All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 95
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San Sebastian plans Emigrants retrospective
The 54th SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) will offer a programmedevoted to films about emigrants.Theretrospective will screen about 30 films on the topic in a range of genres andstyles. The classictitles include Louis Malle's Alamo Bay;Elia Kazan's America, America; Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged; Goran Paskaljevic's SomeoneElse's America; Luchino Visconti's RoccoAnd ...
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Rushes Soho Shorts gives top prize to Tom Harper's Cubs
The eighth Rushes SohoShorts Film Festival wrapped in London on Aug 4. The festival's winners were the AscentMedia short film award for Tom Harper's Cubs;the Vue animation award for Run Wrake'sRabbit; the ARRI newcomer award toJonathan Hopkins for Goodbye Mr Snuggles;the Sony Media music video award for TheDenial Twist for ...
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Sarah Goodwin joins UK sales company Independent Film Sales
Sarah Goodwin has joinedLondon-based Independent Film Sales (IFS) as salesand marketing manager.Goodwin previously held a similarpost at Vine International Pictures, where she worked on projects fromdirectors such as Peter Greenaway, Alan Rudolph andTerry Jones. The sales company's slate includesPaul Andrew Williams' London To Brighton, David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe and Marc ...
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Vue to launch Adventure Film Festival
Vue Cinemas is organizing a UK nationwidedigitally projected film festival. The Adventure Film Festival will run Sept11-23 with a five-night programme at 55 Vue Cinemas around the UK. The themed nights will be Endurance, Storm Force, Ocean Adventure, HighAltitude and On-The-Edge. Selected sites will hold a one-day festival combiningfilms from ...
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London's 50th festival to open with Last King Of Scotland
The Times BFI London FilmFestival will open its 50th edition on Oct 18 with the Europeanpremiere of Kevin Macdonald's The LastKing Of Scotland.Based onthe award-winning novel by Giles Foden adapted byPeter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, the film stars Forest Whitaker as UgandanPresident Idi Amin and JamesMcAvoy as a Scottish doctor ...
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Icon launches home entertainment division
UK distributor Icon has created a home entertainment division, which willbe headed by Ian Dawson. Dawsonhad been HMV's head of DVD & related products and he will start at Icon inOctober 2006, reporting to Icon CEO Martin Bigham. "This last year has seen thebuild up of a fantastic slate of ...
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UK's Uli Meyer starts production on $30m MonsterMania!
London-based Uli Meyer Animation has started production on MonsterMania!, a $30m computer-animatedfeature. MichaelMarshall Smith and Stephen Jones wrote the script for the monster comedy/adventure,which is based on an idea by Uli Meyer, Jones andSmith. MonsterMania! has beenin active development for three years. Uli Meyer Animation will co-produce withIndia's Ittina Animation ...
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Wysiwyg plans Oct UK release for Hall's The Plague
UKdistributor Wysiwyg Films, formed by Tom Swanston and Cauri Jaye, has announced several films in its forthcomingrelease slate. The filmsinclude Greg Hall's The Plague, duefor a Digital Screen Network release on Oct 6. The London-set urban drama hasbeen praised by Mike Leigh. Neil Oseman's SoulSearcher, a sci-fi adventure, will be ...
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Online pirate DVD seller busted in London
A pirate DVD seller in Hackney, London,has had her house raided and will be summonsed to appear in court. The raid wasconducted by Hackney Trading Standards and the UK's Federation AgainstCopyright Theft (FACT).The woman, age 55, had beenselling pirate DVDs online. Officers found more than 3500 discs at her house, ...
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Marcus Alexander joins CFX digital intermediates division
Marcus Alexander has been named senior digital intermediate producerfor UKpost-production house Capital FX. He had been working at FramestoreCFC and will take the new post as of mid-September.Alexander will be working closely with CFX'sAdam Inglis, who also joined from Framestore.Alexander previously worked on films including The Queen, The LastKing of ...
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Pusan adds Midnight Passion section
The PusanInternational Film Festival has added a new section called Midnight Passion. Thesection will present a programme of 12 features from variousgenres including horror and comedy.Midnight screenings were held unofficially in 2004 but this year's programme launches officially.The screenings will be held from Oct 13-16 atMegabox Theater in Haewoondae.Three movies ...
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Parker's I Really Hate My Job starts London shoot
DirectorOliver Parker has started shooting comedy I Really Hate My Job in London. Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson,Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin and Oana Pellea star. Thefilm is shooting on location and at Three Mills Studios. Producers are 3DDProductions' Andrew Higgie and Dominic Saville with Matthew Justice and AlanGreenspan. The ...
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Brian De Palma to talk at Edinburgh
The Edinburgh InternationalFilm Festival has added another A-lister to itsscheduled attendees. Brian De Palma will participate in one of the festival'sReel Life Q&A interviews to talk about the legacy of the New AmericanCinema.EIFF is presenting aretrospective devoted to "other voices" of the new American cinema of the1970s.Other Reel Life intervieweesat ...
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Dubai opens submissions for new Arab competition
The Dubai International Film Festival hasopened submissions for its new Arab Film Competition, which is open tofeatures, shorts and documentaries. Eligible films must be made by a director ofArab nationality or origin and have a subject or storyline of centered on theArab world, Arab history or Arab culture."The Competition serves ...
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Rome selects 12 film-makers for production market
The inaugural Rome Film Festhas announced the 12 participants for its New Cinema Network, a co-productionforum along the lines of Rotterdam'sCineMart.The 12 participants, who allhave made their debut feature film already, are:Santiago Amigorena, FranceDave McKean, UKMatthias Luthardt, GermanySantiago Tabernero, Spain Inaki Arteta, Spain Luciano Melchionna, ItalyGiorgio ...
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John Hurt to lead Edinburgh's Powell jury
The Edinburgh International Film Festival(EIFF), which holds its 60th event from Aug 14-27, has announced thejury for this year's Michael Powell Award. Actor John Hurt will chair the jury, whichwill also include Danish director Lone Scherfig,Irish novelist John Banville, Scottish directorMichael Caton-Jones and American-born musicianChrissie Hynde. This year's eligible films ...
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Sony strikes VOD deal with Arts Alliance
Sony Pictures TelevisionInternational and Arts Alliance Media have struck a deal to offer Sony filmsfor rentals online. The video-on-demand (VOD) deal gives AAM the right to digitally distribute 180 of SonyPictures' back catalogue titles, including TaxiDriver and Gandhi, as well as newreleases over the next three years such as Spider-Man3. ...
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Film London continues festival and training funds
Film London has continued new rounds of funding for itsFilm-makers' Festival Fund and Events and Training Providers' Fund. The Film-makers' Festival Fund provides travel supportfor individual film-makers to attend key festivals where their film will playin competition. The fund also contributes towards striking a first film print ordigital master. In ...
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ICA takes UK rights to Eric Steel's The Bridge
DistributorICA Films has taken UK theatrical and DVD rights to The Bridge,while Channel 4 has obtained the UK TV rights. FortissimoFilms is handling sales for the Eric Steel's documentary, which will screen atthe London Film Festival.Thefilm is about the people who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, while ...
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Levy tapped as chairman for Film Business Academy
AlainLevy, Chairman and CEO of EMI Music, has been appointed chairman of the Film Business Academy's advisory board at Cass Business School in London.Levypreviously served as president and CEO of PolyGram during its expansion withPolyGram Filmed Entertainment. TheFilm Business Academy at Cass, supported by Skillset and the UK Film Council, ...