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Sandrew Metronome gets out of Swedish production
The Swedish branch of pan-Scandinavian distributor Sandrew Metronome will dismantle its local production department, ending more than 80 years of Swedish film history.Ironically the decision coincides with the Swedish premiere of the company's latest - and last - feature, Leif Lindblom's Sun Storm (Solstorm), which went straight to number two ...
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Finnish producers call off strike with hopes for subsidy boost
Although Finnish culture minister Stefan Wallin has not met their demand to increase subsidy for local cinema by at least $1.8m (Euros 1.2m), 30 Finnish feature film producers representing the entire industry have called off the strike they imposed on Sept 3.'We have not been given direct promises, but we ...
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First Prix Image at EFAs to go to Menegoz and Heiduschka
This year's European Film Awards will include the new Prix Eurimages, to recognise European co-production. The first award will go to two producers who have worked on many co-productions: Margaret Menegoz and Veit Heiduschka.Menegoz is Unifrance president and managing director of Les Films Du Losange and she has produced films ...
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Nanni Moretti kicks off his first Turin programme with The Savages
The 25th edition of the Turin Film Festival has unveiled its complete line up under new artistic director Nanni Moretti.Traditionally known as the Italian film event dedicated to cutting edge and auteur driven fare sees only minor changes to its long-standing format.'I've always been passionate about the Turin Festival and ...
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Shadows and Tracey Fragments lead Bavaria's AFM deals
Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski's mystery love story Shadows and maverick Canadian director Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments lead a raft of deals signed by Bavaria Film International at the AFM.The Tracey Fragments was sold to Atlantik in an all-rights deal for Scandinavia, following a deal with the UK's Soda Pictures ...
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Connecting Cottbus market to present 13 new features
New films from Romania, Georgia, Serbia and Sweden are among 13 projects which will be pitched to potential production partners at this year's Connecting Cottbus East-West co-production market which begins on Thursday.According to Connecting Cottbus's artistic director Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, the 2007 lineup was selected from over 50 entries from 23 ...
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Norwegian director wins Nordic Film Prize
Norwegian director Bard Breien's feature debut The Art of Negative Thinking (Kunsten A Tenke Negativt) received the $18,000 NDR Film Prize at the 49th Nordic Film Days in the German city of Lubeck.The film, about a man coming to terms with disability, previously won Breien the best director Crysal Globe ...
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Summit signs three-year output deal with Concorde/Tele-Muenchen
Summit International has slotted into place the German piece of its output deal jigsaw with a three-year deal with Tele-Muenchen Group (TMG).The agreement will kick off with Twilight and Sex Drive and covers all rights in Germany and Austria as well as television rights in German-speaking Switzerland through 2010.Going forward ...
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Thessaloniki reveals 230 film line-up
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 16-25)programmeis to feature230 plus films representing 40 nations accompanied by a major push in Film Market and co-production activities. Among the 14 titles in competition - reserved to first and second films - is the world premiere ofGerman production Elli Makra by Athanasios Karanikolas.Two ...
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Schori withdraws candidacy for top Israeli film role
After 18 long months of fruitless talks, Katriel Schori has officially withdrawn his candidacy for the top executive job at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.Had he taken the role, hewould havebecome not only head of the Cinematheque but also of the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Israeli Film Archive. Approached in the ...
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UK films lead EFA nominations
The Queen leads the nominees for the 20th European Film Awards with six nominations, and The Last King of Scotland follows with five.Nominees for best European Film 2007 are Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven; Kevin Macdonald's The Last King Of ...
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Coach 14 strikes deals for Proyecto Dos and Lazo Rotos
At the AFM, Paris-based sales company Coach 14 has sold new titles Proyecto Dos by Guillermo Groizard and Lazo Rotos from Miguel Garcia-Borda to Germany's Telepool. Dos and another new title, Galantuomini from director Edoardo Winspeare, have stirred interest from the US and the UK while the former is also ...
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Rome's Business Street hopes to move further away from AFM
The Rome Film Fest's Business Street is not aspiring to become the new Mifed. That was the message at the AFM this week by Sylvain Auzou, The Business Street Manager. Some have been suggesting that Rome could eventually become a replacement for the old Mifed (which ended in 2004) but ...
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Kiarostami's first non-Iranian feature to be shot in French
MK2 has announced a shift in its Abbas Kiarostami project which was initially announced in Cannes. The film, entitled Certified Copy, was originally scheduled to be shot in English but with the final casting has been switched into French. The film will star Sami Frey and Juliette Binoche in what ...
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H2O sees flood of deals for French action title Nitro
H2O Motion Pictures has closed key sales here on its latest acquisition, the French-language action film Nitro. Deals have closed in the UK (Revolver), Japan (Movie-Eye), Brazil (Alphaville), and Thailand (IPA).H2O's Mark Horowitz also announced the company has picked up Peter McNamee's thriller Let Him Be, about a film-maker who ...
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EFP creates jury to select Shooting Stars for Berlin
European Film Promotion has changed its Shooting Stars programme by adding a jury to select the actors to be touted.Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus will serve as president of the new jury, who will vote for nine up-and-coming European actors to be presented as Shooting Stars at the 2008 Berlinale.Twenty two EFP ...
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Lars von Trier's Antichrist pre-sells widely for Trust
Lars Von Trier, the ageing enfant terrible of European cinema, clearly hasn't lost his allure for the international buyers. His new project Antichrist isn't cast yet.It hasn't been decided where the horror picture will shoot and the financing has still to be put together but that hasn't stopped distributors from ...
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K5 International picks up sales on McCarthy's The Visitor
Germany- and UK-based K5 International has taken on world sales rights to The Visitor.Groundswell Productions and Participant Productions backed the Tom McCarthy drama, his follow-up to The Station Agent.The Visitor had its world premiere in Toronto to solid reviews. Overture Films picked up North American rights in September and plan ...
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Days and Clouds (Giorni e Nuvole)
Dir: Silvio Soldini Italy/Switzerland 2007. 115 mins.The strongest of the five Italian films that received their national premieres at the Rome Film Fest, Days and Clouds (which also played in Toronto and London) is a fine piece of emotional eye-on-the-object filmmaking from homegrown auteur Silvio Soldini and regular screenplay sidekick ...
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Trust dances for Fischer Christensen's A Soap follow-up
Trust Film Sales has taken on Pernille Fischer Christensen's Everybody's Dancing, now in post and being readied for in time for potential premiere in Berlin (Christensen won the 2006 Berlinale's Silver Bear and best debut prizes with her debut A Soap.)Here at the AFM, Trust Film Sales will be screening ...