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Northern Lights summit to host Refn talk and pitching session
The Northern Lights FilmFestival's 2006 industry summit will run Nov 17-18 in Newcastle Upon Tyne's Tyneside Cinema.Highlights of the industryprogramme will include a talk about the ups and downs of the business fromdirector Nicolas Winding Refn, who will also screen his film The Gambler. Other panels will offerpitching advice, explore ...
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New Wales film agency taps staffers
The newly created FilmAgency for Wales has announced its initial staffing.Pauline Burt will head theagency as chief executive, as previously reported, and she will be joined byBritt Harrison as head of talent and Anneli Jones as talent developmentexecutive. Burt previously worked at London's Mansfield Associates, the Royal Bank of Scotland ...
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London Film Festival ramps up industry plans
TheTimes BFI London Film Festival, celebrating its 50th event, has launchedseveral new industry initiatives. Whilethe festival is primarily consumer-focused, several UK deals were struck last yearfor films including Man Push Cart, QuoVadis Baby' and Heading South.Thefestival will host a Meet The Buyer session on Oct 24.Industryscreenings, backed by Film London, ...
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Grierson nominees include Unknown White Male
The 2006 GriersonAwards, The British Documentary Awards, have announced this year's nominees.Most of thenominees are for TV documentaries but the UK Film Council sponsors a cinemadocumentary category. The four nominees in that category are Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest GuysIn The Room, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Road To ...
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Brooks starts Definitely, Maybe for Working Title
Working Title Films and Universal Pictures will start principalphotography this week in New York City forromantic comedy Definitely, Maybe. Thefilm stars Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Derek Luke, Isla Fisher, ElizabethBanks and Abigail Breslin.Adam Brooks, who previously wrote Wimbledon and co-wrote Bridget Jones: The Edge OfReason, wrote and will direct the ...
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Robbie Williams hosts short-film competition
Singer Robbie Williams is workingwith film-makers community Shooting People to encourage emerging film-makers tomake short films to complement his new album Rudebox. Responding to a wide brief,film-makers submitted a variety of treatments using as much or as little fromthe album tracks as they wanted. Williams himself selected and green-lit theseven ...
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Benton and Jeffrey to head new Ingenious Securities
Media infestment group Ingenious has appointed Robert Bentonand Richard Jeffrey as chief executive and head of securities, respectively, ofIngenious Securities. Both had worked at Bridgewell Securities.The new business will launch in 2007 to provide research onthe media sector. The pair have worked closely withIngenious during recent fundraising and the ...
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Vue's Tim Richards gets entrepreneur award
Vue Entertainment chief executiveTim Richards has been named Ernst & Young's UK Entrepreneur Of The Year. Richards left the US exhibition business to found Vue in 1998. The companynow runs 53 cinemas across the UK. "Tim left a successfulcareer to take on the industry giants. He has turned his industry's ...
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EFA announces nominees for European Discovery award
TheEuropean Film Academy has announced the fourfilms nominated in its European Discovery category, recognising a director'sfirst full-length feature film. The nominees are Gela Babluani's 13 Tzameti from France/Georgia; Slawomir Fabicki's Retrieval (ZOdzysku) from Poland; MatthiasLuthardt's Pingpong from Germany; and AgnesKocsis' Fresh Air (Friss Levego) fromHungary. Thenominees were decided by a ...
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Resfest to kick off world tour in Chicago
Travelling digital arts andfilm festival Resfest will kick off in Chicago on Oct 19 before travelling to a total of 45 cities onsix continents. The festival, now in its 10th year, has announced dates for citiesincluding Paris (Oct 20-22), Rome (Nov 3-5), Singapore (Nov 10-12), London (Nov 14-19), Montreal (Nov ...
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Raindance honours The Wind and London To Brighton
The 14th Raindance FilmFestival closed its 12-day event in London with Eduado Mignogna's The Wind, an Argentine family drama, taking its top jury prize.The festival closed with ascreening of Ed Blum's UK feature Scenes Of A SexualNature. Paul Andrew Williamscontinued his winning streak for London To Brighton by claiming Raindance's ...
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Black Book takes best feature and director at Dutch awards
Black Book (Zwartboek) was the big winner as The Dutch Cinema Awards, theGolden Calves, were presented during the Dutch Film Gala at the close of the 26thNetherlands Film Festival. Black Bookwon best feature film, Paul Verhoeven won best director while Carice van Houtenwon best actress. The jury said of Verhoeven:"The ...
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Rai takes on sales for two Rome titles
Ahead of the Rome Film Fest,Rai Trade has taken on worldwide rights to Eugenio Cappuccio's One Out Of Two and Guiseppe Gagliardi's The True Legend Of Tony Vilar. One Out Of Two, a Rai Cinema/ITC production screening in Rome's Premiere section, is about a sickly lawyer whomakes surprising decisions after ...
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Dinard awards top prize to London To Brighton
London To Brighton won the Hitchcock d'Or, or grand jury prize, of the17th Festival Du Film Britannique in Dinard, France. PaulAndrew Williams' debut feature, a gritty thriller, previously screening in Edinburgh and Toronto. The Dinard prize comes with $3780 (Euros 3000)toward distribution and a $1890 (Euros 1,500) prize tothe director. ...
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New Welsh Film Agency sets up headquarters in Cardiff Bay
Thenewly established Film Agency for Wales has announced that its headquarterswill be based in Cardiff Bay. The new Welsh filmagency will be based at 33-35 West Bute Street alongside other organisationssuch as Creative Business Wales, Skillset, Cyfle, the Welsh Music Foundation,NESTA and Griff Films. TheFilm Agency for Wales employs five ...
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UK-French co-productions face testing times
The new UK film tax credit may hamper thedevelopment of some co-productions but shouldn't stop UK and French producers from workingtogether. That was the message reiterated at the Franco-British co-productionmeeting hosted at this weekend's film festival in the French seaside town of Dinard.The conferencechair, producer Nik Powell of the National ...
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Raindance to host Sean Lennon's Friendly Fire
Sean Lennon will present his"conceptual feature" Friendly Fire atthe 14th Raindance Film Festival in London. The screening - previously asurprise -- will be held Saturday Oct 7 at 3:45at London's Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue. Lennon will present Friendly Fire and then participate in a Q&A after the screening.The film is tied ...
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Metrodome raises $3.8m for new company strategy
The UK's Metrodome Distribution has announced that it hasraised $3.8m (£2m) by way of a placing and the conversion of a loan from parentcompany TV-Loonland.As discussed in recentweeks, the company's new CEO Peter Urie is implementing a new growth strategyfor Metrodome. The new approach is a shift from the high-risk ...
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Pathe UK Distribution recruits Woodward from Icon
Pathe hasappointed David Woodward as sales director, UK Distribution. He takes up his new post late 2006 afterleaving his current job as head of sales at Icon Film Distribution. In the Patherole, he replaces Neil Marshall who is departing Pathe after six years to becomedirector of sales for Warner Bros ...
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Ray Winstone and Tilda Swinton back the BIFAs
Actors Ray Winstone andTilda Swinton have become patrons of The British Independent Film Awards.The other patrons already onboard for the Awards include Mike Figgis, Adrian Lester, Ken Loach, SamanthaMorton, Michael Winterbottom and Meera Syal.The BIFAs are now in theirninth year, honouring independent films that are majority financed by UK companies. ...