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12 projects selected for Locarno’s Open Doors
Co-production lab focuses on Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa in 2012.
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NewsM-Appeal picks up Israeli debut for Cannes market premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based sales company picks up first-time Israeli film-maker Michael Mayer’s Out In The Dark
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How 2 Steal 2 Million wins four prizes at the African Movie Academy Awards
Nigeria was the most awarded country at the eighth AMAAs
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News12 Israeli premieres compete at Docaviv in May
Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry will open Docaviv, the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival which runs this year from 3-12 May.
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NewsTarak Ben Ammar launches competition for Tunisian filmmakers
The Tunisian Mobile Film Festival is aimed at promoting up and coming film-makers from Ben Ammar’s home country, Tunisia.
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NewsIstanbul announces development and post-production prize winners
Winners include Strangers in the House, Motherland, The Dustcloth.
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NewsAlesia Weston to head Jerusalem Film Center
Finally white smoke comes out at the Jerusalem Film Center (JFC). After many long months of deliberation, the board of directors has named its new head of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israeli Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival.
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NewsSouth Africa to expand TV tax credits
The South African government is poised to expand TV tax incentives, just weeks after the UK announced its own plans to adopt such a scheme.
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NewsM-Net launches VOD African Film Library
The service promises to offer the world’s largest online collection of African film content.
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NewsBritish Council to bring Dickens programme to Abu Dhabi
The British Council is bringing a special Charles Dickens retrospective to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.
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NewsAbu Dhabi Film Festival becomes part of twofour54
Joins Abu Dhabi Film Commission, which came under twofour54 in 2011.
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NewsBedlam to start shooting Eran Riklis' Zaytoun on April 1
Project starring Stephen Dorff will shoot for nine weeks in Israel.
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NewsPathe boards Long Walk to Freedom
Pathe International has come on board for the Nelson Mandela biopic, described as “the largest South African production ever mounted.”
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Turkish cinema gets first push at Filmart
Turkish cinema will have a presence for the first time at Filmart this year, through a booth organised by Turkey’s Izmir Cinema Association (ICA).
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NewsSyria’s DOX BOX festival goes global amid violence at home
Banned Syrian classics and clandestine films to screen in more than 30 venues worldwide as part of DOX BOX Global Day on andaround March 15, the first anniversary of Syria’s uprising.
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NewsChadwick, Harris circle Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom
EXCLUSIVE: Anant Singh’s long-gestating Nelson Mandela biopic heats up with Justin Chadwick in advanced talks to direct and Skyfall actress Naomie Harris in talks to star as Winnie Mandela opposite Idris Elba.
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NewsDoha Film Institute boards animated feature The Prophet
Directors onboard the portmanteau animated feature version of Khahil Gibran’s novel include Marjane Satrapi, Tomm Moore and Roger Allers, who will oversee the project’s narrative thread.
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NewsDistributor Orlando moves into exhibition in Israel
Oded Horowitz-Reuveny’s company opens two-screen arthouse cinema.
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NewsRoland Joffe lands Forest Whitaker as Desmond Tutu
EXCLUSIVE: Roland Joffe is plotting a prison movie set in South Africa that will deal with the Truth and Reconciliation hearings.