All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 97
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Hannah McGill tapped for Edinburgh post
The Edinburgh International Film Festival(EIFF) has appointed Hannah McGill as its new artistic director. She replacesShane Danielsen, who will step down after nextmonth's festival as his five-year tenure comes to its scheduled end. McGill starts her post on Sept 1. She hasbeen working with EIFF since 2001 as a programme ...
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India, UK start short documentary scheme
Eight Indian film-makers will be given the chance to create athree-minute documentary film under the new Independence In3 Minutes scheme. The shorts programme is timed to the 60thanniversary of India'sindependence from the UK.Indian film-makers are invited to pitch proposals for a shortdocumentary about Indian independence and what it means to ...
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UK's Cinesite lands work on The Golden Compass
UK post-production company Cinesite has been struck a major deal for visual effectswork on New Line's forthcoming The GoldenCompass. TheGolden Compass is New Line's first in a planned trilogy based on PhillipPullman's His Dark Materials books.Chris Weitz will direct the story of a young girl whotravels through parallel universes. TheUK ...
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Artificial Eye buys three more post-Cannes
UK distributor Artificial Eye has announced several further acquisitionson the back of Cannes.The deals are for Douglas Gordon and Philippe Pareno's Zidane: A 21stCentury Portrait, Sydney Pollack's Sketchesof Frank Gehry and CorneliuPorumboiu's Camera d'Orwinner 12:08: East of Bucharest. Artificial Eye plans aSeptember 29 release for the Zidane documentary, andthe other ...
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Lenny Crooks to take over UK's New Cinema Fund
TheUK Film Council has appointed Lenny Crooks as the new head of the New CinemaFund, effective Sept 18. His initial contract is for a two-year term, with theoption to extend by a further two years. Crookswill replace Paul Trijbits, whose six-year tenurewith the fund ends in September as expected. Crooks ...
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UK exhibitor Vue offers chapter with Stormbreaker tickets
Vue Cinemas is working with UK distributor Entertainmentin a special promotion for the forthcoming release of Stormbreaker. Vue will give away a free copy of a bonus chapterof Stormbreakerwith every ticket to the film. The chapter, entitled RTI, is written byAnthony Horowitz, and "uncovers more secrets in the world of ...
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Poland's Era New Horizons to open with Volver
Thesixth Era New Horizons Film Festival (July 20-30) will open with Pedro Almodovar's Volver. The festival, based in Wroclaw, Poland, will close with Ken Loach's The Wind ThatShakes The Barley.Amongthe 18 features in competition are: Lukas Moodysson's Container, Julia Loktev's DayNight Day Night, ShinyaTsukamoto's Vital, Bruno Dumont's Flanders, Abderrahmane Sissako's ...
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New Cinema Fund backs Roeg's Puffball
The UK Film Council's NewCinema Fund has given funding to two film-makers at very different stages intheir careers: 78-year-old Don't Look Now veteranNicolas Roeg and first-time feature director PaulAndrew Williams. The fund, which aims tosupport "unique ideas, innovative approaches and new voices," awarded $1.2m (£664,214)of National Lottery funding to Roeg's ...
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Internet doc Loose Change eyes theatrical run
US film-makers Dylan Avery and Korey Roweof Louder Than Words have released a new version of their film Loose Change, a documentary that alleges the US government lied about the events of 9/11, as Loose Change 2 following a surge of interest in the project afteran article in the August ...
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Anand Tucker set to shoot new project for Number 9 and FilmFour
Number 9 Films and FilmFour have planned an autumn shoot for Anand Tucker's And When Did You LastSee Your Father' Tucker's schedule is free this autumn as he's no longer atthe helm of New Line's The GoldenCompass. Starter For Ten author David Nicholls adapted the Father screenplay from Blake Morrison'sbestseller. ...
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New Britdoc festival names 20 features in competition
Britdoc, a new international feature documentary festivalbeing launched by the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, hasannounced the 20 films in its two feature competition sections. The British competition willfeature Ben Hopkins' 37 Uses for a DeadSheep, Rex Bloomstein's KZ, Marc & Nick Francis' BlackGold, Stevan Riley's Blue Blood, Xiaolu ...
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Six South African writers win development competition
The UK Film Council'sDevelopment Fund and South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation's "25Words Or Less" competition has named its first six recipients of funding.The four South Africanprojects will each receive $18,504 (£10,000) in funding to develop a first draftof their project. Each will be helped by a script editor ...
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Fintage House to open Toronto office
Entertainment companyFintage House has announced an expansion of NorthAmerican operations. Maarten Melchior will transfer from Fintage's Netherlands-based headquarters to open an officein Toronto that will coordinate Fintage'sfilm and TV activity in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. The office will also work with Fintage's music activity. Fintage's US representativePaul Rogers ...
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UK's digital network shows 50th film
Digitalfilm services company Arts AllianceMedia has announced that Momentum Pictures' District13, opening in the UK today, is the 50th feature they have beendigitally encrypted and shown on the UK Film Council's Digital Screen Network. TheDSN is Europe's largest 2K digital cinema network. The networkcurrently includes 56 screens, with a total ...
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Belgium's Kinepolis to digitise entire network
Belgian exhibitor Kinepolis is planning the first full nationwide digital conversion of a theatre network in Europe. Its 130 cinemas will be fitted with digital Barco projectors through a new deal Kinepolis struck with Thomson's Technicolor Digital Cinema. Technicolor will install the Barco 2K projectors, with about half of the ...
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Beyond Films promotes Stephen Kelliher
Beyond Films haspromoted Stephen Kelliher to director of sales &marketing, effective immediately. Kelliher had mostrecently served as Sales Executive forterritories including Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.He will continueto report to Hilary Davis, Beyond's head of sales andacquisitions. "After nineyears with the company, we feel it only fitting that ...
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Films Sans Frontieres to remake The Blue Angel
Films Sans Frontieres has acquired thecinematographic estate of Robert Liebmann, whichincluding remake rights of The Blue Angeldirected by Josef von Sternberg.Films Sans Frontieres said it is currently amodern update of The Blue Angel. Theoriginal 1931 Weimar cinema classic starredMarlene Dietrich asa nightclub singer who tempts a repressed professor. Screenwriter Liebmann ...
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BBC Films to collaborate with TV's comedy arm
As it aims to diversify its feature filmslate, BBC Films is working together with BBC Comedy's team of writers andproducer to develop comedic feature films. The announcement was made by DavidThompson, head of BBC Film and Kenton Allen, creative head of BBC Comedy Talentand Comedy North. BBC's head of comedy ...
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Tartan gets UK rights to Rankin and Cottam's Saints
Distributor Tartan Films has acquired UKand Irelandrights to The Lives OfThe Saints, directed by photographer and publisher Rankin and Chris Cottam. The debut will have its world premiere in competitionat the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival next month. The original screenplay is by Tony Grisoni,who previously wrote Fear And Loathing ...
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Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m
The board of Eurimages has decided to support 12 features in its latest funding round, marking a total amount of $5.4m (Euros 4.2m). The coproductions supported are:35 Rhums, dir. Claire Denis (France, Germany, Belgium) Capri 1934, dir. Benoit Jacquot (France, Germany) Elsa, dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland) Fur einen Augenblick, ...