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Hunter and Gardner to head Glasgow festival
AllanHunter and Allison Gardner will serve as joint directors of the third GlasgowFilm Festival (Feb 15-25, 2007). The festival'sprogramme of international and Scottish features and documentaries will beannounced in January.Hunter isthe Scottish correspondent for ScreenInternational and ScreenDaily.comand serves as the film critic for TheDaily Express and Scotland On Sunday.Allison Gardneris ...
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Artsworld to upgrade BFI classics to HD
Sky arts channel Artsworld has signed a one-year sponsorship deal with theBritish Film Institute (BFI) to help with the transfer and restoration of 16films to HD quality.The list of films includesJean-Luc Godard's Sympathy for the Devil; Derek Jarman's Caravaggio and Wittgenstein; Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract, A Zed And TwoNoughts, ...
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Abdulhamid Juma takes new post in Dubai
Dubai Technology and MediaFree Zone Authority (DTMFZA) has appointed Abdulhamid Juma as deputy director general.As part of his role, Juma willsupervise overall management of the Dubai International Film Festival. He isone of the festival's founders. From 2002-2005, he was CEO of Dubai Media City.The 2006 Dubai International FilmFestival will run ...
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Birds Eye View to host documentary festival
The UK's Birds Eye View Film Festival, dedicated to womenfilm-makers, is presenting the third part of this year'sfestival with a documentary programme at London's ICA from Sept 15-17.The documentary festival includesthe UK premieres of AbbyEpstein's Until TheViolence Stops, Heather Lyn MacDonald's BeenRich All My Life, and Shelley Saywell's Martyr ...
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Richard Laxton starts shoot for The Allotment
Warp Films and Art in Action have started shooting a comedywith the working title of The Allotment.Richard Laxton, who recentlycompleted Life & Lyrics, willdirect from a script by Frank Cottrell Boyce with Carl Hunter. The Allotment follows a refugee familytrying to fit into the community of their gardening allotment. The ...
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Europa Cinemas names jury for Venice Days prize
Europa Cinemas has announced the jury for its Europa Cinemas Label award in Venice (Aug 30-Sept 9). The jury of four exhibitors willjudge the best European film in the Venice Days programme.The jurors will be MariannePiquet from Le Rex in Chatenay-Malabry, France; Ted Chiaradia from Luxin Nijmegen, Netherlands; Kalle Somnitzwho ...
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Billi Productions plans to expand CGI short into feature
BilliProductions and Glasgow Animation are seeking to turn their animated short filmSir Billi into a full-lengthfeature.Theproducers expect they need to raise $5.6m (£3m) to get the CGI feature made in12 months. BilliProductions is a company owned by husband and wife team Sascha and TessaHartmann and Sean Connery, who has signed ...
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Really Terrible Orchestra takes EIFF short doc prize
TheEdinburgh International Film Festival has given its short Scottish documentaryaward to Edward Brooke-Hitching for The Really Terrible Orchestra.Brooke-Hitchingalso gets $1880 (£1000) with the honours. Thejury members for this year's prize were film-maker Laura Poitras, AllisonGardner from the Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival, and MoragAnderson and James Anderson of ...
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London shoot to start for horror film Credo
Alto Films starts principal photography next week on itsfirst feature, Credo.The supernatural horror film is shooting in London's WestEnd. Toni Harman is directing, with a cast including Myanna Buring (TheDescent), ClaytonWatson (The Matrixtrilogy), and singer Stephen Gately from Boyzone.The plot follows a group of theology students in London whosummon a ...
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Steven Leighton moves to Fox Home Entertainment UK
Steven Leightonhas been named UK managing director for Twentieth CenturyFox Home Entertainment. He replaces John Stanley, who as ScreenDaily.comreported yesterday, is leaving Fox to join Warner Bros UK.He has been withFox Home Entertainment since 2004 as managing director of Australia. Previously he was CEO of the HawthornFootball Club in Melbourne ...
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Pusan to give filmmaker of the year prize to Andy Lau
The Pusan International FilmFestival has announced that Andy Lau will receive this year's Asian Filmmakerof the Year award. The festival said it applauded "Lau's dedication ofsearching for Asian filmmaking talents and promoting Asian cinema as a producerand actor'During the past two decades, Lau has proven himself as one of thecelebrities ...
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CJ moves into English fare with Kang's West 32nd
Koreanstudio CJ Entertainment is set to shoot its first English-language feature, West 32nd. MichaelKang, who previously directed Sundance selection The Motel, will direct from a script he co-wrote with Edmund Lee. TeddyZee (Hitch, Saving Face) will produce. JohnCho, who has appeared in American Pie and Harold &Kumar Go To White ...
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John Stanley leaves Fox for Warner UK
John Stanley is leaving hispost at Twentieth Century Fox UK to become managing director of Warner HomeVideo UK. He replaces Neil McEwan,who departed Warner Bros. a few weeks ago. Since 1999, Stanley had been MD ofTwentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment in the UK.Joshua Berger, executive VPand MD of Warner Bros ...
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Sheffield Documentary Festival plans new pitching programme
The Sheffield International Documentary Festival has created a newpitching programme, The MeetMarket,to be launched at this year's festival (Oct 30-Nov 5).The Documentary Filmmakers Group is presenting and coordinating the new programme. Selected documentary ideas will be presented inone-minute pitch trailers made available online to buyers before the festival.They will select ...
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Martial arts feature Underground starts UK shoot
Park Entertainmentand Intense Productions have started principal photography on announce thatprincipal photography on Underground.The action featureis set in the UK suburbs, where anunderground tournament pits a dozen fighters against each other. The cast includesmartial arts expert Mark Strange, kickboxing champion Nathan Lewis and stuntveteran Leon Sua. Chee Keong Cheung is ...
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Edinburgh starts new Diamond Awards
TheEdinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which opens tonight with theworld premiere of Douglas Mackinnon's The Flying Scotsman, is introducing a newset of awards at its 60th anniversary event. The new Diamond Awardswill "acknowledge excellence in cinema in celebration with the spirit of EIFF."Theinaugural recipients are actors Sigourney Weaver and TildaSwinton, ...
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Screen West Midlands starts talent awards
Screen West Midlands is launching new awards to recognise and promote theregional screen media industry.The media talent awards willbe offered in three categories: new filmmaker, excellence in development andoutstanding achievement. "Screen WM is proud to haveworked with the industry for the last five years and recognise the importanceof celebrating the ...
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Metrodome launches children's DVD label
UK-based distributor Metrodome's home entertainment division has launched a new labelfor children's entertainment. The budget label MiniMetro will focus on distributing children's films andTV programmes to UK retailers. The label launches inSeptember, following on a separate launch of another home entertainment label,In2Film. That division will seek to exploit library titles ...
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Peep Show team to shoot feature Magicians
The team behind the UK TV hit Peep Show is gearing up to shoot its first feature, Magicians, which will start principalphotography in the UK on Aug 20. The comedy is about a double act of magicians whofall out and become rivals years later. It will shoot on location ...
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FilmFour backs Irish comedy Garage
FilmFour is on board for Irish film-makers LennyAbrahamson and Mark O'Halloran's follow-up to theiraward-winning comedy Adam & Paul.O'Halloran wrote and Abrahmsonwill direct Garage, about asmall-town misfit. The new film will star Pat Shorttand Anne Marie Duff. The project willshoot for six weeks starting Aug 14 in Ireland. The filmmakerswill again ...