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Digital chips away at festival screenings
Having already opened horizons for film-makers, digital technology's potential to transform film choices is now beginning to make itself felt at festivals and among theatrical exhibition circuits.The Berlin festival has equipped ten of its cinemas with digital projectors and is showing 47 films from the Panorama, Forum and Perspektive Deutsches ...
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Guadalajara selects Dreamers as opener
In keeping with the Italian theme of this year's edition, the 19th Guadalajara Mexican and Iberoamerican Showcase has unveiled plans to open the festival with Bernardo Bertolucci's erotic thriller, The Dreamers.The event, which runs from March 19 - 25, has selected Italy as its guest of honour this year. A ...
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Sundance Institute mourns the death of Lynn Auerbach
The Sundance Institute ismourning the death of Lynn Auerbach, the well-liked associate director of itsfeature film programme, who died suddenly at the end of January. The Institute hasissued the following statement."It is with deep sadnessthat we at Sundance grieve the loss of our colleague Lynn Auerbach. Overfifteen years, Lynn was ...
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Shooting Stars hit Berlin
Yesterday (Sunday) in Berlin, young thesps from all over Europe were paraded at a series of events in Berlin as part of the 7th 'Shooting Star' showcase.They had 'speed breakfasts' with casting directors, met the press at a special lunch in the Hotel Esplanade and rubbed shoulders with directors, producers ...
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Paramount Classics gets Intimate
Paramount Classics is in final negotiations to pick up rights in North America and select other territories on Patrice Leconte's latest drama Intimate Strangers (Confidences Trop Intimes) which screened in competition in Berlin.The deal which should close this weekend marks the third Leconte movie for Paramount Classics which has scored ...
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Luppi begins shooting directorial debut
Federico Luppi, Argentina's most internationally renowned actor, began shooting his directorial debut in Spain last week.Written by Luppi's wife Susana Abascal, the drama titled Pasos is co-produced by San Sebastian-based Igeldo Communicaciones. Igeldo also co produced Chilean drama B Happy, set to have its European premiere in the Berlinale's Forum ...
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BBC in crisis as director general Dyke quits
BBC director general Greg Dyke has resigned in the wake of the official Hutton inquiry into the death of scientist David Kelly.Dyke's decision to step down follows BBC chairman Gavyn Davies' resignation on Wednesday, shortly after the report was published.The BBC has announced that Dyke's deputy Mark Byford will step ...
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City Of God gets second wind after Oscar nominations
The surprise winof four key Oscar nominations by Brazil's gangland epic City Of God has prompted both Miramax in NorthAmerica and Lumiere in Brazil to expand the theatrical release of the film intheir respective territories.Miramax has the film currently playing on four screens inNew York, Los Angeles and San Francisco ...
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Mexico's Imcine is granted $14m budget, the highest total in six years
Not only has Mexican film institute Imcine survived plans to axeit but it has also won the biggest budget allotment from the government in sixyears, according to Imcine director Alfredo Joskowicz.The state-backed film financing entity was granted a 2004 budgetof nearly $14m (150m pesos), more than double last year's budget ...
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Second UK First Light film awards to be held in Feb
The UK's second First Light Film Awards are to be held in London on February 25.The awards are part of a $1.6m initiative launched in May 2001 between UK funding body The Film Council and Birmingham-based Hi8us Projects to give young people aged between 7 and 18 the opportunity to ...
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Full list of Oscar nominations
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has emerged as the front runner for the Oscars this year, with eleven nominations including best picture and best director.Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World is just behind with ten nominations, followed by Seabiscuit and Cold Mountain ...
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UK delegation travels to Bollywood for scriptwriting project
A delegation of UK film industry players have travelled to Mumbai to lead a week-long intensive series of workshops to identify Indian scriptwriting talent and match it with UK industry skills.The UK Film Council has produced a four day programme starting on 27 January focusing on the western "development process" ...
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Return Of The King, Lost In Translation dominate Golden Globes
The 61st Golden Globes awards onSunday (25) were dominated by New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kingwhich took home four prizes including best picture (drama) and director for Peter Jackson andFocus Features' Lost In Translation which won three including best picture (musical orcomedy).Sean Pennwas named ...
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Mexican stand-off as Guadalajara faces up to rival festival
Mexico is poised to have two major film festivals slated just a month apart.The 19-year old Guadalajara Mexican and Iberoamerican Film Showcase (March 19 to 25) could get upstaged by a new film event in Mexico City to run from February 19 to 29.Dubbed the Mexico City International Contemporary Film ...
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ARGENTINA
The Return Of The King continues to reign over Argentina's box office after three weeks. New entries Spy Kids 3-D Game Over, Mona Lisa Smile and 21 Grams took over the top slots, pushing down Disney's Brother Bear and Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. Argentinian comedy /drama Hoteles by Aldo ...
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Minghella to open Screen European Film Summit
Cold Mountain director and British Film Institute chair Anthony Minghella is to open Screen International's European Film Summit with an on-stage interview.The Summit - titled Modernising European Cinema - is being held on Feb 4 on the eve of the Berlin International Film Festival at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in ...
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Mexico, Ireland to get Passion-ate
20th Century Fox Films is set to release Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ on an estimated 300 prints in Mexico, according to Jose Juan Hernandez, general manager of Fox Mexico.Fox has yet to announce release dates for the region. "We are still mulling target opening dates of either ...
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Berlinale unveils Talent Campus 2004
520 young film talents from 84 countries have been selected for this year's Berlinale Talent Campus 2004, where they will be tutored by guest professional filmmakers such as Eleanor Bergstein, Anthony Minghella, Walter Murch, Nicolas Philibert, Zbigniew Preisner, Alan Parker and Wim Wenders.Compared to last year the total number of ...
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Rotterdam director joins UK production outfit Illuminations
Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) co-director Simon Field is to become a director of UK production company Illuminations Films.Field will take up the position at the end of this year's festival, which runs from Jan 21 until Feb 1. Sandra Den Hamer, who has been co-director with Field for several ...
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Carandiru to open Argentina's Mar Del Plata
Carandiru, Brazil's official entry to the Oscars, will open Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival, slated to run from March 11th to 20th.Pupi Avati's Heart Is Elsewhere (Il Cuore Altrove) will close the Latin American A-listed festival.Carandiru director Hector Babenco is Argentine-born and is best known for directing Oscar-nominated ...