All articles by Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte – Page 7
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Coach 14 and Orly join forces on films from Resnais, Huster and Miller
French sales companies Coach 14 and Orly Films are teaming upto handle three films from producer Jean-Louis Livi going into the Cannes Market.The association is a one-off but is designed to bring together the two outfits' know-how and to provide buyers with a double interlocutor on these particular projects which ...
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Icelandic comedy among new titles on Bac Films Cannes slate
Bac Films will bring three new projects to the Cannes market this year and also unveil the market premiere screening of Back Soon by Solveig Anspach. The comedy is about a woman in Iceland who's had enough of her pot-selling business and decides to move away with her two sons. ...
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Francemay openup tax breaks to international productions
The French government is considering relaxing its tax breaks to include foreign films. French daily Le Figaro reported Friday that the culture and finance ministries are considering opening up what is known as the credit d'impot system in order to attract international productions.The credit d'impot was originally set up four ...
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Strong showing for France and Latin America in Directors Fortnight
Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte in ParisThe Directors Fortnight line-up was announced Thursday morning in Paris with a robust 20 titles set to screen in between opening film Four Nights With Anna by Jerzy Skolimowski and closing film The Pleasure Of Being Robbed from US film-maker Josh Safdie.The section is heavy on Latin ...
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Interview: Thierry Fremaux
Cannes' general manager Thierry Fremaux has become a respected trendsetter, carving his mark on the festival by welcoming feature documentaries and animations into the competition and embracing US film-makers.In the week the 2008 Cannes line-up is unveiled, Fremaux talks to Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte about where he plans to take the festival ...
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Cannes Critics' Week unveils selection
The line-up for the 47th running of Critics Week was announced at Paris Cinematheque Francaise on Thursday morning. In his opening remarks, the section's artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon noted that submissions this year had come from 69 countries, with 850 feature films being screened by the selection committee. Ultimately, with ...
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EuropaCorp hires Montironi, Degove on international sales staff
EuropaCorp has restructured its sales team and brought in two new international sales directors, the company said in a statement Wednesday evening. Marie-Laure Montironi joined Europa this month while Pascal Degove will take up his new post as of May.Montironi is an industry veteran who was instrumental in the development ...
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Cannes unveils shorts competition, Cinefondation selections
Short Films in Competition Jerrycan, dir: Julius Avery (Australia)El Deseo, dir: Marie Benito (Mexico)Megatron, dir: Marian Crisan (Romania)411-Z, dir: Daniel Erdelyi (Hungary)De Moins En Moins, dir: Melanie Laurent (France)My Rabbit Hoppy, dir: Anthony Lucas (Australia)Buen Viaje, dir: Javier Palleiro, Guillermo Rocamora (Uruguay)Smafuglar, dir: Runar Runarsson (Iceland)Love You More, dir: Sam ...
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Cannes line-up includes last-minute surprises including Che and Eastwood's Changeling
Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob and general manager Thierry Fremaux announced the official line up for the 61st edition this morning in Paris.Among the surprises were the last minute additions of Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Steven Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films The Argentine and Guerilla, although in press documents ...
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Cannes Un Certain Regard line-up includes Tokyo! triptych
The 2008 Cannes Un Certain Regard line up includes films from such directors as Michel Gondry, James Toback and Abel Ferrara. It also includes a film by American indie director Kelly Reichardt, who previously made Old Joy, which made its way to Cannes general manager Thierry Fremaux unsolicited and via ...
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TF1's Patrick Binet in police custody, French press reports
According to press reports, TF1 International chief Patrick Binet has been taken into custody by police following the discovery of a dead body in Binet's Parisian residence.For the moment, details are sketchy but some French media report that the victim was a man in his 40s and may have succumbed ...
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Isabelle Dubar takes distribution post at France's CTV
France's CTV International has appointed Isabelle Dubar to the post of head of distribution.Dubar will handle acquisitions for the company as well as supervising theatrical releases. She will also create a new label specifically aimed at promoting independent film. The label will handle 6-8 films per year. In ...
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Roissy sells Caramel to Japan's Cetera
Roissy Films has confirmed the sale of Nadine Labaki's Caramel to Japan's Cetera International.The romantic comedy, centered around a group of women in a Beirut beauty shop, has been a sleeper hit with 500,000 admissions in France since Bac Films released it in August.The film has sold well worldwide with ...
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France - Canal dreams
In February, French pay-TV giant Canal Plus announced its long-time head of cinema, Evi Fullenbach, would step down, to be replaced by Manuel Alduy.Alduy is no stranger to Canal, having joined the group in 1994 and working with Fullenbach as head of French film acquisitions since 2005.Now, he oversees the ...
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MipTV market concludes on note of media and telecoms
A chilly, rainy MipTV market wound down Thursday following keynote speeches focusing on media and the telecom companies and social networking. France Telecom Group's chairman and CEO, Didier Lombard, on Wednesday told attendees he never expected to be addressing a group of content makers. But, he said, 'I do truly ...
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'YouTube killer' Hulu.com outlines global ambitions
Hulu.com CEO Jason Kilar made a stop at MipTV on Tuesday to talk up his company's ambition to bring global content to America and the rest of the world.Hulu is a joint-venture between News Corp and NBC Universal which allows users to watch full-length episodes of TV series and full-length ...
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EFEA launches arbitration service for settling export disputes
Jacques-Eric Strauss, president of the European Film Export Association (EFEA), has officially launched the body's international arbitration procedure.The service - offered to all European international distribution companies, regardless of whether they are EFEA members - will help settle business disputes relating to film exports.The arbitrators are industry professionals selected for ...
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Jarmusch to receive directing honour at Cannes
Director Jim Jarmusch is set to receive this year's Carrosse d'Or statue from France's Societe des Realisateurs de Films (SRF).The prize will be awarded on May 17 during the 40th anniversary of Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.The prize, created by the SRF in 2002, is an homage given ...
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Elisabeth Murdoch calls for 'creativity without borders' at MipTV
Elisabeth Murdoch officially opened the MipTV market on Monday evening in a keynote address that sang the praises of 'creativity without borders.'The media scion, who runs the UK's Shine Group, spoke of her background as a struggling buyer at the conference straight through to her days as a producer and ...
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Orange to launch online and mobile film service
As the MipTV market got underway in earnest on Monday, France Telecom's Orange announced the launch of the Orange Cinema Series set to be available by subscription to all Orange TV, Internet and mobile customers. The service will be launched in France in the fourth quarter of 2008. The service ...