All Europe articles – Page 602
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Thessaloniki selects 10 projects for Balkan Script Development Fund
Dimitris Eipides, the new director of the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival-TIFF (December 3-12) has decided to go ahead with the Balkan Script Development Fund, one of the most eagerly awaited industry related strands of the event.
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Berlinale market extends birthday discount offer for second year for 'early birds'
The Berlin International Film Festival is retaining the € 100 discount on its market badges, which was introduced as a 60th birthday present last year, as an offer for “early birds” for a limited period.
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NewsJaume Collet Serra sets up LA-based Ombra Films
Barcelona born director Jaume Collet Serra who has made a name for himself in the US is setting up a new production company in LA called Ombra Films, which will tie relations between Hollywood and Spain.
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale takes top prizes at Sitges
Finnish director Jalmari Helander’s horror/thriller Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale has picked up the best film and director prizes in the main official competition at Sitges genre film festival today (Saturday), sweeping aside strong competition from local and Asian titles.
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NewsTrustNordisk strikes Beyond deals including NFP in Germany
TrustNordisk has just closed a slew of deals on Pernilla August’s Beyond, starring Noomi Rapace of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo fame.
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Swedish Film Institute grants funding to 13 films
The Swedish Film Institute has granted $4m (SEK 26,290,000) in production funding for 13 films.
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Swedish fairy tale wins Power to The Pixel Pitch Award
Sweden’s Helene Granqvist of Good World and Hanna Sköld of Tangram Film won the Pixel Pitch Award at the Power to the Pixel Cross-Media Forum for their project Granny’s Dancing on the Table.
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Hot projects on Screenbase this week
Among the array of new films on Screenbase are French-Belgian-Spanish co-production Les Chants De Mandrin, UK film Resistance, Italy’s Se Sei Così, Ti Dico Sì, as well as Germany’s Die Vermissten
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Shoreline handling sales on first German indie 3D
Shoreline Entertainment is handling worldwide sale rights on German English language thriller The Forbidden Girl, currently shooting in and around Jena and Berlin, Germany.
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NewsGerman sales agent Beta Cinema takes on Toronto surprise hit Viva Riva! from the Congo
German sales agent Beta Cinema has picked up writer-director Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s feature debut Viva Riva! and signed its first deals with the US, UK and Australia/New Zealand.
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IMAX pacts with CinemaxX in Germany
IMAX and German multiplex operator CinemaxX AG today announced an agreement to install a digital IMAX theatre in Bremen, Northern Germany, in November 2010.
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NewsScreen Film Summit: StudioCanal's Courson says production, distribution need tight bond
Speaking at the 2010 Screen Film Summit in London, Olivier Courson, CEO of StudioCanal, said the company’s main focus going forward would be on the production of new French and UK productions (via its UK subsidiary Optimum).
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Three Musketeers is sixth international production at Studio Babelsberg in 2010
Berlin’s shooting frenzy continues with Paul W.S. Anderson 3D project.
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NewsScreen to present LFF masterclass with Olivier Assayas
French writer-director Olivier Assayas will be in conversation with Screen critic Jonathan Romney at the London Film Festival on Oct 24 at 5 pm at NFT1.
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IDFA adds environmental doc category
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Nov 17-28) has added a new programme for Green Screen Documentary.
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NewsKasander, F&ME announce pact including $17.5m initial slate
Kees Kasander’s Dutch production company Kasander Film has signed a long-term, multi-film production deal with Sam Taylor and Mike Downey’s London-based Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME).
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NewsGerman zombie film Rammbock sold to US, Japan and other territories
Sales to distributors in the US, Japan, Poland and Romania are among the deals signed by the Vienna-based EastWest Filmdistribution for Marven Kren’s zombie film Rammbock which had its international premiere on the Piazza Grande in Locarno in August.
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Norwegian fund to back non-Western films
Backed by the Norwegian Foreign and Culture Ministries, Films from the South (Film fra Sør) – Oslo’s international film festival, which has since 1991 presented an annual programme of 100 features and documentaries from Asia, Africa and Latin America – has set up a fund to support film production in ...
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NewsMaoz, Antoniak among EFA Discovery nominees
Samuel Maoz, Florin Serban, Giuseppe Capotondi, Feo Aladag and Urszula Antoniak nominated for EFA’s European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI.
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NewsMade in Dagenham, Treacle Jr win in Dinard
The big winners at the Dinard British Film Festival this weekend were Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham and Jamie Thraves’ Treacle Jr.