All articles by Sarah Cooper – Page 43
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NewsNew iPhone app to provide low cost production scheduling tool
Northern Film & Media has funded the new app, which brings the production stripboard system to a mobile device for the first time.
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NewsEM Media extends board to cover East of England
Roger Morris, Lucy Ward and Bill Thompson are joining the board of EM Media following the expansion of the agency’s remit after the demise of Screen East.
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NewsHigh Point Media Group moves into UK distribution
The first film to come out of the company’s new distribution arm will be Hanro Smitsman’s debut feature Skin starring Emmy nominated Robert de Hoog.
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NewsIcarus Films takes US rights to El Sicario Room 164
Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary about a Mexican hitman premiered in Venice last year.
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NewsBill Leimbach to unveil World War II epic at ScreenSingapore
The Beneath Hill 60 producer will be at the inaugural ScreenSingapore to raise financing for Singapore Sunset In 3D.
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FeaturesBorrowed Time
The seventh film to come out of Film London’s microbudget scheme Microwave is a comedy drama directed by London Film School graduate Jules Bishop and produced by Olivier Kaempfer for Parkville Pictures.
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NewsJules Bishop lines up second feature Cafe Finito
The UK director is currently shooting his debut feature Borrowed Time as part of Film London’s Microwave scheme.
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NewsDenmark's Nordisk Film picks up big US titles in Cannes
The Danish major reported an “excellent” Cannes, with distribution deals done on a series of titles, including four from Summit.
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NewsParticipants announced for second Pixel Lab in Germany
UK producer Marc Boothe of B3 Media and former head of acquisitions for the Match Factory Tobias Pausinger are amongst the 32 participants.
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NewsRay Winstone to star in BBC adaptation of Great Expectations
It is the second adaptation of Dickens’ classic novel currently in the works, with the feature version set to star Ralph Fiennes in same role.
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NewsEIFF to feature new music strand Sound Tracks
It is part of the new-look Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs June 15-26.
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NewsOliver S. Milburn to adapt feature version of School's Out
The feature adaptation of Scott Andrews’ boarding school set novel has received development funding from Screen South.
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NewsPeeter Simm to direct ensemble feature Lonely Island
The film is the first European co-production to be backed by the Belarus government.
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NewsScottish VOD company Distrify partners with Centre for Moving Image
Distrify will show online trailers at the upcoming Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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NewsBachmann launches Vox Humana archive collection
The Criterion Collection has acquired US rights to the entire archive; international film festivals including Karlovy Vary to host onstage interviews to be added to the collection.
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FeaturesRebecca Daly
Irish director Rebecca Daly’s feature debut The Other Side Of Sleep played in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight. She talks to Screen about her inspirations, shooting in Ireland and sleepwalking.
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CommentCarry On Star Wars
Barbara Windsor comes face to face with a group of stormtroopers as Elstree & Borehamwood gets the Hollywood treatment.
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NewsBabylon International launches second edition in Berlin
Mentors on the European-African training and development programme include John Akomfrah and Jean-Pierre Bekolo.
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NewsBrian Skeet to direct noir thriller Disorientated
UK film-maker Brian Skeet is to direct Disoriented, an Italian set neo-noir film starring D.B Sweeney [pictured], Dee Wallace and Michael Kearns.
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NewsKon-Tiki shoot underway in Norway
Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg’s feature will also shoot in Malta, Thailand, Bulgaria and New York.