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NewsLondon Film School launches MA in Film Business with University of Exeter
Scott Meek to chair advisory board.
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SFFS, Kenneth Rainin award grants to six filmmakers
The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have announced the six recipients of grants totalling $300,000 to fund the next stage of their production.
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NewsPeter Strickland, Rook Films line up The Duke of Burgundy
Rook Films to produce Strickland’s third feature, described as “a dark melodrama” about an amateur moth collector.
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NewsIngenious responds to Commons questioning
Spokesperson says committee hearing was “completely unsatisfactory.”
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NewsStatus Quo set to rock Berlin market
EXCLUSIVE: Status Quo are set to rock next February’s Berlinale as they join the army of sellers at the festival’s parallel European Film Market (EFM).
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NewsPACT and BECTU mull end to crew buy-out model
EXCLUSIVE: Current buy-out model could be replaced with hourly rate; cost-neutral reform of blue book scheduled for March 2013.
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NewsAdam Wimpenny starts shooting debut feature Blackwood in London
EXCLUSIVE: Ed Stoppard, Sophia Myles, and Russell Tovey star in the supernatural thriller.
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NewsPachachi wins IWC Schaffhausen filmmaker award
Maysoon Pachachi was presented with the $100,000 IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Award for her project Nothing Doing In Baghdad at a glittering ceremony at the Dubai International Film Festival last night.
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ScreenSingapore's new format wins industry approval
The 2nd ScreenSingapore event closed Friday (Dec 7), held in conjunction for the first time with the Asian TV Forum & Market (ATF), with attendees saying it was an improvement on last year’s event, although the market itself was more focused on television than film.
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NewsEgypt’s Zad goes into exile with Mact Productions
Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication is embarking on its first international co-production, teaming with Paris-based Mact Productions on The Exile, a romantic and political drama set against the backdrop of Luxor in the 1980s.
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NewsWael Omar tackles Egypt's football Ultras
The footballing massacre that claimed the lives of 74 young men and injured a thousand more in the Port Said soccer stadium this February is the subject of a new documentary feature to be directed by award-winning Egyptian filmmaker Wael Omar.
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NewsTurkey’s Sinema TV strikes James Bond deal
The Medyavizyon affiliate announced the distribution agreement with MGM this week [11].
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NewsNorthern Soul wraps, producers eye summer 2013 release
Elaine Constantine, has completed filming on the UK drama starring Elliot Langridge and Josh Whitehouse and featuring Lisa Stansfield and Steve Coogan.
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Ric Roman Waugh to direct Relativity's Tipping Point
Waugh will also rewrite the sci-fi thriller based on an original screenplay by Todd Stein.
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Summit Entertainment acquires rights to Breed
Chase Novak aka Scott Spencer wrote the novel and Summit has hired Burr Steers to write and direct the horror thriller. David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films will produce.
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NewsMasharawi wraps West Bank-set Palestine Stereo
Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi has wrapped his latest feature Palestine Stereo and is looking for post-production finance, according to Tunisian producer Habib Attia of Cinetelefilms.
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Academy announces 104-strong score longlist
Officials will make available a ‘reminder list’ of original score submissions along with a nominations ballot to all members of the music branch.
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NewsAmy Adams to receive Santa Barbara Vanguard honour
The star of The Master will collect the 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Cinema Vanguard Award on Jan 31.
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Tribeca Film, Focus World take Greetings From Tim Buckley
The partners have acquired US rights to Dan Algrant’s film, which chronicles two generations of musicians – Tim and Jeff Buckley. Separately, The Cinema Guild has taken select rights to An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty.