All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 36
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Lucy Frazer replaces Michelle Donelan as UK culture secretary
Frazer will head up a “re-focused” Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Signature Entertainment picks up UK-Ireland rights to ‘Little Bone Lodge’ (exclusive)
The title was picked up from UK sales outfit SC Films International.
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Protagonist Pictures launches sales on Neon, QC Entertainment horror ‘It Lives Inside’ (exclusive)
It is the first feature from Bishal Dutta and will premiere at SXSW, with sales launching at EFM.
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“I’ve seen so many smiling faces”: Rotterdam wraps an emotional edition
International attendees point to IFFR’s sense of community, inclusivity – and wide sweep of films.
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How Muayad Alayan filmed ‘A House In Jerusalem’ in Palestine and Israel during the pandemic
The title received its world premiere in the Limelight strand at Rotterdam.
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‘Le Spectre De Boko Haram’ scoops top prize at Rotterdam 2023
Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s ’Munnel’ and Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan’s ‘New Strains’ also won awards.
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Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jenna Coleman star in Anton’s UK-set action thriller ‘Jackdaw’
A first-look image has also been released.
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Port of Production residency programme selects four international producers
The producers hail from Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Canada.
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Rotterdam’s Reality Check symposium calls for creation of a cross-festival coalition
“The festival industry as we know has come to be defined by a spirit of competition rather than collaboration,” said festival director Vanja Kaludjercic.
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Iranian filmmaker Masoud Kimiai banned from attending Rotterdam
The director’s film ’Killing A Traitor’ is playing in the Harbour strand.
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Italy-France western ‘Heads Or Tails?’, Ukraine’s ‘Consider Vera’ big Rotterdam industry winners
Awards handed out to projects in 40th anniversary edition of CineMart.
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Ukrainian director Philip Sotnychenko has mixed feelings being at a film festival: “Our fight is on the cultural front”
’La Palisiada’, the debut feature of Kyiv-based filmmaker Philip Sotnychenko, is screening in the Tiger competition at Rotterdam.
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Rotterdam competition title ‘New Strains’ picked up for world sales (exclusive)
The US comedy is directed by Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan.
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BFI, Screen Producers Australia, Screen Forever launch co-production programme
UK producers and sales companies can apply now to take part in the UK-Australia programme that kicks off in May.
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Casting director Simone Bär dies aged 57
Bär worked on ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ and contributed to ‘Tar’.
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Genesius Pictures, Cornerstone Films launch new outfit GenStone, unveils first project
First GenStone project is ’Libby And Joan Hit The Road’ written by Katy Brand.
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Glasgow Film Festival sets full 2023 line-up, Nida Manzoor’s ‘Polite Society’ to close the festival
Six world premieres, 16 European and international premieres and 70 UK premieres feature in the line-up
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Six talking points from the 2023 Oscar nominations
Analysis of this year’s nominations for the Academy Awards.
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Oscar nominations 2023: which UK and Irish films and talent made the cut?
The lead actor category is particularly strong for the UK and Ireland.
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BFI Network sets 2023 cohort for emerging producer programme Insight (exclusive)
Participants include including Screen Rising Star Scotland Reece Cargan and Hoard associate producer Cheri Darbon.