All articles by Nandita Dutta
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FeaturesFilmart 2015: HAF profiles
Profiles of projects from the 13th Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).
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NewsIME hops on board Lala
EXCLUSIVE: Pune and Mumbai-based IME Motion Pictures will co-produce Indo-Italian project Lala, to be directed by Goutam Ghose.
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NewsPallas ignites for Rajesh Jala’s The Spark
EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Pallas Film will co-produce Rajesh Jala’s The Spark (Chingari) with France’s ASAP Films, which boarded the project at Film Bazaar last year.
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NewsNFDC, Dussart bond over Avani
EXCLUSIVE: India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and France’s Catherine Dussart Productions have boarded Rajnesh Domalpalli’s rural fable Avani as co-producers.
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NewsFarahani stung by Scorpions
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani will star in Qissa director Anup Singh’s upcoming drama Mantra - The Song Of Scorpions.
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NewsAltamar has Invisible One in sight
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based producer Alexa Rivero will co-produce Amit Dutta’s The Invisible One through her newly-established production company Altamar Films.
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NewsLe Boxeur joins Revolution
EXCLUSIVE: Joris van Wijk of Amsterdam-based Le Boxeur Films has boarded Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla’s documentary Proposition For A Revolution as a co-producer.
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FeaturesMostofa S. Farooki, Ant Story
After winning a special mention last year for Television, the Bangladeshi filmmaker returns to DIFF with Ant Story.
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FeaturesMahmoud Kaabour, Champ of the Camp
The Lebanese filmmaker talks to Liz Shackleton about his documentary, which premiered at DIFF.
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NewsImaginarium wraps Assaf’s Curve
Jordanian director Rifqi Assaf is in post-production on his debut feature The Curve, co-produced by Jordan’s The Imaginarium Films and Egypt’s Film Clinic.
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NewsAlfons joins Mostafa’s A To B
EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian comedian Shadi Alfons will join Saudi stand-up comic Fahad Albutairi in the cast of Emirati filmmaker Ali F Mostafa’s road film A To B, which starts shooting in February.
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NewsGreenlight Films planning genre trio
EXCLUSIVE: Emirati director-actor Abdullah Aljunaibi’s Greenlight Films is planning a slate of three genre films, kicking off with action thriller Run, which is scheduled to start shooting in March, 2014.
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NewsAl Turki, Golubovich to launch film fund
Saudi-born Hollywood producer Mohammed Al Turki is setting up a film fund, RAV Raw Artist Vision, with Russian producer Arcadiy Golubovich.
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NewsFilmi financing Martyr, Dolphins
Dubai-based film funding initiative Filmi is financing Emirati animated feature Martyr Of The Flag and Waleed Al Shehhi’s IWC Filmmaker Award winner Dolphins.
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NewsIraq’s Children Of The Future debut at DIFF
DIFF has added a new section, Iraqi Legacy: Children of the Future, which will screen six short films from Iraq’s new generation of filmmakers.
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NewsDreamWorks: bright future for directors
DreamWorks Animation producer Jane Hartwell and senior VFX supervisor Markus Manninen explained how new production processes are empowering the vision of the director, in a session on ‘The Future of Animation’ at the Cinematic Innovation Summit (CIS) in Dubai yesterday.
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NewsASAP to produce Jala's The Spark
EXCLUSIVE: France’s ASAP Films has boarded Rajesh Jala’s The Spark (Chingari) at NFDC Film Bazaar 2013. Selected for NFDC Screenwriters’ Lab and Co-production Market, the project also won the Incredible India award announced on the closing night of Film Bazaar.
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NewsSebastian finds funding, co-producer
Vasant Nath’s drama Sebastian Wants To Remember has found an Indian co-producer and secured a grant of $68,000 (€50,000) from EU Media Development.
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NewsKauwboy wins at India’s ICFFI
Dutch filmmaker Boudewijn Koole’s Kauwboy won the Golden Elephant for best film in the International Live-action Competition at this year’s International Children’s Film Festival of India (ICFFI) which wrapped in Hyderabad on Nov 20.
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NewsProducers urged to tailor materials for int’l market
Sales agents urged Indian producers to pay more attention to the materials they require to handle a film’s international distribution at a Film Bazaar seminar on The Role Of A Sales Agent.