All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 98
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NewsPeril leads Scottish Bafta nominees
Other film nominees include The Wee Man and Fire In The Night.
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NewsUK Jewish fest opens with Jewish Cardinal
UK Jewish Film Festival kicks off its 17th edition tonight; 53 UK premieres presented.
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NewsVenice confirms 2014 dates
The Venice Film Festival has confirmed its 2014 dates as August 27 to September 6.
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NewsTrustNordisk boards On The Edge
Christian E. Christiansen’s car racing drama produced by Zentropa.
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NewsSFFS/Hearst grant goes to Alistair Banks Griffin
Snow The Jones looks at a girl who discovers the dark world of door-to-door sales crews.
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NewsBeyond The Edge breaks NZ record
Beyond the Edge has scored the highest grossing opening weekend for any documentary in New Zealand.
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Newsdcinex adds Ukraine office
Digital cinema operations company dcinex has announced it will open dcinex Ukraine LLC.
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FeaturesSherief Elkatsha, Cairo Drive
Cairo Drive, which has its world premiere in Abu Dhabi’s Documentary Competition tonight, shows an intimate portrait of Cairo’s 20 million inhabitants — inside its 14 million vehicles.
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FeaturesKhalid Laith talks Djinn
Bahrain-born, London-based actor Khalid Laith stars in Tobe Hooper’s Djinn, the UAE-set horror film which had its world premiere in Abu Dhabi this week.
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FeaturesHanne Myren talks Love Me
After making several award-winning documentaries, Norwegian director Hanne Myren makes her fictional debut with Love Me (Elsk meg).
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NewsMiddle East needs to grow infrastructure
Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s locations panel also talks about importance of international shoots for training local crews.
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NewsAmritraj predicts Arab film boom
In a talk at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Hyde Park Entertainment CEO Ashok Amritraj talks about growing global opportunities and also laments the lack of talent nurturing at US studios and agencies.
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NewsADFF opens with Forest Whitaker award
Life of Crime, co-produced by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, is presented as opening-night gala for festival’s seventh edition.
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NewsSalbi encourages voices of young Arab women
Zainab Salbi, the founder of Women for Women International and Nida’a Network, talked about the important role of women in the Middle East, at the closing day of the fourth Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
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NewsHuffman, Garber join Big Game cast
First image released of stars Samuel L Jackson and Onni Tommila.
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NewsUK TV to allow Super 16 for HD
Responding to industry demand, new standards have been accepted so that UK broadcasters can now accept programmes in the Super 16mm format for broadcast on HD channels.
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NewsMedia should disrupt education industry
Abu Dhabi Media Summit panellists say that interactivity and empowerment are key to online learning.