All News articles – Page 2007
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NewsGeena Davis: Gender parity on screen can be changed overnight
At the rate of recent growth, it will take 700 years for women’s representation in the media to reach gender equality. That’s not good enough for Geena Davis, the Oscar-winning American actress and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
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NewsBertrand Faivre to deliver PFM keynote
The Bureau producer/founder to discuss 45 Years and more.
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NewsMumbai Film Festival unveils line-up
Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh will open the festival this year, while there will be a restored screening of Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy.
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NewsLeipzig to host Mansky, Belc, Gordillo world premieres
New films by Vitaly Mansky, Alexandru Belc and Joseph Gordillo are among the world premieres in competition at this year’s DOK Leipzig (Oct 26 - Nov 1).
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NewsGreta Gerwig comedy 'Maggie’s Plan' sells worldwide
EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist concludes deals on Rebecca Miller comedy, which was sold to Sony at Toronto.
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NewsProtests and Chantal Akerman tribute kick off BFI London Film Festival
Feminist protesters jumped the barriers at the premiere of Suffragette.
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NewsAaron Sorkin to receive Israel Film Festival award
The Israel Film Festival in Beverly Hills is giving its film and television achievement award to the the Steve Jobs screenwriter.
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NewsRelativity executives depart
Relativity Media has lost more senior executives as founder Ryan Kavanaugh tries to lead the company out of bankruptcy and get unreleased films out of limbo.
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NewsWonderful Cloud for FilmBuff
Improvised romantic comedy A Wonderful Cloud, from multi-hyphenate Eugene Kotlyarenko, has been licensed to FilmBuff for the US.
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NewsRyan's Ithaca set for festival premiere
Meg Ryan’s directorial debut will get its world premiere at the Middleburg festival, which will also screen several foreign language film Oscar contenders.
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NewsKodak hires motion picture president
Filmmaker and TV entrepreneur Steve Bellamy aims to help Kodak deepen relationships with Hollywood studios.
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NewsShout! takes 'Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom' for North America
Arcana Studio’s graphic novel adaptation heads to the US and Canada.
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NewsGore Verbinski, Wim Wenders projects secure German finance
Iranian director Shirin Neshat to also receive support from German fund.
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NewsICO launches women in cinema scheme
Training scheme to help women in film exhibition take the step up into senior management.
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NewsColin Firth's son makes feature debut in British rom-com
EXCLUSIVE: Filming wraps on Sasha Collington’s Love Type D.
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NewsTWC ties up 'Marco Polo' deal in Germany
EXCLUSIVE: Ascot Elite inks physical and EST deal for Netflix series in German-speaking Europe.
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NewsBusan: Asian Film Market grapples with timing, industry future
This year’s Asian Film Market (Oct 3-6) worked hard to address developments transforming the pan-Asian film industry but compared to previous years, business appeared to be slow.
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NewsAlchemy promotes Brooke Ford, Jeff Deutchman
Brooke Ford adds oversight of Alchemy’s acquisitions team to her remit and Jeff Deutchman gets expanded production role.
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NewsGeorge Lopez to star in 'Aloha Santa'
George Lopez will play the title character in Infinite Entertainment Now’s Aloha Santa, with Jonathan Yudis directing.
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NewsAFM speakers include Basner, Sloss, Elwes, Xiaotian
This year’s AFM programme will offer new conference sessions on China and festivals and speakers including Glen Basner, John Sloss, Cassian Elwes and the president of China Film Co-Production Corporation.