All Comment articles – Page 8
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CommentDubai film festival opens with a bang
This year’s Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) got underway with two lavish parties – the opening at Madinat Jumeirah and the IWC Filmmaker Award gala dinner at the One&Only Royal Mirage on the following night.
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CommentArtful ambition
One of the most inspiring talks at the VFX + Animation Summit Dublin was from Paul Young, one of the founders of Cartoon Saloon.
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CommentThe price of success
At the Screen Film Summit on December 1, one hot debate was about how to drive support for British films at the UK box office.
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CommentThe revolution will be digitised
Fedz creator Q responds to Amma Asante’s Film Summit keynote speech.
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CommentAmma Asante, Screen Film Summit keynote
The director of Belle says the film industry needs to support newcomers beyond just the first movie.
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CommentThe time traveller’s life
Screen editor Wendy Mitchell discusses a movie 12 years in the making.
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CommentCinema is never ‘foreign’
Screen has kicked off our awards season coverage, with a focus on the foreign-language race.
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CommentThree things every documentary-maker needs to remember
Filmmaker Col Spector offers advice including remembering to entertain the audience.
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CommentCinema and the city
Duncan Speakman from production company Circumstance, which creates cinematic experiences in unexpected environments, on the future of cinema in the city.
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CommentMaking a film is a series of problems to solve
Film producer Iain Smith OBE on forging a career in film production and the importance of continuing to develop your skills in the industry
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CommentTIFFCOM talks adaptations
A panel at this week’s TIFFCOM discussed how figuring out who owns the rights to a novel can be a complicated business in Japan.
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CommentWhere have all the writers gone?
Some of India’s leading filmmakers discussed the country’s lack of creative screenwriters during a Mumbai Film Festival panel discussion.
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CommentEvent cinema comes of age
Billy Elliot, André Rieu and Monty Python are leading the charge for the growth of event cinema.
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CommentOppenhemier talks to AND about his docs
Joshua Oppenheimer spoke at Busan’s Asian Network of Documentary (AND) about his Venice Grand Jury prizewinner, The Look Of Silence, and its preceding companion piece The Act Of Killing.
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CommentThailand introduces speed dating to Busan
Thailand’s DITP has introduced a “sanuk” way of getting to know the Thai film industry through speed dating with an added incentive of free drinks.
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CommentAsia Argento discusses her father
The Italian director and former actress talked to a small group of journalists in Busan about her Cannes title Misunderstood, why she no longer wants to act, and the influence of her father, horror director Dario Argento.
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CommentHollywood shaken up by Netflix ambitions
Hollywood has just watched a Netflix horror movie called The Future.
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CommentBig Screen and Second Screen
Joe Evea, commercial director at Digital Cinema Media, considers whether the big screen and second screen can co-exist peacefully and profitably.
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CommentSecret Cinema founder on future of cinema
Secret Cinema founder Fabien Riggall’s speech at the Toronto International Film Festival, in which he revealed details of ‘Secret Space and discussed analog vs digital.
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CommentThe challenges of co-production
Film producer Steven Markovitz on the challenges of co-production, finding the right partners and maintaining independence.