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Georgian drama Washington takes $10,000 Bals prize in Yerevan
At the second DAB Co-Production Forum in Yerevan, the Hubert Bals Fund Award has been given to Washington by Andro Sakvarelidze & Giga Chkheidze of Georgia.Washington was named best out of the 12 projects presented and will get the prize money of $9,970 (Euros 5,000) to support development.Washington is seen ...
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Kinowelt's distribution chief Miros leaves company
Georg Miros, head of marketing and sales at Leipzig-based Kinowelt Filmverleih since 2003, has left the company as of today to pursue new professional challenges.Miros had been responsible for the successful release of such films as Deep Blue, Million Dollar Baby, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The March of the Penguins, ...
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EC approves new film tax schemes in Latvia and Sardinia
The European Commission has approved two film support schemes that address the specific problems faced by film communities in rural or smaller European areas -- specifically in Latvia and Sardinia.In Latvia, the aim is that a new $68m (Euros 43m), six-year support scheme will help audiences across rural Latvia access ...
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European Commission OKs revised Hungarian film scheme
The European Commission has approved changes to the Hungarian support scheme for film, which now requires projects pass a broad test for European cultureFrom 2008, every production must achieve at least 16 points on a 32-point cultural test in order to qualify for the 20% tax rebate. The majority of ...
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Locarno adds Paskaljevic, Brakni to international jury
The members for Locarno's International Competition jury are now complete with the addition of French actress Rachida Brakni (The Over-Eater) and Serbian filmmaker Goran Paskaljevic to the previously announced line-up of directors Masahiro Kobayashi (Japan), Dani Levy (Switzerland), and Paolo Sorrentino (Italy), and Mexican producer Bertha Navarro.Meanwhile, Argentina's Albertina Carri ...
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European Commission urges film preservation in digital age
Most films will be distributed in digital format within the next five years, which might be good news for cinemas, but it also has serious implications for Europe's film heritage.That is one of the key conclusions of a new European Commission (EC) report measuring European Union (EU) progress in preserving ...
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Houellebecq to present premiere of feature debut in Locarno
Bestselling French writer Michel Houellebecq's feature film directorial debut The Impossibility Of An Island, adapted from his 2005 novel of the same name, will have its world premiere in Locarno's Play Forward sidebar which is dedicated to all contemporary forms of audio-visual experimentation and creation.The $10.3m (Euros 6.5m) futuristic drama, ...
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Landis, Martel, To recruited for Venice jury duty
The International Competition Jury for the 65th Venice Film Festival has recruited Russian screenwriter Juriy Arabov, Italian actress Valeria Golino, British visual artist Douglas Gordon, US film-maker John Landis; New Argentine Cinema pioneer Lucrecia Martel, and Hong Kong director Johnnie To.As previously reported, Wim Wenders is the International Jury president ...
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Europe, Latin America take centre stage in Locarno programme
European and Latin America cinema will have a high profile at this year's Locarno Film Festival which will open on August 6 with the European premiere of UK director Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited and close August 16 with the world premiere of Solveig Anspach's Icelandic-French co-production Back Soon on the ...
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Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann to leave Constantin for Telepool
Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann will join Munich-based Telepool as head of acquisitions and sales for German-speaking territories. She takes the post as of January 2009, and will resign as head of licensing of Constantin Film, where she had been since 2005. She is also a veteran of Prokino Filmverleih.Higuchi-Zitzmann will report directly ...
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Jerry Cotton, Flucht Aus Tibet gets top funding from FFF Bayern
New feature films by Joseph Vilsmaier, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Matsutani and Maria Blumencon are among the projects awarded a total $10m (Euros 6.26m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $ 1.1m (Eu 700,000) - went to Phillip Stennert and Cyrill Boss’ ...
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Netherlands festival to open with Westdijk's In Real Life
Robert Jan Westdijk's In Real Life, a story of a film within a film, will open the 28th Netherlands Film Festival (Sept 24-Oct 3).Westdijk's Little Sister won the festival's best feature prize and City of Utrecht Prize in 1995. Also, his 2003 Phileine Says Sorry also opened the festival and ...
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Switzerland's Ascot Elite picks up 8 titles including Milk and Red Cliff
Leading Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment has announced eight new acquisitions for its release lineup. As part of a strategy to consolidate its market position, theZurich-based company has secured all rights for Focus Features' HarveyMilk biopic Milk, directed by Gus van Sant and starring Sean Penn andJosh Brolin, the ...
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Yerevan plans second Regional Co-Production Forum
Eight features and four documentary projects from Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Moldova, Turkey, Ukraine are being pitched to potential co-producers and financiers at the Directors Across Borders' (DAB) second Regional Co-Production Forum (July 15-17) during this week's Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan.The low-budget projects include the family drama Before ...
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Little Robbers start shooting in Riga with Karl Markovics
Principal photography has begun in Riga on family adventure Little Robbers, featuring The Counterfeiters star Karl Markovics. Robis (5) and his sister Louisa (7) hatch a plan to rob the bank that has evicted their family after their father loses his job. Acme will release the Latvian-language version of the ...
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Czechs producers place hopes in German production-rebate model
With runaway productions finding better conditions further east, Czech producers are switching their hopes from tax rebates to German-style production rebates. Representatives of the Czech Audiovisual Producers Association (APA) revealed 2007 numbers to reporters at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Foreign producers spent $142.4m (CZK 2.1bn) in the Czech ...
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Sasha Buehler moves from SquareOne to Constantin
Film and TV veteran Sasha Buehler is to join Constantin Film's acquisitions and licensing team from Oct 1 after spending the past three years as head of acquisitions for Munich's SquareOne Entertainment.American-born Buehler started her career in the industry in 1990 with news production at broadcaster ProSieben, later working for ...
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Locarno Swiss Cinema Day to include Luftbusiness
Three new Swiss films will have their world premieres during the Swiss Cinema Day at this year's Locarno Film Festival, while Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov's Yuri's Day (Yuriev Den) will screen in the International Competitiion.The Swiss Cinema Day, which will be held by the festival in cooperation with the Federal ...
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Rome changes include new name: International Film Festival of Rome
The Rome Film Fest's recently appointed president Gian Luigi Rondi has announcedsome significant changes to the event as it heads into its third year.The changes include sweeping away elements that differentiated the young city-oriented 'festa' from the Venice Film Festival and other major international film festivals. For example, Rome's populist ...
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Charlotte Rampling to star in Majewski's The Hill And The Cross
Polish director Lech Majewski (Glass Lips, Wojaczek) is in pre-production on The Hill And The Cross, an English-language drama to feature Charlotte Rampling.Majewski is himself producing the film, along with Swedish producer Freddy Olsson of Bokomotiv Filmproduktion. Principal photography will take place in southern Poland this autumn. The film would ...