All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 200
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DiVA selects 13 participants for Graduate Fellowship Programme
The UK’s Diversity in Visual Arts (DiVA) scheme has announced the selected participants for its Graduate Fellowship Programme 2010-2011.
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Fawcett and Hollier's Atlantic Screen Music launches score production company
Atlantic Screen Music has launched Atlantic Screen Composers to produce music scores for film and TV productions. The company’s £2m launch budget comes from an EIS supported by Octopus Investments.
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NewsDoha speakers include Robert De Niro, Paula Wagner, Rachid Bouchareb
Panelists and speakers at the forthcoming Doha Tribeca Film Festival will include actor/producer Robert De Niro, director Rachid Bouchareb, producer Paula Wagner, composer Nitin Sawhney, photographer Brigitte Lacombe and cinematographer Sandi Sissel.
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NewsDoha adds seven films, adds Yosra as jury president
The Doha Tribeca Film Festival, which kicks off next week, has announced seven new features added to its film programme.
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NewsDonna Gigliotti joins The Weinstein Company
Donna Gigliotti has been appointed president of production at The Weinstein Company.
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NewsUK's Salt launches film-maker co-op to encourage commercial projects
UK sales and finance outfit The Salt Company has kicked off a new filmmakers cooperative to support new British talent who want to make commercial films.
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NewsMetrodome acquires Rabbit Hole for UK, Ireland
Metrodome has taken UK and Irish rights to John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart.
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UK film industry to talk about environmental sustainability at Monday event
The UK Film Council, BAFTA and the BFI London Film Festival are hosting an environmental trade fair and discussion on Monday.
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NewsTrustNordisk strikes Beyond deals including NFP in Germany
TrustNordisk has just closed a slew of deals on Pernilla August’s Beyond, starring Noomi Rapace of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo fame.
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Swedish fairy tale wins Power to The Pixel Pitch Award
Sweden’s Helene Granqvist of Good World and Hanna Sköld of Tangram Film won the Pixel Pitch Award at the Power to the Pixel Cross-Media Forum for their project Granny’s Dancing on the Table.
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Break The Fall gets finance boost from Northern Film & Media
Regional screen agency Northern Film & Media and Northstar Ventures have backed feature film Break The Fall with $162,500 (£101,500) investment on behalf of Finance for Business – North East Creative Content Fund.
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NewsIain Smith leaves board of Edinburgh
The Edinburgh International Film Festival continues a year of changes as chair Iain Smith has announced he is leaving the board.
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Breaking Dawn adds new cast including Lee Pace
Summit has announced further cast for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, as new vampire groups are introduced to the story.
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LoveFilm brings subscription service to PlayStation 3
Sony Computer Entertainment UK and European film subscription service LoveFilm, have struck a partnership to bring LoveFilm PlayStation3 users across the UK.
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Hubert Bals Fund backs 24 new projects
The International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund has announced its latest round of funding, giving grants to 24 film projects from 13 African, Asian or Latin American countries.
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NewsJeremy Thomas to give keynote at London Production Finance Market
Oscar-winning British producer Jeremy Thomas will give the keynote address at the fourth Film London Production Finance Market (Oct 20-21).
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NewsChannel 4 boosts Film4 budget by 50% to £15m per year
Channel 4 has announced that it will boost Film4’s budget to $23.8m (£15m) per year for the next five years.
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NewsPower to the Pixel: Cross-Media work becomes more business, less fad
Multi-platform work won’t just be a novelty in the digital age, according to speakers at yesterday’s Power to the Pixel | Cross-Media Forum, which ran in association with the BFI London Film Festival.
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FeaturesMark Romanek
The director of Never Let Me Go, which opens the London Film Festival tonight, talks about speed bonding with his cast, his love for Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, and having a “vision with margins.”
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Cinesite books work for X-Men First Class
London-based visual effects company Cinesite has been awarded a major contract for work on Fox’s X-Men First Class.