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Declaration calls for revamp of Swiss funding
The Swiss Association of Film Producers (SFP) and French-speaking Switzerland's film trade association ARC have called for sweeping changes to the country's public film funding structure in their "Locarno Declaration", published at last week's Locarno Film Festival.Switzerland's production community was recently hit by the news that the Swiss culture ministry ...
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Baba wins Locarno's Golden Leopard
Baba, by Chinese director Wang Shuo, picked up the Golden Leopard award at the 53rd Locarno Film Festival on Saturday night. The film, a tragicomic tale about a difficult relationship between a father and son, was the surprise entry at the festival.Hong Kong director Fruit Chan picked up a Silver ...
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Locarno director Mueller calls it quits
Locarno Film Festival director Marco Mueller announced on the final night of this year's edition (August 12) that he is stepping down, making him one of several European festival chiefs to quit their posts this year.Mueller, who has held the post for nine years, said he will become a full-time ...
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Little Cheung (Xilu Xiang)
Dir: Fruit Chan. Hong Kong. 2000. 105 mins.Prod cos: Nicetop Independent Ltd, Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Worldwide distribution: Wild Bunch (Le Studio Canal Plus), tel: (33) 1 4443 9800. Exec prods: Doris Yang, Makoto Ueda. Scr: Fruit Chan. DoP: Wah-Chuen Lam. Ed: Sam-Fat Tin. Mus: Wah-Chuen Lam, Hing-Cheung Chu. Main cast: ...
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Venice follows Cannes with Euro, Asian line-up
Robert Altman's Dr T And The Women and Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls are the only US titles in competition at the 57th edition of the Venice Film Festival, which, like this year's Cannes, is dominated by European and Asian titles.Asian titles among the 19 competition entrants include Hong Kong ...
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Venice Critics' Week unveils line-up
Giuseppe Rocca's Lontano In Fondo Agli Occhi, a bittersweet love story set in the 1950s, is the only Italian film selected for the Critics' Week competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. The line-up, selected by a panel of six Italian critics, also includes Noites, directed by Portugal's Claudia Tomaz; ...
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MIFED sets Agenda for film commissions, producers
This year's MIFED film market in Milan will feature a new initiative, Agenda, under which film commissions from all over Europe will hold pre-scheduled meetings with producers.The film commissions will offer detailed information on all phases of production in each country. Agenda workshops will also be held at MIFED, on ...
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Lucky Red chief to head up Italian distrib body
Italian distributors' association, UNIDIM, has appointed its vice president, Lucky Red chief Andrea Occhipinti, to the post of president, replacing Manfredi Traxler, who died in June.Unusually, the position of vice president has been split between an independent and a studio executive - Morgan Films head Francesco Pamphili and Richard Borg ...
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A&E, Arau board Magnificent Ambersons
Mexican director Alfonso Arau (Like Water For Chocolate) is set to direct $16m mini-series The Magnificent Ambersons for Italy's DeAngelis Group and US cable network A&E which has signed on to co-produce the project. Arau replaces Herbert Ross (Steel Magnolias) who was forced to pull out. Principal photography is scheduled ...
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Innocence takes FIPRESCI prize at Taormina
US specialised distributor Winstar Cinema will tour a retrospective of 11 features and two shorts directed by Eric Rohmer in brand new prints across the country starting next year. "Tales Of Rohmer" will form also form the centrepiece of a more extensive retrospective being planned at New York City's ...
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Neeson, Campion pick up Taormina's Diamonds
The Taormina Film Festival (July 1-9) has handed out a series of life-time achievement awards in place of its usual prize-giving ceremony in a move to eliminate what festival director Felice Laudadio described as "unnecessary and destructive competition between film-makers."Recipients of the honours - called the Taormina Arte Diamond Award ...
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Bread And Tulips cleans up at the Nastri D'Argento
Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips swept Italy's second most coveted awards, the Nastri D'Argento, last night, at an awards ceremony held in Taormina, Sicily's 10,000 seat Greek amphitheatre, directly before the European premiere of John Woo's Mission: Impossible 2. The film scooped the best film award, presented to director Soldini, ...
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OBITUARY: Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy's most indomitable theatre and cinema icons, died Thursday at age 78 from a heart attack. The actor, who defined an era of Italian cinema and was known as much for his dramatic roles as his comedic gems, appeared in such classic films as I Soliti ...
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Tulips still blooming at Italian box office
The Danish box office is demonstrating that festival success is not the only route to success for locally-made films.Though Berlin-darling Italian For Beginners is still in 7th place after 19 weeks on release and has now scored some 830,000 admissions, other home-grown films like the comedy Flickering Lights (440,000), thefamily-film ...
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Garage Olimpo wins at Italy's Golden Globes
Marco Bechi's Garage Olimpo, a drama about the so-called disappeared ones in Argentina, won best film at Italy's Golden Globes, the annual awards of the foreign press. Held in Rome's historic film studios of Cinecitta on the set of Ettore Scola's latest film, Concorenza Sleale, the event awarded best actress ...
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Italy's Panorama pacts with US' Full Circle
Rome's Panorama Films has partnered with Los Angeles-based Full Circle Entertainment to develop and produce English-language films in Europe and the US, the Italian company has announced. Full Circle's Jolie Chain and Panorama co-directors Marco Valerio Pugini and Ute Leonhardt are in talks with local filmmakers Eduardo Winspeare (Sangue Vivo) ...
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Warner Village Italy launches summer special
Due to a marked lack of summer blockbusters, Warner Bros and Village Roadshow's Italian outpost, Warner Village Cinemas Italia, is launching a discount ticket scheme to run for the next two months.The summer special, which starts now and runs until August 24, offers tickets priced at $5 (L10,000) at multiplexes ...
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DreamWorks, Polyvideo reportedly in on-line pact
DreamWorks has signed an exclusive agreement with Milan-based Polyvideo to sell its home video and DVD titles on-line, according to Italian press reports.The deal is expected to be the first in a series of alliances that DreamWorks plans to establish in Europe to sell its product on-line. In the US, ...
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Telepiu expands into cable broadcasting
Italian digital satellite platform Telepiu has reached an agreement with Telecom Italia to begin cable broadcasting in 500,000 homes in seven key cities beginning this September. Telecom Italia is understood to have been forced into the agreement by European Union anti-trust requirements.Measures have been underway for several years to break ...
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Mondo inks co-production deal with Hahn Shin
Mondo TV, Italy's number two animation company after Mediaset, has signed a co-production agreement with Korean animator Hahn Shin Corporation under which the partners will produce 200 half hours over the next three years.The deal takes in several series including adventure series Genghis Khan and Gladiators and religious series In ...
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