All articles by Liz Shackleton – Page 144
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Highlight, Rosem team for Indo-French co-production
India's Highlight Films is joining forces with France's Rosem Films to co-produce The Conqueror, written and to be directed by female Indian filmmaker Alka Raghuram. Highlight's Mahesh Mathai and Rosem's Sylvain Bursztejn are jointly producing the Hindi-language film which has secured backing from Fonds Sud Cinema and is currently looking ...
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Valley Song wins Hubert Bals award at Film Bazaar
Pushpendra Misra's Valley Song was presented with the Hubert Bals award for most promising feature film project at the Film Bazaar in Goa on Friday night. The award came with a cash prize of $6,400 (Euros5,000) towards the project's development. Produced by Misra and Alakananda Nag, the project is a ...
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Film Bazaar 2008: Feature Projects
Animal's PeopleDir/prod: Michael AndersonProd co: Quadrapedal FilmsLanguage: EnglishSynopsis: Based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Indra Sinha about a boy living with the consequences of an explosion in a chemical factory.Bandra FairDir: Judith VarmaProd: Sudhir MishraProd co: Cineraas EntertainmentLanguage: EnglishSynopsis: A former Catholic priest returns home from to Mumbai to ...
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XME teams with US-Chinese talent on five-picture slate
Xinhua Media Entertainment (XME), a subsidiary of Chinese media group XFMedia, has announced a slate of five China-US co-productions to be made over the next three years. The slate, which aims to showcase Chinese culture and top talents through collaboration with US directors, writers and producers, includes the previously announced ...
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Production - Attracting a partner
Back in 2002 when Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas screened at Cannes, the Indian film industry was still regarded as an exotic item - fun to have at the party but the international industry did not really know how to talk to her. Fast forward through six years of a booming ...
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Hallyday, Testud to star in To's HK-French Vengeance
French actors Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Testud have been cast in Johnnie To's upcoming thriller Vengeance which is being made as a co-production between France's ARP, To's Milkway Image and Hong Kong-based Media Asia Group. Scripted by regular To collaborator Wai Ka-fai, the story follows a former assassin, now a ...
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Production - Box office - The India-pudding
With Bollywood keen to expand internationally beyond the Indian diaspora, and global interest in India at an all-time high, there have been many attempts to make films that combine elements of Indian and Western culture. Not all have been successful.India-themed films directed by film-makers of Indian origin based overseas, such ...
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Beyond Bollywood: Focus on Goa Film Bazaar
In the wake of a string of deals between the US studios and Indian entertainment companies, India has become the subject of global scrutiny. But for the majority of Indian film-makers, particularly those working outside the Bollywood mainstream, there is still a huge disconnect between them and the international market.While ...
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Asian Festival of 1st Films unveils nominations
The Asian Festival of 1st Films, a Singapore-based film and documentary festival for first-time filmmakers, has unveiled the nominations for the festival's fourth edition to be held December 4-10. Among nominated films are Indian actress Nandita Das' Firaq, which traces the emotional journeys of ordinary people one month after the ...
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Sony to release Blu-ray discs in mainland China
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is releasing 30 titles on high-definition Blu-ray discs in the mainland China market, making it the first studio to distribute the new format in the territory. The releases will coincide with Sony Electronic's introduction of the BDP-S350 model Blu-ray player to the Chinese market on ...
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Sverak's Bottles picks up top prize at Damascus fest
Czech director Jan Sverak's Returnable Bottles was awarded with Gold in the feature competition of the 16th Damascus International Film Festival (November 1-11) on Tuesday night. French actress Catherine Deneuve attended the Syrian festival to present the award, although she handed it to the local Czech ambassador, as Sverak had ...
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Kashyap, Nair among film-makers selected for Film Bazaar
Camera d'Or winners Murali Nair and Shaji Karun and hot up-and-coming writer-director Anurap Kashyap are among the filmmakers who have had projects selected for the second edition of India's Film Bazaar co-production market (Nov 26-29). Nair, who picked up Cannes' Camera d'Or award in 1999 for Throne Of Death, will ...
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AFM buzz - Thailand
It has been a difficult year for the Thai film industry, coping with the double whammy of political unrest and inflation which have battered the economy and impacted on audience spending power. But although local studios have been cautious and there have been delays to production schedules, there are some ...
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AFM buzz - Hong Kong, China and Taiwan
The Chinese-language production sectors, in both Hong Kong and Beijing, were hit badly this year by a slow-down in mainland China's censorship process in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. As a result, there will not be a huge amount of new Chinese product at this year's AFM.Indeed, one of ...
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Easternlight picks up international rights to Champions
Arclight Films' Easternlight division will handle international sales, excluding certain Asian territories, to recently completed martial arts action epic Champions, produced by Hong Kong-based Sundream Motion Pictures. The film, which is directed by veteran filmmaker and Sundream president Tsui Siuming, centres on the Chinese martial arts team that participated in ...
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Tiger Gate gears up to launch two channels across Asia
Lionsgate's new Asian venture, Tiger Gate, is gearing up to launch two 24-hour genre channels across Asia - action channel KIX, and Thrill which is themed around suspense films and thrillers. The two channels were being promoted at the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) conference which kicked ...
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Asia PacificFilm Festivalpostponed due to lack of delegates
The 52nd Asia Pacific Film Festival, which was scheduled to run November 18-21 in Jakarta, Indonesia, has been postponed due to a lack of overseas visitors, organisers have announced. The Federation of Motion Pictures Producers of Asia, which organises the event, cited the global economic downturn as the reason for ...
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Singapore's Raintree partners with Irresistible Films
Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is to become the third partner inHong Kong-basedfilm fund, Irresistible Films, alongside producer Bill Kong and Japan's Avex Group. Raintreewill contribute a third share of the $25m fundwhich aims to invest in four to six Asian films a year, with budgets ranging between $1m-$3m, directed by ...
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In focus - Asian Film Market - Mixed messages at market
Pusan's Asian Film Market (October 3-6) closed its third edition last week with most delegates agreeing it had been a quiet event, but many saying they had still found it productive. Certainly there was not much footfall at the market, held for the first time on three floors of the ...
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In focus - Asian Film Funds Forum - New approaches needed in Asia
The Asian film business should avoid over-supply and ensure the interests of distributors and investors are aligned, said panellists at a seminar on Asian film funds at Pusan's Asian Film Market.The seminar, co-hosted by Screen International, also examined how film financing has become more difficult due to the credit crunch, ...