All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 55
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NewsThilo Rothkirch dies aged 65
European animators mourn passing of producer-director Thilo Rothkirch.
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NewsUK and Latin America focus at 6th MBS
Moscow Business Square (June 21-24) runs parallel to the Moscow International Film Festival.
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NewsTest wins at Kinotavr
Alexander Kott’s love story [pictured] awarded the Grand Prix and the prize for best cinematography.
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NewsTransilvania Trophy goes to Spain
The Transilvania International Film Festival’s (TIFF) main prize went this year to Spanish film-maker Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Stockholm as the week-long festival came to a close on June 8.
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NewsTransilvania reveals first grants
An observational documentary and two fiction films are the first projects to be supported by the Transilvania Film Festival Fund (TFFF).
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NewsLeviathan producer named Russian leader
Non Stop Productions, producer of Cannes winner Leviathan, is among nine “industry leaders” selected by the Russian Cinema Fund (Fond Kino) to take a share of $55m (RUB1.9bn).
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NewsJeunet's Spivet to open Munich
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet will be the opening film at this year’s Filmfest München (June 27-July 5) after Jeunet previously kicked off the festival in Munich in 2001 with Amelie From Montmartre.
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NewsFack Ju producer moves to Constantin
Lena Schömann, producer of box office hit Fack Ju Göhte (Suck Me Shakespeer), is switching to Constantin Film after 12 years at the distributor-producer’s subsidiary Rat Pack Filmproduktion.
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NewsRussian cash for Solondz, Fiennes projects
Films by Todd Solondz, Ralph Fiennes and Andrei Konchalovsky as well as an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights, starring Daniel Brühl, are among 12 projects to be supported by Russia’s Ministry of Culture this year.
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NewsTransilvania expands industry offering
A gala open-air screening of Stephen Frears’ Philomena will tonight (May 30) launch the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) which is expanding its industry dimension for its 13th edition.
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NewsCannes winner to head Kinotavr jury
After winning Best Screenplay at Cannes for Leviathan, Andrei Zvyagintsev is to head the jury at the 25th “Kinotavr” Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi.
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NewsHelma Sanders-Brahms dies aged 73
The German film industry is mourning the passing of film-maker Helma Sanders-Brahms, one of the leading women directors of the New German Cinema with a broad international following, at the age of 73 after a long illness.
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NewsEU-US free trade talks under fire
The TTIP free-trade talks between the EU and US continue to come under fire from a growing chorus of European film-makers and EU Culture Ministers.
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NewsUkrainian director arrested by Russian Secret Service
Oleg Sentsov has been allegedly “kidnapped” by the FSB.
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FeaturesSwiss industry quietly confident about return to MEDIA
As Swiss producers, distributors and cinema-owners gather in Cannes, those dark days of February’s Berlinale seem far away when the Swiss referendum on an ¨ Initiative against mass immigration¨ looked like resulting in the Swiss industry being denied access in future to the EU’s Creative Europe programme.At the beginning of ...
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NewsRohfilm to reunite with Asher
EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based production house to team up with The Slut director on Deadsea.
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Distribution analysis to be presented in Cannes
Findings of analysis into three new distribution strategies to be presented today.
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NewsARP Seléction picks up Maidan
EXCLUSIVE: Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary world premieres as a special screening in Official Selection.
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