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NewsNew Corp snaps up 9% stake in Rotana Group
News Corporation extends its reach in the Middle East with acquisition.
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NewsTom Tykwer's One Fine Day leads launch of FilmAfrica! training scheme
Tom Tykwer (pictured) and Marie Steinmann’s One Fine Day Films and the Deutsche Welle Akademie launch new training scheme for African film-makers.
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Travel ban forced Panahi to stay home
Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has fallen victim to the travel ban imposed by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime
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Screen launches new European production and financing database
Screen International unveils online European production and financing database offering up-to-the-minute information to subscribers.
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NewsPathe supports Africa United
Pathe has boarded Africa United, an adventure story based around the 2010 Football World Cup, which will start shooting on February 8 in South Africa, Rwanda and Burundi.
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News$15m 3D Jerusalem project set to shoot this year
A $15m 3D film about Jerusalem that aims to promote religious understanding is set to start shooting in the city this year.
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NewsMiddle East Film Festival announces 2010 dates
The Middle East International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi has announced that its fourth edition will run October 14 to 23. It comes as the festival calls for entries for narrative and documentary features and short films.
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NewsRob Marshall's Nine launches 6th Dubai Film Festival
The 6th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) launched in usual style last night (December 9) with a star-studded screening of Rob Marshall’s musical feature Nine (pictured), despite the debt crisis that is looming over the city.
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NewsElle Driver closes sales on Warwick Thornton's Samson And Delilah
French sales outfit Elle Driver has done brisk sales on Warwick Thornton’s Camera d’Or winner Samson And Delilah.
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NewsNine, Avatar bookend 6th Dubai Film Festival
Rob Marshall’s musical feature Nine, starring Daniel Day Lewis (pictured), will open the 6th Dubai International Film Festival on December 9.
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NewsMarrakech announces line-up
Marrakech film festival has selected 15 films for its competition line-up.
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NewsOlivia Thirlby to star in Sherry Hormann's The No Game
Olivia Thirlby (pictured) will star alongside Marcia Gay Harden and Shohreh Aghdashloo on Sherry Hormann’s drama The No Game, set to commence shooting in New York and Israel in March 2010.
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NewsCairo festival hands main prizes to Letters To Father Jacob and The Hedgehog
The main awards at this year’s Cairo International Film Festival, which ran from to November 10-20, were shared by two European fables of spiritual growth and redemption.
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NewsHyde Park, Imagenation, MDA partner with Dave Stewart on Street Dancing
Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Imagenation Abu Dhabi have unveiled the first project under their strategic alliance with Singapore-based MDA, teaming up with songwriter Dave Stewart’s Weapons Of Mass Entertainment on Street Dancing.
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NewsLiz Mermin's Team Qatar wins best film at first Doha Tribeca festival
Team Qatar, a documentary about the Qatar’s first national high school debating team, took the audience award for best film in festival at the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF).
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NewsIsraeli distributor pledges Loach profits to support local film
Ken Loach’s Israeli distributor, Lev Cinema and Films, has pledged to use the local profits from Looking For Eric and his next film, Route Irish, to promote Israeli cinema following the director’s recent protests against the state’s action in Gaza.
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NewsFocus Features names five winners in Africa First Program
For the second consecutive year five film-makers have been awarded $10,000 apiece in Focus Features’ Africa First Program for short films.
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NewsHaifaa Al Mansour wins Circle Conference's $100,000 Shasha Grant
Saudi film-maker Haifaa Al Mansour was awarded the $100,000 Shasha Grant for her screenplay Wajda as the Circle Conference came to a close in Abu Dhabi.
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NewsImagenation and Hyde Park team up with Singapore's MDA
Imagenation Abu Dhabi and Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group have extended their partnership to create a strategic alliance with Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA).
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NewsImagenation Abu Dhabi, Parkes / MacDonald launch $10m development fund
Imagenation Abu Dhabi and Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald of Parkes/MacDonald Productions have launched a development financing venture backed by an initial $10m investment.