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Toronto International Film Festival Group Receives $500K Donation for Children's Film Collection

The Toronto International Film Festival Group announced the creation of a new children's international film collection following a $500,000 donation from the Toronto-based Harbinger Foundation. The gift, to be called the John VanDuzer Children's Film Collection in memory of Harbinger president Joan VanDuzer's late husband, is described as "a major step" towards establishing a solid foundation for the development of youth education programs for TIFFG. In recognition of the gift, TIFFG will create an endowment fund to support the yearly acquisition of film prints, education rights, storage, maintenance, cataloging and preparation to be used fo...

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Cablevision Names Oines SVP and General Manager for Clearview Cinemas

Cablevision has appointed Douglas Oines as its senior vice president and general manager for Clearview Cinemas, the cable company, which also owns entities such as Rainbow Media and Madison Square Garden, announced Wednesday. Effective immediately, Oines will oversee the day-to-day business of Clear...

'Celebrity' Chopping Block

'Borat' Screens

From here to Iberia, the San Francisco International Film Festival

Heroic firefighters, the eeriest simian costumes since "Planet of the Apes," a "Baywatch" star-as-activist, fierce flamenco dancers, and a rushing tide of watermelon juice: Welcome to the first four days of the 49th annual San Francisco International Film Festival.

LA Weekly Interview: Mickey Cottrell

Ella Taylor (LA Weekly) interviews indie film publicist Mickey Cottrell and says, "a prince among independent film publicists, Mickey Cottrell was the first and most persevering of my callers when I took over as film editor at the L.A. Weekly in 1989." 'El-la, bee-yootiful El-la,' he sang into my vo...

indieLOOP: On The Scene During Tribeca

During the Tribeca Film Festival, indieWIRE's new online social network/community site, indieLOOP is hosting two discussion groups: Tribeca Film Festival '06 Filmmakers, where we have invited directors from this year's program to post in a group journal about their experience at the festival; and Tribeca Film Festival, where we encourage festival goers to discuss what movies they've seen, parties they've been attending, and who've they've been meeting. In today's Filmmakers journal, Director Ishai Setton talks about gearing up for the screenings of his feature narrative film, "The Big Bad Swim" which is premiering tonight. In the journal he w...

TRIBECA '06: Striking, Somber "United 93" Opens 5th TFF

The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival opened on a strikingly somber note Tuesday night in Midtown Manhattan with the world premiere screening of Paul Greengrass' "United 93," a dramatization of the events surrounding the crash of the fourth hijacked flight on 9/11. Nearly 100 families of those who died tha...