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White Planet, Ghobadi Mozart film added to TIFF world premiere roster
Arctic documentary TheWhite Planet and films commissioned for the 250thanniversary of the birth of Mozart have been added to the line-up of the 31stToronto International Film Festival. The festival is also addingchild-themed programming under its Sprockets brand, including the NorthAmerican premiere of Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, directed by Geoffrey ...
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Cinemavault hires Rondina, MacPhee on sales team
Cinemavault Releasing International has bulked up its sales team,naming Ruby Rondina festivals and publicity manager and Alisha MacPhee marketsmanager.Rondina joined Cinemavault last year as distribution coordinatorand reports to both the acquisitions department and sales department. MacPheepreviously served as office manager.Laura Jengle becomes the new distribution coordinator andPatterson Skuce is named ...
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Grey Rembert leaves DreamWorks for Initial
Former DreamWorks production executive Grey Rembert has joinedInitial Entertainment Group as vice president of development.Rembert will work alongside senior vice president of creativeaffairs Jennifer Wachtell and will report directly to company head Graham King.Rembert joined DreeamWorks at its inception 12 years ago and mostrecently headed up the literary department at ...
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Saints kicks off IFP's Independent Film Week in Sept
The 28th Annual IFP Market and 1st Annual Filmmaker Conferencewill be among highlights of IFP's annual Independent Film Week in September.The New York event is scheduled to run from Sept 18-21 and kicksoff with the New York premiere of Dito Montiel's drama A Guide To RecognizingYour Saints.Other features include reduced ...
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Roger Michell opts out of next Bond film
Britishdirector Roger Michell has confirmed that he will notbe directing the next Bond movie, the 22nd in the 007 franchise."I'vedecided not to do it," Michell told ScreenDaily.com. "I was very tempted. Ispent a long time working on it but I wasn't tempted enough to actually jumpin. At the last minute, ...
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Hungary's Istvan Szabo to head Pusan jury
Hungariandirector Istvan Szabo willhead the jury at the Pusan International FilmFestival in Korea.Otherjurors will be Hong Kong producerDaniel Yu, Korean actress Moon So-Ry, French directorBruno Dumont and Iranian director Abolfazl Jalili.They willjudge New Currents, the festival's only competitive section for emerging Asianfilm-makers. The top prize comes with $30,000.Pusan also announced ...
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Ahmad's Gubra gets best film honours in Malaysia
Gubra,the follow-up to writer/director Yasmin Ahmad'sinter-racial love drama Sepet,walked away with best film, best original screenplay and best actress for Sharifah Amani at the 19thMalaysian Film Festival ceremony Sunday night. It is the second time in a row that an Ahmad filmreceived the top honours after Sepet swept six awards ...
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Australia debates merits of digital cinema
Australian exhibitors weretold today that if they want to stay in business they have ten years to find away to make the transition to digital. "I do not know exactly howlong you can keep running 35mm prints of major movies but suggest that within10, 12 or 15 years they will ...
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Edinburgh festival opens with news of boost in funding
The60th Edinburgh International Film got underway on Monday evening with the worldpremiere of The Flying Scotsman andthe news that the event has received substantial extra funding.TheScottish Executive announced that it has allocated an additional $283,462 (£150,000)to the festival that will be dispersed through Scottish Screen. This in turnmeans an extra ...
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Palace strikes deal for Intercom's Hungarian multiplexes
Palace Cinemas Central Europe has announced the acquisition of nine Hollywood Multiplex sites from AndyVajna's production, distribution and exhibitioncompany InterCom.Palace Cinemas would notdisclose the value of the asset-purchase arrangement.Of the nine sites, five arein the capital of Budapest and one is to open in November. The asset purchase agreementadds 56 ...
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Martial arts feature Underground starts UK shoot
Park Entertainmentand Intense Productions have started principal photography on announce thatprincipal photography on Underground.The action featureis set in the UK suburbs, where anunderground tournament pits a dozen fighters against each other. The cast includesmartial arts expert Mark Strange, kickboxing champion Nathan Lewis and stuntveteran Leon Sua. Chee Keong Cheung is ...
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Sheffield Documentary Festival plans new pitching programme
The Sheffield International Documentary Festival has created a newpitching programme, The MeetMarket,to be launched at this year's festival (Oct 30-Nov 5).The Documentary Filmmakers Group is presenting and coordinating the new programme. Selected documentary ideas will be presented inone-minute pitch trailers made available online to buyers before the festival.They will select ...
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Werber's Earthmen Friends to open Montreal
BernardWerber's Our Earthmen Friends will openthe 30th Montreal World Film Festival on Aug 24.Werber,the French sci-fi author of the Antstrilogy and most recently Le Souffle Des Dieux (The Breath Of The Gods), directed and Les Films 13 produced the project.OurEarthmen Friends is styled as adocumentary about Earth and humans made ...
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Spanish films get pole positions at New York Film Festival
GuillermoDel Toro's gothic fairy tale Pan's Labyrinth will close the 44th New York Film Festival, while PedroAlmodovar's drama Volver has been namedthe centerpiece presentation.Bothfilms played in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.Festivalorganisers also announced that they would screen a restored print of WarrenBeatty's 1981 historical saga Reds asthe festival ...
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Sarajevo unveils documentary competition and Panorama
The12th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 18-26) has announced further details of thisyear's programme. Inaddition to the feature competition announced earlier this month, Sarajevo has announced the 19films in its documentary competition, including six from Bosnia and Herzegovina (see below). The documentary programme will offer a Heartof Sarajevo best documentary award ...
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Perhaps Love wins big at Golden Bauhinia Awards
Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love dominated the 11th Hong Kong GoldenBauhinia Awards (GBA) last night, winning six awards including best director,best actress for Zhou Xun, best cinematography, bestart direction, best film music and best film song. Thebest film award went to Johnnie To's gangster thriller Election which also bagged best ...
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Edinburgh starts new Diamond Awards
TheEdinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which opens tonight with theworld premiere of Douglas Mackinnon's The Flying Scotsman, is introducing a newset of awards at its 60th anniversary event. The new Diamond Awardswill "acknowledge excellence in cinema in celebration with the spirit of EIFF."Theinaugural recipients are actors Sigourney Weaver and TildaSwinton, ...
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Australians on board for mockumentaries
Australia is not known forfeature-length mockumentaries but Palace has justsigned on for Razzle Dazzle - A Journey Into Dance, while Madman next week releases Kenny, which is getting rave reviewsfrom some critics for its humour and loveable nature.Both productions are shot in fly-on-the-wall style. Razzle Dazzle is set in the ...
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Bet Collector gets year's first A rating in Philippines
Filipino directorJeffrey Jeturian's The Bet Collector (Kubrador), which isset for a North American premiere in Toronto, has become the first film to begiven an A rating this year by the Philippines' Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB).According to the CEB,the low-budget digital film that revolves around the daily life of an aging ...
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TIFF introduces $10,000 cash prize for Canadian producers
Theupcoming 31st Toronto International Film Festival has inaugurated a producers'award supporting the Canadian industry in partnership with Canadian Film andTelevision Production Association (CFTPA) and the finalists of Telefilm CanadaPITCH THIS!The CFTPAProducers' Award will honour entrepreneurial independent producers of aCanadian feature screening at the festival and carries a $10,000 prize. Thewinner ...