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Suely In The Sky takes top prizes in Rio
KarimAinouz's Suely In TheSky picked up both the best picture and best director awards at the Rio de JaneiroInternational Film Festival.HermillaGuedes also picked up the best actress award for her performance as anabandoned single mother stranded in the barren north east of Brazil. Suely, which playedin both Venice and Toronto, ...
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Five new features for Brazil's Conspiracao Filmes
Conspiracao Filmes, theBrazilian production outfit behind Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand and local hit Two Sons Of Francisco, has announced aslate of five features for 2007/08.The first project, Right On! (PodeCrer!),is currently in post production for release early next year. Directed by ArthurFontes, the film is a coming-of-age story about ...
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Brazilians vie for Latin American Film Fund
Brazilianproducers need to build bridges with the financial community in order toattract more private production investment, delegates at the Rio InternationalFilm Festival (Sept 21 - Oct 5) were told.A seminaron production included speakers Joseph Woolf, Citigroup entertainment financingdirector, Doug Hansen, COO ofEndgame Entertainment, and Steve Mangel, president of Int'l Film ...
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Film piracy a $1billion business in Latin America
Piracycost the Brazilian cinema market $102m last year according to figures announcedby the Motion Picture Association (MPA) at the Rio International Film Festival.Aseminar featuring producer Diler Trindade, Total Filmes' Walkiria Barbosa,producer Luiz Carlos Barreto, the MPA's Marcio Goncalves and attorney MarceloGoyanes heard that piracy was worth over $1bn across the ...
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Rio festival to host 300 films and new industry events
The Rio International FilmFestival, which kicks off Thursday (Sept 21) and runs until Oct 5, hasannounced a line-up of more than 300 films from 60 countries. The festival, sponsored bythe City of Rio, the Secretary of Culture, Riofilmeand Petrobras, aims to provide a world platform fornew Latin American cinema as ...
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The British Academy prepares for 2005 awards
For an indication of how important the BAFTA film awardshave become, look no further than this year's campaign trail.The scramble for BAFTAs started inearnest on August 31, when the UK'sacademy members were emailed with details of a screening of AngLee's Brokeback Mountain, followed by a Q&A withstar Jake Gyllenhaal and ...
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IMAX soars in China
IMAX Corporation has signed a deal to open its 25ththeatre in China, which willmake the country IMAX's largest territory outside the US.The IMAX theatre, set to open in December 2007, will beinstalled at the Suzhou Science and Cultural ArtCenter and is set to programme Hollywood event filmsand documentaries in both ...
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Screen reveals UK Stars of Tomorrow
ScreenInternational has launched its 2005 Stars Of Tomorrow, a comprehensive look atthe hottest new talent in the UK film industry.Publishedin this week's Screen International, the annual talent survey highlights thebrightest actors, directors, writers, producers and behind-the-scenes talent inthe UK. More than 40 new names are profiled, coming from shorts, documentaries,drama ...
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Swipe swoops for Paper Clips international rights
Frank Mannion's Swipe Filmshas picked up international sales on Paper Clips, the acclaimedfeature documentary that passed the $1m mark at the US box office last weekend.Thefilm, directed by Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab follows the story of students in arural Tennessee school who collect one paper clip for each person ...
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Swipe Films takes on sales for Figgis' COMA
London-based Swipe Filmswill handle world sales on Mike Figgis' feature documentary COMA.The film follows Figgis anda group of aspiring film-makers - the COMA group - as they attempt to make afeature film from scratch in seven days with some unexpected consequences. Thefilm will have its market premiere at Cannes on ...
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Mannion swipes Strings from Trust
Frank Mannion's Swipe Filmshas picked up UK rights to acclaimed fantasy film Strings from TrustFilm Sales.Directed by AndersRonnow-Klarlund, Strings is a fantasy film with string puppets thatfeatures the voices of James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Samantha Bond &Derek Jacobi. Channel 4 has also picked up TV rights to the film.Swipe also ...
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Perabo clicks with Parker debut
US actress Piper Perabo (pictured) has joined the cast of Click, a romantic comedy that has just started shooting in London.The directorial debut of screenwriter Ol Parker, the film tells the story of a woman who faces doubts as she's about to marry her long-term boyfriend.Click is produced by Cougar ...
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UK faces co-production reality-check
UK filmcommissioner Steve Norris has called for the British qualifying certificationof UK co-productions to be taken over by the UK Film Council.Speaking during apanel discussion on co-productions at Screen International's UK Film FinanceSummit in London last week (Oct 21), Norris said that the UK film industryneeded to develop a co-production ...
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Turtles fly off with San Sebastian's Shell
Bahman Ghobadiás Iraqi-Kurdistan set drama Turtles Can Fly scooped the Golden Shell award for best film at the closing ceremonyof the San Sebastian International Film Festival on Saturday (Sept 25).The jury, headed by Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa gaveits Silver Shell best director prize to Xu Jinglei for Chinese love story ...
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Grant wraps shoot on directorial debut
Wah Wah, the directorialdebut of Richard E Grant, has wrapped principal photography after a seven-weekshoot in Swaziland.The semi-autobiographical film, which Grant also scripted, is acoming-of-age story set against the tail end of British Colonial rule in thelate 1960s. Told from a 14-year-old boy's point of view, Wah Wah focuseson a ...
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VoD roll out threatened by DVD boom
The take-up of video-on-demand and other digital contentdelivery services could be slowed because of the ongoing strength of DVD profitmargins, delegates at Screen International's DVD: The Home Cinema Summiton Thursday (July 8) were told.On some European services, a movie via video on demand cancost as low as Euros 3 - ...
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European box office set for steady mid-term growth
Box office revenues across the seven major Western Europeanterritories are set to reach $5.5bn by 2008 according to a new report byindustry analysts Dodona Research - a rise of 42% on current levels.Although the seven territories saw a combined admissionsslump of 50 million last year, box office revenues across Austria, ...
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Cinema Expo underlines importance of European market
Cinema Expo ended on a high note last night (June 24)with a gala dinner hosted by Walden Media, and organisers claiming successdespite a slight drop in numbers.The annualexhibition conference in Amsterdam saw 1,011 registrations, down about 80 fromlast year. Booths on the trade show floor were down about four or ...
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Cinema Expo celebrates international market
The value of the international marketplace was hammered homeduring day two of exhibition trade show Cinema Expo in Amsterdam yesterday, asresearch company Nielsen EDI handed out its annual International Gold ReelAwards, for films that grossed over $100m internationally in the 12 monthssince the last edition of Cinema Expo.During a lunch ...
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Jail threat key to defeating piracy
The war against piracy hasto be fought on several fronts, and the need to educate consumers that theycould go to jail for downloading or copying films is paramount, delegates atthe annual Cinema Expo conference in Amsterdam heard today (June 23).A wide-ranging seminar heldhere on Wednesday morning highlighted the differences in ...