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LAFF honours go to All is Well, Drought, Beasts
Signalling the climax of the 10-day event in Downtown Los Angeles, Pocas Pascoal won the narrative award for All Is Well and Everardo González collected documentary honours for Drought.
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Metrodome takes UK rights to The Reverend
Rutger Hauer is one of the leads in the UK horror film.
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Jana Bennett to leave BBC Worldwide
Jana Bennett is to leave BBC Worldwide following a major restructure of the commercial organisation.
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Planet Of Snail, Only The Young triumph at Silverdocs
The AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival unveiled its winners at the weekend as the seven-day event came to an end in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Corrode wins top prize at SIFF’s Asian New Talent Awards
Indian filmmaker Karan Gour’s Corrode took home the top honours of best picture at the Asian New Talent Awards during the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) yesterday.
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Harkness’s digital screen selector web app passes 1000 users
Harkness Screens has announced that its free, web-based Digital Screen Selector has passed the 1,000 mark for registered users.
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Hot projects on Screenbase
New to Screenbase this week is Libertador about the South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar as well as sci-fi thriller The Machine.
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Latitude readies slate including Bondarchuk’s English-language debut The 8th Sea
New York-based production and finance company Latitude Media is readying three films in its development slate including Russian director Fedor Bondarchuk’s English-language debut The 8th Sea.
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Good Pitch 2012 projects include Call me Kuchu, Big Boys Gone Bananas
The 2012 Good Pitch Europe, organised by BRITDOC and The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, has announced the 8 projects which have been selected to be part of its one day pitching event on June 25.
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Psychic Octopus doc team plans zombie project
Exhibit A Pictures, the outfit behind new doc The Life And Times Of Paul The Psychic Octopus (a world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival today), is now stretching its tentacles into zombie land.
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Madagascar 3 to cross $200m internationally
DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted stands at $176.7m through PPI and executives will look for a number one hold in the third weekend.
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TWC announces $225m in revolving credit facilities
The company’s strategic initiatives, investments and banking (SIIB) division has closed two separate deals “to act on opportunities worldwide as they become available.”
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Gravitas acquires US rights to 3,2,1 … Frankie Go Boom
The rom-com will launch on VoD in September and open theatrically through Variance Films in October, marking the distribution partnership’s first theatrical release.
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Intramovies sells The Immature to Spain and The Jewel and Chocolate Kisses to Japan
Deals with Sherlock, Only Hearts, Aya Pro.
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European Commission wants Catalonia to open up distribution of non-Spanish films
The European Commission (EC) has requested Spain to put an end to the discriminatory rules in the Catalan Law on Cinema, which hurts the distribution of non-Spanish films.
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Sarajevo's new Kinoscope programme includes films from Sono, Carax, Loktev
The 18 selections from around the globe also include Sundance hits Beasts of the Southern Wild [pictured] and My Brother The Devil, plus Edwin’s Postcards From The Zoo and art documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.
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Jinga's Day of Violence spreads to North America, Germany
Film won award at Weekend of Terror festival.
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Ruminov, Litvinova projects among titles at first Moscow market
Films by Pavel Ruminov, Renata Litvinova and Avdotya Smirnova are among 20 titles to be screened at the first DOORS film market (June 21-24) which is being organised by Roskino and the Russian Film Commission USA as part of the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF).
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Leos Carax to be honoured at Locarno
French director Leos Carax is to receive the Locarno Film Festival’s Leopard of Honour (the Pardo d’onore Swisscom) at this year’s festival.
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UPDATE: UK industry responds to The Times article alleging tax avoidance in film business
Future Capital Partners says it will “stand absolutely behind the investments”; Ingenious battles allegations by saying that a “rogue inspector” made a “misinformed statement.”