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Peter Mettler Celebrated In Toronto

Part of this year's Toronto International Film Festival includes a retrospective of documentary filmmaker Peter Mettler. Mettler, perhaps most well known for his 2002 film "Gambling, Gods and LSD," will be celebrated with a series of screenings that began Sunday. Among them is his 1982 feature-le...

Spike Lee To Create New Orleans Series

CBC reports Spike Lee will follow up his documentary "When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts," with a scripted dramatic series set in post-Katrina New Orleans. "It's a show about the city trying to rebuild itself and the people who are trying to put their lives together," Lee told the Hollyw...

TORONTO '06 DISCOVERY INTERVIEW: Rajnesh Domalpalli: "Independent film hasn't really taken root as a

Every day through the end of the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, indieWIRE will be publishing interviews with filmmakers in the Discovery section of the festival, which TIFF describes as "provocative feature films by new and emerging directors."

Woodstock Film Festival To Honor Kopple

Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple has been announced as the recipient of the Woodstock Film Festival's Annual Honorary Maverick Award. Kopple produced and directed "Harlan County, USA" and "American Dream," among many others. The festival, celebrating its seventh year October 11-15, 2...

TORONTO '06 DISCOVERY INTERVIEW: Jean-Pascal Hattu: "The success of a filmmaker is the success of hi

Every day through the end of the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, indieWIRE will be publishing interviews with filmmakers in the Discovery section of the festival, which TIFF describes as "provocative feature films by new and emerging directors."

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"Rescue Dawn" Flies to MGM for North America

MGM has acquired all North American rights to "Rescue Dawn," the survival story of Dieter Dengler, an American pilot shot down in Viet Cong territory, written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Christian Bale, it was announced today by the company's COO Rick Sands. The film, produced by Gibr...

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