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Beta Cinema's AFM success includes global sales for German Oscar hope
Germany's Beta Cinema says it made 30 deals at this year's AFM, starting with further global success for its Stasi thriller, The Lives Of Others.Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's German Oscar entry sold to South Korea (Eureka), Singapore, Malaysia (Cathay), Portugal (Ecofilmes), Thailand (J-Bics) and Hong Kong (Edko). Talks with a ...
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Russian feature backed by German regional fund
Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's second feature Dau, which was pitched at last year's Connecting Cottbus market forum, is one of the new feature films to be backed by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in its latest round of funding.Khrzhanovsky's new project, which is based on the life of the great Russian physicist and ...
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Cecchi Gori confirms Telefonica talks
Italy's Cecchi Gori Communications has confirmed that it is holding talks with Spain's Telefonica, one of eight potential partners, about selling a minority stake in the group or one of its subsidiaries. However president Vittorio Cecchi Gori denied that the group's beleaguered TV station TeleMontecarlo is up for sale.Cecchi Gori ...
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Sundance selects Chicago 10 to open 2007 festival
The world premiere of BrettMorgen's Chicago 10 will be the opening film at the 2007 Sundance FilmFestival.Morgen, who previouslyco-directed 2002 Sundance favourite TheKid Stays In The Picture, wrote and directed this"innovative" documentary combining storytelling, archival footage, interviewsand animation about the 1968 anti-war protests at the Democratic NationalConvention in Chicago and ...
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UK's All Industry Marketing hires Grace Carley
The UK industry coalition All Industry Marketing(AIM) has appointed Grace Carley as managingdirector. Carley had beendirector of marketing for the Irish Film Board before running her own London and Los-Angeles based companies,including sales company Stranger Than Fiction, andworking for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. AIM members include Film ...
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Irish Film Board gets 15% funding increase for 2007
The Irish Film Board is setto receive funding of $21.3m (Euros 19.659m) in 2007, it was revealed in nextyear's pre-budget spending estimates, published today by Ireland's Finance Minister, Brian Cowen. This represents a15% increase on the Board's allocation this year.The Minister for Arts, Sport& Tourism, John O'Donoghue, said, 'This increase ...
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MGM picks up Mackinnon's The Flying Scotsman
MGM has acquired worldwide rights, excluding selectterritories, to Douglas Mackinnon's TheFlying Scotsman.Jonny Lee Miller stars inthe true story of Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, who battled mental illness andbroke world records after designing his own bicycle.The film world premiered asthe opening film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and recentlyscreened at ...
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RGM starts shoots for first two productions
The Girl In The Park, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winningauthor David Auburn, and Pushing UpDaisies, a black comedy written and directed by Chaz Thorne, both went intoproduction this week and are the first two films to carry the name RGM, one ofAustralia's most prominent agencies.RGM director Robyn Gardinerand ...
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Lies & Alibis
Dir: Kurt Matilla, Matt Checkowski. US. 2006. 90mins.A cute but superficial scam caper, Lies & Alibis is easy on the eye butleaves no real lasting impression. Despite its many flaws, first-time directorsKurt Matilla and Matt Checkowski do bring a zippy flair to the material, helpedby a good-humoured score and the ...
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Beautiful Ohio
Dir: Chad Lowe. US. 2006.91mins.Chad Lowe makes an uneven directorial debut with Beautiful Ohio, failing to establish anassured tone, consistent acting or memorable visual style in this story about adysfunctional but talented family. All in all it feels very much like a missedopportunity, moreso because the source material's imaginativeliterariness and ...
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BAFTA launches public short competition
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) has launched a new short film competition,60 Seconds of Fame, in association with Orange and supported by BBC Nations and Regions and the UK's regional screen agencies.Anyone over 16 is open tosubmit a 60-second short on the theme "celebrate," to honour ...
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UK Film Council P&A Fund backs films including London To Brighton and The Host
The UK Film Council hasannounced the latest recipients of awards from its P&A Fund, which supportsdistribution of niche films. The awards are: $169,968 (£90,000) to VervePictures for Andrea Arnold's Red Road$169,968 (£90,000) to OptimumReleasing for Joon-ho Bong's The Host$117,059 (£62,000) to ArtificialEye for Denis Dercourt's The Page Turner$75,521 ...
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Quinn to win emerging film-maker award from IDA for God Grew Tired Of Us
Christopher Quinn will receive the International Documentary Association's(IDA) Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award for God GrewTired Of Us.God Grew Tired Of Us won both the Sundance grand jury prize and audience awards andchronicles the experiences of three Sudanese war refugees as they adjust to anew life in the US.Quinn ...
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Borat marches into France, Spain for Fox International
The Boratinvasion spreads to five new territories this weekend as Fox Internationallooks forward to the comedy sweeping past $50m.Borat iscurrently on $48.6m and approaches its third weekend with openings scheduled infive territories.Anti-American sentiment in France should ensure a robust debutthere when Boratlaunches on Nov 15, and studio executives are also ...
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Global Film Initiative moves from New York to San Francisco
The Global Film Initiative (GFI) is moving its headquarters fromNew York to San Francisco.GFI, which champions small films that illustrate cross-culturalsimilarities, aims to capitalise on emerging technologies under development inthe Bay Area.'Great storytelling is one of the best ways to shareexperience and open up new worlds,' GFI's new executive director ...
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Canadian film and TV performers move closer towards strike
Canada's film and televisionperformers edged closer to a strike position as their representative ACTRAannounced it will begin mailing strike ballots to members.The move follows the latestround of negotiations between the performers union and the production communityrepresented by the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA)and the Association de Producteurs de ...
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Kenny takes top film prize at IF Awards
The hit comedy Kenny tonight took home four Inside Film Awards, includingbest film and best script, while Ten Canoes and Suburban Mayhem took home three each. Ten Canoes, the first Australian feature to be made entirely inthe indigenous language, earned Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr best director,and Crusoe Kurddal ...
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Transilvania festival will expand to two cities in 2007
Nextyear's Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held in twoRomanian cities - Cluj Napoca and Sibiu - in recognition of the latter's statusas a European Capital of Culture in 2007 along with Luxembourg.Speakingexclusively with ScreenDaily during the Connecting Cottbus market forum,TIFF's honorary director Tudor Giurgiu explained that the sixth ...
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Leeds honours I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes
The 20th Leeds InternationalFilm Festival (Nov 2-12) has awarded its jury prize, the Golden Owl, to Belgiandirector Guillaume Malandrin's I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes. A special mention went to Mohamed Al Daradji's Ahlaam. In the Louis Le Prince shortfilm competition, Oliver Klein's Bhai Bhai took top honours with ...
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Casino Royale off to strong start in UK
Casino Royale has set a strong early pace, and given a glimpse of theanticipation and intrigue surrounding the title, in the UK on its first day ofrelease. Launching Thursday in the UK the film, which reinvents theJames Bond franchise as a gritty, more real-world action adventure with DanielCraig taking the ...