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Tokyo International Film Festival gets underway
The 25th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) opened on Saturday night (Oct 20) with the world premiere of 3D extravaganza Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away, executive produced by James Cameron.
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NewsBFI chair Greg Dyke says education shouldn't be too traditional, should use moving image
Greg Dyke, chairman of the BFI, spoke at the BFI London Film Festival awards tonight and reiterated the organisation’s call for film education to be essential in schools.
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NewsAraf, Hidden Beauties among winners at Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Araf/Somewhere in Between, directed by Turkey’s Yesim Ustaglu, won the Black Pearl Award for best narrative film at the close of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 11-20). Nouri Bouzid took best director from the Arab world for Hidden Beauties, about two Tunisian women demanding their rights during the revolution.
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Sparrows Dance, Informant win at Austin Film Festival
Noah Buschel’s Sparrows Dance claimed the narrative feature prize while Jamie Meltzer’s Informant won top documentary feature honours.
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Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures moves ahead
Award-winning architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali have designed the first major US museum dedicated to the history and ongoing development of motion pictures.
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Fort Lauderdale to screen The Sapphires, Quartet
Stefan Ruzowitzky and actors Dabney Coleman and Garret Dillahunt are set to attend this year’s Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
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NewsHoly Motors earns three awards at 48th Chicago Int’l Film Festival
Leos Carax’s surreal drama won the international competition Gold Hugo for best film and Silver Hugos for best actor Denis Lavant and cinematographers Yves Cape and Caroline Champetier.
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NewsThe Door, Just The Wind to open Hungarian Film Festival Of LA
Bunyik Entertainment presents the 12th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, to run from Nov 15-22.
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NewsCuerda's All Is Silence kicks off Valladolid Festival this weekend
On Saturday, the 57th edition of the Valladolid Film Festival opens with the world premiere of All Is Silence, the new film by José Luis Cuerda [pictured].
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NewsRed Square Screenings boasts Pussy Riot and Jason Flemyng projects
The punk feminist band Pussy Riot [pictured’] and UK actor Jason Flemyng might seem unlikely bedfellows, but not for those attending the first edition of the Red Square Screenings (RSS) (Oct 15-19) where they appeared in ‘works in progress’ presented to 100 industry professionals.
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NewsXLrator Media launches Screamfest and Macabre labels
The multi-platform releasing labels will cater to the horror and genre demographics.
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NewsHamster Film now shooting family project Sputnik
Currently shooting in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Markus Dietrich’s debut feature tells the story of the German reunification from a child’s perspective.
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NewsCreative England's final Film Culture Lottery Fund opens for applications
A total of £700,000 is available for cinema projects in the English regions; responsibility for this strand of funding to transfer to the BFI as part of their Film Forever plan from next year.
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NewsDavie hired as BBCW CEO
Tim Davie [pictured], the BBC’s director of Audio & Music, is to replace John Smith as the chief executive of BBC Worldwide.
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Djin awarded The Director's Eye at the African Film Festival of Cordoba
Kenyan filmmaker Hawa Essuman [pictured] receives €25,000 for the film’s development as a result of the award.
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NewsCam di Prata, Scott Henderson join Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television board
Former investment banker di Prata joins as an independent director alongside Henderson, Bell Tower’s VP of communications.
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NewsArash & Arman T. Riahi's Everyday Rebellion wins ARTE Pixel Pitch Prize
Project saw off seven others to scoop the £6,000 award at the sixth annual Power to the Pixel cross-media forum.
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NewsBurn It Up Djassa, Restless City, On The Edge to compete at inaugural Colors of the Nile festival
58 African films from around the continent will be highlighted during the festival, which runs Nov 7-11.
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NewsWell Go USA takes Tai Chi Hero, Cinedigm finds Call Me Kuchu
Tai Chi Hero is the second in a trilogy from director Stephen Fung, Detective Dee And The Mystery Of Phantom Flame producer Chen Kuofu and action director Sammo Hung.
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NewsRealD to launch limited edition glasses for Tokyo world premiere of Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
Andrew Adamson’s film [pictured] opens the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival tomorrow night (Oct 20).