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"An American Haunting" and "Aurora Borealis" To Bookend 37th Nashville Fest

The Nashville Film Festival has announced that Courtney Solomon's "An American Haunting" will be the opening night for its 37th edition to run April 20-26. Solomon's film is adapted from the 1997 novel The Bell Witch: An American Haunting and is based on true events of a family haunting in Tennessee...

SMH: "Casablanca" Voted Best Screenplay

"Play it again Sam." It's the line famously quoted from a scene in "Casablanca," although what actor Humphrey Bogart actually said was. "Play it, Sam." Not that the film's writers will mind the misquote, given their screenplay for "Casablanca" is now so universally admired it has been voted the grea...

Minnesota Producers Conference Focuses On Location Shooting

The IFP Minnesota Independent Producers Conference is scheduled to take place Saturday, April 22 at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Producer Christine Kunewa Walker and writer/producer Joel Viertel will headline the day-long event that is constructed around the theme of location shooting. Filmmakers James Bigham and Clint Allen, who produced "Sweet Land," and "Junebug' producer, Mike. S. Ryan, will also lead panel discussions with tips about shooting on location and conduct case studies of their films. The conference takes place during the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, which will screen Mora Stephen's "Convent...

The Guardian: Interview: Danis Tanovic

Danis Tanovic plans to shoot his next three films in English. One project, "Triage," is based on a novel by Scott Anderson. "It's about a war photographer, a subject that really interests me," he says. Tanovic was attending the Sarajevo Film Academy in 1992 when the war broke out, and spent the next...

INDUSTRY MOVES: Fugard Joins Paramount Specialty Division

Berenice Fugard has been named VP of acquisitions and co-productions at Paramount's unnamed specialty division, reporting to EVP Amy Israel, according to ScreenDaily.com. She previously served as heaed of acquisitions for Pathe and will remain based in London.

Bosnian Film Banned in Serb Areas for Political Reasons -- from U.S. for financial ones?