All articles by Chris Evans – Page 24
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San Sebastian's Films In Progress champions Gasolina
In San Sebastian 's Films In Progress section, Guatemalan youth drama Gasolina by Julio Hernandez Cordon has won three of the five awards, including the top industry prize. Films in Progress provides completion funding for projects from rising Latin American talents hoping to make a name for themselves on the ...
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San Sebastian sales heat up as FiGa takes US rights to Eyes
Los Angeles-based distributor FiGa Films has bought US and Canadian rights to the Argentinian prison drama Through Her Own Eyes (Por Sus Propios Ojos), a world premiere in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastian film festival, according to the film's producer Paula Grandio. Produced by Mandragora Producciones, director ...
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Recycle and Salt Of This Sea win Cinema in Motion awards
Now in its third year, San Sebastian's Cinema in Motion programme has selected Mahmoud Al Massad's Recycle, an insightful documentary that exposes the economic and political instability of Jordan, and Anne Marie Jacir's moving portrait of Palestine, Salt Of This Sea, as this year's winners. The award helps film-makers from ...
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Wild Bunch closes a slew of deals on Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame
The screening of Hana Makhmalbaf's French-Iranian drama Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame in official competition at San Sebastian has sparked a flurry of international sales. Wild Bunch has secured sales of Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's first feature to the UK (Slingshot), Spain (Wanda), Canada (Crystal), Portugal (Lusomundo), Benelux (Imagine), Switzerland ...
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Latido secures more sales for Saura's Fados
Spanish sales outfit Latido Films has sold Carlos Saura's film Fados to countries across North, Central and South America. The musical drama, co-produced by Spain's Zebra Producciones and Portugal's Fado Filmes, has been sold to Canada (K Films Amerique), Mexico and Central America (Latino Vision), Venezuela (Amazonia). Deals were also ...
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Cancun festival plans international film market for 2008
The new Cancun Riviera Maya International Film Festival is planning to expand next year to include an international market.The event debuts on Nov 5, opening with Mexican film Nonna's Trip and including titles from the US, Canada, Spain, Iceland, Germany, Italy and Latin America. But there are already plans for ...
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Strategic Partners projects include Indigenes writer's debut
At the recent Strategic Partners co-production market in Canada, producers revealed a number of new projects currently in the works. In total almost 200 industry figures from the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the UK were given the chance to pitch their projects to fellow ...
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Spain - Place at the top table
Gracia Querejeta was born in Madrid into a film family. Her father, Elias, has produced more than 40 films and has taken an active role in supporting Gracia's own film career, including her latest work, Seven Billiards Tables, which makes its world premiere at San Sebastian this week.Querejeta is no ...
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United Kingdom - Looking to the Future
UK outfit Future Films was created in 2000 to help producers put together financial packages for their films. That remit was soon expanded to include working as co-producers, and now the company is looking to be involved at every stage of a film's progress from development to international sales."I'm trying ...
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Festival - Latin lovers
With its beautiful horseshoe bay, old-town tapas bars and laid-back Basque atmosphere, San Sebastian is a popular industry stop-off on the festival circuit. Despite the increasingly busy autumn calendar, the 54-year-old event is this year expecting more than 1,700 delegates, plus a further 1,500 press and a smattering of international ...
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Spain - Dangerous minds
Julio Medem is back with his first film in four years, Chaotic Ana, which is screening at San Sebastian this week. Charlotte Rampling (speaking Spanish) and newcomer Manuela Velles star in the film, which ventures into the troubled, psychotic world of a young woman named Ana.Following its world premiere at ...
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Festival - Building up a buyers' market
While San Sebastian director Mikel Olaciregui admits it can be difficult to attract major US buyers so soon after Toronto, the festival remains a busy sales event, with almost 100 international buyers scheduled to attend in 2007. These include Lionsgate, HBO, Warner Bros, DeA Planeta and Rezo Films."San Sebastian is ...
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Cronenberg reveals further plans for The Fly opera
More than 20 years after directing Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, Cronenberg has decided to make an operatic version of the classic horror.'I've never directed an opera before and thought it might be quite fun,' Cronenberg tells ScreenDaily.com. The director is in San Sebastian to promote his latest film Eastern ...
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Nova Scotia boosts tax credit for producers
Tax relief on local labour costs for productions shooting in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has been increased from 35% to 50%, it was announced at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. Nova Scotia premier Rodney MacDonald announced the rise at the opening gala screening of Roger Spottiswoode's Shake ...
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2929 Productions take to The Road
Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Productions is set to shoot The Road at the beginning of 2008 with John Hillcoat (The Proposition) on board to direct. Scriptwriter Joe Penhall (Enduring Love) will adapt Cormac McCarthy's novel about a father who tries to get his son to safety in a ...
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Spain - Investigating women's lives
It was a role in Ken Loach's 1995 Spanish Civil War film Land And Freedom that inspired Iciar Bollain to become a director. With a CV of local productions under her belt, Bollain impressed Loach at auditions for the film, so much so that he created a part for her."Ken ...
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Marketing - Brand marketing - learning the hard sell
In India, the sight of Bollywood stars on posters or television promoting the biggest brands is an everyday occurrence. But despite their popularity now across the globe, it seems their brand appeal has yet to take off."We have a lot of brands tying up with the films and actors in ...
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San Sebastian adds four new titles to line-up
San Sebastian has added two new Spanish titles, Angel Amigo's anti-facist documentary El Ano De Todos Los Demonios and Antonio Mercero's moving film Y Tu Quien Eres about alzheimers victims to the Zabaltegi Specials and Horizontes Latinos sections, respectively. Lasse Hallstrom's The Hoax, starring Richard Gere, and Han Jae-rim's Korean ...
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Marketing - Bollywood spreads the net
Bollywood's global reach has expanded rapidly in recent years with the development of solid theatrical markets across disparate territories. This expansion, combined with a range of demographics that now includes non-Indian audiences, means that international Bollywood and Indian film marketers need to be on the cutting edge.'The trend is now ...
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UK government backs fight against piracy
Margaret Hodge, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism, met with senior figures from all sectors of the film industry in London yesterday to discuss how to tackle the growing problem of piracy. Speaking at the event, held at BAFTA and titled Stop Film And Video Theft, Hodge said: 'Last ...