All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 135
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Locarno's communications and press officers exit festival
Less than six months before its 60th anniversary, the Locarno International Film Festival has seen two of its communications department staff exit due to 'differences of opinion' with the festival's artistic director Frederic Maire. Riccardo Franciolli, who had come to Locarno last year from the film section of the Federal ...
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'Berlinale of the actors' breaks attendance records
Now in his sixth year as festival director, Dieter Kosslick has pronounced the 2007 'a Berlinale of the actors: we had never had so many actors' films, big stars and cinema legends in the Berlinale's history as was the case this year'. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Kosslick said that 'technically speaking, ...
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Chinese film takes Golden Bear
Chinese director Wang Quan'an had an ideal start for the Chinese New Year by winning this year's Golden Bear for his third feature Tuya's Marriage (Tu ya de hun shi) on the eve of the Year of the Pig.The tale of a practical woman searching for a reliable man in ...
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Berlinale to show Lost In Beijing in uncensored version
China's Li Yu's Lost In Beijing will have its world premiere tonight (Friday) in the Berlinale's official competition at the Berlinale Palast in the uncensored version after all. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com exclusively, festival director Dieter Kosslick announced: 'We are showing the film tonight in the version which the producer is ...
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Bavaria seals deals on Competition films and market titles
Bavaria Film International has closed a slew of deals on Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale competition this afternoon. The adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's novel starring Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and Julia Jentsch was sold to Distribution Company (Argentina, Chile, ...
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German-Indian film agreement signed in Berlin
Germany's Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, India's Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, and Germany's Minister of State for Culture and the Media Bernd Nuemann signed a German-Indian film agreement in Berlin on Friday afternoon providing a legal framework for cooperation between producers from Germany ...
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World Cinema Fund casts its net wider
As of this summer, the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) will be open to projects by film-makers from South East Asia and the Caucasus in addition to the existing focus regions of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Central Asia. 'After the positive development of the WCF in the ...
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European stars: Germany
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick highlights the increasing global appeal of Germany's talent base when he points out that more than 10 German actors and actresses had roles in international productions at this year's festival. These range from Julia Jentsch in Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England through Moritz ...
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Lives Of Others wins four German Film Critics Awards
FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-nominated The Lives Of Others hasadded to its impressive list of distinctions by picking up four of thisyear's German Film Critics Awards: for Best Feature Film Debut, BestActor (Ulrich Muehe), Best Editing (Patricia Rommel) and BestCinematography (Hagen Bogdanski).Lastyear's Berlinale Competition entry Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmidreceived the prize ...
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Mannheim-Heidelberg moves to October
The International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg is being brought forward from November to new dates in October - 9th to 21st - for the 2007 edition, which will bring it up against other international festivals with industry components. The Pusan International Film Festival with the Pusan Promotion Plan co-production gathering runs ...
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Locarno opens doors to Middle East
The Middle East will be the regional focus for the Open Doors platform at this year's Locarno International Film Festival (August 1-11).Filmmakers will be invited from Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Israel, Iraq and Jordan to present projects to potential co-producers.Meanwhile, an innovation at the festival's 60th anniversary edition will ...
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Senator boards Falorni's Heart
Germany 's Senator Film has boarded Luigi Falorni's fiction feature debut Heart Of Fire as co-producer and acquired German distribution rights. Based on Senait Mehari's bestselling autobiography Heart Of Fire, the film follows her experiences serving in the Eritrean Liberation Front and witnessing the horrors of a guerrilla war. The ...
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Lilly The Witch prepares to fly with Ruzowitzky
Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, whose latest feature The Counterfeiter had its world premiere in the Berlinale's Competition this weekend, is changing genres again with his next project, the children's film Lilly The Witch (Hexe Lilli).The $11.7m (Euros 9m) co-production between Munich-based blue eyes fiction, animation and VFX specialist Trixter, Studio ...
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The Match Factory to handle new Hamer feature
Michael Weber's The Match Factory has picked up worldwide rights, excluding Scandinavia and German-speaking territories, to Bent Hamer's latest project O'Horten which began shooting in Norway on January 29. The film, which follows locomotive driver Odd Horten on a fatefully absurd odyssey on his first days of retirement, has actor ...
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B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings names 12 pitch projects
New feature films from Eastern Europe and Central Asia are among 12 projects to be pitched at this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings from March 2-4.They include Branko Schmidt's Metastases (Croatia), Kirill Serebrennikov's Diva(Russia) and Rusudan Chkonia's Keep Smiling! (Georgia).In addition to the public pitchings and one-to-one meetings with potential ...
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Friend and Barr cast for Russian gangster movie
UK actor Rupert Friend (Pride & Prejudice) and Jean-Marc Barr (Dancer In The Dark) are attached as cast for US writer-director Tony Pemberton's $ 4.5m gangster movie Buddha's Little Finger based on the novel of the same name by Victor Pelewin.The film's Berlin-based producer Rohfilm has brought Mikhail Kalatozov's Kalatozov ...
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ETF lines up Holland and Nettelback projects
Germany's Egoli Tossell Films (ETF) is moving forward fast with new films from Agnieszka Holland and Sandra Nettelback in addition toMichael Hoffman's $20m Tolstoy drama The Last Station to star AnthonyHopkins and Meryl Streep.Holland is directing Peter & Catherine which ETF will co-produce withChris Curling's Zephyr Film. Chloe Sevigny is ...
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Germany's Culture Minister bangs local drum at Berlinale opening
Germany's State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann was in a bullish mood at the gala opening ceremony for this year's Berlinale, which opened with La Vie En Rose on Thursday evening. Speaking in front of a select first-night audience including the team of opening film La Vie En Rose, the ...
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Germany - Majestic bow for a former Senator
When former Senator executive Benjamin Herrmann decided to join forces with film financing expert David Groenewold to launch a new producer-distributor Majestic Film into the German marketplace, he was not worried about an overcrowded landscape."I think if you filter out the completely undercapitalised companies which only release two to three ...
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Nitschke returns to Senator Film
Anatol Nitschke, head of distribution at Berlin's X Verleih since 2000, is returning to Senator Film on April 1 to serve as co-managing director of Senator Film Verleih and Senator Home Entertainment along with Peter Heinzemann.Nitschke, who headed Senator Film Verleih between 1999 and 2000, will be responsible for marketing, ...