All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 191
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Emden film festival focuses on new British cinema
The International Film Festival Emden - Aurich - Nordeney (June 11-18) is remaining true to its traditional focus on new British cinema with screenings of new films by Don Coutts (American Cousins), Ken Loach (Sweet Sixteen), Duncan Roy (AKA) as well as Lone Scherfig's UK-Danish co-production Wilbur Wants To Kill ...
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Game, set and match to Becker at German Lolas
Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! swept the board at the German Film Awards by picking up a record nine Lolas - seven Golden Lolas with prize-money totalling Euros 560,000 and the two Audience Awards - to add to the Lola that Becker and co-author Bernd Lichtenberg won for Best Filmed ...
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Hello America for Good Bye, Lenin!
Bavaria Film International closed a US deal with Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) for Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! ahead of its winning nine Lolas at this year's German Film Awards on Friday evening in Berlin.Commenting on the deal with SPC, which also took US distribution for Tom Tykwer's Run Lola ...
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New selection process for int'l festival of film schools
Munich's International Festival of Film Schools (IFFS) will return this year to its traditional place in November with a new structure intended to make the event more attractive.After consultation between the festival organiser Internationale Muenchner Filmwochen, Munich's Academy for Television & Film (HFF) and the international association of film schools ...
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German animators demand their own Lola award
On the eve of the German Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on Friday evening, a group of German animation producers including Warner Bros. Willi Geike, Motion Works' Tony Loeser, Dreamin' Dolphin Film's Lilian Klages and Cartoon Film's Thilo Graf Rothkirch have called on State Minister for Culture Christina Weiss to ...
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Munich unveils new regional focus strand
New films from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia will be shown in a new regional focus at this year's Munich Film Festival (June 28-July 5) alongside the event's traditional platforms for French cinema - Nouveau Cinema Francais - and Latin American cinematography - Visiones Latinamericanas. In addition, three Tributes will ...
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Polish film-maker wins PLANET award
Poland's Bartek Konopka has been selected from among 100 young filmmakers from all over the world as this year's winner of the treatment contest for the PLANET Documentary Film Prize 2004.In Konopka's project Goat Walker, the audience learns from the perspective of female goat about a recent measure to combat ...
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Gabriele Roethemeyer named artistic director at Stuttgart
Gabriele Roethemeyer, chief executive of Baden-Wuerttemberg's regional fund Medien- und Filmgesellschaft (MFG ), has been appointed artistic director for the Film- und Medienfestival GmbH (FMF) which organises the Stuttgart Ludwigsburg European Filmfest (July 10-15), European Short Film (September 10-15), the Stuttgart Internatonal Festival of Animated Film, and the fmx conference ...
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Banks move in on Kirch after Saban bid collapses
US investor Haim Saban's planned Euros 2bn takeover of bankrupt KirchMedia is off.In a joint declaration, KirchMedia's insolvency administrator and the Saban Capital Group "agreed to amicably annul the concluded contracts on the sale of the majority of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and the sale of the film rights trade."At the ...
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Sony plans pay-TV channel in Germany
Sony Pictures is planning to launch its own pay TV channel in Germany and is also interested in collaborating with T-Online on providing content for its video on demand service.Speaking to the German business daily newspaper Handelsblatt, Michael Grindon, president of Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), stated that he was ...
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Macedonia becomes 29th member of Eurimages
As of July 1, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" will become the 29th country to join Eurimages, the Council of Europe's pan-European support fund for the co-production, distribution and exhibition of cinematographic works.Consequently, projects involving Macedonian co-producers may be presented for the forthcoming deadline for applications of support on ...
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Flanders festival changes awards policy
In the light of the present crisis in arthouse distribution, Ghent's Flanders International Film Festival (FIFF) will be revising its awards policy for the 30th edition from October 7-18.While the festival will be increasing the total prize money by 10% to just over Euros 81,000, the major change is that ...
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Kinderfilmfest tribute for Iran's Mohammad Ali Talebi
Iran's Mohammad Ali Talebi is to receive the first ever showcase at a film festival of a selection of his feature films with the staging of a Director's Portrait by this year's Kinderfilmfest during the Munich Film Festival (June 28-July 5).Among the five films being shown are his 1992 film ...
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Bavaria Film closes multiple Cannes sales
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has sold the FIPRESCI Award-winning Spanish film Las Horas De Dia to France's ARP and the UK's ICA among a raft of deals concluded by the German sales agent in Cannes.ICA also picked up Argentinian director Santiago Loza's Extrano which won a Tiger Award at ...
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German DVD boom gathers pace
Germany's DVD boom continues at the expense of the VHS video market, according to figures released by video trade body BVV for the first quarter of 2003.The number of DVDs sold increased year-on-year by 57% from 7.4m units to 11.6m, while that for sell-through VHS cassettes dropped by 37% from ...
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Controversy sparked at Diagonale festival director appointment
The Diagonale festival of Austrian cinema and Austria's Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak have once more hit the headlines - this time with the appointment of Miroljub Vuckovic as the festival's Artistic Director and Tilmann Fuchs as Business Affairs Manager to succeed Christine Dollhofer and Constantin Wulff.Speaking ...
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Highlight reports increased revenue and profits
Swiss media concern Highlight Communications has posted a 16% increase in consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2003 in spite of difficult market conditions.The group, which is currently looking to acquire majority control of Germany's Constantin Film where it has a 41.4% interest, reported revenues of $32.7m (CHF 42.3m) ...
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Netherlands production platform expanded
The Netherlands Production Platform, which is held during the Netherlands Film Festival's (NFF) Holland Meeting (September 26-29) in Utrecht, is to be extended this year to include European feature projects seeking Dutch financing or co-production partners and involving major Dutch elements.Last year, producers of two German and two Belgian feature ...
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German-UK development venture formed
Germany's MagicWorx has formed a development joint venture with What's The Story, the production outfit of UK casting directors Ros and John Hubbard (Lord Of The Rings) to join forces on developing high-profile feature projects budgeted at between $2m-$20m, with the majority being between $5m-10m.This move comes after the two ...
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Kinowelt back in distribution business
The reincarnated Kinowelt will be back in business as a theatrical distributor from July 1 under the management of Michael Koelmel and Bertil le Claire.Kinowelt's distribution activities will concentrate in future on 10-12 select titles each year and the distribution arm is set to begin in August with the animation ...