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San Sebastian selects projects for funding initiatives
The Donostia-SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has unveiled the filmsselected to participate in its popular completion financing initiatives Filmsin Progress and Cinema In Motion.Now in its 10thedition, the Films in Progress program aims to attach financiers to LatinAmerican and Spanish films currently in post-production. Cinema in Motion,launched last year ...
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Norway's Quart music fest becomes movie launchpad
Norwegian film distributors are increasingly using the country's largest music festival - the Quart festival in Kristiansand - as a promotional platform for new releases. This year the event is being used to showcase highly-anticipated Norwegian title Detector, from first-time director Pal Jackman.The Quart festival, widely renowned as Norway's most ...
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Dubai announces hefty prizes with new Arab competition
The Dubai International Film Festival has announcedthat its new Muhr Awards For Excellence In Arab Cinema will carry prize moneyof $325,000 (AED 1.2m).The Muhr awards, whose name means young horse inArabic, will honour film-makers in feature, documentary and short categories. The top prize for best feature will come with $50,000(AED ...
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Match Factory takes on Half Moon and Takva
Germansales company The Match Factory will handle international sales onKurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi'slatest feature Half Moon and Turkishdirector Ozer Kiziltan's Takva - A Man's Fear Of God which are bothhaving their world premieres at the forthcoming Toronto International FilmFestival. Ghobadi's film, which is produced by his own companyMIJ Films with ...
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Lumina gets sales on Toronto Discovery Glue
London-based Lumina Filmshas picked up worldwide sales rights to Alexis Dos Santos' Glue, which plays as a Discovery in the forthcomingToronto International Film Festival.Set in Patagonia, the filmis a comedy drama about a 15 year-old and two friends who cope with the trialsof burgeoning adolescence by getting high and getting ...
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Appleton leaves W&A for LA law firm Sheppard Mullin
Former Writers and Artists Agency general counsel Dina Appletonhas joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's entertainment media and communicationspractice group.Appleton has extensive experience in entertainment transactions includingfilm and television development, production, financing and distribution.She is a co-author of Hollywood Dealmaking: Negotiating Talent Agreementsand teaches an annual entertainment deal making class ...
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Weinsteins buy into independent US TV channel Ovation
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has take it s first step into cable televisionas part of a consortium of private investors that has bought the independentcable channel Ovation, The Arts Network.Television executives Ken Solomon will oversee the network's relaunchas chairman, alongside chief executive officer Charles Segars, chief operatingofficer Ron Garfield, and ...
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ASC sets annual awards for Feb 18, 2007
The 21st Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awardsfor Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography will take place on Feb 18 2007 inLos Angeles.'Our members established this annual celebration in 1986 forthe purpose of recognising and inspiring the pursuit of excellence in the artand craft of cinematography,' ASC chairman of the ASC's ...
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Pan Europeenne Edition renamed Wild Bunch Distribution
The distribution arm of French sales and financing outfit Wild Bunch,Pan Europeenne Edition, has been re-baptized Wild BunchDistribution the company announced.Wild Bunch took an interest in Pan Europeenne, adistribution and production house run by Philippe Godeau, in 2004.Executives at the newly christened Wild Bunch Distribution remain inplace with the company ...
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European Film Promotion continues Toronto initiatives
European Film Promotion,supported from the European Union's MEDIA Programme, will for the second yearoversee the Film Sales Support initiative at the Toronto International FilmFestival.At Toronto (Sept 7-16), EFP will be part of the expandedEuropean group at the Festival's Sales and Industry Office in the Sutton PlaceHotel. The Film Sales Supportinitiative ...
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UK Post announces more Conch nominees
Industrygroup UK Post has announced the remaining shortlists for its inaugural audioawards The Conch. Judges areDavid Brady of Soho Editors, Delissa Needham ofUnicorn, Nick Godwin of WAGtv, Paul Mac of AudioMedia Magazine, Ray Gillan of Warner Bros, John Andrews of InstituteBroadcast Sound, Ben Nemes of Scrub, Jules MacDonald,Neil Draper of ...
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London's Frieze Art Fair comissions five short films
The annual London-based FriezeArt Fair's Frieze Projects will this year include commissioned films from Dutchartist Manon de Boer, Mexican artist Miguel Calderon,London-based Bonnie Camplin,Glasgow-based Phil Collins and Thai film-maker ApichatpongWeerasethakul. The Artists Cinema,presented in partnership with LUX, willscreen the films as before they tour UK cinemas to show before features. ...
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Fete du Cinema overcomes Euro 2000
Despite France's on-going success in the Euro 2000 soccer tournament, the country's annual cinema promotion scheme - the Fete du Cinema - managed to attract 3.8 million admissions over three days from June 25-27.Ticket sales were down 12% compared to last year's record 4.3 million, mostly due to a 20% ...
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Rockets Redglare! documentary film-maker dies
Film-makerLuis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, died Aug 14 after amotorcycle accident in New York State.Hedirected the 2003 documentary Rockets Redglare!, which featuredinterviews with actor, comedian and downtown New York icon Redglare himself (aka Michael Morra) as well aswith collaborators including Jim Jarmusch, MattDillon, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe. The ...
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Bosnia puts forward Grbavica for foreign-language Oscar
Jasmila Zbanic's GoldenBear-winning feature debut Grbavica has been selected by Bosnia and Herzegovina as its official submission for the Foreign LanguageFilm category at the forthcoming Academy Awards.The co-production between Austria's coop99 Filmproduktion, Zbanic's own company Deblokada Filmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion,and Croatia's Jadran Film has alreadybeen sold to more than 45 ...
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First wave of Blu-ray releases announced in Japan
Sony, Matsushita and majorhome video companies have announced that consumer-priced Blu-ray disc playersand 75 movie titles will be released in Japan this November.The discs will sell at arange of prices under $42.78 (Y5,000) which is slightly more than standard DVDreleases. The initial releases coincide with Sony's debut of the PlayStation ...
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Gale Force 10 to premiere on eve of Flanders festival
Gale Force 10, the new Flemish film by Hans Herbots, willhave its world premiere on October 6 on the eve of the Flanders InternationalFilm Festival in Ghent.Gale Force 10 is the official opening film of the Festival Previews section. The festivalwill also host an official competition opening on Oct 11, ...
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One Eyed Films boards production of new Marins film
The UK-based company OneEyed Films, which specialises in Latin American films, has come on board as oneof the producers of Embodiment Of Evil, a horror film to be directed by Brazilian cultfigure Jose Mojica Marins,who has made more than 40 films. The other producers are Olhosde Cao, Gullane Filmes and ...
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Greenaway to start Nightwatching shoot next week
Peter Greenaway'sNightwatching,about Rembrandt's most famous painting, will start shooting in location in Poland and Wales from Sept 4. Martin Freeman, known forhis roles in The Office and The Hitchhiker's Guide ToThe Galaxy, will play Rembrandt, and the supporting cast includesEva Birthistle, Jodhi May,Emily Holmes and Natalie Press. The film follows ...
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German box office up 8.9% over first half of 2005
Despite Germany's hosting ofthe World Cup and sweltering temperatures from late May, German cinemas havereported marked increases in box-office takings and admissions for the firsthalf of 2006 over the same period last year, according to figures collated bythe German Federal Film Board (FFA).The FFA reported that box-office takings had increased ...