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  • News

    2006 BAFTA award winners

    2006-11-21T17:07:00Z

    Best FilmBrokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana/James Schamus)Alexander Korda Award For Best British FilmWallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Peter Lord/David Sproxton/Nick Park/ Steve Box/Mark Burton/Bob Baker)Carl Foreman Award For First Film Joe Wright (Director,Pride & Prejudice)David Lean Award For Best DirectorBrokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)Best Original ScreenplayCrash (Paul Haggis/Bobby ...

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    Focus on 2006 craft awards

    2006-11-23T13:08:00Z

    Surveying the patterns that Academy voters follow when choosing the craft awards, Screen selects the likely contenders for this year's categories in production design, cinematography, costume design, editing, music and visual effects. 2006 once again delivered a wide array of epic period and fantasy films which are set to dominate ...

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    Turin gives top prize to Honor de Cavalleria

    2006-11-23T13:30:00Z

    Spanish director Albert Serra's Honor de Cavalleria took best film honors at the 24th edition of the Turin Film Festival which wrapped Saturday in the Northern Italian town.Cavalleria was awarded the $26,000 (Euros 20,500) Lancia Prize in the fest's international feature film section dedicated to the discovery of new filmmakers. ...

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    Beauty In Trouble takes Denver's Kieslowski Award

    2006-11-23T13:35:00Z

    Jan Hrebejk's Beauty In Trouble was the winner of this year's Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for best feature film at the Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF).For the first time this year, Screen International partnered with SDFF to present the Kieslowski award, a juried award given to a feature film which reflects ...

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    Kenny takes top film prize at IF Awards

    2006-11-23T13:41:00Z

    Hit comedy Kenny took home four Inside Film Awards, including best film and best script, while Ten Canoes and Suburban Mayhem took home three each. Ten Canoes, the first Australian feature to be made entirely in the indigenous language, earned Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr best director, and Crusoe ...

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    ASC to award International Achievement Award to Michael Ballhaus

    2006-11-23T14:22:00Z

    Michael Ballhaus will receive the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) International Achievement Award for 'the artful and enduring contributions that he has made to advancing the global art of film-making.'Ballhaus will collect the honour at the 21st Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Feb 18, 2007.Ballhaus ...

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    Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race

    2006-10-23T14:35:00Z

    The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race to ...

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    Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race

    2006-11-23T14:35:00Z

    The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race to ...

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    Mexico's IMCINE gives Spanish KWA first-look

    2001-08-22T12:28:00Z

    Madrid-based sales house KWA has signed a first-look deal on all forthcoming productions out of Mexican national film institute IMCINE. KWA will also handle worldwide rights on two recent IMCINE films, Streeters (De La Calle) and Violet Perfume (Perfume De Violetas), both of which made waves as top prize winners ...

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    Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race

    2006-11-23T12:00:00Z

    The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race to ...

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    Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race

    2006-11-23T14:39:00Z

    The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk. Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race ...

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    BAFTA launches public short competition

    2006-11-23T14:42:00Z

    The British Academy of Film & Television Arts ( BAFTA ) has launched a new short film competition, 60 Seconds of Fame, in association with Orange and supported by BBC Nations and Regions and the UK’s regional screen agencies.

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    Wallace And Gromit add to BAFTA honours

    2006-11-27T09:41:00Z

    Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit was named as best film at the British Academy Children’s Film and Television Awards.

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    Korean film picks up Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki

    2006-11-27T09:45:00Z

    Korean Kim Tae-yong's second film Family Ties (Gajokeui Tansaeng) won the Golden Alexander for best film at the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the $48,000 (37,000 Euros) cash prize.The film was chosen from 14 first or second film titles by a seven-strong jury, led by US independent producer Christine ...

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    Heaven wins grand prize at Tokyo Filmex

    2006-11-27T09:46:00Z

    Djamshed Usmonov's To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die was awarded the Grand Prize at the conclusion of the 7th Tokyo Filmex film festival (Nov 17-26). The award carried a cash prize of $8,640 (Y1m). The ceremony was followed by a screening of Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want ...

  • Reviews

    Delbaran

    2001-08-22T17:47:00Z

    Dir: Abolfazl Jailili. Iran/Japan 2001. 96mins Socially poignant and often visually poetic, Delbaran, the new Iranian film from the gifted helmer Abolfazl Jailili, was one of Locarno Festival's few undisputed artistic highlights. Continuing the tradition of recent Iranian films about children, the story centres on a 14-year-old Afghan refugee, caught ...

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    Rotterdam names first three competition titles

    2006-11-27T11:10:00Z

    The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced the first three films in its VPRO Tiger Awards competition. They are How Is Your Fish Today' by Xiaolu Gao (China/UK), Love Conquers All by Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia) and Ex-drummer by Koen Mortier (Belgium). The competition jury will include Summer Palace director ...

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    Exile , Love share top honours at Golden Horse Awards

    2006-11-27T11:14:00Z

    Aaron Kwok secured best actor for the second consecutive year at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards in Taipei on Saturday night for his role in Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile. The film also took best film and best supporting actor for child star Goum Ian Iskandar. Jackie Chan had ...

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    Dragon Fruit wins top prize at Taiwan projects market

    2006-11-27T11:17:00Z

    Ivan C. Shih's ambitious 3D animation fantasy project The Adventures Of Dragon Fruit took the main prize at the second Taiwan Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) event in Taipei yesterday. The presentations were a major component of the 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital Contents Exhibition, held Nov ...

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    Dragon Fruit wins top prize at Taiwan projects market

    2006-11-27T12:06:00Z

    Ivan C. Shih's ambitious 3D animation fantasy project The Adventures Of Dragon Fruit took the main prize at the second Taiwan Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) event in Taipei. The presentations were a major component of the 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital Contents Exhibition, held Nov 23-25.The ...