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Outfest, NewFest strike strategic alliance
The LA-based non-profit and the New York-based festival are to merge into one national arts organisation dedicated to promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) interests.
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NewsKen Munekata named president of BBC Worldwide Japan
He had been president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan.
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NewsMeise's Still Life wins at Diagonale; Fribourg opens with Salt
Michael wins several awards in Graz; Thierry Jobin takes the helm at Switzerland’s Fribourg.
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Sobini, Payam Films to partner on Manhattan Undying
Mark Amin and award winning Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami are collaborating on the story of a dying artist who paints a beautiful vampire who wants to see an image of herself for the first time.
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NewsRandom House production arm options Dog Loves Books
The production arm of publisher Random House has optioned a book by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Louise Yates.
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BAFTA LA announces three-year scholarship programme
The initiative for graduate students studying in the US will grant a $15,000 scholarship. Runner-up will receive a grant worth $5,000 and there will be two $1,500 honourable mention awards.
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Bela Bunyik to act as Hungarian producers rep in Los Angeles
The executive producer and founder of Bunyik Enterprises will forge relationships between the Hungarian Producers Association and North American producers.
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NewsGrace Carley appointed CTBF's head of fundraising
The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), the charity which supports film and television industry employees and their families in times of hardship, has appointed Grace Carley as its new head of fundraising.
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NewsM-Net launches VOD African Film Library
The service promises to offer the world’s largest online collection of African film content.
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Jessica Lange joins cast of classic period drama Therese
Riding high on the success of the first season of American Horror Story, the actress has become the latest star to sign up to the French potboiler.
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Jerry Pierce to receive Inter-Society’s 2012 Ken Mason Award at CinemaCon
The former svp of technology at Universal Pictures and founder/chairman of the Inter-Society’s Digital Cinema Forum will collect the honour in Las Vegas on Apr 24.
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NewsRichard Lester honoured with BFI fellowship
The director was presented with the award following a screening of his 1976 film Robin And Marian, starring Audrey Hepburn and Sean Connery, at the BFI Southbank.
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Tribeca top brass announce panel series, new premieres
Festival co-founder Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep and Judd Apatow to take part in a tribute discussion marking the centenary of Universal Pictures.
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Fifth annual IFFLA honourees to include Kishore Lulla, Michelle Satter
The Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles has announced its annual Industry Leadership Awards honourees.
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NewsFrench cinema lobbies for digital update of l’exception culturelle laws
Directors Michel Hazanavicius and Luc Besson join campaigns calling for overhaul of France’s famous cultural exception laws taking into account new digital landscape.
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NewsThe Hunger Games reigns victorious at the UK box office
Lionsgate’s adaptation defeats good weather to record the year’s highest debut to date and the best ever UK debut for distributor Lionsgate.
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Jim Henson Company cuts first deal with China on Sid The Science Kid
The Henson’s first 3D animated film project is headed for MIPTV and involves a partnership with China’s Nine Eyes Stone & Shanghai Animation Film Studios to create a feature version of the TV series.
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NewsVertigo eyeing StreetDance 3, another Horrid Henry film
If release of StreetDance 2 performs well, StreetDance 3 would follow after Giwa and Pasquini’s Walking On Sunshine.
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NewsUK distributor ad spend surges in 2011
FDA figures confirm record box office in 2011 and 171m admissions; older demographic boost admissions.