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Industry - Belgium - When film and tax go hand in hand
2008-05-27 10:37:50It won't have escaped people's attention that this was an exceptional year for Belgian film at Cannes. Beyond the films themselves, there is a particular mechanism that everyone is talking about: the tax shelter. For the first time this year, the Belgian federal state occupied a Village International pavilion, foregrounding the opportunities the country brings in terms of film shoots and...
Cannes 2008 - Awards/Italy - Gomorrah and Il Divo “born of the same womb”
2008-05-27 10:37:50Matteo Garrone (40) won the Grand Jury Prize for his sixth feature film (and first in official competition at Cannes), Gomorrah. The adapatation was a true challenge, given the wealth and complexity of the eponymous bestseller on the Camorra by Roberto Saviano (who also co-wrote the screenplay). Garrone's first film, Terra di mezzo, won the Special Jury Prize in Turin in 1996. He followed...
Cannes 2008 - Awards - Cantet wins Palme d'Or and Sorrentino, Garrone and Dardenne brothers scoop awards
2008-05-27 10:37:50Laurent Cantet scored a surprise triumph this evening at the 61st Cannes Film Festival with his film The Class (see news), putting an end to a 21-year dearth of Palme d'Ors for France. Italy claimed an extraordinary double success with the Grand Prize for Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah (see news) and the Jury Prize for Paolo Sorrentino's Il divo (“The Deity”) (see news). The Best...
Cannes 2008 - Critics' Week - Snow scoops Grand Prize 2008
2008-05-27 10:37:50The prize list for the 47th Critics' Week is dominated by European films, including top winner Snow, the debut feature by Bosnian director Aida Begic (see news). Produced by Mamafilm in co-production with German company Rohfilm, French-based Films de l'Après-midi and an Iranian partner, the film will be released in France by Pyramide, who are also handling international sales. A hotbed of...
Cannes 2008 - Market/Scandinavia - Trust Nordisk makes Mammoth sales
2008-05-27 10:37:50Trust Nordisk registered the most interest during Cannes in Lukas Moodysson's first English-language film, Mammoth, based on 19-minute reel of footage shown twice to buyers at private screenings. The film starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams was sold Benelux (A Film), Filmcoopi (Switzerland), Budapest Film (Hungary) and Austria (Filmladen). The Memfis Film production will be...
Cannes 2008 - Competition/Italy - Andreotti as a lethal “god” in Sorrentino's new film
2008-05-27 10:37:50As explosive as a bomb, as impetuous as a swollen river, Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (“The Deity”) has arrived on the Croisette, the second Italian film in competition at a winding-down Cannes. Having definitively taken the path of the grotesque and hyperbolic, Sorrentino has broadened the cinematic language he previously experimented in The Family Friend to recount 40...
Francesco Munzi - Director: "Xenophobia and violence, without prejudice "
2008-05-27 10:37:50Francesco Munzi's The Rest of the Night has come to the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival (and will be released domestically on June 11) just as Italy is in the midst of discussion the “Romanian emergency”, following episodes of violence caused by illegal immigrants. In the new film by the director of Saimir, the young Romanian maid Maria (Laura Vasiliu, 4...
Production - Netherlands - Smits' Aviatrix of Kazbek takes flight
2008-05-28 15:21:43After their collaboration on Magonia from 2001, Dutch director Ineke Smits again teams up with novelist Arthur Japin for her latest venture The Aviatrix of Kazbek (De Vliegenierster van Kazbek). Filming on the project started last week. Japin, still most famous for his debut novel " The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi ", wrote the original screenplay. The story is inspired by real events that...
Awards - Switzerland - Swiss filmmaker receives Student Oscar
2008-05-28 15:21:43The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles have awarded the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Student Film to Reto Caffi for his film short Auf der Strecke, which was made at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. This is the first time a Swiss director has won the prestigious trophy, which will be presented on June 7 at the Annual Student Academy Awards ceremony in Beverly...
Industry - UK - Miranda Bowen gets Direct Access to Wolf Man
2008-06-02 14:06:17British director Miranda Bowen will spend the next few months shadowing Hollywood director Joe Johnston on the sets of werewolf horror film The Wolf Man, under the Direct Access scheme. Direct Access is an observer scheme for up and coming British film directors run by the Directors Guild Trust in association with Skillset and Film4 that grants candidates the opportunity to observe the...
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