All articles by Melanie Goodfellow – Page 93
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NewsWild Bunch to unveil comedy-driven French 2013 slate at Paris Rendez-vous
EXCLUSIVE: Company will also launch sales on Claire Denis vendetta picture, Luc Jacquet’s immersive forest documentary and upcoming dramas from Abdellatif Kechiche and Bruno Dumont.
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NewsEurimages supports Wenders, Virzi and Mundruczo
Co-production fund announces final selections for 2012 after board meeting in Dubai.
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NewsCairo to get first indie screen
Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El Said of Zero Production and The Kite Runner star and filmmaker Khalid Abdalla spearhead creation of Cimatheque theatre.
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NewsMonaliza heads to Marrakech
Distributor and exhibitor Marrakech Spectacles has picked up Moroccan rights for Jordanian director Fadi G. Haddad’s romantic comedy When MonaLiza Smiled, which is screening in DIFF’s Muhr Arab Feature competition.
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NewsBenoit Jacquot’s Farewell My Queen wins Louis Delluc Prize
Benoit Jacquot’s French revolution drama Farewell My Queen (Les Adieux à La Reine) has won the Louis Delluc Prize for best French film in 2012, the awards presided over by Gilles Jacob announced on Friday.
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NewsRouge International bulks up slate with Family Film ahead of Les Arcs
Julie Gayet and Nadia Turincev’s Paris-based production company is also set to unveil a rough-cut of A Spell To Ward off the Darkness in Les Arcs.
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NewsRouge International bulks up slate ahead of Les Arcs
Julie Gayet and Nadia Turincev’s Paris-based production company is also set to unveil rough-cut of A Spell To Ward off the Darkness in Les Arcs.
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FeaturesIbrahim El Batout, Winter Of Discontent
Ibrahim El Batout talks to Screen about his latest film Winter of Discontent.
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NewsBatata, Night, Murdoch scoop top DFC prizes
Lebanese feature documentary Batata, contemporary Tunisian drama A Full Moon Night and Jordanian producer Rula Nasser’s Me, Myself And Murdoch won the top three prizes of $25,000 each at the close of DIFF’s co-production market Dubai Film Connection.
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NewsImage Nation unveils third Emirati picture
Image Nation Abu Dhabi has signed Emirati director Mohammed Saeed Harib for its third local feature film - a family comedy about a disgraced football player who redeems himself as a coach for a failing team at an Abu Dhabi high school.
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NewsDistributors network MEDIS sets out objectives
Recently launched Middle East distributors network MEDIS set its first objectives at an inaugural general assembly in Dubai on Monday (Dec 10).
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NewsEurimages mulls border extension
Pan-European production fund Eurimages is mulling how it can extend cooperation beyond the borders of its 36 member states, executive director Roberto Olla revealed at a Film Forum panel on the body on Wednesday.
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NewsEgyptian film rebels form breakaway union
Independent film movement takes root in Cairo challenging film and TV industry’s old guard.
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NewsIraqi-Kuwaiti filmmakers join forces in Babylon
Iraqi-Italian Haider Rashid and Kuwaiti Abdullah Boushahri recently collaborated on It’s About To Rain (Sta Per Piovere).
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NewsStarfield unites Under the Bombs team in London
Quartet behind 2007 road move shot against backdrop of 2006 Lebanese War reunites for comedy, provisionally entitled London Haram.
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NewsEgypt’s Zad goes into exile with Mact Productions
Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication is embarking on its first international co-production, teaming with Paris-based Mact Productions on The Exile, a romantic and political drama set against the backdrop of Luxor in the 1980s.
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NewsMasharawi wraps West Bank-set Palestine Stereo
Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi has wrapped his latest feature Palestine Stereo and is looking for post-production finance, according to Tunisian producer Habib Attia of Cinetelefilms.
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Euromed spearheads launch of MENA distributors network
A consortium of around 20 distributors from across the Middle East has launched a new regional network, provisionally called MEDIS.
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NewsFirst Afghan web TV channel launches
Kabul and Dubai-based producer Hamida Aman has launched Afghanistan’s first web TV channel Globox.tv, tapping into the country’s burgeoning social media culture.
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NewsWide Management sells Zabana! to Cinecitta Luce
Cinecittà Luce has acquired Italian rights to Algerian Saïd Ould-Khelifa’s Zabana!, a contender in Dubai’s Muhr Arab feature competition, from French sales company Wide Management.