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All articles by Staff reporters – Page 28
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Czech cinema admissions continue gradual increase
The Czech Republic registered an estimated 10.7 million cinema visits during 2002, compared to 10.4 million in 2001 and 8.3 million in 2000, according to preliminary results of the Czech Union of Film Distributors (UFD).The biggest increases in cinemagoing were seen in Ceske Budejovice, Hradec Kralove and Ostrava where ...
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Venice to investigate leaving the Lido
The high cost of hotel rooms and other logistical headaches have prompted the organisers of the Venice film festival to consider moving the event from the Lido Di Venzia to Venice proper. "We no longer want to submit to the loan-sharking and blackmailing of Lido hotels, whose prices have become ...
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95 titles selected for Rotterdam festival main programme
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2003Main Programme Features Historias Minimas - Carlos Sorin - Argentina/Spain A Cold Summer - Paul Middleditch - Australia Blue Moon - Andrea Maria Dusl - AustriaNosotros - Diego Martinez Vigna - BelgiumepHop - Dominique Standaert - BelgiumLe Fils - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Belgium/FranceMeisje - ...
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Miguel Pereira begins selection for 2003 Mar del Plata film fest
The Mar del Plata International Film Festival - the oldest film festival in the Americas, will take place next year between March 6 and 15. Originally established in 1954, the 2003 edition will be the sixth since its re-launch.The Argentine INCAA (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) has appointed ...
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Foreign Language Oscar submissions
National submissions for Best Foreign Language OscarClick on the underlined titles to read the Screen International reviewAfghanistan FireDancer- Jawed WasselAlgeria Rachida - Yamina Bachir-Chouikh Argentina Kamchatka - Marcelo PineyroAustria Gebirtig (Gebuertig)- Lukas Stepanik and Robert SchindelBangladesh The Clay Bird (Matir Moina) - Tareque MasudBelgium The Son (Le Fils) - Jean-Pierre ...
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Fantasporto film festival unveils competition titles
Spike Jonze's Adaptation and Plots With A View by Nick Hurran are to be the opening and closing films of Portugal's Oporto film festivalThe 23rd edition of Fantasporto will be held between February 21 and March, 1 and will include a homage to Stephen King film adaptations and to ...
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Asian film libraries prepare to reveal hidden treasures
Two years after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the jury is still out on whether the film created a huge, global market for Chinese-language film. However, several Asian companies are still working on the assumption that the film's international box office success managed to kick down numerous doors, and not just ...
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Argentinian production levels leap 50% - despite economic crisis
Argentina is producing an astonishing number of films, despite the country experiencing the worst economic crisis in its history. According to Bernardo Bergeret, marketing director of Argentinian film institute (INCAA), so far there have been 156 feature films in various phases of production this year, 50% more than in 2001. ...
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Peter Scarlet named executive director of Tribeca film fest
Former San Francisco festival head, Peter Scarlet has been appointed executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.The festival, in its second edition (May 6-11, 2003) was founded last year by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal. The main focus of the 2003 will be an official selection ...
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China assesses co-production potential with South Africa, Australia
The Chinese government is increasing its level of cultural exchanges with South Africa and Australia with a view to the development of potential co-productions.A delegation of Chinese government officials and film industry players is currently visiting South Africa to coincide with the country's first Chinese film week.Hosted by the Department ...
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Roger Michell's Mother adds clutch of int'l sales
The UK's Renaissance Films has concluded pre-sales for Roger Michell's recently wrapped film The Mother. Deals were closed with Concorde for Germany, Atalanta for Portugal, Odeon for Greece, Shani Films for Israel and A Film/Cinelibre for Benelux. Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film for North America during the ...
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Eager guests limber up for Cuban festival
An impressive array of international guests is set to attend the 24th Havana Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Dec 3-13) which opens with Mexican Foreign Oscar contender El Crimen Del Padre Amaro.Festival director Ivan Giroud promises a celebrity-studded event with confirmed guests led by Marisa Tomei, Julie Taymor, ...
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Imovision, Teleimage team to form Telescope
Brazilian independent distributor Imovision has teamed up with local post production outfit Teleimage to create a new distribution, exhibition and production entity, Telescope. The new company has earmarked $4m in seed capital to kickstart its various activities, half of which will be allotted to building an exhibition circuit. The circuit ...
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Irreversible wins Stockholm Bronze Horse
Gaspar Noe's Irreversible won the Bronze Horse for best film 2002 at the 13th Stockholm International Film Festival on Saturday in Sweden. The jury, composed of Kristoffer Leandoer, Alexandra Rapaport, Ilkka Matila, Lucy Walker and Dogge Doggelito, cited the film as "groundbreaking cinema that manages to revitalise film narration in ...
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Wellspring takes Madame Sata to the US
New York-based Wellspring Media has acquired US distribution rights to Brazilian biopic Madame Sata, the directorial debut of Karim Ainouz, which had its world premiere in Cannes' Un Certain Regard this year. According to Wellspring acquisitions head Krysanne Katsoolis, the company is scheduling a platform theatrical release in April 2003 ...
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Protesters picket Crimen's Hollywood premiere
Protesters led by ultra conservative group The American Society for the Defence of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) picketed the Hollywood premiere of Mexican priest scandal drama El Crimen Del Padre Amaro last Thursday. Samuel Goldywn Jr, whose company holds North American distribution rights, invited the group to watch ...
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Madame Sata enchants Huelva
Karim Ainouz's Madame Sata scooped three of the top awards at the 28th Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, The 1930-set biopic of a Rio streetfighter and drag artist won best film, best actor for Lazaro Ramos and best cinematography for Walter Carvalho. Madame Sata was produced by Walter Salles' VideoFilmes ...
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Bac Majestic to quit exhibition as revenues collapse
Bac Majectic is to pull out of the exhibition sector anc concentrate exclusively on film distribution.The company said that following finacnial difficulties in its exhibition operations it has taken the decision to progressively withdraw from the sector. The stockmarket-traded group last year sold its collection of parisian screens but held ...
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Best Of Times, Hollywood Hong Kong take top Golden Horse Awards
Taiwan's The Best Of Times, directed by Chang Tso-chi, was awarded best feature at the 39th Golden Horse Awards - Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscars - on Saturday night (Nov 16), while Hong Kong director Fruit Chan picked up the best director prize for Hollywood Hong Kong. Chan's black comedy, ...
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Hubert Bals Fund distributes Euros 330,000 to 23 projects
Twenty-three projects from non-Western filmmakers are to receive a total of Euros 330,000 in grants from the International Film Festival Rotterdam's (IFFR) Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), as was decided during the fund's autumn selection round. The selection includes six projects from Argentina, two from Brazil, as well as works by ...