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All Features articles – Page 502
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Festival - Second Life
Launching a major new competitive festival in a crowded calendar was never going to be easy. At times it looked like last year's inaugural Rome Film Fest was going to be as notable for its audacious entry to the festival circuit as it would for its programme. In the end ...
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Festival - Production Finance Market - Search for new money
It is a timely moment for a pilot Production Finance Market (PFM, October 22-23). The event, backed by Film London in association with the London Film Festival, comes when the UK - thanks to the end of the sale-and-leaseback era, the new UK tax credits and the strong pound - ...
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International comment - Comic potential
The top-ranked film in France last week was 99 Francs, based on a best-seller about an advertising executive who confronts the insignificance of his life and decides to end it all. Of course, life gets in the way of his conviction or it would be a very short film.While not ...
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Festival - Industry - The call of Rome
The Rome Film Fest's market event, The Business Street (October 18-21), was one of the inaugural festival's most popular and effective events. This year, it is attracting more than 300 international industry delegates, including Celluloid Dreams, The Match Factory and The Weinstein Company.The event is gathering steam and has been ...
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Festival - London burning bright
Celebrating its 50th anniversary last year, The Times BFI London Film Festival (LFF) announced a thorough consultation process on its future. Everything was put under the microscope as the event sought the opinions of audiences, industry and media alike: should the festival dates be moved' Should it become competitive'A year ...
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Belgium - The Ben X factor
"We're still floating in seventh heaven, on a Montreal cloud," says Belgian director Nic Balthazar following the success of his directorial debut Ben X at the Montreal festival in September.The film is based on When Nothing Was All He Said, a novel Balthazar wrote about a young autistic boy who ...
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International - Apocalypse wow
Russian action film Apocalypse Code was the highest non-domestic entry into the international top 40 this weekend, taking $3.5m from 656 screens in its home territory.The film, directed by Vadim Shmelev (Countdown) and distributed by Caroprokat, made the top 10 and enjoyed a $5,308 screen average after opening in Russia ...
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United states - Short wars
When it comes to short films, most festivals have traditionally relaxed their insistence on world or national premieres, happy to offer maximum exposure to new film-makers and not lay claim to them as they often do with feature directors.That open-door policy is fast changing. Perhaps responding to the deluge of ...
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United Kingdom - Leading the pack
Oliver Milburn has acted for 15 years in film, theatre and TV projects. His credits include Driving Lessons, The Descent and the UK TV series Holby Blue. Yet he seems most proud of his first credit as a feature film producer, on Gary Love's recently released urban drama Sugarhouse.Milburn, with ...
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International - Not the whole picture
As the autumn festival scene draws to close, it is worth considering what exactly is the point of an event showcasing international cinema' Although the origins of most festivals lie in politics or tourism, most of the leading international events have evolved into conclaves with a desire to represent the ...
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Hungary - Only human
Benedek Fliegauf's Milky Way (Tejut) presents viewers with a puzzle. In each of the film's 10 segments, the stationary camera observes unnamed individuals interacting - mating, playing, helping one another - without additional context. As such, the scenes could pass for raw footage for an alien documentary about human life ...
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Financing - Italy
With the rise in popularity of TV drama - which accounted for 800 hours of programming in the 2006-07 season, up from 130 hours 10 years ago - it could be assumed features are feeling the squeeze in Italian TV schedules.But the country's two main broadcasters, state-run Rai and the ...
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Financing - France
There is significant overlap between the French broadcast and film worlds. Each major broadcaster - TF1, France 2, France 3, Canal Plus and M6 - is required to invest in local films via pre-buys and each also has a separate film production arm.Terrestrial channels TF1, France 2, France 3 and ...
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Financing - Germany
The involvement of broadcasters in feature film production has a long tradition in Germany and hardly any film is made these days without some TV participation. Indeed, many film-makers who are now international household names, such as Wim Wenders and Volker Schlondorff, have been supported by commissioning editors when the ...
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Editorial - Screen says - Cracking the crunch
There's something appealing about business terminology that reduces complex economic movements to physical actions. The prime example at the moment is the 'credit crunch' - which hopefully will not end up in a global crash. It gives the sense of a natural order which has reached a finite point of ...
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Brazil - Rocha polishes family jewels
As the daughter of Glauber Rocha, the leader of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement and one of the most influential Brazilian directors of all time, Paloma Rocha did not experience a conventional upbringing."When I was five-years-old, my father enrolled me in an American school and told me to learn the language ...
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Finland - Global ambitions of Solar system
Earlier this year Finnish producer Markus Selin sold a significant stake of his Solar Films production outfit to Danish major Nordisk Film. Selin describes the move as "the key to our future expansion - it will open doors worldwide"."So far we have not aimed at the international markets, but it's ...
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United Kingdom - The ringleaders
Through his work in the Scottish exhibition sector, Nick Varley knew that putting classic films on screen had a number of obstacles. "If you want to do a good retrospective, you have to find a print that's worth screening. Programming was being compromised because of the state of prints and ...
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United Kingdom - Small wonder
UK independent publisher Quercus may be small, but it should not escape the notice of any film producers hungry for literary material. Just two years since being launched by publishing industry veteran Anthony Cheetham (who founded Century and Orion) and his business partner Mark Smith, Quercus has picked up a ...
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United states - Exhibition space
Arthur Cohen and Richard Witkowski did not waste any time when they came up with the idea of founding Iklipz in early 2006. Ninety days after their original conversation, the site was up and running, allowing film-makers to upload their own works free of charge and participate in an online ...