opens up more money for content creators. He says Silicon Valley is now taking steps to work more closely with Hollywood, and Madison Avenue also needs to come into the mix.
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NewsAbu Dhabi Media Summit: Bill Gates says media can be 'conscience of the world'
Bill Gates discusses the media’s role in eradicating poverty and disease, Microsoft as a platform for the creation and distribution of filmed entertainment, his “friend” and “competitor” Steve Jobs, and says he won’t be running for president any time soon.
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NewsMIPCOM: Harvey Weinstein launches World Dance Awards
Weinstein was joined by Michael Flatley in making the announcement and said the event would be in the vein of the Grammy Awards and would take place around April or May.
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Screen Gems closes deal to enter Black City
The studio is out to screenwriters to adapt Elizabeth Richards’ upcoming Romeo and Juliet-style young-adult fantasy series.
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NewsDistribution round-up: Drafthouse takes Pietà
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk’s South Korean Oscar foreign language submission and recent winner of the Venice Golden Lion. IFC Midnight has picked up North American rights to sci-fi thriller Crawlspace.
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AFM organisers announce second annual conference series
The events comprise a range of conferences scheduled to run from Nov 2-6 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.
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Animation Mentor to host two-day seminar
The online animation school “founded by animators for animators” announced the sessions on Tuesday (9) in partnership with Autodesk.
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NewsMarion Cotillard to receive Gotham career tribute
The French star of Rust And Bone (pictured) will collect the honour at the 22nd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Nov 26.
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NewsMIPCOM: Harvey Weinstein talks TV
Upcoming TWC television productions include big budget Marco Polo, reality show Supermarket Superstar hosted by Stacey Keibler and Seal Team Six: The Raid On Osama Bin Laden.
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NewsMIPCOM CREATIVE TALKS: Jane Campion on Top Of The Lake
Haunting six-part detective mystery set in remote part of southern New Zealand due to hit screens later this year and early 2013.
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DEG: UltraViolet to launch in Canada
Sony, Universal and Warner Bros are scheduled to release titles in the fourth quarter after home entertainment advocacy group The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) announced on Tuesday (9) the format would follow the US and the UK.