All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 64
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NewsLove Steaks wins Berlin slot
Slamdance winner won the Max Ophüls Prize at the weekend, granting it a slot in the Berlinale.
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NewsEastWest takes six including Whispers
Vienna-based sales agent EastWest Distribution has picked up six new titles including Rotterdam premiere Whispers Behind The Wall.
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NewsEast Meets West winners named
Projects from Bulgaria, Belgium and Macedonia have picked up prizes at the When East Meets West (WEMW) international co-production meetings in Trieste.
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NewsEFM director talks 2014 market
EXCLUSIVE: Beki Probst, market director at Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM), talks about the debut of South African filmmakers at the market and how the figures compare to last year’s event.
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NewsGlobal Screen unveils EFM line-up
Frauke Finsterwalder’s tragicomic Finsterworld and a new screen adaptation of the children’s classic Pinocchio are among five market premieres being unveiled by Munich-based Global Screen at next month’s EFM in Berlin.
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NewsKosslick talks Berlinale challenges
EXCLUSIVE: The return of the Zoo-Palast cinema to the Berlinale’s roster of screening venues is “the greatest challenge facing us this year,” according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.
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NewsPicture Tree unveils EFM slate
Berlin-based sales and production company Picture Tree International (PTI) has secured distribution rights to four new titles ahead of this year’s European Film Market (EFM).
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NewsFirst Berlinale 2014 prize awarded
Sandra Kaudelka and Sebastian Metz have been named joint winners of the Berlinale’s third “Made in Germany” prize.
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Russian minister revives film quota plans
Russia’s Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky has revived proposals for screening quotas for Russian films in cinemas
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EC to probe studios' pay-TV deals
Hollywood’s five major studios’ licensing agreements with leading European pay TV operators such as the UK’s BSkyB and France’s Canal+ are to be investigated by the European Commission (EC).
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NewsEFM first-timers line up
More than 20 companies have already been confirmed as first-time exhibitors at next month’s European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.
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NewsFack Ju Gohte leads 2013 German BO
Austria’s local hits led by documentary Alphabet; Local film boom in Switzerland.
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FeaturesKristijonas Vildziunas & Uljana Kim, Seneca's Day
Martin Blaney talks to the director and producer of Seneca’s Day, winner of the best pitch award at the 2013 Baltic Event.
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NewsRaspberry&Cream boards Pierrot Lunaire
Bruce LaBruce’s film [pictured] will have its world premiere at Berlinale; Beta Cinema picks up Alain Gsponer’s Solothurn opener Akte Grüninger.
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NewsRussian government to boost film funding
Meanwhile, Russia pulls the plug on its co-development fund with Germany.
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NewsBenelux focus at When East Meets West
Benelux is the regional focus for Trieste’s fourth edition of its When East Meets West (WEMW) co-production forum (January 20-22, 2014) being held during the Trieste Film Festival.
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NewsPhysician producers open to sequels
Beta sells other territories on the film based on Noah Gordon’s trilogy of books.
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NewsGerman-French fund backs Pitts, Sokurov
New films by Rafi Pitts [pictured], Alexander Sokurov, Benoit Jacquot and Volker Schlöndorff are among 12 projects backed by the German-French “Mini-Traité” Co-production Fund in 2013 with a total of over €3m.
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NewsNew Europe Coalition planned
A coalition of film professionals from the EU’s new Member States is likely to be one of the results of the Audiovisual Summit in Warsaw this week.