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7 Crates and Clandestine Childhood win top Films In Progress awards
Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori’s Paraguayan thriller 7 Crates (7 Cajas) and Benjamin Avila’s Argentinian-Spanish-Brazilian drama Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina) have won the much coveted Films In Progress awards at San Sebastian.
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Paul Bettany, Brian Cox attached to Nick Murphy thriller
Neal Street feature scripted by Bill Gallagher gets go-ahead funding from BBC Films and BFI.
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Iceland's Oscar committee selects Runarsson's Volcano
Runar Runarsson’s debut feature Volcano will represent Iceland in the Foreign Language Oscar race.
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Bavaria and Telepool merge foreign sales units
Thorsten Ritter to head film sales at new company Global Screen; Rolf Moser and Thomas Weymar will be managing directors
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Supervision to bring Broadway musical Memphis to the big screen
It follows their release of the 3D film of Michael Flatley’s Lord Of The Dance in cinemas earlier this year.
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Wild Bunch Benelux goes on mini-acquisition spree
Speaking on the opening day of the Netherlands Film Festival (21-30 September) in Utrecht, company M-D Pim Hermeling revealed that he has pre-bought Only Decent People, the new film from IDTV producer Frans van Gestel (a guest of honour at the festival this year.)
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Frenetic strikes Swiss deal for TrustNordisk's Black's Game
Swiss distributor Frenetic Films has acquired Óscar Thór Axelsson’s Icelandic thriller Black’s Game.
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Hertzberg elected IFTA chair
CineTel Films president Paul Hertzberg has been elected chairman of the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), the trade association representing independent producers and distributors worldwide.
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Locomotive starts genre label Firebox
Gabriel Gornell and Colleen Seldin’s New York-based Locomotive Distribution has launched a new genre label, Firebox.
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Kino Lorber gets Elles for US
Kino Lorber has acquired all US rights to Elles, the Juliette Binoche drama that recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
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SnagFilms adds features
Documentary streaming operation SnagFilms has unveiled its first slate of feature film offerings as well as a number of new distribution partnerships.
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Full of Drive
At this year’s Cambridge Film Festival, director Nicolas Winding Refn talks fairy tales, pretty women and some risky business.
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Verhoeven plans user-generated project
Paul Verhoeven, the 73-year-old Dutch director of Basic Instinct and Robocop, will be attending MIPCOM next month to explain the concept behind his new “user generated” movie that will be made in collaboration with the general public.
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Eros teams with Jimmy Shergill to tap Punjabi market
Indian major signs four-film deal with Jimmy Shergill Productions
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Hot projects on Screenbase this week
UK productions Blood and Postman Pat: The Movie - You Know You’re The One, as well as French feature Ipu - Convicted To Live are among Screenbase’s highlights this week.
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IFC acquires rights to Penumbra
IFC Midnight has acquired all rights for North America, Malaysia and Singapore to writer-directors Adrian and Ramiro Garcia Bogliano’s Penumbra, which had its world premiere this week at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.