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NewsMEDIA says Bosnia & Herzegovina to be full member by end of year
Bosnia and Herzegovina is expected to become a full member of the EU’s MEDIA Programme later this year.
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NewsShe Monkeys wins best film at Sweden's Golden Bug awards
Ruben Oslund wins best director for Play.
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NewsTrustNordisk takes Escape to EFM for pre-sales
Koch already strikes deal for German theatrical rights.
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NewsBerlin's Culinary Cinema section to open with The Chef; Forum Expanded lines up 10
Culinary programme includes 15 features and shorts; Forum Expanded section to feature ten experimental film programmes.
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NewsSandberg, Ronning to follow Kon-tiki with Beatles
Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning, who recently made Norway’s most expensive feature film, Kon-Tiki, are now ready to rock’n’roll.
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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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NewsEnglish-language Frankenstein update readies in Greece
Costas Zapas directs, Minus Pictures produces Greek update of Mary Shelley classic.
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NewsUS in Progress to expand to Paris Film Festival in June
US in Progress, the work-in-progress event that was kicked off during the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland in November 2011, is now also planning an event to run during the Paris Film Festival (June 7-10).
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NewsUrban Distribution picks up Berlin Panorama entry The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
French sales agent picks up Teona Strugar Mitevska’s drama starring Victoria Abril.
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NewsIrvine Welsh adaptation Filth starts shoot with cast led by James McAvoy
Steel Mill Pictures and Logie Pictures will start principal photography Monday on Jon S Baird’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Filth.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Sophie Marceau will star in Jean-Paul Lilienfeld’s upcoming drama Arrêtez-Moi, while Jim Donovan will direct Fangs Of War, a 20th century reimagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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NewsBerlin Competition adds seven including Bel Ami, Shadow Dancer, A Royal Affair
Berlin Competition rounds out with seven more features, four of which are world premieres; Soderbergh’s Haywire gets Special Screening.
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NewsSweden's next crime hits include Nobel's Last Will, Hamilton
Swedish Film Institute presents first 14 local releases of 2012.
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NewsScreen's Goodridge and Festival Scope's Henrot, Raja team to programme new Sarajevo section
The Sarejevo Film Festival has created a new section in its programme called Kinoscope and drafted in three new programmers onto its international team: Mike Goodridge from the UK, Mathilde Henrot from France and Alessandro Raja from Italy.
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NewsNanni Moretti to serve as jury president at Cannes 2012
Italian director and Cannes regular, who won the Palme d’Or with The Son’s Room in 2001, to preside over 65th edition of festival.
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NewsAMC Networks’ Josh Sapan to give MIPTV 2012 keynote
Sapan will discuss the value of original programming and how to create brands.
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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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NewsFilm and camera giant Kodak files for bankruptcy
Struggling camera and film giant files for bankruptcy protection; further closures and redundancies possible.
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NewsBerlinale Forum selections include 26 world premieres
Melissa Leo [pictured] stars in US independent drama Francine.
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NewsAlmodovar, Egoyan among 400 petitioners protesting Gijon director's dismissal
The dismissed director of Spain’s Gijon Film Festival gets support form Almodovar, Egoyan, Solonz and 400 otherpersonalities of world cinema.