All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 7
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Abu Dhabi's MEIFF to host Youssef Chahine exhibition
The Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi (Oct 10-19) will host an exhibition dedicated to the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.Executive Director Nashwa Al Ruwaini says: 'The exhibition contains 100 frames of tens of rare photos and rare artifacts that will be held in one of the halls ...
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Venice FIPRESCI prizes go to Goodbye Solo, Inland (Gabba)
Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which is screening at TIFF through September 11, took the FIPRESCI international critics prize in Venice, as best film in Horizons and International Critics' Week.The FIPRESCI prize for the international competition went Inland (Gabbla) by Tariq Teguia. Inland is about present-day Algeria, through the experiences of ...
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K5 on board for world sales of zomcom Wasting Away
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has acquired Matthew Kohnen's Wasting Away for worldwide sales.The US 'zomcom' feature, uniquely presented from the zombies' perspective, has picked up awards at ScreamFest, New Beijing, Festivus and Zompire.K5 spotted Wasting Away at Sci-Fi London and K5's Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver ...
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JCVD director El Mechri recruits Paradis for Midwife Crisis
As Gaumont racks up major sales on TIFF Midnight Madness opener JCVD, that film's director Mabrouk El Mechri is finalising the original script this month for his next project, offbeat romantic comedy Midwife Crisis.Gaumont will again produce, with New York's Forensic Films also on board. Vanessa Paradis is attached to ...
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ReviewsHeaven On Earth
Dir. Deepa Mehta.Canada 2008. 106 min.The yearnings and travails of an Indian emigre bride, a subject recently given a pictorial, naturalistic treatment inBrick Lane, gets a grittier, more mystical workout in Deepa Mehta’s slow-burning and quietly potentHeaven on Earth.The seventh feature of the Toronto-based director opened ...
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Match Factory closes Swiss, Italy deals on Venice winner Teza
The Match Factory has sold Venice award winner Teza to Switzerland (Trigon) and Italy (Ripley's Film). On Saturday, Haile Gerima's feature won Venice's Special Jury Prize and the Osella for Best Screenplay (also by Gerima). On Friday, it also won the SIGNIS Award special mention and Cinema for UNICEF commendation ...
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Lionsgate UK buys Caine-starrer Harry Brown from HanWay
Lionsgate UK has acquired the distribution rights to Harry Brown, being produced by Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's MARV Films.HanWay Films is selling the project worldwide and handled the Lionsgate deal for MARV.Michael Caine has come on board to play the title role, opposite Emily Mortimer. Gary Young wrote the ...
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Fortissimo strikes Gigantic French deal with La Fabrique De Films.
Fortissimo Films has closed an all-rights French deal for Toronto title Gigantic to La Fabrique De Films.Matt Aselton directed the Killer Films and Epoch Films production, which has its world premiere Monday in Discovery.The surreal love story stars Zooey Deschanel, Paul Dano and John Goodman.Fortissimo EVP of International Sales Nicole ...
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The Works rocks with UK rights to Anvil!
The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Sacha Gervasi's rockumnetary Anvil! The Story Of Anvil.The deal was sealed by the Works UK Distribution's managing director Mick Southworth and director of marketing Laurence Gornall, and CAA's Micah Green and Brian Kavanagh-Jones.The film is about Toronto-based metal band Anvil, ...
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Generator stirs up Ghost Machine in Belfast
New UK genre production outfit Generator Entertainment continues to build its busy slate with principal photography starting yesterday (Friday) on Chris Hartwill's debut feature Ghost Machine.The supernatural thriller stars Sean Faris, Rachael Taylor, Luke Ford and Richard Dormer.Anchor Bay Entertainment has US distribution rights and worldwide sales are being handled ...
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Fichman set for Strategic Partners talk
The 28th Atlantic Film Festival and Strategic Partners co-production market will welcome Passchendaele and Blindness producer Niv Fichman as the special guest at their Academy Luncheon on Sept 14. Fichman is a founding partner of Rhombus Media, and he will be interviewed by Super Channel and former Odeon Films executive ...
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Celluloid kicks off Toronto with busy sales for Venice titles
Celluloid Dreams has closed a number of deals on Venice/Toronto titles Achilles And The Tortoise and Mark Of An Angel, plus a number of key deals on Venice title Birdwatchers.Safy Nebbou's French thriller Mark Of An Angel has sold to the UK (Metrodome), Greece (Odeon), Canada (Seville), and Switzerland (Xenix). ...
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Uberto Pasolini's Machan takes Venice Europa Cinemas Label
Uberto Pasolini's Machan has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival.Pasolini's directorial debut is also playing here in Contemporary World Cinema. It is about a group of poor Sri Lankan men who aspire to attend a handball tournament ...
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Altadena takes on Andrew van den Houten's Offspring
Altadena Films has acquired international rights to director and producer Andrew van den Houten's horror thriller Offspring, which Jack Ketchum adapted from his own best-selling novel. Offspring is the second collaboration between van den Houten and Ketchum after The Girl Next Door, also sold by Altadena (and premiering at Deauville).Offspring ...
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UK minority film-makers join Toronto Talent Lab
The UK film industry has selected Juliet Ellis and Robert Samuels as its two black, Asian or minority ethnic film-makers to participate in Toronto's Talent Lab (Sept 3-6).Samuels is currently developing The Amazing Labours of Arthur Glass with Film4.This marks the second year that UK training body Skillset has partnered ...
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The Works on board for Rachel Ward's feature debut Beautiful Kate
The Works International has taken on world sales for Rachel Ward's Beautiful Kate. Ward's feature directorial debut is based on the novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg.Beautiful Kate is a story of dark family secrets in the Australian outback - told in parallel strands of past and present ...
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Sunshine Barry boogies with Baltics, Benelux, India
Sola Media has sold 3-D animation Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms to more territories including the Baltics (AMCE), Benelux (Independent Films) and India (VMI).Thomas Borch Nielsen's film has its world premiere here in with public screenings starting Sept 7. Sola previously booked sales for 40 countries including Brazil (Imagem), ...
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Plastic City set for new edit after Venice, Toronto screenings
Celluloid Dreams has confirmed that the version of Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City screening here in Toronto Special Presentations is an 'unfinished' version.After the post-production was rushed for the world premiere in Venice, the sales company will work with the film-makers after Toronto to recut the film.Gordon Spragg, Celluloid Dreams' director ...
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CPH:PIX starts $72,000 prize in debut feature competition
Denmark's new April festival, CPH:PIX, will have a competition devoted to first-time feature directors. The directors of 10-12 debut films will compete for a cash prize of $72,090 (Euros 50,000).'A substantial cash prize can make all the difference to a first-time filmmaker, and it is our hope that the money ...
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Viva la republic
Content Republic sounds like a new nation state, but in fact it is a new state of mind about digital distribution.Teun Hilte, who co-founded the company with Michel Peters, explains the concept: "We're licensing films to internet platforms," he says. "For companies like iTunes which have the ambition to work ...