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NewsJerusalem Film Lab launches this week with 12 projects
Intensive seven month film lab modeled on Sundance, Binger and Turin and created by the Sam Spiegel Film & TV School brings 12 film-makers to Israel this week including Alvaro Brechner, Nadav Lapid, Burhan Qurnabi and Ernesto Contreras.
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Lee Papert named president, CEO of the Dallas Film Society
The new arrival takes over from Tanya Foster and starts work as president and CEO on Dec 5.
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Millennium Films acquires Guys Night
The company plans a spring 2012 production start on the story of four directionless men who head off to an island off the coast of New Jersey where supposedly anything goes.
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NewsPlacebo confirmed to play O2 at Sundance London
The inaugural arts event set to run from Apr 26-29 2012 has unveiled its first major music act – apart from T Bone Burnett, who as previously announced will take part in an on-stage conversation with Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford on opening night.
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NewsBeginners, Tree Of Life tie for 2011 Gotham best film prize
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) unveiled its Gotham Independent Film Awards recipients in New York last night (Nov 28).
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NewsAnnual Romanian Film Festival to open with Oscar submission Morgen
In its new home the Film Society of Lincoln Center Romanian festival will feature retrospectives of Liviu Ciulei and Radu Muntean
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NewsTorinoFilmLab announces funding slate
International jury awards Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not $200,000, at least ten other films get development backing
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NewsEntertainment One picks up US rights to Special Forces
Negotiated with StudioCanal, the deal marks eOne’s first US theatrical acquisition since it expanded into North American distribution.
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NewsIcon UK shakeup continues as indie teams with Lionsgate on future distribution
Lionsgate UK will ‘distribute and release certain of Icon’s film rights’ in the UK as Icon confirms shift in direction
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NewsVaizey promotes inward investment in LA
On a whistlestop tour of Los Angeles, UK culture minister Ed Vaizey has been meeting with studio heads in a bid to encourage US films to shoot in the UK, in the light of the recent extension of the UK film tax relief.
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NewsMister John, Run And Jump amongst IFB backed features
The Irish Film Board predicts that its latest round of funding will generate production activity of up to €38 million.
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NewsBFI pledges additional £1m to P&A fund
The BFI’s Board of Governors has approved an additional £1m funding for UK distributors via its P&A fund.
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NewsTake Shelter, Artist lead Spirit Awards with five nominations
Film Independent announced its nominees in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning (Nov 29). Fox Searchlight leads the pack on 14 nominations for The Descendants, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Shame, Win Win, Another Earth and Cedar Rapids.
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NewsNew York Film Critics Circle names The Artist best film
Michel Hazanavicius earned best director in a one-two punch for the black-and-white silent film that confirms it as as heavyweight awards season player. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is shut out, even through the NYFCC delayed its vote by 24 hours to screen the thriller.
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NewsJudd Hirsch joins cast of The Red Robin
Former Academy Award nominee Hirsch is joined by Ryan O’Nan, C S Lee, Jaime Ray Newman, Caroline Lagerfeld and Joseph Lyle Taylor.
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NewsProduction starts in Ontario on First Generation Films’ The Lesser Blessed
Benjamin Bratt stars alongside newcomer Joel Evans and other actors of native descent including Kiowa Gordon and Tamara Podemski.