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Tiziana Finzi steps down from Locarno team
Italian-born Tiziana Finzi is to leave her post at the Locarno Film Festival team after nine years citing 'personal reasons.' A graduate in Architecture and History of Cinema at the universities of Venice and Trieste, Finzi joined Locarno in 1999 when she became the chief programmer for the Filmmakers of ...
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Four festival favourites nominated for European Film Award
The directors of Hunger, Snijeg, Tatil Kitabit and Tulpan have been nominated for a European Film award. The European Discovery award is given to a young, upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.Steve McQueen has been nominated for Hunger, which covers the events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike ...
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Wall to Wall CEO to lead media literacy taskforce
Alex Graham, CEO of BAFTA winning production company Wall to Wall, has been appointed the new Chair of the Media Literacy Task Force.The group was set-up by the UK Film Council, Channel 4, the BBC and the BFI to empower the public to be media literate and participate in today's ...
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Ghent boasts 130-strongline-up with major film music events
The 35th Ghent International Film Festival (October 7-18) will screen 131 films from 45 countries.The event will also feature industry events, five major film music concerts and an exhibitions devoted to Harold Lloyd.Ghent begins with a screening ofWoody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona before its official opening night film, Tom McCarthy's ...
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Captain Abu Raed wins inaugural Finnkino Prize
Jordanian film-maker Aman Matalqadebut feature Captain Abu Raed has won the inaugural Finnkino Prize at the Helsinki International Film Festival. Click here to see review.The audience-voted prize- the first to be awarded at what for the last 20 years has been a non-competitive event - includes a Finnish distribution deal ...
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Atom Egoyan to receive Douglas Sirk award
Filmfest Hamburg will honour Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan this weekend with the Douglas Sirk Award.Egoyan will be recognised for his outstanding services to film culture, with WimWenders speaking in praise of the director.The award will be presented following the German premiere of Egoyan's latest feature Adoration.Commenting on the choice of ...
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White Wedding Night is Icelandic submission for Oscar
Comedy White Wedding Nigh, Baltasar Kormákur's fifth feature film, which he scripted, directed and produced, has been submitted as Icelandic Oscar entry Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur's White Wedding Night (Brúdguminn) has been selected by the Icelandic Film and TV Academy as Iceland's official candidate for the Oscar nominations as Best ...
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Rome announces titles for Extra and Eye on the World sidebars
The fifth Rome International Film Festival (RIFF) has announced the titles for two of this year's side bar sections L'Altro Cinema (Extra) and Occhio sul Mondo (Eye on the world).The Altro Cinema line up, curated by Mario Sesti, has ten features and fifteen documentaries. The documentaries will compete for the ...
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Norteadocompletes hat trick at San Sebastian's Films In Progress
Mexican director Rigoberto Perezcano has won all three awards in the Films In Progress section of the San Sebastian film festival for his debut feature Norteado.The Industry award will allow Perezcano to complete post production on the film, in particular to establish a English subtitled 35mm copy. It is supported ...
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Denmark's Nimbus Film on the defensive as jobs are cut
Leading Danish film company Nimbus Film is taking steps to respond to today's tougher financial climate in the film industry. Around a third of Nimbus staff will be cut from the company's Filmbyen offices, according to film magazine EKKO.As former CEO, Jørgen Ramskov, who will in future head up the ...
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NewsOlivier Pere named as Locarno artistic director from 2009
Olivier Père has been named as the next artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, succeeding Frederic Maire, and will take up his post from September 1, 2009.Père has been artistic director of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight since 2004. His replacement will be chosen by France’s Societe des Realisateurs des ...
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The Mermaid is Russian submission for Oscar
Russia has submitted The Mermaid (Rusalka) by Anna Melikyan for nomination for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. It was selected from eight films by the Russian Federation's Oscars National Selection Committee.The Mermaid has already received international recognition, winning the FIPRESCI Prize at the 58th Berlin International ...
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San Sebastian deals for Still Walking and Pandora's Box
Golem Distribucion has acquired the Spanish theatrical rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Still Walking (Aruitemo, Aruitemo). The deal was done with Celluloid Dreams at the San Sebastian film festival. The film had its international premiere at Toronto.Still Walking is a family drama about grown-up siblings returning to their family ...
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High Point takes on Pieter van Hees' debut horror Left Bank
High Point Films has taken on world rights outside of Benelux to Pieter van Hees' debut feature Left Bank.The psychological horror film, in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Wicker Man, is about a young athlete who moves into her new boyfriend's disturbing apartment block.The film showed in Edinburgh, ...
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Two films from Ole Bornedal set for US remakes
Two features from Danish director Ole Bornedal have been sold for US remakes.Mandate Pictures have secured rights to Just Another Love Story and The Substitute. Both films were shown at the Sundance Film Festival.Mandate Pictures will co-produce the remakes with Thura Film's Michael Obel whose work with Ole Bornedal goes ...
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Czechs, Poles name Oscar submissions
The Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) has chosen Petr Zelenka's The Karamazovs as the Czech Republic's submission in the Academy Award contest for Best Foreign Language Film.The film is a Czech-Polish co-production between by Prvni Verejnopravni and Ceska Televize on the Czech Side and Warsaw Pact Filmproduction on the ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina submits Snow to Oscars
Aida Begic's Snow has been chosen by the Association of Film Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovina as its submission for the best foreign language film at the 81st Academy Awards. The film has already won this year's Critics' Week prizeat the Cannes Film Festival. Snow is co-produced by Sarajevo's Mamafilm, ...
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Waltz with Bashir takes six Ophirs at the Israeli Film Academy Awards
As expected, Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir took no less than six Ophirs (Israel's version of the Oscar) at the Israeli Film Academy's annual awards ceremony last night.Folman's animated documentary officially competed as a fiction film and won all the categories it was nominated in including best film, director, script, ...
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Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah enters Oscar race for Italy
Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's Cannes Grand Prix winner, will represent Italy in the Foreign Language Oscar race, the film's producer Domenico Procacci announced during a press conference in Rome today.The film is an original and unglamorous look at the Naples crime organization known as Camorra.'I am particularly happy that the film ...