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Salmenpera honoured at Finnish director of year
Finland 's Love & Anarchy (the Helsinki International Film Festival) will host the annual awards from the local directors and producers associations.Aleksi Salmenpera, director of Finnish Oscar entry A Man's Job, will be honoured as director of the year. Producer of the year will be shared by Petri Jokiranta and ...
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Catherine Linstrum plans IVF script Perish
Catherine Linstrum, who co-wrote Cristian Nemescu's Un Certain Regard winner California Dreamin', is now working on a new script entitled Perish with her artist husband David-John Newman. Linstrum, based in South Wales, has financial backing from the Film Agency For Wales. Perish is about a young couple who lose their ...
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San Sebastian sales heat up as FiGa takes US rights to Eyes
Los Angeles-based distributor FiGa Films has bought US and Canadian rights to the Argentinian prison drama Through Her Own Eyes (Por Sus Propios Ojos), a world premiere in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastian film festival, according to the film's producer Paula Grandio. Produced by Mandragora Producciones, director ...
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Eros signs up Kajol and Devgan for 3-D animation
Eros International, India's leading media and entertainment company, has signed up leading Indian actress Kajol and her husband Ajay Devgan for a 3-D animation film. The project, Toonpur Ka Super Hero, will be Eros' second production with the husband-wife team after You, Me and Hum (directed by Devgan). Devgan's business ...
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Berlin Senate agrees to $85m of state guarantees to 2013
With Berlin currently experiencing a boom in national and international production thanks to such films as the Speed Racer, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, Valkyrie and The International shooting in town, the Berlin Senate has announced plans to make $85m (Euros 60m) available until 2013 for state-backed guarantees to boost region's ...
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Switzerland chooses Late Bloomers as Oscar contender
Swiss Films has entered Bettina Oberli's comedy Late Bloomers (Die Herbstzeitlosen) for Switzerland to the Academy Award race for a nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. To date, Late Bloomers is the most successful film in Switzerland since 1978 with just over 600,000 admissions. The film has also ...
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Buddha, Jellyfish among competition titles at Tokyo Filmex
Tokyo Filmex announced the full line-up for its 8th edition (November 17-25) at a press conference held today at Tokyo 's National Film Center. The opening film will be Cannes-produced short film omnibus To Each His Own Cinema. As previously announced, Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine will be the closing film. ...
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Promising D-cinema still short of European breakthrough
Despite growing evidence that digital cinema can offer greater choice that the public wants, rollout in Europe in particular remains mired in an impasse over payment and business models.That was the message of this year's Screen International annual digital cinema conference in London.In his keynote speech, Bud Mayo, CEO of ...
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Mullaly, Griesbach promoted in publicity at SPHE
Claire Mullaly has been promoted to executive director, worldwide publicity, for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE), and Staci Griesbach has been promoted to director, worldwide publicity. Both are based in Sony's Culver City headquarters and will report to Fritz Friedman, senior vice president of worldwide publicity.Mullaly will manage strategic public ...
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Secret director to tackle the lost life of Jesus Christ
Drew Heriot, the director of the phenomenally successful DVD The Secret, will make his narrative directing debut on spiritual fantasy/adventure The Aquarian Gospel which attempts to tell the story of Jesus Christ's 'missing years' from the ages of 13 to 30.Heriot's documentary-style The Secret has sold over two million copies ...
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Bahamas Film Festival goes into local classrooms
The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) is expanding its Kid's Film Workshop during the fourth annual event this year (Dec 6-13) and will partner with schools throughout Nassau to bring the workshops directly into the classroom.The programme is being sponsored by The Royal Bank Of Canada (RBC) in Nassau as ...
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Amal wins top prize at Sudbury's Cinefest in Canada
Richie Mehta's debut feature Amal won the NFB Carolyn Fouriezos Memorial Award for Best Canadian First Feature as the 2007 Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival wrapped on Sunday. The film, which world premiered at Toronto in the Canada First! program, is written by Mehta and his brother Shaun and produced ...
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Sundance Institute, Skoll Foundation team for three-year pact
The Sundance Institute and Jeff Skoll's Skoll Foundation today announced a $3m, three-year partnership dedicated to exploring film's role in advancing knowledge about social entrepreneurship. The grant will support the launch of Stories Of Change: Social Entrepreneurship In Focus Through Documentary, a new initiative spearheaded by the Sundance Institute Documentary ...
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NBC Universal International reorganises digital operations
NBC Universal International has restructured its international digital group, organizing its digital efforts into two parallel strands - New Media Licensing and Digital Assets.The moves come in an efforts to reflect the company's priority on digital strategy and to position it for further digital growth, while also driving growth across ...
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Alliance signs Canadian output deal with Overture
Alliance Films and Overture Films have signed an all-rights multi-year output deal for Canada. The deal was announced by Overture's CEO Chris McGurk and Alliance's executive chairman Victor Loewy.The deal, which runs through 2010, will add an additional eight to 12 titles annually to Alliance's releeasing slate, beginning with Callie ...
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European Film Awards announce 13 short film nominees
The European Film Academy has announced the short film nominees for the 2007 European Film Awards. Nominees are determined by the Prix UIP at a year-long series of European festivals. The 1,800 members of the EFA will now vote for the winner. The nominees are: Salvador by Abdelatif Hwidar (Spain), ...
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NBC Universal International starts new digital strands
NBC Universal International has restructured its digital business to maximise its digital growth strategy. NBCUI will now organise its digital efforts in two strands: New Media Licensing and Digital Assets. LA-based Beth Minehart has been promoted to Executive Vice President, International New Media, NBC Universal International Television Distribution. She will ...
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NBC Universal International reorganises digital operations
NBC Universal International has restructured its international digital group, organizing its digital efforts into two parallel strands - New Media Licensing and Digital Assets.The moves come in an efforts to reflect the company's priority on digital strategy and to position it for further digital growth, while also driving growth across ...
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Recycle and Salt Of This Sea win Cinema in Motion awards
Now in its third year, San Sebastian's Cinema in Motion programme has selected Mahmoud Al Massad's Recycle, an insightful documentary that exposes the economic and political instability of Jordan, and Anne Marie Jacir's moving portrait of Palestine, Salt Of This Sea, as this year's winners. The award helps film-makers from ...
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Run, Fat Boy, Run tops UK box-office for third week
David Schwimmer's directorial feature debut, Run, Fat Boy Run, topped our UK chart for a third weekend, taking $2.4m (£1.2m) from 401 sites for a $12.8m (£6.3m) total to date.The British comedy, which is released by Entertainment Film Distributors and stars local favourite Simon Pegg, fell by 22% this weekend ...