All articles by Screen International correspondents – Page 7
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Avant-garde focus for Rotterdam programme
A retrospective of the workof two of the world's most challenging film-makers, Stephen Dwoskinand Nagasaki Shunichi, will be among the highlights of the 35th edition of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam.The focus on London-based Dwoskin coincides with the launch of a 14-film DVD boxset of his work, while Shunichi is hoping ...
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Three shortlisted for Sutherland Trophy
Three films have been shortlisted for the British Film Institute's Sutherland Trophy, awarded to the director of the most original first feature film screened at The Times bfi London Film Festival.The three are Kari Paljakka's For The Living And The Dead, Giorgio Diritti's The Wind Blows Round, and Ali Mosaffa's ...
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Ford takes Ingenious finance role
Media investment group Ingenioushas appointed Sue Ford as group finance director. Ford previously held thesame position at Channel 4 Television Corporation and 4 Ventures Ltd. Sue will be responsible forthe financial management and governance of the Ingenious Group.In the last year, thecompany has raised film finance for productions such as ...
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Oscar-winner Arnold sets off along Red Road
Oscar-winningdirector, Andrea Arnold starts principal photography on her first feature, Red Road, in Glasgow thisweek.The film is being produced by Red Road Films, a subsidiary of Glasgow-based Sigma Films. It is a collaboration with Zentropa Films - part of Lars von Trier's experimental project, The Advance Party.Red Road is the ...
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Saudis open first cinema in 20 years
Saudi Arabia is to allow the opening of itsfirst cinema in two decades, according to reports.The cinemawill be located in the InterContinental Hotel in the capital Riyadh, and will have 1,400 seats. There areno signs of a wider thawing of restrictions.The newfacility will present only cartoons aimed at women and ...
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Cannes prizewinner opens documentary festival
An award-winning study of women's legal statusin a small community in Cameroon opens this year's 18th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).Britishfilm-makers Kim Longinotto and FlorenceAsiyi's Sisters In Law follows the work of the female publicprosecutor and judge in a traditional community in the African country. The filmwon the Prix Art ...
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UK online rental service shut as High Court seizes assets
Online rental serviceBoxchoice.com has shut after UK High Court enforcement officers seized itsstock.The move was part of theRental Rights Protection Programme (RRPP) against copyright infringement.The RRPP, an organisation launchedlast year by the Federation Against Copyright Theft and distributors, obtaineda High Court injunction in March ordering Boxchoice to stop renting out ...
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Nominations invited for foreign film Oscar
More than 90 countries have been invited submit contendersfor next year's foreign film Oscar. In the last 50 years, 99countries have submitted films to the foreign language competition.Only one film from each nation is permitted with the winnerannounced at the 2006 Oscars on March 5 at the Kodak Theatre in ...
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Redbus climb aboard Wicker remake
Redbus Film Distribution is to co-produce Neil La Bute's remakeof The Wicker Man as part of athree-film deal with Nu-Image.The distributor has acquired UK rights to the film as wellas two other titles, Bruce Beresford's The Contract and Tobe Hooper's Zombies.The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy in 1973,has a ...
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ScreenDaily: Thursday 7 July
Due totoday's events in London we are unable to bring you our usual coverage on ScreenDaily.com.Normal service will resume as soon as possible.
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Screen signs up new international editor
Screen International has appointed one of the mostexperienced and respected film business journalists Fionnuala Halligan asassistant editor (international).Her duties will include overseeing the worldwide network ofcorrespondents working for the magazine, festival dailies and Screendaily.com.Editor Michael Gubbins said he was delighted to be workingwith such an accomplished journalist in the exciting ...
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Dreaming becomes reality for Alexei Uchitel with Moscow victory
Russian film-maker AlexeiUchitel has taken top honours at the 27th Moscow International Film Festivalwith Cold War era drama Dreaming Of Space.The award on Sunday marksthe second successive year that a homegrown film-maker has won the Golden StGeorge: in 2004 Dmitry Meskhiev's Our Own took best director, film andactor.Set in a ...
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Heroes wanted for Braveheart Challenge
The UK Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF) isinviting the film industry to join its charity fundraising BraveheartChallenge.The three-day event of 19 gruelling physical challengestakes place in Scotland from September 30 to October 2.Those heroic enough to take on tasks including speedboating,abseiling and JCB driving will compete for the Braveheart ...
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Europe pays steep price for bargain DVDs - summit claim
The plummeting cost of DVD threatens to cost distributorsand retailers billions in lost revenue over the next five years, delegates toScreen International's 2005 Home Cinema Summit were told yesterday.And independent distributors blamed the studios for backinga price-cut policy that was damaging to everyone in the business, including theHollywood majors themselves.If ...
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Amiel signed to give wings to Angels
Jon Amiel has signed up to direct a new film forLondon-based production company, The Producers.Angel Makers tells the story of a Yorkshire farming communityafter the First World War where returning soldiers discover that German POWshave taken their jobs and wives.Amiel, whose previous work includes Entrapmentand Sommersby, has talked to Helen ...
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Dardenne brothers top Nouveau Montreal festival
Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne's Palme d'Or winning TheChild will be among the films screeningat the 34th Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal from October 13to 23. Programming Director Claude Chamberlan has alsoannounced three more films for theprogramme: Lars von Trier's Manderlay, Alain Cavalier's Le Filmeur andthe directorial debut of Iranian ...
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Bafta to get its first woman chair
Joint director of Tightrope Pictures Hilary Bevan Jones isto become the first woman to chair the British Academy of Film and TelevisionArts (Bafta) in 60 years.She was named deputy chairman today, which means she willchair the organisation next year.Bevan Jones is a well-known name in UK television with ahistory of ...
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Atonement opts for the Wright stuff after Eyre departure
UK theatre director Sir Richard Eyre has stepped down from theadaptation of Ian McEwan's bestselling novel Atonement.Eyre reportedly wanted a delay while he worked on other theatreprojects but instead Working Title has decided to replace him.The new director is Joe Wright, who has just finished filmingPride And Prejudice. He was ...
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Freud promises business as usual following takeover
UK PR business Freud Communication will retain itsrelationship with its string of film industry clients following the takeover bythe Publicis Groupe.But the acquisition by the French advertising and marketinggiant could allow the international expansion clients increasingly demand."To be able to preserve and develop our business and culturebut have the resources ...
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London Dome regeneration plans hint at major film role
Plans unveiled yesterday to renovate London's MillenniumDome will include a 10-screen cinema complex that may serve as a future venuefor UK premieres and market screenings.Dome operator Anschutz Entertainment Group's (AEG), which will redevelop the site in a $11m (£6m) a year deal, has considerable experience infilm. Its business empire includes ...