All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 74
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NewsCreative Europe reaches “important milestone”
The proposed Creative Europe programme reached “an important milestone” yesterday (26 Nov) after a decision taken by the EU’s 27 ministers of culture at a meeting in Brussels of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport (EYCS) Council under the chairmanship of Cyprus’ Minister for Education & Culture George Demosthenous.
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NewsCo-pro projects emerge ahead of Rendez-Vous
New projects by Arslan, Azoulay, Elkabetz to pitched at co-production market during 10th German-French Rendez-Vous
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NewsEuropa Cinemas secures two years of MEDIA funding
The Europa Cinemas (EC) network has secured a further two years of funding from the European Union’s MEDIA Programme.
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NewsEurimages to lower funding cap
Pan-European co-production fund Eurimages has unveiled a number of changes to its guidelines that will come into effect from January 2013.
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NewsGerman distributors secure AFM deals
Several German distributors returned from this year’s American Film Market with signed and sealed deals for new acquisitions.
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NewsFirst European VoD film festival reveals line-up
The programme has been unveiled for Europe’s first video on demand film festival, which will screen through seven VoD providers.
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NewsIran’s Karimi wins Mannheim-Heidelberg awards
Iranian filmmaker Niki Karimi has received the main award and Newcomer of the Year at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.
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NewsGermany drafts new VoD regulations
Angela Merkel’s coalition cabinet has greenlit new regulations concerning video-on-demand (VoD) services in the draft German Film Law (FFG) that would come into effect from the beginning of 2014.
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NewsCreative Europe faces 470+ amendments; Almodovar supports threatened student project
EXCLUSIVE: European Parliament deputies have tabled over 470 amendments to the European Commission’s proposed Creative Europe programme following the draft report by Italian MEP Silvia Costa (Screen Daily, Oct 2).
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NewsPolish cinema wins big at Cottbus
Polish cinema was the big winner at this year’s FilmFestival Cottbus with the international jury unanimously awarding Maria Sadowska’s Women’s Day the €20,000 Main Prize for Best Film.
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New films to be unveiled at 11th Baltic Event
New projects by Estonia’s Jaak Kilmi, Finland’s Klaus Harö and Georgia’s Bakur Bakuradze being presented at the 11th Baltic Event in Tallinn
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NewsGermany boosts film funding to €70m
Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann has secured an additional €10m for the DFFF incentive programme’s annual budget from next year, bringing the total available to domestic and international productions up to €70m.
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NewsMEDIA-supported VOD initiative courts controversy
Windows debate spurred on by exhibition cancellation of titles launch through special VOD programme.
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NewsHaneke wins in Vienna; Austrian film fund boost
Directors Michael Haneke, Kenneth Lonergan, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel were among the winners at the 50th Viennale.
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NewsLocarno's Chatrian talks about programme plans and Cukor retrospective
Locarno’s new artistic director Carlo Chatrian to continue festival’s “idea of cinema as a meeting place and act of discovery” as he unveils plans to dedicate the 2013 retrospective to George Cukor and announces a reshuffle of selection committee.
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NewsBille August signs up for Nabokov's Laughter
Danish filmmaker Bille August has signed up to direct an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1932 novel Laughter in the Dark.
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NewsEC scheme awards €2m to Wild Bunch, ARP and Artificial Eye
Distributors Wild Bunch, ARP and Artificial Eye have secured nearly €2m from the European Commission (EC) to support simultaneous multiplatform releases – a scheme that has drawn criticism from cinema-owners.
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NewsEFP sends communication to EP and EC, call to lobby national politicians over Creative Europe programme
Over 400 figures from the European film industry, including Carey Mulligan [pictured], put their name to European Film Promotion’s communication to the European Parliament and European Commission.
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NewsUS deals for Deflowering and Out in the Dark
North American deals have signed by Berlin‘s m-appeal for Michiel ten Horn’s The Deflowering of Eva van End and Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark.