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Canary snaps up top Raindance prize
The 13th annual Raindance Film Festival wrapped in London on Sunday with AkihikoShiota's Canary from Japan taking the top competitionprize. The film is about a 12-year-old boy who is raised by a cult. Lou Ma Ho's A Monk'sAwakeningfrom France won the short film competition.UK prizes went to JulianGilbey's hip-hop drama ...
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Monte Carlo fest to launch Remake Film Market
TheInternational Cinema and Literature Forum of Monte Carlo will launch theworld's first and only Remake Film Market during its fifth annual run in April.FormerCannes Market US representative Edith Grant has been named to head up theconcurrent International Literary Adaptation Market and the Remake Film Marketwhich will take place this year ...
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UK's World Cinema names Kelly as managing director
Tom Kelly has been named Managing Director of World Cinema,the UK salesarm for the home entertainment products of independent distributors includingTartan Video and Artificial Eye. Kelly was previously commercial director for Cinema Club andsales and marketing director for 20th Century Fox. He started thenew position on October 3.He replaces Mike ...
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Valladolid unveils competition line-up
Spain'sValladolid International Film Festival has unveiled the programme for itsupcoming 50th anniversary edition (Oct 21-29).To celebrate the event, the festival has created a one-time 50thAnniversary Prize with a cash award of Euros 50,000 to be split between thewinning film's producer and director. Another Euros 12,000 one-time prize willgo to a ...
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Dinard honours Father's Den
Three films already familiarto UK audiences - In My Father's Den,Festival, and Ladies in Lavender- were the winners at the 16th Dinard British Film Festival (Oct 6-9). Brad McGann's In My Father's Den, which UK distributorOptimum released in theatres in June and on DVD last week, was something of asurprise ...
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Weyermann leaves Sundance for Participant
Participant Productions hasappointed the former director of the Sundance Institute's Documentary FilmProgramme Diane Weyermann (pictured) to the newly created post of executive vice presidentof documentary production.Weyermann will beresponsible for the Los Angeles-based company's documentary department, andwill oversee acquisitions and development and production. She will report toParticipant president Ricky Strauss.Prior to ...
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Singapore to host festival for new Asian directors
Singapore is set to host a new film festival for first-timedirectors - the Asian Festival of First Films (AFFF) - which is scheduled torun from November 23-30 with an awards gala on the final night. Organised by Indian productioncompany Teamwork Films with backing from corporate sponsors, the festival aimsto provide ...
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New York comedy heads Indian music major's debut slate
Indian music major Saregamahas unveiled a slate of seven features, headed by Karma Confession &Holy to be directed by New York-based Indian filmmaker Manish Gupta.The comedy, which starsIndian actors Sushmita Sen and Randeep Hooda, begins shooting in New York this month. It follows three sets of characters - Indianswho have ...
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Shutter duo to reteam on Thai-Korean horror
The two writer-directorsbehind Thai blockbuster Shutter - Parkpoom Wongpoom and BanjongPisanthanakun - are planning a new horror picture, Alone, which willshoot in Thailand and Korea from March next year. The film, which was unveiledat the Pusan International Film Festival in Korea this weekend - will also feature cast from bothcountries. ...
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Paradise, Guernsey emerge as best Dutch films
Hani Abu-Assad's Paradise Now and Nanouk Leopold's Guernseydominatedthe Golden Calf awards for the best Dutch films, handed out on Friday night atthe Dutch Film festival.Internationally acclaimed Paradise Now received the Golden Calffor best picture and best editing, Guernsey took best directing(Nanouk Leopold), best actress (Maria Kraakman) and the Prize of ...
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Participant creates social action campaign website for upcoming films
JeffSkoll's Los Angeles-based production company Participant Productions islaunched a revamped website last week containing information about film-relatedsocial action campaigns. Eachtitle featured on www.participate.net will host a corresponding social actioncampaign on the website. Featuredtitles include Niki Caro's upcoming sexual discrimination drama NorthCountry, George Clooney's McCarthyEra tale Good Night, And Good Luck,and ...
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Lebel joins Wolf in international sales at Peace Arch
Former HBO Films London executive Lissa Lebel has joinedToronto-based production and distribution outfit Peace Arch Entertainment Groupas director of international sales.Lebel will play a key role as the company moves aggressively intofeature production and acquisition.Based in Los Angeles, she will report to Penny Wolf, her formermanager at HBO Films London, ...
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Sundance launches first commissioning fund backed by Sloan
The Sundance Institute has created the Sloan Commissioning Fundthrough a grant from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation to support the development,presentation and celebration of science and technology through independentfilm.This is the first commissioning project initiated by theInstitute, and provides a cash stipend and creative and practical support todevelop science and ...
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Warner boards first local language Japanese production
Warner Bros Pictures Japan has boarded its first local languageproduction Catch A Wave,based on a novel by teenage author Kazuma Toyota.Toyota was 16 when he wrote hisnovel about three surfers who learn to respect nature when one of them attemptsto ride a typhoon wave to impress his girlfriend.Toyota, now 17 ...
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Kovacs, Zsigmond named legends by Hungarian cinematographers
Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, along with Hungariancinematographers Gyorgy Illes and Janos Toth, will be the first recipients ofThe Legend Award from the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers (HSC).The Legend Award was created to honour cinematographers whoselives and work are an inspiration to filmmakers, and will be handed out at thefifth ...
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Hildebrand joins Kimmel as creative executive under Horberg
Former Wonderland Films development executive Jodi Hildebrand hasjoined Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) as a creative executive.Hildebrand reunites with former Wonderland partner Bill Horberg,who recently arrived as president of production at SKE."Jodi is a smart, tasteful young executive with a keen eye forgood material, a passion for writers and the ability ...
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Italian film industry to strike in protest at funding cuts
All cinemas in Italy will be closed on Friday October 14as part of a strike by the national film industry to protest against massivenew cuts to government funding.In its 2006budget proposal, the Silvio Berlusconi government has set out a paltry Euros 50mto support film - compared to Euros 84m last ...
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Roth, Littman to run business and legal affairs at Weinstein Co
Miramaxexecutives Eric Roth and Barry Littman have joined The Weinstein Company asexecutive vice presidents and co-heads of business and legal affairs. Both executiveswill based in the company's Los Angeles office and report directly to Bob andHarvey Weinstein. Roth and Littmanwill oversee the company's business and legal affairs division and negotiatedeals ...
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Estrada, Indian get galas at AFI FEST
The US premieresof Tommy Lee Jones' redemption saga The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada and Roger Donaldson's The World'sFastest Indian will beAFI FEST 2005's centerpiece galas on Nov 7 and 8.Specialscreenings include Stephen Frears' period drama Mrs Henderson Presents, Michael Winterbottom's comedy TristramShandy: A Cock And Bull Story, Neil Jordan's ...
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City, Aspirins win top Rio prizes
Sergio Machado's CidadeBaixa (Lower City) won the best fiction feature prize at the RioIntrernational Film Festival and Marcelo Gomes' Cinema, Aspirinas E Urubus (Cinema, Aspirins And Vultures) took home the festival's second, the special jury prizeat the festival's closing ceremony tonight (Thursday). The awards were handed outthe Odeon BR theatre, ...