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Asian Festival of 1st Films unveils nominations
The Asian Festival of 1st Films, a Singapore-based film and documentary festival for first-time filmmakers, has unveiled the nominations for the festival's fourth edition to be held December 4-10. Among nominated films are Indian actress Nandita Das' Firaq, which traces the emotional journeys of ordinary people one month after the ...
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NZ award-winning producers to partner with Bavaria Film
New Zealand producers Rachel Gardner and Philip Smith of Great Southern Film and Television have been crowned New Zealand's Independent Producers of the Year. The duo are developing a slate of eight features with the most advanced being Scott Reynolds' Falling Angels and writer/director Anthony McCarten's Death Of A Superhero, ...
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Sony to release Blu-ray discs in mainland China
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is releasing 30 titles on high-definition Blu-ray discs in the mainland China market, making it the first studio to distribute the new format in the territory. The releases will coincide with Sony Electronic's introduction of the BDP-S350 model Blu-ray player to the Chinese market on ...
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Oz director Alston to expand Brisbane into a trilogy
Australian director Louise Alston is set to make two more low-budget romantic comedies, following her debut film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, which is being released in Denmark through Sunrise Film Distribution. Cameras will roll on January 7 on Jucy, the second of the films, with Alston again directing ...
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Chinese exhibitors predict bumper year-end box office
With more than 16 heavy-weight releases jamming thre three-month period starting Nov 20, Chinese cinema owners are estimating that box office during the year-end season will reach $146m (RMB1bn), which is10% higher than the same season last year. China'syear-end season, which traditionally takes place from late Nov to late Feb, ...
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Red Cliff remains at highest altitude in Japan
John Woo's Red Cliff has held the number one position for the third week in a row at the Japanese box office. The film has now earned a total of $25.87m (Y2.5bn) and surpassed two million admissions in the first sixteen days of its release. It held off Fuji TV-produced ...
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Australian government secures production of Happy Feet 2 in Sydney
Tax assistance secures production of Happy Feet 2 in Sydney through Dr.D, director George Miller's joint venture with Omnilab media. Happy Feet 2 is in production in Sydney, Omnilab Media confirmed today following a statement from the New South Wales (NSW) Government to that effect.The NSW Minister for State Development, ...
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Australian government helps secure production of Happy Feet 2 in Sydney
Tax assistance secures production of Happy Feet 2 in Sydney through Dr.D, director George Miller's joint venture with Omnilab media. Happy Feet 2 is in production in Sydney, Omnilab Media confirmed today following a statement from the New South Wales (NSW) Government to that effect.The NSW Minister for State Development, ...
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Little Deaths wins Australian Spartan Award for digital features
The romantic comedy Little Deaths has won the Spartan Award from a field of 22 feature entries in the annual digital feature initiative run by the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). The award was accepted by Melbourne-based executive producer Jason Byrne on Friday, the last day of the SPAA ...
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GTH horror Coming Soon to Eastern Europe
Thailand's GMM Tai Hub (GTH) has announced a raft of AFM sales led by horror title Coming Soon, directed by Shutter co-scriptwriter Sophon Sakdaphisit, which sold to Mido Films Brno for the Czech Republic, Bir Film for Turkey and Queen Films for Indonesia. After opening Oct 30, the $1.2m film ...
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Interview: Aamir Khan
When the Indian film industry selected Hindi film Stars On Earth (Taare Zameen Par) as its official entry for best foreign film for this year's Academy Awards, it was a triple celebration for Aamir Khan. A Bollywood superstar, Khan has produced, directed and acted in this drama about a dyslexic ...
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In Focus: Australia opens for film business (Part 2)
For the last few years the best Australian films have been personal and dark, limiting audience appeal, while those that have aspired to hit the mainstream have tended to miss the mark at the box office. But there is a palpable sense of excitement about a new crop of films ...
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Men's Group takes best feature at Australia's Inside Film Awards
Men's Group , a little-seen drama about a group of troubled men who meet regularly to talk through their problems, has won best feature at Australia's annual IF (Inside Film) Awards. The producer, John L. Simpson and director Michael Joy, also won the prize for best script, and Grant Dodwell ...
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Korea's UP sells Frozen Flower to Germany and Japan
Korea's United Pictures (UP) has sold director Yu Ha's upcoming period piece A Frozen Flower to Splendid for Germany and the Benelux, and to KNTV for Japan - for a cumulative total of $1.5m at the AFM. The Japan deal was said to have been for more than $1m.Lee Tae ...
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Screen Australia to review what constitutes an experienced producer
Screen Australia has been forced to revisit its plans to strongly favour experienced producers when it hands out development finance. The move is a result of increasing industry dissatisfaction over the agency's definition of experience. As a result, the agency has decided to re-examine that part of its guidelines.Speaking exclusively ...
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SPAA's Ginnane points to opportunities for Australian industry
Antony Ginnane, president of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) delivered an up-beat welcome address at SPAA's annual conference in Queensland, Australia.Despite describing the feature film industry as 'spectacularly unsuccessful' of late and 'the cultural equivalent of ethnic cleansing', Ginnane went on to describe the new producer offset as ...
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Sverak's Bottles picks up top prize at Damascus fest
Czech director Jan Sverak's Returnable Bottles was awarded with Gold in the feature competition of the 16th Damascus International Film Festival (November 1-11) on Tuesday night. French actress Catherine Deneuve attended the Syrian festival to present the award, although she handed it to the local Czech ambassador, as Sverak had ...
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Warlords, My Magic to open India's IFFI Goa fest
Peter Ho-sun Chan's The Warlords and Singaporean director Eric Khoo's My Magic will open this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which is taking place in Goa from Nov 22-Dec 2. The closing film will be Majid Majidi's Berlin Silver Bear winner The Song Of Sparrows.About 5,000 delegates from ...
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Japan's Sabu returns to director's chair with The Crab Cannery Ship
Japanese filmmaker Sabu is returning to the director’s chair after a three-year hiatus with an adaptation of Takiji Kobayashi’s famed literarywork The Crab Cannery Ship (Kanikosen).
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Tulpan wins highest accolade at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Kazakhstan director Sergei Dvortsevoy's debut drama Tulpan continued its run of worldwide accolades by winning the best feature film award at the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) onQueensland'sGold Coast in Australia.Producer Karl Baumgartner, representing the big team of producers on the film, accepted the award.The film tells the charming ...