All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 96
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Zykov pushes Russian doc series
Veteran producer Eugene Zykov is handling sales on Old Russian Cities, a series of documentaries designed to present a positive image of Russia abroad.
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NewsMezey talks up Cinereach
New York-based independent producer Paul Mezey of Journeyman Pictures has revealed further details of his work with Cinereach - the non-profit organisation with which he worked on the Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild.
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NewsWide slate lures copious buyers
EXCLUSIVE: Doc sales specialist Wide House is reporting a roaring trade on its EFM titles.
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NewsGloria racks up raft of sales
EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria, the buzz film in this year’s Berlinale Competition, has provoked a mini-stampede among buyers.
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NewsUrban closes Berlin slate deals
Paris and New York-based Urban Distribution International has closed multiple deals on its Berlin slate.
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NewsReel Suspects sells Lose Your Head
Reel Suspects’ Berlin Panorama title Lose Your Head has been snapped up by Open Reel for Italy.
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NewsLe Pacte makes sales of The Nun
Le Pacte is racking up sales on Berlinale Competition entry The Nun, the period drama directed by Guillaume Nicloux and starring Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert and Louise Bourgoin.
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NewsRinkel reunites with Cool Kids team
The €3m ($4m) Secrets of War will again be directed by Dick Dennis Bots and written by Karen van Holst Pellekaan.
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NewsGriffiths' Illuminations readies busy slate including Duane Hopkins' Bypass
Bypass, backed by the BFI and Film I Vast, is being produced by Third Films in Newcastle and is due to shoot in March.
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NewsEye On Films goes to Brasil
EoF now has over 80 partners, among them 45 festivals and 39 distributors.
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NewsBanana shoots for Robert Capa biopic
The film, Capa In Israel, is to be directed by Eduardo Rossoff and scripted by Robert Butler.
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NewsIpso Facto gains Nothing to Lose
Christine Alderson’s UK production company Ipso Facto has snapped up remake rights to Pieter Kuipers’ thriller Nothing To Lose from Dutch production outfit Pupkin Films.
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NewsStudioCanal secures Traitor sales
EXCLUSIVE: Bucking the trend in a tough Berlin market, StudioCanal has closed significant pre-sales on new John Le Carré adaptation Our Kind Of Traitor.
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NewsIron Sky producers talk US plans
EXCLUSIVE: Blind Spot Pictures, the Finnish outfit behind cult hit Iron Sky, has revealed further details of what is likely to be its first US project, Jeremiah Harm.
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NewsHope spreads for Seidl
Buyers are continuing to beat a path to Paradise since the final instalment of Ulrich Seidl’s trilogy Paradise: Hope screened in Berlinale’s Competition earlier this week.
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NewsFuWorks kicks off Dutch football doc
The “total football” exploits of the celebrated Dutch team of the 1970s are to shown on screen in a new feature documentary being put together by San Fu Maltha’s Fu Works.
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NewsRossellini joins Carriere project
Actress and film-maker Isabella Rossellini is collaborating with legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrier (The Artist and the Model) on a new project.
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NewsPirate Bay doc gets online boost
Controversial feature documentary The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (about the notorious file sharing website) has been watched by half a million people since its premiere in Berlin on Friday [Feb 8].
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