All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 86
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NewsMungiu: European filmmakers able to take risks thanks to MEDIA
European filmmakers have been able to take risks thanks to the European Union’s MEDIA Programme, director Cristian Mungiu declared in a keynote speech during the public hearing on MEDIA and MEDIA Mundus in Brussels today.
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NewsEuropean film industry faces MEDIA showdown with EU
Securing the future of the MEDIA Programme could be just one battle of many to come betwen leading lights of theEuropean film industry and their counterparts at the European Commission.
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NewsBulgarian filmmakers appeal to prime minister
Continuing concerns about the future of the Bulgarian film industry have led the local community to petition Prime Minister Boyko Borissov [pictured] “to find a lasting solution for the tremendous problems of Bulgarian cinema.”
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NewsEuropean Commission earmarks $19.5m for African, Caribbean and Pacific films
The European Commission is to support filmmakers from the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) with a total of $19.5m (€14m) as part of its new ACP-EU Support Programme to the ACP Cultural Sectors running between 2011 and 2016.
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NewsShelter wins in Sofia; Indian Wife, Youth take pitches awards
Dragomir Sholev’s feature debut Shelter has become the first Bulgarian film to win the Grand Prix of Sofia International Film Festival’s (SIFF) International Competition.
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NewsSwiss Oscar entry wins two awards at this year’s Swiss Film Prize
Switzerland’s 2011 Oscar entry La Petite Chambre by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond won the awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay at this year’s Swiss Film Prize Quartz 2011.
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NewsTykwer’s Three picks up six Lola nominations
Tom Tykwer’s love triangle with a difference Three (Drei) has picked up six nominations for this year’s German Film Awards which will be presented at a gala ceremony in Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpalast on Friday, April 8.
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NewsEC Commissioner Vassiliou responds to producers' fears about MEDIA
Androulla Vassiliou, EC Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, has sought to allay European producers’ concerns about the financial independence of a future MEDIA Programme.
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FeaturesEuropean industry mobilises ahead of MEDIA hearing
European film professionals are anxious to hear what’s discussed on March 18 about the hotly debated future of the MEDIA Programme.
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NewsSofia Meetings pitches include new films from Qurbani, Akram, Horvath
Second features by Burhan Qurbani, Barmak Akram and Viktor Chouchkov Jr and debuts by Lili Horváth and Tom Shoval are among 18 projects being pitched at the eighth edition of the Sofia Meetings which kicks off in the Bulgarian capital on Thursday.
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NewsBarroso claims threats of cuts to MEDIA are 'completely inaccurate'
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has denied that he has been behind plans to reduce or completely cut the MEDIA Programme after its current cycle comes to an end in December 2013.
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NewsTelepool has strong EFM with Leave, Days To Come
Munich-based sales company Telepool reports that this year’s European Film Market (EFM) was “a very successful market” with further deals concluded for Feo Aladag’s award-winning When We Leaveand “great interest” shown by buyers from the US in Lars Kraume’s futuristic thriller The Days To Come.
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FeaturesFlying Concorde
In an extract from Screen’s new Independent Distribution Report, Martin Blaney looks at how larger German independents grew their market share despite an overall dip in box office.
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NewsTelepool handling sales for first film from Cinema Jenin
Munich-based Telepool is handling international sales on the documentary After The Silence, which is the first film project to be supported by the German-Palestinian initiative Cinema Jenin.Produced by Marcus Vetter, the director of the award-winning The Heart of Jenin, After The Silence has been directed by two young German filmmakers ...
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NewsTop filmmakers sign petition to support future of MEDIA Programme
More than 300 European filmmakers including Wim Wenders and Mike Leigh sign the petition.
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NewsBeta signs more than 35 deals during busy EFM
Hot sellers include My Best Enemy, Almanya, In Darkness, Black Bread and Naples Passione.
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NewsEFM 2011: Berlin’s most successful ever market for arthouse titles
Hot sellers included Nader and Simin: A Separation, Tomboy and documentary Khodorkovsky.
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NewsBerlin's Golden Bear goes to Farhadi's A Separation
This marks the first time that an Iranian film has won the Golden Bear; other winners include The Turin Horse, If Not Us, Who, The Forgiveness of Blood and Sleeping Sickness.
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NewsKosslick says 2011 Berlinale couldn't 'avoid the political'
Dieter Kosslick says Bela Tarr FIPRESCI prize could be a show of solidarity with Hungarian filmmakers; he also talks about challenges of digital cinema in regards to festival and market.
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NewsBrownian co-producers to reunite for Leopold’s next film
The Netherlands’ Circe Films and Germany’s Coin Film, co-producers of Nanouk Leopold’s Forum film Brownian Movement, will re-unite for her next feature project It’s All So Quiet based on The Twin, the internationally bestselling novel by Gerbrand Bakker.