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Norway backs Reprise in Oscar race
Norway has submitted Joachim Trier's feature debut, Reprise, for consideration in the foreign-language Oscar race. "We have great confidence inthis year's candidate - it is unusual, poetic and exciting, and gets to theaudience from the very first moment" said chairman of the selection committee, JanErik Holst of the Norwegian Film ...
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UK Film Council delegation headed to Pusan
The UK Film Council isworking with UK Trade and Investment to bring a delegation from the UK film industry from Oct 12-20 to Korea to attend the Pusan International Film Festival,Pusan Promotion Plan and Asian Film Market.The UK companies represented are Capitol Films, CelsiusEntertainment, Hanway Films, High Point Films, Independent ...
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Cornwall recruits agency for film and TV push
South West Screen andCornwall Film have appoined Cornish company Location Solutions South West tomarket the region to film and TV production companies. Location Solutions willmarket the UK's western-most county overthe next six months to national and international film and TV productioncompanies. The region has previouslyhosted TV series including Nighty Night ...
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Wild Bunch takes on Death Of A President
WildBunch has taken on sales for Toronto buzz title Death Of APresident by Gabriel Range.BeforeWild Bunch came on board, deals had already been struck for Newmarket for the US;Maple for Canada; the Indie Circle cooperative (representing A-Flm, Lucky Red,Haut Et Court, Frenetic Films and Cineart) for France, Italy, Switzerland andBenelux; ...
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Luxembourg has Oscar hopes for Justine
As Monday's submissiondeadline looms, yet another film has entered the foreign-language Oscar race. Luxembourg's National Selection Commission for the Oscars has putforward Your Name Is Justine (Ton Nom est Justine) for potential Oscar nomination. The Luxembourg-Polish film isdirected by Franco de Pena. The film has garnered prizes in Montreal, Poznanand ...
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Sony strikes VOD deal with Telecom Italia
Following on a similar UK deal with Arts Alliance Media, Sony PicturesTelevision International has struck a video-on-demand agreement with TelecomItalia.Telecom Italia will offer Sonyfilms on its Alice Home TV internet service and its ASDL portal Rosso Alice. The VOD offerings will include recent releases and catalogue titles. Some ofthe films ...
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Pieter Jan Brugge recruited for Netherlands talk
Producer/director Pieter JanBrugge will be the new guest of honour at this year's Binger - Screen International Interview at theNetherlands Film Festival on Friday. Jasmila Zbanic, who won Berlin's Golden Bear for Grbavica, had to cancel her plans to attend on doctors' orders. Dutch-born Brugge has workedin Hollywood on The ...
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LoveFilm sets up German operation
LoveFilmis continuing its European expansion. The online DVD rental company,headquartered in London, haslaunched LoveFilm Deutschland in Germany. Inestablishing the German business, LoveFilm has struck a strategic partnershipwith postal and logistics company Deutsche Post WorldNet Group.For thisinitial launch, LoveFilm will provide the website, customer and marketing supportand project management to run ...
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Imax taps Peter Eiff as GM for EMEA
Imax Corp. has appointed PeterEiff to general manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Eiffwill relocate from Los Angeles to Berlin before the end of 2006. Eiff joins Imax from consultingfirm International Film Finance Services. He has previously worked atLucasfilm, Paramount, New Regency Productions and Buena VistaInternational. 'Peter's thoroughunderstanding ...
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Sheffield DocFest to open with Paul Weller film
The 13th SheffieldInternational Documentary Festival has announced some programme highlights forthis year's festival, which runs Oct 30-Nov 5. The programme of93 films (including nine world premieres) will open with a gala screening of Paul Weller: IntoTomorrow.Other highlightsincluded Kim Flitcroft's FuckingSheffield, about the lives of several people in the city's dark ...
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Hungary submits White Palms for Oscar race
Hungary has selected Szabolcs Hajdu's WhitePalms (Feher Tenyer) as its official entry for the foreign-languagecategory of the Academy Awards. The film stars GheorgheDinica, Zoltan Miklos Hajdu and Kyle Shewfelt in the story of a Hungariangymnast, sidelined by injury, who returns home to coach a young Canadian.Hajdu's third feature (whichhe also ...
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Inaugural Conch winners include Boom and De Lane Lea
UK Post& Services held its inaugural Conch Awards in London tonightto recognise the audio industry.The best UK soundfacility award was shared by Boom and De Lane Lea.The bestfilm soundtrack winners were Kinky Boots andWallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were Rabbit."We arethrilled by the success of tonight's awards and for ...
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Cinematography legend Sven Nykvist dies in Sweden
Swedishfilm-maker Sven Nykvist, a legendary cinematographer who worked on many IngmarBergman classics, died Wednesday in Stockholm. He was 83 and being treated fora form of dementia. The Stockholm International Film Festival announced that its forthcoming 17th event would be dedicated to Nykvist.Nykvistwon two Oscars, for Bergman's 1973 Cries And Whispers ...
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Gomes, Bier and Kaurismaki films added to Oscar longlist
Several more territorieshave come forward with their submissions for best foreign-language Oscar. Brazil's entry for consideration is Marcelo Gomes' debut Movies, Aspirin and Vultures (Cinema, aspirinas e urubus), while Finland's is Aki Kaurismaki's Lights In The Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot) and Denmark's is SusanneBier's After The Wedding (Efter Brylluppet). Movies, Aspirin ...
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Newcastle plans fourth Northern Lights festival
The fourth Northern LightsFilm Festival (Nov 16-23), which is held in Newcastle and surrounding towns and celebrates Nordic andBaltic film, will host more than 80 screenings.The festival will show filmsfrom 12 Northern European countries as well as retrospectives and specialscreenings, workshops, and more. The festival's third andexpanded Industry Summit will ...
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North West Vision plans October conference in Liverpool
Regional screen agency NorthWest Vision will host a free conference in Liverpool for film-makers in the Northwest of England. The Film Focus conference,at Liverpool's FACT on Oct12, will look at the opportunities and challenges for feature film-makers inthe region. Panelists will include film-makers Carl Hunter, Juliet Mckeown, andJohn Maxwell; Steve ...
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Metrodome's wider losses in line with expectations
UK distributor Metrodome reportedfinancial results for the first half of 2006, with pretax losses widening to $840,337(£445,000) against a loss of $389,010 (£206,000) last year. Turnover fell 11% from$3.13m (£1.66m) to $2.79 (£1.48m) year-on-year. The loss was in line with expectations duringthe period the company described as a time of ...
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Skillset awards $188,800 to Slingshot's digital training
Slingshot, the new UK-based digitalfilm production and distribution company, has won a$188,804 (£100,000) grant from Skillset for its new development scheme forwriters, directors and producers. Slingshot's "Training andDevelopment into Greenlight" is a programme devoted to digital film-making andthe Slingshot model of production, with an eye to developing projects as partof ...
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Peter Smith to head NBC Universal International
Peter Smith has been promoted to president of NBC UniversalInternational. He had been president of Universal Pictures International sinceits inception in 2000. His new appointment is effective immediately, although he will continueto look after Universal Pictures through the end of the year while areplacement is appointed. Smith will continue ...
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Rome's Extra programme to include Cobain documentary
RomeFilmFest has announcedsome of the films selected for its Extra section, which presents innovativeworks across formats and genres. The Extra programme willinclude fictional features, animations, documentaries, filmed concerts,innovative TV works, a tribute to the Tribeca FilmFestival in New York, andspecial events and workshops. Films will include AJSchnack's Kurt Cobain ...