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The Location Guide relaunches free locations website
TheLocationGuide.com has relaunched its website feature free access and new functionalities. The online resource is geared to film producers seeking locations and services across 180 countries.Changes at the site include more types of companies listed and a new look for online discussion area Pre Production Forum.The Location Guide is a ...
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Reviews
Lezione 21
Dir: Alessandro Baricco. Italy, UK. 2008. 92 mins.As the title implies, this is at heart a lecture. In it, Alessandro Baricco, a former music critic and well-known novelist in Italy, gives his take on one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, through the device of ...
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Prisa invests $10m in Bolivia's Garafulic
Spanish multimedia giant Grupo Prisa plans to pump $10m into leading Bolivian media group Garafulic to develop new and existing TV, internet, print and radio ventures in Bolivia.The move forms part of Prisa's expansion into the Spanish-speaking Latin American market. Among other interests, the group already owns publishing giant Santillana ...
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TIFF announces Asian and Spanish-language titles
The Toronto International Film Festival has added a raft of Spanish-language and Asian titles to its September line-up, including the world premiere of South Korean filmmaker So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain, the follow-up to her acclaimed 2006 debut In Between Days. Inspired by events in her own life, the new ...
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Red Cliff to open Tokyo International Film Festival
John Woo's epic martial arts drama Red Cliff will be the opening film of this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 18-26). The news was announced at a Tokyo press conference for the upcoming Japanese release of Red Cliff on November 1.The film will be distributed by Toho-Towa and Avex ...
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Dance Of The Dragon wins in West Hollywood
John Radel's Singaporean drama Dance Of The Dragon was crowned best festival picture as the first annual West Hollywood International Film Festival concluded its four-day run.The film earned best director editing and cinematography prizes.Festival founder Martin De Luca and his team corralled more than 100 films during the event, which ...
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Media Luna picks up Locarno competition title Autumn
With the Locarno film festival kicking off last night, Media Luna Entertainment has picked international distribution rights for Turkish director Özcam Alper's feature debut Autumn (Sonbahar) which has its international premiere in Locarno's International Competition on Thursday.Onur Saylak, Megi Koboladze, R. Gulefer Yenigul and Serkan Keskin are the cast in ...
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Cinema City International goes digital in 3D
Cinema City International is in the process of equipping its theatres in Central and Eastern Europe and in Israel with D-Cinema technology suitable for 3D projection.The multiplex operator has ordered 50 Kinoton DCP 30 Digital Cinema Projectors with integrated Dolby 3D system, several of which have already been installed in ...
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Polish exhibitor Multikino plans 10 Ukraine cinemas
Polish multiplex operator Multikino is planning to open 10 cinemas in Ukraine in the next five years. The first of these, in Lviv, will open at the end of 2009.The company further plans to open four additional multiplexes in Poland by the end of 2009.Wojciech Kostrzewa, CEO of International Trading ...
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Sarajevo lines up shorts jury; Kevin Spacey to attend fest
The jury of the 14th Sarajevo Film Festival's short films competition will be comprised of Michael J. Werner, co-chairman of Fortissimo Films; Sejla Kamerlic, artist and filmmaker whose short film What Do I Know had premiere at last year's Venice Corto Cortissimo, and won the best short film award at ...
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Jonathan Demme to chair San Sebastian jury
Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme will chair the official jury at this year's San Sebastian film festival.Demmeis known for films includingThe Silence Of The Lambs, Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate, Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart Of Gold. He will also be presenting a 'work in progress' version of his ...
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First Branchage festival to open in Jersey with Man On Wire
The programme has been unveiled for the first Branchage Jersey Film Festival, taking place on the island Sept 25-28.The festival will open at the island's Opera House with a gala screening of the multiple-festival-winning Man On Wire and close at the historic Gorey Castle with Vertigo/Film4's MySpace user-generated film Faintheart, ...
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Via Digital secures Euros640m loan
Spanish digital satellite TV platform Via Digital is set to receive a cash injection of Euros640m via a loan organised by the Chase Manhattan Bank.According to a press statement released jointly by Via and Chase, the loan will be used to finance the platform's plans for expansion which include continuing ...
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Shorts International offers 21 sci-fi shorts on iTunes
Shorts International has struck a deal with the iTunes Store in the US, UK and Canada to offer The Sci Fi Collection, a group of 21 shorts.The shorts include Josh Lee Kwai's Eli starring Heroes actor David Anders; Australian drama Sleeper by Andrew Milner; Youngwoong Jang's animation Mirage; Ransom Riggs' ...
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KOFIC submits Crossing as Korea's Oscar entry
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced North Korean refugee drama Crossing as its entry to the 81st Academy Awards best foreign-language film nominations. Based on real-life interviews from North Korean defectors, the film follows the story of a father and son tragically separated and trying to find each other, ...