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Cannes 2008 - Un Certain Regard - Tulpan scoops top honours
2008-05-27 10:37:50Kazakh filmmaker Sergey Dvortsevoy yesterday evening picked up the Un Certain Regard Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Presided by German director Fatih Akin, the jury unanimously decided to present the prize to this co-production between Germany (Pandora Film and Pallas Film), Switzerland (Cobra Film), Poland (Filmcontract), Russia and Kazakhstan. This fascinating feature set in the...
Cannes 2008 - Directors' Fortnight - Monsieur Morimoto: A Japanese man in Paris
2008-05-27 10:37:50As yet another edition of Cannes nears the end, young French director Nicola Sorgana presented his second feature film this morning in the Directors' Fortnight. Monsieur Morimoto is an unpretentious comedy about an elderly Japanese painter living in Paris. In the post-screening Q&A, the witty and visibly tired Sorgana stated his fascination for his lead actor, his Jean-Pierre Léaud, as he...
Cannes 2008 - Market/France - Memento happy with Home
2008-05-27 10:37:50"It is the first time we have such a strong market,” said Emilie George, head of Memento Films International, who announced further deals (see news) on Home, Entre les murs, and Wendy & Lucy. Home by Swiss filmmaker Ursula Miere, which was shown in Critics' Week, was picked up for Benelux (Lumiere), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Greece (Rosebud), Italy (Teodora), the UK (Soda Pictures),...
Laurent Cantet - Director: "Success wasn't guaranteed but the gamble paid off"
2008-05-27 10:37:50Palme d'Or 2008 The Class "Success wasn't guaranteed but the gamble paid off"
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...
TOURISM POTENTIAL ON CINEMA ATTENDANCE (Tourists are Cinema patrons too!)
2008-05-27 10:37:50The market for cinema is generally considered to be almost entirely drawn from the surrounding residential areas. However, research in cinemas in places that attract visitors has shown that the potentials for additional cinema patronage of tourists and other people should not be ignored. Investigations in Australia and other markets investigated data collected on the demographic...
Sales - Spain - Focus Features acquire worldwide rights to Agora
2008-05-28 15:21:43US giant Focus Features International announced at the recent Cannes Film Market that they have acquired the worldwide rights (except for Spain and the US) to Agora, the new work by Alejandro Amenábar. The director's second English-language feature after The Others (2001) will thus have an excellent springboard in terms of its exhibition. The acquisition also demonstrates the film...
How to draw a perfect circle - by Marco Martins
2008-05-28 15:21:43Lisbon (Portugal), January 2008
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...
Distribution - Scandinavia - NonStop Picks up Palme d'or
2008-06-02 14:06:17The Stockholm-based Scandinavian distribution company NonStop Entertainment has picked up its second Palme d'or in a row, The Class by Laurent Cantet (interview), as well as six new titles at the last Cannes Film Festival. Jakob Abrahamsson, NonStop head of Distribution in Sweden told Cineuropa why he was totally seduced by Cantet's film: “We saw The Class in an early screening at...
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