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NewsDabis to make Arabic debut with Mother-in-Law
EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian American filmmaker Cherien Dabis is set to adapt Suad Amiry’s Sharon And My Mother-in-Law, a humorous account of life in Ramallah during the Second Intifada. It will be her first feature set in the West Bank and in Arabic.
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NewsNew Century plans Décor with Abdalla
EXCLUSIVE: Cairo-based New Century Production is putting together an ambitious six-picture slate featuring some of Egypt’s leading veteran and independent filmmakers, including the next project from Rags And Tatters director Ahmad Abdalla.
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NewsAl Turki, Golubovich to launch film fund
Saudi-born Hollywood producer Mohammed Al Turki is setting up a film fund, RAV Raw Artist Vision, with Russian producer Arcadiy Golubovich.
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NewsGreenlight Films planning genre trio
EXCLUSIVE: Emirati director-actor Abdullah Aljunaibi’s Greenlight Films is planning a slate of three genre films, kicking off with action thriller Run, which is scheduled to start shooting in March, 2014.
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NewsSlamdance lines up shorts, specials
Festival heads announced on December 9 the Special Screenings, Beyond and Shorts programmes for the 20th anniversary event.
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NewsSiberia, Mon Amour wins BIFF
In other major awards handed out at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, Jono Oliver’s Home (US) won the Spirit Of Freedom: Narrative prize and Nicolas Cuellar’s Cast The First Stone (US) took corresponding documentary honours.The Short Film prize went to Live - Vivre (Guadeloupe-Martinique) from MJ Maharaki while the ...
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NewsSiddarth triumphs at SAIFF
Richie Mehta’s Siddharth took home South Asian International Film Festival’s grand jury prize at the event’s awards gala on December 7 in New York.
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NewsSaratov to expand nationwide
Saratov Films, Three Coin Productions and Purdie Distribution announced on December 10 they will expand the limited run of the thriller.
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Parkes/MacDonald options Denial
Parkes/MacDonald Productions has acquired feature film and television rights to League Of Denial: The NFL, Concussions And The Battle For Truth.
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NewsSundance unveils Premieres
Festival top brass announced on December 9 the Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections.
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NewsPalm Springs honours Nyong’o
Lupita Nyong’o, tipped for an Oscar for her supporting role in 12 Years A Slave, will receive the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s (PSIFF) Breakthrough Performance Award.
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NewsAFI unveils best of 2013
The American Film Institute has announced its 10 films of the year and TV programmes of the year.
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Latido picks up Seed
Latido Films has acquired international rights at Ventana Sur to Colombian director Felipe Cano Ibañez’s upcoming debut La Semila Del Silencio (The Seed Of Silence).
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NewsXYZ acquires The Dead Lands
XYZ Films has picked up world rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to the upcoming New Zealand-set action thriller featuring traditional Maori hand-to-hand combat.
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EFO Films opens Dubai office
US producer-financier Emmett Furla Oasis Films (EFO Films) has opened an office in Dubai and will shoot two productions in the region within the next 18 months.
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NewsWolfe boards Mankind's Anna
George C Wolfe has come on to direct Mankind Entertainment’s adaptation of playwright Nilo Cruz’s Broadway hit Anna In The Tropics.
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NewsMetermann quits Global Screen for Odeon Film
Britta Meyermann joins German independent production company.
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NewsSkillset awards funds to LFS
The new home of the London Film School has secured its first tranche of funding from Creative Skillset.
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NewsFrozen extinguishes Catching Fire at UK box office
Disney’s animation debuts top with $7.7m (£4.7m); Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire surpasses The Hunger Games’ final UK result.