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NewsWhere Do We Go Now wins audience award at Doha Tribeca Film Festival
Merzak Allouache’s Normal was named Best Arab Narrative Feature, Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope won the documentary audience award at the festival, which closed Saturday night.
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NewsLocarno's Open Doors to focus on Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
The Locarno film festival will concentrate on Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa for the 2012 edition of its Open Doors co-production lab.
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Rome kicks off with The Lady; Penelope Cruz talks about new film project
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 to get sneak peek; world premieres will include L’Industriale and Someday This Pain Will BeUseful To You.
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NewsMiyake's Beyond The Wave wins TIFFCOM new talent award
Murayama’s Banapara also gets development award.
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NewsBirds Eye View Festival 2012 cancelled due to funding cuts
Organisation hit by 90% funding cut and doesn’t get BFI Transitional funding, but will continue to run events in 2012.
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NewsKevin named LFF best film; Sutherland goes to Las Acacias
Candese Reid wins Best British Newcomer for her role in Junkhearts; Herzog’s Into The Abyss wins Grierson doc prize.
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NewsLucy Walker, Stanley Nelson and others join GE/Cinelan's Focus Forward project
New international filmmakers announced at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival.
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NewsBerlinale and European Film Market (EFM) plan digital innovations for 2012
Moving its accreditation procedure online is one of the innovations introduced for the 2012 editions of the Berlinale and European Film Market (EFM) next February.
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NewsThessaloniki to be bookended by The Descendants, Martha Marcy
Expected guests include Alexander Payne, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Mohammad Rasoulof, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Sara Driver, Ole Christian Madsen, Ulrich Seidl and Erden Kiral.
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NewsDoha kicks off with world premiere of Black Gold
The third Doha Tribeca Film Festival opened last night with the world premiere of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black Gold, attended by its stars Freida Pinto, Mark Strong and Tahar Rahim.
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NewsFirst Film Festival to showcase 80 films across five Chinese cities
Guests to include Claude-Eric Poiroux, Julie Gayet, Athina Rachel Tsangari.
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NewsBerlinale plans retrospective on classic Russian studio
The Berlinale is planning its 2012 retrospective, The Red Dream Factory, dedicated to the now-defunct film studio Mezhrabpom-Film.
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TIFFCOM kicks off with buyer attendance up 12%
Exhibitors also up from last year, with overseas exhibitors including BBC Worldwide, Telefilm Canada, Gaumont.
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NewsLFF screens Damsels as surprise film; Best of Fest screenings announced
The BFI London Film Festival unveiled Whit Stillman’s Damsels In Distress as its annual surprise film last night.
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NewsAlexandra Stainov joins Sunny Side Of Doc team
Former IMG and BBC Worldwide France employee joins doc market
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NewsChicken With Plums, A Separation, Woody Harrelson among Abu Dhabi winners
ADFF unveils Black Pearl, FIPRESCI and NETPAC winners.
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NewsWroclaw's Gotham In Progress selects 11 projects
Projects come from US directors and producers including Karin Chien, John Maringouin and Tim Kirkman.
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NewsMarkus Schleinzer’s Michael wins Zagreb
Special mention for Eran Kolirin’s Exchange; Marczak’s At The Edge of Russia wins best documentary and Tyrannosaur wins audience award.
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NewsDesplat named composer of year at World Soundtrack Awards
The Ghent-based Awards concert was dedicated to the late Ronni Chasen.
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NewsTokyo kicks off post-disaster edition with help from Jovovich, Chan
The 24th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) kicked off Friday [Oct 23] with its ecologically-themed green carpet welcoming international stars such as Jackie Chan, Fan Bing Bing and Milla Jovovich, who starred in the Opening Film The Three Musketeers 3D.