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London Film Festival to open with Cronenberg's Eastern Promises
After world premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises will serve as the opening-night gala at the London Film Festival on Oct 17.The Canada-UK co-production for Kudos and Serendipity Point stars Viggo Mortenson as a London-based Russian mobster who crosses paths with an innocent ...
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Kent companies form new Film Syndicate
The new Kent Film Syndicate will launch with a screening of locally shot Ruby Blue from Medb Films.Producer Elaine Wickham and writer/director Jan Dunn shot the drama Ruby Blue, starring Josiane Balasko and Bob Hoskins, in Ramsgate and surrounding areas.The Syndicate will host the preview screening on Friday in Ramsgate. ...
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Goteborg to host posthumous 50-film Bergman retrospective
As the film world remembers Ingmar Bergman, the Goteborg International Film Festival has reiterated its plans to host a Bergman retrospective during its 31st event, Jan 25-Feb 4, 2008.About 50 of the director's features will be screened during the fifth Bergman week Jan 24-29. Goteborg has a long history with ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs French hits La Ve En Rose and Tell No One
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced it latest round of supported projects. They are: $307,980 (£151,606) to Icon for Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose $225,056 (£110,774) to Revolver Entertainment for Guillaume Canet's Tell No One $203,146 (£100,000) to Pathe for Laurent Tirard's Moliere $10,158 (£5,000) ...
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Asmik Ace takes on Japanese distribution for Shadow Of The Moon
Channel 4 International has brokered a deal for Asmik Ace Entertainment to handle the Japanese theatrical release for In The Shadow Of The Moon. Asmik Ace plans a 2008 launch for the Sundance hit documentary, which is being released by ThinkFilm in the US, Vertigo Films in the UK and ...
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Potosi documentary takes top prize at Era New Horizons
Four-hour documentary Potosi: The Journey took the top prize at the seventh Era New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Ron Havilio's documentary is about a couple who journey to a mining town in Bolivia in 1970 and return in 1999 with their children. The 11-day festival wrapped July 29 ...
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Maire, Staka recruited for Sarajevo competition jury
Locarno artistic director Frederic Maire won't get much of a rest after his own festival, as he will be heading to the Sarajevo Film Festival Aug 17-25 as a member of the competition jury. As previously reported, Sarajevo's jury will be headed by UK actor Jeremy Irons. Other jurors include ...
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Carice Van Houten joins Damast's Vivaldi
Black Book star Carice Van Houten has joined the cast of Boris Damast's Vivaldi opposite Joseph Fiennes and Gerard Depardieu.Fiennes will star as the composer. The cast also includes Jaqueline Bisset, Lena Headey, Malcolm McDowell and Elle Fanning. The project will shoot later this year. Future Films is backing the ...
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Britdoc gives international prize to Devil Came On Horseback
The second-annual Britdoc festival wrapped Friday with its international jury prize going to Darfur project The Devil Came On Horseback by Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern.The winner of the Screen International British competition was Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, about a school for children with severe emotional ...
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Cactus Three: reality check
New York-based Cactus Three has become a key player in the growing market for documentaries. Wendy Mitchell meets its founders. Having worked together at the now-defunct US indie distributor Wellspring, Julie Goldman, Caroline Stevens and Krysanne Katsoolis established their New York-based non-fiction mini-studio Cactus Three in 2003. It proved fortuitous ...
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Berczeller wins Britdoc Pitching with Through A Glass, Darkly
At today's More4 Pitching Forum at the Britdoc Festival, Paul Berczeller was named top pitcher with his project Through A Glass, Darkly. He wins $2000 (£1000) in a cash prize.He presented the project, about the son of a man involved in an infamous CIA LSD experiment, with producer Nikki Parrott ...
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UK anti-piracy groups celebrate charges brought against market owners
The UK's anti-piracy groups are welcoming a judgment handed down at St Albans Crown Court that says a market can be held accountable for pirated materials sold by its traders. The case was brought by Hertfordshire Trading Standards against Wendy Fair Markets Ltd and its directors Nicholas Hobday and Sally ...
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Axiom and Matador wrap shoot for UK drama There For Me
Director Sallie Aprahamian has wrapped principal photography on UK romantic drama There For Me.The film is the first collaboration between Axiom Films and Matador Pictures. Axiom developed the film in association with Matador and Regent Capital's Cinema Two. Arts Alliance Media's MetFilm is also co-financing.Douglas Cummins of Axion produces with ...
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Iggy Pop and Andrea Arnold join forces for Raindance jury
The London-based Raindance Film Festival has announced the jury for this year's 15th anniversary edition.Continuing tradition of including musicians on the jury, Raindance confirmed that Iggy Pop and Mick Jones will both serve as jurors for the 2007 festival (Sept 25-Oct 7).Other jurors will be film-makers Penny Woolcock, Andrea Arnold, ...
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Kelly Reilly to lead cast for Watkins' thriller Eden Lake
Kelly Reilly will star with 300's Michael Fassbender and This Is England newcomer Thomas Turgoose in Eden Lake for director James Watkins.Celador's Christian Colson (The Descent) is producing with Waking Ned producer Richard Holmes. The $4m (£2m) project will shoot July 29-Sept 8 in the London area.The thriller, which Watkins ...
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The Independent becomes sponsor of Sheffield Doc/Fest
The UK 's Sheffield Doc/Fest has recruited The Independent newspaper as the festival's presenting media sponsor. The festival will now be known as Sheffield Doc/Fest in association with The Independent, and the sponsorship deal also includes editorial, advertising and marketing initiatives. Heather Croall, festival director of Doc/Fest, said: 'With The ...
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Ratatouille's Remy recruited for UK anti-piracy campaign
The UK's Industry Trust for IP Awareness is working with Disney and Pixar for an anti-piracy campaign starring Ratatouille's Remy the Rat. The new anti-copyright theft spots will launch in cinemas Friday. Remy is seen dismissing pirated films for their poor quality and lack of taste. The initiative is also ...
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Indian Film Company backs six new projects including Loot
The Indian Film Company, the Bollywood producer which recently started trading on the UK's Alternative Investment Market in June, has invested $24m (£12m) in six new film projects to be produced over the next year. The new projects bring Indian Film Company's slate of productions to a total of 20 ...
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Film industry said to contribute nearly $9bn to UK economy
The UK film industry contributed about $8.9bn (£4.3bn) to the UK's gross domestic product in 2006 - a 39% increase in two years, according to a new Oxford Economics report supported by The UK Film Council and Pinewood Shepperton. That figure represents direct impact from core film activities such as ...
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Bastion takes on Godley's debut Where The Treetops Glisten
New UK independent producer Bastion Pictures has optioned the rights to Where The Treetops Glisten, which will mark the debut feature of Kevin Godley, who previously worked on music videos and documentaries. Godley co-wrote the script with Adrian Deevoy. The film is about executives at a TV company specialising in ...