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London To Brighton wins new director's award at Edinburgh
Paul Andrew Williams won the Skillset New Directors Award for London To Brighton announced at the closing weekend of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Accepting the cash prize of £1,500, writer-director Williams admitted that the film had cost £80,000 and thanked the UK Film Council who had stepped in to ...
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Promising Romanian director killed in road crash
The Romanian film industry was in shock this weekend on hearing the news that director Cristian Nemescu, one of its most promising young filmmakers, had been killed in a traffic accident in Bucharest early on Friday morning.A graduate of the Romanian National Academy of Drama, 27-year-old Nemescu had directed several ...
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Foldes, Meyerink named heads of educational outreach at Breckenridge
The 26th annual Breckenridge Film Festival, whichtakes place Sept 7 to 10 in Breckenridge, Colorado, has appointed film-makersLawrence David Foldes and Victoria Paige Meyerink directors of the festival's new educational outreachprogramme.As part of the programme, Foldes and Meyerink will presenttwo full-day seminars during the festival entitled 'Independent Filmmaking InToday's ...
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$2.6m donated to 9/11 charities from opening gross of World Trade Center
FourSeptember 11 charities will receive $2.6m as a portion of the first five days'gross of Paramount's drama World Trade Center.Aspreviously reported, 50% of the donation will go to the World Trade CenterMemorial Foundation, which was set up to fund construction of two reflectingpools located on the site of the Twin ...
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Edmonds named to head Weinstein/Johnson co-venture
TraceyEdmonds has been appointed president of Our Stories Films, the African-Americancomedy studio announced by the Weinstein Company (TWC) and BET founder Robert LJohnson's RLJ companies in July.Edmondswill oversee studio operations and the overall vision, sourcing and shepherdingof projects from development to production. She is expected to announce a teamof executives ...
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Haas-directed Iraq thriller has world premiere at Hamptons
Theworld premiere of Philip Haas' Iraq-set thriller The Situation will open the 14th Annual Hamptons International FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 18-22.TheSituation centres on an Americanjournalist covering the conflict in Iraq whose life becomes endangered aftershe gets personally involved in a story. Connie Nielsen and Damian Lewis star.ShadowDistribution will release ...
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Mulroney joins Shues in Picturehouse drama Gracie
DermotMulroney has joined Elisabeth Shue, Carly Schroeder and Andrew Shue on the castof Gracie, which begins shooting in NewJersey this week.Shue'spartner Davis Guggenheim is directing the drama based on a tragedy thataffected the Shue family and inspired a teenage girl to fight for the right forgirls to play competitive football.AndrewShue, ...
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Little Crumb director to adapt Pete, The Rascal
Dutch writer-director Maria Peters, whose credits include the Netherlands' biggest local hit last year, Little Crumb (Kruimeltje), based on the novel by Chris van Abkoude, is developing another adaptation of the late writer's works.Peters is combining all eight novels in Van Abkoude's Pete, The Rascal (Pietje Bell) series into one ...
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IFM to handle world DVD and TV sales on 16 vintage Australian titles
IFMhas signed an exclusive distribution deal with Australian DVD distributorUmbrella Entertainment for a package of 16 Australian pictures from the 1970sand 80s.Theagreement is for worldwide representation excluding Australia and New Zealandfor DVD and TV.Titlesinclude the Bruce Beresford classics The Getting of Wisdom and Puberty Blues,The Picture Show Man starring RodTaylor ...
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Theatrical revenues surge in Canada in 2005
Canada's distribution business saw a strong surge in2004/2005 with revenue from theatrical releasing increasing by 16.6 per cent to$401m (C$446.3m).According to data released by Statistics Canada, revenuefrom home video wholesaling remained firm at appoximately $1.62bn, representingroughly 51% of the industry as a whole, while exports of Canadian contentproduction rose marginally ...
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First And Goal named as first private backer for Cruise/Wagner
Less than one week afterViacom chief Sumner Redstone banished Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner from theParamount kingdom, the pair has struck a development deal with an investmentfirm headed by Washington Redskins owners Daniel Snyder.The deal with First AndGoal, which is also headed by Dwight Schar, chairman of the homebuildingconglomerate NVR, ...
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AFI FEST schedules programme to celebrate 20th anniversary, predecessor Filmex
The Los Angeles AFI FEST islining up a series of events commemorating the 20th anniversary ofAFI FEST and 15 years of its predecessor Filmex.The commemorative programmeTake The Journey will run during the upcoming AFI FEST from Nov 1-12 at theArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.Events include a screeningof Sacred Monsters presented byPeter ...
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Outfest, UCLA to restore Parting Glances, Word Is Out
Outfest and the UCLA Film& Television Archive have announced the first two pictures to be restoredas part of their film preservation partnership unveiled last year.The pictures are BillSherwood's 1986 AIDS drama Parting Glances starring Steve Buscemi and Word Is Out: Stories Of Some Of Our Lives, a documentary about gay ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan
Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP)has announced 36 projects for its ninth edition, to be held Oct 15-18 duringthe Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Originally a co-productionmarket for Asian projects, the PPP is renewing itself under the inaugural umbrellaof the Asian Film Market with more commercially-oriented fare than in previousyears, along with ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink winners include Bosnian Nedzad Begovic
The Sarajevo Film Festival'sregional co-production market CineLink has awarded funding to three projects. Each will receive $12,812 (Euros 10,000) in cash provided by partners and $3,203 (Euros 2,500) in services provided by Synchro Studio Vienna. The projects are awardedaccording to criteria of artistic potential and feasibility. The Hubert Bals Fund ...
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Korea's Mediaplex sets up production outfit
Korean major investor,distributor and exhibitor Mediaplex is stepping into production with a new unitcalled Motion 101, which will produce four to five films a year while also handlinginvestment and distribution.Mediaplex announced todaythat Motion 101 has been established with investment of $2.6m split 80:20 with computersystems firm Innet. Earlier this month, ...
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Germany's Schlingensief starts feature about Princess Di
German"enfant terrible" Christoph Schlingensief has grabbed the headlinesonce again, this time with the announcement that he plans to make a featurefilm about the last hour in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Speaking toGermany's leading tabloid Bildjust two days before the ninth anniversary of Diana's tragic death in Paris, ...
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San Sebastian selects projects for funding initiatives
The Donostia-SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has unveiled the filmsselected to participate in its popular completion financing initiatives Filmsin Progress and Cinema In Motion.Now in its 10thedition, the Films in Progress program aims to attach financiers to LatinAmerican and Spanish films currently in post-production. Cinema in Motion,launched last year ...
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Norway's Quart music fest becomes movie launchpad
Norwegian film distributors are increasingly using the country's largest music festival - the Quart festival in Kristiansand - as a promotional platform for new releases. This year the event is being used to showcase highly-anticipated Norwegian title Detector, from first-time director Pal Jackman.The Quart festival, widely renowned as Norway's most ...
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Dubai announces hefty prizes with new Arab competition
The Dubai International Film Festival has announcedthat its new Muhr Awards For Excellence In Arab Cinema will carry prize moneyof $325,000 (AED 1.2m).The Muhr awards, whose name means young horse inArabic, will honour film-makers in feature, documentary and short categories. The top prize for best feature will come with $50,000(AED ...