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All articles by Melanie Goodfellow – Page 74
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NewsFrance submits Saint Laurent to Oscars
Film to receive US premiere at New York Film Festival on Sept 30.
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NewsNetflix launches in France
US streaming giant signs 11th hour TV set-top box deal with Bouygues Telecom.
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NewsDoc & Film seals National Gallery, Melody deals
EXCLUSIVE: Melody [pictured] piques buyer interest after Montreal wins.
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NewsMFI announces Louder Than Bombs deals
EXCLUSIVE: Joachim Trier’s English language debut, co-starring Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert, is currently shooting in New York.
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NewsVersatile adds La Patota to TIFF slate
EXCLUSIVE: Other new additions include Jerome Bonnell’s A Trois, On Y Va.
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NewsVersatile acquires Chan’s Dearest
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese child abduction film to screen in Toronto following world premiere in Venice.
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NewsIndie Sales to launch Zucchini, new Jolivet at Toronto
EXCLUSIVE: My Life As A Zucchini is written by Tomboy and Girlhood director Céline Sciamma.
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NewsUDI taking Felix and Meira, Red Rose to Toronto
Company also handling Ognjen Svilicic’s These Are The Rules, which world premieres in Venice’s Orizzonti.
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NewsNetflix unveils first French original drama Marseille
Netflix taps into local cinema talent for political drama set against backdrop of France’s third largest city.
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NewsMemento heads to Toronto with Marguerite
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales agent to launch new film loosely inspired by “world’s worst soprano”, Florence Foster Jenkins.
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NewsFrance gets new culture minister
Outgoing culture minister Aurélie Filippetti denounced culture budget cuts in open letter.
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NewsJean Reno to star in Sweeney remake
French star takes on Ray Winstone role in Paris-set remake, The Squad.
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NewsWide House taking Fémis doc to Toronto
Other titles on Toronto slate include Billy Pols’ bio-doc Zombie [pictured] about cult skateboarder Tim Zom and Johan Grimonprez’s upcoming arms trade exposé Shadow World.
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NewsNajwa Najjar locks West Bank film
Algerian singer Souad Massi and Egyptian Khaled Abol Naga co-star in film shot in West Bank city of Nablus.
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NewsVenice wanted Gone Girl, Inherent Vice
Artistic director says US focus on local market may have contributed to Venice missing out on the new films.
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FeaturesBarbera talks Venice line-up
Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera discusses the strong French and Italian presence in this year’s line-up, how festivals should be places of research and discovery and the ones that got away.
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NewsWild Bunch, Senator announce merger
Merger ties in with Senator Entertainment’s restructuring strategy.
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NewsEuropaCorp unveils US buyer team
Paris-based EuropaCorp has launched a US acquisitions team that will be on the ground in Toronto and is headed by French executive Federica Sainte-Rose based in Los Angeles.
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CommentIs boycotting the answer in Israel?
Palestinian directors refused to show their films at the Jerusalem Film Festival last week in protest at Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Is it the right approach?
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FeaturesBeyond blue sky
Ritesh Batra, Talya Lavie and Nora Martirosyan are among the 13 filmmakers due to pitch their Jerusalem International Film Lab projects [July 10]. Melanie Goodfellow reports on the push to develop real-world projects.