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THINKFilm, HBO reunite for Favela Rising
THINKFilm and HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films have jointlyacquired Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary's Favela Rising, which has been shortlisted for two International DocumentaryAssociation awards.The partners plan a 2006 release on the US-Brazilian co-production about aformer drug trafficker from a notorious Rio de Janeiro slum who turns socialactivist and campaigns against violence ...
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NBC UITD names two key European executives
NBC Universal InternationalTelevision Distribution has appointed two new European sales executives, namingCarolyn Stalins president of liaison for France and Italy, and Sven Nothdirector of liaison for Germany.Stalins, who formerly served as senior vice president of MGM InternationalTelevision Distribution in London, moves to Paris where she will oversee freeand pay television ...
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THINKFilm, HBO reunite for Favela Rising
THINKFilm and HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films have jointlyacquired Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary's Favela Rising, which has been shortlisted for two International DocumentaryAssociation awards.The partners plan a 2006 release on the US-Brazilian co-production about aformer drug trafficker from a notorious Rio de Janeiro slum who turns socialactivist and campaigns against violence ...
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Blackboards (Takhte Siah)
Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf. Iran. 2000. 85 mins.Prod cos: Makhmalbaf Film House, Fabricia Cinema in association with RAI in collaboration with T-Mark of Japan. Int'l Sales: Wild Bunch (Le Studio Canal Plus), tel: (33) 1 53 64 85 55. Exec prod: Mohamad Ahmadi. Prods: Mohsen Moahmalbaf, Marco Mueller. Scr: Mohsen and ...
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THINKFilm, HBO reunite for Favela Rising
THINKFilm and HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films have jointlyacquired Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary's Favela Rising, which has been shortlisted for two International DocumentaryAssociation awards.The partners plan a 2006 release on the US-Brazilian co-production about aformer drug trafficker from a notorious Rio de Janeiro slum who turns socialactivist and campaigns against violence ...
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Fortissimo adds Hart Sharp collection to library
Fortissimo Films hasexpanded its library of TV rights by acquiring the five-film catalogue of NewYork-based production company Hart Sharp Entertainment.Titles covered by the dealinclude films such as Dark Harbour, directed by Adam Coleman Howard; Lift,from DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter; and award-winning You Can Count On Meby Kenneth Lonergan.Fortissimo, whichestablished ...
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VIP Medienfonds chief arrested as part of tax probe
The troubles of the privateGerman media fund VIP Medienfonds took a dramatic turn on Wednesday (October 5)with news that its CEO Andreas Schmid has been arrested.Schmid was taken intocustody by the Munich's public prosecutor's office as it was feared he mightflee the country, leading German fund news service Fondstelegramm reportedtoday.Earlier ...
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Kindred makes US play for Hoffman's Game 6
Kindred Media Group hasacquired North American distribution rights to Michael Hoffman's dramaticcomedy Game 6, starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr.Exploring the existentialcrisis of a Broadway playwright and baseball fanatic, Game 6 is based onan original screenplay by acclaimed novelist Don DeLillo. It is directed byMichael Hoffman and produced by ...
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All The Invisible Children
Dirs: Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, KatiaLund, Jordan and Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John Woo. It. 2005. 131mins.Portmanteau films arelike chocolate assortments: pretty boring once all the coffee creams have gone.The latest multi-director outing to test international audiences' limitedappetite for the genre, All The Invisible Children is a worthy ...
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Shinobi
Dir: Ten Shimoyama. Jap.2005.101mins.Already sold to 14foreign territories and with strong remake potential, Ten Shimoyama's Shinobiresembles recent Japanese period epics like Red Shadow, SamuraiResurrection and Azumi in its computer game-like structure andtargets their teen audiences accordingly.But in telling his story oftwo warring ninja clans, Shimoyama also aspires to the epic, ...
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A Little Trip To Heaven
Dir:Baltasar Kormakur. Ice. 2005. 98mins.For his latest feature A Little Trip To Heaven,Icelandic film-maker Baltasar Kormakur takes audiences on a modest littleadventure in the other direction as well and the familiar hellish genre of themodern neo-noir. This time however the focus is not on some disaffected,world-weary flatfoot and his cheating, ...
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Focus unveils raft of Tiger And The Snow sales
Focus Features has pre-soldRoberto Benigni's latest comedy The Tiger and The Snow to a raft ofterritories ahead of its widely-anticipated Italian release on October 14.The film has been sold toFrance (Pathe), Germany (Telemunchen), Benelux (A-Film), Greece (Odeon),Iceland (Sena), Portugal (Lusomundo), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Switzerland (AscotElite), Turkey (Ozen).AQS has acquired rights forBulgaria, ...
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Women in Film and Television unveils Technical Change initiative
Women in Film and Television (WFTV) has extended itsmentoring programme Directing Change to help women develop their careers in technicalroles within the film and TV industry. WFTV willofficially launch the new initiative, called Technical Change, on October 10.Working inconjunction with Skillset and the UK Film Council with the backing of ...
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The House Of Sand (Casa De Areia)
Dir: Andrucha Waddington.Braz. 2005. 103mins.No, this isn't 2003's HouseOf Sand And Fog after the mist has lifted but Brazilian director AndruchaWaddington's first feature since his well-regarded Me You Them (2000),which won the top prize at Karlovy Vary.Set in northern Brazil'sforbidding state of Maranhao, now a conservation zone, it begins in ...
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A One And A Two (Yi Yi)
Dir: Edward Yang. Taiwan-Japan. 2000. 174 mins.Prod cos: Atom Films (Taiwan), Pony Canyon Inc (Japan). Int'l sales: Capitol Films, tel: (44) 20 7471 6000. Prods: Kaway Shinya, Tsukedea Naoko. Scr: Edward Yang. DoP: Yang Weihan. Prod des: Kaili Peng. Music: Kaili Peng. Ed:Chen Bowen. Main cast: Wu Nainzhen, Kelly Lee, ...
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Service of Thanksgiving for Lord Brabourne to be held in London
AMemorial Service of Thanksgiving for Lord Brabourne CBE, who died last month,is to be held in London on November 15 at The Guards Chapel at 3:00pm.Lord Brabourne was a much respected film maker, whoproduced and co-produced 16 international feature films, which collectivelyreceived 25 Oscars/ Oscar nominations.Lord Brabourne was also a ...
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Golconda Films completes Camille financing
London-based Golconda Films looks to have completed thefinancing on its twisted honeymoon adventure, Camille, to star SiennaMiller, Nick Stahl and Harvey Keitel.The $4.5m project is being co-financed by new sales outfitVoltage Pictures, headed by international sales veteran Nicolas Chartier, whichwill handle international sales. Odeon Films is set to release the ...
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Schloendorff, Kaurismaki projects win German funding
New films by Volker Schloendorff, Mika Kaurismaki,Angelina Maccarone, Ute Wieland and Djamshed Usmonov are among projectsreceiving production support from Filmstiftung NRW and MedienboardBerlin-Brandenburg (MBB) at their latest funding sessions.Veteran filmmaker Schloendorff received Euros 120,000from MBB for his historical drama Heldin Wider Willen about AnnaWalentynowicz, the initiator of the Solidarity movement ...
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Bond looks outside UK for Casino Royale shoot
Very little of theforthcoming James Bond feature Casino Royale is to shoot at the 007franchise's traditional home, the UK's Pinewood Studios, according to thefilm's director Martin Campbell.The film's productionlocation has been heavily speculated in recent months, ever since ScreenInternational reported in May that the Czech Republic's Barrandov Studioswas in talks ...
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Focus does roaring trade on The Tiger And The Snow
Focus Features has pre-soldRoberto Benigni's latest comedy The Tiger And The Snow to a raft of territories ahead of its widelyanticipated Italian release next week on Oct 14.The film has been sold to France (Pathe), Germany (Telemunchen), Benelux (A-Film), Greece (Odeon), Iceland (Sena), Portugal (Lusomundo), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Switzerland (Ascot Elite),and ...