All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 109
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Ursula Meier's Home is big winner at Swiss Film Prizes
Ursula Meier's Home was the big winner at this year's ceremony for the Swiss Film Prizes which were presented for the first time in a gala event in Lucerne on Saturday evening (March 7).Meier's film, which had its world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival and is represented internationally ...
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Award winning Burma VJ picked up by Oscilloscope and Dogwoof
Zurich-based sales agent First Hand Films has concluded deals for the UK and US for Anders Ostergaard's award-winning festival favourite Burma VJ - Reporting From A Closed Country with Dogwoof for the UK and Oscilloscope Laboratories for the US.The US deal was negotiated by Josh Braun of Submarine and Esther ...
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Germany's MDM fund awards $4.6m in first funding round of 2009
Films from Israel's Eran Riklis and Hungary's Kornel Mundruczo are among the projects sharing more than $4.6m (Euros 3.7m) from Germany's Leipzig-based regional film fund Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM). In its first funding session of 2009 MDM gave production support to Riklis' tragicomedy The Mission Of The Human Resource Manager, to ...
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Constantin posts profit as parent company plans delisting
German producer-distributor Constantin Film posted positive turnover and operating results for 2008 as its parent company Highlight announced plans to delist Constantin and merge with it as Constantin Medien. While Constantin Film's operating result rose 21.6% year-on-year to $18.9m (Euros 15.1m), the group turnover climbed by 10.4% to $311.6m (Euros ...
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Berlinale announces dates for 60th anniversary edition
The Berlin film festival has announced that its 60th anniversary edition will run from February 11 to 21, 2010, thus avoiding a potential overlap with the Rotterdam film festival. The Berlinale's choice of dates was restricted following Sundance's announcement of January 21-31 for its 2010 dates. That move prompted Rotterdam ...
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Road movie and black comedy among winners at Belgrade
The 2009 Belgrade co-production market chose Georgian director Tamara Sulamanidze's feature debut and second features from Kazakhstan's Nariman Turebayev and Macedonia's Igor Panov as best in group at this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings. Projects from three areas, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Euro-Asia were pitched in a public session ...
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Georgia planning tax incentives for film production
Georgia is planning to introduce its own programme of tax incentives for film production in the second halfof 2009.Speaking at this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meeting, KonstantinChlaidze, director of the Georgian National Film Center, revealed thatresearch was currently being carried out with the UK-based consultingcompany BOP on the feasibility of ...
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German Federal Film Board's finances in question after court ruling
Future financing of the German Federal Film Board (FFA) was potentially put into question after the German Administrative Court ruled this week that the national funding institution's cinema levy is unconstitutional.According to the German Film Law (FFG) cinema owners are required to pay a levy of between 1.8% and 3% ...
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Finalists for the Cartoon Movie Tributes 2009 announced
Irish animator Tomm Moore who directed Berlinale offering Brendan and The Secret Of Kells, French distributor Bac Films and the production team behind Niko & The Way To The Stars are among the finalists nominated for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes. Cartoon Movie Tributes rewards companies and personalities who have ...
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Belgrade Fest hosts fourth co-production market
The 37th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST has opened its fourth East-West co-production market, the B2B Industry Meetings.B2B spotlights countries that are geographically in Europe, but not fully integrated in European film networks and markets, as well as countries outside Europe with strong European influence and heritage.The co-production market gives ...
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Bavarian fund backs projects by Hirschbiegel, Wieland and Kraus
New films by Sundance winner Oliver Hirschbiegel, Ute Wieland and Chris Kraus are among the projects receiving funding totalling $5m (Euros 3.9m) from the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern. The largest single award, $1.2m (Euros 950,000), went to Hirschbiegel's adaptation of Andreas Ulrich's bestselling book Angel Face. The film tells ...
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NewsAscot picks up five more titles in EFM
Leading Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite, acquired the rights for German speaking Europe to another five titles to add to the previously announced black thriller comedyChawby Shin Jeong-Won.The Zurich-based group picked up Gerald McMorrow’s thriller Franklyn, starring Ryan Philippe, Sam Riley and Eva Green, which will ...
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Tom Tykwer dreams big with 'fascinating' adaptation ofCloud Atlas
Much has happened in Berlin in the decade between the release of Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, which exploded onto the European film-making scene in the late 1990s, and his latest film, The International, which opened this month's Berlinale.'Berlin is completely up there with any other big film city in ...
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Germany's TMG picks up new films by Redford, Gilliam, Carpenter
Herbert Kloiber’s Tele München Group (TMG) acquired the German rights to new films by Robert Redford, Terry Gilliam and John Carpenter at this year’s European Film Marketduring the Berlinale.
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Berlin Bear winners sell well for Match Factory, Bavaria
Sales have been strong for Berlin Bear winners handled by German-based sales agents The Match Factory and Bavaria Film International.
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Film producers to access Saxony-Anhalt $64m loan programme
Film producers will have access to a $64m (Euros 50m) loan programme in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt which has been launched to support the media industry in the state. The 'Sachsen -Anhalt IMPULS Medien' programme offers locally based production companies loans of up to $3.8m (Euros 3m) per project. The loans are ...
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Peru's The Milk Of Sorrow wins Golden Bear at Berlinale
For the second year running, the Berlinale's Golden Bear has gone to Latin America with the International Jury led by Tilda Swinton selecting Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa's second feature The Milk Of Sorrow for the top honours this year.Sold internationally by The Match Factory and supported by the Berlinale's World ...
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Berlin's EFM a 'mixed bag', according to market director Beki Probst
'It has been a mixed bag this year' was market director Beki Probst's verdict on the 2009 edition of the European Film Market (EFM) which finally closed its doors on February 13.'Some people would say it was good, some better than what they expected and some that it was not ...
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Fidalgo takes Norwegian rights to two Berlin competitors
Norwegian distributor Fidalgo has acquired two films which had their world premieres in this year's Competition at the Berlinale.Deals were concluded by Fidalgo with The Match Factory for Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's feature debut Gigante and with TrustNordisk for Annette K. Olesen's Little Soldier. In addition, Berlin-based distributor Neue Visionen ...
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Dieter Kosslick extends Berlinale contract till 2013
Dieter Kosslick is staying put at the Berlinale - the festival director confirmed to Screen that his contract as festival director has been extended by another two years until April 30, 2013, four weeks before his 65th birthday. It was originally scheduled to expire in 2011. He also expressed optimism ...