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Toronto Film Festival appoints three new Canadian programmers
TheToronto International Film Festival has appointed three new Canadianprogrammers. Marguerite Pigott, a film and television consultant and formerdevelopment and production executive at Odeon Films, and Jesse Wente, a filmcritic and producer for CBC Radio, will join Canadian feature selectors StaceyDonen, Steve Gravestock and festival co-director Noah Cowan. AgataSmoluch Del Sorbo ...
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Battle In Heaven to open Film Comment series in NYC
Carlos Reygadas' Mexican drama Battle In Heaven will launch the 6th Annual "FilmComment Selects" series at New York's Walter Reade Theatre in the LincolnCentre, which runs from Feb 15-28.The series of pictures chosen by editorial staff from Film Commentmagazine includes photographer William Eggleston's 1974 soul music documentary StrandedIn Canton, a ...
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Sass named vp, publicity and promotion, theatrical catalogue, at Warner Home Video
Ronnee Sass has been promoted to the newly-created position ofvice president of publicity and promotion, theatrical catalogue, at Warner HomeVideo (WHV).Formerly executive director of publicity and communications, Sasswillcontinue to create and direct all publicity campaigns for thetheatrical catalogue division's 6,500-plus titles, including new-to-format,made-for-video and catalogue titles.She will also assume responsibility ...
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V For Vendetta to get simultaneous IMAX version release
WarnerBros will release an IMAX version of action-adventure V For Vendetta simultaneous with the March 17 domestic release ofthe conventional version of the film. StarringNatalie Portman, the film is directed by statement McTeigue and produced by theWachowski Brothers and Joel Silver. In a release, Dan Fellman, president ofdomestic distribution for ...
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Spain claims 20-year production record
Spainproduced more feature films in 2005 than in any year in the past two decades,according to new figures released by the Ministry of Culture.Some142 features were made in Spain last year, nine more than the previous year,with another 30 currently in post-production.Ofthose 142, 53 were international co-productions. The mostfrequent co-producing ...
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Spanish government launches action plan for film
Spain'sMinistry of Culture has unveiled an "action plan" for Spanish film, including increased subsidies and the creation of a new mutual guarantee fund.Presentedin Madrid by Minister of Culture Carmen Calvo, the initiative targets production, distribution and exhibition.The most significant measure is an increase to the 2006 budget of the Spanish ...
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Rome festival promises to serve both industry and public
The new Rome Film Festival (13-21 Oct, 2006) is planning to become a major event for both the public and international industryprofessionals.At a packed press conference in Rome's town hall, city mayorWalter Veltroni said buyers, producers and executives will be able to meet fromOct 13-16 in a business area along ...
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Nagasaki Shunichi opens Rotterdam festival
TheRotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) opened last night with NagasakiShunichi's Heart, Beating in the Dark."TheNagasaki Shunichi's movie looks back, redefines, and finds new directions, just like the festival," said festival director Sandra den Hamer."The IFFRstays loyal to independent film, auteur film."Some 14 films will compete for this year's three Tiger ...
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Arista's Adept 3 goes to Cinemart
Arista Development has announced that it has entered a new sponsorship and partnership agreement with Cinemart at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Participating writers and directors on Arista's Adept 3 scheme will attend a special series of screenings, workshops, and producers meetings during Cinemart, which runs January 29 through February ...
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Korean government unveils $400m film support fund
Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism is establishing a $400m Korean FilmDevelopment Fund to run over five years.The plan was announced by Minister of Cultureand Tourism Jeong Dong-chae this morning (Jan 27) as a counter-measureto the halving of Korea's Screen Quota and strong industry protests.The support plan will createa $400m ...
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Americans in Paris boost inward production
Film production in the Ile De France, whichincludes Paris, was up last year, figures have revealed.Statistics released by the National Film Centre show that on any one dayin 2005, 10 film or TV productions were being shot on the region's boulevards,parks or studios, amounting to 3,363 shoot days.Feature films accounted ...
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Downfall wins BBC international cinema award
Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall won the BBC Four World Cinema Award last night.The ceremony was hosted by Jonathan Ross at London's National Film Theatre.
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Rialto picks up Science Of Sleep
Rialto Distribution hasacquired writer/director Michel Gondry's TheScience Of Sleep for Australia and New Zealand, hot on the heels of its sale to Warner IndependentPictures for North America and the UK at Sundance. The inventive film starsGael Garcia Bernal (The MotorcycleDiaries) and Charlotte Gainsbourg as young neighbours in a playful andtouching ...
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Adelaide festival offers cash prize for new competition
The biennial Adelaide Film Festival has introduced a feature film competition which will see the director of the winning film go home $19,400 (A$25,000) richer.Festival director Katrina Segwick says the move means Adelaide is now one of a small number of festivals throughout the world that offers substantial cash awards. ...
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Celluloid Dreams strengthens sales slate for Berlin
French sales agentCelluloid Dreams is flexing its muscles pre-Berlin, boarding yet moreEnglish-language productions in advance of the European Film Market.New toCelluloid's roster is Bille August's Goodbye Bafana, based on the diaries of Nelson Mandela's formerprison guard. Co-produced by Banana Films with France's ARSAM, Goodbye Bafana traces Mandela's prison guard, James ...
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Salvatores lines up big-budget international feature
Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatoresis lining up a big-budget international feature about a ship's last voyage,entitled Cargo.The film, which Salvatores iscurrently writing with Umberto Contarello, isinspired by the true story of an Indian beach where old ships lie abandoned.The picture will focus on one ship's last voyage, across the sea ...
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New Screenwriters Festival to launch in London
The new international Screenwriters' Festivalwill hold a Londonlaunch on Monday (January 30) to announce details of its inaugural event, whichwill be held in Cheltenhamfrom June 27-30. Screen Internationalis one of the sponsors of the festival.Festival supporters who will appear at thelaunch include producer Gina Carter, BAFTA chairman Duncan Kenworthy,producer and ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y. leads pack with 12 Genie Award nominations
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. picked up 12 nominations and Deepa Mehta's Water earned nine Canada's Genie Awards. Both films werenominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Achievement in Direction. Michael Dowse's It's AllGone Pete Tong had eight nominationswhile Luc Picard's debut feature L'Audition and Andre Turpin's Familia had seven. Five films ...
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Film and TV shooting up 18% in London
UK film production may have had a down year in 2005 - with overall film production spending down 31% -- but filming in London was up 18%, according to agency Film London. That figure, however, is not just based on film shoots but also includes TV and commercial shoots as ...
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WBITD signs output deal with Orbit for Middle East, North Africa
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) andOrbit Communications have signed a multi-year output deal giving Orbit the exclusivepay television rights for Warner product in the Middle East and North Africa.The deal includes such titles as Batman Begins, Harry PotterAnd The Goblet Of Fireand Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, as well ...