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Tribeca lines up Oscar nominee for debut feature
JJ Keith, nominated for an Oscar in 1999 for his short film Holiday Romance, is attached to direct the first feature from UK production outfit Tribeca Films.Tony Curtis Kissed Me, produced by Matthew Hobbs, is a gritty contemporary drama about a dysfunctional family. It will shoot on location in Preston ...
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David Hare to give keynote at Screenwriters Festival
Leading screenwriter and playwright Sir David Hare will give a keynote speech at this year's International Screenwriters Festival in July.The writer - whose work includes the screenplays for The Hours, Plenty and Damage - will talk about the pressures his profession at the event in the UK town of Cheltenham ...
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Pete Seeger to open, Arctic Tale to close Silverdocs
Jim Brown's Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song and Sarah Robertson's Arctic Tale booked the 2007 Silverdocs festival, which runs in Maryland from Jun 12-17.Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song weaves the life and music of Pete Seeger, and the growing impact of American folk music into an account of ...
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Japanese in Cannes talk co-production cash
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-Cho) is attending Cannes this year to talk up the subsidies that are available in Japan for international co-productions.Since introducing a film promotion policy in 2003, the agency has $6.6m (Y800m) available annually to support production of domestic films. It now wants to alert international ...
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Edinburgh starts rising talent and acting awards for 2007
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced two new initiatives this year: a new UK Talent Showcase, entitled Trailblazers, in association with Skillset; and a new performance award, the PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film, which will be sponsored by The Premier Property Group.About 20 ...
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Flanders Audiovisual Fund gets new injection of cash
In a move that will provide a major boost to Flemish film production, the Flanders Cultural Affairs Minister Bert Anciaux has announced plans to increase Government support for State film body, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Details of the funding emerged here in Cannes.Anciaux anticipates that the new injection of ...
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UTV terminates business relations with Palador
After releasing only two films (City Of God and 13 Tzameti) under the UTV-Palador brand, India 's UTV has terminated all business relations with Palador for its world cinema business with immediate effect. A press release from UTV cites 'material breach of terms of agreement by Palador and its co-promoters ...
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India's Saregama taps Sen, Sharan for production push
Indian music company Saregama HMV has unveiled its plans to enter film production which includes adding prominent Indian filmmakers Aparna Sen and BR Sharan to its leadership team. Sharan will serve as chief creative officer to tap the Hindi film market while Sen will serve as chief creative officer focused ...
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Mira Nair to executive produce Taraprevala's Little Zizou
Sooni Taraprevala, the award-winning screenwriter of The Namesake, Salaam Bombay and Such A Long Journey, is at work in Mumbai on her directorial debut, Little Zizou.The film, which started shooting late last month, stars Boman Irani and Mahabanoo Kotwal. It is being executive produced by Taraprevala's long-term collaborator, Mira Nair.The ...
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World Cinema Foundation launch to open with Moroccan Transes
Martin Scorsese's May 22 Cannes launch of the World Cinema Foundation will include a rare Moroccan film entitled Transes, shot in 1981 by director Ahmed El Maanouni and restored by Italy's Cineteca di Bologna.The film focuses on the musical ensemble Nass-El Ghiwane.The World Cinema Foundation is set to follow similar ...
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Soda strikes UK deal for Gaelic-language Seachd
Seachd -The Inaccessible Pinnacle has become the first Gaelic-language Scottish feature to secure UK theatrical distribution. Produced by Christopher Young and directed by Simon Miller, it has been acquired by Soda Pictures for an autumn 2007 release in the UK.The film has its first Cannes market screening on Monday and ...
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Shoreline closes several deals on Man In The Chair
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has closed a slew of deals in the first few days of Cannes.AB Groupe took French rights to three films: Inside Out starring Kate Walsh from TV's Grey's Anatomy, Dan Turner's science fiction horror movie Experiment and Kardia, which won the Alfred P Sloan Foundation's feature ...
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Mexican film-makers land at Universal, Focus International
Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo Del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu have formally announced their production partnership cha cha cha and partnered with Universal Pictures and Focus Features International (FFI) on the financing, sales and distribution on five upcoming films.Under the terms of the deal, the three will maintain creative control over ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Nanni Moretti
From meeting heroes to fighting on beaches a selection of Palme D'Or winning directors recall their night of glory and how it affected their career. Nanni Moretti won the Palme d'Or in 2001 for his ninth feature, The Son's Room (pictured), an intimate look at a family grappling with ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi talks to Screen about winning in 1978 with The Tree Of Wooden Clogs, which he said came to him 'half way through his career - neither too soon nor too late'. Olmi's just-released One Hundred Nails - which he has said will be his final film - plays ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Francesco Rosi
Italian director Francesco Rosi won the Palme d'Or for The Mattei Affair jointly with Elio Petri's The Working Class Goes To Heaven in 1972. The win, he said, came after his status as a director had already been assured, with a string of top awards behind him, including the Berlin ...
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Istituto Luce on board for Calopresti's L'Abbuffata
Istituto Luce has announced Italian director Mimmo Calopresti's latest directorial foray L'Abbuffata, starring Gerard Depardieu, Diego Abatantuono and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.The $2.4m (Euros 1.8m) budget picture was produced under Calopresti's own Gage production outfit, with Istituto Luce and France's Dania film as well as support from the Turin Piedmont Film ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg had just directed Al Pacino's breakthrough performance in The Panic In Needle Park when he wrangled Pacino - and co-star Gene Hackman - for Scarecrow, a character study of two footloose drifters. The film went on to win the Palme d'Or in 1973: Schatzberg has since been back ...
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Lionsgate UK gets Independent's In The Hands Of The Gods
Lionsgate UK has taken the UK and Ireland rights to In The Hands Of The Gods, which had its world premiere in Cannes Market last night.Independent is handling sales on the feature, which is about five young British freestyle football fans who travel the world in hopes of meeting Diego ...
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Belgian box office basks in summer high
Admissions in Belgium reached a record-breaking 2.25 million for the month of July, up 30% from the same month in 1999. This resulted in an unprecedented box office gross of more than $12m (BFr500m).Similar to southern European countries July and August are traditionally slow months in terms of cinema-going in ...