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Israel's The Policeman wins $15,000 co-production award
Israelifilm The Policeman was the winner of the Crossroads co-production forum prizeat the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The award worth $15,000 (Euros 10,000) was offered by the Festival sponsor Nokia N series. The project, selected from a shortlist of 14, was presented to scriptwriter/director Nadav Lapid. The film is produced ...
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Jellyfish wins top prize at Argentina's San Luis festival
Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret's Jellyfish won the Golden Puntano prize for best film at San Luis International Film Festival first edition, which closed on Sunday in the small and prosperous city located 800 km far from Buenos Aires.The Israeli-French co-production, which won the Camera d'Or at this year's Cannes ...
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Beart and Lieifers to host 20th EFAs on Dec 1
The 20th European Film Awards, to be held Dec 1 in Berlin, will be hosted by French actress Emmanuelle Beart and German actor Jan Josef Liefers. EFA president Wim Wenders will deliver opening remarks to the 1,400 guests at Berlin 's Arena. Other guests will include Jeanne Moreau and Liv ...
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The Jammed named best film at Australia's Inside Film Awards
The Home Song Stories, The Jammed and Happy Feet were the three films that went home with the most honours from the Inside Film (IF) Awards, held tonight on Queensland's Gold Coast.The self-financed film The Jammed won best film, and best script for writer-director Dee McLachlan, while The Home Song ...
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Shearer, Braun to receive honours from IDA
Jocelyn Shearer will receive the International Documentary Association's 2007 IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award on behalf of National Geographic Digital Motion and Darfur Now director Ted Braun will receive the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.Shearer and Braun will be feted during the 23rd Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award ...
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Dulluc prize shortlists films by Rohmer, Chabrol, and Honore
Eight films have been short-listed for France's prestigious Louis Delluc prize. Half of the nominees hail from confirmed masters and half from younger talent. The films are: Eric Rohmer's The Romance Of Astrea And Celadon , Belle Toujours from Manoel de Oliveira, A Girl Cut In Two by Claude Chabrol, ...
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Secret Sunshine wins best film at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Korean director Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine (Miryang) tonight won the award for best feature at the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and also best actress for Jeon Do-Yeon, but otherwise the awards were evenly spread. If any country shone through it was Iran: the international jury lead by Indian actor ...
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Golden Horse Awards announces new nominations
The Golden Horse Organising Committee has announced additional nominations for the Golden Horse Film Awards to be held on Dec 8 in Taipei. The unusual reconvening of the jury on Sunday night fills gaps created by the withdrawal of Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage and Li Yang's Blind Mountain under pressure ...
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Munyurangabo wins international competition at AFI FEST
Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo was named AFI FEST 2007's winner of the grand jury prize for international feature competition.Andreas Mol Dalsgaard's Afghan Muscles and Nina Davenport's Operation Filmmaker shared the International documentary grand jury prize.The shorts jury prize went to Nash Edgerton's Spider, while a special award for best animated ...
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Australia - ASIA pacific awards - Pacific celebration
Held on the sandy shores of the Queensland Gold Coast in Australia, the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsas) aims to celebrate and promote some of the region's leading films and film-makers to the international industry.'There is a marketing push behind all of this,' says Apsa chairman Des Power. 'I ...
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Palm Springs to honour Jerry Weintraub, Juno at awards gala
The 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honour Jerry Weintraub with the Patron Of The Arts Award presented by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.Weintraub will receive the award at the festival's awards gala on January 5, 2008. The festival will also honour Juno with the Chairman's Vanguard ...
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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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IDA to honour When The Levees Broke, Sputnik Media
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced two of the winning theatrical documentaries to be honoured at the 2007 IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award Gala Benefit in Los Angeles on Dec 7.Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina film When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts will receive the Pare Lorentz ...
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The Red Awn (Hongse Kangbaiyin)
Dir.Cai Shangjun. China. 2007. 108minsAlready established as a highly successful screenwriter whose work with Zhang Yang on Shower and Sunflower won international kudos, Cai Shangjun steps behind the camera for the first time with a film whose theme - a father-son relationship - has informed his previous work. A simple, ...
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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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Piracy - Awards Piracy - Screeners: a calculated risk
When it comes to screeners, distributors are having to square the potential piracy risk with the benefits of getting their film in voters’ DVD players.
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Awards Countdown - High class of 2007
A glut of English-language movies, probably caused by the flood of equity into the production market over the last two years, will make for an unusually competitive awards season this year.
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Tuya's Marriage pulls out of Golden Horse race
Berlin Golden Bear winner Tuya's Marriage has withdrawn from Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards race. Executive producer Wang Le made the official request to the Golden Horse organisers on Wednesday, just four days after nominations were announced. The Mongolian-set drama was one of the highest profile entries set to compete at ...
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Lust, Caution leads nominations for Golden Horse awards
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution dominated the nominations for Taiwan's 44th Golden Horse Film Awards with nods in eleven categories including Best Feature Film. Also competing for the top prize and in multiple categories are Zhang Yang's Getting Home, Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories, Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage and Doze ...
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Jason Reitman's Juno takes Best Film prize in Rome
Jason Reitman's teen pregnancy drama/comedy Juno won Rome Film Fest's Marco Aurelio Best Film Award, announced yesterday. Reitman was in Rome to accept the award, along with screenwriter Diablo Cody.The lucrative award also comes with $287,700 (Euros 200,000).'It is terrifying to bring your film to another culture where they speak ...