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Denver Film Festival to host Canadian focus, King tribute
Canadian documentarian Allan King will receive a three-picturetribute at the 29th Starz Denver Film Festival, which runs from Nov 9-19.The screenings are the US premiere of King's most recent picture, EMPz4 LIFE, as well as his1969 release A Married Couple, and 2005's Memory For Max, Claire, Ida And Company.The festival ...
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Jacques Toubon confirmed as Eurimages chair
The Council of Europe'sproduction fund Eurimages has re-elected Jacques Toubon for a third term aschairman. Toubon called upon membersof the management board of Eurimage "to act in their countries to preservecultural diversity and ensure that the rights of directors and actors be fullyrecognised."
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Valdez joins Esparza as co-chairman of new US Latin outfit Maya Entertainment
Jeff Valdez has been named co-chairman at Moctesuma Esparza'sUS-based production, distribution and exhibition company Maya Entertainment.Valdez previously served as chief executive officer and chairmanof Si TV and arrives as the company announces its first theatrical release, thedocumentary Screamersby Carla Garapedian that the company recently acquired. The film traces thehistory of ...
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Haneke's Funny Games remake starts shooting
Production has got underway on Funny Games, Michael Haneke's first English-languagepicture and a remake of his 1997 Austrian thriller of the same name.As previously reported, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt andBrady Corbet star in the Hamptons-set tale of a wealthy family that isterrorised by two psychotic young men.Halcyon Pictures' ...
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Speedman joins Tyler in Rogue's thriller Strangers
Scott Speedman has signed to play the make lead opposite Liv Tylerin Rogue Pictures' thriller Strangers.Filming on the Mandate Pictures and Vertigo Entertainmentco-production is set to begin this week [Oct 10] in South Carolina in time foran October 2007 release. Focus Features International is handling internationaldistribution.Speedman and Tyler will play ...
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Pusan Links
Key Links:PIFF Official Site click hereOffers the full programme and list of events in Korean and EnglishFestival Programme click hereScreenings click hereAsian Film Market click hereScreenings, listings and data from the AFM.Pusan Promotion Plan click hereNews and listings from the PPPBusan Metropolitan City click hereOfficial metropolitan city site, ...
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Polybona boards Bigfoot's Chinese-language Huilu
China's Beijing Polybona has come on board as co-producer on Huilu, the Chinese-language version ofHong Kong-based Bigfoot Entertainment's psychological thriller Irreversi.The move qualifies the filmas a Hong Kong-China co-production, thus making it eligible for release inmainland China. Huilu wasshot in Hong Kong almost back-to-back with the English-language Irreversi, the directorial ...
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Northern Lights summit to host Refn talk and pitching session
The Northern Lights FilmFestival's 2006 industry summit will run Nov 17-18 in Newcastle Upon Tyne's Tyneside Cinema.Highlights of the industryprogramme will include a talk about the ups and downs of the business fromdirector Nicolas Winding Refn, who will also screen his film The Gambler. Other panels will offerpitching advice, explore ...
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BVI and Sony announce deals at MIPCOM
In deals announced at MIPCOM, Buena VistaInternational Television has signed a VOD deal with France's TFI Vision and Sony Pictures Television has signed a multi-yearcontent deal with UK network Five and its new digital channels Five Life and Five US.The BVI deal with the VOD service of France's leading broadcaster ...
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New Wales film agency taps staffers
The newly created FilmAgency for Wales has announced its initial staffing.Pauline Burt will head theagency as chief executive, as previously reported, and she will be joined byBritt Harrison as head of talent and Anneli Jones as talent developmentexecutive. Burt previously worked at London's Mansfield Associates, the Royal Bank of Scotland ...
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Margaret von Schiller departs Berlinale Panorama
TheBerlinale's Panorama section has announced personnel changes as part of the restructuringof the past few months that has seen the Panorama Short Film programme mergedwith that of the Official Competition.In apersonal communique, Panorama's director Wieland Speck revealed that Margaretvon Schiller, who had become his successor as Panorama shorts programmer in1992, ...
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Loughran to head new US Irish Film office
Following the announcementof its intention to open its first overseas office in Los Angeles (made earlier this year at Cannes) the Irish Film Board has confirmed the appointmentof Jonathan Loughran as VP Irish Film Commission, effective mid-November.The new office will becalled the Irish Film Commission US and will focus on ...
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EFP backs 11 films to be sold in Pusan
EuropeanFilm Promotion's Film Sales Support is backing European sales agents andproducers for the third year at the Pusan International Film Festival (Oct12-20). The 11films being supported and the affiliated companies are Florian Henckel vonDonnersmarck's The Lives Of Others (BetaCinema); Uli Gaulke's Comrades In Dreams(Flying Moon); Matthias Luthardt's Pingpong(Media Luna); Laila ...
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London Film Festival ramps up industry plans
TheTimes BFI London Film Festival, celebrating its 50th event, has launchedseveral new industry initiatives. Whilethe festival is primarily consumer-focused, several UK deals were struck last yearfor films including Man Push Cart, QuoVadis Baby' and Heading South.Thefestival will host a Meet The Buyer session on Oct 24.Industryscreenings, backed by Film London, ...
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Grierson nominees include Unknown White Male
The 2006 GriersonAwards, The British Documentary Awards, have announced this year's nominees.Most of thenominees are for TV documentaries but the UK Film Council sponsors a cinemadocumentary category. The four nominees in that category are Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest GuysIn The Room, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Road To ...
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Brooks starts Definitely, Maybe for Working Title
Working Title Films and Universal Pictures will start principalphotography this week in New York City forromantic comedy Definitely, Maybe. Thefilm stars Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Derek Luke, Isla Fisher, ElizabethBanks and Abigail Breslin.Adam Brooks, who previously wrote Wimbledon and co-wrote Bridget Jones: The Edge OfReason, wrote and will direct the ...
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Google buys video sharing website YouTube for $1.7bn
Google has bought the video sharing website YouTube in a dealbelieved to be worth $1.7bn in stock.The companies will continue to operate independently. YouTubelaunched in February 2005 and swiftly became one of the most popular sites onthe web with an estimated 70million individual visitors each month.The acquisition gives Google an ...
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EFA announces nominees for European Discovery award
TheEuropean Film Academy has announced the fourfilms nominated in its European Discovery category, recognising a director'sfirst full-length feature film. The nominees are Gela Babluani's 13 Tzameti from France/Georgia; Slawomir Fabicki's Retrieval (ZOdzysku) from Poland; MatthiasLuthardt's Pingpong from Germany; and AgnesKocsis' Fresh Air (Friss Levego) fromHungary. Thenominees were decided by a ...
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Australia's Horniak wins HATCHfest for student short Love Proof
The third annual HATCHfestAudiovisual Arts Festival closed in Bozeman, Montana, with the presentation ofthe Moonlight Basin Outstanding Filmmaker Award to Australia's Maia Horniak forher short film Loveproof.Thefilm festival, which brings in student film-makers from around the world with aview to offering mentorship, education and inspiration, gave Horniak a cashprize of ...
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Vue's Tim Richards gets entrepreneur award
Vue Entertainment chief executiveTim Richards has been named Ernst & Young's UK Entrepreneur Of The Year. Richards left the US exhibition business to found Vue in 1998. The companynow runs 53 cinemas across the UK. "Tim left a successfulcareer to take on the industry giants. He has turned his industry's ...