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Kawase, Taiwan's Wei among HAF line-up of 27 projects
Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase and Wei Te-sheng, director of Taiwanese blockbuster Cape No. 7, are among the filmmakers who have had projects selected for the seventh edition of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF). Kawase, who was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2007 for Mourning Forest, ...
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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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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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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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France 's annual IFCIC production prize goes to Les Films du Poisson.
Film financing institute's $14,600 purse for most promising young independent production company goes to Les Films du Poisson. IFCIC, France's film financing institute, has given its annual prize to Les Films du Poisson. The award comes with a $14,600 (Euros 10,000) purse and is given for the most promising young ...
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Sicily $6.2m funding initiative set to become annual
The region of Sicily in Italy has now closed applications on what looks to be a successful first edition of a $6.2m (Euros 4.25m) film fund. The Sicily Film Commission says it intends the fund to be annual, although it will be subject to approval in the annual regional budget.Project ...
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Production fund to double for German film funder MFG
Christmas has come early for film producers in Germany's Baden-Württemberg region as Prime-Minister Günter H. Hettinger and Media Minister Wolfgang Reinhart have agreed to more than double regional film fund MFG Baden-Württemberg's production budget.Mug's $6.3m (Euros 4.3m) production fund budget will be increased by $4.4 (Euros 3m) in 2009 and ...
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ITVS International Call 2008 backs five documentaries
Independent Television Service (ITVS) has boarded five projects from its recently completed ITVS International Call 2008 that drew 385 submissions from 74 countries.Since 2005, nearly 100 international programmes including Ari Folman's acclaimed Waltz With Bashir have been supported through ITVS International's Global Perspectives Project and its International Media Development Fund.The ...
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Australian theatre director Gale Edwards to make her first feature
Accomplished theatre director Gale Edwards, winner of an International Emmy for her filmed version of the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, is to direct her first feature film. The film, A Heartbeat Away, was one of four financed by Screen Australia. The others are: Being Dead, Lantana director Ray ...
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The Film Department to remake Italy's Perfect Man with Chelsom
The Film Department has hired Peter Chelsom to direct The Perfect Man, a remake of Luca Lucini's 2005 comedy L'Uomo Perfetto.Colleen McGuinness is adapting the screenplay about a jealous young woman who hires a male model to lure a woman away from her best friend.Di Novi Pictures is producing the ...
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Graham King's GK Films acquires rights to life story of John Martorano
Graham King's GK Films has acquired feature rights to the true-life story of former mobster John Martorano, who was released from prison in 2007 after serving 14 years for murder.King, who recently completed shooting the thriller Edge Of Darkness starring Mel Gibson on location in Massachusetts, will produce the feature. ...
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Chris Weitz takes on directing reins for Twilight sequel New Moon
Summit Entertainment has confirmed rumours that Chris Weitz will direct Twilight sequel New Moon after the smash vampire romance's original director Catherine Hardwicke pulled out.Weitz previously directed the drama About A Boy and the fantasy adventure The Golden Compass, a project he initially departed in 2005 because he felt the ...
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Alexandra Maria Lara to star in groundbreaking Dubai-set drama
An international cast including Control and The Baader Meinhof Complex actress Alexandra Maria Lara, Bollywood rising star Sonu Sood, US-based, Egyptian-born comedian Ahmed Ahmed, The Tudors' Natalie Dormer and hip-hop starThe Narcicyst are lining up for City Of Life, a new feature film to shoot in Dubai.UAE national Saoud Al ...
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Untitled Sam Mendes comedy now has a name - Away We Go
Focus Features has announced that Sam Mendes' upcoming contemporary comedy will be called Away We Go.The film follows the journey of an expectant couple as they travel the US in search of a place to put down roots and raise a family.John Krasinski from TV's The Office and Saturday Night ...
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Huayi Bros to produce Francis Ng martial arts comedy
Beijing-based Huayi Bros Pictures is producing a martial arts comedy Zhui Ying to be directed by Hong Kong actor Francis Ng. Jaycee Chan (The Sun Also Rises), actor and son of Jackie Chan, will be the leading cast in the film playing a martial arts fighter Xu Sanguan. Huayi is ...
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Warner Bros signs three-picture deal with India's People Tree
Warner Bros Pictures India has entered into a deal for the production and distribution of three films from Nikhil Advani and Mukesh Talreja's People Tree Films. Advani directed Warner's first Hindi production, Chandni Chowk To China, which is scheduled for release on Jan 16, 2009.The three-picture slate includes rom-com Jaane ...
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Jonathan Demme options Michel Faber novella The Courage Consort
Director Jonathan Demme will keep working in both documentary and narrative film-making after the success of his recent return to fiction, Rachel Getting Married. Demme has optioned Michel Faber's The Courage Consort and plans to develop the screenplay in 2009.Demme is a big fan of Faber's work and says 'Robyn ...
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International co-productions benefit from $11.4mGerman support
New international co-productions by Poland's Agnieszka Holland, Serbia's Oleg Novkovic and Sweden's Björn Runge are among a raft of feature projects supported with a total of over $ 11.4m (Euros 9m) by German public film funders at their latest funding sessions.Holland's German-Canadian-Polish co-production Hidden about the struggle for survival by ...
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Justin Chadwick to direct Tenderness Of Wolves for Film4, Target.
Justin Chadwick will direct a feature adaptation of by Stef Penney's Costa Prize-winning novel The Tenderness Of Wolves.Chadwick is writing the script and will direct the film for Film4 and Target Entertainment Group. Production is set to begin next year on the project, which was developed by Film4's Katherine Butler. ...