All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 53
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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.
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FeaturesLocarno 2014: Industry Days steps up
Locarno’s fifth annual Industry Days (Aug 9-11) will feature an increasingly proactive Swiss presence, as well as a more international approach with STEP IN.
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NewsSundance teams with Polish festival
The Sundance Film Festival has entered into a partnership with Poznan’s Transatlantyk Film Festival to present a selection of its titles at the forthcoming fourth edition running from August 8-14.