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NewsVenice jury to include Todd Haynes, Mario Martone
Darren Aronofsky serves as international jury president.
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NewsLe Quattro Volte producer to partner on Italian remake of Uchitel’s The Stroll
Project is discussed by Cinecitta Luce at Russia’s Voices festival, where there is a strong Italian presence.
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NewsFrench producers stalk Quebecois Denis Coté’s Bear at Paris Project
Hot titles at ninth edition of Paris Project included Vic & Flo Saw a Bear, Evil Woman, Mitrovica, Cannibal and A Screw. Rotterdam Films seals co-production deal on Thai director Sivaroj Kongsakul’s Cinefondation project Arunkarn.
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NewsBerlinale's World Cinema Fund backs eight projects
Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat has been awarded the biggest production award of 50,000 euros for In What City Does It Live?.
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NewsTaiwan’s Joint Entertainment targets Chinese mainland with wedding comedy Marry Go Round
Taiwanese Joint Entertainment and China’s Enterprising Dragon Entertainment unveiled romantic comedy co-production, due to shoot in Taipei, Paris and provincial Chinese city of Chongqing, to European producers at Paris Project.
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NewsCannes Critics Week title 17 Girls wins Priz Michel D'Ornano
The film’s directors Delphine and Muriel Coulin will receive the award at the Deauville American Film Festival in September.
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NewsTF1 fined €32 million over failure to theatrically distribute Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna
French media group has announced it plans to appeal the ruling, saying size of fine disproportionate to the US box-office performance of the film.
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NewsChristian Grass steps down from role at Universal
Industry stalwart Christian Grass has stepped down from his role as President, Universal Pictures International Productions & Acquisitions.
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NewsEuropa Distribution elects new board, co-presidents
Lumiere, Gutek heads assume co-presidency of European indies organisation; Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu takes on Presidency of Honor role.
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Switzerland, Germany and Austria sign trilateral co-production agreement
Trilateral co-production agreement between Switzerland, Germany and Austria comes into effect, but international visibility of Swiss cinema dealt a blow by ministry’s cost-cutting.
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NewsBergman Week wraps with best-ever ticket sales
Visitors to Faro included Istvan Szabo, cinematographer Manuel Alberto Ciaro and Henning Mankell (who has written forthcoming biopic series to be directed by Susanne Bier).
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NewsEuropean Producers Club to partner with Russian Cinema Fund
The partnership aims to promote co-productions between Europe and Russia following Russia’s admission to Eurimages in March this year.
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NewsSarajevo unveils Panorama programme for 17th edition
Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur and John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard are amongst the 25 titles screening in the Panorama programme.
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NewsPatrick Duynslaegher appointed artistic director of Ghent Film Festival
It is part of a wider restructure of the Ghent Film Festival’s team, ahead of the 38th edition which runs October 11-22.
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NewsSherry Hormann to direct one of Bernd Eichinger's last screenplays
The US born director of Desert Flower has been picked by producer-distributor Constantin Film to direct Kampusch, one of the last projects which Bernd Eichinger had been working on before his untimely death in January this year.
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NewsJohn Malkovich to star in Salvatores' Siberian Education
The actor will head up the cast of Gabriele Salvatores’ upcoming English language project about the Siberian criminal underworld.
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NewsLe Havre, In A Better World amongst winners at Filmfest Munchen
Hell and In A Better World also picked up awards at the festival in St Petersberg.
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NewsA Company launches new distribution company in Czech Republic, Slovakia
Berlin-based content licensing company A Company on July 2 launched EEAP Film Distribution CZ-SK to cover distribution in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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NewsStranger Things directors plan London-set feature
The writing/directing team of Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal, in Karlovy Vary with the international premiere of their award-winning feature Stranger Things, are already writing the script for their next feature together.
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NewsCineart takes on titles including Winding Refn's Drive and Only God Forgives
Leading independent Benelux distributor Cineart has revealed details of its latest round of acquisitions.