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AGOSTINO FERRENTE/ GIOVANNI PIPERNO - What's Working
AGOSTINO FERRENTE/ GIOVANNI PIPERNO Project: What's WorkingScrs: Agostino Ferrente, Giovanni PipernoEstimated budget: $920,000 (Eu673,000)What's Working (working title) is a docu-drama about mothers and children, set in Naples. It will be divided into three parts, charting the years from 1999-2009. The first chapter chronicles the development stage of the project, where ...
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Telluride world premieres Pacino, Kaufman pictures
Al Pacino's second film as director Chinese Coffee and Phil Kaufman's eagerly awaited Marquis de Sade drama Quills are receiving their world premieres this weekend at the 27th annual Telluride Film Festival which unveiled its programme to attendees today. The prestigious festival, which has received personal sponsorship support this year ...
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The Chosen Ones
To see your first film become a hit is the dream of every film-maker. But the process often takes a serious toll on the directors, who have put all their effort into their project from start to finish. When all goes well, the first film wins awards at festivals, the ...
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IFP hands out $100,000 in annual artist grants
IFP, the nation's largest membership organization of independent filmmakers, named the recipients of its annual grants to individual artists at the conclusion of its 2007 Independent Film Week in downtown New York City. Cash, in-kind product donations and mentorship services were valued at more than $100,000.A grant of $10,000 was ...
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KOEN MORTIER - Killroy
KOEN MORTIERProject: Killroy Scrs: Paul Budnitz and Paul Durham, based on an idea by Koen MortierEstimated budget: $3.4m (Eu2.5m)Funds in place: $102,000 (Eu75,000)Killroy is the story of an apparently normal man ('uninspiring and dreary,' says director Koen Mortier) who has terrible nightmares in which he is a killer. The moment ...
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LEO RICCIARDI - The Exodus
LEO RICCIARDIProject: The ExodusScr: Leo RicciardiEstimated budget: $3.4m (Eu2.5m) Funds in place: $1.2m (Eu900,000)Part thriller, part family drama, Leo Ricciardi's The Exodus is set ina deserted Russian town called Krust which was cursed 20 years ago,forcing its inhabitants to flee. Argentina-born Ricciardi says he is fascinated by Russia. 'It's one ...
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MARK MAHON - Freedom Within The Heart
MARK MAHONProject: 5Scr: Mark MahonEstimated budget: $27.3m (Eu20m)Funds in place: $6.8m (Eu5m) Freedom Within The Heart won the best unproduced screenplay award at the International Action on Film Awards in 2005, and has since been turned into a graphic novel. The project is an ambitious one. The script is set ...
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San Sebastian cherrypicks festival favourites
Making the most of its slot near the tail end of the annual festival calendar, the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27) has cherry-picked another top-notch selection of films from other A-list events for its Festivals' Top sidebar showcase, part of the Zabaltegi section.The current ten titles - plus ...
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Placid Lake makes ripples in Oz
Tony McNamara's The Rage In Placid Lake is gathering critical plaudits in Australia.The Australian film was the most popular feature at the recently wrapped 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and its script has just won both the adapted feature film category and the top prize at the Australian Writers ...
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Euro directors lined-up for EFP Toronto panel
European Film Promotion is to present a European directors panel at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.Titled 'Cinema in the 'new' Europe: Does European filmmaking have a renewed creative edge and sense of purpose'', panellists include France's Solveig Anspach, Spain's Cesc Gay, Austria's Ruth Mader, and the UK's Peter ...
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Disney dissolves Indian joint venture
The Walt Disney Company and Modi Enterprises Ltd have dissolved their joint venture company, Walt Disney India Pvt Ltd. Disney is now seeking the Indian government's permission to set up a wholly owned subsidiary for the launch of the Disney Channel in India. The move comes after the expiry ...
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Venus outshines Joan at Cesars
With eight nominations each, Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc and Patrice Leconte's The Girl On The Bridge (La Fille Sur Le Pont) may have been the hottest contenders for the Cesar awards - France's equivalent of the Academy Awards - but it was a smaller ...
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Euro video market booms to Euros11.2bn value
The European video market grew last year by 27% to a retail value of Euros11.2bn according to trade body, the International Video Federation (IVF).The figures are a significant increase on the IVF's preliminary estimate of 15% expansion. The new figures also show an acceleration when compared with 2001, which registered ...
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Vivendi muddles its way past auction deadline
The sale of Vivendi Universal Entertainment, the company which ownsUniversal Studios, has become so confusing that the world's major businesspapers cannot agree who is left in the auction - even after this week's finaldeadline. The New York Times reportstwo companies still standing, TheFinancial Times says three on one page, four ...
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Eagle is top in Italy with New Line's Final Destination 2
New Line'shorror-thriller Final Destination 2 opened number one in Italy through Eagle Pictures at the weekend,grossing $524,377 from 248 screens.The sequelscored a per-screen average of $2,114 and now has an international runningtotal of $39.4m, compared to the original's $59.2m.When Final Destination opened in Italy in Aug 2000 it took$526,231 from ...
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Publicity veteran Teri Kane joins Rogers & Cowan in New York
Teri Kane has joined Rogers& Cowan as executive vice president of the US entertainment publicrelations and marketing agency's film & digital entertainment group.Based in New York, Kane willbe responsible for the development and implementation of creative mediastrategies for the agency's domestic motion picture business. She takesover from Jeanne Berney who ...
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UK strong, Brown Bunny Redux at Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has unveiled its complete line-up, which includes a raft of worldpremieres from film-makers as diverse as Richard Linklater, Jacques Rivette andMike Hodges in addition to those already announced from Robert Altman, JaneCampion and Carl Franklin.And North American audiencesare in for their first viewing of Vincent Gallo's ...
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Spinotti gets Palm Springs retrospective in Nov
Dante Spinotti,the veteran cinematographer who earned two Oscar nominations for The Insider and LA Confidential, is to be the subject of a retrospectivein Palms Springs, California, from Nov 1-2.The two-daystand-alone event features screenings, on-stage discussions, a masterclass bySpinotti and a keynote speech by the acclaimed cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs.The Art OfCinematography: ...
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Deauville rounds out festival line-up
Along with the list of competition films announced on August 19, France's Deauville Festival of American Film (Sept 5-14) has unveiled its premieres and special sections.American films which will have their French premieres out of competition include American Wedding with stars Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs set to attend; Woody ...
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Arthouse films benefit from Edinburgh exposure
Speaking at last year's Edinburgh premiere of All Or Nothing, Mike Leigh declared that he could think of no better event in Britain to launch a new film. His words might yet come to be seen as the guiding ethos of this year's Festival where Jim Sheridan's warm-hearted family drama ...