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Fenkel moves from domestic to international at THINKFilm
Former THINKFilm vice president of marketing David Fenkel has beenpromoted to vice president of international as the company continues to ramp upits overseas sales business.Fenkel will represent the company at all markets and festivals andwill play a key role in international acquisitions. He will report toTHINKFilm's senior vice president Randy ...
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Schorr, Hildebrand and Zipser take on roles at River Road
Bill Pohlad's Minneapolis and Los Angeles-based production companyRiver Road Entertainment has hired three key hires as it expands its LosAngeles operations.Former Sobini Films production chief Robin Schorr joins as head ofcreative production, producer Frank Hildebrand arrives as head of physicalproduction, and former Film Finance Corporation Australia's Deborah Zipser hasjoined as ...
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Screen at Pusan
Liz ShackletonAsia Pacific Bureau ChiefKorean Tel: (82) 10 8659 5748Email: lizshackleton@netvigator.comJean NohKorea CorrespondentKorean Tel: (82) 18 205 0318Email: hjnoh2007@gmail.comIngrid HammondDirector for AsiaKorean Tel: (82) 10 8659 5850Email: ingridhammond @libero.itAlso attending:Colin BrownEditor-in-ChiefEmail: colinbrown1@earthlink.netDan FainaruReviewer
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Becker on board for animated Mary & Max
Becker International hassigned on to handle worldwide sales on the planned animated feature Mary & Max from Oscar winner AdamElliot.The writer/director won anAcademy Award in 2004 for his short film HarvieKrumpet. His new project is backed by Becker alongside Australiandistributor and sister company, Dendy Films.Becker head Iain Canningwill be talking ...
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Scherfig returns to Danish film-making with Hjemve
Lone Scherfig isshooting in Denmark again for the first time since making her 2000 dogma hit Italian For Beginners. She will be onthe island of Funen working on a project entitled Hjemve, which can be translated as "longing for home" although anofficial international title hasn't been set yet. The film ...
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Suburban Mayhem leads Australian nominations
Suburban Mayhem led the Australian Film Institute Award nominations with nods in 12categories, but was passed over for a best film nomination. The film about an audaciousteenager had its world premiere in Un Certain Regard in Cannes in May, closed the Melbourne International FilmFestival, and finally opens to the Australian ...
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Kaurismaki doesn't want to be considered for Oscar
Finnish director Aki Kaurismakihas withdrawn from the race for an Academy Award nomination in the BestForeign-Language Film category. He has told the FinnishOscar Committee that he does not want LightsIn The Dusk - the final film in his losers'trilogy - to be Finland's official submission. With deadline for submission passed, ...
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Sao Paulo boasts best of Brazil alongside wide world programme
The 30thedition Sao Paulo International Film Festival (Oct 19 - Nov 2)is to screen more than 360 films from more than 50 countries. The event willopen with the documentary The US vs John Lennon, by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, andclose with the restored version of Macuna'ma (1969), by Joaquim ...
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Tornatore film boasts sales to seven countries at Rome
Giuseppe Tornatore's La Sconosciuta (The Unknown) has been sold to seven countries at the inaugural Rome festival.The film, which marks the director's return to film-making aftera six-year hiatus, closed the Premiere section of the festival.Based on a storythe Sicilian director clipped from a newspaper years ago, the film was shot ...
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Novkovic wins hat-trick of awards at Cottbus festival
Serbiandirector Oleg Novkovic scored a hat-trick at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus(Nov 14-18) when his latest feature Tomorrow Morning (Sutra Ujutru) won the Main Prize for Best Film, the FIPRESCI Prize and thenewly-created From Cottbus to Cinema Distribution Support Prize.This Novkovicthird film to show at the festival of East European Cinema, ...
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London's 50th festival opens with Last King Of Scotland
The Times BFI London FilmFestival opened Wednesday night with the European premiere of Kevin Macdonald'sThe Last King OfScotland.Guests at the Odeon Leicester Square included the film's stars Forest Whitaker, JamesMcAvoy, Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson along with director Macdonald, writer Peter Morgan and the novel's author Giles Foden.Other attendees for ...
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ContentFilm on board for Barker's Outpost
ContentFilm Internationalhas acquired worldwide rights to and will co-finance the new action horror filmOutpost.Steve Barker will direct theproject for producers Black Camel Pictures and Matador Pictures. The film, written by RaeBrunton, is set in an unnamed Eastern European country, where battle-wornmercenaries are hired by a mysterious businessmen forhis own special ...
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Davis joins Liberation as head of worldwide business affairs
J Alan Davis has joined Los Angeles-based distribution and saleshouse Liberation Entertainment as vice president and head of worldwide businessaffairs.Davis previously served as head of business affairs at Warner BrosInternational Television Production, and was a principal of media consultingcompany Periscope.Liberation Entertainment was launched earlier this year by mediaentrepreneur Jay Boberg, ...
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Amy Redford heads cast of Finding Fate for MacArt, Bootstrap
Amy Redford has joined the cast of Jack Conroy's family drama FindingFate, which is set tobegin filming in Ireland and New York in early 2007.Patrick Bergin, Hugh O'Conor, Jamie Harris, and John Keating alsostar in the story of a woman who embarks upon a search for the truth when herlife ...
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UK tax credit stranded while Europe ponders approval
Screen International's UK Film Financesummit meets today amid growing evidence that the European Commission may be uncomfortable with aspectsthe UK's new film tax plans. The UK's new tax credit was announced in March this year,further clarified in April, and has been approved by the UK parliament. UK government bodies had ...
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Breaking And Entering to open, Rescue Dawn to close Denver Film Festival
Anthony Minghella's London-set drama Breaking And Entering and Werner Herzog's Vietnam POW thrillerRescue Dawn bookendthe 29th Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF29).Minghella will receive the Mayor's Career Achievement Awardfollowing the opening night screening on Nov 9.Breaking And Entering stars Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Ray Winstoneand Martin Freeman and ...
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Death Defying Acts wraps London shoot
Gillian Armstrong has wrappedprincipal photography on Death DefyingActs, starring Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta Jones and Timothy Spall. Thedrama, about Harry Houdini meeting a mysterious woman on tour, filmed onlocation in and around London.Tony Grisoni wrote thescreeplay with Brian Ward. Marian Macgowan produced forMacgowan Lupovitz Nasatir Films with Chris Curling for ...
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Asian Film Market has promising first edition
The first Asian Film Marketwrapped today after a four-day run (Oct 15-18), concurrent to the 11thedition of the Pusan International Film Festival. The event was held mainly inthe Grand Hotel on Haeundae beach, with a total of 3,500 participants.The sales market was joinedby locations, production and post-production convention BIFCOM, and ...
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PUSAN: Asian Film Market deals round-up
Cineclick Asia had a busymarket selling two horror titles to France's Wild Side Films - Hanzel And Gretel, directed by YimPil-sung (Antartic Journal), and Mommy's Risen, a co-production betweenCineclick and Blue Storm. Meanwhile, Thailand's J-bics picked up a package ofKim Tae-yong's quirky family drama FamilyTies; melodrama Love Me Not,starring Moon ...
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Fire, Evil take audience awards at Mill Valley
Phillip Noyce's Catch A Fire took home the audience award for best dramatic feature atthe Mill Valley Film Festival, which ran from Oct 5-15.Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil won corresponding honours in the documentarysection and Wolfgang Murnberger's Lapislazuli: In The Eye Of The Bear took the award for best ...