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June deadline for expanded Grierson Awards
TheGrierson Awards for documentaries have expanded beyond the UK this year totake in factual films made anywhere in the world.The entry deadline is June 2 in 10 categories: bestdocumentary on a contemporary issue, best documentary on the arts, besthistorical documentary, best documentary on science or the natural world, mostentertaining documentary, ...
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Miller and Relph join Arts Alliance Media
Digital film distributor Arts Alliance Media has appointedSir Robin Miller and Simon Relph as non-executive directors.Miller was formerly chief executive and chairman of Emap,owners of Screen International.Relph was thefounding chief executive of British Screen Finance Limited and is anindependent producer with 17 films under his belt.Arts Alliance Media chairman Thomas ...
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Miami Film Festival takes industry delegation to Chile
The Miami International FilmFestival (MIFF) has launched an industry delegation to Chile this week to shareknowledge, build contacts and increase exposure to media and industryprofessionals in the local film community.The initiative is the secondpart of a film exchange programme launched during the 2006 festival in Marchwhen the work of six ...
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Frank Oz signs to direct Kimmel's Death At A Funeral
Frank Oz has signed on to direct the ensemble comedy Death At AFuneral for US bi-coastal outfit Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE).Sales arm Kimmel International will commence sales at Cannes onthe story of a riotous funeral that ensues when a dysfunctional British familyturns out to pay its respects to a patriarch.Matthew ...
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National Video Resources unveils 20 recipients of media fellowships
US non-profit group NationalVideo Resources (NVR) has unveiled the 20 recipients of its Media ArtsFellowships and two additional awards to artists of exceptional promise.Recipientsinclude Down To The Bone director DebraGranik, whose Church Ave is thestory of a streetwise Brooklyn man, Nanobah Becker whose feature Full is about a gay Navajo ...
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Warner promotes Albery to anti-piracy vp in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Trevor Alberyhas been promoted to vice president of anti-piracy operations in Europe, theMiddle East and Africa for Warner Bros.Albery will bebased in London and will report to Warner Bros' senior vice president ofworldwide corporate anti-piracy Darcy Antonellis.He joined thestudio as anti-piracy counsel for European anti-piracy operations in March2004.Prior to joiningWarner ...
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Panavision secures $345m credit facility
Camera manufacturer Panavisionhas refinanced its debt and signed a $345m senior secured credit facility as itembarks upon a new phase of corporate expansion.The company'spresident and chief executive officer Bob Beitcher said the move allowedPanavision to develop new products following the success of the Genesis digitalcamera, and expand its worldwide television ...
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India's independent filmmakers heading to Cannes
A delegation of independentIndian filmmakers with international ambitions will be attending and exhibitingunder one umbrella at this year's Cannes film festival.The group, which is called IndependentIndian Filmmakers (IIF), comprises 24 individuals who are seeking to workinternationally - either by co-producing, co-financing or distributing globally- and to create products outside of ...
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KOFIC to send Korean filmmakers overseas
The Korean Film Council(KOFIC) is setting up a series of international training programmes, startingin China, to help Korean filmmakers to work more easily overseas.The "Business R&DCampuses" will enable Korean filmmakers to meet with and learn from local industryfigures and government officials, in order to adapt to and work moreefficiently in ...
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The Wedding Director (Il Regista Di Matrimoni)
Dir/scr: Marco Bellocchio. It. 2006. 102mins.After his compelling Red Brigade psycho-drama Good Morning, Night, Italian auteurMarco Bellocchio returns to the hermetic, dreamlikemode of The Hour Of Religion with hislatest effort, The Wedding Director, inwhich a leading arthouse film-maker is talked intoshooting a Sicilian matrimonial video.Bellocchio is a profoundly visual director, ...
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TV2 Danmark appoints Price to film, drama role
Danish national broadcaster TV2 Danmark has appointed 33-year-old Adam Price as head of drama production starting 2001. The role has been expanded to encompass all fiction production including investments in features.Price has worked as a freelance writer in a wide range of genres and media for 14 years and has ...
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The Unforgiven (Yongseobadji Mot-hanja)
Dir/scr: Yoon Jong-bin. S Kor. 2005. 126mins.The traumas of masculinity and themilitary life are sensitively and obliquely probed in The Unforgiven, the debut feature fromKorean writer-director Yoon Jong-bin. Despitecurrents of menace and brutality, it lies at the more contemplative end ofSouth Korea's cinema spectrum, its elliptical, two-strand structure making itakin ...
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UK Manga takes dominant role in download revolution
A UK Manga-style animation is promising to be the first to offer serialised monthly downloads to iPod and Playstation before theatrical release.Dominator X, currently in production at the Brighton studios of Renga Media, is the creation of successful comic book writer Alan Grant and director Tony Luke.From July, the feature ...
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Cannes 2006 line-up
CANNES 2006In CompetitionFlandres (Bruno Dumont)Selon Charlie (Nicole Garcia) Quand J'etais Chaunteur (When I was a Singer) (Xavier Giannoli)Volver (Pedro Almodovar)Red Road (Andrea Arnold)La Raison Du Plus Faible (The Right Of The Weakest) (Lucas Belvaux)Indigenes (Days Of Glory) (Rachid Bouchareb)Iklimer (Climates) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)Juventude em Marcha (Pedro ...
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UIP makes pioneering move into Vietnam
United International Pictures (UIP) is to become the first of the major global film distributors to do business in Vietnam.Its agent Envoy Media Partners is to work with Megastar Media JVC to establish the country's first purpose-built multiplex operation. The first release will be Mission: Impossible III, which will ...
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Ten new directors to compete at Crossing Europe festival
GoEast'smain prize-winner Tbilisi Tbilisi by Georgian filmmaker Levan Zakareishvili isamong 10 debuts or second films by promising new directors selected for thisyear's European Competition at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Austria'sLinz (April 25-30).Theline-up of films competing for prize money amounting to Euros 10,000 are:ColdShowers by Anthony Cordiers (France)Giselaby Isabelle ...
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Prater steps down as head of Bangkok Film Festival
Craig Prater hasstepped down as executive director of the Bangkok International Film Festival(BKKIFF), a post that he has held for the last three years. Prater cited"personal reasons" for his decision to resign from Film FestivalManagement (FFM), the US consulting firm that the Tourism Authority of Thailand(TAT) hired for the overall ...
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Bogandovich will crack The Broken Code
Peter Bogdanovich has signedon to direct the competitive science drama The Broken Code, which is being backed by The UK Film Council andCapitol Films though Capitol Films Production's Super Slate developmentcompany, along with Signature Films.The story puts under themicroscope the life of Rosalind Franklin, an unsung research scientist whosepioneering X-ray ...
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Jonathan King takes on evp production role at Focus
Jonathan King, the formerhead of production at Sony-based Laurence Mark Productions, is joining FocusFeatures as executive vice president of production.King begins work this weekbased in the company's West Coast offices. He will report to Focus' productionpresident John Lyons.At Laurence Mark ProductionsKing's credits included Bill Condon's upcoming musical Dreamgirls, and Scott ...
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The Wedding Director (Il Regista Di Matrimoni)
Dir/scr: Marco Bellocchio. It. 2006. 102mins.After the compelling Red Brigade psycho-drama Good Morning, Night, Italian auteurMarco Bellocchio has returned to the hermetic,dreamlike mode of The Hour Of Religionwith his latest effort, in which a leading arthousedirector is talked into shooting a Sicilian wedding video. Occasionally comic,undeniably evocative, at times simmering ...