All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 117
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Cock And Bull to open European Union Film Showcase
The American FilmInstitute, working with the Cultural Counselors of the European Union Member States, will present the 18th editionof the European Union Film Showcase at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, from November 8-22.UK films will open and close the festival:Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull ...
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Mrs Henderson, The Libertine lead BIFA nods
Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents and Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine lead the 2005 British Film Award (BIFA) nominations,announced today in London. Each ofthose films scored eight nods, followed by seven for Fernando Mereilles' TheConstant Gardener.Other films leading the pack are Michael Winterbottom'sA Cock and Bull Story, with fivenominations, including his ...
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Brief Encounters unveils shorts festival line-up
The 11th Brief Encountersfestival in Bristol has announced a line-up of more than 200 short filmsfor this year's event, which runs November 23-27 at the Watershed Media Centre.The programme includes filmsfrom 25 countries during the five-day event. More than £10,000 will be awardedin prizes. Film highlights include MartinMcDonagh's Six Shooter, ...
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Video Island extends rental deal with Tesco
Online DVD rental service Video Island has extended its partnership with UK retailer Tesco.com for at least two more years. Tesco.com launched its DVDrental service, which is powered by Video Island, in March 2004. The extended partnershipalso covers digital downloading of filmed entertainment content and other newinitiatives.Video Island runs the ...
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Nina's Heavenly Delights cranks up in Glasgow
ScionFilms and Priority Pictures have announced the start of production on Nina's Heavenly Delights. The filmstarted shooting October 3 in Glasgow. Nina's Heavenly Delights marks the feature filmdebut for director Pratibha Parmar,who also is producing the film. Andrea Gibb (Afterlife, Dear Frankie)wrote the script, about a Glaswegian family running an ...
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Glitzy Gardener opens London festival
The 49th Times bfi London Film Festival opened amid torrential rain on Wednesday night (Oct 19) witha gala screening of Fernando Meirelles' TheConstant Gardener. The director was in attendance along with stars Ralph Fiennes,Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, and author John Le Carre, who wrote the novel onwhich the film is ...
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Working Title cranks up Sixty Six
WorkingTitle Films started principal photography in London for its coming-of-age comedy Sixty Six. Paul Weiland (Roseanna'sGrave, City Slickers II) is directing from a screenplay by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor. Elizabeth Karlsen, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with NataschaWharton executive producing.UniversalPictures will handle worldwide distribution of Sixty Six, ...
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Shoreline, Matador embark on Dark Corners shoot
Shoreline Entertainment and Matador Pictures recently started principalphotography on horror thriller DarkCorners. Shooting started October 11 in London. Ray Gower wrote and is directing the film, which stars Thora Birch as a woman living two lives who is stalked by amonster. Toby Stephens and Christien Anholt also star.Shoreline will handle ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for UK teen comedy Popcorn
London-based sales agent Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales of UK teen comedy Popcorn.Darren Paul Fisher (Inbetweeners)is directing with Rebecca Knapp and Daniel M. San producing.Moviehouse's Gary Phillips and Mark Vennisare executive producing with Sheryl Crown of Screen East. The film recentlycompleted shooting in Londonand Hertfordshire. The film stars Jack ...
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Palm takes North American rights to Machado's City
Palm Pictures has picked upNorth American and Caribbean rights for Sergio Machado's Lower City (Cidade Baixa) from sales outfit Lumina Films.London-based Lumina also hasPalm on board for two of its other projects - Pablo Trapero'sArgentinian road movie Familia Rodante and -- as previously announced-- City of Men, the TV series ...
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Djurkovic wins Sheffield Doc fest's Jerwood prize
The12th Sheffield International Documentary Festival (October 10-16) has awardedits top prize, the Jerwood First Cuts DocumentaryAward, to Sasha Maja Djurkovic's Last MenStanding. Djurkovic is a student at the National Film and Television School, and she topped theshortlist of 12 projects to win a cash prize of £3,500 towards her next ...
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Producers warn of uncertainty for UK film financing
UK film financing is stillploughing through choppy waters as the consultation period for the new taxbreaks comes to an end this Friday (Oct 21).And while producers andfinanciers at Screen International's UK Film Finance Summit in London onTuesday were hardly talking up doomsday scenarios, they did foresee uncertaintyahead, followed by new ...
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Hollywood Classics launches InFrame sales agency
HollywoodClassics, a decades-old distributor of classic films, is launching a new salesagency devoted to contemporary independent films. Joe Dreier, headof Hollywood Classics and its new InFrame division, said that the new arm wouldwork with "new independent films from first or second-time directors who showgreat promise." He estimated the company's titles ...
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Intandem takes on sales for Nobody's Hero
Intandem Films has taken on international sales for Jason Lehel's forthcoming drama Nobody's Hero, which the company is also executiveproducing. The film follows a soldier from the Iraq war who tries to return to normal life back home. The film is currently inpre-production with producers Esther Randall of Open Eye ...
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London to host inaugural Children's Film Festival
The Barbican Centre and theIndependent Cinema Office are working with Film London to create the firstcity-wide London Children's Film Festival. The inaugural event will be heldNovember 9-20, screening 60 films at the Barbican and 15 other venues. Disney's animated comedy Chicken Little will open the fest witha charity gala screening ...
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Carnaby takes on sales for Pensmith's Much Too Young
UK sales company Carnaby International hasacquired its first externally produced film, Too Much Too Young, from PensmithPictures. The comedy about twostreet-wise brothers is directed by Trevor Steven Smith, produced by Stuart D. Fenegan, and stars Steve John Shepherd, Adam Croasdell, and Kellie Shirley. "Too Much Too Young is a very ...
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Dinard honours Father's Den
Three films already familiarto UK audiences - In My Father's Den,Festival, and Ladies in Lavender- were the winners at the 16th Dinard British Film Festival (Oct 6-9). Brad McGann's In My Father's Den, which UK distributorOptimum released in theatres in June and on DVD last week, was something of asurprise ...
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UK's World Cinema names Kelly as managing director
Tom Kelly has been named Managing Director of World Cinema,the UK salesarm for the home entertainment products of independent distributors includingTartan Video and Artificial Eye. Kelly was previously commercial director for Cinema Club andsales and marketing director for 20th Century Fox. He started thenew position on October 3.He replaces Mike ...
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Canary snaps up top Raindance prize
The 13th annual Raindance Film Festival wrapped in London on Sunday with AkihikoShiota's Canary from Japan taking the top competitionprize. The film is about a 12-year-old boy who is raised by a cult. Lou Ma Ho's A Monk'sAwakeningfrom France won the short film competition.UK prizes went to JulianGilbey's hip-hop drama ...
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Bond looks outside UK for Casino Royale shoot
Very little of theforthcoming James Bond feature Casino Royale is to shoot at the 007franchise's traditional home, the UK's Pinewood Studios, according to thefilm's director Martin Campbell.The film's productionlocation has been heavily speculated in recent months, ever since ScreenInternational reported in May that the Czech Republic's Barrandov Studioswas in talks ...