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Slovakia selects The Border as Oscar submission
Jaro Vajtek’s documentary has been chosen as Slovakia’s foreign oscar selection.
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SGR and IFCIC likely to share EC guarantee fund
Spain’s mutual guarantee funding body Audiovisual SGR and France’s lending institute IFCIC are expected to split 50-50 the new European Commission (EC) film fund worth $10.5m (€8m), which guarantees bank loans to producers.
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NewsBelgium picks Illegal as foreign Oscar contender
Oliver Masset-Depasse’s film premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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NewsChristopher Kirby reaches for Iron Sky
The Australian actor will play oppoiste Julia Dietze and Gotz Otto in the 6.5m euros Finnish-German-Australian co-production.
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This week’s hot projects on Screenbase
New productions on our online production listings this week include films from France, Germany and Italy, including Les Pauvres Gens, Sotto Il Vestito Niente- L’ultima Sfilata as well as Sophie - The Story Of A Big Friendship.
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NewsBerlinale revamps EFM local cinema showcase
The German Cinema sidebar at EFM will now feature films from the longlist for the German Film Awards.
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NewsAlta Films take Spanish rights to Even The Rain
The distributor plans to release the Iciar Bollan’s drama, which has been shortlisted to represent Spain at the Oscars, on January 7
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NewsIMAX signs three-theatre deal with Kazakhstan's Kinopark
The deal will bring the first IMAX cinemas to the Kazakhstan
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NewsThe Kids Are All Right opens 16th Athens Film Festival
Lisa Cholodenko’s Sundance hit opens the Athens International Film Festival – Opening Nights today (September 16); the event secures record number of Greek films despite local film industry crisis.
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NewsCell 211, Lope and Even The Rain compete to represent Spain at the Oscars
Daniel Monzon’s successful prison drama Cell 211 has been selected as one of three potential candidates to represent Spain for the foreign-language Oscar, alongside Andrucha Waddington’s romantic period drama Lope and Iciar Bollain’s Even The Rain.
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NewsHirschbiegel goes to The Dark Side Of The Moon
The feature adaption is being developed by Zurich based production and financing outfit Millbrook Pictures.
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Austria launches 20m euros film financing incentive
Austria launches new film incentive after green light from Brussels; International co-productions attract most support from German fund this year
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NewsYellow Affair spearheads distribution platform
Miira Paasilinna, MD of new sales outfit The Yellow Affair, has unveiled details of the company’s new digital distribution platform.The system can be used not only as an online screening room for buyers, but also for material delivery. “All of our CRM functions are there. Clients, press, festivals can be ...
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MIPCOM 2010 preview: highlights include Australia, Asia, cross-platform ideas
The barriers between film and TV are continuing to erode, according to Laurine Garaude, director of the TV division at Reed Midem, which organises the forthcoming MIPCOM (Oct 4-7 in Cannes).
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NewsPrime Numbers sales add up for Le Pacte
Elisabeth Perlie, head of international sales at France-based Le Pacte International, has closed a number of deals for its Cannes and Toronto CWC title The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
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TF1 takes on Greed
TF1 International has acquired Greed by Eric Guirado and will begin world sales in Toronto.
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NewsPretty Pictures takes France for Fortissimo's Norwegian Wood
Fortissimo Films has struck a French deal for Tran Anh Hung’s Venice and Toronto film Norwegian Wood.
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NewsDany Boon and Lisa Axuelos to join Pathe executive board
Pathe has announced the appointment of two new members to its executive board.
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Garcia's Mother and Child wins in Deauville
A week filled with several films about family wrapped up on a sunny note this weekend in Normandy where the Deauville Festival of American Film awarded its jury prize to Mother And Child.
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NewsTributes pour in as Claude Chabrol passes away at age 80
French filmmaking legend Claude Chabrol died Sunday in Paris at the age of 80.