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FeaturesAlan Maher
Irish Film Board production executive Alan Maher talks about the resilience of Ireland’s film industry and the rise of Irish documentaries.
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FeaturesThe Brit 50
Screen profiles the top 50 production companies in the UK, including veterans, upstarts, integrated outfits and international players.
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Asylum's McGuinness joins Double Negative in Singapore
Nathan McGuinness has been appointed as creative director of visual effects company Double Negative’s Singapore operation.
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FeaturesProducing in the UK
Seven of the UK’s most talented independent producers join our roundtable discussion about the state of the industry, including building sustainable businesses, the crossover with TV, English audiences, and co-productions.
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Dygra Films to make 3D animation Lost & Found
Spanish animation company Dygra Films is developing a new 3D animation project called Lost & Found, to be directed by the company’s president Manolo Gomez.
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Skillset launches 3D training bursaries
Skillset to release $31,000 (£20,000) for stereoscopic 3D training.
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NewsUPDATE: Cinema organisations start petition to lift Panahi's sentence
Backers of the movement include Cannes and Locarno festivals. Other festivals including Rotterdam, Sarajevo and Thessaloniki issue statements in support of the Iranian filmmaker.
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Expanded Dubai Filmmart racks up more than 3,000 screenings
The Dubai International Film Festival’s Dubai Filmmart has announced that 3,193 screenings took place through its popular Cinetech trading platform, and at least two major deals were concluded during the week-long event (Dec 12-19).
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NewsCMI appoints James Mullighan to produce EIFF overhaul
Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) CEO Gavin Miller has hired James Mullighan to produce an image and structure overhaul for the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival heading into its 65th year.
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FeaturesThe Dark Half
Shooting has just finished in Bristol on Alastair Siddons’ The Dark Half, the first project to come out of South West Screen’s microbudget iFeatures scheme.
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NewsMarc Price now shooting The Coffin in London
Low budget maestro Marc Price, the Welsh filmmaker behind the “£45 zombie movie” Colin, has begun work on a new feature, The Coffin.
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Screen South launches Digital Inventions fund
UK regional screen agency Screen South has launched a new $93,000 (£60,000) fund, Digital Inventions, which aims to offer support to film led projects embracing new technology.
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Skillset launches three new sets of Occupational Standards for the film industry
UK training body Skillset has developed three new sets of National Occupational Standards for the film industry, covering physical special effects, armoury and post production.
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FeaturesWeekly International box office Dec 17-19
Fox’s Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader continued to dominate the international market in its third week, taking $31.5m from 10,107 screens in 61 territories.
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NewsBerlin's Forum Expanded to focus on political thought
The Berlinale’s Forum Expanded, which explores the intersections between art and cinema, will focus on works that “challenge political thought in aesthetic form.”
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NewsNew Catalonia digital studio to kick off with Chameleons shoot
A British investment group, Extraordinary Features, is planning to develop a digital film production studio based in La Bisbal, Spain.
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NewsChristian Bale to star in Zhang’s Thirteen Girls in Jinling City
Christian Bale will star in Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s latest historical film, Thirteen Girls in Jinling City (working title), as an American priest witnessing the so-called Nanjing Massacre during World War II.
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FeaturesKen Ralston – Visual Effects, Alice In Wonderland
Although he already has five Oscars for special effects, Ken Ralston found Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland his biggest challenge. John Hazelton reports