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The Dog Pound (La Perrera)
Dir: Manuel Nieto Zas. Urug-Arg-Can-Sp.2006. 109mins.Ahyper-naturalistic portrait of a city slacker living amongst uneducatedlabourers in a sleepy resort town on the Uruguayan coast, La Perrera (The Dog Pound) is a deceptively simple film which,underneath its placid surface, is unsettling and finally shocking. With itslanguid pace and detached point of view, ...
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First Rome Film Fest adds more studio premieres
The Rome Film Fest hasannounced the line-up for its first edition, which runs from Oct 13-21. With atotal of 12 world premieres in its two main sections, the festival line-up hasgone some way towards disproving predictions that the newborn event would becrushed in the autumn festival logjam.In addition to opening ...
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Imax taps Peter Eiff as GM for EMEA
Imax Corp. has appointed PeterEiff to general manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Eiffwill relocate from Los Angeles to Berlin before the end of 2006. Eiff joins Imax from consultingfirm International Film Finance Services. He has previously worked atLucasfilm, Paramount, New Regency Productions and Buena VistaInternational. 'Peter's thoroughunderstanding ...
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Macedonia submits Kontakt for Oscar race
Sergei Stanojkovksi'sfeature debut Kontakt has beensubmitted by Macedonia as its national entry for the Academy Awards' Best ForeignLanguage Film category.Starring Labina Mitevska and Nikola Kojo, the Macedonian-German co-productionbetween Skopje Film Studio and Busse & Halberschmidt Filmproduktion had itsworld premiere at last year's Manaki Brothers International CinematographersFilm Festival in Macedonia's Bitola ...
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Pieter Jan Brugge recruited for Netherlands talk
Producer/director Pieter JanBrugge will be the new guest of honour at this year's Binger - Screen International Interview at theNetherlands Film Festival on Friday. Jasmila Zbanic, who won Berlin's Golden Bear for Grbavica, had to cancel her plans to attend on doctors' orders. Dutch-born Brugge has workedin Hollywood on The ...
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Indian government to allow direct uplinking
India's government has decided to allow satellite broadcasters to uplink directly from the country. Permission will be granted to Indian television companies and news agencies which are 100% Indian-owned, along with foreign television companies which have an Indian, or a non-resident Indian, owning at least 60% of the shares in ...
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Sony strikes VOD deal with Telecom Italia
Following on a similar UK deal with Arts Alliance Media, Sony PicturesTelevision International has struck a video-on-demand agreement with TelecomItalia.Telecom Italia will offer Sonyfilms on its Alice Home TV internet service and its ASDL portal Rosso Alice. The VOD offerings will include recent releases and catalogue titles. Some ofthe films ...
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Jaman strikes 30-film deal with Venevision
New US-based internet filmdistributor Jaman has closed a deal for rights to 30 feature films fromVenevision in a move announced at the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival.The agreement encompassesnon-exclusive rights for broadband distribution and an option to pick upanother 50 titles. The original 30 films include 22 Latin American and eightSpanish ...
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Smith hired at NBC Universal for international on-demand licensing
Warren Smith has been named director of sales, internationalon-demand licensing for NBC Universal Television International Distribution.Based in London, Smith will report to and support senior vicepresident, international on-demand licensing Beth Minehart in all aspects ofon-demand licensing for the company's product outside North America. His primaryfocus will be Europe.Smith recently returned ...
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Myriad closes sales on Beethoven with Hopscotch, Nexo
Myriad Pictures has closed further sales on Agnieszka Holland'sdrama Copying Beethoven starring Ed Harris following its world premiere at Toronto.The Los Angeles-based company has sold rights to Hopscotch inAustralia and Nexo in Italy. The picture has virtually sold out worldwide, andonly the UK, France and Scandinavia remain available.Myriad previously concluded ...
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Cars speeds past $200m for BVI
Pixar Animation Studio's Cars has become only the sixth film released in 2006 to pass$200m at the international box office this week.The film is actually the seventh film to achieve the mark duringthe year and third for distributor Buena Vista International (BVI), as Decemberholdover, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, ...
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The Half Life Of Timofey Berezin
Dir/scr: Scott Z Burns US.2006. 107mins.An uneasy mix of ecological warning, hyped-up Russianaccents and touching family drama, one can only leave The Half Life Of TimofeyBerezin in sadness that it squanders itspotential.The directorial debut fromScott Z Burns - co-producer of Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth - has some bits ...
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Fay Grim
Dir/scr: Hal Hartley. US. 2006. 118mins.Hal Hartley's droll sense of humourand slightly off-kilter cinematic technique has never been to everyone's taste,but hardcore fans will enjoy Fay Grim,a sequel of sorts to his breakout 1998 hit HenryFool. Others, however, may find what Hartley calls an 'internationalespionage farce' more than a bit ...
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Mon Colonel
Dir: Laurent Herbiet. Fr-Belg-Alg. 2006. 110mins.With a pedigree that includes Costa Gavras as a script writer and Michele Ray Gavras and the Dardenne brothersin the production team, Laurent Herbiet's featuredebut is bound to draw international attention, notwithstanding his ownanonymity. Mon Colonel reads verymuch like a Costa Gavras project, a political ...
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The Guardian
Dir: Andrew Davis. US. 2006.139mins.A square-jawed, water-set tale of tutelage andtrumped personal adversity that takes place against the backdrop of a varietyof rescues in dangerously stormy weather, Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher's TheGuardian is a sincere and capably executed film, if ultimately also adispensable one.Despite copious exclamationsof "hoo-rah!" and the ...
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LA post facility to give $125,000 in grants to new film-makers
Los Angeles-based post production facility Filmworks/FX hasannounced a programme offering $125,000 in post-production grants to aspiringfilmmakers in 2007.Grants supporting lab and telecine work will range from $1,000 to$25,000 and will be awarded to select winners of popular film festivals as wellas to several film schools around the country.'Too often, new ...
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Collins replaces Rhys-Jones at Roadshow
David Collins has been chosen to replace Libby Rhys-Jones as New South Wales general manager of Roadshow Film Distributors, based in Sydney and reporting directly to managing director Joel Pearlman in Melbourne. He starts on July 10.Rhys-Jones resigned from the biggest Australian-owned distributor at the end of May after a ...
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New Line takes worldwide on Hood's thriller Rendition
New Line has picked up worldwide rights to the political thriller Rendition, Gavin Hood's Tsotsi follow-up that will star Jake Gyllenhaaland Reese Witherspoon.Gyllenhaal will play a CIA analyst who oversees the interrogationof a terrorist suspect in the Middle East and questions his ethics as the processspirals out of control.Witherspoon is ...
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Whitaker, Luke, Lohan join honours roll at Hollywood Film Awards
Forest Whitaker, Derek Lukeand Lindsay Lohan have been added to the roster of Hollywood Film Awardsrecipients at this year's upcoming ceremony on Oct 23.Whitaker receives theHollywood Actor of the Year Award for his role as former Ugandan dictator IdiAmin in Fox Searchlight's The Last King Of Scotland.His other upcoming releasesare ...
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Indo-American Film Festival in New York to screen 60 films
Sixty features,documentaries and shorts including the New York premiere of Mira Nair's TheNamesake will screen during theIndo-American Arts Council's Sixth IAAC (Indo-American Arts Festival) FilmFestival in New York from Nov 1- 5.Screenings include AdityaBhattacharya's adaptation of King Lear called Dubai Return,Suman Gosh's Podokkhep Footstepswith Nandita Das, Rehana Mirza's Hiding Divya ...