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7 Crates and Clandestine Childhood win top Films In Progress awards
Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori’s Paraguayan thriller 7 Crates (7 Cajas) and Benjamin Avila’s Argentinian-Spanish-Brazilian drama Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina) have won the much coveted Films In Progress awards at San Sebastian.
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David Heyman to be honoured at Frankfurt Book Fair
The Harry Potter producer will collect the award for the best international film adaptation.
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Festival hit Monsiuer Lazhar to represent Canada in Oscar race
Other new selections include Gypsy from Slovakia, Elite Squad 2 from Brazil.
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Page Eight, A Dangerous Method to book-end Warsaw
David Hare’s Page Eight and David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method will open and close this year’s Warsaw Film Festival (WFF) which is running for ten days on nine cinema screens with a programme of 127 feature-length films and 97 shorts from 59 countries from October 7-16.
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Reykjavik Film Festival kicks off tonight with Sigur Ros film Inni
Guests and honorees at festival will include Bela Tarr and Lone Scherfig.
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Academy shakes up marketing rules for 84th awards
There are no restrictions prior to the nominations announcement on screening events to which Academy members may be invited and which may involve the participation of individuals involved with the film or receptions with food and drink. However everything changes once the nominees are unveiled.
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Korine, Kwiecinski, Fedorchenko to direct portmanteau feature for Grolsch
Val Kilmer will star in Hamony Korine’s chapter of the feature, which is part of Dutch beer company Grolsch’s latest film based initiative - Grolsch Film Works.
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Zach Rosenfield joins Prodigy PR to head up TV and sports
The veteran publicist previously worked alongside Prodigy co-founder Erik Bright at Insignia PR.
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Spielberg to receive PGA’s David O Selznick honour
The Producer’s Guild Of America will present Steven Spielberg with the achievement award at its 23rd annual awards ceremony on Jan 21 2912.
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Last Call At The Oasis marks second Toronto deal for ATO
The company has picked up US rights to Participant Media’s water scarcity doc Last Call At The Oasis.
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Lionsgate confirms You’re Next, Friends deals from Toronto
The studio has closed a deal for North American rights to Adam Wingard’s Midnight Madness hit and confirmed it has acquired alongside Roadside Attractions North American rights to the ensemble drama Friends With Kids.
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Ken Hay appointed as interim CEO of Centre for the Moving Image
The appointment comes after the abrupt departure of the CMI’s chief executive Gavin Miller.
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Wild Bunch take sales rights to Vigalondo’s English-language project Windows
Wild Bunch has picked up the international sales rights to Oscar-nominated Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo’s hotly anticipated new thriller project Windows, currently in development.
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French court rules that Pathé must share Nothing to Declare profits with Thomas Langmann
Two-year-old case stems from an option held by Thomas Langmann’s late father Claude Berri to produce the third film by Nothing to Declare director and star Dany Boon.
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Memento secures spate of new deals for Nader And Simin
Memento Films International has sold Asghar Farhadi’s Golden Bear winner Nader and Simin, A Separation to several key territories, off the back of its successful screenings at Toronto and now San Sebastian.
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As If I Am Not There chosen as Ireland's Oscar submission
Juanita Wilson’s feature debut has been chosen by the Irish Film & Television Academy as Ireland’s submission for the Foreign Language Oscar.
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Strategic Partners spotlights South Africa and Australia at busy co-production conference
New partners, not deals, were atop the agendas of the 200 international delegates who attended the Strategic Partners co-production conference during the Atlantic Film Festival (Sept. 15-24), many on the heels of the Toronto International Film Festival.
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The Unliving director Lilja finds backing for feature version
Coproduction office and Swedish Film Institute support feature adaptation of Berlinale-winning short, produced by Filmlance International.
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International protests grow over Iran’s arrest of filmmakers and producer
Arrested filmmakers include This is not a Film co-director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and producer and sales agent Katayoon Shahabi [pictured] of Sheherazad Media International (SMI).
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Cookies, Williams set up London post company Watertron
Nicolas Cookies & Matt Williams have launched a new London-based post-production company, Watertron Digital Media.