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PGA to stage annual Produced By conference in June
The event will take place at 20th Century Fox Studios in Century City, from Jun 8-9.
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NewsEgypt’s Zad goes into exile with Mact Productions
Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication is embarking on its first international co-production, teaming with Paris-based Mact Productions on The Exile, a romantic and political drama set against the backdrop of Luxor in the 1980s.
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ScreenSingapore's new format wins industry approval
The 2nd ScreenSingapore event closed Friday (Dec 7), held in conjunction for the first time with the Asian TV Forum & Market (ATF), with attendees saying it was an improvement on last year’s event, although the market itself was more focused on television than film.
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NewsPachachi wins IWC Schaffhausen filmmaker award
Maysoon Pachachi was presented with the $100,000 IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Award for her project Nothing Doing In Baghdad at a glittering ceremony at the Dubai International Film Festival last night.
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NewsPeter Strickland, Rook Films line up The Duke of Burgundy
Rook Films to produce Strickland’s third feature, described as “a dark melodrama” about an amateur moth collector.
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NewsLondon Film School launches MA in Film Business with University of Exeter
Scott Meek to chair advisory board.
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CommentWhy Breaking the Taboo is game changing
Sam Branson on tapping into YouTube to tackle the war on drugs.
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NewsDassault Systemes unveils ambitious 3D Paris project, two years in the making
Visualisation software company offers historical cross-media project, which includes documentary film.
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FeaturesKhairy Beshara
Marking a return to feature filmmaking after 16 years, Khairy Beshara talks to Screen about experimental docu-drama Moondog.
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NewsPaul Trijbits departs Ruby and boards JK Rowling project
Ruby Films MD Paul Trijbits has left the company and boarded BBC series The Casual Vacancy as executive producer.
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NewsLincoln, Les Miserables dominate Critics’ Choice nods
DreamWorks’ Abraham Lincoln saga earned a record 13 nominations on Tuesday [11] followed by Universal’s Les Miserables on 11 and The Weinstein Company’s Silver Linings Playbook on 10.
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NewsDavid Kornblum to receive CinemaCon Passepartout Award
The knowledgeable and popular Disney executive will collect the honour at CinemaCon’s International Day Luncheon on Apr 15 in Las Vegas.
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NewsDistribution round-up: Anchor Bay, RADiUS-TWC strike pact
Anchor Bay will distribute the RADiUS-TWC slate on DVD and Blu-ray. Also in action on Tuesday: BAM and Well Go USA; Zeitgeist; Kaleidescape and Warner Bros Digital Distribution; and BoPaul Media Worldwide.
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Production round-up: Brett Ratner, James Packer launch Ratpac
Australian casino entrepreneur James Packer has united with the Hollywood filmmaker and is personally bankrolling the film finance, development and production outfit. Separately, Los Angeles-based Esperanza Films and Thailand’s Angel Bear Productions have started a production parternship.
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Production update: La Ultima Pelicula lines up Dec 16 start
Principal photography is scheduled to begin in and around Yucatán, Mexico, on Raya Martin and Mark Peranson’s sub-$100,000 fiction-documentary hybrid.
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News75 original songs make it to Oscar longlist
Music branch members will receive a “reminder list” of the submissions and a DVD copy of song clips.
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SFFS, Kenneth Rainin award grants to six filmmakers
The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have announced the six recipients of grants totalling $300,000 to fund the next stage of their production.