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FeaturesWorld of Locations: Hungary
Diverse cityscapes and cost-effective crew are drawing in Hollywood film-makers.
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FeaturesWe Are UK Film: stronger together
PROMOTIONAL FEATURE: We Are UK Film, now in its second year, brings together all the leading national and regional film agencies. It is the perfect initiative for showing off everything the UK has to offer to the rest of the film world.
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FeaturesParvez Sharma, ‘A Sinner In Mecca’
On the eve of the world premiere at Toronto’s Hot Docs of his first film in almost eight years, the openly gay Muslim filmmaker tells Jeremy Kay why he is putting himself front and centre.
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FeaturesGeena Davis and Trevor Drinkwater, Bentonville Film Festival
Geena Davis and ARC Entertainment’s inaugural event is about to kick off in Arkansas with a focus on impacting the quantity and quality of females and minorities in entertainment.
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FeaturesNewport state of mind
Newport Beach Film Festival co-founder and CEO Gregg Schwenk talks to Elbert Wyche about the California event’s programme and its passion for international cinema. The festival runs from April 23-20.
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FeaturesTimur Bekmambetov, 'Unfriended'
The Russian director of Wanted and the Night Watch takes a break from shooting Ben-Hur in Italy to tell Elbert Wyche about his producer role on a new genre he calls ‘screenmovie’.
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FeaturesNATO chief: Netflix model ‘makes no sense for movie industry'
The Netflix model ‘makes no sense for the movie industry at large’, says John Fithian, president and CEO of NATO (National Association Of Theatre Owners) on the eve of the group’s annual Las Vegas convention.
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FeaturesSteve Hoover, 'Crocodile Gennadiy'
Steve Hoover talks to Elbert Wyche about his Tribeca documentary on Gennadiy Mokhnenko’s work with vulnerable children in Ukraine.
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FeaturesStephen Fingleton talks 'The Survivalist'
The first-time director talks to Elbert Wyche about his Tribeca Film Festival world premiere and post-apocalyptic drama based on his 2012 Blacklist screenplay.
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FeaturesTalking Tribeca
As the 14th annual New York jamboree kicks off, Jeremy Kay talks to festival director Genna Terranova (main picture), Tribeca Enterprises evp Paula Weinstein (centre) and director of short film programming and initiatives Sharon Badal about their work.
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FeaturesTony McNamara, 'Ashby'
Australian director Tony McNamara speaks to Nadia Tseng about his upcoming film, Ashby, set to premiere at Tribeca on April 19.
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FeaturesMarco Mueller, Beijing International Film Festival
Marco Mueller, general advisor to the Beijing International Film Festival, talks to Liz Shackleton about Chinese audiences, censorship and positioning the fledgling festival as a bridge between the China market and the rest of the world.
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FeaturesDeborah Rowland: lifting the curtain on direct distribution
Founder of distribution and marketing consultancy We Are The Tonic discusses the future of direct film distribution.
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FeaturesFrontières returns to Brussels
Screen reports from the fifth edition of genre film market Frontières, which returned to BIFFF for its second European edition.
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FeaturesJosef Wladyka, ‘Manos Sucias’
Spike Lee liked what he saw in NYU film programme graduate Josef Wladyka’s story of estranged brothers in Colombia who mule a cocaine-filled torpedo up the Pacific Coast. Wladyka talks to Jeremy Kay.
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FeaturesFernando Coimbra, ‘Wolf At The Door’
US audiences finally get the chance to see Coimbra’s disturbing Rio-set drama inspired by the shocking ‘Beast Of Penha’ abduction and murder case in Brazil more than half a century ago.
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FeaturesFilmart 2015: Hot titles - South Korea
Sales agents from South Korea are in town with a line-up of intriguing character-driven dramas, period action titles and offbeat stories. Jean Noh profiles a selection
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FeaturesFilmart 2015: Hot titles - Japan
Japanese companies are at Filmart with a strong line-up of literary adaptations, tear-jerkers and a comedy set in the make-up room of a porn shoot.
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FeaturesFilmart 2015: US falls for appeal
Filmart offers US sellers the chance to establish and maintain relationships with Asian buyers outside the frenzy of the bigger markets in the calendar.
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FeaturesFilmart 2015: Philip Yung, Port Of Call
Philip Yung talks to Silvia Wong about socially conscious storytelling and his HKIFF closing film Port Of Call.