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Best FilmBrokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana/James Schamus)Alexander Korda Award For Best British FilmWallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Peter Lord/David Sproxton/Nick Park/ Steve Box/Mark Burton/Bob Baker)Carl Foreman Award For First Film Joe Wright (Director,Pride & Prejudice)David Lean Award For Best DirectorBrokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)Best Original ScreenplayCrash (Paul Haggis/Bobby ...
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Bosnian war drama takes Golden Bear at Berlin
Sarajevofilmmaker Jasmila Zbanic's won year's Golden Bear for her moving feature debut Grbavicaabout the traumas of war as a mother and daughter try to come to terms with thelegacy of the Bosnian conflict. Theco-production between Austria's Coop99 Filmproduktion, Bosnia's DeblokadaFilmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion and Croatia's Jadran Filmalso received the Ecumenical ...
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Bosnian war drama takes Golden Bear at Berlin
Sarajevofilmmaker Jasmila Zbanic's won year's Golden Bear for her moving feature debut Grbavicaabout the traumas of war as a mother and daughter try to come to terms with thelegacy of the Bosnian conflict.Theco-production between Austria's Coop99 Filmproduktion, Bosnia's DeblokadaFilmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion and Croatia's Jadran Filmalso received the Ecumenical Jury's ...
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Berlinale 2006 prize-winners
BERLINALE2006 PRIZE-WINNERSGoldenBear for Best Film Grbavica(Jasmila Zbanic) SilverBear Jury Grand Prix En Soap(Pernille Fischer Christensen) and Offside (JafarPanahi)SilverBear Best DirectorMichaelWinterbottom and Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo)SilverBear Best ActressSandraHueller (Requiem)SilverBear Best ActorMoritzBleibtreu (The Elementary Particles)SilverBear Outstanding Artistic ContributionJuergenVogel as producer, writer and main actor (The Free ...
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Korean filmmakers and farmers stage protest against screen quota
Korean filmmakers havejoined with rice farmers to protest the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA)in a mass rally entitled Candlelight Culture-fest "Rice and Cinema" to Maintainthe Screen Quota and Block the FTA. - US trade pressure for FTA negotiationsdemanding the halving of the screen quota and the opening of the rice ...
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Elementary Particles heads NonStop Entertainment's Berlin acquisitions
Swedish distributor, NonStop Entertainmentbought a slate of films from the Berlin Film Festival. Leading the line-up is Oskar Roehler's, The Elementary Particles, the tale oftwo half-brothers struggling against sexual frustration and self-destruction. Particles, was sold to 23 countriesstraight after its Berlinale premiere and is one ofthe favourites to win a ...
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Brock Norman Brock joins Vertigo Films
Brock Norman Brock has joinedVertigo Films to help produce and develop the UKproduction and distribution company's new slate. Brock was formerly acting head ofthe Premiere Fund at the UK Film Council, where he worked on films including Gosford Park, Young Adam, and Valiant.Before joining the UKFC, he was the head ...
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Bangkok International Film Festival honours Fortissimo Films
The Bangkok International Film Festival is to award Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J.Werner, co-chairmen of Fortissimo Films, with a Golden Kinnareefor their contribution to Asian Cinema at the black tie Awards Gala to be held onFebruary 24th .Wouter Barendrechtfounded Fortissimo Film Sales in 1991 with the specific aim of developing,selling ...
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Invisible Waves roll from Berlin to Bangkok festival opening
Pen-ek Ratanaruang's highly-anticipated noir thriller Invisible Waves kicks off the 4thBangkok International Film Festival today. The Thai director, along with actor AsanoTadanobu, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and co-producer MingmongkolSonakul,are expected to reach the Thai capital in time for the red-carpet opening nightafter premiering the film in Berlin three days ago. The ...
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M.Night Shyamalan named ShoWest Director of the Year
M. Night Shyamalan has beenmade ShoWest Director of the Year it was announced byMitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the eventthat will be held in Las Vegas, March13-16. Shyamalanwill be presented with the award on the closing night ceremony at Bally's andParis Las Vegas.Shyamalan's next feature is Ladyin the Water, ...
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Kenneth Maidment memorial today
Kenneth L. Maidment, a former VPof Columbia Pictures and the former president of the British Film ProducersAssociation (the predecessor to Pact), passed away on February 1 at Frimley Park Hospital in the UK.The memorial service will be held at St. Mary's in Weybridgetoday (February 17) at noon, followedby a private ...
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Universal Pictures signs production agreement with Aronofsky and Watson
UniversalPictures has entered into a first look production arrangement withdirector/writer Darren Aronofsky and his producer Eric Watson and theircompany Protozoa Pictures. The duo will also develop and produce feature filmsfor Universal's sister companies Focus Features and Rogue Pictures. Aronofsky credits include PI and Requiem For A Dream. He is currently ...
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Nordisk racks up sales for action-adventure feature
Danish based sales outfit Nordisk has been racking up sales at Berlin's European Film Market. As the market in the Martin Gropius-Bau closes its doors, the company has confirmeddeals on action-adventure The LostTreasure of the Knights Templar to Medallion Media for Japan,A-Film for the Benelux,Ukrainian DVD Company for CIS, D-production ...
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Michael London launches Groundswell Productions
Producer MichaelLondon has teamed up with two new equity-based film funds, Lexington FilmFunding and Crescendo Independent Film Fund to establish GroundswellProductions, an independent financing and production company that aims to makefive films a year under the $20 million range. The new entity has access to $55million and aims over the ...
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Australian producers conference to include major awards
The biggest annual gathering of producers, the SPAA (ScreenProducers Association of Australia) conference, will this year move back to itstraditional November time slot but stay on the Queensland Gold Coast for thenext three years.Queensland Premier Paul Beattie also announced that the 8thLexus Inside Film Awards will be staged on Friday ...
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Wild Bunch picks up French rights to James Gray feature
In a sevenfigure deal, Wild Bunch distribution arm Pan Europeennehas acquired all French rights to James Gray's upcoming We Own The Night.JoaquinPhoenix stars as a nightclub manager in 1980s Queens who falls foul of his policeofficer brother played by Mark Wahlberg just as theRussian mafia are taking control of the ...
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Capote starts international run after Berlin premiere
Fresh from its European premiere at the Berlin FilmFestival, major Oscar contender Capote gets its first internationalopenings this weekend, a weekend that will otherwise see a few Hollywoodofferings starting their international runs and a few more continuing their roll-outs. Biographical drama Capote, with Philip SeymourHoffman starring as author Truman Capote, ...
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Eva Green is cast as Bond girl Vesper Lynd
One day on from theannouncement that Mads Mikkelsenhad been cast as the next James Bond villain two more high profile additionshave been made, including the elusive information of who would play Bond girlVesper Lynd opposite new James Bond, Daniel Craig. French actress Eva Green hasbeen cast as Casino Royale'sleading love ...
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Aardman animations morph into mobile phones
One of the first characters created byanimation studio Aardman co-founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton is to reappear on mobile phones.Morph, a plasticine model created for UK television 30 years ago, will be revived for a new generation through licensing deals with Orange,Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2 andinternational operators. All deals have ...
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Eastern European buyers pick up rights to Toei's Yamato
TheEuropean Film Market (EFM) sales of Toei's domestic blockbuster Yamato (Otokotachi no Yamato) are progressing smoothly, with twelve countries lockedin so far. Eastern European deals were among the first closed, including Poland's Vision Films, and Slovenia's Fiviapicking up rights for Eastern Europe. Benelux was the first WesternEuropean territory to purchase ...