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Mexico submits Reygadas' Silent Light as Oscar entry
The Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences has selected Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light (Stellet Licht) as the Mexican entry for foreign-language Oscar consideration. The film, which Reygadas also wrote and produced, is a Mennonite love story with dialogue in an unusual old German dialect. Johan, a married man, transgresses ...
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Latin American experts discuss piracy troubles in Rio
Piracy is of the major concerns being discussed during RioMarket (Sept 21-Oct 3), the largest gathering of the audiovisual industry in Latin America.'The industry lost an estimated $6.1bn last year, with Latin America representing 16,7% of that,'' said Steve Solot, senior vice president for Latin America operations of the Motion ...
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Scorsese signs on for George Harrison documentary
Martin Scorsese is set to direct a documentary feature film about the life and work of late musician George Harrison. Scorsese will also produce through Sikelia Productions with Olivia Harrison through Grove Street Productions and Nigel Sinclair through Spitfire Pictures. Olivia Harrison, the widow of the ex-Beatle, said that work ...
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Control and Band's Visit among EFA discovery nominees
Four films have been nominated for the European Discovery award at the forthcoming European Film Awards. They are: Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit from Israel, Anton Corbijn's Control from the UK, Jan Bonny's Counterparts (Gegenuber) from Germany and Ozer Kiziltan's Takva (A Man's Fear Of God) from Turkey/Germany. A total ...
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San Sebastian's Films In Progress champions Gasolina
In San Sebastian 's Films In Progress section, Guatemalan youth drama Gasolina by Julio Hernandez Cordon has won three of the five awards, including the top industry prize. Films in Progress provides completion funding for projects from rising Latin American talents hoping to make a name for themselves on the ...
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Poland chooses Andrzej Wajda's Katyn as Oscar contender
A Culture Ministry selection committee featuring Polish filmmakers Janusz Majewski, Jan Kaczmarek and Slavomir Fabicki made a unanimous decision in selecting Andrzej Wajda's film Katyn from among 16 contenders for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Katyn explores the events leading up to the Katyn massacre ...
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Reykjavik opens with world premiere of Sigur Ros - Heima
The fourth Reykjavik International Film Festival will open tonight with the world premiere of Denni Karlsson's Sigur Ros - Heima, a film about the internationally successful Icelandic music group Sigur Ros. Guests of the festival will include Peter Greenaway, who will receive the festival's honorary award for film directing; Finnish ...
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Rome's second run offers 19 world premieres and star power
Rome Film Fest (Oct 18-27) has announced the line up for its second edition (full list here), reinforcing its mission to be a people's 'festa' (the Italian word for party) while showing increased capability to attract top talent in a line up that focuses on European premieres as it capitalises ...
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LFF plans industry talks including one-day digital seminar
The London Film Festival is planning several special industry seminars for this year's festival. The Ateliers du Cinema Europeen (ACE) and the French Institute, with support from Skillset, the UK Film Council and the MEDIA Plus Programme will work with the LFF to host the seminar Creative Producer - A ...
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Danish smash Olsen Gang to get CGI treatment in new feature
Denmark's Olsen Gang (Olsenbanden) - the most successful franchise in the country's film history - will be resuscitated in a new CGI feature. Danish major Nordisk Film, which produced the 14 original Olsen Gang films between 1968-1981 and in 1998, has received development support from the Danish Film Institute for ...
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Universal Japan strikes DVD distribution deal with Geneon
Universal Pictures Japan and Geneon Entertainment have created a home entertainment distribution partnership. Geneon will distribute Universal's new release titles on DVD, with the first release being The Bourne Ultimatum in March 2008.However, Universal Pictures Japan, led by MD Ghen Akiyama, will continue to distribute all Universal catalogue and television ...
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Cotillard to receive Palm Springs breakthrough award
Marion Cotillard will receive the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Breakthrough Performance Award for her performance in La Vie En Rose. Cotillard, the first honoree to be unveiled for the 2008 festival, will be invited to collect her trophy at the Awards Gala on Jan 5 ...
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Screenwriters selected for second French Autumn Stories season
The second edition of Autumn Stories is set to kick off October 1 at the Abbaye de Royaumont, north of Paris. The scheme, created by the Franco-American Cultural Funds and the Ile de France Film Commission, invites four American screenwriters to finalise their feature projects over a six-week period. ...
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Walden and Kerner team up for basketball feature
Walden Media and Jordan Kerner's Kerner Entertainment Company are teaming up on the feature adaptation of sports columnist Adrian Wojnarowski's 2005 book The Miracle Of St Anthony. The book explores a year of the life of Bob Hurley Sr, one of America's most successful and prolific high-school basketball coaches ...
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Editorial - The shock of the new
It's tempting to see digital cinema as a manana technology - perpetually on the horizon but never getting any nearer. The effect is magnified if you count out your life in d-cinema conferences, which have often made a virtue of heated arguments about bafflingly esoteric points. As Arts Alliance Media ...
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In focus - The call of the wild
When French sales, distribution and finance outfit Wild Bunch signed a deal with US investment group Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) in early September, it marked yet another step in the company's bid to bolster a planned European distribution network.The deal is a rarity. With all the international banking and US ...
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United states - Exhibition space
Arthur Cohen and Richard Witkowski did not waste any time when they came up with the idea of founding Iklipz in early 2006. Ninety days after their original conversation, the site was up and running, allowing film-makers to upload their own works free of charge and participate in an online ...
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Quills
Dir: Philip Kaufman. US. 2000. 120 mins.Prod cos: Industry Entertainment. US dist: Fox Searchlight. Int'l dist: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Nick Wechsler, Peter Kaufman, Julia Chasman. Scr: Doug Wright, from his own play. DoP: Roger Stoffers. Prod des: Martin Childs. Ed: Peter Boyle. Mus: Stephen Warbeck. Main cast: Geoffrey Rush, ...
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United States - The English track
Louis Belanger is sitting in a tent deep in the Quebec wilderness, 700km north-east of Montreal. The location is doubling for Canada's Northwest Territory, 2,000km to the northwest. "This is the closest we could get to the real thing while making the logistics possible," he says. Twenty-one days into principal ...
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United Kingdom - The ringleaders
Through his work in the Scottish exhibition sector, Nick Varley knew that putting classic films on screen had a number of obstacles. "If you want to do a good retrospective, you have to find a print that's worth screening. Programming was being compromised because of the state of prints and ...