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Interview:Hamish Mykura, head of docs at UK's Channel 4
'Each year at Sheffield people come here prepared to bury documentaries and at the end of each year I think documentaries are in healthier shape than ever,' says Hamish Mykura, head of documentaries at Channel 4 and head of digital channel More4. 'Docs did definitely take a bit of a ...
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Morgan Matthews' The Fallen wins audience award at Sheffield
The Sheffield Doc/Fest's audience award went to Morgan Matthews' The Fallen about servicemen and women killed in action while James Marsh's acclaimed tale of a tightrope walker Man On Wire was named runner-up as the event came to a close.Festival organisers said the event drew a record number of 1,545 ...
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Film Agency for Wales apppoints two new execs
Two executives have joined the Film Agency for WalesBBC Wales Producer Kate Crowther has been appointed production executive while Eve White, joins as Exhibition and Education Executive. Crowther produced two series of the BAFTA Cymru nominated drama Belonging and has since produced award-winning short films for network television and developed ...
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Aspect strikes AFM deals, plans LA-based production partnership
John P Aguirre's college comedy The Utopian Society starring Malin Akerman is already out on DVD in the US via Warner Bros and now Hugh Edwards' Aspect Film has closed new deals for Scandinavia (Scanbox), Romania (Globcom), and the Middle East (Front Row).Monty Lapica's festival hit Self Medicated, about out ...
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Summer shines At BAFTA Scotland Awards
Contemporary drama Summer was the toast of the annual BAFTA Scotland Awards on Sunday evening, securing Best Film and Best Director for Kenny Glenaan.
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Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson breaks out for Protagonist
UK-based sales company Protagonist Pictures has closed a slew of sales on Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson. Deals have been done with Canada (Alliance), France (Wildside), Australia (Madman), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Portugal (Lusomundo), and Middle East (Front Row). Vertigo Films produces with 4DH in association with St8jacket Creations, EM Media and Aramid. ...
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Oudney's French Film wins US and UK deals
The Works International has struck a US deal with IFC Festival Direct for Jackie Oudney's French Film. Vertigo has taken UK rights. The film has also sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Canada (Mongrel Media), and the CIS/Baltic States (Russian Report). The US deal was brokered by The Works ...
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Content takes on Japanese Oscar submission Departures
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to Yojiro Takita's Departures, which is Japan's submission for the foreign-language Oscar race. Departures (Okuribito) is already a box-office hit in Japan, taking more than 3m admissions ($25m) and it also won Best Film at the Montreal Wrold Film Festival in August. Masahiro ...
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Mr Nice adds Chloe Sevigny, sells for Canada and UK
Independent has pre-sold Bernard Rose's Mr Nice to Canada's Entertainment One and its UK affiliate Contender.Chloe Sevigny, David Thewlis and Omid Djalili have now joined the cast, which is led by Rhys Ifans in the title role. Ifans plays Howard Marks, the UK's infamous Oxford-educated drug baron. Marks himself is ...
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Jinga Films sells Everything to Ruscico for Russia/CIS
UK-based sales company Jinga Films continues its AFM deals by selling all rights for Russia and CIS for Richard Hawkins' Everything to Ruscico.Ray Winstone stars in the thriller/drama.Jinga has also closed an eight-film package deal with Viswaas Films for India and Malaysia. Films in that package include Tom Tyrwhitt's youth ...
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Omega Entertainment gets two from Hillenbrands
Omega Entertainment has signed a two-picture deal with Hill & Brand Entertainment to handle international sales for Transylmania and The Black Arrow.Both are projects produced and directed by the Hillenbrand brothers. Transylmania is a completed college comedy/vampire spoof that will open for sales here at the AFM, and it is ...
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Milla Jovovich comes back with William H Macy
Milla Jovovich has joined the cast of William H Macy's directorial debut Keep Coming Back. Macy and Steve Buscemi will also star in the coming-of-age story.ContentFilm has international rights and expects more cast to be announced soon.Jovovich plays a recovering alcoholic ex-stripper who meets a sheltered 18-year-old boy with a ...
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Hayden Christensen in talks for lead in HandMade's remake of Mona Lisa
Hayden Christensen is in formal negotiations to take the lead in HandMade's remake of Mona Lisa. He will take on a younger version of George, the character made famous by Bob Hoskins in the original.Larry Clark will direct the project, budgeted at about $8m and set to shoot in New ...
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UK Investment Fund for film industry reaches£6m
The Skills Investment Fund has reached £6 million, thanks to contributions from UK films such as Quantum of Solace and The Duchess. The UK's Skills Investment Fund (SIF) has reached £6 million, thanks to contributions from films being produced in the UK. This year contributions have come from Quantum of ...
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Bankside strikes US Baker deal with Panorama
UK-based Bankside Films has kicked off the AFM by announcing that Panorama Entertainment has taken all US rights to Gareth Lewis' The Baker.Gareth's brother Damian Lewis stars with Kate Ashfield and Michael Gambon. The comedy is about a hitman who hides out in a remote village where locals mistake him ...
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IFC Festival Direct moves into High Point's Left Bank
High Point Films continues its AFM sales with IFC Festival Direct taking North American rights to chiller Left Bank.The deal was struck with High Point's director of sales Elisar Cabrera and IFC manager of acquisitions Jeff Deutchman.Left Bank is the feature debut of Belgian director Pieter van Hees, part of ...
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MercuryMedia strikes BBC deal for debt doc IOUSA
London-based MercuryMedia has struck a UK television deal with the BBC's current affairs strand This World for IOUSA.Patrick Creadon's Sundance-selected documentary feature has its UK premiere at this week's Sheffield Doc/Fest.IOUSA is about America's growing national debt and its consequences.Here at AFM, the film screens today and tomorrow for Cinema ...
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Ealing goes gravedigging with John Landis comedy
John Landis will direct black comedy Burke And Hare for Ealing Studios and Fragile Films.Based on a true story, Burke And Hare is about two 19th century graverobbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft, who previously wrote Ealing hit ...
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Intandem rocks with Bendelack's Sweet Baby Jesus
London-based Intandem Films has taken on worldwide rights for Steve Bendelack's new comedy Sweet Baby Jesus. The cast will include Lily Tomlin, Tom Green, Melanie Griffith, Michael McKean, Alison Pill (Milk), and Sean Brosnan (Laws Of Attraction).The ensemble comedy revisits the story of the Nativity set in 1970s Bethlehem, Maryland. ...
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Jinga strikes two-film deal with MIG
UK-based sales company Jinga Films has signed a two-picture deal with MIG Film for all rights in German-speaking Europe for Summer Scars and Hell's Ground.Julian Richards' Summer Scars is a coming of age thriller and Omar Ali Khan's Hell's Ground (Zibahkhana) is a zombie comedy shot in Pakistan.Jinga's AFM slate ...