All articles by Sarah Cooper – Page 8
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NewsEncounters Film Festival goes Swiss
The Bristol based short film festival has partnered with Swiss Films and Swiss short film festival International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur for this year’s edition.
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NewsHaifaa Al Mansour on Venice jury duty
The Saudi Arabian director of Wadjda will head up the Luigi De Laurentiis jury at the Venice Film Festival.
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FeaturesMichael Auret, Spier Films
Spier Films MD Michael Auret talks about the boom in South African production and his plans to branch out into television.
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NewsEdinburgh reports 10% admission rise
Over 44,000 tickets were sold for the festival’s 67th edition
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NewsGuild of Location Managers to join Production Guild
The GLM will cease operating as a separate entity, with its members being invited to join the Production Guild of Great Britain instead.
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NewsSundance Channel expands to Indonesia
AMC/Sundance Channel Global has signed a new distribution deal to launch The Sundance Channel in Indonesia, on the country’s largest Pay TV operator Indovision.
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NewsTGV Cinemas completes digitisation process
Malaysian exhibitor TGV Cinemas has converted all of its cinemas to digital, with the installation of 164 Christie digital projectors.
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NewsOdessa festival to focus on Ukraine
Ukrainian films will come under the spotlight at the 4th edition of the Odessa Film Festival, which runs July 12-20.
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CommentBlasting off with Spaceship
Ahead of a panel at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sarah Cooper caught up with iFeatures executive producer Tristan Goligher and Screen Star of Tomorrow Alex Taylor, whose debut feature Spaceship will go into production in August as part of the scheme.
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CommentWhisky A Go Go
Proving that the Scots really do know how to party, the whisky was flowing, the bagpipes were blaring, the haggis was hearty and the men in kilts dashing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s annual ceilidh last night.
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FeaturesEric Steel: Kiss The Water
Eric Steel’s Kiss The Water, which plays at the EIFF this weekend, is much more than just a documentary about fly fishing, as Sarah Cooper discovers.
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NewsMakhmalbaf to chair EIFF jury
The Iranian director will be joined by Scottish actor Kevin McKidd and film critic Derek Malcom.
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FeaturesJustin Edgar and Alex Usborne, 104 Films
As 104 Films prepares to screen two films at Edinburgh, Sarah Cooper speaks to founders Justin Edgar and Alex Usborne about giving disabled and disadvantaged talent opportunities in the industry.
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NewsWe Are The Freaks to open Bornshorts
EXCLUSIVE: Justin Edgar’s teen comedy stars Michael Smiley and Jamie Blackley. Watch the first trailer here.
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Cinelabs acquires Bucks Media Services
David Webb has been appointed as European sales director for the group.
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NewsNFTS launches Attenborough fund
Sir Ben Kingsley and Lord Puttnam among those to honour the veteran British actor-director at the launch of a young filmmakers fund created in his name.
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NewsVue Entertainment sold for $1.5bn
Vue Entertainment is to be sold by private equity group Doughty Hanson for £935m ($1.5bn), a move that Vue CEO Tim Richards has described to ScreenDaily as “very postitive”.
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CommentWe Are Northern Lights
Scottish crowdsourced documentary We Are Northern Lights will screen in five remote communities in Scotland via mobile cinema Screen Machine.
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FeaturesMandy Jacobson, Plot for Peace
Mandy Jacobson talks about her South African documentary Plot for Peace.
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NewsEFP unveils new board members
Christian J. Lemche of the Danish Film Institute has been confirmed as EFP President.