All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 93
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EFA announces 12 nominees for audience awards
The European Film Academy hasopened votes for its People's Choice Award, which allows audiences across Europe to votefor their favourite film. Nominees for this year's People's Choice Award are:Adam'sApples by Anders Thomas JensenTheElementary Particles by Oskar RoehlerThe Childby Jean-Pierre & Luc DardenneMerryChristmas by Christian CarionThe MarchOf The Penguins by Luc ...
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Oliver Stone recruited for BAFTA's David Lean Lecture
BAFTAhas announced that Oliver Stone will deliver its David Lean Lecture on Sept 6 atAcademy headquarters in Piccadilly, London.DavidParfitt, chairman of Bafta'sfilm committee, will introduce Stone, who will deliver the lecture and thendiscuss his past work and forthcoming film WorldTrade Center with critic Mark Kermode. 'OliverStone is that rare thing ...
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Bostock named to new post as sales director of ITN Source
ITN Source, formerly ITN Archive, has expanded with the appointment of David Bostockto the new position of sales director.Bostock will be responsible for building, developing andmanaging ITN Source's sales operation, overseeing the UK team from the London headquarters. He previously managed the UK sales operation for AdLinkInternet Media.ITN Source recently ...
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Aardman launching mobile channel with Orange
Aardman Animations, producers of hits including Wallace & Gromit, is launching itsown mobile channel on the Orange TV service.The Aardman Animations channelwill run a video loop of content which will be refreshed weekly. The channelwill include Aardman's own work plus otherinternational animated content. The mobile content will be created in-house ...
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Arts Alliance strikes VOD deal with Icon
Arts Alliance Media hassigned a three-year deal with Icon Film Distribution for UK downloads-to-rent.The video-on-demand dealwill make the Icon films available through LoveFilmand AOL UK, which is powered by LoveFilm.AAM will have rights to select new and catalogue titles fromIcon, including Match Point, Rock School, Dogville, The Notorious BettiePage and ...
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One Eyed Films boards production of new Marins film
The UK-based company OneEyed Films, which specialises in Latin American films, has come on board as oneof the producers of Embodiment Of Evil, a horror film to be directed by Brazilian cultfigure Jose Mojica Marins,who has made more than 40 films. The other producers are Olhosde Cao, Gullane Filmes and ...
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Greenaway to start Nightwatching shoot next week
Peter Greenaway'sNightwatching,about Rembrandt's most famous painting, will start shooting in location in Poland and Wales from Sept 4. Martin Freeman, known forhis roles in The Office and The Hitchhiker's Guide ToThe Galaxy, will play Rembrandt, and the supporting cast includesEva Birthistle, Jodhi May,Emily Holmes and Natalie Press. The film follows ...
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Rockets Redglare! documentary film-maker dies
Film-makerLuis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, died Aug 14 after amotorcycle accident in New York State.Hedirected the 2003 documentary Rockets Redglare!, which featuredinterviews with actor, comedian and downtown New York icon Redglare himself (aka Michael Morra) as well aswith collaborators including Jim Jarmusch, MattDillon, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe. The ...
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European Film Promotion continues Toronto initiatives
European Film Promotion,supported from the European Union's MEDIA Programme, will for the second yearoversee the Film Sales Support initiative at the Toronto International FilmFestival.At Toronto (Sept 7-16), EFP will be part of the expandedEuropean group at the Festival's Sales and Industry Office in the Sutton PlaceHotel. The Film Sales Supportinitiative ...
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London's Frieze Art Fair comissions five short films
The annual London-based FriezeArt Fair's Frieze Projects will this year include commissioned films from Dutchartist Manon de Boer, Mexican artist Miguel Calderon,London-based Bonnie Camplin,Glasgow-based Phil Collins and Thai film-maker ApichatpongWeerasethakul. The Artists Cinema,presented in partnership with LUX, willscreen the films as before they tour UK cinemas to show before features. ...
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UK Post announces more Conch nominees
Industrygroup UK Post has announced the remaining shortlists for its inaugural audioawards The Conch. Judges areDavid Brady of Soho Editors, Delissa Needham ofUnicorn, Nick Godwin of WAGtv, Paul Mac of AudioMedia Magazine, Ray Gillan of Warner Bros, John Andrews of InstituteBroadcast Sound, Ben Nemes of Scrub, Jules MacDonald,Neil Draper of ...
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Gale Force 10 to premiere on eve of Flanders festival
Gale Force 10, the new Flemish film by Hans Herbots, willhave its world premiere on October 6 on the eve of the Flanders InternationalFilm Festival in Ghent.Gale Force 10 is the official opening film of the Festival Previews section. The festivalwill also host an official competition opening on Oct 11, ...
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Dubai announces hefty prizes with new Arab competition
The Dubai International Film Festival has announcedthat its new Muhr Awards For Excellence In Arab Cinema will carry prize moneyof $325,000 (AED 1.2m).The Muhr awards, whose name means young horse inArabic, will honour film-makers in feature, documentary and short categories. The top prize for best feature will come with $50,000(AED ...
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World's Fastest Indian sweeps New Zealand awards
The World's Fastest Indian drove away with sevenprizes at the 2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards. RogerDonaldson's film stars Anthony Hopkins as the motorcycle legend Burt Munro.They won awards for best director and actor respectively, while the film tookbest picture, editing, sound, production design and screenplay (also byDonaldson).ChrisGraham's Sione's Wedding, ...
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New outfit Diffusion takes UK rights to Mutual Appreciation
New UK distributor Diffusion Pictures hasacquired all UK rights to director Andrew Bujalski's first two films, Mutual Appreciation and FunnyHa Ha. Diffusion struckthe deal with US-based Goodbye Cruel Releasing and FilmFour/Channel4 International at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where Mutual Appreciation is playing.The films havealso been sold to New Star ...
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Oli Harbottle joins UK distributor Dogwoof
UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has expanded itsteam with the appointment of Oli Harbottleas release co-ordinator. Harbottle previously spent several years producing the Raindance Film Festival.Dogwoof managing director Andy Whittaker said the company was 'delighted that Oli has joined the DogwoofPictures team, ...
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Von Sychowski joins London's Deluxe Laboratories
Patrickvon Sychowski has joined Deluxe Laboratories in London as director of digital business development.Hehad been of director of business development at Unique Digital Ltd., and priorto that was a senior analyst at Screen Digest.VonSychowski will complete the creation of DeluxeDigital Cinema's London office, liaise with distributors and exhibitors, createnew business ...
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Saari's Kasting wins horror short competition
Aloysha Saari'sKasting haswon the Zone Horror CUT! short film competition.London-based Aloysha wins $9460 (£5000) and gets aspecial screening Aug 26 with nine other CUT! finalists at the Zone Horror FrightFest. The two-minute film's budget was only £100. It stars Monica Bertei as an actress auditioning for a part that could ...
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Harness wins UK Film Council's 25 Words Or Less scheme
Writer Peter Harness and hispitch The Bone Family has won the"Director's Cut" competition for the UK Film CouncilDevelopment Fund's 25 Words Or Less scheme. Harness is now working with Intermission director John Crowley todevelop the script, about a man cursed with freezing the women he falls in lovewith.Other 25 Words ...
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New competition launched for UK screenwriters
A new script competition hasbeen launched for emerging young UK writers. The Make Your Mark in Film With CobraVision is connected to EnterpriseInsight's Make Your Mark programme and Cobra Beer's short film competition CobraVision.The winner, working with ascript of the theme of "having an idea and making it happen" will ...