All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 91
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Dinard competitors include London To Brighton
The Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard has announced the six competition titles for thisyear's 17th festival (Oct 5-8).The competitorsare Yousef Ali Khan's Almost Adult, Sean Ellis' Cashback, Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood, Paul Andrew Williams' London To Brighton, Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint and Niall Heery's Small Engine Repair. Those titles willcompete for ...
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Philippe Cardon promoted at Warner Home Video
Philippe Cardon, Warner Home Video executive vice president and general manager forEurope Middle East and Africa, has been promoted to Warner Home Video president, international.Cardon, in the newly created post, will have responsibilityfor all Warner Home Video titles outside the US, except Canada. The heads of the regional offices for ...
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Universal strikes VOD deal for UK Freeview customers
Universal Pictures and Top Up TV are working together to launch PictureBox,a video-on-demand subscription service in the UK. The PictureBoxservice, owned by Universal, will launch this autumn on Top UpTV's new Anytime service (available to customers of Freeviewin the UK). PictureBox will feature current and library feature filmssuch as The ...
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British Film Commissioner Norris to join Framestore
Visual effects company Framestore Ltd has appointed Steve Norris as managingdirector of its film interests. Norris will join Framestorein late November after leaving the post he has held for the past nine years, asBritish Film Commissioner with the UK Film Council.In that role, he had beenresponsible for bringing international productions, ...
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Skillset backs new low-budget training from Film London
Skillset has awarded $166,100(£88,509) to Film London for its new Microwave Training Programme.The training scheme, with a total budget of $255,183(£136,000), is part of Film London's new Microwave scheme for low-budgetfeature production. The Microwave scheme got 71 applications and hasshortlisted 11 projects to attend the Microschool, a three day programmeof ...
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Orange on board for Northern Lights production prize
The Northern Lights FilmFestival has announced that Orangeis now sponsoring the North Star Short Film Award, the largest film productionprize in the UK. The award is open to UK film-makers and the winner will be assistedprofessional and financially to shoot a short film of any genre with a budgetof up ...
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New Manchester festival commissions film by Greg Hall
The Manchester InternationalFestival has commissioned director Greg Hall and composer Steve Martland to create a new feature film that will premiere atthe inaugural festival in 2007. Greg Hall's feature debut The Plague, a low-budget urban dramachampioned by Mike Leigh, will be released in UK cinemas on Oct 6. Martland'smusic has ...
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Susanne Bier to direct UK shoot for The Duchess
Director Susanne Bier willdirect period love story The Duchessfor Qwerty Films and MagnoliaMae Films. The project will shoot onlocation in the UK in early 2007 after Bier completes work on her current project, Dreamworks' Things WeLost InThe Fire, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro.The Duchess is based onAmanda Foreman's ...
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Revolver and Shooting People team for Destricted short competition
Revolver Entertainment andShooting People are hosting a short film competition tied to Revolver's releaseof Destricted,a compilation of films with sexy themes. Larry Clark will judge theentries, which will be shorts under five minutes madeby emerging film-makers that "challenge the boundaries between art and porn." Clark's own 38-minute Impaled isincluded on ...
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Pinewood in partnership to fund Shepperton development
UK studio company Pinewood Shepperton has announced plans to enter into a joint venture with Morley Fund Management to form a partnership that will further develop Shepperton Studio. Pinewood had previously announced plans for the expansion and growth at both Pinewood and Shepperton, and this new partnership will enable the ...
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...while Metrodome nabs UK rights to Away From Her
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights foractor-turned-director Sarah Polley's feature directorial debut, Away From Her, which premiered this weekat the Toronto International Film Festival.Metrodome plans a spring 2007 release. This news follows on Lionsgate's deal for US rights. Away From Her stars Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsetin the story ...
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London Film Festival to close with Inarritu's Babel
The Times BFI London FilmFestival (LFF) has announced the 181 features and 131 shorts programmed for its50th-anniversary event. As previously announced, the festival willopen Oct 18 with Kevin Macdonald's TheLast King Of Scotland. It will close Nov 2 with Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu's Babel starring Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt and Gael ...
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Vernon promoted to marketing head at Metrodome
UK distributor Metrodomehas promoted Jezz Vernon to Head of Marketing. Hereplaces Tom Grievson, who is leaving Metrodome to join Warner Bros. as Marketing Manager. Vernon joined Metrodome in 2005 from RevolverEntertainment. He had been Marketing Manager at music publication NME. He willnow oversee marketing for theatrical and DVD campaigns. Metrodome ...
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Transmedia strikes UK deal for A Few Days In September
New UK distributor Transmedia hasacquired all UK rights to A Few Days In September (Quelques Jours En Septembre). The film, written anddirected by Santiago Amigorena, stars Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Nick Nolte, Sara Forestierand Tom Riley.A Few Days In September is a thriller set in Paris and Venice in 2001, ...
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European Film Academy to honour Polanski
The European Film Academywill give this year's lifetime achievement award to film-maker Roman Polanski. Polanski,who has been an actor, writer director and producer, will receive the honour atthe European Film Awards on Dec 2 in Warsaw.The director himself grew up in Poland. TheAcademy cited Polanski's "impressive contribution tothe world of ...
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AAM signs Newman deals for four more cinemas
UK-based film distributionservices company Arts Alliance Media (AAM), has signed deals to provide its Newman cinema management system tofour new cinemas. The Renoir, Chelsea Cinemaand Richmond Filmhouse (all part of the Curzon group) and the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley willall use the Newman solution, which manages businesses including booking, ...
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European Film Awards picks longlist of 49 films
The European Film Academy has announced the 49 European films on the selectionlist for the 2006 European Film Awards. EFA members in 20countries have voted one national film into the selection list, and then theEFA board and experts add further films to the list. The Academy's 1700members will select films ...
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Arts Council, Film Council launch Single Shot programme
The Arts Council England and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund have launched Single Shot, a multi-platform touringprogramme of moving image projects. Single Shot will commission film and video projects - based on theconcept of a single unedited shot - by established artists and new talents.Also the Arts Council ...
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Transmedia gets UK rights to Our Fathers and The Run
New UK distributor Transmedia hasadded two more films to its slate: OurFathers and The Run. Dan Curtis' Our Fathers, about sex abuse scandals inthe Catholic Church, stars Ted Danson, ChristopherPlummer, Daniel Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn and Brian Dennehy.Tania Meneguzzi's The Run, abouta young London couple drawn into the world of drug ...
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Encounters to host Ken Russell and Frank Cottrell Boyce
The UK short film festival Encounters (now incorporatingprevious events Brief Encounters and Animated Encounters) will run as anexpanded six-day festival from Nov 21-26 in Bristol.More than 300 new shortfilms will screen from 30 countries. High-profile guests to the 12th festival atBristol's Watershed will include director Ken Russell,screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, ...