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Varda to receive Flanders tribute
Agnes Varda will receivethe Joseph Plateau Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming 33rdAnnual Flanders International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 11-21.Previous honorees include Mike Leigh, Robert Altman, Richard Attenborough, SydneyPollack and Lili Zanuck.Festival organisers will screen 10 of her films as part of the tribute, and have separately arranged ...
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Sony strikes VOD deal with Arts Alliance
Sony Pictures TelevisionInternational and Arts Alliance Media have struck a deal to offer Sony filmsfor rentals online. The video-on-demand (VOD) deal gives AAM the right to digitally distribute 180 of SonyPictures' back catalogue titles, including TaxiDriver and Gandhi, as well as newreleases over the next three years such as Spider-Man3. ...
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Billionaire Gou plans new Chinese studio
Taiwan-based billionaire Terry Gou isinvesting $200m to build a film studio in northwest China. Gou announced theproject on a visit to his ancestral hometown of Jinchengin Shanxi province, near to where the new studio isplanned in Zhezhou county. Upto 40% of the investment is expected to come from local government ...
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Valentina Merli joins Pyramide International
French sales company Pyramide Internationalhas hired Valentina Merlito replace outgoing sales executive Pascale Josse.Josse left the company at the end of July and Merli joined this week as director of foreign sales. Shewill report to managing director Eric Lagesse. Merli has previously worked as head of foreign salesat Gemini Films ...
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Swiss study finds more funding but lack of box-office success
TheSwiss film industry is likely to have mixed feelings after reading the FederalOffice for Statistics' (BFS) latest study "Filmproduction in Switzerland 1995-2004'.Appearingahead of Locarno Film Festival's first Swiss Day (Aug8), which will showcase national filmmaking, the BFS study notes, on the onehand, that public and private funding for local production ...
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New Hong Kong producer Artforce starts Protege
Through newHong Kong-based production company ArtforceInternational, two top Hong Kong film-makers are teaming together for the first time on Protege, a drugtrafficking drama produced by Peter Chan and directed by Derek Yee.A new jointventure between Yee, Chan and his business partner Andre Morgan, Artforce is co-producing the $4.6m (HK$36m) film ...
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Walters, Serkis and Mackintosh on board for Sugarhouse Lane
NewUK-based digital film production and distribution company Slingshot will beginshooting its debut feature Sugarhouse Lane on Aug 21.DirectorGary Love makes his feature film debut, with a script by Dominic Leyton basedon his stage play Collision. MichaelRiley is producing.Sugarhouse Lane will star StevenMackintosh as a middle-class boy who becomes involved ...
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Hot Docs to spotlight Central, Eastern Europe
Central and Eastern European documentary cinema will beshowcased at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival aspart of the festival's National Spotlight programme.Films from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia will be considered forinclusion. In addition, Hot Docs will devote its Made In... sidebar ...
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Film London continues festival and training funds
Film London has continued new rounds of funding for itsFilm-makers' Festival Fund and Events and Training Providers' Fund. The Film-makers' Festival Fund provides travel supportfor individual film-makers to attend key festivals where their film will playin competition. The fund also contributes towards striking a first film print ordigital master. In ...
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Korean film exports down 58% on last year
Korean filmexports for the first half of 2006 are down 58% year-on-year, according tofigures released by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Total exports came to$17.4m, compared to $41.8m in the first six months of 2005. The main reasonfor the sharp decline in sales is that Japan, Korea's biggest buyer, has ...
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Sarajevo sets competition films and jury
The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug18-26) has announced its competition programme andmain jury. Eightcompetition films will compete for the awards of best film, special jury award,best actor and best actress: Das Fraulein, Switzerland/Germany/Bosnia andHerzegovina, dir: Andrea StakaThe Paper WillBe Blue (Hartia Va Fi Albastra), Romania, dir: RaduMunteanKythera, Hungary, dir: Peter ...
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Sao Paulo to host new film market Aug 23-25
Anewly created film market in Sao Paulo has been set up to boost thebusiness of Brazilian audiovisual industry. The numbers are still very modestwhen compared to the largest American and European film markets but the first InternationalFair of the Cinema and Audiovisual Industry (FIICAV) expects its 150 exhibitorsto attract 15,000 ...
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Schloendorff plans Kazakhstan shoot for Ulzhan
Germandirector Volker Schloendorff will be reunited withactor David Bennent, the child star of his 1979Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) as Oskar Matzerath, for his next feature Ulzhan which begins shooting in Kazakhstan from September.TheFrench-Kazakh co-production between Regis Ghezelbash'sFly Times Pictures and the Kazakh Film Studio is based on ...
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MonteCristo kicks off japan shoot on Apartment 1303
New York-based salesand distribution company MonteCristo Entertainment has begun principalphotography in Hamamatsu, Japan, on the horror tale Apartment 1303.Ataru Oikawa is directing the project about the terrifying circumstancessurrounding a rental apartment, which is expected to be ready for delivery byAFM and stars Noriko Nakagoshi.Oikawa adapted the screenplay from Kei Oishi's ...
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Sundance names seven Annenberg fellows
Sundance Institutehas announced the seven recipients of this year's Annenberg awards, which givefilmmakers a $10,000 grant and extended creative and financial support over atwo-year period to assist development.This year's screenplays touch on issues ranging from the struggles of younglove in a post-9/11 New York to the challenges and small victories ...
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Hilary Bevan Jones takes chairman post at Bafta
HilaryBevan Jones has taken over as chairman of the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta), succeeding Duncan Kenworthyafter his two-year stint.Bevan Jones will be the first woman to chair the Academyin its 60-year history, after having served as deputy chairman for one year. Kenworthy will now take ...
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Montreal's FNC bags new Trier comedy
Lars von Trier's The Boss Of It All will makes it North American premiere at Montreal'sFestival du Nouveau Cinema, which runs from October 18 to 28. The film will have its worldpremiere at the Copenhagen International Film Festival in September. The Danish-language comedy, which stars such von Trierregulars as Peter ...
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Off Screen leads charge in Cinemavault sales
Cinemavault ReleasingInternational has notched up a string of sales, headed by Pieter Kuijpers' OffScreen.The Dutch hostagethriller has been picked up for the US by Image Entertainment, with furtherdeals for France (Melimedias), Brazil (California), Greece (Spentzos Film), andthe former Yugoslavia (A.G. Market).Georgina Riedel's comedy How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer ...
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Shim named managing director of Fox Korea
Jay Shim has beenappointed managing director of Fox Korea, replacing Jesse Lee who was recentlynamed general manager of Fox Japan.Shim will assume the new role immediately and reports to vice president of theAsia/Pacific region Sunder Kimatrai.Shim most recently served as vice president of Popcorn Film, where he managedthe production of ...
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Toronto launches 'envelope-pushing' Vanguard sidebar
The Toronto International Film Festival is launching a newprogramme, Vanguard, with four world premieres to back up the sidebar'sambition to showcase films that are "stylistically bold, structurally playfuland appeal to adventurous, risk-taking audiences." The four world premieres are, from Australia, GeoffreyWright's contemporary adaptation of Macbeth;from France, Chacun Sa Nuit byPascal ...