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Marie Antoinette: The 18th Century Paris Hilton?

SHORTS MONTHLY: Graduating with Honors: 17 Shorts Go Primetime on "Fine Cut: KCET's Festival of Stud

Each year the many top notch films schools that populate the Los Angeles area book the Directors Guild of America Theatre on Sunset to showcase their students' thesis films to the industry at large. Now, thanks to "Fine Cut: KCET's Festival of Student Film," there's no need to drive to the DGA in or...

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Rotterdam Fest Names Projects Receiving Funds for Expanded Initiative

The International Film Festival Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund has expanded its support range with a new 20,000 euro grant for low budget digital video productions from developing countries. During the fund's fall 2006 selection round, four projects received production support in this new category: "At the End of the Daybreak" by Ho Yuhang (Malaysia), "In What City Does It Live?" by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia), "Mondomanila" by Khavn De La Cruz (Philippines) and "Weed" by Wang Liren (China). More projects from this round of selections will be announced later this week. The Hubert Bals Fund has until recently made grants in three categories, includ...

Film Independent Announces 2006 Producers Lab Participants

Film Independent recently named its 2006 participants in its annual Producer's Lab, which runs for seven weeks that began October 16. The participants are: Greg Corbin and Bryan Lewis ("Senor Vasquez and the Holy Donut"); Sarah DiLeo ("Bless Me, Ultima"); Scott Foster ("Crystal Messiah"); Jasmine Jaisinghani ("SuperMacho"); Charlotte Pai and Ben Wagner ("Baja"); Sean Shodahl and Maryam Keshavarz ("Circumstance"); and Susan West ("The Oyster Dance"). Sponsored by Technicolor, the Lab is designed, according to Film Independent, "to help producers working in independent film improve their craft and to help them develop strategies for getting the...