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Brazil - Rocha polishes family jewels
As the daughter of Glauber Rocha, the leader of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement and one of the most influential Brazilian directors of all time, Paloma Rocha did not experience a conventional upbringing."When I was five-years-old, my father enrolled me in an American school and told me to learn the language ...
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Finland - Global ambitions of Solar system
Earlier this year Finnish producer Markus Selin sold a significant stake of his Solar Films production outfit to Danish major Nordisk Film. Selin describes the move as "the key to our future expansion - it will open doors worldwide"."So far we have not aimed at the international markets, but it's ...
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Christophe Barratier revisits 1930s Paris
'From the beginning, it was all a question of cost because the film is very, very expensive,' says French director Christophe Barratier of the $38.2m budget for Faubourg 36, the follow-up to his hugely successful 2004 film, The Chorus.'You can't find the Paris of the 1930s in Paris itself anymore. ...
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Hungary - Only human
Benedek Fliegauf's Milky Way (Tejut) presents viewers with a puzzle. In each of the film's 10 segments, the stationary camera observes unnamed individuals interacting - mating, playing, helping one another - without additional context. As such, the scenes could pass for raw footage for an alien documentary about human life ...
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United Kingdom - Leading the pack
Oliver Milburn has acted for 15 years in film, theatre and TV projects. His credits include Driving Lessons, The Descent and the UK TV series Holby Blue. Yet he seems most proud of his first credit as a feature film producer, on Gary Love's recently released urban drama Sugarhouse.Milburn, with ...
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Cisneros launches pan-Latin American channel
Venezuelan media giant Grupo Cisneros has launched a pan-Latin American entertainment and news channel - Venevision Continental - which will also be available to viewers in Spain and Portugal.According to Venevision Continental president Carlos Bardasano, the Spanish-language network currently reaches eight million viewers in Latin America. Its launch in Spain ...
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Big squeeze on the small screen
Are the UK's leading broadcasters falling out of love with film' In the multichannel digital era, scheduling a popular movie in primetime can no longer guarantee a sizeable audience and there is an increasing sense that viewers do not want to consume movies on terrestrial TV.A case in point is ...
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Financing - Italy
With the rise in popularity of TV drama - which accounted for 800 hours of programming in the 2006-07 season, up from 130 hours 10 years ago - it could be assumed features are feeling the squeeze in Italian TV schedules.But the country's two main broadcasters, state-run Rai and the ...
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Financing - France
There is significant overlap between the French broadcast and film worlds. Each major broadcaster - TF1, France 2, France 3, Canal Plus and M6 - is required to invest in local films via pre-buys and each also has a separate film production arm.Terrestrial channels TF1, France 2, France 3 and ...
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Financing - Germany
The involvement of broadcasters in feature film production has a long tradition in Germany and hardly any film is made these days without some TV participation. Indeed, many film-makers who are now international household names, such as Wim Wenders and Volker Schlondorff, have been supported by commissioning editors when the ...
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International - Not the whole picture
As the autumn festival scene draws to close, it is worth considering what exactly is the point of an event showcasing international cinema' Although the origins of most festivals lie in politics or tourism, most of the leading international events have evolved into conclaves with a desire to represent the ...
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Critical Mass: What happened to the 90-minute film'
Whatever happened to the 90-minute film' You only have to look at the top prizes at Venice this year to realise this classic running time is no longer the norm. The Golden Lion went to Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (156 minutes). The Special Jury prize was shared by The Secret ...
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The Heartbreak Kid
Dir: Peter and Bobby Farrelly. US. 2007. 116 mins.A story of awkwardly overlapping romances liberally seasoned with the over-the-top humour patented by the Farrelly brothers, The Heartbreak Kid reunites the behind-camera comedy specialists with star Ben Stiller in a careening showcase for serial outrageousness. The film is a loose update ...
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Cinecitta rebounds from fire, books in Spike Lee and U-900
Cinecitta Studios is back in business after a blaze last August partly damaged an area of the studio's back lot, the studio announced today.The August 9th fire was extinguished without any residual damage to the studios buildings or archives - but not before the 'Roman suburbs' set from the BBC/HBO ...
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Pinewood Media adds collection account management to offerings
UK-based financial services company Pinewood Media, which provides global foreign exchange, currency transfer, international payments and risk management to the film, TV and new media industries, has recently launched a new collection account manangement (CAM) service. The service lets Pinewood Media (which is not tied to Pinewood Studios) to allocate ...
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Soul Carriage
Dir: Conrad Clark. UK/China 2007. 82 mins.A surprise winner of the Altadis new directors' award at the San Sebastian film festival, Conrad Clark's Soul Carriage is original in two important ways. Firstly because the 28-year-old British director's debut film is entirely set in south-eastern China , with Chinese actors and ...
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San Sebastian unveils Spanish, Music sidebars
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has announced the titles to be included in its Made In Spanish section, a popular sidebar dedicated to presenting the year's best Spanish and Latin American features and short films.Among the 37 feature films included are:Miguel Albaladejo's Verbal Attack (Ataque Verbal)I Will ...
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Gutwillig steps down at Outfest after eight years
Stephen Gutwillig will step down as Outfest executive director after eight years in the role at the end of the year.Gutwillig was a prominent figure in the LGBT film community and a driving force at the festival who instigated, among other programmes, the Outfest Legacy Project, currently the only LGBT ...
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Noodle to have US premiere opening Israel Film Festival
The US premiere of Ayelet Menahemi's Noodle will open the 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival (IFF) in New York on Oct 23.This year's event run until Nov 8 and will feature 30 features, documentaries, and television dramas, as well as Q&A sessions.Ron Silver will receive the 2007 IFF Lifetime Achievement ...
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Radha Mitchell joins cast of Mimi Leder's The Code
Radha Mitchell has joined Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas on Nu Image/Millennium Films, Revelations Entertainment and Equity Pictures' drama The Code.Mimi Leder will begin filming in mid-October in New York and subsequently at Nu Image's Nu Boyana Film Centre in Sofia, Bulgaria.Boaz Davidson, Lori McCreary, Danny Lerner, Les Weldon and ...