All articles by Tim Dams – Page 86
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Euro directors lined-up for Toronto EFP event
European Film Promotion is to present a European directors panel at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.Titled 'Cinema in the 'new' Europe: Does European filmmaking have a renewed creative edge and sense of purpose'', panellists include France's Solveig Anspach, Spain's Cesc Gay, Austria's Ruth Mader, and the UK's Peter ...
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Out Of Time to world premiere at Toronto
Director Carl Franklin's Out Of Time will have its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival. Starring two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington, the film also stars Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, and Dean Cain in a story of one man's race against time to solve ...
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Political docs take centre stage at Toronto
Themes of politics and international affairs dominate the line-up of documentaries playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.Special Presentations includes Errol Morris' The Fog Of War - a profile of Robert S. McNamara - which receives its North American premiere, while Ron Mann's Go Further - which follows ...
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BVIP seduced by F&ME's Loving Glances
UK-based independent production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a deal with Bjorg Veland's BVIP to represent its UK/Serbia and Montenegro co-production Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for international sales.The move comes ahead of the film's competition screening at the Venice International Film Festival and its presentation in ...
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BVIP falls for F&ME's Loving Glances
UK-based independent production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a deal with Bjorg Veland's BVIP to represent its UK/Serbia and Montenegro co-production Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for international sales.The move comes ahead of the film's competition screening at the Venice International Film Festival and its presentation in ...
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UK launch for black film-makers sales outfit
Former High Point senior sales executive Sarah Chammartin has launched a new sales company which will specialise in handling films by black film-makers.Based in the UK and called Carre Noir Film, Chammartin says the aim is provide films by black film-makers to black communities around the world. Chammartin is currently ...
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Euro pay-TV outfits set for revenue boom
For the past three years, the news emanating from most of Europe's pay-TV outfits has been consistently grim.Financial cutbacks, bankruptcies and mergers in countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain and France hit the film industry hard as the leading pay-TV players cut back on their investment in movies.However, a new ...
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Pawlikowski embarks on Love shoot
Pawel Pawlikowski, the acclaimed director of Last Resort, has started shooting his new film, My Summer Of Love.Described as a loose adaptation of the book by Helen Cross, it is the story of the friendship and burgeoning sexuality of two teenage girls - one rich, one poor - who form ...
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Screen International to sponsor EFA prize
Screen International is once again to sponsor a major prize at the European Film Awards.The Prix Screen International will be presented to the best non-European film at this year's Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Saturday Dec 6.Nominations for all categories will be unveiled in the first week ...
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UK's Optimum acquires Thousand Months, Since Otar Left
Optimum Releasing have acquired UK rights to A Thousand Months and Since Otar Left from Fortissimo and Celluloid Dreams respectively. Faouzi Bensaidi's A Thousand Months, selected for Un Certain Regard at this year's Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of Amina and her son Mehdi who live in the heart ...
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Neeson parts company with 20th Century Fox International
Scott Neeson, president of 20th Century Fox International Theatrical, is stepping down from his position at the end of the month.In a statement, 20th Century Fox said he had "elected to re-direct his interests."Neeson began his association with 20th Century Fox International Theatrical in 1989 as general manager of the ...
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Carlton takes over at UK's Film Four Lab
Peter Carlton has been appointed as head of Channel 4's experimental film division, Film Four Lab.Carlton joins Film Four Lab having set up and run regional film fund EM Media Investments (EMMI) based in the East Midlands. Joining in mid-September and reporting to Film Four head Tessa Ross, he will ...
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San Sebastian unveils Spanish competition premieres
Three films from high profile young Spanish directors - Iciar Bollain, Cesc Gay and Achero Manas - have been selected for the official section of this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27). One other Spanish film will also screen out of competition, while at least two works by ...
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UIP strikes Croatian licence deal
United International Pictures is to distribute its films in Croatia through a new licence arrangement with Blitz Film and Video effective from August 1.UIP used to distribute in Croatia through Zagreb-based Kinematografi.Amongst the line-up of Universal, Paramount and DreamWorks films that UIP will bring to Croatian audiences through the new ...
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Australia/UK co-productions benefit from FFC cash
Two 'commercial' Australia/UK co-productions are among four feature films to receive backing from Australia's Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) in its latest round of funding.Irresistible, a thriller about a woman who believes she is being stalked by her husband's beautiful co-worker, is written and directed by Ann Turner and executive ...
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Calendar Girls set for open air world premiere
Nigel Cole's highly anticipated Calendar Girls is set to make its world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival (Aug 6-16), as an outdoor screening in the Piazza Grande in front of a potential audience of 7,000.The high profile, public screening is seen by distributor Buena Vista International as an ...
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Cannes pays tribute to Alexander Walker
Cannes president Gilles Jacob has paid tribute to film critic Alexander Walker, who died suddenly yesterday."It is with great sadness that I heard about Alex's passing. Alex was a close friend, a great critic and historian," Jacob told Screen. "I believe that he didn't miss a single Cannes Film Festival ...
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Diller, Redstone weigh up joint bid for Vivendi
Barry Diller has been talking to Viacom chief Sumner Redstone about a possible joint bid for Vivendi Universal's U.S. show business empire, Reuters reported on Tuesday quoting 'sources close to the auction.'Diller, a former Vivendi executive who owns a stake in company's entertainment assets, is eyeing the multi-billion-dollar auction of ...
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Chadha's Bride And Prejudice begins Ealing shoot
Filming begins today (July 14) on Bride And Prejudice - The Bollywood Musical, the Bollywood style re-telling of the Jane Austen classic by the team behind Bend It Like Beckham - director/producer Gurinder Chadha and producer Deepak Nayar.The film stays faithful to Jane Austen's central story of a mother and ...
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France wins 'cultural exception' fight in EU charter
France won a last-ditch battle this week to maintain its right of veto in a future European Union constitution to protect its film and television industry in international trade negotiations. The committee drafting the EU's first constitution agreed to add a clause sought by Paris on the so-called "cultural exception" ...