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International buyers up 25%for second Madrid Screenings
The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid expects to attract 131 international film buyers this weekend - about 25 percent more than last year. And the growing interest is reflected not only in the number but also the stature of the buyers, according to the Spanish Producers' ...
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Telepool sells A Crude Awakening to UK's Dogwoof
Telepool has closed an all-rights deal for the UK with Dogwoof Pictures for the feature documentary A Crude Awakening by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack of Swiss-based Lava Productions. The film about how humans are sucking dry our most valuable, non-renewable resource - oil - was released by Columbus Film ...
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Trinidad & Tobago starts new film tax incentive with rebate up to 30%
Trinidad & Tobago, the twin island nation in the Carribean, has today unveiled its first tax incentives for film, TV and advertising shoots. The new rebates system ranges from 12.5% for productions of expenditures up to $500,000, 15% for productions from $500,000 to $1m, or 30% rebates for productions spending ...
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Locarno juries to include Diego Lerman and Jia Zhangke
The Locarno International Film Festival will be celebrating its 60th anniversary this year by dedicating its Retrospective, entitled Back In Locarno, to those filmmakers whose careers were significantly advanced by the initial exposure at the Swiss festival. Among those directors expected to attend screenings in the Retrospective are Marco Bellocchio, ...
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Controversial Spanish film law approved by ministers
Spain's controversial new film law took a major step forward on Friday after being approved by the Council of Ministers.The legislation, now expected to come into force by the end of the year after being pushed through Parliament as a matter of urgency, is intended to improve distribution and boost ...
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Finnish Film Foundation backs new Lordi film Dark Floors
Dark Floors - Finnish director Pete Riski's horror project to star 2006 European Song Contest winners Lordi - will receive $405,000 (Euros 300,000) state funding from the Finnish Film Foundation. Currently shooting at Uleaborg in Northern Finland, starring Mr Lordi, Amen the unstoppable mummy, Awa the vampire countess, Ox the ...
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Trust closes its new local Danish distribution arm
Zentropa has pulled the plug on its recently launched Danish distribution outfit, Trust Film Distribution. The division, set up late last year, is now being disbanded. Jimmy Bredow and Maja Giese, who oversaw the distribution arm's activities, will be leaving the company. 'I looked into it (Danish distribution) for the ...
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Universal Italy makes first local film deal for distribution
US majors are lining up to distribute and produce local films in Italy following a slow but consistent trend internationally. Two films from the Rome-based Cattleya production outfit start shooting this month with Hollywood players on board. (Chocolate Lessons) Lezioni di Cioccolato will be Universal Italy's first foray into distributing ...
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Germany 's Odeon expands with genre production label
The publicly listed German film and TV group Odeon Film is expanding its feature film activities by setting up the Hanover-based Waterfall Productions (WFP) with producers Peter Rommel and Thomas Haberle to specialise in the production of quality genre feature films with budgets between $3.4m-$4.7m (Euros 2.5m-3.5m) for the international ...
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Ring of truth
The Austrian auteur tells Vladan Petkovic why blurring the line between fact and fiction is the hallmark of his work. Austria's Ulrich Seidl is a film-maker best known for his documentaries such as Loss Is To Be Expected and Animal Love, as well as the Venice prize-winner Dog Days, the ...
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Family business
The daughter of film-maker Luis Puenzo has emerged as an exciting international talent with Cannes favourite XXY. Diego Batlle reports. A renowned novelist and screenwriter in Argentina, Lucia Puenzo is enjoying an exciting 2007 with a new book recently published and her first feature, XXY, selected for Cannes' Critics Week. ...
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DVD: specialty forces
The specialty DVD market has thrived in recent years. But with the market under pressure Denis Seguin looks at how niche distributors are making their product stand out. Consider the sophisticated bachelor pad circa 2003, art-dressed to impress a visitor: on the coffee table, an issue of The New Yorker ...
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Joel Silver keen to bring future projects to Babelsberg
Producer Joel Silver is already looking at ways of bringing future projects to Germany's Babelsberg Studios even before the first scenes are shot for Larry and Andy Wachowski's action film Speed Racer Speed Racer starts its four-month shoot Monday with a cast headed by Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Christina Ricci, ...
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eQuinoxe sets up home in Evian and selects 8 projects
The 29th eQuinoxe screenwriting workshop will run June 3-9 in Evian, France. After years of a nomadic existence, this marks the beginning of a partnership with the town of Evian. eQuinoxe president Noelle Deschamps says the aim is that the workshop will now be based in Evian for the foreseeable ...
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Lithuania becomes eligible for Eurimages funding
Lithuania has become the 33rd country to join Eurimages, the Council of Europe-supported film co-production, distribution and exhibition fund. The Eurimages board had recommended the inclusion at its March 2006 meeting and Lithuanian authorities have now confirmed their membership. Now all projects involving a Lithuanian co-producer can be considered for ...
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Hunton takes new role at Paramount Home Entertainment
Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) has appointed Don Hunton to a new post as executive vice president, general manager Paramount Home Entertainment for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Hunton was previously senior vice president of the Asia Pacific, UK and Ireland regions for PHEI. Prior to joining PHEI, he ...
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European film commissions join forces in Brussels
A new association, the European Film Commissions Network, met for the first time during the recent Cannes Film Festival.Fifty film commissions from all over Europe had their first general assembly meeting during the festival and will continue to meet on a regular basis to share experiences and foster joint initiatives, ...
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Cannes Market attendees up 4% to 10,491
The Cannes Film Market has announced strong results for its most recent edition. 10,491 participants were accredited from 92 countries with new territories from Africa and Asia taking part for the first time. The figures represent a 4% jump over last year with, notably, increased participation from Latin America (up ...
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MK2 sells Van Sant's Paranoid Park to 72 territories
MK2 has announced stellar sales on Gus Van Sant's Cannes competition film Paranoid Park. The skateboarder-turned-accidental-murderer tale, which won the 60th anniversary award at Cannes last weekend, has been sold in 72 territories including the UK to Tartan Films, Italy to Lucky Red, Spain to Vertigo, India to Palador, Argentina ...
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Germany's Constantin Film to co-produce Faubourg 36
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has joined forces with France's Galatee Films and Pathe Renn production to produce Faubourg 36 (working title), the next feature from The Chorus director Christophe Barratier. Set in Paris in 1936, Faubourg 36 will focus on three unemployed theatre professionals - played by The Chorus ...