Latest festival news – Page 201
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NewsWhy a record number of industry attendees are at Venice Production Bridge this year
“Venice is becoming an interesting rendezvous,” said industry head Pascal Diot.
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NewsFirst trailer for Anthony Chen’s Toronto Platform world premiere ‘Wet Season’ (exclusive)
It centres a friendship between a Chinese teacher and a student with absentee parents.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival selects 10 titles for 2019 competition
Films include ‘Saint Maud’ from Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018 Rose Glass.
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News'Queen & Slim' starring Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith to open AFI FEST 2019
Universal to release in US on Nov. 27. AFI FEST 2019 runs Nov. 14-21.
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NewsEgypt’s El Gouna Film Festival unveils 2019 line-up
‘Aladdin’ star Mena Massoud confirmed to attend.
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NewsBerlinale Forum names selection committee for 2019
Newly-appointed head Cristina Nord selects inaugural programming team.
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NewsAbigail Blackmore named Screen FrightFest Genre Rising Star 2019
Blackmore showcased her writer-director debut ‘Tales From The Lodge’.
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NewsFive Nordic film festivals sign gender equality pledge (exclusive)
The pledge was signed at Sweden’s Carl International Film Festival.
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NewsBusan to celebrate Korean film centennial, Asian women filmmakers
Festival to screen ten films from the past 100 years of Korean cinema and a special focus on Deepa Mehta, Yasmin Ahmad and Trinh T. Minh-ha.
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NewsTrue Colours acquires Matteo Garrone-produced Venice title ‘Nevia’ (exclusive)
Film will premiere in Venice’s Orrizonti strand.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires US rights to Israeli doc 'Advocate' (exclusive)
Cinephil holds international sales rights to multiple festival winner.
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NewsKasi Lemmons’ ‘Harriet’ among first wave of Austin festival titles
Also screening at the Texas festival are A Hidden Life and The Truth.
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NewsNew Filmmakers Los Angeles sets Latinx shorts festival programme
Shorts in the line-up come from emerging directors in Latin America, Australia, Spain, the US and Australia.
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NewsAttendees excited by quality of projects at Haugesund’s works in progress event
The Eurimages Lab Award at Haugesund has gone to Norwegian director Guro Bruusgaard for Him.
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News‘Take Me Somewhere Nice’ wins top prize at Sarajevo Film Festival
Ena Sendijarević’s Bosnian-Dutch drama took best film.
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NewsSarajevo’s CineLink crowns 2019 industry award winners
Competition jury member Teona Strugar Mitevska won the top co-production prize.
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NewsSarajevo partners with Israel’s Sam Spiegel Film School for feature award
The winner of the Sarajevo shorts competition will be fast-tracked to the Lab.
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NewsSan Sebastian adds six competition titles including Sarah Gavron’s ‘Rocks’, Alice Winocour’s ‘Proxima’
The other new titles are directed by Malgorzata Szumowska, Paxton Winters, Sonthar Gyal and Gonçalo Waddington.
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NewsFirst trailer for Grimur Hakonarson’s ‘The County’ ahead of Toronto premiere (exclusive)
‘Rams’ director set to premiere new film in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema strand.
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NewsSarajevo region to launch €1m film and TV production subsidy in 2020
The Sarajevo Canton government will provide the money for the grants.