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UK skills fund tops£2m
The Skills Investment Fund, the UK fund for training made up of contributions from local productions, has topped £2 million.Dan Films' The Republic Of Love became the 149th feature to contribute to the fund, which was launched at the end of 1999 to address skills gaps and shortages within the ...
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Fandango
Dir: Matthias Glasner. Germany. 2000. 103mins.Prod co: Calypso Filmproduktion, Buena Vista International Filmproduktion (Germany). Int'l sales: Bavaria Film International (49 89 6499 3506). Prod: Werner Possardt. Scr: Glasner. DoP: Sonja Rom. Prod des: Ingrid Buron. Ed: Markus Goller. Mus: Fetisch/meister. Main cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Nicolette Krebitz, Richy Muller, Corinna Harfouch, ...
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Marrakesh
The Marrakesh International Film Festival will run from October 3 to 8 this year with German director Volker Schlondorff presiding over the feature film jury. Jeremy Irons will head up the short film jury.This is the third go round for Marrakesh which has been gaining momentum throughout its run. Very ...
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Calendar Girls to open Dinard
Calendar Girls, Nigel Cole's British film that has been garnering plaudits since it premiered in Locarno last month, is to open the 14th Festival Du Film Britannique de Dinard(October 2-5)The film, which stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, will kick-off the festival which is sponsored by the British Film Council ...
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Marrakech announces line up
Takeshi Kitano Zatoochi, Mira Nair's Hysterical Blindness, Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent and Gotam Ghose's In The Forest'Again are among the films competing for the Golden Star (Etoile d'Or) at this year's Marrakech Film Festival (October 3-8).German director Volker Schloendorff (The Handmaiden's Tale, War And Peace) will led the feature ...
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You Don't Have To Say You Love starts shooting
UK production outfit Samuelson Productions, tax-driven First Choice Films, distributor Momentum Pictures and tax-based financier Isle of Man Film are starting shooting on comedy drama You Don't Have To Say You Love Me this week.The story of a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility ...
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Venice festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice festival sees Return to form
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger.It would ...
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India's In The Forest heads for the trees
In surprise turn of events, Venice artistic director Moritz de Hadlen has withdrawn Indian film In The Forest...Again (Abar Arannye) from the Upstream competition two days before the end of the festival - because the title has just screened at the rival Montreal Film Festival.According to Venice's regulations, any film ...
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Venice 2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Love Me
Dir: Laetitia Masson. France. 1999. 105mins.Prod co: Lilo Films. Int'l sales: Flach Pyramide International (33 1 42 96 02 20). Prod: Alain Sarde. Exec prod: Nicolas Daguet. Co-prod: Christine Gozlan. Scr: Masson. DoP: Antoine Heberle. Prod des: Arnaud de Moleron. Ed: Ailo Auguste. Music: John Cale. Main cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, ...
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Venice festival shakes off some of its detractors
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger. Itwould ...
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Dali/Disney short among 15 selected for New York Film Festival
Salvador Dali's mythical abandoned project for Walt Disney will beamong a series of 15 international shorts to screen at the 41st New York FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 3-19.The surrealist Spanish painter never finished Destino, which finally comes to the screen afterit was completed by director Dominique Monfrey and a ...
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Macdonald, Spence reteam to run Palm Springs Film Festival
The board of the Palm Springs International Film Festival hasnamed former Seattle InternationalFilm Festival mainstays Darryl Macdonald and Carl Spence as executive directorand director of programming respectively.The appointees arrive withthe full endorsement of the festival board after a global search for a management team to raise the profile of both ...
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Dickie leads moribund week at the box office
The autumn season began with a whimper at the weekend asParamount's Dickie Roberts: Child Star opened top on $7m while Fox's The Order flopped in sixth place on $4.3m.The weekend after Labor Day is noted for its lack of sparkle. Evenso, Paramount's first chart topper since How To Lose A ...
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Germany's Boll gets film rights to video game BloodRayne
Fledgling German production company Boll KG has picked uptheatrical and merchandise rights to the popular video game BloodRayne from games developer and publisherMajesco.Executive producer and director Uwe Boll plans to begin filming in2004 with Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Pictures set to produce.The production will be in the $30m range and ...
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Kordon takes top prize at Montreal, Gaz Bar Blues second
Goran Markovic's intense drama Kordon from Serbia/Montenegro won the top prize- the Grand prix des Ameriques - at the Montreal World Film Festival on Sundaynight. Set in Belgrade in 1997, the film follows a police patrol on its roundsaround the city which is swept up in a sea of unrest ...
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Toronto means business: Miramax, Newmarket start the buying
MiramaxFilms beat out all-comers to Takeshi Kitano's Venice prize winner Zatoichi yesterday, buying rights in the US, Latin America andAustralia in Toronto over the weekend from Celluloid Dreams.Thedeal was the only festival title clinched at Toronto but two other domesticdeals were closed: Newmarket Films acquired US theatrical rights to the ...
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Polanski in Oscar rendezvous at Deauville
The Deauville Festival of American Film kicked off on Friday night under stormy skies with at least one star shining bright. Harrison Ford, who's become something of a regular in the Normandy town having presented his films here for the past twenty years, came to jump-start the festival with his ...