All articles by Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte – Page 22
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French sales house looks for rich seam from the Pit
RisingFrench sales house Funny Balloons has acquired worldwide rights to Juan CarlosRulfo's award-winning In The Pit.Thefilm, produced by La Media Luna Producciones, Juan Carlos Rulfo and EugeniaMontiel, will have its market premiere at Cannes.InThe Pit is the Mexican director's second feature-lengthdocumentary and focuses on a Mexican legend which holds that ...
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Hassid named director of foreign film acquisitions for Canal Plus
The Canal Plus Group announced Friday the appointment of Laurent Hassidto the post of director of foreign film acquisitions.Hassid will report to head of film Evi Fullenbach. His responsibilitieswill include overseeing acquisitions of foreign films, excluding films from theUS majors, and pre-buys on French films shot in foreign languages for ...
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Hassid heads foreign film buying for Canal Plus
The CanalPlus Group has appointed Laurent Hassid to the post ofdirector of foreign film acquisitions.Hassidwill report to head of film Evi Fullenbach. His responsibilities will includeoverseeing acquisitions of foreign films, excluding films from the US majors,and pre-buys on French films shot in foreign languages for Canal Plus, CanalPlus Cinema and ...
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Cannes announces final juries for Un Certain Regard and Camera d'Or
Cannes festivalorganizers have announced the final compositions of the juries for the UnCertain Regard and Camera d'Or juries.As previously announced US director and producer Monte Hellman will preside over the Un Certain Regard jury joinedby Iranian author Marjane Satrapi,American journalist Laura Winters, Italian journalist Maurizio Cabon, French journalist Jean-Pierre Lavoignatand ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for The First Cry
Following the global success of March Of ThePenguins, French sales house Wild Bunch is re-teaming with France's Disney Naturefor The First Cry, a documentary from director Gilles De Maistre.The First Cry focuses on 12 women in different countries all overthe world who are about to give birth. De Maistre andhis ...
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Cannes 2006 line-up
CANNES 2006In CompetitionFlandres (Bruno Dumont)Selon Charlie (Nicole Garcia) Quand J'etais Chaunteur (When I was a Singer) (Xavier Giannoli)Volver (Pedro Almodovar)Red Road (Andrea Arnold)La Raison Du Plus Faible (The Right Of The Weakest) (Lucas Belvaux)Indigenes (Days Of Glory) (Rachid Bouchareb)Iklimer (Climates) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)Juventude em Marcha (Pedro ...
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StudioCanal slate includes two from Wong Kar-wai
StudioCanal is heading to the CannesMarket with a line up that includes two films from Cannes jury president WongKar-wai along with the latest from Mathieu Kassovitz, Emir Kusturica andDavid Lynch and a sentimental documentary about a year in the lives of newbornbabies.Along with the previously announced Lady From Shanghai, which ...
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Cannes Classics to present restored Platoon
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year'sedition of Cannes Classics. The initiative is a specially programmed sectionwhich screens new and restored copies of old films.Special invitees include Oliver Stone for a screening of a restoredversion of Platoon and 20 minutes of his forthcoming film World TradeCenter. ...
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Rezo Films takes on sales for Uro
Heading into Cannes, France'sRezo Films International has boarded Un CertainRegard title Uro by Norway'sStefan Faldbakken.The film is a thriller about a member of an elitepolice unit who works undercover to expose a criminal drug network and ends uptorn between following the law and straying to the dark side.Urois Faldbakken's first ...
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Tim Burton joines Cannes Cinefondation jury
Director Tim Burton has been added to the jury for the Cinefondation, Cannes Film Festival organizers announcedTuesday morning.Burton joins jurypresident Andrei Konchalovsky along with Sandrine Bonnaire, Souleymane Cisse, Daniel Bruhl and Zbigniew Preisner.The Cinefondation will hand out three prizeson May 26 during the festival and will also award the short ...
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Cannes announces Directors Fortnight lineup
Europe once again comes on strong amongst Cannes competitors with the Directors Fortnight sidebar boasting 11 films from the continent. In total, 22 titles were announced Tuesday morning in Paris with six films from France alone, not including co-productions in which the country is involved.The US makes the second biggest ...
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Asia, Latin America boost involvement in Cannes Market
Despite the lack of Asian films in official selection this year, producers,distributors and sales agents from the region are upping their participation atthe Cannes Market.Market president Jerome Paillard told ScreenDaily.comthat the current overall inscription rate is up 8% over last year with morethan 10,000 participants.Most notably, Asian involvement is up ...
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Cronica De Una Fuga moves into Cannes competition
As Cannes Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux predicted, there has been an addition to theofficial competition for this year's festival.CronicaDe Una Fugaby Adrian Caetano has moved from Un Certain Regard tothe main competition section while Murali K. Thalluri's debut Two Thirty 7, has been placed in UnCertain Regard. The first ...
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Princess, The Host are early picks for Directors Fortnight
The Cannes Directors Fortnight sidebar will open with Danishanimated/live-action film Princess. This is the first time in 29 years that a Danishfilm has made the Fortnight cut.The 80% animated, 20% live-action work is directed by first-time featuredirector Anders Morgenthaler, whose short Araki- The Killing of a Japanese Photographer was shown ...
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Cannes police threaten symbolic strike on festival's opening day
Municipal police in Cannes have threatened to strike for less than one houron the opening day of the Cannes Film Festival, May 17.Agence France Presse reports that disgruntled police officers unhappy withsanctions, pressures and insufficient safety measures have said they willregister their formal intent to strike on May 10 should ...
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Cannes Europe Day takes global distribution theme
The CannesFilm Festival has announced plans for its fourth annual Europe Day to take placeon May 23.The maintheme to be discussed will be "European Films Go Global;" with discussionscentering on getting European films seen on as many screens around the world aspossible.Filmprofessionals will gather with European culture ministers and representativesof ...
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Cannes Europe Day takes global distribution theme
The CannesFilm Festival has announced plans for its fourth annual Europe Day to take placeon May 23.The maintheme to be discussed will be "European Films Go Global;" with discussionscentering on getting European films seen on as many screens around the world aspossible.Filmprofessionals will gather with European culture ministers and representativesof ...
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Cannes festival line-up
Opening filmThe Da Vinci Code (dir:Ron Howard)Closing filmTransylvania (Tony Gatlif)Official selection - Out Of Competition special screeningsUnited 93 (Paul Greengrass)X-Men 3: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)Over The Hedge (Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick) Official selection: Midnight screeningsShortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)Election 2 (Johnnie To)Guisi (Silk) (Su Chao-pin)Salle Bunuel Out Of Competition ...
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Cannes line-up: Un Certain Regard
Un Certain RegardOpening film Paris Je T'Aime Bled Number One (Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche)Il Registra Di Matrimoni (The Wedding Director) (Marco Bellocchio)Cronica De Una Fuga (Free Pass) (Israel Adrian Caetano) Hamaca Paraguaya (Paz Encina)* ...
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Cannes Competition yields surprises
CannesFestival organisers have announced the official lineup for this year's edition, with 19 films competing for the Palmed'Or - one less than 2005.Many filmshad been predicted prior to the announcement, including Pedro Almodovar's Volver, SofiaCoppola's Marie-Antoinette, Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth,Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, Aki Kaurismaki'sLights In The Dusk and ...