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NewsFilmEngine to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan
Los Angeles-based FilmEngine is to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan, with Taiwan’s Hsu Po-yun, founding partner of New Aspect Cultural Foundation and executive board for Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP).
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NewsAhmed's Fineline gets funding for development slate in South Africa
Durban-based director/producer Junaid Ahmed plans to use state funding to developing new creative talents from black-filmmakers in South Africa.
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NewsK5 strikes output and development deal with Knudsen and Van Hoy
New York-based independent producers Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy of Parts & Labor, who recently produced Oscar-nominated Beginners, have struck an output and development deal with K5 Media Group.
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NewsCreative England distributes £465,972 in Film Culture Lottery Funding
39 projects have received funding through Creative England’s first round of Film Culture Lottery Awards, including Sheffield Doc/Fest, Bristol Encounters and the Bradford International Film Festival.
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Swedish Film Institute backs new films from Andersson, Hallstrom, Odell
Andersson (pictured) continues his Living trilogy with A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.
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NewsDavid Stead joins HanWay as finance director
Former 19 Entertainment exec heads to HanWay in move to bolster the company’s film-financing operations.
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NewsRotterdam panel explores crossover between art and film worlds for finance, exhbition
Panellists include artists-turned-directors Nicolas Provost [pictured] (The Invader) and Wilhelm Sasnal (It Looks Pretty From a Distance).
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NewsSwedish film budget to earmark funding for non-theatrical films
New policies welcomed but experts say more funding is needed.
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NewsK5 launches LA division with Kevin Frakes as CEO
PalmStar CEO heads new K5 division in LA which starts out with a $30m investment pot.
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European film funding reached peak in 2009
Total spend by European funds grew signigicantly between 2004 and 2009, but began to stagnate in the wake of the economic crisis.
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NewsBFI Film Fund backs projects by Newell, Potter, McDonagh
Films to receive recent production funding from the BFI include Mike Newell’s Great Expectations [pictured], Sally Potter’s Bomb and Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths.
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NewsNorthern Film & Media launches pilot jobs fund
The £75K fund is aimed at creating more jobs within the creative industries in the North East of the UK.
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NewsGreek box office down 7% in 2011; distributors try new measures during financial crisis
Greek acquisitions at EFM could be impacted by financial woes in the country.
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NewsNew Sion Sono disaster drama Land Of Hope gets backing from UK's Third Window Films
The latest film from Japanese director Sion Sono has attracted a roster of domestic and international investment as the acclaimed auteur’s profile continues to rise.
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NewsAR Films, Media Talent Group launch $120m US fund
Producer Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Films and Geyer Kosinski’s Media Talent Group have launched the fund to develop and produce up to six films in the US over the next two years.
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NewsHungary announces first wave of investments under Vajna's new Fund
Also, Hungarian Film Week revived by association led by Bela Tarr.
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NewsUK industry welcomes Film Policy Review but cautions that words must be followed by action
Industry experts bullish on policy report but say that the BFI has a huge job ahead to deliver on proposed action points.
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NewsUPDATED Film Policy Review: Official responses from UK organisations
The UK’s leading film organisations respond to the Film Policy Review chaired by Chris Smith.
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NewsUK Film Policy Review encourages joint ventures; calls for more lucrative producer recoupment; suggests potential Sky investment legislation
The 56-point report also addresses VPF and theatrical windows changes for independent distributors; panel chair Chris Smith says films from ‘very commercial to the very arty’ should be funded.
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NewsStuart Murdoch, Barry Mendel using Kickstarter to raise partial finance for God Help The Girl
Glasgow-set musical feature film will shoot this summer.