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Four German documentary prizes awarded
Four up-and-coming German documentary filmmakers were awarded this year's Bavarian Documentary Prize "The Young Lion" on the eve of the 20th Munich Filmfest this weekend.The three Young Lions- with a purse each of Euros 8,000 - went to producer-director-writer Caterina Klusemann for her film Ima; to the director-writer team of ...
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Casting awards go to German, UK agents
German casting agent Rita Serra-Roll (Manitu's Shoe) and UK casting agency Hubbard Casting (Chocolat, The Lord Of The Rings) are the winners of this year's National and International Casting Awards which have been sponsored by the private media fund Erste MedienDachFonds.The two casting awards will be presented at a gala ...
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China Central Television launches English-language channel
State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) used president Zhang Zemin's visit to Hong Kong to mark the fifth anniversary of the territory's handover to China to launch its English-language channel CCTV-9 on Hong Kong Cable. The launch, which takes place today (July 1), was announced at a high profile launch ...
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Helkon Media reports increased turnover, reduced earnings
While Helkon Media's turnover increased by 48% in the first nine months of its 2001/2002 financial year (August 1 2001 - 30 April 2002) from Euros 98m to Euros 145m, its earnings from usual business activities plummeted to Euros - 21.9m (2001: Euro 3.1m).In a statement Helkon explained that its ...
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Sandler charms $37.6m opening for Mr Deeds
Adam Sandler wasback on top of the box office over the weekend as his latest comedy Mr Deeds opened with a smashing estimated $37.6mat 3,231 sites for Columbia Pictures. The film marks another hit for the studioafter Spider-Man and PanicRoom, and continues arun of success which should reach record proportions ...
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SKYY Short Film Awards give French short its top prize
The SKYY Vodka Short FilmAwards took place in Los Angeles last Thursday night as part of the IFP/WestLos Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) in a ceremony which premiered JamesWoods' directorial debut Falling In Love With Pongo Panga, a short which was commissioned by SKKY.Woods attended the eventalong with host Kevin Pollak, ...
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Global Film School strikes scholarship deal with Fox Searchlab
Global Film School (GFS),the virtual film school jointly founded by UCLA's School of Theater Filmand Television, the Australian Film Television and Radio School and theNational Film And Television School of Great Britain, has signed a strategicagreement with Fox Searchlab offering Fox Searchlab's film-makerprogramme to GFS's student base.Under the terms of ...
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Paradox Lake wins top $50,000 prize at Los Angeles Film Festival
The eighth annual LosAngeles Film Festival (LAFF) - operating under the aegis of IFP/West fora second year - closed on Saturday night with a screening of MiguelArteta's The Good Girl. Andat its awards ceremony earlier in the day, Przemyslav Reut's ParadoxLake won the $50,000 TargetFilmmaker Award for best narrative feature. ...
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East & Sinclair name company Spitfire, start Masked & Anonymous
Former Intermediaco-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East have named their new production outfitSpitfire Pictures and started production in Los Angeles on their first filmunder the banner Masked & Anonymous. The all-star film which is directed by TV veteran Larry Charles, is aco-production with Destiny Productions and BBC Films. Spitfire is ...
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Mr Deeds
Dir: Steven Brill. US. 2002. 96 mins. The Adam Sandler hit factory appears to be back in business. After falling way short of their usual box office standards with 2000's surreally wacky Little Nicky, the boyish star and his regular writing and producing partners revert to much safer material with ...
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Taviani wins top Moscow film festival prize for Resurrection
The 24th Moscow International Film Festival once again boasted a host of international celebrities at its closing ceremony with Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Jacqueline Bisset, Atom Egoyan and Bob Rafelson turning up as well as Vittorio Taviani who collected the main prize for the film Resurrection.Based on a novel by ...
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Coronation, Little Bird to form international film finance company
South Africa's Coronation Capital and Irish production company Little Bird are to set up a financial services company that will structure and raise finance for international film producers.The two companies recently signed an agreement to produce a feature documentary on the legendary 1950s music of Sophiatown which will be produced ...
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Australian film investment fund falls short of target
The ambitious joint bid by Australia's Macquarie Bank and the Nine Network to raise $35.1m (A$62.5m) from private investors has fallen considerably short of the target with the result that only two features will be produced rather than the hoped-for eight.But although only $13.3m (A$23.6m) was raised by the time ...
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EM.TV boss doubts company's chances of survival
Werner E. Klatten, CEO of the beleaguered German media concern EM.TV & Merchandising, has expressed his doubts about the chances of his company emerging from restructuring after the bursting of the Neuer Markt bubble and the Kirch crisis.In an interview, he stated that the restructuring of EM.TV "has become enormously ...
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BrekFest celebrates film soundtracks
The importance of soundtracks to film will be the focus of the BrekFest Film & Music Festival to be held on Sunday 4 August at the Valhalla Cinema Glebe, Sydney.The festival is a one-day event that involves an industry discussion forum, short film and music video screenings and live soundtrack ...
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Cockram gets top job at Australian Film Institute
Felicity Cockram is leaving her job as senior business manager with the Montecito Picture Company in Los Angeles and returning home to take up the role of general manager of the Australian Film Institute (AFI) from July 29. During the past six years Cockram has worked as executive liaison for ...
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Messier steps down from Vivendi Universal
Jean-Marie Messier has exited his post as chairman of Vivendi Universal following a board meeting yesterday, according to widespread, but still officially unconfirmed, reports.French daily newspaper Le Monde said that Messier had agreed, albeit reluctantly, to quit his position, but that negotiations concerning his severance package could delay an official ...
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Chicken Heart
Dir: Hiroshi Shimizu. Japan. 2002. 105 mins.Hiroshi Shimizu is a Takashi Kitano protege, having worked as an assistant director on several of his films, including Hana-Bi, Kikujiro and Brother. At the same time he has also received backing for his first two features from Kitano's production company, Office Kitano. Shimizu's ...
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Apartment 5C
Dir: Raphael Nadjari. US/Fr/Israel. 2002. 93 mins. Two qualities distinguish this grungy, ultra-low-budget New York production: John Surman's gorgeously moody saxophone jazz score and the fact that the film, set during last year's cold, grey Thanksgiving celebrations, was apparently one of the first shot to be in the city after ...
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Bridget
Dir: Amos Kollek. Fr-US. 2001. 90mins.Amos Kollek is one of the great wonders of the film festival world. Each new film seems virtually guaranteed of a slot on the A-list (the last two, Queenie In Love and Fast Food, Fast Women, both premiered in Cannes), yet none has broken though ...