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NewsBad Wolf’s Jane Tranter calls for tiered tax relief for TV akin to Independent Film Tax Credit
Tranter was giving evidence to the cross-party UK parliament Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee investigation into British film and high-end TV.
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NewsNFTS Leeds creates pioneering intimacy coordination for film and TV course
The six-month intensive scheme begins in May of this year.
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NewsUK’s BBFC to apply higher age ratings for on-screen violence and sex
Scenes involving cannabis and solvent misuse will now face fewer restrictions.
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NewsLatido Films scores sales for ‘Re-creation’ with Vicky Krieps, Gerardo Herrero’s ‘Raqqa’ (exclusive)
Krieps stars in Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s true crime courtroom docu-drama ’Re-creation’.
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NewsBerlinale doc ‘hold on to her’ sells to Germany, adds sales agent (exclusive)
The documentary traces a recent case of police and state violence in Belgium.
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NewsDev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’, ‘Bob Trevino Likes It’ among SXSW audience award winners
Austin festival ran March 8-16.
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NewsProduction begins in Japan on Brendan Fraser comedy drama ‘Rental Family’ for Searchlight
Beef and Tokyo Vice director Hikari helms comedic drama.
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NewsRaoul Peck in production on Haiti doc ‘The Hands That Held The Knives’
AC Independent, Double Agent, Range Media Partners represent worldwide sales rights.
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NewsEgypt’s Al-Ahram studio destroyed by fire
The facility recently housed producion of Ramadan TV series El-Moallem starring Mustafa Shaban.
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News‘The King’s Speech’ writer David Seidler dies aged 86
Seidler had a stammer, as had King George VI, the subject of his Bafta and Oscar-winning 2010 feature.
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NewsAGC promotes Lourdes Diaz to partner with new employment deal
Diaz became chief creative officer at the film and TV indpendent in 2022.
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NewsRichard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ among first 2024 recipients of CNC funding
Dominique Cabrera, Patric Chiha and Hubert Charuel projects have also received support from the French organisation.
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News‘Dune 2’ rides to £26m at UK-Ire box office; ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ opens outside top five
Oscar winners ‘The Zone Of Interest’, ’Oppenheimer’ and ‘The Holdovers’ see takings surge.
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News“You’re always on time. You’re always polite”: Why Ema Ryan Yamazaki directed ‘The Making Of A Japanese’
The Japanese doc director turned her camera on a Japanese elementary school,
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NewsTogether Films picks up CPH:DOX title ‘Mediha’, exec produced by Emma Thompson (exclusive)
The film plays in CPH:DOX’s new Human Rights award section.
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NewsWorking Title, Jo Nesbø and Dome Karukoski feature on Netflix Nordic slate
Titles include a film adaptation of ‘Little Siberia’ and a Netflix series based on Jo Nesbø’s character Harry Hole.
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NewsFilipino doc director Ramona S Diaz on why she will release ‘And So It Begins’ herself at home
Diaz has tangled with the ruling Marcos family before, with the former first lady trying to prevent the release of ‘Imedia’ in 2003.
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NewsFamily portraits ‘My Stolen Planet’, ’Forest’ win main awards at Thessaloniki doc festival
The festival took place against the backdrop of homophobic protests against same-sex marriage, recently legalised in Greece.
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News‘Dune: Part Two’ closes in on $500m at global box office; ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ receives Mexico boost
‘Dune: Part Two’ breezes past the first film’s total, while ‘One Life’ breaks into the top 10.
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NewsStudiocanal fires up genre partnership with French outfit WTFilms
The development, production and distribution partnership comes off the back of a collaboration on Fantasia title ‘Farang’ (‘Mayhem!’).