All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 180
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German arthouse exhibitors attack cinema levy
Germany's arthouse and repertoire exhibitors have criticised the introduction of increases to the cinema levy in the new Film Funding Law (FFG) which came into effect on 1 January.The new cinema levy envisages an average 2.6% of a cinema's annual gross turnover of tickets flowing to the German Federal Film ...
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Eurimages names Niehuus as vice-president
Kirsten Niehuus, deputy board member at the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in Berlin, has been unanimously elected as Vice-President of Eurimages by all of the 29 national delegates of the pan-European co-production fund."I am very pleased about the decision, particularly in view of the forthcoming EU enlargement and the ...
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German film critics announce award nominations
Distant Lights (Lichter) by Hans-Christian Schmid, Pigs Will Fly (pictured) by Eoin Moore and Wolfsburg by Christian Petzold are among the films nominated for this year's German Film Critics Awards.The complete line-up of nominations in the four categories are:Best Feature FilmPigs Will Fly, dir: Eoin MooreDistant Lights, dir: Hans-Christian SchmidAngst, ...
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Keil exits Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg
The German film industry has been rocked by the news thatKlaus Keil is to exit his post as chief executive of the regional public filmfunding body Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB) on 31 March 2004.Keil, who became the head of FBB when it was created by thefederal states of Berlin and Brandenburg ...
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Berlinale launches new niche competitions
Two new competitions - the Volkswagen Score Competition and the "Dialogue en Perspective" Prize - are being launched at the forthcoming Berlinale (5-15 February, 2004).In the Volkswagen Score Competition, a jury will select the most outstanding contribution to the Berlinale Talent Campus' "The Sound and Music" section and the prize-winner ...
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Luminaries to spill secrets at Berlinale's Talent Campus
Legendary production designer Ken Adam, The Lord Of The Rings cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, Indian film critic Aruna Vasudev and Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni are among the film industry luminaries lined up for five discussion events open to the general public at the Berlinale Talent Campus (8-12 Feb).The programme will kick ...
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Huth steps down from Germany's Senator
Hanno Huth is to step down from his board position at Senator Entertainment on Dec 31 and plans to set up his own production outfit in the New Year.Huth says he wants to concentrate on hands-on film production again after being immersed in management tasks at Senator since it launched ...
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Diagonale scrapped for 2004 as festival bosses quit
Tillmann Fuchs and Miroljub Vuckovic, the management of the "official" Diagonale appointed by Austria's controversial Secretary of State for Arts Franz Morak, have cancelled the 2004 event and stepped down from their posts.Their position has looked increasingly isolated for weeks. Their plans to introduce changes to the Diagonale had met ...
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Kinderfilmfest reveals competition five
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest has confirmed five titles for its new 14plus youth film competition, which will open on Feb 7 with the world premiere of Anders Gustafsson's Bagland (Scratch).The Kinderfilmfest has also announced another innovation, a retrospective of works from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem.Commenting on ...
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Rival Diagonale wins Rotterdam, funding support
The International Rotterdam Film Festival has added its voice to the growing international chorus of support for the "original" Diagonale and has donated Euros 1,000 toward the running of the 2004 edition. The "original" Diagonale is being launched next year with the support of senior figures in the Austrian industry ...
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New Linz Film Festival to focus on Euro film
Former Diagonale co-director Christine Dollhofer has been recruited as the director of a new festival entitled "Crossing Europe - Linz Film Festival" which will be held in the Austrian city of Linz from 4-9 May 2004 and dedicated to contemporary, innovative European cinema.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Dollhofer explained that the event ...
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Warner co-production Thief Lord wins Hamburg funding
Richard Claus' adaptation of Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's book The Thief Lord has been awarded Euros 600,000 by German funding body FilmFoerderung Hamburg.The film, which will be produced by Warner Bros. Filmproductions with Dutch-based Comet Films, will star Janet McTeer and Jim Carter.Funke's magical bestsellers have been billed as the ...
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Berlinale's Panorama names first German premiere
Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) will have its European premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama Special sidebar on 10 February. "The stylistic assuredness with which Achim von Boerries tells his story is inspiring", Panorama chief Wieland Speck said. "We are pleased to confirm the ...
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Maria Simon named as Germany's Shooting Star
Maria Simon, who played Daniel Bruehl's older sister Ariane in Wolfgang Becker's box-office hit Good Bye, Lenin!, has been selected by the Export-Union of German Cinema as the German "Shooting Star" for the 2004 lineup of European acting talent at February's Berlinale.The Shooting Star initiative, which is organised by the ...
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Committee appointed for alternative Diagonale
The alternative Diagonale (3-7 March, 2004) has taken another major step forward towards realisation with the appointment of a seven-person committee to select the films and programme the festival.The programme committee's members are: film journalist Frank Arnold, film academic Robert Buchschwenter, film academic Birgit Flos, curator and writer Marcy Goldberg, ...
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Miramax plunges into Deep Blue
Miramax Films has acquired North American rights to Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt's feature-length documentary Deep Blue, produced by the UK's BBC Worldwide and Germany's Greenlight Media. Inspired by David Attenborough's international hit TV series The Blue Planet, Deep Blue explores life above, below and far beneath the ocean's surface ...
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CineLink to widen net and introduce awards
Sarajevo Film Festival's CineMart-style co-production market CineLink is to widen its catchment area to include the entire South-East European region and will award Euros 25,000 each to two of the CineLink projects.The first edition of CineLink last August was open for projects from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia & ...
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Von Trotta, Rothemund get Bavarian cash funding
New films by Margarethe von Trotta and Marc Rothemund are among the projects awarded a total of Euros 3m by the Bavarian regional film fund FFF Bayern.Von Trotta received the highest sum of Euros 700,000 for her new project Ich Bin Die Andere (I Am The Other Woman) about the ...