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Projects by Alvart, Stölzl, Schwochow planned by new Berlin outfit
Berlin-based production outfit Bittersuess Pictures has revealed new feature projects by Christian Alvart, Philipp Stölzl and Christian Schwochow. Oscar-winning producer-director Pepe Danquart established Bittersuess Pictures in 2008 and since then has been developing projects for its first slate. That slate will now include Christian Alvart's next feature Liebe, his first ...
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Rotterdam announces 2009 Competitions line up
Fourteen films have been selected for Rotterdam's VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2009, including eight world premieres. The line-up features first or second films from all five continents competing for three top prizes of $20,500 (Euros 15,000) each. For the first time, films from Turkey, New Zealand and Indonesia are included ...
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More than 90 first-time exhibitors as Berlin's EFM sells out
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) has sold out with 386 companies and organisations from 55 countries booking, including more than 50 first time exhibitors. To date EFM has announced that 309 companies will be in the Martin Gropius Bau building with 77 based in the EFM Marriot offices. Of ...
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Intervision Partners to make Spanish big budget epic
Spanish/US production outfit Intervision Partners is in advanced negotiations with The Weinstein Company to put together a major project billed as the 'Spanish Joan Of Arc'. The film will tell the story of Agustina Raimunda Maria Saragossa Domenech, a famous Spanish heroine who defended her country's independence during the Peninsular ...
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Everlasting Moments tops nominations for Guldbagge awards
Swedish veteran director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments receivedthehighest number of nominations - eight - for the Guldbagge awards, Sweden's national film prize.The film isSweden's official candidate for the Oscar as Best Foreign-Language Feature and has already been nominated for a Golden Globe.Everlasting Moments will compete in the categories for Best ...
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Senator and IM Internationalmedia make management changes
Publicly-listed Senator Entertainment and IM Internationalmedia have announced management shakeouts in the final days of 2008.Senator's COO Legal Affairs, Licences and Human Resources, Christopher Borgmann, has left his position for personal reasons to return to legal practice.The Berlin-based company will now be headed solely by CEO and main shareholder Helge ...
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Tornasol Films bringsbestsellerThursday's Widowsto big screen
Leading Spanish production outfit Tornasol Films will bring Claudia Pineiro's award-winning novel Thursday's Widows (Las Viudas De Los Jueves) to the big screen.Argentinian director Marcelo Pinyero will direct Thursday's Widows, which follows the rather unusual lives of wealthy families living in Altos De La Cascada, a suburb on the outskirts ...
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First Italian tax break receives European Union backing
The initial measures of Italy's first tax incentive law geared to the cinema sector has been approved by the European Union.Thenews announced by Italian Culture Minister Sandro Bondi is a breakthrough for an initiative that has proved ahard sell in Italy and follows more than a decade of lobbying.The law ...
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The Blind Sunflowers dominates nominations for Goyas
Jose Luis Cuerda’s The Blind Sunflowers has picked up 15 nominations for the 23rd Goya awards, more than double the number of any other film.Cuerda’s Franco era drama, which has already been put forward as Spain’s entry for the Oscars, has been nominated for best picture, best director, best adapted ...
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Public funding for Rome Film Festival cut by $2.5m for 2009 edition
The International Rome Film Festival has announced that public funding for its budget will be cut from $8.1 (Euros 5.8 mil) to $5.6 (Euros 4 mil) for the 2009 edition. The cuts come from the festival's founding committee, which has cited the global economic crisis as the reason.Earlier the committee ...
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Göthenberg Film Festival to open and close with local documentaries
Sweden 's Göthenberg International Film Festival will bookend its 32nd edition with two local documentaries: Nahid Persson Sarvestani's The Queen And I and Jesper Ganslandt-Martin Degrell's The Film I Am No Longer Talking About. Göthenberg International Film Festival is the Nordic countries' largest film festival, screening around 450 films to ...
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Sieben's Distance to open Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino
Writer-director Thomas Sieben's feature debut Distance (Distanz) will open the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino - the sidebar dedicated to German films on February 6.Sieben describes the film as 'An existential story of violence and love which simultaneously disturbs and touches through its unconditional nature.'Distance was produced by Berlin-based GrandHotelPictures with ...
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European Film Market launches documentary initiative
The European Documentary Network (EDN) is collaborating with the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) to provide a new initiative for documentary sellers entitled Meet The Docs.Meet The Docs will serve as a connecting platform for all documentary sellers, buyers, and directors offering a meeting place and a general information service ...
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Stelios Ziannis to leave Germany's Kinowelt International
Stelios Ziannis, head of world sales at Germany's Kinowelt International for the past eight years, is leaving the company of his own accord at the end of December.Ziannis will be succeeded by Barbara Knabe, Kinowelt's head of TV sales.Kanbe will have responsibility for cooperation with the world sales and distribution ...
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Gary Yates' High Life from Shoreline gets Panorama slot in Berlin
Gary Yates' heist caper High Life starring Timothy Olyphant and Joe Anderson will get its world premiere in Panorama at the 59th Berlinale, set to run from February 5-15.Robert Cass is producing along with Yates through his Triptych Media. Triptych partner Anna Stratton serves as executive producer with Shoreline Entertainment's ...
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Luhrmann, Jackson to receive legend awards at Capri
Baz Luhrmann and Samuel L Jackson will join Quentin Tarantino to receive the Capri Legend Award at the 13th Capri, Hollywood - Honda International Film Festival.Festival chairman and producer Mark Canton and festival director Pascal Vicedomini made the announcement today [December 18].Luhrmann and Jackson will attend screenings of their latest ...
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Lyes Salem's Masquerades takes top prize in Dubai
The Dubai International Film Festival closed its fifth edition tonight with Lyes Salem's comedy Masquerades taking the top prize for best film in the Muhr Awards for Excellence In Arab Cinema. The French-Algerian production also won the festival's first FIPRESCI prize. Director Salem also stars in the tale of an ...
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France creates new tax rebate system for foreign films
After four years of strategic planning and lobbying, Film France has announced the creation of a new tax rebate system aimed at foreign films shooting in the country. Adopted by the French parliament, the measure will give qualifying foreign productions a 20% rebate on their local spend with a cap ...