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NewsGermany boosts film funding to €70m
Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann has secured an additional €10m for the DFFF incentive programme’s annual budget from next year, bringing the total available to domestic and international productions up to €70m.
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NewsSpain's Vértice faces uncertainty after losing $13.9m
Vértice 360, one of Spain’s biggest producer-distributors, has announced losses of $13.92m for the year to date.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Colin Firth will star in Genius while Catherine Deneuve will play the lead in Robert Cantarella’s debut feature.
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NewsPirate Bay film to be distributed for free
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay is at the forefront of the pro-piracy movement. It’s only fitting then that new feature doc about them, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, is to be given away for free.
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NewsStockholm’s industry line-up draws record figures
British film-maker Sophie Fiennes and 11 new films from the Nordic and Baltic regions are among the highlights of the industry line-up at this year’s Stockholm International Film Festival.
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NewsBrügger planning controversial "assassination" doc
Controversial Danish journalist and film-maker Mads Brügger, whose exposé of African diamond smuggling in The Ambassador provoked fury and lawsuits, is working on another Africa-set documentary that is set to be equally explosive.
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NewsQuartet, Ginger & Rosa to bookend Torino Film Festival
The 30th edition, which runs Nov 23 to Dec 1, will feature 43 world premieres, 11 international premieres and 13 European premieres.
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NewsWorld Cinema Fund backs four new projects
WCF jury made their selection from 95 submissions from a total of 37 countries, awarding production funds totalling €140,000.
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NewsMEDIA-supported VOD initiative courts controversy
Windows debate spurred on by exhibition cancellation of titles launch through special VOD programme.
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NewsDaniel Dencik plans his first dramatic feature about slave trade
Likely controversial project is about slave trading Danish officer in the 1830s.
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NewsNew Europe sells Forager, Distance; builds shorts slate
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has sold Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi to Accent Film for Australia and Imagine for Benelux.
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NewsFilm finance roundtable: 'The advantage is having great material'
EXCLUSIVE: The money’s around, but only for perfectly packaged product. That was the message from film finance experts during a special roundtable discussion during AFM.
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NewsHaneke wins in Vienna; Austrian film fund boost
Directors Michael Haneke, Kenneth Lonergan, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel were among the winners at the 50th Viennale.
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NewsBlack Nights Film Festival unveils EurAsia competition line-up
Everyday, Hannah Arendt and Wadjda [pictured] among films in contention.
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NewsUPI renews distribution in Kazakhstan
UPI Russia has signed a licensing agreement with Interfilm Distribution Company in Kazakhstan, who will distribute all UPI titles in the region starting with Chasing Mavericks [pictured].
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Investors eye acquisition of Russia's Karo Film
A group of investors is in the final stages of negotiations to acquire Karo Film, Russia’s second largest cinema chain.
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Imagina to handle world sales of Marcelo Pineyro's Ismael
EXCLUSIVE: Imagina International Sales is working with Zeta Cinema and Antena 3 Films on the intimate drama about family relations directed by Marcelo Piñeyro (The Method).
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NewsFeng's Back to 1942 revealed as one of Rome's surprise films
Marco Mueller has revealed that the first of the two surprise films at this year’s Rome Film Festival will be the world premiere of Feng Xiaogang’s Back to 1942.The historial epic’s cast, in addition to Chinese stars such as Zhang Guoli, Fan Wei and Chen Daoming, includes Adrien Brody and ...
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NewsLocarno's Chatrian talks about programme plans and Cukor retrospective
Locarno’s new artistic director Carlo Chatrian to continue festival’s “idea of cinema as a meeting place and act of discovery” as he unveils plans to dedicate the 2013 retrospective to George Cukor and announces a reshuffle of selection committee.