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NewsIndia's new FFO wants filmmakers’ advice
The ministries behind India’s newly launch Film Facilitation Office are starting a series of workshops next month to open the dialogue between the central, state and local governments and representatives of the film industry to talk how to make India more filming-friendly.
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News'India's Daughter' gets Oscar push
The potential of controversial documentary India’s Daughter making it to the Oscar documentary shortlist could help change its perception at home in India, the film’s US distributor said.
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NewsJar Pictures climbs 'Mountain' with Arriaga
Mumbai-based Jar Pictures is attending Film Bazaar with a busy, multiple-language slate, including Ajitpal Singh’s The Man Who Broke The Mountain, to be co-produced by Mexican writer-producer Guillermo Arriaga [pictured].
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NewsDolce Vita joins Oddjoint's 'Nuclear Hearts'
EXCLUSIVE: Marc Irmer’s Paris-based Dolce Vita Films will co-produce Bornila Chatterjee’s Nuclear Hearts with Kolkata-based Oddjoint Art.
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NewsStray Dogs sells 'Sunrise' to US, UK; 'Island City' deals
EXCLUSIVE: French sales company closes deals on two of its Indian titles.
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NewsRehman, Arora, Shome bite for Singh’s 'Scorpions'
Waheeda Rehman, Shashank Arora (Titli, pictured) and Tillotama Shome (Qissa) have joined the cast of Anup Singh’s third feature The Song of Scorpions, which was first pitched at Film Bazaar 2013.
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NewsClinik launches new workshops for South Asian filmmakers
Kathmandu-based script and production development lab Clinik.Kathmandu is set to launch two new programmes for young South Asian filmmakers for its 2016 edition.
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News'Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2' rules North America on $103m
NOVEMBER 23 UPDATE: Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 rounded out the YA franchise to ensure all four in the series opened on more than $100m in North America.
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NewsSubmarine cuts deals on doc pair
Submarine announced at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) it has licensed Jessica Edwards’ Mavis! And Laura Israel’s Don’t Blink - Robert Frank in multiple territories.
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News'Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2' hits $247.2m global
NOV 23 UPDATE: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 dominated global box office at the weekend, powered by a confirmed $144.5m international haul from 87 markets.
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NewsYouTube India content chief: avoid 'Syndrome 52'
YouTube India content chief Satya Raghavan explained how Indian filmmakers can bypass theatrical windows and create content for YouTube and other digital platforms, at the opening session of Film Bazaar’s Knowledge Series yesterday.
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NewsStockholm awards top prize to 'Louder Than Bombs'
Laszlo Nemes wins best director for Son of Saul; Mediterranea wins best first film.
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News'Court' actress joins Sandhya
EXCLUSIVE: Actress Geetanjali Kulkarni, who was last seen in the multiple award-winning drama Court, has joined Mukti Krishan’s feature debut Sandhya, one of the 19 projects chosen for the Film Bazaar’s Co-Production Market this year.
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NewsSikhya ramps up distribution
Sikhya Entertainment is entering Indian and international distribution starting with Mozez Singh’s Busan opener Zubaan [pictured], which its plans to release in India in January 2016.
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NewsCDP joins Sengupta’s 'Memories And My Mother'
EXCLUSIVE: French producer Catherine Dussart, who co-produced Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction, has boarded Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Memories And My Mother, which is selected for the Co-Production Market at Film Bazaar this year.
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News'Bombairiya' to resume shoot in December
EXCLUSIVE: Caper comedy by Pia Sukanya is scheduled for release in first half of 2016.
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NewsFilm Tourism Workshop readies India for its 'Hobbit' moment
As part of Film Bazaar’s initiative to promote India as a filming destination, a film tourism workshop was conducted for the first time with local and international experts sharing their insight on various aspects of film tourism.
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NewsSA backers move into Blecher's Paradise
EXCLUSIVE: NFDC’s Co-Production Market project On the Way to Paradise has received funding from three separate government bodies in South Africa: the Department of Trade and Industry, the National Film and Video Foundation and KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission.
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NewsChanging times for Bollywood’s women
Some women are seeing more empowering roles in Bollywood in the past few years, but is this “a small wave or a tsunami in the years to come?,” asked the Film Bazaar Knowledge Series panel ‘Female Protagonists in Bollywood Today.’
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NewsIndia's new FFO to act as one-stop shop for Indian shoots
Foreign and local producers who want to shoot in India now have a central agency they can contact, the Film Facilitation Office (FFO), to help with obtaining shooting permissions and sourcing locations and crew.