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Rome pushes 2009 date closer to Venice
The fourth edition of the Rome International Film Festival in 2009 will open a week earlier than this year - bringing it even closer to its Venice rival.The news comes before the third edition of the International Rome Film Festival officially kicks off (October 22-31). While the dates for the ...
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Rome includes 12 world premieres in 20-film competition
The third edition of the International Rome Film Festival has announced the line-up for the upcoming edition that runs October 22-31.The edition is shaping up to be a showcase of European talents and directors.The official competition has 12 world premiere titles, six of which are Italian.There are also five world ...
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Rome announces titles for Extra and Eye on the World sidebars
The fifth Rome International Film Festival (RIFF) has announced the titles for two of this year's side bar sections L'Altro Cinema (Extra) and Occhio sul Mondo (Eye on the world).The Altro Cinema line up, curated by Mario Sesti, has ten features and fifteen documentaries. The documentaries will compete for the ...
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Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah enters Oscar race for Italy
Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's Cannes Grand Prix winner, will represent Italy in the Foreign Language Oscar race, the film's producer Domenico Procacci announced during a press conference in Rome today.The film is an original and unglamorous look at the Naples crime organization known as Camorra.'I am particularly happy that the film ...
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In focus: Marco Bechis' Birdwatchers
Marco Bechis' fourth feature Birdwatchers, was one of the most talked about films at this month's Venice film festival. The powerful drama about the effects of globalisation and colonisation on the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowa people of Mato Grosso do Sul, a southern, forested region of Brazil provoked much conversation for the ...
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Venice Lion of Future Winner Lunch adds five new sales
Gianni Di Gregorio's Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di ferragosto), a Venice Critics' Week selection which scooped up the De Laurentiis/Filmauro sponsored $100,000 Lion of the Future prize, has enjoyed multi territory sales at Toronto, cutting deals with France (Le Pacte), Germany (Pandora), Benelux (Cinemien), Switzerland (Xenix) and Austria (Filmladen), Janine Gold ...
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Festival talk - The Gospel according to Marco
Which festivals are important to you'I enjoy being in Berlin and Cannes because that's where we start working and making international contacts, and it's when I first get an inkling of what's going to happen in the next few months in terms of artistic films and original, special films. I ...
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Rome to open third festival with Huit/Eight and The Man Who Loves
The International Film Festival of Rome has announced Huit/Eight and The Man Who Loves will share credits as opening films for the upcoming third edition, which runs October 22-31. Huit/Eight, which was previously announced, will be presented out of competition as a Special Event, organisers specified today, even though ...
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NewsAronofsky's The Wrestler takes Golden Lion in Venice
The Venice Film Festival wrapped on Saturday with a Golden Lion award to Darren Aronofsy’s The Wrestler, a film that provided a one-two punch finale for an edition that some considered lacklustre in respect to previous years. (Click here to see Screen review)At the awards ceremony, ...
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As industry leaves Venice for Toronto, Italian titles still strong
As a week of screenings at the Venice Film Festival winds up and the industry moves to Toronto, Italian titles are likely to be a focal point of year’s traditional festival migration.That is because seven Italian films will be on this year’s Toronto roster compared to three last year, across ...
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Venice eyes slightly later start for 2009 festival
The Venice film festival may start slightly later for its 2009edition. While not officially announced, Biennale president Paolo Baratta and artistic directorMarco Mueller told foreign journalists over lunch that next year's schedule might shift slightly.Venice could potentially kick off Weds., Sept 2, 2009.Venice traditionally opens the Wednesday after the last ...
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Piedmont finalises $20.5m film fund
Italy's Piedmont region, the Turin Piedmont Film Commission and LA based Endgame Entertainment have finalised terms for a$20.5m (Euros 14m) film fund.The plans were announced by Turin Piedmont Film Commission president Steve Della Casa at the Venice Film Festival.Annually, the fund will support productions by providing closing costs for qualifying ...
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Venice off to a strong start
The 65th Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday night with a warm reception for the Coen Brothers' dark comedy Burn After Reading.To see day one report click hereTo see buzz films click hereThe out-of-competition film assured a star-studded opening night for Venice with principal cast George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda ...
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Burn After Reading opens Venice Film Festival
Venice kickedoff last nightwith the galapremiereof the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading.George Clooney and Brad Bitt brought some A-list star power to the red carpet for the opening. To see Screen's review of the film click here.More big names are expected to arrive forthe traditionally glitzy opening weekend, which will ...
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Italian sales agents announce deals on eve of Venice
Italian sales agents have announced two pick-ups on the eve of the 65th Venice Film Festival, which kicks off Aug 27.Rai Trade has picked up Pupi Avati's competition title Il papa di Giovanna, about a man who has to put his daughter in a mental institution after she murders a ...
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Venice Horizons adds Iranian debut Tedium (Khastegi)
Tedium (Khastegi), the debut film of Iranian director Bahman Motamedian, is the first of two surprise films to be added to Venice's Horizon's line-up, the Biennale announced today.The Tehran-set film follows the experience of seven transsexuals within the confines of Iran's conservative culture. The film's title underscores the public and ...
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Preview: Venice film festival
The 65th edition of the Venice film festival (August 27-September 6) may well be remembered as the year the world's oldest film festival greeted a bright new future.After a very successful four years as artistic director, Marco Mueller has been reconfirmed for a second mandate, working alongside Biennale president Paolo ...
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Rome's first selections include 8, The Duchess,Baader Meinhof
The International Film Festival of Rome has unveiled the first titles for its upcoming third edition, which runs Oct 22-31 in the Italian capital.8 (Huit), a composition of eight shorts by Jane Campion, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noe, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus Van Sant and Wim Wenders ...
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Natalie Portman makes directorial debut with Venice short Eve
American actress Natalie Portman's directorial short film debut Eve will open The Venice Film Festival's Corto Cortissimo section dedicated to short films.Portman will preside over opening events for that section onSept 1. She was featured in Venice last year in her cameo in Wes Anderson's Darjeeling Unlimited.Portman's debut, entitled Eve, ...
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Italian executive Gianandrea Mutti dies after motorcycle accident
Gianandrea Mutti, a ten-year employee of the marketing department for Italian distributor BIM has died while recovering from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.Bim's founder and President Valerio De Paolis told Screen Daily in an emotional conversation, 'I felt an affection for him that went beyond work.'The forty-one year old ...