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Dead Girl awarded Netherlands Production Platform Prize
This year's Kodak NPPDevelopment Prize was awarded to writer/director/producer Elbert van Strien and producer Claudia Brandt for their feature film Dead Girl. The Netherlands ProductionPlatform (NPP) is in its eight year and is awarded at the Holland Film Meeting(Sept 28 - Oct 2), a sidebar to the Netherlands Film Festival. ...
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Dead Girl awarded Netherlands Production Platform Prize
This year's Kodak NPPDevelopment Prize was awarded to writer/director/producer Elbert van Strien and producer Claudia Brandt for their feature filmProject Dead Girl. The Netherlands ProductionPlatform (NPP) is in its eight year and is awarded at the Holland Film Meeting(Sept 28 - Oct 2), a sidebar to the Netherlands Film Festival. ...
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On Set With French Cinema 2006 directors announced
French export body Unifrance has announced the fourth edition of On Set With French Cinema, to take place in the US from Oct 2006 - Jan 2007.First held in 2003, theprogram sees France's best film directors teach masterclasses tobudding US film-makers.This year's On Set directorsare Anne Fontaine, Jacques Audiard, Costa-Gavras, ...
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Applicants line up for Spain's new DTT licences
Yesterday (July 3) marked the deadline for applications for the two new free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) licences to be awarded by the Spanish government before November 30.The Ministry of Science and Technology had postponed the deadline by a month, ostensibly to motivate competitors to form joint consortia. They didn't: ...
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$12.9 million package Norway's biggest budget yet
Norwegian director Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsenstarts principal photography on BitterFlowers (Bitre blomster) onOctober 10.Bitter Flowers is the first film in a $12.9 million package of two features and four TVmovies about Norwegian hardboiled private investigator VargVeum. It the largest budget so far realised in Norway.Norwegian actor Trond Espen Seimwill play the ...
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17th Dinard British Film Festival announces jury line-up
The Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard (Oct 5-8) hasannounced its final jury line-up. Irish actress Bronagh Gallagher joins British actor/directorCharles Dance and actor Stephen Mangan to make up the UKcontingent of the 2006 Dinard British Film Festival jury. Other jury members are French actor Francois Berleand,actress Chantal Lauby, producer ...
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Free film screenings mark Pinewood's 70th birthday
Pinewood Studios is hosting a week of free film screenings tocelebrate its 70th birthday.The celebratory screenings are to be held in conjunction withThe Times and Vue West End, London, andwill feature one film from each of the seven decades that Pinewood has beenworking in UK film.The screenings run from Oct ...
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Eros branches out from Bollywood with Provoked
High-profileBollywood conglomerate Eros International has acquired the rights to the dramafeature Provoked.Directedby Jagmohan Mundhra, the film is a departure from Eros' usual Bollywood fare,foregoing song and dance to tell the true story of Punjabi housewife KiranjitAhluwahlia, who murdered her abusive husband in 1989 and whose trialtransformed the British judicial system.Thecharacter ...
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Pathe UK Distribution recruits Woodward from Icon
Pathe hasappointed David Woodward as sales director, UK Distribution. He takes up his new post late 2006 afterleaving his current job as head of sales at Icon Film Distribution. In the Patherole, he replaces Neil Marshall who is departing Pathe after six years to becomedirector of sales for Warner Bros ...
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Scandinavia sweeps Greece's Opening Night awards
Scandinavian productionstook top honours at Sunday's closing gala of the 12th Athens International FilmFestival-Opening Nights Conn-X, obtaining all three major awards.The Swedish/Danishco-production Farval Falkenberg(Falkenberg Farewell), directed by first timer Jesper Ganslandt was named BestFilm. The director was present to receive the Golden Athena Award of $9,560(7,500 Euros). The Best Direction ...
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Germany's e-m-s to coproduce Lolafilms' Manolete
Spanish producer Lolafilmshas recruited Germany's e-m-s new media as aco-producer on Manolete, starringAdrien Brody and Penelope Cruz, as well as for Io Don Giovanni. The film finishedprincipal photography this summer. Werner Wirsing, CEO ofe-m-s, is now an executive producer of the film and his company will handledistribution in Germany and ...
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My Son (Mon Fils A Moi)
Dir: Martial Fougeron. France. 2006. 90mins Martial Fougeron's modest family drama went almostunnoticed during the San Sebastian film festival but certainly ended the eventcausing a storm of controversy when it was declared the ex aequo winner of theGolden Shell, a decision that was greeted by boos by some critics. An ...
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Italy announces Oscar bid hopeful
Italy has announced its entry into the best foreign film category of the 2006Academy Awards as Nuovomondo (TheGolden Door). Written and directed by Emanuele Crialese, the $11 million movie is a period epic about Italianemigration, set in the early 20th Century. It follows a family as they headfrom Sicily to ...
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Metrodome raises $3.8m for new company strategy
The UK's Metrodome Distribution has announced that it hasraised $3.8m (£2m) by way of a placing and the conversion of a loan from parentcompany TV-Loonland.As discussed in recentweeks, the company's new CEO Peter Urie is implementing a new growth strategyfor Metrodome. The new approach is a shift from the high-risk ...
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Sturridge set to direct Disgrace for Granada Film
Charles Sturridge, director of FairyTale: A True Story, is to shoot an adaptation of 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace for the UK's Granada Film.The novel, written by J M Coetzee, follows a university professor who travels to South Africa after having been caught having an affair with a student. Sturridge ...
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Half Moon (Niwemang)
Dir: Bahman Ghobadi. Iran-Iraq-Austria-France. 2006. 107minsMore ambitious than his previous films, BahmanGhobadi's Half Moon about a famous musician travelling from Iran to Iraq for aswansong performance, explores the unifying spirit of the dispersed Kurdishnation. Not as narratively concise as his best work, the film tries to pack intoo much particularly ...
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Paramount seals $300m fund with Dresdner Kleinwort
Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) has set up a $300m filmfinancing fund called Melrose Investors 2 (Melrose 2) with Dresdner Kleinwort.The fund will invest in the production of at least 30 picturesthat will go out under the PMPG umbrella, which covers Paramount, DreamWorksSKG, MTV Films and Nick Movies. Paramount Vantage ...
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Robbins gets Cassavetes honour at Denver Film Festival
Tim Robbins, who will next be seen starring opposite Derek Luke inthe South African political drama Catch A Fire, will receive the John Cassavetes Awardat the 29th Starz Denver Film Festival.Robbins will collect the honour at a Nov 16 ceremony following aclip reel of career highlights, which include his 2004 ...
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Bocco leaves Gersh for key acquisitions post at IFC
Arianna Bocco has joined IFC Entertainment as vice president of acquisitionsand production as the company expands its game-plan to accommodate largercommercial releases.Bocco will identify and chase completed features with rightsavailable and will bring new projects into the company. She will also take the leadin filling IFC First Take's 24-picture annual ...
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Maguire named president of international at PHE
Dennis Maguire has been appointed president of international forParamount Home Entertainment.Maguire will take charge of sales, marketing and distribution ofhome entertainment content for the Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) andwill also oversee product from MTV Network Properties, CBS, PBS and Hasbro, aswell as fulfilment services for DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment.He ...