All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 87
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Welsh student festival Ffresh gets backing from new Film Agency for Wales
The Ffresh Student MovingImage Festival, held annually in Aberystwyth, Wales, has received backing fromthe newly established Film Agency for Wales.The agency has set up an $85,840(£45,000) funding package for the festival, which will be held Feb 15-16 at AberystwythArts Centre. The event is now in its sixth year, and it ...
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Vertigo works with funding partner for Northern Star
UK producer Vertigo Films has lined up the first two productions to comeout of its new relationship with Pacific Continental Fund Management's FilmOpportunities Fund. The first project to shootwill be Simon Ellis' Northern Star - A Love Story (workingtitle), a rites-of-passage love story that will shoot in Gateshead, Newcastle starting ...
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UK's HandMade relaunches with Sequence/IAC deal
A team of UK veterans has come together to revive the HandMadeFilms banner as a production and sales company. The new executive team of chairman Patrick Meehan and managing director David Ravdenwill now run HandMade, which was started by George Harrison in the 1970s andcontrols rights to the Eloise franchise ...
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London shoot starts for Leonti's Daylight Robbery
Shooting has started in London on heist movie DaylightRobbery. Director Paris Leonti makes his feature film debut based on hisown screenplay. The film follows a group of England football fans who use the World Cup as a cover for abig bank robbery.The cast features GeoffBell, Leo Gregory, Vas Blackwood, Paul ...
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Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund backs 24 projects
The Hubert Bals Fund of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has granted a total of $444,180(Euros 353,000) to 24 film projects and initiatives from developing countries. Grants for script andproject development went to established film-makers including Paraguay's PazEncina and Romania's Cristian Mungiu. Post-production funding went tofilm-makers including Brazil's Paulo Caldas ...
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The Queen leads BIFAs nominations
Stephen Frears' TheQueen leads thenominations for the ninth British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), nominated inseven categories including Best British Independent Film, Best Director andBest Actress for Helen Mirren. Kevin Macdonald'sThe Last King Of Scotland and Shane Meadows' This Is England each followed with six nominations.Other multiplenominees included Ken Loach's Cannes ...
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Tartan takes UK rights to Broomfield's Ghosts
Tartan Films has taken UKdistribution rights to Nick Broomfield's Ghosts, which has its UK premiere tonight at the LondonFilm Festival after screening at San Sebastian. Ghosts is Broomfield's second fiction feature; he is alsoknown for his documentaries including Kurt And Courtney and Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer. ...
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EFP's Shooting Stars head to Seville
European Film Promotion willbring its touring Shooting Stars programme to Spain's Sevilla Festival de Cine (Nov3-11) for the second year.A group of eight of the 21European Shooting Stars (first presented at the Berlinale) will come to Sevilleto present their film and meet local press and audiences. The participants are:Hungary's Gabriella ...
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Vue plans charity preview for Casino Royale
UKexhibitor Vue Entertainment is organising a charity fundraiser tied to therelease of Casino Royale.Thenew James Bond film will play in previews at 36 Vue cinemas across the UK onNov 15, two days before its general release. More than 12,000 tickets will beavailable for the promotion, which will sell tickets at ...
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European film agencies call for speedy action on digital cinema
Many of Europe's filmagencies have released a joint statement to the European Commission inadvocating the growth of digital cinema in Europe. The national film agenciessaid: 'The directors of Europe's national film agencies (the EFADs) considerthat digital cinema represents a major challenge for the whole of the Europeanfilm industry, especially in ...
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Dodona predicts half of US cinemas will be digital by 2011
Half of US cinemascreens will be Digital Cinema Initiative-compliant by 2011, according to a newreport from industry analysts Dodona Research. "The publication ofthe DCI Digital Cinema Systems specification haskickstarted the transition to digital in the United States," Dodona said. "The cost of digital cinema systemsis falling and leading circuits are ...
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EFA documentary nominees Groening and Hopkins
The European Film Academy hasannounced the nominees for this year's Prix Arte for documentary film. The eight nominees are:37 Uses For A Dead Sheep by BenHopkins (UK)Into Great Silence (Die Grosse Stille)by Philip Groening (Germany)Dreaming By Numbers by Anna Bucchetti(The Netherlands)Grandmother's House (La Casa De MiAbuela) by Adan Aliaga (Spain)Maradona, ...
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UK's AAM adds downloads-to-own from Sony
Following on their VOD deal announced in August, Arts Alliance Media (AAM) and Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) have struck anagreement for downloads-to-own. Starting today, AAM's partner sites LoveFilm and AOL UK will offer UK-only downloads-to-own of select Sony Pictures films.The initial 40 films onoffer include The Da Vinci Code, ...
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Flanders Fest awards top prize to Ten Canoes
The Flanders InternationalFilm Festival closed its 33rd edition with its top award going to Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer and PeterDjigirr. The grand prize for bestfilm came with a $25,116 (Euros 20,000) award to help with distribution costsin Flanders and Brussels. Producer Jan Harlan chairedthe jury, which also included ...
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Fortissimo boards world sales for No Regret
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide sales rights outside Korea to No Regret from DCG+ and Generation Blue Films.New film-maker LeesongHee-Il's film deals with the romance between a male escort and a man from highsociety, played by Lee Han and Lee Young-Hoon.Yoonhee Choi, managingdirector of Korean sales company Film Messenger, on ...
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UK Film Council gives P&A support to Volver
The UK Film Council hasannounced the latest funding recipients from its Prints and Advertising(P&A) Fund. The latest distributors andfilms supported include:$470,500 (£250,000) to Pathefor Pedro Almodovar's Volver $297,363 (£158,000) toOptimum Releasing for Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth$282,367 (£150,000) to Iconfor Michele Placido's Romanzo Criminale$200,254 (£106,380) to UIPfor ...
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EFP again hosts umbrella office at AFM
European Film Promotion isfor the ninth year running an umbrella office for European sales companies atthe American Film Market (Nov 1-8).This year, the EFP office(Loews room 504) will host 16 industry professionals from eight countries. Participating companies are:Austria's EastWest, Belgium's PPA - Walter Ertvelt and Banana Films, the CzechRepublic's Simply ...
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David Lean classics to be restored by 2008
The BFI National Archive andGranada International have announced a new plan to restore and preserve eightclassics by David Lean before 2008, the centenary of his birth.The David Lean Foundationhas funded the initiative, which will preserve In Which We Serve (1942), ThisHappy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit(1945), Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations ...
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ContentFilm on board for Barker's Outpost
ContentFilm Internationalhas acquired worldwide rights to and will co-finance the new action horror filmOutpost.Steve Barker will direct theproject for producers Black Camel Pictures and Matador Pictures. The film, written by RaeBrunton, is set in an unnamed Eastern European country, where battle-wornmercenaries are hired by a mysterious businessmen forhis own special ...
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London's 50th festival opens with Last King Of Scotland
The Times BFI London FilmFestival opened Wednesday night with the European premiere of Kevin Macdonald'sThe Last King OfScotland.Guests at the Odeon Leicester Square included the film's stars Forest Whitaker, JamesMcAvoy, Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson along with director Macdonald, writer Peter Morgan and the novel's author Giles Foden.Other attendees for ...