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Costa-Gavras to host masterclass at Thessaloniki
Director Costa-Gavraswill present a masterclass at this year's International Thessaloniki Film Festival(TIFF). Gavras joins previously announced guests, film-makers Wim Wenders andWalter Salles, in attending the 47th anniversary of the festival.Wenders will host amasterclass as well as a major retrospective of his works at TIFF, which isheld Nov 17-26. An exhibition ...
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Indonesia submits Love For Share as Oscar entry
Nia Dinata's Love For Share (Berbagi Suami) has been named Indonesia's official entry for this year's foreign-languageOscar category. The entry was selected byPersatuan Perusahaan Film Indonesia (PPFI) which has created a 17-memberselection committee comprising film-makers, actors, writers, critics anddistributors. The committee is headed byfilm critic Leila Chudori and members include ...
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Sally Joynson to head Screen Yorkshire
Screen Yorkshire has appointed Sally Joynson as Chief Executive.Joynson has worked for theagency, which is is responsible for supporting film, broadcast and interactivemedia in Yorkshire and Humber, since its formation in 2002.During her tenure, ScreenYorkshire has accrued national partners on a number of initiatives includingbusiness growth schemes with PACT, Channel4, ...
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Metrodome raises $3.8m for new company strategy
The UK's Metrodome Distribution has announced that it hasraised $3.8m (£2m) by way of a placing and the conversion of a loan from parentcompany TV-Loonland.As discussed in recentweeks, the company's new CEO Peter Urie is implementing a new growth strategyfor Metrodome. The new approach is a shift from the high-risk ...
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Scandinavia sweeps Greece's Opening Night awards
Scandinavian productionstook top honours at Sunday's closing gala of the 12th Athens International FilmFestival-Opening Nights Conn-X, obtaining all three major awards.The Swedish/Danishco-production Farval Falkenberg(Falkenberg Farewell), directed by first timer Jesper Ganslandt was named BestFilm. The director was present to receive the Golden Athena Award of $9,560(7,500 Euros). The Best Direction ...
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Pathe UK Distribution recruits Woodward from Icon
Pathe hasappointed David Woodward as sales director, UK Distribution. He takes up his new post late 2006 afterleaving his current job as head of sales at Icon Film Distribution. In the Patherole, he replaces Neil Marshall who is departing Pathe after six years to becomedirector of sales for Warner Bros ...
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Canal Plus signs French VOD agreement with Fox
France's Canal+ Active has signed a VOD agreement with Fox, it was announced Friday.The deal means new Fox releases, as well as catalogue films, will be available on Canal Plus' CanalPlay, the company's one-year old VOD service.Canal Plus' Bruno Thibaudeau said, "We are very proud of this partnership with this ...
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Belfast shoot starts for Collins' Kings
Prinicipal photography hasstarted in Belfast on Kings, an adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road about a group of Irish emigrantswho reunite for the funeral of one of their friends.Leading Irish actor ColmMeaney features in an ensemble cast along with Donal O'Kelly, Brendan Conroy,Donncha Crowley, ...
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$12.9 million package Norway's biggest budget yet
Norwegian director Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsenstarts principal photography on BitterFlowers (Bitre blomster) onOctober 10.Bitter Flowers is the first film in a $12.9 million package of two features and four TVmovies about Norwegian hardboiled private investigator VargVeum. It the largest budget so far realised in Norway.Norwegian actor Trond Espen Seimwill play the ...
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17th Dinard British Film Festival announces jury line-up
The Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard (Oct 5-8) hasannounced its final jury line-up. Irish actress Bronagh Gallagher joins British actor/directorCharles Dance and actor Stephen Mangan to make up the UKcontingent of the 2006 Dinard British Film Festival jury. Other jury members are French actor Francois Berleand,actress Chantal Lauby, producer ...
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On Set With French Cinema 2006 directors announced
French export body Unifrance has announced the fourth edition of On Set With French Cinema, to take place in the US from Oct 2006 - Jan 2007.First held in 2003, theprogram sees France's best film directors teach masterclasses tobudding US film-makers.This year's On Set directorsare Anne Fontaine, Jacques Audiard, Costa-Gavras, ...
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Paramount seals $300m fund with Dresdner Kleinwort
Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) has set up a $300m filmfinancing fund called Melrose Investors 2 (Melrose 2) with Dresdner Kleinwort.The fund will invest in the production of at least 30 picturesthat will go out under the PMPG umbrella, which covers Paramount, DreamWorksSKG, MTV Films and Nick Movies. Paramount Vantage ...
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Free film screenings mark Pinewood's 70th birthday
Pinewood Studios is hosting a week of free film screenings tocelebrate its 70th birthday.The celebratory screenings are to be held in conjunction withThe Times and Vue West End, London, andwill feature one film from each of the seven decades that Pinewood has beenworking in UK film.The screenings run from Oct ...
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Bocco leaves Gersh for key acquisitions post at IFC
Arianna Bocco has joined IFC Entertainment as vice president of acquisitionsand production as the company expands its game-plan to accommodate largercommercial releases.Bocco will identify and chase completed features with rightsavailable and will bring new projects into the company. She will also take the leadin filling IFC First Take's 24-picture annual ...
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Italy announces Oscar bid hopeful
Italy has announced its entry into the best foreign film category of the 2006Academy Awards as Nuovomondo (TheGolden Door). Written and directed by Emanuele Crialese, the $11 million movie is a period epic about Italianemigration, set in the early 20th Century. It follows a family as they headfrom Sicily to ...
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Dead Girl awarded Netherlands Production Platform Prize
This year's Kodak NPPDevelopment Prize was awarded to writer/director/producer Elbert van Strien and producer Claudia Brandt for their feature film Dead Girl. The Netherlands ProductionPlatform (NPP) is in its eight year and is awarded at the Holland Film Meeting(Sept 28 - Oct 2), a sidebar to the Netherlands Film Festival. ...
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Dead Girl awarded Netherlands Production Platform Prize
This year's Kodak NPPDevelopment Prize was awarded to writer/director/producer Elbert van Strien and producer Claudia Brandt for their feature filmProject Dead Girl. The Netherlands ProductionPlatform (NPP) is in its eight year and is awarded at the Holland Film Meeting(Sept 28 - Oct 2), a sidebar to the Netherlands Film Festival. ...
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Eros branches out from Bollywood with Provoked
High-profileBollywood conglomerate Eros International has acquired the rights to the dramafeature Provoked.Directedby Jagmohan Mundhra, the film is a departure from Eros' usual Bollywood fare,foregoing song and dance to tell the true story of Punjabi housewife KiranjitAhluwahlia, who murdered her abusive husband in 1989 and whose trialtransformed the British judicial system.Thecharacter ...
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The Yacoubian Building selected as Egyptian Oscar entry
Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building has been selected by Egypt to represent it in the race for a foreign language Oscar nomination this year.The film, which has enjoyed great success in its home territory, has been the subject of controversy given its themes of Islamic fundamentalism, police brutality and homosexuality.Released ...
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Robbins gets Cassavetes honour at Denver Film Festival
Tim Robbins, who will next be seen starring opposite Derek Luke inthe South African political drama Catch A Fire, will receive the John Cassavetes Awardat the 29th Starz Denver Film Festival.Robbins will collect the honour at a Nov 16 ceremony following aclip reel of career highlights, which include his 2004 ...