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NewsMichael Radford joins SMA Talent Limited
The Oscar nominated British director Michael Radford is currently developing projects for Gaumont and Corona Pictures.
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NewsProduction starts in Ontario on First Generation Films’ The Lesser Blessed
Benjamin Bratt stars alongside newcomer Joel Evans and other actors of native descent including Kiowa Gordon and Tamara Podemski.
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NewsJudd Hirsch joins cast of The Red Robin
Former Academy Award nominee Hirsch is joined by Ryan O’Nan, C S Lee, Jaime Ray Newman, Caroline Lagerfeld and Joseph Lyle Taylor.
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SeeFlik online competition to showcase student filmmaking
The online contest will offer two concurrent short film awards including the Judge’s Award and Fans Favorite award exclusively to students.
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NewsMister John, Run And Jump amongst IFB backed features
The Irish Film Board predicts that its latest round of funding will generate production activity of up to €38 million.
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NewsTorinoFilmLab announces funding slate
International jury awards Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not $200,000, at least ten other films get development backing
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NewsJerusalem Film Lab launches this week with 12 projects
Intensive seven month film lab modeled on Sundance, Binger and Turin and created by the Sam Spiegel Film & TV School brings 12 film-makers to Israel this week including Alvaro Brechner, Nadav Lapid, Burhan Qurnabi and Ernesto Contreras.
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Millennium Films acquires Guys Night
The company plans a spring 2012 production start on the story of four directionless men who head off to an island off the coast of New Jersey where supposedly anything goes.
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NewsAngelopoulos' The Other Sea starring Toni Servillo to shoot from December
Toni Servillo stars in the story of Greece in the age of austerity
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NewsEntertainment One, Impossible Pictures sign co-development deal
The two companies will develop a slate of factual television projects for the UK, US and Canadian markets.
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NewsWajda begins shoot on Walesa biopic
On Thurs (Dec 1), Andrzej Wajda will start filming his Lech Walesa biopic.
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NewsDirectors UK extends membership to all screen directors
It is part of the trade body’s push towards becoming the single professional organisation campaigning on behalf of all directors in the UK.
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NewsPathé UK signs first-look deal with Stigma Films
Pathé UK to team up with Matt Wilkinson’s production company; Bradley Quirk appointed as creative executive.
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NewsNew UK Film Fund To Spotlight Dance And Performance
A new competition is inviting filmmakers to submit long format films for a chance to win a development and production budget between £120K and £400K.
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Production starts on six shorts backed by Abu Dhabi Film Commission
The Abu Dhabi Film Commission has selected six films to for its Aflam Qaseera (Short Film) Production Fund.
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NewsHelena Spring gets film rights to cyperpunk thriller Zoo City
South African producer Helena Spring has acquired the film rights to Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City, beating out other producers from the US and UK who were interested in the novel.
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NewsTwo crew members missing after giant wave hits shoot of Norwegian feature
While shooting high sea Sunday afternoon at Egersund on the Norwegian west coast, for Norwegian director Paul Magnus Lundø’s feature debut, The Veil of Twilight (Skumringslandet), a three-member photo unit was hit by a giant wave and washed into the waters.
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Lamba to star in Belawadi's Pollutant
Indian actor Arfi Lamba will star in Prakash Belawadi’s environmental zombie film The Pollutant, which is taking part in the Co-production Market of this year’s Film Bazaar.
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NewsGerman and French film producers meet to discuss projects at Paris Rendezvous
A dramatic comedy with Holocaust survivors, a horror film set in Morocco and a Balkan Romeo and Juliet love story were among 25 projects presented to potential production partners at this year’s German-French Film Meeting in Paris (Nov 23-24).
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NewsFinance company 120dB Films unveils $107m fund
The ambitious lender has partnered with an unnamed Fortune 500 property casualty insurance company on the venture which puts it in a position to compete with the larger boutique lenders and commercial banks.