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Stefanac named director of AFI Digital Content Lab
Journalist, author and interactive media and web design pioneerSuzanne Stefanac has been appointed director of the American Film Institute'sDigital Content Lab (DCL).The DCL has worked with many leading entertainment companies andcreated more than 75 interactive prototypes since its inception nine years ago.Stefanac's team includes newly appointed production manager LisaOsborne and ...
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New international film festival launched in Dallas with AFI
The inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival will run inTexas from Mar 22-Apr 1 2007.Approximately 150 features and shorts will screen at the event andco-sponsor Target has endowed $25,000 cash grants for the best narrative anddocumentary entries."The AFI Dallas International Film Festival is a result ofDallas's love of film and ...
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Smythe-Bishop appointed senior vp, publicity & promotions, at MPD
SusanSmythe-Bishop has been appointed senior vice president, publicity and promotionat Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD). A 14-yearveteran in the publicity and promotion offices of the Canadian releasingcompany, Smythe-Bishop will nowoversee all publicity and promotion strategies for all theatrical releases inEnglish Canada. 'Susan hasbeen integral in the growth of ...
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Miller's follow-up to Capote lands at Vantage
Bennett Miller has teamed up with Paramount Vantage to develop TheImmortalist, the Oscarnominated director's follow-up to Capote.It is understood the drama centres on several characters involvedin life extension research. "It's not a science-fiction film," Millersaid. "It's a drama set in the very real world of those pursuing'biological immortality'."It's a pursuit ...
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Tokyo to open with Flags, close with Murder
The Tokyo International FilmFestival (TIFF) has announced its full line-up for the 19th edition which willclose with veteran director Kon Ichikawa's MurderOf The Inugami Clan. TIFF and Kadokawa chairmanTsugihiko Kadokawa announced Ichikawa and director Milos Forman as recipients of the AkiraKurosawa Award, which carries a prize of $100,000.As previously announced, ...
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Gang to star in Lee Myung-se's M
Korea's Core Studio has announced that Gang Dong-won will star in M, the next project from Lee Myung-se,director of Duelist and Nowhere To Hide.Selected for the upcomingPPP, M is a mystic melodrama about awriter who is suffering from constant dejà vu as he falls for a mysteriousgirl. The film is ...
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Bread And Tulips cleans up at the Nastri D'Argento
Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips swept Italy's second most coveted awards, the Nastri D'Argento, last night, at an awards ceremony held in Taormina, Sicily's 10,000 seat Greek amphitheatre, directly before the European premiere of John Woo's Mission: Impossible 2. The film scooped the best film award, presented to director Soldini, ...
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Australia mulls 40% tax rebate for producers
The Australian government ismulling a 40% tax rebate for producers, as a means to boost local production, aproposal which has secured the backing of the Film Finance CorporationAustralia (FFC).The government is currentlyreviewing its direct and indirect support of the film industry and the FFC madeits submission public this week thereby ...
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Revolver takes UK rights to Wright's contemporary Macbeth
Revolver Entertainment has taken UK rights toGeoffrey Wright's new adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in contemporary Melbourne.The deal was signed with sales company Arclight after Macbeth's recent world premiere in theVanguard section at the Toronto International Film Festival. It comes on theeve of its 30-screen release in Australian cinemas tomorrow ...
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Princess team sets up new Danish production company
Danish producer SaritaChristensen and director Anders Morgenthaler, the team behind this year's Cannesanimation title Princess, have brokenaway from Zentropa to establish their own company to deliver cutting-edgeentertainment for kids and families. The new production company's name will be Copenhagen/Bombay."There wasn't enoughspace for all the talent at Zentropa in one company ...
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Korean train office launches first-run cinema scheme
Korea's office of railroads,Korail, has announced it is to screen films that are on release in itshigh-speed KTX trains starting December. The cinema train patent belonging toKorail is the first in the world.TheKTX trains, similar to France's TGV, run at 300km perhourKorailsigned a memorandum of understanding with Cinewood Entertainment today ...
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Skillset awards $188,800 to Slingshot's digital training
Slingshot, the new UK-based digitalfilm production and distribution company, has won a$188,804 (£100,000) grant from Skillset for its new development scheme forwriters, directors and producers. Slingshot's "Training andDevelopment into Greenlight" is a programme devoted to digital film-making andthe Slingshot model of production, with an eye to developing projects as partof ...
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The Namesake
Dir: Mira Nair. USA. 2006. 122minsMira Nair's best films have shown an optimism aboutlife and an affection for the flaws and failings of her characters, and shebrings a similar sense of compassion to TheNamesake, her adaptation of the novel by Pulitzer prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri. A sweeping saga ofculture clashes and ...
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Born And Bred (Nacido Y Criado)
Dir: Pablo Trapero. Arg-It-UK.2006. 100mins.The first 10 minutes of Born And Bred seem indicate that Pablo Trapero'snew film will contain the some of the same gentle touches prevalent in hisprevious feature Rolling Family. Butthen the picture's true theme kicks in and any expectations that we are aboutto watch a story ...
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The Dog Problem
Dir: Scott Caan. US. 2006. 98mins.Told with a casual poignancy and unpredictability,Scott Caan's TheDog Problem is loose, funky and impressively original. Taking its titlefrom a quotation by playwright Edward Abbey, it's a detailed comedy of mannersabout the strange and complicated emotional odyssey that the title animal sparksin a struggling young ...
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Newcastle plans fourth Northern Lights festival
The fourth Northern LightsFilm Festival (Nov 16-23), which is held in Newcastle and surrounding towns and celebrates Nordic andBaltic film, will host more than 80 screenings.The festival will show filmsfrom 12 Northern European countries as well as retrospectives and specialscreenings, workshops, and more. The festival's third andexpanded Industry Summit will ...
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These Encounters Of Theirs (Quei Loro Incontri)
Dir/scr: Jean-MarieStraub and Daniele Huillet.It. 2006. 68mins.A profoundly uncommercialpiece of avant-garde filmmaking, Jean-Marie Straub and DanieleHuillet's TheseEncounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, thenhas them take turns in declaiming the DialoguesWith Leuco, Cesare Pavese's abstract, philosophical work. The result isfeature that has something of a cleansing (some would ...
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Media Park acquires minority stake in Horizonte
Barcelona-based content packager Media Park has taken a 3% stake in Horizonte Digital, a consortium applying for one of two new free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) licences to be awarded by the Spanish government in November.Media Park's participation in Horizonte Digital gives Telefonica, which recently bought out 25% of the ...
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Metrodome's wider losses in line with expectations
UK distributor Metrodome reportedfinancial results for the first half of 2006, with pretax losses widening to $840,337(£445,000) against a loss of $389,010 (£206,000) last year. Turnover fell 11% from$3.13m (£1.66m) to $2.79 (£1.48m) year-on-year. The loss was in line with expectations duringthe period the company described as a time of ...
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AFM, AFI FEST tout record attendance figures for Nov events
Organisers at the upcoming AFM and AFI Fest are predicting recordattendances ahead of the partner events set to take place in November.AFM and AFI Fest established a strategic alliance in 2004, and topbrass from both camps are calling it the largest annual gathering of industryprofessionals in North America.AFM chiefs said ...