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Meek to replace Ikin at Film Finance Corp
Producer Scott Meek, whorelocated from the UK to Australia in 2004 to join ABC TV, is to replace Bridget Ikinat Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC). Ikin and Tait Brady were thefirst people employed to choose which films seeking FFC finance through theevaluation door should get the go-ahead. Both of them ...
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Equinoxe, Milagro in Montreal sign on for Saura's Secrets
Montreal-based productioncompanies Equinoxe Films and Milagro Films have signed on as coproducers ofCarlos Saura Medrano's upcoming psychological thriller Secrets alongside Madrid-based Zebra Producciones, theproduction outfit of Antonio Saura. Saura, who wrote the screenplay, and SauraMedrano are sons of veteran Spanish auteur Carlos Saura. The Euros 3mEnglish-language project is set to ...
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Raindance premieres films made on phones
London-based festival Raindance hasbecome the first in the UKto screen movies made entirely on mobile phones. The festival, which runs at Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenuefrom until Oct 8, will be presenting the finalists in this year'sNokia Shorts competition, which had film-makers submit 15-second shorts shot ontheir handsets. The five finalists in ...
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Jackson & Walsh team up with Microsoft for games
Peter Jackson and screenwriting partner Fran Walsh have partneredup with Microsoft Game Studios to create two interactive entertainment seriesexclusively for Xbox 360 and the online games series Xbox Live.The studio will also work with Jackson and Walsh to set up WingnutInteractive, an entertainment studio aimed at creating interactive titles.The first ...
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Transmedia gets rights to Short Order
New UK distributor Transmedia has announced theacquisition of the film Short Order,which will be released in early 2007 under the title Life Is A Buffet. The feature film was written by young Irishdirector Anthony Byrne and stars French actress Emma de Caunes, with VanessaRedgrave and John Hurt. The film takes ...
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NonStop Sales picks up Paid
International sales agent NonStop Sales has picked up the English-language Dutch featurePaid. A gangster thriller in thefilm noir style, Paid is directed by first-time director Laurence Lamers and stars Tom Conti, MuriloBenicio, Corbin Bernsen andGuy Marchand.Paid is a Dutch production,produced by Slavenburg Films. The film will have itsmarket premiere at ...
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Tokyo Filmex unveils nine competition titles
Tokyo Filmex hasannounced the line-up for its seventh edition. Festivaldirectors and programmers Kanako Hayashi and Shozo Ichiyama have selected ninefilms to compete for a Grand Prize of $8,500 (Y1m). The titles include Close To Home by debut directors DaliaHager and Vidi Bilu, Half Moon from Iraniandirector Bahman Ghobadi, Mani Haghighi's ...
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Serbians add Tomorrow Morning to Oscar pool
The Serbian Academy ofFilm Arts and Science has selected Oleg Novkovic's Tomorrow Morning for its submission for consideration for the BestForeign Language Film at the Academy Awards.The drama tells the story of a generation of30-somethings who grew up in the nightmare of the war in former Yugoslavia andconfront their past ...
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Sweden submits Falkenberg Farewell for Oscar race
Sweden has submitted Jesper Ganslandt's Falkenberg Farewell (Farval Falkenberg)as its official candidate for the Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-LanguageFeature. The film opened domesticallylast week and is already showing appeal for international buyers after itsfestival screenings. The film was shown in Venice Days at the VeniceInternational Film Festival, and in Toronto's ...
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Czechs back Lunacy in Oscar race
The Czech Film andTelevision Academy (CFTA) has selected Jan Svankmajer'sLunacy as the Czech Republic's contender for the foreign-language category of theAcademy Awards. The film stars Pavel Liskaand Anna Geislerova as semi-willing residents of a madhouse run by a sadisticdoctor, played by Jan Triska. Svankmajer wrote the script in 1970 inspired ...
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Two Maghreb projects near completion with Cinema In Motion
San Sebastian'sCinema in Motion event has given production funding and technical support to fourfilms from the Maghreb region in Northern Africa and Portuguese-speakingAfrican countries.Cinema in Motion, a spinoff from thefestival's Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion) programme for Spanish andLatin American films, is now in its second year. Two ...
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Wild Bunch takes on Death Of A President
WildBunch has taken on sales for Toronto buzz title Death Of APresident by Gabriel Range.BeforeWild Bunch came on board, deals had already been struck for Newmarket for the US;Maple for Canada; the Indie Circle cooperative (representing A-Flm, Lucky Red,Haut Et Court, Frenetic Films and Cineart) for France, Italy, Switzerland andBenelux; ...
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LA post facility to give $125,000 in grants to new film-makers
Los Angeles-based post production facility Filmworks/FX hasannounced a programme offering $125,000 in post-production grants to aspiringfilmmakers in 2007.Grants supporting lab and telecine work will range from $1,000 to$25,000 and will be awarded to select winners of popular film festivals as wellas to several film schools around the country.'Too often, new ...
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Hot Docs expands 2007 festival to 11 days, adding 25 screening slots
Hot Docs CanadianInternational Documentary Festival will expand its 2007 edition to eleven days,adding approximately 25 slots to its screening slate. The Toronto-based festivaldates will run April 19 to 29, 2007. Film submissions for the event are now open,with an early entry deadline of December 15, 2006 and a late entry ...
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Indo-American Film Festival in New York to screen 60 films
Sixty features,documentaries and shorts including the New York premiere of Mira Nair's TheNamesake will screen during theIndo-American Arts Council's Sixth IAAC (Indo-American Arts Festival) FilmFestival in New York from Nov 1- 5.Screenings include AdityaBhattacharya's adaptation of King Lear called Dubai Return,Suman Gosh's Podokkhep Footstepswith Nandita Das, Rehana Mirza's Hiding Divya ...
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Whitaker, Luke, Lohan join honours roll at Hollywood Film Awards
Forest Whitaker, Derek Lukeand Lindsay Lohan have been added to the roster of Hollywood Film Awardsrecipients at this year's upcoming ceremony on Oct 23.Whitaker receives theHollywood Actor of the Year Award for his role as former Ugandan dictator IdiAmin in Fox Searchlight's The Last King Of Scotland.His other upcoming releasesare ...
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New Line takes worldwide on Hood's thriller Rendition
New Line has picked up worldwide rights to the political thriller Rendition, Gavin Hood's Tsotsi follow-up that will star Jake Gyllenhaaland Reese Witherspoon.Gyllenhaal will play a CIA analyst who oversees the interrogationof a terrorist suspect in the Middle East and questions his ethics as the processspirals out of control.Witherspoon is ...
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Luxembourg has Oscar hopes for Justine
As Monday's submissiondeadline looms, yet another film has entered the foreign-language Oscar race. Luxembourg's National Selection Commission for the Oscars has putforward Your Name Is Justine (Ton Nom est Justine) for potential Oscar nomination. The Luxembourg-Polish film isdirected by Franco de Pena. The film has garnered prizes in Montreal, Poznanand ...
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Jaman strikes 30-film deal with Venevision
New US-based internet filmdistributor Jaman has closed a deal for rights to 30 feature films fromVenevision in a move announced at the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival.The agreement encompassesnon-exclusive rights for broadband distribution and an option to pick upanother 50 titles. The original 30 films include 22 Latin American and eightSpanish ...
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Sony strikes VOD deal with Telecom Italia
Following on a similar UK deal with Arts Alliance Media, Sony PicturesTelevision International has struck a video-on-demand agreement with TelecomItalia.Telecom Italia will offer Sonyfilms on its Alice Home TV internet service and its ASDL portal Rosso Alice. The VOD offerings will include recent releases and catalogue titles. Some ofthe films ...