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Image launches urban division, signs agreement with Spirer
North American distributor Image Entertainment has launched a new urban division called One Village Entertainment and signed a multi-picture production and worldwide distribution agreement for documentaries and narrative feature films with Peter Spirer's Rugged Entertainment who directed Image's recent release Notorious BIG: Bigger Than Life.One Village will be headed by ...
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Dominican Film Festival to host children's workshops
The third annual Dominican International Film Festival, which takes place Nov 8-11, will host two children's film workshops on Nov 9 and Nov 10.Hosted by native Dominican actor Manny Perez, the programs will be open to 12 future film-makers between the ages of 5 and 17 per session. The sessions, ...
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ROME FILM FESTIVAL 2007
ROME FILM FEST 2007 (October 18-27), CONTENTS - CLICK ON LINKNewsRome: Second time lucky New Cinema Network - an introduction New Cinema Network Focus EuropeNew Cinema Network International Projects The Business Street
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MICHA WALD - Simon Konianski
MICHA WALD Project: Simon KonianskiScrs: Micha Wald, Agnes CaffinEstimated budget: $4.1m (Eu3m)Funds in place: $1.4m (Eu1m) For his first feature, Horse Thieves, Belgian director Micha Wald immersed himself in the violent world of the Cossacks in 1850s Eastern Europe. The film screened at Critics' Week in Cannes earlier this year. ...
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SLAWOMIR FABICKI - Bonobo Jingo
SLAWOMIR FABICKI Project: Bonobo JingoScrs: Slawomir Fabicki, Mieczyslaw KrzelEstimated budget: $4m (Eu3m)Funding in place: $104,900 (Eu76,000)Bonobo Jingo refers to the name of a pygmy chimpanzee found by two young boys while they are out thieving on a train. 'The chimpanzee acts as a catalyst for events,' says Polish directorSlawomir Fabicki. ...
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NEW CINEMA NETWORK FOCUS EUROPE 2007
The projects selected for New Cinema Network's Focus Europe 2007 range from dark comedies to delicate relationship dramas; from a surreal love story to a Viking action movie. Click on a link below to see the featured projects.DOMENICO DISTILO - When Elephants Fight SLAWOMIR FABICKI - Bonobo JingoAGOSTINO FERRENTE/ GIOVANNI ...
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AGOSTINO FERRENTE/ GIOVANNI PIPERNO - What's Working
AGOSTINO FERRENTE/ GIOVANNI PIPERNO Project: What's WorkingScrs: Agostino Ferrente, Giovanni PipernoEstimated budget: $920,000 (Eu673,000)What's Working (working title) is a docu-drama about mothers and children, set in Naples. It will be divided into three parts, charting the years from 1999-2009. The first chapter chronicles the development stage of the project, where ...
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Telluride world premieres Pacino, Kaufman pictures
Al Pacino's second film as director Chinese Coffee and Phil Kaufman's eagerly awaited Marquis de Sade drama Quills are receiving their world premieres this weekend at the 27th annual Telluride Film Festival which unveiled its programme to attendees today. The prestigious festival, which has received personal sponsorship support this year ...
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The Chosen Ones
To see your first film become a hit is the dream of every film-maker. But the process often takes a serious toll on the directors, who have put all their effort into their project from start to finish. When all goes well, the first film wins awards at festivals, the ...
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IFP hands out $100,000 in annual artist grants
IFP, the nation's largest membership organization of independent filmmakers, named the recipients of its annual grants to individual artists at the conclusion of its 2007 Independent Film Week in downtown New York City. Cash, in-kind product donations and mentorship services were valued at more than $100,000.A grant of $10,000 was ...
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KOEN MORTIER - Killroy
KOEN MORTIERProject: Killroy Scrs: Paul Budnitz and Paul Durham, based on an idea by Koen MortierEstimated budget: $3.4m (Eu2.5m)Funds in place: $102,000 (Eu75,000)Killroy is the story of an apparently normal man ('uninspiring and dreary,' says director Koen Mortier) who has terrible nightmares in which he is a killer. The moment ...
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LEO RICCIARDI - The Exodus
LEO RICCIARDIProject: The ExodusScr: Leo RicciardiEstimated budget: $3.4m (Eu2.5m) Funds in place: $1.2m (Eu900,000)Part thriller, part family drama, Leo Ricciardi's The Exodus is set ina deserted Russian town called Krust which was cursed 20 years ago,forcing its inhabitants to flee. Argentina-born Ricciardi says he is fascinated by Russia. 'It's one ...
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MARK MAHON - Freedom Within The Heart
MARK MAHONProject: 5Scr: Mark MahonEstimated budget: $27.3m (Eu20m)Funds in place: $6.8m (Eu5m) Freedom Within The Heart won the best unproduced screenplay award at the International Action on Film Awards in 2005, and has since been turned into a graphic novel. The project is an ambitious one. The script is set ...
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Seville picks up second Metal pic
Montreal-based sales anddistribution outfit Seville International has picked up worldwide rights for GlobalMetal, the follow-up to hot Torontodocumentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Directed by the same team ofSam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise, the new film will pick up thetheme that heavy metal music is an alternative view-point ...
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Screen Gems, Summit share the world on Apocalypse
Screen Gems hastaken the majority of worldwide rights to Constantin Film and Davis Films'horror sequel Resident Evil: Afterlife. Summit Entertainment is selling the rest of the world atAFM.ProducerConstantin is handling the film in Germany and Davis Film sister companyMetropolitan Filmexport is handling France. Screen Gems hastaken North America, Latin America, ...
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Intandem, Spice Factory set up FearFactory
UK-based financing, salesand distribution company Intandem Films, production company Spice Factory UK,and producers Colin Pons of Studio of the North and Mark Thomas of BallparkProductions have set up a new venture, FearFactory, to produce horror films andpsychological thrillers.Intandem CEO Gary Smith toldScreen that FearFactory, whichwill be set up under the ...
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Peace Arch shoots five for genre arm
Toronto-basedPeace Arch Entertainment Group has launched genre division Archetype Films andis introducing five titles already in production.The slate isheaded by Warrior Of Terra starring Edward Furlong, Ellen Fury and Andrew Lui, in the storyof a team of animal rights activists who discover a bio-engineered monster.Archetype isalso in production on The ...
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Adept screenwriters join UK programme
Aristahas announced the eight screenwriters selected for its Adept 3 screenwritingprogramme, funded by Skillset (and the UK Film Council), the MEDIA Programmeand Arista's Writer Scholarship Fund.Thenine-month programme supports MA screenwriting graduates who haven't yet made afeature film.Thechosen writers are AndrewBernhardt, Fiona Birkbeck, Lucy Floyd, Helen Jacey, Phil Nodding, BerylRichards, Neil ...
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Ryna is runaway winner at Geneva festival
RuxandraZenide's Ryna triumphed at the 11thannual Cinema Tout Ecran in Geneva.TheSwiss/Romanian co-production picked up the best film and Fipresci prizes.Rynais the story of a 16-year-old girl, brought up as a boy by her despotic father,and now searching for her mother. Kim Novak Never Swam In Genesaret's Lakeby Sweden's Martin Asphaug ...