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Belgrade starts competition for Europe Out Of Europe sidebar
The 35th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST (Feb 23-Mar 4) will open with Berlinale Forum entry The Trap (Klopka) by Serbian Srdan Golubovic. The festival will present 80 of the most successful films from other festivals around the world over the past year, including Babel and Marie Antoinette, and for ...
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UK's Birds Eye View to close with Collyer presenting Sherrybaby
London's Birds Eye View Film Festival, devoted to women filmmakers, will present its third edition from March 8-14 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and National Film Theatre. The gala opening on International Womens Day will be introduced by Jerry Hall and include a programme of international shorts. The festival ...
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ThinkSync launches short film and music competition
London-based ThinkSync Films has launched its second competition bringing together independent film-makers and independent record labels and music publishers. Film-makers will submit short films of the theme 'Twist', using one or more tracks from the music freely downloadable at the ThinkSync website. Films should not resemble music videos, and they ...
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World premiere of The Princess Of The Sun at Babelsberg Cartoon Movie market
This year's Cartoon Movie co-production forum for European animation feature films will be open in Potsdam on March 7 with the world premiere of Philippe Leclerc's The Princess Of The Sun (La Reine Soleil). Leclerc, who based his story of the Egyptian princess Akhesa on the novel of the same ...
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Cartwright joins Lionsgate UK home entertainment division
Nicola Cartwright has been promoted to the newly created role of Commercial Director of the UK's Lionsgate Home Entertainment Division. Cartwright has worked in home entertainment since 2000, where she rose through the marketing ranks at MGM Home Entertainment (UK), where as Senior Product Manager she took on key releases ...
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La Leon
Dir: Santiago Otheguy. Arg-Fr. 2007. 85mins. A ravishing portrait of loss and nature set in the evocative, strange Parana Delta wetlands near Buenos Aires, Santiago Santiago Otheguy's La Leon is a very impressively piece visually though marred by its prosaic storytelling. Shot in beautifully sculpted black and white widescreen, the ...
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Ecosse, RPC and Samuelson team for new UK film fund
Three of the UK 's top independent production companies - Ecosse Films, Recorded Picture Company (RPC) and Samuelson Productions - are teaming to create Visible Films. The new collaboration will work as an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to take advantage of the UK government's new film tax credit. Under EIS ...
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The Last Mimzy
Dir: Bob Shaye. US. 2007. 94mins. What on paper looked suspiciously like a vanity directing project by New Line supremo Bob Shaye turns out to be a quirky, New Age, eco-aware kids' sci-fi movie that plays well with young audiences - at least if the upbeat reaction from the Berlinale ...
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Here's Looking At You, Boy
Dir/scr: Andre Schafer. Ger-Neth. 2007. 90mins. Billed as a documentary about 'the coming-out of queer cinema', and destined mostly for TV and DVD formats after further festival action, Here's Looking At You, Boy ticks most of the right boxes in its interviews-plus-film clips survey of the years when queer cinema ...
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Good Morning, Mister Grothe (Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe)
Dir: Lars Kraume. Ger. 2007. 90mins Despite promising, tense beginnings, classroom tensions fail to provide much in the way of social or emotional revelation in Good Morning, Mister Grothe. Despite strong lead performances, this story of a teacher and a problem pupil going head to head finally veers uneasily between ...
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Poor Boy's Game
Dir: Clement Virgo. Can. 2007. 104mins. If you haven't had your fill of motivational boxing movies, here's one with a twist. Clement Virgo's Poor Boy's Game is a Canadian fight feature. In Nova Scotia, an ex-con enters the ring to pay a moral debt and escape the dead-end of Halifax's ...
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Galaxy signs PPV deal with Buena Vista
Latin American satellite broadcaster Galaxy Latin America (GLA) has signed a 10-year pay-per-view (PPV) agreement with Buena Vista International.The accord gives Galaxy PPV rights to live-action features from Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood and Miramax. Galaxy, jointly owned by Hughes Electronics' DirecTV and Venezuelan media giant Cisneros, broadcasts to one million subscribers ...
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Cowan and Wheeldon kick off new UK genre production outfit TFD
Paul Cowan and Chris Wheeldon have launched new UK production company Territorial Film Developments (TFD), which will finance and produce at least three thrillers or comedies per yer with a budget under $1.9m (£1m). The company's first feature is Black Water, being made with the Australian Film Commission. The crocodile ...
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The Number 23
Dir: Joel Schumacher. US. 2007. 94mins. Jim Carrey continues his beseeching petition of dramatic film fans with The Number 23, a stylish if somewhat murky thriller about one man's downward descent into geometric fixation and madness. The film intriguingly flits around the edges of loopy susceptibility that go hand in ...
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Directors sign up for Cannes' 60th-anniversary shorts
The Cannes Film Festival has officially announced the names of the directors taking part in Chacun Son Cinema, a feature which will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the event this May. International filmmakers will shoot a three-minute short which will then be compiled to make up the feature to be ...
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Dart, Rogalski join TIFF short film selection team
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has added two programmers to its Short Cuts Canada short film selection team. Artist and programmer Jay Dart and filmmaker and curator Alex Rogalski will join programmer Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo. Dart is producer and creative director of RESFEST Digital Film Festival and production ...
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HBO signs multi-platform deal with American Girl doll brand
HBO has signed an overall multi-platform deal with the American Girl retail brand, kicking off with an upcoming feature based on the historical character Kit Kittredge to be released through Picturehouse.The agreement will encompass theatrical films, series, specials and documentaries as part of a broad commercial venture with the wholly-owned ...
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Peter Morgan to get screenwriting honour at San Francisco
The Queen and The Last King of Scotland screenwriter Peter Morgan will receive the Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 26-May 10.The award, named after the San Francisco film commissioner and philanthropist Maurice Kanbar, will be presented on ...
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Frost, Glue open New Directors/New Films in New York
Paul Auster's psychodrama The Inner Life Of Martin Frost and Alexis Dos Santos' Argentine coming-of-age tale Glue will open the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 36th New Directors/New Films showcase.The event is set to run from Mar 21-Apr 1 in New York and features ...
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Miami names nine projects in Encuentros market event
Nine films have been selected for the Miami International Film Festival's (MIFF) fifth Miami Encuentros series dedicated to emerging producers from Spain and Latin America.The three-day event offers film-makers a chance to network with US and international industry professionals as they nurture their careers.'Having a brilliant vision is only part ...