All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 89
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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.
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NewsEurope's national film agencies support MEDIA future
Agencies offer Declaration in support of MEDIA after Berlinale meeting.
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NewsHaas joins Paramount Germany
Former Disney and Sony Pictures studio executive Maike Haas has brought onboard by Paramount Pictures Germany as executive consultant for local language acquisition and production.
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Berlinale's World Cinema Fund launches new programme for Africa
A new WCF programme entitled WCF Factories will contribute in the near future to the greater creative and structural autonomy of African cinema.
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NewsNew heads for funding bodies in Ireland, Austria, Switzerland
Funder appointments met with widespread approval.
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NewsBille August checks in for Holmqvist's The Unit
Story is about an unusual romance between society outcasts in the near future.
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NewsUnafilm leaves behind Despair for new co-productions
Our Grand Despair’s German producer boarding new projects by Adrian Sitaru Xavier Simon, Norbert ter Hall
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NewsSenator Entertainment taps new P&A fund
Senator Entertainment has signed an agreement with the newly established PandA fund to guarantee up to 70% of the P&A costs on the future releases of its distribution arm Senator Film Verleih.
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NewsSteinborn’s Arden lines up films with directors including Ainouz
Former X-Filme exec Andro Steinborn lining up projects by Karim Ainouz, Nadav Schirmann and Marianne Sägebrecht culture clash comedy with his new company Arden Film
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NewsMEDIA programme to have three major meetings about programme's future
MEDIA unit head Aviva Silver speaks about programme’s future, cinema digitization pilot project launched with €2m in 2011