All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 52
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NewsMEDIA moving house, Swiss cash for distribution
Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-programme is set to come under the responsibility of the Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society to reflect the future role of the digital shift in the development of the creative content industry in Europe.
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NewsRestored Deluge to open Gdynia
Restored, re-edited version of The Deluge to open Michał Oleszczyk’s first year at Gdynia
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NewsWhen East Meets West expands beyond Europe
Trieste’s When East Meets West (WEMW) co-production market is to cast its net wider to include North America for the first time.
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NewsGerman funds foster links with Norway, Denmark
Closer collaboration is being promoted by two German public film funds and opposite numbers in Norway and Denmark.
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NewsZübert set for English-language debut
EXCLUSIVE: Tour de Force director to adapt TC Boyle’s cult novel Water Music.
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NewsStampfer and Vogelbacher launch IFP
IFP will advise international film and TV productions “in the areas of film financing and the provision of technical services with a special focus on Germany”.
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NewsSokurov, Probst, Bondarchuk back new St. Petersburg event
Filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, EFM president Beki Probst and actor-director-producer Fyodor Bondarchuk (Stalingrad) are among the high-profile names backing a new event in St. Petersburg.
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NewsEFP launches new producer initiative
European Film Promotion (EFP) has launched a new initiative, Producers Lab Hamburg (PLH), bringing producers from across Europe to meet with their Hamburg-based opposite numbers.
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NewsK5 to sell Danish post-war story
K5 International has taken on distribution for Martin Zandvliet’s Land Of Mine (Under Sandet) about a sensitive chapter in Danish post-war history.
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NewsProducers Lab Toronto reveals line-up
The UK’s Isabelle Stead, Canada’s George Ayoub and Australia’s Kristian Moliere are among those selected for this year’s Producers Lab Toronto.
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NewsFilipino drama wins top Locarno prize
Locarno’s Golden Leopard has been awarded to Filipino director Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic From What Is Before.
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NewsCarlo Chatrian talks Locarno highlights
Locarno director talks highlights and UK presence at the festival and looks to 2015.
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NewsTFL launches distribution fund
Fund is dedicated to supporting audience development strategies; Meanwhile, Beta Cinema has acquired Toronto title Labyrinth of Lies.
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NewsGreenaway plans second Eisenstein film
Peter Greenaway is to return to the legendary Russian film director Sergey Eisenstein for a second feature, The Eisenstein Handshakes, this time to be located in Switzerland, after the Mexican-set Eisenstein in Guanajato.
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NewsSwiss film industry in funding call
LOCARNO: Swiss film industry calls for additional $22m (CHF 20m) injection of funding; swift deal on Creative Europe recedes.
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NewsSwiss filmmakers in diversity call
Young Swiss filmmakers are calling for greater diversity in Swiss fiction production and the introduction of a new funding instrument to support up-and-coming directors.
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NewsAviva Silver returns to EC
Aviva Silver, who was head of unit at the MEDIA Programme until June 2013, is set to resume playing a key role in forging future European audiovisual and cultural policy.
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NewsDepardieu's Viktor to premiere in Russia
New films from Krzysztof Zanussi and Ralph Fiennes to also world premiere at Window To Europe Film Festival.
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NewsWhite Shadow wins in Wroclaw
Noaz Deshe’s feature debut White Shadow was the big winner at this year’s T-Mobile New Horizons in Poland’s Wroclaw.
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NewsWIDE starts presales on Solstice
Wroclaw New Horizons roundup: works in progress include Close Ups and I, Olga Hepnarova.