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Mar del Plata re-invents itself
The new artistic head of South American's leading film festival, Mar del Plata (March 6-15), unveiled his competition line-up in Berlin with a promise to redefine its identity as a festival created "by film-makers for film-makers". The line-up features a number of films that deal with globalisation, xenophobia and a ...
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Argentine president steps in to save film industry
Argentina's president Eduardo Duhalde is to push through measures to rescue the country's film industry after a meeting last week head of the Argentine film institute, INCAA, Jorge Coscia, minister of culture Ruben Stella, and the producers of Oscar nominee Son Of The Bride - Pol-ka's Adrian Suar, Jemsa Productions' ...
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Anger readies film of Crowley's Gnostic Mass
Cult film-maker, actor and author Kenneth Anger, who was honoured last week by the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina, is readying a 40-minute film version of The Gnostic Mass, an occult ceremony set out by Aleister Crowley in 1910. Anger, who hopes to cast Chloe Sevigny as the ...
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Bolivar That's Me takes Mar del Plata crown
Jorge Ali Triana's Bolivar That's Me (Bolivar Soy Yo) won the Golden Ombu award for best film and the best Iberoamerican film prize at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Latin America's leading film event, on Saturday 16 March. The 59-year-old Colombian director's use of magical realism flew in ...
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Mar del Plata fest praised for diversity and scope
Argentina's leading film event, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, kicked off on March 7 despite a 75% cut in its funding.Due to the plummeting peso and Argentina's other economic woes, the national film institute, INCAA, slashed the festival budget from $2m to less than $500,000. However, festival director ...
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Berlin to create 'campus' for young film-makers
The Berlin International Film Festival is to set up a parallel event for up to a thousand international film students, festival director Dieter Kosslick has revealed.Called the Berlinale Talent Campus, the event is to run in parallel with the 53rd edition of the festival in 2003. The initiative will include ...
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Cairo Film Festival celebrates 25 years
Cairo International Film Festival, which for the past 10 years has been recognised as a competitive event by international producers' body FIAPF (and remains one of only 11 festivals to be given this A-grade status), celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with a retrospective of some of the most important ...
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