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Match Factory closes Swiss, Italy deals on Venice winner Teza
The Match Factory has sold Venice award winner Teza to Switzerland (Trigon) and Italy (Ripley's Film). On Saturday, Haile Gerima's feature won Venice's Special Jury Prize and the Osella for Best Screenplay (also by Gerima). On Friday, it also won the SIGNIS Award special mention and Cinema for UNICEF commendation ...
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Canadian Film Centre launches actors' training programme
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is launching Canada's first professional training program for established screen actors. The scheme, set to launch in autumn 2009, will offer advanced onscreen performance training to up eight experienced Canadian actors. Its principal backers are CanWest and the Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation.The training will explore ...
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EXECUTIVE SUITE - Kirk D'Amico
The founder of Myriad Pictures tells Patrick Frater why bigger is better in the changing film sales sector.Your company prides itself on selling films from a myriad of genres. What are you looking for when you pick up a title'Although I hate to make comparisons with other companies, we are ...
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CMG seals three-picture deals with Poland, Turkey
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has closed sales on its key Toronto sales titles Zambezia, Killer Bean Forever and The People Speak.Poland's Vison Film and Turkey's Film Pop acquired rights to the trio. The animated feature Killer Bean Forever is based on Jeff Lew's short Killer Bean 2: The Party, ...
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3L follows Adam Resurrected with Among Farmers, Hangtime
Germany's 3L Filmproduktion, co-producer of Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected which screens in Toronto's Masters section this week after its world premiere in Telluride, has returned to Germany's recent dark past to back Dutch-born filmmaker Ludi Boeken's latest feature Among Farmers (Unter Bauern).The German-French co-production with Joachim von Mengershausen's FilmForm, Cologne-based ...
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CPH:PIX recruits top Danish directors, artists for new project
Copenhagen's new CPH:PIX festival will debut the ARTFILM-FILMART project during its first edition.The initiative will present five Danish acclaimed filmmakers creating five different films in collaboration with five renowned visual artists. The pairs are Pernille Fischer Christensen (A Soap) and Cathrine Raben Davidsen; Christoffer Boe (Reconstruction) and Balder Olrik; Dagur ...
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Fortissimo strikes Maximum Canadian deal for Disgrace
Fortissimo Films continues its strong Toronto sales with a Canadian deal for Steve Jacobs' Disgrace with Maximum Film Distribution.John Malkovich stars in the adaptation of JM Coetzee's lauded South-Africa set novel, about a disgraced professor who is confronted with violence on his daughter's rural farm. The deal is for all ...
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Jessica Alba to star in Marilyn Agrelo's Invisible Sign
Jessica Alba will star in Silverwood Films and iDeal Partners Fund's modern fable An Invisible Sign Of My Own, which Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsay will introduce to buyers here and Endeavor is representing for North America.Marilyn Agrelo, who scored a hit with the 2005 Sundance documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y.'s Vallee sets up Shoe Business
Jean-Marc Vallee, the multi-award winning filmmaker behind 2005 Quebecois smash C.R.A.Z.Y., is setting up his next production, Shoe Business, a comic drama set at the height of the 1970s disco craze.Vallee will produce the film on an estimated $6.6m-$9.4m (C$7m-C$10m) budget through his C.R.A.Z.Y. Films production shingle, although he is ...
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Celluloid takes international to Soul Power, Ocean buys France
Celluloid Dreams has acquired all international rights from Submarine to Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary Soul Power following its world premiere here and has concluded a deal in France with Ocean.Celluloid is weighing up other offers from the UK and Australia, among others, and expects to close further deals this week. Submarine ...
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Millennium comes on board Norton-starrer Leaves In The Grass
Millennium Films has boarded the $9.5m Edward Norton comedy Leaves InThe Grass after the financing deal set up through New York-based Barbarian fell apart in the summer.Tim Blake Nelson will start shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, on September 22 to take advantage of state tax incentives and Millennium's facility in the ...
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Bavaria clinches Russian Krabat deal with Film Depot
Bavaria Film International has closed its first sale on Krabat ahead of the first public screening of the film, to Russia's Film Depot.Bavaria Film International's Head of Sales Stefanie Zeitler announced the deal.Marco Kreuzpaintner's 1646-set drama about an orphan who trains to be a sorcerer's apprentice, adapted from Otfried Preussler's ...
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Zentropa adds Italians to financing web
Denmark's Zentropa has signed a deal with Italy's Istituto Luce and Rome-based producer Leo Pescarolo of Imago Film to co-develop, finance and distribute a package of five titles including Lars Von Trier's next two films and three English-language films by other Danish directors.Zentropa is also in talks with Fine Line ...
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Venice FIPRESCI prizes go to Goodbye Solo, Inland (Gabba)
Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which is screening at TIFF through September 11, took the FIPRESCI international critics prize in Venice, as best film in Horizons and International Critics' Week.The FIPRESCI prize for the international competition went Inland (Gabbla) by Tariq Teguia. Inland is about present-day Algeria, through the experiences of ...
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Stewart Till buys Icon as foundation for international network
Stewart Till's company Stadium has agreed a deal to acquire the international operations of Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's Icon Group comprising sales outfit Icon Entertainment International, the UK and Australian distribution operations and the Majestic Films & Television library. The deal is subject to due diligence.The acquisition marks the ...
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Dir. Mark AbrahamUS. 2007. 119 mins.Marc Abraham's debut feature about an inventor battling the Ford Motor Company, which steals and markets Robert Kearns's window-wiper invention, puts new mileage on the David-Goliath model. Sentimental but remarkably compelling, the saga of a little man's victory over a corporate giant will ensure that ...
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Ashley Luke leaves Fortissimo for New South Wales FTO
Ashley Luke joins the New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO) as director of market development on September 29 after seven years with sales agent Fortissimo.'I have been in Australia for four years and now know it pretty well and this move means I can solely concentrate on Australian ...
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Dir. Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2008. 94minsA family’s struggles with loss, grief and guilt form the basis of a frustratingly insubstantial drama inGenova.Michael Winterbottom’s latest effort is commendable for its refusal to indulge in easy sentimentality but the pricefor that is an elusive, low-key tale that keeps ...
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Abu Dhabi's MEIFF to host Youssef Chahine exhibition
The Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi (Oct 10-19) will host an exhibition dedicated to the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.Executive Director Nashwa Al Ruwaini says: 'The exhibition contains 100 frames of tens of rare photos and rare artifacts that will be held in one of the halls ...