All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 220
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NewsHot Docs top winners are A Film Unfinished, The Name of the Family
In all, the Toronto-based documentary festival gave 10 awards with more than $72,000 in cash prizes.
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CommentPartying Stones style?
It could have been up there with the most spectacular Cannes parties ever — but alas, there will not be any festival visitors engaging in drunken revelry at the famed Villa Nellcote in Villefranche-sur-Mer.That’s the famed mansion where The Rolling Stones holed up as tax exiles in 1972, where they ...
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NewsLiam Gallagher plans Beatles film with Revolution
Oasis frontman’s In 1 Productions working with Revolution to adapt Richard DiLello’s The Longest Cocktail Party, about the rise and fall of Apple Corps.
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Canada's Greenberg Fund backs new projects by Natali, Skogland
Astral Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund has announced the latest round of funding for 24 projects in its Script Development Program for Canadian feature scripts.
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DMK plans June shoot for UK feature The Veteran
The story is about a young soldier who returns from Afghanistan and becomes involved with surveillance of suspected terrorists in the UK.
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NewsNew UK distributor launches to concentrate on Italian films
Chris Johnson’s VITA strikes a multi-film deal with Fandango.
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Stockholm festival to give Visionary Award to Gus Van Sant
He will attend the November festival to receive the award, and he’ll also meet with audiences and host a masterclass.
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WIDE takes on Black Diamond
Pascale Lamche’s French-Belgium production is about young African footballers.
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FeaturesGoldcrest’s Adam Kulick and Penny Wolf
Goldcrest Capital’s Adam Kulick talks about the company’s success with US slate deals and its new focus on backing UK indies; new head of sales Penny Wolf talks about why producers can benefit from Goldcrest’s one-stop shop.
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FeaturesWays To Live Forever
UK-Spain production Ways To Live Forever, aims to be a life-affirming and funny story…about two kids with leukemia. The film is now in post with an eye on Toronto.
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First gay award planned for Cannes
Similar to Berlin’s Teddy Award, an independent group is establishing the Queer Palm.
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NewsCentral Partnership to handle international sales on Konchalovsky’s The Nutcracker in 3D
The $90m epic will be launched on 1000 screens in Russia in December.
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NewsReliance MediaWorks plans industry open house in Cannes
Reliance MediaWorks Ltd., the services company of the Reliance ADA group, will be in Cannes to host an open house each day for the industry.
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NewsLorianne Hall joins Scanbox acquisitions team
Hall, an industry veteran in Europe and the US, is based in London and will be attending Cannes for the company.
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Cannes Cinema de la Plage to show The 2 Escobars, Women Are Heroes
Lineup announced for nightly public outdoor screenings in Cannes.
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NewsNew Aruba festival to honour Bernardo Bertolucci
The festival runs June 4-11 and Bertolucci will attend for a special tribute and an on-stage conversation.
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Odeon & UCI signs on Universal for digital rollout
Chain will be 100% digital on its 800 screens by end of 2012.
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NewsBavaria takes on world sales for Black Butterflies
Paula van der Oest is directing the English-language romantic epic about South African poet Ingrid Jonker (played by Carice van Houten).
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NewsTimeless to handle sales on Wickie's 3-D sequel
Rat Pack Filmproduktion and Constantin Film are producing the sequel to the 2009 hit.
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IDFA plans programmes in China
IDFA (The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) will present a documentary program in Shanghai in May.