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San Sebastian announces Zabaltegi Pearls and Specials sections
The San Sebastian film festival has announced the full line-ups for the Zabaltegi Pearls and Zabaltegi Specials sections, including titles from some of the biggest names in cinema at the moment.Zabaltegi Pearls showcases films that have already featured prominently on the international festival circuit but have not yet had their ...
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Celluloid Dreams picks up two Venice titles
Celluloid Dreams has added two Venice titles to its line up. Amir Naderi's Vegas: Based On A True Story and Matt Tyrnauer's Valentino: The Last Emperor now join Celluloid's slate, the company announced Tuesday. Valentino will have a gala screening at La Fenice and is also set to run in ...
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CineLink announces best-pitch awards
CineLink, the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival, announced its awards for the best projects pitched in the southeastern Europe co-production market. The EAVE scholarship went to Serkan Cakarer, producer of the Turkish project Broken Mussels, from director Seyeftin Tokmak. Broken Mussels received the ARTE Sarajevo Film Festival award. ...
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Interview: Barbet Schroeder
Now in his mid-60s, film-maker and self-proclaimed iconoclast Barbet Schroeder is busier than ever. His new feature, Inju, The Beast In The Shadow, will be in competition at Venice and will screen in Toronto, just a year after his documentary Terror's Advocate, about controversial lawyer Jacques Verges, screened in Cannes. ...
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Beta Cinema handling sales on two Venice world premieres
Beta Cinema is to handle international sales on two Italian films - Marco Pontecorvo's Pa-Ra-Da, the opening film of the Horizons sidebar, and Uberto Pasolini's Venice Days title Machan - which are having their world premieres at next week's Venice Film Festival.Pa-Ra-Da, DoP Pontecorvo's feature film debut, tells the true ...
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Venice Horizons adds Iranian debut Tedium (Khastegi)
Tedium (Khastegi), the debut film of Iranian director Bahman Motamedian, is the first of two surprise films to be added to Venice's Horizon's line-up, the Biennale announced today.The Tehran-set film follows the experience of seven transsexuals within the confines of Iran's conservative culture. The film's title underscores the public and ...
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Haugesund's Co-Production Forum welcomes 18 projects
The third Nordic Co-Production Forum will host 18 feature film projects with budgets between Euros 1.6m-10m. The event opens today at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.Total costs of the film which will be discussed by German, Canadian and Nordic producers amount to Euros 65m.110 participants have registered for ...
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San Sebastian's Zabaltegi-New Directors names 14 selections
The San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the 14 films in its Zabaltegi-New Directors section.The section, with a Euros 90,000 prize to be shared between the director and the Spanish distributor, is devoted to film-makers presenting first or second films not previously screened at any other international competition. (Official Selection ...
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Elle Driver picks up titles in Venice, Toronto including Paper Soldier
Nearing its first birthday, French sales company Elle Driver will head to its first Venice and Toronto Festivals with a handful of films across the various sections including some new titles.In Venice, Elle boasts the previously announced The Sky Crawlers by Mamoru Oshii which Warners released in Japan on August ...
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Deauville adds Chaos Theory, Sex And The USA, and Polanski doc
The upcoming Deauville Festival of American Film has added a handful of films and a tribute to independent director Charles Burnett for its 34th edition. Further, it has announced the jury members for the Cartier Revelation Prize.Zoe Cassavetes, whose Broken English ran in competition last year, will head up the ...
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The Works takes on Belgian titles Unspoken and Loft
Ahead of this year's Toronto film festival, London-based The Works International has picked up the world sales rights to a brace of Belgian films: Unspoken, written and directed by Fien Troch, and Erik Van Looy's Loft.Unspoken will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is scheduled ...
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Haugesund's New Nordic Films kicks off with record 325 attendees
Opening on today with a record number of 325 participants, New Nordic Films - the three-day market section of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund - will this year present 23 recent Nordic features and 11 works-in-progress, adding 18 projectsat the Nordic Co-Production Forum.'The showcase is intended support Nordic ...
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Zurich to welcome Sly Stallone for first Golden Icon Award
Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone is to receive the Golden Icon Award which is presented for the first time in recognition of an actor or actress's life's work at this year's Zurich Film Festival (Sept25 to October 5).The award ceremony on Sept 26 will be accompanied by a small retrospective of ...
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Rome's first selections include 8, The Duchess,Baader Meinhof
The International Film Festival of Rome has unveiled the first titles for its upcoming third edition, which runs Oct 22-31 in the Italian capital.8 (Huit), a composition of eight shorts by Jane Campion, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noe, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus Van Sant and Wim Wenders ...
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Honigmann's Oblivion to open Horizones Latino in San Sebastian
San Sebastian has announced the films in its Horizones Latinos section, devoted to Latin American productions, films made by film-makers of Latin American origin, or films that address Latin America.Dutch director Heddy Honigmann's Oblivion (El olvido), set in Peru, will open the section and compete.Fourteen films, including works from Argentina, ...
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Constantin's theatrical distribution up 92% in first half of 2008
Constantin Film's theatrical distribution arm generated 92% more revenues year-on-year to June 30, according to the group's interim management report issued today for the first six months of 2008.Constantin garnered a 9.9% market share and held on to its position as Germany's leading independent distributor with box office takings of ...
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IM Internationalmedia filing for insolvency
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia filed for insolvency proceedings in Munich today since pending illiquidity was putting continued business operations at risk.According to an adhoc communique, the reason for the illiquidity could be traced back to an investment group around David Bergstein, Eluvium Holdings, not paying for exercised options.But Bergstein's R ...
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Polish Film Festival in Gdynia announces competition
The 33rd Polish Film Festival (PFF) has announced its line-up, with Polish director Robert Glinski as president of the main competition jury.Sixteen films compete for the festival's main grand prize, including Jerzy Skolimowski's Quinzaine title Four Nights With Anna; A Warm Heart, from European Film Academy co-founder Krzysztof Zanussi; and ...
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Widely tipped Parque Via from Mexico wins Locarno Golden Leopard
Mexican director Enrique Rivero's feature debut Parque Via won the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno International Film Festival which closed with the world premiere of Solveig Anspach's Back Soon.Based on the life of Nolberto Coria who plays himself (as Beto) in the story about the gap between rich and ...
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Heddy Honigmann. Gregory King selected for Binger Script Lab
The Binger Filmlab has named the participants for its September 2008 semester of the Script Development Programme.The Netherlands-based labs, workshops, seminars and master-classes will welcome:Alice Bell (Australia / Gin & Tonic) Jan Bonny ( Germany / A Politician's Wife) Carlos Contreras (Mexico / On Speaking Terms) Tamar van den Dop ...