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Spain's Dygra Films to launch sales division
Spanish animation producer Dygra Films will launch an international sales departmentat the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.Dygra executive producer Tania Pinto DaCunha, formerly of London's HanWay and Spain's Lolafilms, will head thenew Madrid-based department, working with sales executive Lucas Mackey.Lumina Films' Marina Fuenteswill act as temporary sales consultant and continue to ...
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The Works takes on Scenes of a Sexual Nature
The Works International hastaken on international sales for Ed Blum's Scenesof a Sexual Nature, which will have its market debut at Cannes. The film, written by Aschlin Ditta, follows sevencouples during a summer afternoon around London's Hampstead Heath. Blum also produced the film, with VadimJean and Suran Goonatilake servingas executive ...
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Cronica De Una Fuga moves into Cannes competition
As Cannes Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux predicted, there has been an addition to theofficial competition for this year's festival.CronicaDe Una Fugaby Adrian Caetano has moved from Un Certain Regard tothe main competition section while Murali K. Thalluri's debut Two Thirty 7, has been placed in UnCertain Regard. The first ...
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Princess, The Host are early picks for Directors Fortnight
The Cannes Directors Fortnight sidebar will open with Danishanimated/live-action film Princess. This is the first time in 29 years that a Danishfilm has made the Fortnight cut.The 80% animated, 20% live-action work is directed by first-time featuredirector Anders Morgenthaler, whose short Araki- The Killing of a Japanese Photographer was shown ...
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Canadian, Greek shoot starts for Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces
Serendipity Point Films has started principal photography on its drama Fugitive Pieces. Jeremy Podeswa isdirecting and also adapted the screenplay from Anne Michaels' book of the samename. The story follows a Jewish-Polish boy who is orphaned during WWII, saved bya Greek archaelogist, and later finds love as an adult living ...
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Finland's Salmenpera starts Man's Job shoot
Finnishdirector Aleksi Salmenpera has started shooting his second feature Man's Job (Miehen tyo).Salmenpera also wrote Man'sJob, the story of an unemployed man who becomes a gigolo to support hisfamily. The cast features Tommi Korpela, JaniVolanen and Maria Heiskanen. Petri Jokiranta and TeroKaukomaa are producing forBlind Spot Pictures. They expect delivery ...
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Cannes police threaten symbolic strike on festival's opening day
Municipal police in Cannes have threatened to strike for less than one houron the opening day of the Cannes Film Festival, May 17.Agence France Presse reports that disgruntled police officers unhappy withsanctions, pressures and insufficient safety measures have said they willregister their formal intent to strike on May 10 should ...
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Bavaria sells Into Great Silence to four more territories
TheUK's Soda Pictures and Australia's DendyFilms are among the latest distributors to have picked up Philip Groening's documentary IntoGreat Silence on life in the legendary Carthusianorder of monks.Salesagent Bavaria Film International has also sold all rights to Canada's Mongrel Media and France's Diaphana,joining previous sales made since the film's premiere ...
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German media funds lobby for access to private capital
The German mediafund lobby group Bundesverband PrivatkapitalFilm & Medien (BPFM) has entered the debate onthe future of film financing in Germany as the Angela Merkel administrationprepares to unveil a new financial instrument by July 1. In a ten-pointplan, BPFM managing director and media lawyer Robert Strassercalled for "a practical regulation ...
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Cannes Europe Day takes global distribution theme
The CannesFilm Festival has announced plans for its fourth annual Europe Day to take placeon May 23.The maintheme to be discussed will be "European Films Go Global;" with discussionscentering on getting European films seen on as many screens around the world aspossible.Filmprofessionals will gather with European culture ministers and representativesof ...
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Cannes Europe Day takes global distribution theme
The CannesFilm Festival has announced plans for its fourth annual Europe Day to take placeon May 23.The maintheme to be discussed will be "European Films Go Global;" with discussionscentering on getting European films seen on as many screens around the world aspossible.Filmprofessionals will gather with European culture ministers and representativesof ...
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Christen to head Tokyo operations for Unifrance
French film export body Unifrance has named Valerie-Anne Christen to head up its operations in Tokyo.The posting was announced Wednesday with Christen set to run Asian affairs for the organisation outside China, Hong Kong and Taiwan which are overseen by Christine Pernin based in Beijing.Christen was formerly head of international ...
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Scalpel picks up rights to first Paraguayan film in 30 years
PierreMenahem's Scalpel Films has picked up international sales rights to the firstfilm from Paraguay in more than three decades, the Cannes title Hamaca Paraguaya.And theinternational campaign has kicked off in advance of the film's Un CertainRegard screening with ID Distribution taking French rights.Directedby first-timer (and thus Camera D'Or contender) Paz ...
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Czech parliament approves big boost to state film fund
Film-makers have welcomed the decision of the lower house ofthe Czech parliament to approve an amendment to film law which would morethan triple the size of the State Fund for the Support and Development of CzechCinematography. But the decision has upset exhibitors, broadcasters andrental shops who will be expected to ...
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Quebecois drama opens Manchester Commonwealth festival
Sebastian Rose's Life With MyFather (La Vie Avec Mon Pere) opens the Manchester annualCommonwealth Film Festival (ComFEST06) tommorow night.The event features nine strands with films fromCommonwealth countries, including India, Australia and Canada.It will also include its established Queerscreensection of gay and lesbian cinema.'Notonly will COMFEST06 provide a fascinating showcase for ...
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French-Canadian drama opens Manchester Commonwealth festival
Sebastian Rose's Life With MyFather (La Vie Avec Mon Pere) opens the Manchester annualCommonwealth Film Festival (ComFEST06) tommorow night.The event features nine strands with films fromCommonwealth countries, including India, Australia and Canada.It will also include its established Queerscreensection of gay and lesbian cinema."Notonly will COMFEST06 provide a fascinating showcase for ...
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Universal takes domestic on 2929's We Own The Night
Universal Pictures has picked up domestic rights from 2929Productions to crime drama We Own The Night starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg,Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes.James Gray, who directed Phoenix and Wahlberg in 2000's TheYards, wrote and isdirecting the project, which is currently shooting in New York.Universal previously acquiredrights for the ...
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Annaud feature in talks for Iberian shoot
Spanish studio Ciudad De LaLuz is in advance negotiations to bring Jean-Jacques Annaud'slatest feature to its sound stages. Minor,which is billed as a mythological and pagan comedy set in an era before Homer,is scheduled to shoot around the end of the year.The French film-maker's newproject - produced with Xavier Castano ...
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International Film Circuit buys US on Words
Boutique distributor International Film Circuit has acquired allUS rights to Lesley Ann Patten's documentary Words Of My Perfect Teacher and plans a summer domestic release.The ZIJI Film and Television and National Film Board of Canada co-productionfollows three students on a quest for wisdom, all the while watched closely byKhyentse Norbu, ...
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TIFFG establishes children's international film collection
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) hasestablished a children's international film collection following a $500,000 donationfrom the Toronto-based Harbinger Foundation.The unprecedented collection lays the groundwork for thedevelopment of TIFFG youth education programmes and will be named the John VanDuzerChildren's Film Collection in honour of Harbinger Foundation president JoanVanDuzer's late ...