All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 142
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Bavaria boards new films by Randau and Thalheim
Secondfeature films by award-winning filmmakers Felix Randauand Robert Thalheim have been picked up at productionstage for world sales by Bavaria Film International.Randau's tragicomedy Die Anruferin is about a young womanlonging for human warmth and devotion who calls total strangers on the phone.Valerie Koch (from Stefan Krohmer's They've Got Knut)and Esther ...
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Swiss study finds more funding but lack of box-office success
TheSwiss film industry is likely to have mixed feelings after reading the FederalOffice for Statistics' (BFS) latest study "Filmproduction in Switzerland 1995-2004'.Appearingahead of Locarno Film Festival's first Swiss Day (Aug8), which will showcase national filmmaking, the BFS study notes, on the onehand, that public and private funding for local production ...
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Schloendorff plans Kazakhstan shoot for Ulzhan
Germandirector Volker Schloendorff will be reunited withactor David Bennent, the child star of his 1979Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) as Oskar Matzerath, for his next feature Ulzhan which begins shooting in Kazakhstan from September.TheFrench-Kazakh co-production between Regis Ghezelbash'sFly Times Pictures and the Kazakh Film Studio is based on ...
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X Filme launches unit for international co-productions
Berlinproduction powerhouse X Filme creative pool, whoserecent international production credits include Maria Schrader's Love Life and BilleAugust's Goodbye Bafana,has launched a subsidiary company X FilmeInternational to concentrate on the production of one to two internationalco-productions per year for the global market. The newWolfsburg-based outfit, which will be managed by X-Filme'sHead ...
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Locarno president talks of 'budgetary worries'
On the eve of this year'sLocarno International Film Festival, which will open on Wednesday (August 2)with Michael Mann's Miami Vice,the festival's president Marco Solari has spoken out about the financialchallenges facing Locarno for this year and for the future.In an interview with theSwiss daily newspaper Der Bund atthe weekend, Solari ...
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Lionsgate takes US and UK rights to Blood Trails
Lionsgate Films has picked up the German horror film Blood Trails by Robert Krause for distribution in the US and UK in the first quarter of 2007. Krause's film won the audience award at the recent Dead by Dawn Film Festival in Scotland and screened at the Madrid Fantasy Film ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink partners with The Netherlands
TheNetherlands will be the countrypartner of Sarajevo's CineLink(August 23-27) after the co-production market's previous collaborations with Austria in 2004 and Germany in 2005.Adelegation of around two dozen representatives from film institutions,production companies, distributors, broadcasters and sales companies will betravelling to Sarajevo to meet filmmakers from South Eastern Europe whose projects ...
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Locarno drops Israeli sponsor in bombings protest
As aresponse to Israel's bombing of Lebanon, the Locarno International Film Festivalhas decided to drop the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as one of thesponsors of this year's Leopards of Tomorrow sidebar. A group offilmmakers, including Palestinian directors Elia Suleiman, Sameh Zoabi,Annemarie Jacir and Lebanese-born Elie Khalife and Myrna Maakaron, ...
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Gravehopping takes best film at European Film Festival
Slovenian director JanCvitkovic's Gravehopping (Odgrobadogroba) took home the Golden TowerAward for best film in the main programme of the 13th European Film Festival inPalic (July 15-21).The Palic Tower Award forUnique Artistic Approach went to Berlin-based filmmaker Detlev Buck'shard-hitting urban drama Tough Enough (Knallhart) which had itspremiere at the Berlinale in ...
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Locarno buyers grow to 150 from 28 countries
Distributors from the UK, US, Russia, Spain and Romania are among theincreased numbers of internationalbuyers attending this year's Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com,Nadia Dresti, head of the festival's industry office, revealed that more than25 new companies will be coming to Locarno for the first time in 2006, ...
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Hermann and Groenewold launch new producer-distributor
Former Senator Filmexecutive Benjamin Herrmann and media fund manager David Groenewoldhave launched an as-yet-unnamed new theatrical distribution company andproduction house to handle primarily commercial German films.The distribution arm's firsttitles are:Philipp Stoelzl's Nordwand, starring Johanna Wokalek and Benno Fuermann in a drama about the failed first ascent of thenorth wall of ...
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Locarno plans collaboration with Buenos Aires Lab
Next month's Locarno International Film Festival hasforged a new collaboration with the Buenos Aires Lab (BAL), theLatin American co-production market for independent cinema within the frameworkof the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival and TyPA (Teoria y Practica delas Artes), to allow selected filmmakers and producers from Latin America tomeet potential ...
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Heimat Fragments expected to premiere in Venice
Veteran Germandirector Edgar Reitz's fourth Heimat film, Heimat Fragments (Heimat Fragmente), isexpected to have its world premiere at this year's Venice Film Festival.This willcontinue a tradition which saw Reitz's ground-breaking first Heimat premierein Venice in 1984, followed by Heimat 2 in 1992,and Heimat 3 - A Chronicle ofEndings and Beginnings ...
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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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Ascot Elite acquires six new films
Swiss distributor AscotElite, whose forthcoming release of Christopher Smith's horror comedy Severance will be screened as part of Locarno's Piazza Grande open-air programme next month, hasacquired Laurence Malkin's psychological thriller Five Fingers, starring Laurence Fishburne and Ryan Philippe, and Wilson Yip's Hong Kongaction film SPL for Germany, Austriaand Switzerland.In addition, ...
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German funds back new initiatives for Eastern Europe
Three German funding bodieshave launched new initiatives to support the film industry in Central andSouth-Eastern Europe.Baden-Wuerttemberg's MFG andLeipzig-based MDM have joined forces with the Vienna Film Fund tooffer up to six grants worth $5097 (Euros 4,000) each for young producers fromCentral and South-Eastern Europe to participate in the EAVE producers ...
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Germany's Senator to diversify business
Therevamped German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment will be developedinto integrated media company, new CEO Helge Sasse said. Speakingat their first annual general meeting since he became a majority shareholder inthe company with fellow board member Marco Weber at the end of last year, Sasse stressed that Senator's core activity would continueto ...
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Five shorts up for Europe's Cartoon d'Or
UK animator Joanna Quinn's short Dreams & Desires - Family Ties,which won prizes at the Annecy and Zagreb animation festivalslast month, is among five European shorts nominated for the Cartoon d'Or. The awards recognise the work of new talents in theEuropean animation industry.The fivenominated films, selected from a longlist of ...