All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 53
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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.
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FeaturesLocarno 2014: a return to Africa
In her first year as head of Locarno Film Festival’s co-production lab Open Doors, Ananda Scepka brings the focus back to Sub-Saharan Africa. Martin Blaney discovers why
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NewsDominique Pinon joins DuhLess 2
French actor Dominique Pinon and Serbia’s Milos Bikovic have joined the cast of Roman Prygunov’s DuhLess 2, the sequel to his 2012 box-office success based on Sergey Minaev’s eponymous novel.
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NewsBrazilian delegation set for Locarno
Film-maker Kleber Mendoça, who won the FIPRESCI Prize at Rotterdam and Wroclaw’s New Horizons for his fiction feature debut Neighbouring Sounds in 2012, will be in Locarno next month as part of an almost 60-strong Brazilian delegation.
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New Horizons Studio talent revealed
Young filmmakers to participate in the 5th New Horizons Studio.
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NewsK5 Independent takes Father
K5 Independent is to handle international sales for Visar Morina’s feature debut Father (Babai) which is currently shooting in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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NewsCreative Europe names MEDIA head
Spanish-born Lucía Recalde Langarica has been named successor to Xavier Troussard as head of the MEDIA sub-programme for Creative Europe.
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FeaturesOdessa International Film Festival
Gallery of pictures from the Odessa International Film Festival (July 11-19).
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NewsMH17 tragedy overshadows Odessa
Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation won the Grand Prix at this year’s Odessa International Film Festival (OIFF), overshadowed in its final days by the shooting down of a Malaysian Airways plane.
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NewsDovzhenko biopic secures co-producers
Konstantin Konovalov’s Odessa-set biopic about the Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko.Odessa-Debut, has already found co-producers in Finland and Argentina.
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NewsUS majors eye Ukrainian blockbuster
Speaking at the Odessa Film Festival the producer of Sergey Mokritsky’s war drama Unbroken said that the project had now completed principal photography.
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NewsFirst timers gear up for Locarno
EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic, Oscilloscope and Koch Media are among the first-time companies attending the Locarno Film Festival this year.
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NewsBuder departs Connecting Cottbus
Philipp Bräuer also announces decision to leave Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival.
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NewsOdessa honours Frears
UK director Stephen Frears has been awarded the Golden Duke Lifetime Achievement Award during the opening ceremony of the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival (OIFF, July 11-19).
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NewsPuskepalis in Clinch with Leviathan star
Russian actor Sergey Puskepalis is to make his directorial debut and has cast Alexey Serebryakov, star of Cannes winner Leviathan.
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NewsSentsov case heads to Strasbourg
The campaign to free Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov from detention in Russia has been taken to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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NewsStill Life wins at VOICES
Uberto Pasolini’s second feature [pictured] wins at fifth edition of Russian showcase for young European cinema.
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NewsIndustry mourns Frank Stehling
Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg veteran was most recently MD of Berlin-based PRIMEHOUSE.