All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 93
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News10 1/2 wins top prize at Mannheim Heidelberg
10 1/2 by Canada’s Daniel Grou (aka Podz) picked up the Main Award of this year’s Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival which ended on Sunday evening.
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NewsSkanhaus Group plans to invest $24m in new studio complex near Berlin
UK-based Skanhaus Group is planning to invest $24m (Euros 18m) in the construction of a new film production complex north-east of Berlin which is being billed as the world’s “first eco-friendly film studio.”
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Madsen, Kolar among jurors for EFP's Shooting Stars
The jury of experts has been named to select Europe’s ten most talented up-and-coming actors to participate in European Film Promotion’s (EFP) Shooting Stars 2011 showcase, which will be held during the forthcoming Berlinale from Feb 12-14, 2011.
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NewsBize’s The Life Of Fish opens 59th Mannheim-Heidelberg festival
The Chilean film-maker’s film will open the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival today (November 11) and runs until November 21.
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NewsNew pitching platform at Berlinale for Central European producers
Berlin’s Hungarian Institute (Collegium Hungaricum Berlin) is to host a new pitching platform, Pitch Stop, for producers from Central Europe as part of its “Cinema Total” initiative during the forthcoming Berlin Film Festival.
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NewsNew Austrian incentive FISA backs 5 films with €1m
Peter Payer’s Where Is Little Manuela is one of five projects to be supported by Austria’s new film financing incentive Film Location Austria.
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NewsSerbia's White White World wins Cottbus top prize
Serbian filmmaker Oleg Novkovic’s modern-day Greek tragedy White White World (Beli, Beli Svet) has been awarded the Grand Prix for Best Film at the 20th edition of FilmFestival Cottbus (Nov 2-7).
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NewsViennale posts record attendance as German zombie film and Romanian debut win prizes
Mexican director Pedro González-Rubio’s Alamar and the Austrian avant-garde short Shadow Cuts were the closing films tonight of this year’s edition of the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) which posted record attendance figures.
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NewsThe Woman With A Broken Nose opens 20th edition of FilmFestival Cottbus
Culture Minister Neumann attending; Connecting Cottbus copro market convenes for 12th time.
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NewsWarsaw’s CentEast market welcomes more than 200 participants
Over 200 participants attended the sixth edition of the CentEast Market, the industry arm of the Warsaw International Film Festival , running from Oct 15-17.
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Berlinale market extends birthday discount offer for second year for 'early birds'
The Berlin International Film Festival is retaining the € 100 discount on its market badges, which was introduced as a 60th birthday present last year, as an offer for “early birds” for a limited period.
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NewsGerman sales agent Beta Cinema takes on Toronto surprise hit Viva Riva! from the Congo
German sales agent Beta Cinema has picked up writer-director Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s feature debut Viva Riva! and signed its first deals with the US, UK and Australia/New Zealand.
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Three Musketeers is sixth international production at Studio Babelsberg in 2010
Berlin’s shooting frenzy continues with Paul W.S. Anderson 3D project.
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NewsGerman zombie film Rammbock sold to US, Japan and other territories
Sales to distributors in the US, Japan, Poland and Romania are among the deals signed by the Vienna-based EastWest Filmdistribution for Marven Kren’s zombie film Rammbock which had its international premiere on the Piazza Grande in Locarno in August.
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NewsSarah Bolger cast in lead for 3D fantasy adventure Starbright
Irish actress Sarah Bolger has been cast in the lead of Canadian writer-director Francesco Lucente’s 3D fantasy fairytale adventure Starbright which will begin shooting in the US in early 2011.
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Dorsch leaves German Films
Christian Dorsch has left the German film industry’s Munich-based promotional agency German Films Service + Marketing GmbH “to take up new professional challenges.”
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Paramount’s German outpost picks up second German production
Shooting has begun today on Elmar Fischer’s sensitive comedy Offroad, which marks the second local pickup by the German outpost of Paramount Pictures.
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NewsGermany's Splendid unveils Toronto deals
Splendid Medien signed deals for German-language territories and the Benelux to four films at last month’s Toronto International Film Festival.
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NewsGood Bye, Lenin! director Becker plans second feature Oskar
Seven years after his last film Good Bye, Lenin!, director Wolfgang Becker is now in preparations for a second feature project entitled Oskar alongside the previously announced Ich und Kaminski.
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NewsZurich's international Golden Eye goes to Woman With A Broken Nose
European films took home all of the prizes at this year’s edition of the Zurich Film Festival which will come to an end on Sunday evening (Oct 3) with a gala screening of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.