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USC student King wins BAFTA/LA student film award for animated short
Adam Parrish King has won BAFTA/LA's third annual Student FilmAwards for his animated short The Wraith Of Cobble Hill.The Brooklyn-set coming-of-age fable beat out sixfinalists from a pool of 30 submissions from Los Angeles County colleges.All finalists will receive diplomas from BAFTA/LA. The finalistswere: King, from USC; Jesse Eisenhardt, from ...
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Basil-Jones returns to Sony to head Australia, New Zealand
StephenBasil-Jones will return to Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) asmanaging director of Australia once he completes his tenure as DreamWorks International'smarketing and distribution chief at the end of the year.Basil-Joneswill also serve as regional supervisor for New Zealand and SPRI executive vicepresident, reporting to Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group president ...
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Jesus Camp gets Sterling Award at Silverdocs festival
HeidiEwing and Rachel Grady's Jesus Camp wonthe Silverdocs Sterling Award for a feature film as the week-long event came toa close in Maryland.JesusCamp explores the faith of young followersat a summer camp whose lives are driven by fervent evangelism.DanielCross and Mila Aung-Thwin's Chairman George received an honourable mention for its ...
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Cars, Tokyo Drift post powerful international debuts
The Da Vinci Code ruled the roost and became the 13th biggestinternational release in history at the weekend as it reached $480m andovertook Shrek 2 and Star WarsEpisode III.Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational chiefs reported an estimated $15.2m weekend haul from 7,800screens in 83 territories. The adventure is by far Sony's biggest ...
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Cedric The Entertainer joins cast of Talk To Me for Focus, Kimmel
US comedian Cedric The Entertainer, Mike Epps and Taraji P Hensonhave joined the cast of Focus Features' Talk To Me, which began shooting last week.As previously announced Kasi Lemmons is directing and DonCheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in the story based on the life of Ralph Waldo'Petey' Green, an outspoken ...
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GI Jesus takes grand jury prize at CineVegas
Carl Colapert's Iraq Wardrama GI Jesus was awarded the2006 Cinevegas Film Festival's Grand Jury prize as the event wound down at theweekend.Joe Arquette, Patricia Mota,Maurizio Farhad, Mark Cameron and Telana Lynum star in the tale of a returningMexican national who fought in the conflict in exchange for US citizenship andsuffers ...
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Darryl Hunt, Simple Curve are favourites at Nantucket
AubreyNealon's A Simple Curve won the 11thNantucket Film Festival's Writer/Director Award, and Ricki Stern and AnnieSundberg's The Trials of Darryl Hunttook the audience award for best feature as the event wound down at theweekend.BestStorytelling in a Documentary Film was awarded to Steven Cantor's WhatRemains, while South African filmmakerAvie Luthra won ...
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Palm picks up domestic rights to New York post-punk doc KIll Your Idols
Palm Pictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights toSA Crary's documentary Kill Your Idols and plans a summer theatrical release followed by DVD inthe autumn.Kill Your Idols chartsa course through New York's downtown underground post-punk scene, kicking offin the late 1970s with the birth of the short-lived but influential ...
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Hong Kong's EMP teams with Shanghai Film Studio
Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures and Shanghai Film Studiohave formed a joint venture encompassing film production and talent management.The joint venture, SFSEmperor Cultural Development Co, aims to produce five features and at least oneTV series by the end of 2007, with the first films to be announced next month.It will ...
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Previd launches entertainment marketing firm in New York
Nevette Previd has launchedthe entertainment marketing firm Nevette Previd Inc, which will focus onstrategic partner development and integrated grassroots marketing and socialaction campaigns tied to film campaigns. The client roster currentlyincludes clients Participant Productions, Elevation FilmWorks, ProcessProductions, Plum Pictures, The San Francisco Film Festival, and the NY AidsFilm Festival. Previd ...
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Shanghai unveils plans for new studio facility
Shanghai Media andEntertainment Group has unveiled ambitious plans to build a studio andentertainment complex on the outskirts of the city as competition to lure overseasproductions heats up. Located in Songjiangdistrict in the south-west of the city, the proposed Shanghai Studios Entertainment Citywill encompass full-service production studios - including sound stages ...
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London Film School hosts panel featuring Mike Leigh
The London Film School's 50thanniversary celebrations continue on Wednesday with a topic that hits close tohome. At the National Film Theatre at 6:15, the school willhost Rebels Without A Course, a discussion about theimpact of formal film education and what film schools should be in the 21stcentury.The panel features LFS ...
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Screenwriters Festival - introduction
The International Screenwriters' Festival is dedicated to the art, craft and business of writing for the screen.Bringing together professional industry delegates, high profile guests and new talent from around the world, the Festival provides a unique forum to debate and discuss writing dramatic scripts for film, television and new media.The ...
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India's Adlabs makes move into Hollywood production
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Anil Ambani's Mumbai-based Adlabs have signed a deal in Dubai to co-produce feature films in Hollywood. Adlabs will invest $30m of the $50m budget of the first co production, the David Ellis-directed Asylum, which is expected to begin shooting in the next two months. ...
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Shanghai film festival gets off to glittering start
Judging by the openingweekend, the Shanghai International Film Festival (June 17-25) is finallystarting to take advantage of its position as mainland China's leading film festival and industry platform.Past editions have struggledto attract stars or premieres - mostly because of restrictions and otherproblems in the Chinese movie market - but the ...
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Arcand's Dark Age gets Telefilm Canada funding
New productions fromQuebecois auteurs Denys Arcand and Bernard Emond are among seven new featurefilms greenlit by Telefilm Canada's Quebec office - five in French, two in English.Arcand's project, L'AgeDes Tenebres (Dark Age), is a majority Canada/France co-production betweenDenise Robert's Cinemaginaire and Paris-based Monvoisin Productions. In thevein of Arcand's Barbarian Invasiontheme, ...
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MDA reports strong Cannes sales tally for Singapore
Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced astring of sales on the Singapore films presented at Cannes, including multiple deals on MediaCorp RaintreePictures' noir thriller One Last Dance.US sales outfit BleibergEntertainment sold the film to Germany (EMS), Poland (Carisma), Hungary (IMA),Israel (PTV), CIS (Soyuz-Video), Spain (Silco Telecinema), Yugoslavia (MG Film),Brazil ...
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Indian Film Awards headed to Yorkshire
The International IndianFilm Academy (IIFA) Awards has selected Yorkshire to host the 2007 ceremony. The winning bid, beating cities including New York, was madeby Regional Screen Agency, Screen Yorkshire, Regional Development Agency,Yorkshire Forward and Yorkshire Tourist Board. The IIFA Awards will be held over four days, including theceremony, a world ...
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New Madrid Screenings boasts 51 new films
The first edition of theSpanish Film Screenings of Madrid kick off this weekend with an anticipated 105international buyers flying in to screen a selection of recent Spanish featurefilms.The new three-day event(June 18-20) picks up where the Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote,cancelled this year after six editions, left off.Already Madrid anticipates ...