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The Planet, Normal lead prizewinners at 26th Vancouver festival
Michael Stenberg, Johan Soderberg and Linus Torell of Sweden won the Kyoto Planet Climate for Change Award for their documentary The Planet as the 26th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival drew to a close.The Citytv Western Canada Feature Film Award went to Carl Bessai of Vancouver for Normal, while Most ...
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Mi Vida Dentro wins top prize at Mexico's Morelia Film Festival
Lucia Gajá's documentary Mi Vida Dentro (My Life Inside), a tragic story of a Mexican young woman who migrated illegally to USA and was later imprisoned on suspicion of murder, won top prize at the fifth Morelia Film Festival in Mexico.The film shows the legal process, the verdict, the separation ...
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Rai Cinema, under D'Amico, ramps up co-productions
Rai Cinema's new chief Caterina D'Amico says the film production arm will place a special emphasis on co-productions and to illustrate the point, Rai Cinema has just signed on as 25% partner of Spike Lee's $45m project Miracle at St. Anna, which begins shooting Monday at Cinecitta studios before moving ...
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Lightning takes on Dafoe-starrer Anamorph for AFM
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment will begin sales at AFM on its most high-profile narrative title to date, the Seven-like psychological thriller Anamorph starring Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman.The plot pits a tormented detective against a serial killer and old adversary who constructs crime scenes in a way that recalls earlier ...
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Foreign affairs: Academy leaders on the improved foreign-language rules
When it comes to its influential foreign-language film category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (Ampas) was aware of shortcomings in the criteria for submission and selection of nominees. It seemed each year threw up a controversial omission - the fact instant classics such as Three Colours: Red ...
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Mannheim selects 54 projects including Holland's Christine
New film projects from Poland's Agnieszka Holland, Belgium's Geoffrey Enthoven, and the UK's Chris Forster are among 54 projects being pitched to potential partners at the Mannheim Meetings which begin on Sunday (Oct 14). Almost half (26) of the projects being pitched in one-to-one meetings are from Western Europe, including ...
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Wild Bunch picks up German animation The Three Robbers
Wild Bunch has picked up international distribution for Hayo Freitag's The Three Robbers (Die Drei Raeuber), the first animation feature by Animation X, the animation arm of the Berlin production house X-Filme creative pool and David Groenewold's Promedium. Based on Tomi Unguerer's 1961 classic about three robbers who walk the ...
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Stephan, Lacy and Ptakowski join The Film Department
Bernd Stephan has been named chief financial officer, Adene Lacy has been named vice president of finance, and Sara Ptakowski has been named director of human resources/operations at The Film Dept.Stephan arrives from Yari Film Group where he most recently served as senior vice president and controller and worked on ...
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Into the Arthouse: how artists like Sam Taylor-Wood move into film
There has always been an overlap between art and film. From surrealists such as Man Ray, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali to Cindy Sherman (Office Killer), Matthew Barney (Cremaster) and Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly), a steady stream of artists have crossed over into film-making.In the late ...
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PUSAN: Asian Film Market better for schmoozing then selling
As the second Asian Film Market wound down on Thursday (Oct 11), the consensus seemed to be that Pusan is still a key meeting point for the pan-Asian film industry - as it was before the launch of the market - but has some way to go before it becomes ...
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Mipcom attendance up 10% as mobile content plays bigger role
The annual Mipcom TV market drew to an official close Friday following a week that saw big increases in attendance.Numbers for buyers and exhibitors on site were up 10% to 4,237 and 1,801 respectively. The event continues to focus on traditional TV programming but the impact of digital and mobile ...
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Kojo's Smith breaks ground with new Sony HD camera on Beautiful
A group of Australian filmmakers, some of whom were involved on the very successful digital feature Wolf Creek , are making their new project Beautiful as one of the first features to be shot with the new Sony F23 CineAlta HD camera. Dean O'Flaherty is directing and Adelaide-based Kojo Pictures' ...
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Eight new Polish films to be screened at Warsaw's third CentEast
Veteran Polish film director Andrzej Wajda's Katyn, actor-director Jerzy Stuhr's Twist Of Fate and Dariusz Jablonski's feature debut Strawberry Wine are among eight new Polish films being shown as part of the Warsaw's International Film Festival's third CentEast Market (Oct 17-21) showcasing the best of Central and Eastern European cinema ...
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As Band's Visit is axed from Oscar race, Beaufort is putforward
The Israeli Film Academy is in an uproar over the 2008 Oscars, as the country's expected contender was disqualified and a replacement has now been submitted.Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit, which has been voted hands down by the Academy as the best Israeli film of the year, has been disqualified ...
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PUSAN: New Currents Awards presented to three films
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF)gave awards tothree films in its New Currents section of up-and-coming Asian directors, which is the only competitive section of the festival. The three films, which were awarded with $30,000 each, were Life Track by Guang Hao Jin (China/Korea), Flower In The Pocket by Seng ...
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LFF hosts groundbreaking digital distribution event
The London Film Festival is hosting a groundbreaking forum looking at the digital distributionfor independent film-makers.Power To The Pixel, at the National Film Theatre on Friday October 26, has gathered together some of the leading experts in the field.Speakers include veteran indie producer andpresident of Emerging Pictures,Ira Deutchman; Withoutabox founders ...
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Exhibitors to debate digital change at Bucharest conference
More than 400 European exhibitors will debate the future of cinema at the12th annual conference of the Europa Cinemas networkin Bucharest, Romania, on November 15 - 18.The annual event will againturn its main focus on the impact of digital technologies on the theatrical business.There will also be sessions on renewing ...
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Ratatouille looks to continue strong run with UK opening
All eyes will be on the UK this weekend as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) launches its global hit Ratatouille.The release should dominate the charts despite anticipated strong competition from Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) Resident Evil: Extinction on 320 prints on the same day, Oct 12.Ratatouille has ...
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Audience wins San Fransisco Documentary Festival top prize
Michael Jacobs' Audience Of One won about the making of a religious sci-fi epic took home the prize for best documentary feature at the 6th San Francisco Documentary Festival, which wrapped on Oct 11.Ben Wu's Cross Your Eyes, Keep Them Wide, a portrait of artists with developmental disabilities, won the ...
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Eight films shortlisted for Academy's short documentary Oscar
Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, Freeheld, If It Happens, La Corona (The Crown), Ochberg's Orphans, Portraits Of A Lady, Salim Baba, and Sari's Mother have made it on to the Academy's short documentary shortlist.Voters from the Documentary Branch of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences viewed 23 ...