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NewsArirang wins inaugural Brisbane documentary prize
South Korea’s Kim Ki-duk has won Australia’s richest documentary award with Arirang, six months after taking the top prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
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NewsWriter/director Paul Cox turns liver transplant into film idea
Writer/director Paul Cox is planning to make a new film, Force of Destiny, about an artist who survives a liver transplant and falls in love.
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India's NFDC unveils 22 projects for Film Bazaar
India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has unveiled the 22 projects that will take part in this year’s Film Bazaar co-production market (Nov 24-27) in Goa, including projects from Danis Tanovic and India’s Dibakar Banerjee and Ketan Mehta.
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NewsUTV, Imtiaz Ali team for My Girlfriend Is An Agent remake
Mumbai-based UTV Motion Pictures and Indian filmmaker Imtiaz Ali [pictured] will co-produce an official Hindi remake of Korean romantic action comedy My Girlfriend Is An Agent.
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NewsChina’s Zhang Yimou to receive FIAPF Award
Zhang Yimou, whose latest film The Flowers Of War is the Chinese foreign language Oscar submission, is to receive the annual award from the International Federation of Film Producers Associations.
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NewsNashen Moodley named as new director of Sydney Film Festival
The head of programming at the Durban International Film Festival is to replace Clare Stewart who has taken on the role of head of exhibition at the BFI, which includes running the London Film Festival.
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NewsNakamura Group strikes first-look deal with China's Middle Kingdom Studios
Two-year pact signed; first project is Fangs of War.
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NewsLook Both Ways writer/director Sarah Watt dies of cancer
Sarah Watt, best known in international film circles for writing and directing Look Both Ways, died at her Melbourne home on Friday.
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NewsTwo new Australian features stir early transmedia buzz
Jennifer Kent plans psychological horror The Babadook and Zak HIlditch plans sci-fi thriller These Final Hours.
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NewsMichael Clarke Duncan, Rebecca Black join US voice cast for Legend of a Rabbit
Producers confirm voice cast and close pre-sales on Legend of a Rabbit 2.
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NewsGrindstone takes Golden Network double
Lionsgate’s genre label Grindstone takes US rights to The Sword Identity and SeeFood.
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NewsKiarostami begins The End shoot in Japan
Film marks director’s second production shot outside his native Iran, after award-winning Certified Copy.
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NewsMiss Conspirator attracts buyers for 9ers
Sales also done for Never Ending Story, Merry Christmas North!, Late Blossoms.
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NewsGary Oldman to executive produce Max Mannix drama Clickers
Gary Oldman is attached to executive produce Max Mannix’s Australian drama Clickers.
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NewsUniversal chomps on multiple territories for Content's Sweets
Universal Pictures Entertainment has acquired Content’s Hard Boiled Sweets for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Benelux and Scandinavia.
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NewsBuyers take aim for Lotte's War of the Arrows
Korean box-office hit has sold to US, UK, German-Speaking Europe, Taiwan, Singapore and elsewhere.
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NewsMega-Vision announces Once Upon A Time In Shanghai, sells Naked Soldier
Mega-Vision’s next is $10m-budgeted period action starring Philip Ng, with acton choreographer Yuen Woo Ping
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NewsHansel and Gretel 3D picked up by Bloomage for Korea
Michael Bay, Scott Gardenhour’s The Institute pre-sells live-action 3D fairytale.
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NewsWell Go USA cuts to Lau's Guillotines
$15m action thriller sells to the US, Germany, Benelux and Ausralia/NZ