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Academy announces 15-strong documentary shortlist
Fifteen documentaries have made it on to the Oscar shortlist and will go forward to the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards from an initial pool of 89 eligible films, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences announced today [18].
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Sony promotes Marisa McGrath to svp national theatrical publicity
Marisa McGrath has been promoted to Sony’s senior vice-president of national theatrical publicity.
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Sundance announces 13 artists for New Frontier programme
Sundance Institute has announced 13 artists from six countries whose works will be presented as part of the 2010 edition of New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival.
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura boards Nicholas Flamel youth fantasy series
Lorenzo di Bonaventura and his Di Bonaventura Pictures have signed a deal with bestselling author Michael Scott to adapt Scott’s young adult six-part fantasy series The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel.
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Digital Economy Bill proposes legal mandate for Channel 4 film investment
The UK’s new Digital Economy Bill plans to place a legal commitment on broadcaster Channel 4 to invest in film.
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Precious to receive PGA's 2010 Stanley Kramer Award
Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire will receive the Producers Guild Of America’s (PGA) 2010 Stanley Kramer Award.
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Industry welcomes UKFC overhaul
The UK film industry has generally welcomed the news of the potential reorganisation of the UK Film Council, describing the major changes as “producer friendly”.
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War Games opens International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The 22nd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), opens today (November 19 ) with the world premiere of War Games And The Man Who Stopped Them by Polish director Dariusz Jablonski.
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Comment
New indies could renew awards
The effective closure of Miramax Films come January further depletes the supply of quality drama to US, and indeed, global audiences.
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Features
The Girl From Slaveikov Square
Great pop singer Lea Ivanova became popular in the 1960s as the “Star from the East”, but failed to gain recognition in her home country.
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Features
Das System
A young dropout becomes involved in a parallel world of international lobbyists and former GDR secret service agents and soon realises that his own life is more closely connected with this than he had previously believed.
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Features
The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Die Einsamkeit der Primzahlen)
Based on Giordano’s debut novel, a meditation on loneliness, love and the weight of childhood experience.
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Gestern ist nirgendwo (Yesterday Is Nowhere) (working title)
An architect returns involuntarily to his home town and is confronted by his past.
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Hausgäste (Houseguests) (working title)
Docu-feature exploring the phenomenon of couch surfing with director Eva Stotz becominmg a house guest around the globe.
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Das Ende ist mein Anfang
A critically ill journalist recounts to his son the story of his life, his spiritual experiences andhow he is preparing for death.
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Die Friseuse (The Haircutter)
Social comedy about woman from Marzahn overcoming all kind of obstacles to become a hairdresser