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PictureWorks brings Melancholia to India
Mumbai-based distributor PictureWorks has picked up Indian rights to Lars von Trier’s Melancholia from Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk and plans to release it in major urban centre early next year.
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Lamba to star in Belawadi's Pollutant
Indian actor Arfi Lamba will star in Prakash Belawadi’s environmental zombie film The Pollutant, which is taking part in the Co-production Market of this year’s Film Bazaar.
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Ladakh to host international film festival
Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the north of India, is set to host its first ever international film festival from June 15-17 next year.
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Fortissimo boards Ship Of Theseus
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide rights to Anand Gandhi’s The Ship Of Theseus, which is taking part in the Work-in-Progress Lab at Film Bazaar (Nov 24-27) in Goa.
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Brazilian filmmaker Oscar Maron Filho dies at IFFI Goa
Brazilian filmmaker and journalist Oscar Maron Filho collapsed and died while attending the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa today. He was 56 years old.
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale leads Golden Horse winners
A Simple Life takes home three major prizes.
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Planet of Snail wins top prize at IDFA
Special jury award and audience prize goes to 5 Broken Cameras.
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Marc Butan said to have joined Annapurna Pictures as COO
The executive producer of The Grey (pictured) is understood to have come on board Megan Ellison’s finance and production house following the recent departure of Rob Barnum.
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German and French film producers meet to discuss projects at Paris Rendezvous
A dramatic comedy with Holocaust survivors, a horror film set in Morocco and a Balkan Romeo and Juliet love story were among 25 projects presented to potential production partners at this year’s German-French Film Meeting in Paris (Nov 23-24).
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Finance company 120dB Films unveils $107m fund
The ambitious lender has partnered with an unnamed Fortune 500 property casualty insurance company on the venture which puts it in a position to compete with the larger boutique lenders and commercial banks.
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Malatya's Crystal Apricot award goes to The Future Lasts Forever
The second Malatya International Film Festival in Turkey closed Nov 24 with the Crystal Apricot award going to The Future Lasts Forever (Gelecek Uzun Surer).Ozcan Alper’s second feature, a love story about a Turkish woman’s voyage to find her Kurdish lover, was praised for “translating the pain of the war ...
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Hot projects on Screenbase
Jo Nesbø’s novel The Snowman will be adapted for the big screen with Martin Scorsese attached to direct, while in Italy shooting is underway on Toni Trupia’s Itaker.
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Film4 launches online campaign for Dreams Of A Life
The online interactive experience will coincide with Dogwoof’s UK release of Carol Morley’s documentary.
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Spanish social network Tuenti launches video on demand Service
A new Video on Demand platform has launched in Spain through the Spanish social network Tuenti, the most popular website among people under 30; it has 12 million users.
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APSA awards six development grants to Asia Pacific film-makers
The recipients were announced at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards yesterday (Nov 24).
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Golden Horse project market sees 67% growth; Yi’s animation project takes top prize
Film financier attendance also up, including 12 venture capital companies.
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Khan, Chopra to head cast of Singh’s Qissa
Indian actors Irrfan Khan and Tisca Chopra will star in Anup Singh’s Indo-European co-production Qissa, which is set to start shooting in India early next year.
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India’s Musale flies with Bumbai Bird
Indian director-producer Kamal Musale is currently shooting his debut feature, Indo-Swiss co-production Bumbai Bird, in Mumbai.
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Denmark’s CPH:PIX prepares Indian film festival
Danish film festival CPH PIX is planning a festival of Indian cinema which will take place as part of the India Today/Copenhagen Tomorrow project in Copenhagen in August 2012.