All articles by Leon Forde – Page 4
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NewsWelcome wins European Parliament’s LUX Prize
Philippe Lioret’s Welcome has won the 2009 European Parliament LUX Film Prize, receiving the majority of European Parliament members’ votes.
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Dvortsevoy's Tulpan takes Discovery of the Year award at Reykjavik
Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan has picked up the Golden Puffin award for Discovery of the Year at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (Sept 25-Oct 5).The film, which took the top prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes earlier this year, tells the story of a man trying to build a new ...
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In Focus: Filmanthropy
The British Beekeepers' Association, the National Pig Association and the Women's Institute might not be the most obvious partners for documentary makers but it is a sign of a growing crossover between the film world and the third sector that all attended this summer's inaugural Good Pitch.Held during the UK's ...
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Interview: Larry Charles
While Borat saw Larry Charles travel across the US with Sacha Baron Cohen's hapless Kazakh TV reporter, Religulous sees the director taking in a range of religious sites - Jerusalem, Vatican City and Florida's Holy Land Experience - with comedian Bill Maher as he skewers religion.Maher and Baron Cohen's methods ...
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Postcard from Britdoc
It is only in its third edition, but the UK's Britdoc festival (July 23-25) is a major draw for the international documentary community.Last week's instalment attracted more than 950 delegates, including film-makers Larry Charles, Nick Broomfield, and Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, otherwise known as anti-capitalist activists The Yes Men, ...
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Gael Garcia Bernal plans doc project on resistance
Gael Garcia Bernal is teaming up with director Marc Silver and the UK's Pulse Films on Resist, an ambitious feature documentary and web project.Described as Bernal's personal journey through the landscape of resistance, the film is in pre-production with shooting scheduled to take place in spring next year.Bernal will also ...
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Man On Wire takes British feature prize at third BritDoc
The UK's third BritDoc documentary festival wrapped on Friday (July 25) with James Marsh's Man On Wire continuing its festival awards spree by winning the British Feature Film Documentary Prize.Jerry Rothwell's Heavy Load - a film about a punk band with learning difficulties that was pitched at BritDoc in 2006 ...
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As Britdoc kicks off, survey finds TV docs are more popular in UK
UK audiences regularly watch documentaries on television, but are much less consistent consumers of the format on DVD or in the cinema.A survey commissioned to tie in with the UK's third annual BRITDOC festival - which launched yesterday and continues until Friday -- found that 48% of UK adults regularly ...
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Screenwriting: How to teach a word's worth
Training provision for screenwriters has been undergoing a sea change in the UK in recent years, with providers aiming to connect training with the industry and help create writers who can function both creatively and commercially.The UK film business has not always taken the most positive view of screenwriter training. ...
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Profile: International Screenwriters' Festival
Launched three years ago, the International Screenwriters' Festival (July 1-3) has established itself as a key event on the festival calendar.Taking place in Cheltenham, south-west England, the event attracts a wide range of industry delegates. 'It's about 50% writers and 50% everybody else: producers, directors, agents, script editors, financiers, and ...
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United Kingdom - If the shoes fit
He is renowned as one of the UK's most intense and committed actors, and now Paddy Considine is taking his talent behind the camera.His debut short, Dog Altogether, picked up a Venice Silver Lion last year and a Bafta this year - and he is writing his feature debut, Tyrannosaur.In ...
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Set visit: Lone Scherfig's An Education
It is the Easter holidays and in a quiet Japanese school in West London, Danish director Lone Scherfig is shooting a scene with a school orchestra in an airy assembly hall.With its dark wood the hall looks right at home in the early 1960s period in which An Education is ...
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Distribution - In search of a crossover hit
Hindi-language films account for around 10% of all UK releases and all the major cinema circuits play Bollywood product.A mid-range Bollywood release in the UK will go out on 25-30 prints. "On the biggest ones you'd go 40-plus - it depends if there's crossover potential," says Cineworld's film buyer Andreas ...
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UK cinemas hum toBollywood tune
The Indian film business may be striking high-profile global partnerships and attracting an unprecedented influx of investment, but at the UK box office in 2007 the news was less upbeat for Bollywood.In search of the crossover hitThe UK - the biggest market for Bollywood product outside India - usually sees ...
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United Kingdom - Wolf man
In an age when short-form content can seem as disposable as a mobile-phone video, Peter & The Wolf is something of a lesson in longevity.The 30-minute stop-motion animated film, adapted from Prokofiev's classic and directed by Suzie Templeton, premiered at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2006 and continues to roll ...
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Dark Prince: Luis Cook directs Aardman film
Macabre is not generally a word used to describe Aardman Animations projects, but Luis Cook's blackly comic The Pearce Sisters is certainly dark by the standards of the Bristol-based animation powerhouse.The 10-minute short tells the story of a pair of elderly spinsters who resort to extreme methods in their search ...
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Piracy - Awards Piracy - Screeners: a calculated risk
When it comes to screeners, distributors are having to square the potential piracy risk with the benefits of getting their film in voters’ DVD players.
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Palme d'Or winner: Mike Leigh
When UK director Mike Leigh won the Palme d'Or in 1996 for Secrets And Lies, its star Brenda Blethyn also picked up the best actress prize. Leigh's first film in competition was 1993's Naked, which won the best actor and best director prizes. 'I had been making films for a ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Costa-Gavras
Greek-born Costa-Gavras has been in Competition at Cannes three times: in 1969 with Z, which won the Jury Prize; in 1975 with Special Section, which won the best director prize; and in 1982 with Missing. The latter also picked up the best actor prize for Jack Lemmon. What did it ...
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Swipe takes UK rights to Frankie and Princesses
London-based Swipe Films picked up UK rights to the Diane Kruger drama Frankie and the Spain's Goya-winning Princesses at the American Film Market. The feature film debut of Fabienne Berthaud, Frankie follows the vicissitudes of a top fashion model, played by Diane Kruger, who co-produced.The film was sold by MK2 ...