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NewsRotterdam Film Festival turns to audiences for film funding
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is stepping up it move into the digital future with a new scheme that will encourage audiences to help finance new films
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Twosome takes Hubert Bals award at busy Film Bazaar
Siddharth Sinha’s Hindi-language drama Twosome picked up the Hubert Bals award for most promising feature film project at the close of a busy three days of networking and project meetings at India’s Film Bazaar (Nov 24-26).
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CommentCredit where credit is due
It may labour under the term ‘tax credit’, but Canada’s Film or Video Production Tax Credit is anything but. In fact, this clunking rebate is closer to a grind.
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Film Bazaar focuses on packaging, digital distribution
The third edition of Film Bazaar kicked off in Goa on Tuesday (Nov 24), with delegates discussing how to package projects for both India and European markets, and how Indian filmmakers can increase revenues by exploiting digital rights.
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NewsOz tax rebate delivers $83m but picture remains murky
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley released new figures at the close of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) conference which showed that the 40% producer offset has injected $83m (A$91m) into the budgets of 19 films in the past two years.
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NewsLAFF receives $30,000 Academy Foundation grant for International Spotlight
Film Independent has received a $30,000 grant for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) from the Academy Foundation of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences.
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NewsDigital Economy Bill proposes legal mandate for Channel 4 film investment
The UK’s new Digital Economy Bill plans to place a legal commitment on broadcaster Channel 4 to invest in film.
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NewsSPAA to ask Oz government for $84m cash injection
The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) is to formally ask the federal government for a one-off $84m (A$90m) injection of cash for the production of feature films.
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NewsEssential, Gigapix team up on children's film slate
Essential Entertainment has signed a multi-picture deal with Gigapix Studios for five G and PG-rated live-action children’s films through its subsidiary Recess Films.
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Film Production Capital boosts financing clout with $50m deal
Will French’s tax credit-based financier Film Production Capital (FPC) has secured more than $50m for the financing and acquisition of tax incentives for US productions filming in tax incentive states. French is meeting with producers at AFM.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund supports 27 projects with $571, 357
The Hubert Bals Fund, part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), is handing out $571, 357 (€385,000) to 27 film projects this autumn.
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NewsB D Fox Independent secures P&A fund for distribution pipeline
B D Fox Independent president and CEO Brian D Fox has secured P&A funding for a slate of films and is looking to acquire three to four completed titles for US theatrical distribution.
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Yarek Danielak, Tax Credit Finance launch Mirabelle sales arm
Matthew Chausse and Anthony Gudas of Rhode Island-based Tax Credit Finance, LLC and Yarek Danielak of Arsenal Pictures have teamed up to launch the sales arm Mirabelle.
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NewsRelativity invests further $300m into Universal slate through Beverly 2
Relativity Media is investing a further $300m into co-financing the Universal slate through wholly owned subsidiary Beverly Blvd 2 LLC (Beverly 2).
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MRC gets behind next sci-fi film from District 9's Neill Blomkamp
Media Rights Capital (MRC) is getting into business with District 9 director Neill Blomkamp and will back an untitled sci-fi project from the in-demand South African.
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NewsPierre-Ange Le Pogam addresses Production Finance Market
Veteran French producer and co-founder of EuropaCorp, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam made a rare UK appearance today to give the key note address at the 3rd Production Finance Market today (October 21).
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FeaturesWhere to find the serious money
Heavyweight international financiers will be in London this week to discover the best UK and European projects in search of investment at this year’s Production Finance Market (Oct 21-22). Geoffrey Macnab looks at what’s on offer.
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NewsAsian producers bemoan dearth of bond companies
Industry experts bemoaned the global decline in completion bond companies at a financing seminar during Pusan’s Asian Film Market, observing that only one or two companies remain to bond independent films.
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NewsFocus Features names five winners in Africa First Program
For the second consecutive year five film-makers have been awarded $10,000 apiece in Focus Features’ Africa First Program for short films.
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NewsFuture Weather wins FIND Sloan Producers Grant
Film Independent has awarded Jenny Deller and Kristin Fairweather its third annual Sloan Producers Grant for their project Future Weather.