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Short made by children added to Azur & Asmar DVD
Soda Pictures will include a short made by UK children on its DVD release for Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest. As part of the First Light Movies scheme, a group of five-year-olds from Hartside Primary School in Crook, County Durham, made the short digital animation last year with £2,700 ...
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Generator, Green Park, Octagon start shoot for Cherrybomb
Glen Leyburn and Lisa Barros D'Sa start shooting their joint feature debut, Cherrybomb, today in Belfast.The coming-of-age drama stars Rupert Grint, Kimberley Nixon and Robert Sheehan. Producers are Generator Entertainment, Green Park Films and Octagon Films.The story is about two teenage boys whose friendship is tested when a troubled beauty ...
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Sharman MacDonald to adapt Vincenzi's Windfall for PiVotal
Playwright and The Edge Of Love screenwriter Sharman MacDonald will adapt Penny Vincenzi's novel Windfall for a feature filmto be produced by PiVotal Pictures.Windfall is the first in PiVotal's planned series of films based on Vincenzi's works. The story is about a woman who trains as a doctor in the ...
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Beeban Kidron joins UK Film Council board
Director Beeban Kidron has joined the UK Film Council's Board of Directors.The appointment was made by Margaret Hodge MP, Minister for Culture, today. Kidron will serve on the board for four years until 1 July 2012.Kidron is currently in post-production on her next film, Hippie Hippie Shake, for Working Title. ...
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Metrodome promotes Sara Frain to General Manager of Distribution
Metrodome Group has promoted Sara Frain is to be promoted from General Manager - Theatrical & Broadcast to the newly created position of General Manager of Distribution.This move follows the departure of the current General Manager of Home Entertainment Tom Stewart who will be leaving the company at the end ...
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BritDoc UK competition includes Man On Wire, Starstruck
BritDoc, the Oxford-based documentary festival now hosting its third-annual event, has announced this year's competition films.The British Competition will include:Blood Trail - dir. Richard Parry A young war photographer ventures to Sarajevo in 1993 and tries to make a name for himself. Chosen - dir. Brian Woods Middle class men ...
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Profile: Chris Coen's Halcyon Pictures
If producers look for the quickest way to expand their businesses, the usual first step is to move into sales.But Chris Coen, who has produced Wristcutters: A Love Story, Deepwater and Michael Haneke's recent US remake of Funny Games, has taken a different sideways step, into distribution.His London-based Halcyon Pictures ...
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Asia House launches new UK festival at London's Renoir
Asia House will launch the first Asia House Festival of Asian Film this August in London.The series will screen films from Singapore, South Korea, Iran, Indonesia and China.Asia House is partnering with Curzon Cinemas for the showcase of festival favourites.The event runs Aug 22-28 at London's Renoir Cinema. The opening ...
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Zbanic, Belvaux, Radford films backed by Eurimages
At its 111th meeting (June 29-July 1), the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund has announced its latest funding round of $6.7m (Euros 4.275m) to 12 feature co-productions.The backed films are:The Flowers of Kirkuk - Fariborz Kamkari (Italy, France, Switzerland) Na Putu - Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia ...
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BAFTA calls for UK foreign-language Oscar submissions
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will again be the organisation appointed by AMPAS to select the UK's submission for consideration for the Foreign Language Oscar in 2009.Producers and distributors must declare their intention to submit UK foreign-language films by July 22 to deenam@bafta.org.Eligible films must have been ...
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Sarajevo Panorama section to open Aug 15 with 24 City
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has unveiled this year's Panorama section, which 'strives to bridge avant-garde and mainstream films with exceptional narrative films.'Panorama will open Aug 15 with Jia Zhang-ke's 24 City and will close with Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale. Both were well received in Cannes Competition.The other ...
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Metrodome plans multi-platform UK release of CSNY Deja Vu
Metrodome Distribution has announced plans for a simultaneous multi-platform release for Neil Young's CSNY Dejà Vu.Metrodome will release the concert documentary in cinemas and on video-on-demand platfomrs FilmFlex (Virgin Media) and 4oD (Channel 4) on July 18.Peter Urie, CEO of Metrodome, said: 'We are very excited to be offering consumers ...
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Cracks sells to StudioCanal for France, UK, Benelux
StudioCanal has taken all rights for the UK, France and Benelux for Jordan Scott's debut feature Cracks. (StudioCanal's Optimum Releasing will handle the UK release.)Also, Alain Goldman's Legende Enterprises (La Vie En Rose) has joined the project, which is backed by Scott Free, Future Films and HandMade Films International.The Irish ...
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UKFC, Skillset launch 25 new participants in Guiding Lights
Guiding Lights, the mentoring programme backed by Skillset and the UK Film Council and run by Lighthouse, has kicked off its 2008/2009 edition.Optimum Releasing also sponsors the initiative; Working Title's Tim Bevan chairs the steering committee.Each mentor and mentee will have one-on-one meetings and also attend networking events, masterclasses and ...
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Toronto adds world premieres including Disgrace, Miracle Of St Anna
The Toronto International Film Festival has added six films to its Special Presentations line-up for 2008.The films include four world premieres: Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Vicente Amorim's Good, Spike Lee's Miracle At St Anna, and Peter Sollett's Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.North American premieres are Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes jury prize-winner Il ...
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Bristol's Encounters to host Oliver Postgate tribute
Encounters, the Bristol, UK-based festival of short film and animations, will pay tribute to Oliver Postgate on July 27.Comedian Phill Jupitus will host the event at Watershed cinema in Bristol.The Phill, Bagpuss & Friends programme (3:30-4:45 pm) will celebrate the 50-year career or animator Postgate and his characters including Bagpuss, ...
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Kloster named MD of Fox Home Entertainment UK
Anders Kloster has been appointed managing director of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) UK.Kloster was most recently managing director for Leapfrog Toys-Europe. Prior to joining Leapfrog, he was managing director of LEGO Toys UK and vice president of sales, LEGO Northern Europe.At Fox, he will be responsible for creating ...
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Screenwriter Hazeldine to make directorial debut with Exam
Stuart Hazeldine, a UK-based screenwriter who has worked on studio films including Knowing and The Day The Earth Stood Still, is making his feature directorial debut on a project titled Exam.The low-budget UK feature, also written by Hazeldine, is a psychological thriller set in one room. Hazeldine describes it as ...
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Roberto Olla named executive secretary at Eurimages
Roberto Olla has been promoted, as of today, to the post of executive secretary of Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film co-production, exhibition and distribution fund.An Italian national, Roberto Olla has a law degree in public law and a PhD in Community law (thesis in European audiovisual and media law). ...
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New law firm Aslan Charles Kousetta launches in London
A new specialised media law firm, Aslan Charles Kousetta, has launched in London.The firm's founders are Susan Aslan, Sue Charles and Hakan Kousetta.The boutique firm, which will handle contentious and non-contentious matters for clients,will work across film, TV, advertising, publishing and new media. They will also advise on other areas ...