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New Talent - A Star is Born
Benjamin Gilmour, Writer-directorAustralian film-maker Gilmour clearly relishes a challenge - he shot his debut feature, Son Of A Lion, in the radical north-west frontier of Pakistan, with non professionals and entirely undercover (foreigners are not allowed in the province). The result is a gritty drama about an Islamic boy in ...
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Profile: Ray Burdis' Britflick Productions
This time last year, UK producer-writer-actor-director Ray Burdis was happily retired and making wine in the south of France. But his passion for film-making, and encouragement from his friends in the industry, brought him back to the UK where he has set up a new production company, Britflick Productions.'I had ...
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Profile: Shorts International
It might seem like a challenge to fill a rolling 24-hour schedule with short films but Carter Pilcher, head of Shorts International, the London-based company behind the new UK channel Shorts TV, is unfazed.'We developed a huge catalogue, building video-on-demand relationships,' he explains. 'We have an enormous library and thousands ...
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Screenopinion:Film must look to reinvention
In the middle of the fake souk in the hotel complex where the Dubai International Film Festival is based, there is a Santa's grotto blaring out Frosty The Snowman.Given the temperature is up to 28 degrees centigrade even in December, it is a surreal setting - perfect, in fact, for ...
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Slumdog Millionaire leads London critics' nominations
Slumdog Millionaire heads the list of nominees for the 29th London Critics' Circle Film Awardswith six nominations, including Best British Film.In a strong UK line-up, there are five nominations for Hunger, Frost/Nixon and Happy-Go-Lucky.The highlight of the night will be the Critics' Circle's presentation of the Dilys Powell Award for ...
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Lyes Salem's Masquerades takes top prize in Dubai
The Dubai International Film Festival closed its fifth edition tonight with Lyes Salem's comedy Masquerades taking the top prize for best film in the Muhr Awards for Excellence In Arab Cinema. The French-Algerian production also won the festival's first FIPRESCI prize. Director Salem also stars in the tale of an ...
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Slumdog Millionaire named best film by Florida Film Critics Circle
Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler's Mickey Rourke and Frozen River's Melissa Leo are the big winners in the Florida Film Critics Circle's annual poll. Slumdog Millionaire won best picture and also earned the best director award for Danny Boyle and best screenplay for Simon Beaufoy.Marisa Tomei's supporting role in Darren Aronofsky's ...
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France creates new tax rebate system for foreign films
After four years of strategic planning and lobbying, Film France has announced the creation of a new tax rebate system aimed at foreign films shooting in the country. Adopted by the French parliament, the measure will give qualifying foreign productions a 20% rebate on their local spend with a cap ...
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here! acquires worldwide rights to Eleven Minutes documentary
here! Films has acquired worldwide rights to Michael Selditch and Rob Tate's documentary Eleven Minutes about fashion designer Jay McCarroll, winner of Season One of the reality TV show Project Runway.here!'s sister company Regent Releasing and here! Networks will distribute the film day-and-date in theatres and on the cable network ...
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SAG Award nominations include Penn, Winslet, Streep, Langella
As Hollywood actors pitch their tents on either side of the strike authorisation vote, the Screen Actors Guild announced its nominees today [December 18] for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 25.Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Mickey Rourke will contest the lead actor ...
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Lars Bredo Rahbek leaves Denmark's Nimbus
In a surprise move, producer Lars Bredo Rahbek (the man behind Denmark's biggest box-office hit of the year Flame & Citron) is to leave Nimbus after 11 years to take up a new position as Chief of Fiction at state broadcaster DR TV.The move comes as Nimbus appears to have ...
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France 's annual IFCIC production prize goes to Les Films du Poisson.
Film financing institute's $14,600 purse for most promising young independent production company goes to Les Films du Poisson. IFCIC, France's film financing institute, has given its annual prize to Les Films du Poisson. The award comes with a $14,600 (Euros 10,000) purse and is given for the most promising young ...
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Sicily $6.2m funding initiative set to become annual
The region of Sicily in Italy has now closed applications on what looks to be a successful first edition of a $6.2m (Euros 4.25m) film fund. The Sicily Film Commission says it intends the fund to be annual, although it will be subject to approval in the annual regional budget.Project ...
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Czech box-office admissions down 10%
Czech admissions have dropped nearly 10% year-on-year, according to new data from the Czech Union of Film Distributors, but local distributors have reason to hope that year-end results will rebound. The first 10 months of this year saw 10.1m admissions at the Czech box office, compared to 11m for Jan-Oct ...
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Production fund to double for German film funder MFG
Christmas has come early for film producers in Germany's Baden-Württemberg region as Prime-Minister Günter H. Hettinger and Media Minister Wolfgang Reinhart have agreed to more than double regional film fund MFG Baden-Württemberg's production budget.Mug's $6.3m (Euros 4.3m) production fund budget will be increased by $4.4 (Euros 3m) in 2009 and ...
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Korea's Lotte Cinema opens third multiplex in Vietnam
South Korea's Lotte Cinema has today opened its third multiplex in Vietnam. The six-screen, 1,400-seat cinema is located in the Phu My Hung (a.k.a. Saigon South) area of Ho Chi Minh city. The cinema has been opened inside a Lottemart shopping mall. Phu My Hung is a newly developed, affluent ...
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Last Chance Harvey will open Palm Springs festival on Jan 6
Joel Hopkins' romance Last Chance Harvey and Guillermo Arriaga's drama The Burning Plain bookend the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, set to run from January 6-19.The line-up of 210 films culled from 73 countries includes the US premiere of Nigel Cole's road movie $5 A Day and the ...
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ITVS International Call 2008 backs five documentaries
Independent Television Service (ITVS) has boarded five projects from its recently completed ITVS International Call 2008 that drew 385 submissions from 74 countries.Since 2005, nearly 100 international programmes including Ari Folman's acclaimed Waltz With Bashir have been supported through ITVS International's Global Perspectives Project and its International Media Development Fund.The ...
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Bruer, Zucker promoted in Sony's global distribution operation
Sony Pictures has consolidated its worldwide theatrical distribution activities and promoted Rory Bruer (pictured) to president of worldwide distribution and named Mark Zucker president of Sony Pictures Releasing International.The move is related to a similar development last year to bring the studio's marketing operations under one roof that was overseen ...
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Christopher Nolan to receive ASC Board Of Governors Award
The Dark Knight director, producer and co-writer Christopher Nolan will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers' Board Of Governors Award during the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration in Los Angeles on February 15.Nolan's credits include Batman Begins, Memento, The Prestige and Insomnia.'Chris Nolan is infused with talent with ...