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ReviewsThe Inheritors (Los Herederos)
Dir: Eugenio Polgovsky. Mexico. 2009. 90mins.Eugenio Polgovsky’s remarkable documentary, made on a budget of just $35,000, is a day-by-day study of the lives of several groups of child labourers in rural Mexico. Filmed in the sort of up-close detail that only one-man productions shot over long ...
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Winstar to tour 13-film Rohmer retrospective in US
US specialised distributor Winstar Cinema will tour a retrospective of 11 features and two shorts directed by Eric Rohmer in brand new prints across the country starting next year. "Tales Of Rohmer" will also form the centrepiece of a more extensive retrospective being planned at New York City's Film Forum ...
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Icon closes international sales for Mary And Max
Icon has closed deals on key territory sales for Academy Award winner Adam Elliot's Sundance opener, Mary And Max. Mary And Max, which is produced by Melanie Coombs, will compete in the Generation 14plus section of the 2009 Berlinale. Gaumont has picked up distribution rights to the clay animation feature ...
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Analysis: Project Kangaroo from Broadcastnow.co.uk
BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 have failed in their bid to launch a joint video-on-demand service after the Competition Commission blocked their joint Project Kangaroo proposal.Click to see coverage of Project Kangaroo from ScreenDaily's sisters site Broadcastnow.co.uk.
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Fortissimo rounds out Berlin slate with Asian auteurs
Fortissimo Films has arrived in Berlin with several additions to its slate including new titles from threefilmmakers that the company regularly works with - Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-liang, Thailand’s Pen-ekRatanaruang and Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam.
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Russian World Studios plans new partnership with New Cinema
Leading Russian producer Russian World Studios today announced that it is in negotiations to form a strategic partnership with Sergei Chliyants' New Cinema Studio.Under the proposed deal, New Cinema Studio, which includes New Cinema Marketing and New Cinema Distribution, will become a division of Russian World Studios, responsible for production ...
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Universal Pictures appoints Paul Chesney as vp, international operations
Paul Chesney has been appointed to the role of vice president, international operations at Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE). He will start in his new role on March 2. Chesney, who is based in London, will report to Eddie Cunningham, president of UPIE. He will be responsible for the efficiency, ...
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Network Releasing acquires all UK rights to I Know You Know
Network Releasing has acquired UK rights to I Know You Know in a deal with The Little Film Company. The UK distributor and publisher has acquired the TV, theatrical and home entertainment rights to the British feature-length drama I Know You Know in a deal with The Little Film Company. ...
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Canadian co-production market spotlights Germany and Ireland
Strategic Partners, Canada's co-production market and part of the 29th Atlantic Film Festival, will highlight the Irish and German film markets at the 2009 Strategic Partners event. Jan Miller, director of Strategic Partners explained the choice: 'Germany and Ireland were natural choices to spotlight for 2009. They are two markets ...
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Kites flies on Reliance Big Pictures' debut slate
India's Reliance Big Pictures is launching its international sales division here at the European Film Market, with a busy slate of product headed by $30m English-language romantic drama Kites. Starring Hrithik Roshan, Kites follows a young man in Las Vegas who becomes involved with a salsa dancer but falls in ...
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Content acquires The Technician and 20 titles from Nick Broomfield.
ContentFilm International has acquired international sales rights to the action thriller The Technician. Jon Cassar, the lead director of 24 will direct from a screenplay by Ken Lamplugh and John Weidner. Harry Ufland (The Last Temptation of Christ, Snow Falling on Cedars), Mary Jane Ufland (Crazy/Beautiful, Not Without My Daughter, ...
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Columbia TriStar buys Temptation from Showcase
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group has acquired rights in North America and multiple international territories to Showcase Entertainment's The Right Temptation, a thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland, Rebecca DeMornay and Dana Delaney.The film tells the story of a female private investigator hired by a jealous wife to uncover her husband's suspected ...
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Distribution Workshop picks up Snowfall, Overheard
Distribution Workshop, the new Hong Kong-based sales outfit founded by Nansun Shi and Jeffrey Chan, has picked up two new titles - Alan Mak and Felix Chong's Overheard and Snowfall In Taipei from Chinese director Huo Jianqi. Produced by Derek Yee, whose credits as director include Protege and One Nite ...
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UK 's Goalpost Film announces Berlin slate
Goalpost Film’s has announced its Berlin slate, which includes Closed For Winter and Little Sister, thecompany has also acquired international sales and licensing rights for Dances With Wolves.
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Wild Bunch launches 3D label kicking off with Oceans
Wild Bunch is going 3-D. The French sales, distribution and financing outfit will create a new label, Wild Bunch 3-D, under which 3-D films will be distributed and sold. The new arm is to kick off with Oceans 3-D Into The Deep from filmmaker brothers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello and ...
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Memento closes pre-Berlin sales on Katalin Varga, Treeless Mountain
Aggressive French sales outfit Memento has announced a raft of deals on films on its EFM slate.
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Robert Redford and TerryGilliam projects spark up at Voltage Pictures
Nicolas Chartier's high-flying Los Angeles financing and sales company Voltage Pictures arrives at EFM with its most prestigious slate to date led by new work from Robert Redford and Terry Gilliam.Chartier is in Berlin to introduce buyers to Robert Redford's romantic thriller The Company You Keep that is ready to ...
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Vantage International gets lucky with 13 sales
Paramount Vantage International has closed major sales on 13, Gela Babluani's star-studded English language remake of his 2005 French crime picture 13 Tzameti that just wrapped principal photography in and around New York.Senior vice president of international sales Alex Walton arrives at the EFM having completed sales to Icon for ...