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Kinsella named Moonstone managing director
Writers and directorstraining body Moonstone International has appointed Fiona Kinsella as managingdirector.Kinsella, who replaces TaraHalloran, was most recently a project advisor at the Irish national filmtraining body FAS Screen Training Ireland and has 10 years experience in thefilm sector. She takes up the position at Moonstone this month.Jonathan Olsberg,Moonstone's chairman, ...
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L'Esquive takes top Haifa prize
L'Esquive,Abdelatif Kechichi's coming-of-age romp about immigrant kids in a Parisslum, walked away with the Golden Anchor, Haifa's supreme award for its20th International Film Festival, in a competition entirely dedicated toMediterranean production.The jury, presided by Turkish actor Tuncel Curtiz, added twospecial mentions, one to Goran Paskaljevic's Midwinter Night'sDream, and to Jean-Luc ...
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Euros 50m German fund lines up US indie projects
US independent producers Inferno Distribution, Bob YariProductions and Internationalmedia are being lined up as possible sources ofprojects for a new Academy Film Fund launched by ABN Amro's private bankDelbrueck Bethmann Maffei (DBM).The Academy Film Fund aims to have a volume of at leastEuros 50m and would finance the production of ...
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Trigger Street Independent launches TV arm
Trigger Street Independent(TSI), the low budget production outfit announced in Toronto last month byKevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti's TriggerStreet Productions, has launched itstelevision arm.The new entity kicks offwith the production of two pilots, the scripted half-hour comedy Hell OnWheels written and executiveproduced by Laura Kightlinger for IFC, and the reality ...
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Bryce Dallas Howard named Rising Star at Palm Springs
Bryce Dallas Howard willreceive the Rising Star Award at the 16th Annual Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival (PSIFF) awards gala in Palm Springs on Jan 8 2005.Howard is the first honoureeto be named and receives her award in recognition of her standout feature debutperformance in M Night Shyamalan's mystery The Village.She ...
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Cork Festival kicks off with Dancing
The CorkFilm Festival opens on Sunday night (Oct 10) with the Irish premiere of DamienO'Donnell's Edinburgh crowd pleaser Inside I'm Dancing.Now in its 49th year - and building to major 50thanniversary celebrations next year with an international symposium on the shortfilm during the city's tenure as European City of Culture ...
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Erratum: Turtles Can Fly
On September 15, ScreenDaily.com reported that USrights to San Sebastian prize winner Turtles Can Fly had been sold toNew Yorker by Bac Films. This was then repeated in the weekly magazine editionof Screen International on September 24.Screenwould like to point out that this information was incorrect, and we would liketo ...
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Joseph joins Udwin's Revolution
Francesca Joseph (TomorrowLa Scala) has been confirmed as director of Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution,the latest feature from East Is East producer Leslee Udwin.Scripted by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor, the film is a bittersweetcomedy based on the true story of an ardent Marxist from the north of Englandwho takes his family ...
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Watson, Hurt attracted by The Proposition
Emily Watson, John Hurt, Ray Winstone, David Wenham andDanny Huston star in the big-budget UK/Australian co-production TheProposition, which goes into production inthe tiny outback town of Winton on Monday (October 11) amid temperatures likelyto be well over 30 degrees Celsius.The film reunites director John Hillcoat and music legendand scriptwriter Nick ...
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Man On Fire spreads to UK, Spain & Brazil for Fox
Fox International'skidnapping drama Man On Fire getsa major push this weekend with openings in the UK, Spain and Brazil that shouldboost its $19.4m overall international running total.The picture goes out on Oct8 in all three markets, opening on 310 prints in the UK, 300 in Spain and 127in Brazil. Decent ...
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God's shadow hangs over Rio festival prizes
The shadow of Brazil's Oscar-nominated City of God was strongly felt at the closing ceremony of the RioInternational Film Festival last night (Oct 7) - with two films abouturban violence picking up the lion's share of the Jury prizes.In the Premiere Brasil category, for domestic productions,the best film award went ...
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Fortissimo grabs Jarmusch library
Fortissimo Films is act as the internationaltheatrical, video, and television distributor for the entire Jim Jarmusch filmlibrary. The catalogue had previously been represented by diverse entities.Fortissimo's relationship with Jarmusch began lastyear with Coffee And Cigarettes.Included in the deal are Permanent Vacation (1980), StrangerThan Paradise (1983), Down By Law(1986), Mystery Train ...
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AFI FEST to screen 135 features during AFM
24 world, 11 North Americanand 28 US premieres are among the line-up of 135 features, documentaries andshorts from 42 countries announced for the upcoming AFI FEST presented by Audi,which runs in Los Angeles from Nov 4-14.International featurecompetition, international documentary competition, Asian New Classics,European Showcase and the Latin Cinema Series are ...
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MGM wraps up Bond deal with France 2
Frenchnational broadcaster France 2 has announced the acquisition of the JamesBond catalogue of films from MGM.Thecatalogue represents 20 films which will begin airing in 2006. The deal marks areturn to France 2 for the Bond series which aired on the channelroughly ten years ago.In theintervening time, leading private network TF1 ...
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Participant teams with THINKFilm on Arna's Children
Los Angeles-based productioncompany Participant Productions has acquired all US rights to Juliano Mer Khamis'sactivism documentary and Tribeca winner Arna's Children, and will partner with ThinkFilm on the New Yorkrelease on Oct 8.The film chronicles Arna MerKhamis, the Jewish-born activist who married a Palestinian Arab and spent herlife campaigning for human ...
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France outlines strategy to bring shoots back home
The newlyinstalled chief of France's National Film Commission, Patrick Lamassoure,presented his strategy for the coming year at this week's MIPCOM, putting afocus on bringing film shoots back home.France has suffered from a spate of runaway production inthe past few years. But, thanks to the country's recently implemented taxcredit scheme, the ...
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BBC Films chief warns of UK cash flow crisis
BBC Films chief David Thompson has warned that the UK film industry isfacing a cash flow crisis during pre-production.Thompson this week called for an emergency meeting with producers andfinanciers which would be open to the British industry to discuss the problem.He warned that the failure of financiers to underwrite the ...
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Warner strikes package deal with TV Channel Russia
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution hassigned an exclusive, multi-year free television deal with Russia's statebroadcaster TV Channel Russia (formerly called RTR).The deal sees TV Channel Russia get the terrestrialtelevision rights to a slate of current and upcoming feature films, including HarryPotter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Matrix Revolutions, Troy, ...
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WBITD signs free-TV deal with TV Channel Russia
Warner Bros InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD) has signed an exclusive, multi-year freetelevision deal with Russia's state broadcaster TV Channel Russia (formerlyRTR).The deal means TV ChannelRussia acquires terrestrial television rights to a slate of current andupcoming features, including Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, TheMatrix Revolutions, Troy, The Last Samurai, and ...
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Toubon re-elected as Eurimages chief
JacquesToubon, the former French minister of culture, has been re-elected as presidentof film support body Eurimages.The re-election took place thisweek in Istanbul at Eurimages' 91st management board meeting.Toubon, who was first appointed in November 2002, now has another two-yearterm. Normal Eurimages rules only allow a president to be re-elected once.Although ...