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McBurney and Teller to curate Katrin Cartlidge Foundation
The Sarajevo FilmFestival has announced that UK actor Simon McBurney and photographer JuergenTeller will be the curators of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation this year.Producer andfoundation trustee Cat Villiers announced the new curators at a Cannesreception for the festival and Bosnia and Herzegovina film.McBurney and Tellerwill announce the name of the ...
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UK Post starts new audio post-production awards
UK Post has startedplanning the inaugural Conch Sound Awards. The awards will honour those whowork in audio post-production in film, TV and commercials.The first ceremony will beheld September 21 at the Radisson Edwardian Mayfair's cinema in London.Industry group UK post hasnomination applications available online.After initial nominations, industry experts will judge ...
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Towel Talk wins 24-Hour Film Challenge
UK-based production company Wysiwygwon the 24-Hour Film Challenge with its short mystery/comedy Towel Talk.The challenge, held inCannes, has teams of film-makers making a film of five minutes or less during a24-hour period.Towel Talk was made by Tom Swanston, Cauri Jaye and MatthewGolding and stars Jonathan Rhodes. Wysiwyg was in Cannes ...
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Arista gears up for Scribes 2 programme
Arista Development islaunching Scribes 2, a programme for black and minority ethnic screenwriters. The eight-month screenplaydevelopment scheme is run by Arista, BBC Film and Capitol Films Production. Mentors in the programmecome from Cuba Pictures, Element Films, Feel Films, Samuelson Productions andTiger Aspect Pictures. Each participant developsone screenplay and one outline, ...
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Jodorowsky plans new film King Shot
Alejandro Jodorowsky, theoriginator of the midnight movie, has a new film planned, entitled King Shot.He describes the project as somethingof a metaphysical spaghetti Western that could star his fans and friends NickNolte and Marilyn Manson. Producer Pieree Spengler is developing.Jodorowsky is in Cannestoday for Cannes Classics screenings of 1971's El ...
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Field and Al Ali named artistic directors for Dubai festival
The DubaiInternational Film Festival has unveiled new artistic directors for 2006, MasoudAmralla Al Ali and Simon Field, who will program films from the Arab andnon-Arab worlds respectively. Al Ali is basedin Abu Dhabi and is the artistic director of the UAE Cultural Foundation andthe founder of the Emirates Film Competition; ...
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Edinburgh festival adds documentary award
TheEdinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced special plans forits 60th festival, to be held August 14-27.Thefestival is launching a new award for best documentary feature, which willcarry a cash prize. TheEIFF is programming a special 1970s retrospective this year. They Might BeGiants: Other Voices from the New American Cinema ...
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Punk Cinema plans Gigolos follow-up later in 2006
UK production company PunkCinema has commissioned the writers and actors its film The Gigolos to write a follow-up.Sacha 'Tarter andTrevor Sather will write Billion Dollar Break for production in late 2006. The caper comedy is about aRussian billionaire and an office drone who find themselves on the run togetheracross Europe. ...
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Tartan strikes deals for Princess and The Right of the Weakest
Tartan Films has acquired all North American, UK and Irish rights to DirectorsFortnight title Princess by Anders Morgenthaler and all UK and Irish rights toCannes competition title The Right Of The Weakest by Lucas Belvaux.The company also acquired UK and Irish rights to Back to Normandie, the new filmfrom Etre ...
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Apted recruited to direct Goal! 3
Director Michael Apted is in discussions with MilkshakeFilms to direct the final film in their Goal! trilogy. During a Cannes event with financiers Scion Films,producer Mike Jefferies announced that negotiations are ongoing with Apted for Goal!3.The film will be Apted's second football project in arow. He's currently shooting an as-yet-untitled ...
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Film Four, Intermedia on board for Baghdad Blog
FilmFour andIntermedia will work together on a feature film adaptation of Baghdad Blog, written by Iraqi architect Salam Paxabout his daily life in Baghdad before, during and after the invasion.Snowcake director Marc Evans will direct, withRoss Klavan, who wrote Tigerland, adapting the script. Scott Kroopf andOllie Madden will produce for ...
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Optimum takes UK rights for seven features
UK distributor Optimum hasacquired UK rights to seven new features.The distributor has come onboard FilmFour's Brick Lanedirected by Sarah Gavron, which will start shooting in June. Also in the pre-productionstage, Optimum has taken Day of the Dead, a horror film directed by Steve Miner for Nu Image/Millennium Films.From Europa Corp, ...
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UK's Warp X unveils first six low-budget features
FilmFour, the UK FilmCouncil's New Cinema Fund, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media and Optimum Releasinghave announced the first projects planned for their low-budget studio Warp X. The first film to be shotfor Warp X will be Travels With My Virginity, a comedy about a teenager hitchhiking in ruralFrance in 1978. The ...
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Firth, Weisz and McKellen sign on for The Colossus
Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandonhave signed on to star in The Colossus for director Sean Mathias.Katselas Films' political thriller is based on AnnHarries' novel Manly Pursuits. Lisa Katselas, who previously worked on RichardIII and MrsDalloway,will produce. Mathias co-wrote the screenplay with Myer Taub. The story follows ...
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FilmFour backs Hillcoat's Death Of A Ladies Man
After earlier Cannesannouncements to back the next films from Michael Winterbottom and Ken Loach,FilmFour has announced another new film on its slate. The Channel 4 feature filmarm is working with Kudos Pictures, run by former FilmFour head Paul Webster,to co-finance Death Of A Ladies Man.The black comedy, with a budget ...
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ContentFilm gets Tribeca title I'm Reed Fish
UK-basedContentFilm has taken on international rights for I'm Reed Fish, which premiered at the Tribeca FilmFestival. Zackary Adler'sdirectorial debut stars Jay Baruchel and Alexis Bledel in a coming-of-age storyin a small town. The ensemble cast also includes Schuyler Fisk, DJ Qualls,Victor Rasuk and Katey Sagal.I'm Reed Fish isa production of ...
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FilmFour backs Ken Loach's These Times
FilmFour willwork with Ken Loach on his next feature, with a working title of These Times.Loach, whose TheWind That Shakes The Barleyis in Cannes competition, will direct the new film from a screenplay by PaulLaverty.FilmFour is thefirst company on board as co-financiers for the project, which will be producedby Loach's ...
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David and Kastner launch UK-based sales company 111 with Opa!
Alki David and ElliottKastner have launched 111 pictures, a new sales company kicking off in Cannes.The company's first title isUdayan Prasad's Opa!, a romanticcomedy about an American archaeologist (Matthew Modine) who falls in love witha local woman (Agni Scott) when he takes a research trip to a Greek island. TheUS-UK ...
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Young Films stars Gaelic-language Seachd
The first contemporaryGaelic-language feature, Seachd -- The Inaccessible Pinnacle, starts shooting on the Isle of Skye next week andcontinues through July.Scottish producer ChrisYoung, who previously worked on Festival, will produce for Young Films. The film is about a youngboy whose goes to live with his storytelling grandfather after the tragic ...
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Sarah Alexander joins Stardust cast
Actress Sarah Alexander has joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's fantasyepic Stardust. She will play Empusa, a 400-year-old witch.The film also stars Robert de Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes andnewcomer Charlie Cox.Filming starts in June. Alexander has appeared on UK TV shows including Coupling and Green Wing and she alsorecently ...