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BAFTA/LA ups its fellowship funds at UCLA
BAFTA/LA hasincreased its fellowship at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television tohelp the school reach its $1m funding target for next academic year.Each yearBAFTA/LA sponsors a UK student studying film and television at UCLA and thepledge was announced at a special breakfast yesterday (Jun 3).In a statementBAFTA/LA chairman ...
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Lorenzo Soria elected new president of HFPA
Lorenzo Soriahas been elected president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)for 2003-04.Soria has been amember for 14 years and writes for Italian daily newspaper La Stampa and weeklynews magazine L'Espresso.He will presideover the HFPA's 61st Golden Globe Awards, which will take place in Los Angeleson Jan 25 2004.The new ...
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Streep, Quaid, Latifah win gay and lesbian honours at Outfest
Meryl Streep,Dennis Quaid and Queen Latifah are among those receiving the third annualScreen Idol awards for their portrayal of gay, lesbian, bisexual ortransgendered roles in feature films at this year's Outfest, the LA gay andlesbian film festival which is this year in its 21st year.Organisers hopeto present the accolades at ...
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Spain's Dygra starts work on major 3D animated feature
Spanish animation studio Dygra Films is preparing an ambitious 3D digital animated feature, A Midsummer Night's Dream (El Sueno De Una Noche De San Juan).The project marks the company's follow-up to hit The Living Forest (El Bosque Animado), Spain's tenth top-grossing local film in 2001 and second highest-selling video of ...
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Documentary film-maker gets Norway's Aamot award
Norway's coveted Aamot Award, given by local film distribution professionals and cinema managers, has been bestowed on Margreth Olin, one of the country's most respected documentary filmmakers. The prize was handed out by jury president Linn Ullmann at the annual FILM&KINO meeting in capital Oslo. 'Margreth Olin has had an ...
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Digital advertising far outstrips digital screenings
According to a new report from Screen Digest the use of digital technology for pre-film advertising far outstrips full-on electronic cinema.Eight different exhibition chains, operating in five continents have digitised more than 2,750 cinema screens with low-cost networked projector solutions. This number is set to double by year-end 2003, says ...
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Nowhere In Africa gets somewhere in America
German Oscar winner Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo In Afrika) has become the highest grossing subtitled film in North America this year, overtaking City Of God (Cidade De Deus).Caroline Link's drama, which won the best foreign language picture award at this year's Oscars in March, took $219,608 last weekend from 75 ...
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Gabriele Roethemeyer named artistic director at Stuttgart
Gabriele Roethemeyer, chief executive of Baden-Wuerttemberg's regional fund Medien- und Filmgesellschaft (MFG ), has been appointed artistic director for the Film- und Medienfestival GmbH (FMF) which organises the Stuttgart Ludwigsburg European Filmfest (July 10-15), European Short Film (September 10-15), the Stuttgart Internatonal Festival of Animated Film, and the fmx conference ...
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Polish film-maker wins PLANET award
Poland's Bartek Konopka has been selected from among 100 young filmmakers from all over the world as this year's winner of the treatment contest for the PLANET Documentary Film Prize 2004.In Konopka's project Goat Walker, the audience learns from the perspective of female goat about a recent measure to combat ...
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Cabbages & Queens set to roll in London
Recently-launched tax financier UKFS and sales agent AV Pictures have boarded Cabbages & Queens, a comedy drama set in the London theatre world starring Keri Russell (pictured), Nathan Lane, Darren Boyd, Emilia Fox, Greg Wise, Simon Callow, Joss Ackland and Brian Blessed.Principal photography is scheduled to start June 30th in ...
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Edinburgh film festival to hold Clouzot retrospective
French master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot is the subject of a comprehensive retrospective at the 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 13-24). Running in conjunction with the National Film Theatre in London, the retrospective salutes a director whose body of work is among the most influential in European cinema. Dogged ...
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Film students dupe Czech public for documentary
A group of students at Prague's FAMU film academy have pulled off one of the most audacious stunts in the country's short history. The hundreds of people who made the journey to the Prague suburb of Letnany for the grand opening of giant new superstore were outraged when they discovered ...
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Munich unveils new regional focus strand
New films from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia will be shown in a new regional focus at this year's Munich Film Festival (June 28-July 5) alongside the event's traditional platforms for French cinema - Nouveau Cinema Francais - and Latin American cinematography - Visiones Latinamericanas. In addition, three Tributes will ...
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Blanchett, Beckinsale ready to board The Aviator
Cate Blanchett is innegotiations to play Katharine Hepburn and Kate Beckinsale is in talks to playAva Gardner in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator which is set to start shooting next month. Theywould join Leonardo DiCaprio who will play Howard Hughes in the film which is budgeted at a reported$100m.Other actors who ...
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Cinecitta lines up workshops for US film students
The Cinecitta Studios inRome will host three film-making workshops this summer in association with LosAngeles' USC school of Cinema-Television, to run from Jul 7-Aug 15.The credited courses willcover aspects of production, the links between Italian and American cinema andscreenwriting. This is the second consecutive year that Cinecitta is stagingthe course.Students ...
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Banks move in on Kirch after Saban bid collapses
US investor Haim Saban's planned Euros 2bn takeover of bankrupt KirchMedia is off.In a joint declaration, KirchMedia's insolvency administrator and the Saban Capital Group "agreed to amicably annul the concluded contracts on the sale of the majority of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and the sale of the film rights trade."At the ...
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Zarpas joins Evolution Management to build production slate
Former Scott Free co-president Chris Zarpas was today (Jun 4)named manager of management and independent production company EvolutionManagement.Zarpas will focus on Evolution's writer and director client baseand help develop the company's production slate.He most recently had an overall producing deal with televisionstudio New Dominion Pictures and prior to that was ...
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Macedonia becomes 29th member of Eurimages
As of July 1, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" will become the 29th country to join Eurimages, the Council of Europe's pan-European support fund for the co-production, distribution and exhibition of cinematographic works.Consequently, projects involving Macedonian co-producers may be presented for the forthcoming deadline for applications of support on ...
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Pathe International boasts 70-plus Cannes deals
Pathe International has unveiled more than 70 Cannes deals across its UK and French slates, with Gurinder Chadha's Pride & Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical, Danny Boyle's Millions and Patrick Alessandrin's Mean Spirit (Mauvais Esprit) amongst the busiest titles.Sandrew Metronome took Pride & Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical for Scandinavia, joining buyers ...
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Noi Albinoi triumphs in Transylvania
Dagur Kari's Noi Albinoi took the top two prizes at the second Transylvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca.The multiple-award winner from Iceland walked away with both of the festival's main prizes on Saturday May 31, the Transylvania Trophy worth $4,000 and the Romanian critics' prize.There was also a local success ...