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Brazilian winner of Fribourg top prize
The last Fribourg International Film Festival(FIFF) under the tutelage of artistic director Martial Knaebel ended with the presentation of the Grand Prix toBrazilian Chico Teixeira's feature debut Alice's House The film was praised for its'intimacy, complexity, superb acting and precise point of view on auniversal story'. Teixeira's film also ...
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heile welt named best Austrian film
Jakob M. Erwa's feature debut heile welt received the Diagonale Grand Prix for Best Austrian Feature Film at this year's showcase of Austrian film-making which was rounded off with an awards ceremony at Graz's Dom im Berg on Saturday evening. Produced by Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion, heile welt follows a ...
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Industry restructure for Norwegian film
The Norwegian Film Institute, the Norwegian Film Fund and the Norwegian Film Development will next year be merged to become a new film institute, with 100 staff on an estimated $16.4 million (Euros 12.3m) operating costs, and with a $37 million budget to support Norwegian cinema. 'The new structure will ...
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French Film starts shooting in London
Digital studio Slingshot is set to start shooting romantic comedy French Film in locations around central London on March 26. The film is the directorial debut for award-winning commercials and short film-maker Jackie Oudney, with a cast including Hugh Bonneville (Tsunami: The Aftermath, Notting Hill); Anne-Marie Duff (The Virgin Queen, ...
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Filmart wraps with 20% increase in overseas visitors
Hong Kong Filmart closed on Friday (March 23) with organisers reporting a 20% increase in overseas visitors to 1,900, while the number of exhibitors was up 11% to 453 from more than 30 territories. The number of overall visitors, including those from Hong Kong, had not been calculated by the ...
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Ruzowitzky, Link and Gansel projects backed by FFA with $3.2m
New feature films by Stefan Ruzowitzky, Caroline Link and Dennis Gansel are among seven projects with a total of $3.2 million (Euros 2.4m) production support by the Berlin-based German Federal Film Board (FFA).Two family entertainment films directed by Austrian film-makers each received $867,000 (Euros 650,000): Stefan Ruzowitzky's Lilly The Witch ...
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Foreign distributors receive $80,000 for releasing Swiss films
Distributors from Germany, Brazil and ex-Yugoslavia are the first beneficiaries of Switzerland's new promotional fund to support the distribution of Swiss films abroad with $80,000 (Euros 60,000) towards the release of four feature films and one documentary. The maximum funding possible - $33,300 (Euros 25,000) - was given to Germany's ...
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Mendes, Winslet and Di Caprio embark on Revolutionary Road
Sam Mendes is set to direct his wife and five-time Oscar nominee Kate Winslet and three-time Oscar nominee Leonardo di Caprio on an adaptation of Richard Yates's respected 1961 novel Revolutionary Road.Mendes is teaming with BBC Films and DreamWorks on the film, which tracks the disillusionment and desperate search for ...
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SPC acquires North American rights to Coppola's new film
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has acquired North American rights to Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years, the mystery Youth Without Youth.Coppola directed, produced and adapted the screenplay from a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade about an elderly professor who undergoes a mysterious rejuvenation that makes him a ...
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Gen Art to open with Crashing, closes with Quiet Man
The Gen Art Film Festival, set to run from Apr 11-17, will open with the New York premiere of Gary Walkow's drama Crashing starring Campbell Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Izabella Miko and Alex Kingston.Crashing follows a struggling writer who gets to live out the middle-aged man's fantasy when he moves in ...
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Sundance At BAM series includes Savages, Delirious
The Sundance Institute and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) have unveiled select programme highlights from the upcoming annual Sundance Institute At Bam series of arts event, set to run from May 31-Jun 10.The series presents 21 features and 27 shorts handpicked by Sundance Film Festival's director of programming John Cooper ...
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Norton, Koppelman to be honoured at ninth Sarasota festival
Edward Norton will receive the Humanitarian Award and writer-producerBrian Koppelman the Excellence in Screenwriting Award at the upcomingninth annual Sarasota Film Festival, set to run in Florida from Apr13-22.Executive director Jody Kielbasa, director of programming Tom Hall andtheir team have assembled 207 films for the event encompassingcompetition strands for best ...
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First Look International will continue as normal, says Nu management
First Look Studios (FLS) interim chief executive officer Trevor Short and First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford have moved quickly to confirm that FLI will continue to operate as normal heading into Cannes following Nu Image's acquisition of a controlling interest in FLS. Ford said last night [March 22] ...
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Australia's Omnilab boards two FFC-backed projects
Two of the four features that have just received funding from Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) see the Omnilab Media Group take local distribution and international sales rights, in partnership with others. Omnilab is Australia's largest privately-owned group of service companies and has been promising to enter Australian feature film ...
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Warner's 300 goes to battle in nine new markets
Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) top brass are eyeing another successful overseas campaign as the Spartan warriors of 300 prepare to unleash hell in nine new territories.The military epic has amassed $32m from foreign revenues in less than three weekends and should prove too strong for its rivals yet again.Zack ...
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The Canton Chronicles - interview with 300 producer
'It's the anti-epic,' Atmosphere Entertainment founder Mark Canton says of 300, which opened on March 9 to an astonishing $70.9m three-day gross, setting a new record for a March release.'I call it the 'new-fashioned' way of making an epic movie because it combines the artistry and the emotion you get ...
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Inward investment: coming to America
It does not take long for the film world to turn on its head. A couple of years ago, discussion of the US industry tended to be couched in terms of crisis: runaway production, job losses, an over-ripe domestic market falling into the shadow of international.But suddenly it seems the ...
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American Future - Simon Horsman sets up shop in LA
Qualified in the UK and California, British media lawyer Simon Horsman has practised his profession on both sides of the Atlantic. And right now, suggests the head of the new Los Angeles office of London-based production and financing company Future Films, the US is the place to be.Though Future will ...
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Latin American locations: Argentina
Since the economic meltdown of 2002, Argentina has seen an upturn in foreign shoots as producers seek to take advantage of low costs while utilising the territory's stunning locations.Shooting in Buenos Aires can be 20% cheaper than Canada, South Africa or New Zealand, and 40% cheaper than Madrid, according to ...
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Latin American locations: Brazil
Despite its beautiful scenery and cheap costs, Brazil's violent image has hampered it in attracting international productions. This is something the newly created Brazilian Film Commissions Association (Abrafic) hopes to rectify.Set up last November and made up of 13 regional commissions, the organisation has been developing a strategic plan to ...