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NewsIFTA head Jean Prewitt calls for US government pandemic insurance support
Executive joins small businesses and insurance industry in backing PRIA.
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NewsNeon, Altitude team on Alex Gibney doc exploring Trump pandemic response
Altitude handles international sales.
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NewsUK’s leading African film festivals unite for online showcase
The UK’s five biggest festivals of African film to join forces to showcase 10 features.
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NewsMipcom moves 2020 event fully online due to travel restrictions
Coronavirus has scuppered another physical event.
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NewsBleiberg/Dimbort launches TIFF sales on James Darcy, Delroy Lindo sci-fi ‘LX 2048’ (exclusive)
Delroy Lindo, Anna Brewster, Gina McKee also star.
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NewsZurich Film Festival reveals 2020 line-up; Johnny Depp to attend
More than half of all competition titles directed by women.
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NewsCurzon swoops on Cannes 2020, TIFF Discovery title ‘Spring Blossom’ (exclusive)
’Spring Blossom’ is being sold by Luxbox.
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NewsReason8 sells ‘Joy Womack: The White Swan’ to US (exclusive)
Documentary follows the first American woman to sign a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet.
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NewsPluto Film boards sales on TIFF Discovery title ‘180° Rule’ (exclusive)
Tehran-set drama is first film in a planned trilogy revolving around the theme of secrets and lies.
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NewsBaz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic to resume as Tom Hanks returns to Australia
Production was halted in March due to the virus crisis, which saw Hanks contract Covid-19.
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NewsMarrakech cancels festival, moves industry-focused Atlas Workshops online
Physical festival had been due to take place in Marrakech with new new artistic director Remi Bonhomme at the helm.
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NewsStudiocanal launches world sales on Tomas Alfredson’s ‘The Jonsson Gang’
SF Studios will release the comedy in Sweden in December.
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NewsCautious industry heads into TIFF with eyes wide open
“The finished film market is hot,” says one sales executive.
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NewsSaban Films, Altitude strike UK-Ireland distribution pact (exclusive)
Partners will release 10 to 12 films a year in UK and Ireland.
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NewsFrance’s Pulsar, XYZ Films board hot Russian serial killer thriller ‘The Execution’ (exclusive)
Feature is produced by long-time Kirill Serebrennikov collaborator Hype Film in Moscow.
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NewsFilm Seekers boards Australian documentary ‘Envoy: Shark Cull’ (exclusive)
The film spotlights the archaic methods used in Australian shark control programmes.
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NewsTokyo film festival to open with 'Underdog', close with 'Hokusai'
Boxing drama Underdog is directed by Masaharu Take, while Hokusai is a biopic directed by Hajime Hashimoto.
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NewsNeon acquires autumn festival selection ‘Night Of The Kings’
Memento Films International handles worldwide sales.
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NewsAnthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn join Holocaust drama ‘One Life’
Drama based on life of Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis.
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NewsAGC International launches TIFF sales on Donnie Yen thriller ‘The Father’
Tommy Wirkola to direct; production set for early 2021.