All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 84
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2006 BAFTA award winners
Best FilmBrokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana/James Schamus)Alexander Korda Award For Best British FilmWallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Peter Lord/David Sproxton/Nick Park/ Steve Box/Mark Burton/Bob Baker)Carl Foreman Award For First Film Joe Wright (Director,Pride & Prejudice)David Lean Award For Best DirectorBrokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)Best Original ScreenplayCrash (Paul Haggis/Bobby ...
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Aurum strikes three-year deal with Yari Film Group
Yari Film Groupand Momentum Pictures' Spanish distribution arm Aurum have signed an exclusivethree-year output deal. The deal wasannounced by Yari Film Group CCO David Glasser and Xavier Marchand, managing directorof Momentum Europe.Aurum will acquirefull distribution rights throughout Spain for films produced and/or acquired byYari Film Group over the next three ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Mehta's Water
Metrodome Distribution hastaken UK rights to Deepa Mehta's Water, the final project in the director's Element trilogy thatalso included 1996's Fire and 1998's Earth. Metrodome plans a June 2007 release.The deal was negotiatedbetween sales agent Celluloid Dreams, producer David Hamilton and executiveproducer Doug Mankoff with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general ...
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Dogwoof takes UK rights to Tough Enough
Dogwoof Pictures has taken UK rights to Detlev Buck's Tough Enough (Knallhart). The German feature is abouta 15-year-old boy (David Kross) who moves from the posh suburbs into a rough Berlin neighborhood, where he finds himself in over hishead with the criminal underworld. The deal was struck at AFMwith sales ...
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iDream finds buyers for Dalai Lama documentary at AFM
New London-based sales companyiDream Independent Pictures has wrapped up its first deals after the recentAmerican Film Market. The company had a lineup of fourprojects at the AFM: Kaushikagupta Ray's five-part Dalai Lama documentaryseries On Life AndEnlightenment, Antara Bharadwaj's thriller Telling Lies, ManishGupta's drama Karma Confessions And Holiand Pankaj Advani's surreal ...
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Central Partnership closes string of AFM deals
Russia's Central Partnership has announced a series of deals done at therecent AFM. Nikolai Lebedev's fantasy Wolfhound was pre-sold to Focus Filmesin Brazil, Indo-Overseas in India, Mediapro in Romania in addition to nearingdeals for the US, Western Europe and Japan. Central Partnership said it wouldscreen the full film at Berlin'sEuropean ...
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Bafta sets 2007 awards for February 11
The awards are sponsored for the tenth year in a row by mobile phone company Orange. BBC One will broadcast the event in the UK. In 2006, the awards were broadcast to 231 international territories.
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Cronenberg starts London shoot for Eastern Promises
Production startsin London this week on David Cronenberg's thriller Eastern Promises, starring ViggoMortensen and Naomi Watts.The KudosPictures and Serendipity Point Films co-production will be distributed in the US and internationally by Focus Features,while Alliance Atlantis will distribute in Canada. Steven Knightwrote the script about a ruthless man involved in organised ...
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Raoul Ruiz taps Damian Lewis for Love And Virtue
Raoul Ruiz's period epic Love And Virtue has lined up a stronginterernational cast including Damian Lewis, Virginie Ledoyen, John Malkovich,Peter O'Toole, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Leonor Varela, Vincent Perez, DarylHannah, Michael Madsen, Melvil Poupaud, Anna Massey, Cristian de la Fuente MaxRyan, Alexa Rey and Boo Boo Stewart.Lewis plays the hero,Orlando, ...
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Dubai to open third festival with Bobby
The Dubai InternationalFilm Festival (DIFF) has selected Emilio Estevez's Bobby for its opening night gala on Dec 10. The film followsthe lives of 22 people on the night of Robert Kennedy's 1968 assassination. Theensemble cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Christian Slater,Lawrence Fishburne, Joshua Jackson and Lindsay Lohan.The festival willoffer ...
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London To Brighton wins at Seagate Foyle festival
The 19th Seagate Foyle FilmFestival wrapped yesterday in Northern Ireland after 10 days of screenings and other activities withthe presentation of its Stella Artois Film Awards. Paul Andrew Williams' London To Brightoncontinued its winning streak by capturing the best feature film prize. Bestdocumentary was The Real Dirt On Farmer John ...
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London to host fifth Discovering Latin America Film Festival
The fifth Discovering LatinAmerica Film Festival will run in London from Nov 23 to Dec 3. The programme includes 40features, documentaries and shorts from 10 countries across Latin America. Features include Forbidden to Forbid (Proibido Proibir) by Brazil's Jorge Duran, Habana Blues by Cuba's Benito Zambranoand Sacred Family (La Sagrada ...
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Chalet to step down as CEO of Carlton Screen Advertising
Debbie Chalet has announcedthat she will step down as CEO of Carlton Screen Advertising at the end of theyear.Chalet had been part of theacquisition team at Carlton TV when it became Carlton Screen Advertising in1996 and she was named sales director. She has served as CEO since 2000 and hadalso ...
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UK's Italian Film Festival runs through Dec 4 in six cities
The 13th edition of theItalian Film Festival UK, in association with Fiat and the Italian CulturalInstitues in Edinburgh and London, is running in six UK cities through Dec 4. Seven cinemas in Edinburgh, Glasgow,London, Manchester,Aberdeen and Dundee will host the event, which has been moved from itspast dates in April. ...
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Leeds honours I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes
The 20th Leeds InternationalFilm Festival (Nov 2-12) has awarded its jury prize, the Golden Owl, to Belgiandirector Guillaume Malandrin's I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes. A special mention went to Mohamed Al Daradji's Ahlaam. In the Louis Le Prince shortfilm competition, Oliver Klein's Bhai Bhai took top honours with ...
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BAFTA launches public short competition
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) has launched a new short film competition,60 Seconds of Fame, in association with Orange and supported by BBC Nations and Regions and the UK's regional screen agencies.Anyone over 16 is open tosubmit a 60-second short on the theme "celebrate," to honour ...
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MGM picks up Mackinnon's The Flying Scotsman
MGM has acquired worldwide rights, excluding selectterritories, to Douglas Mackinnon's TheFlying Scotsman.Jonny Lee Miller stars inthe true story of Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, who battled mental illness andbroke world records after designing his own bicycle.The film world premiered asthe opening film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and recentlyscreened at ...
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Sundance selects Chicago 10 to open 2007 festival
The world premiere of BrettMorgen's Chicago 10 will be the opening film at the 2007 Sundance FilmFestival.Morgen, who previouslyco-directed 2002 Sundance favourite TheKid Stays In The Picture, wrote and directed this"innovative" documentary combining storytelling, archival footage, interviewsand animation about the 1968 anti-war protests at the Democratic NationalConvention in Chicago and ...
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UK Film Council P&A Fund backs films including London To Brighton and The Host
The UK Film Council hasannounced the latest recipients of awards from its P&A Fund, which supportsdistribution of niche films. The awards are: $169,968 (£90,000) to VervePictures for Andrea Arnold's Red Road$169,968 (£90,000) to OptimumReleasing for Joon-ho Bong's The Host$117,059 (£62,000) to ArtificialEye for Denis Dercourt's The Page Turner$75,521 ...
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UK's All Industry Marketing hires Grace Carley
The UK industry coalition All Industry Marketing(AIM) has appointed Grace Carley as managingdirector. Carley had beendirector of marketing for the Irish Film Board before running her own London and Los-Angeles based companies,including sales company Stranger Than Fiction, andworking for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. AIM members include Film ...