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TLA Gets Paige's "Uncle"

TLA Releasing has announced a deal for Queer As Folk star Peter Paige's "Say Uncle, acquiring the North American theatrical and home entertainment rights to the film. The company is planning a theatrical release this June and a DVD release this Fall. Paige wrote and directed the film and he also sta...

PARK CITY '06: "It was... a challenge to tell an engaging story about our interaction with the rest

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.

Nader Set for Sundance

Politician and consumer advocate Ralph Nader is planning to make the trip to Utah for the Sundance Film Festival next week, according to sources close to a new film about him, Henriette Mantel & Stephen Skrovan's "An Unreasonable Man." The activist will see the movie for the first time with the festival audience. According to a description, the film includes a look at his early days fighting against GM and other corporations, as well as interviews exploring his life and work. In an interview published by indieWIRE yesterday, Mantel (who once worked for Nader as an office manager) explained, "I was so sick of people (mostly whiny Democrats) ye...

23rd Miami Int'l Film Fest Sets Slate of Premieres and New Cash Prizes

The 23rd Miami International Film Festival has announced its slate of 117 films screening March 3 - 12, with 92 features and 25 shorts. MIFF, which is presented by Miami Dade College, will spotlight 10 world premieres and 34 international, North American and U.S. premieres as well as 31 east coast d...

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PARK CITY '06: Henriette Mantel & Stephen Skrovan: "I was so sick of people yelling at me about Ralp

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.

Crooks Sign With Gersh Agency

Joshua Crook and Jeffrey Crook, directors of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival Midnight movie "Salvage" have signed with The Gersh Agency. Gersh's Arianna Bocco and David Kopple announced the signing today. The film is described as "an edge-of-your seat spine-tingler that tells story of Claire Parker, a college student who realizes that she is somehow reliving the day of her own grisly murder again and again. On the run from her inevitable death and trapped in a never-ending nightmare, Claire must uncover the terrifying truth behind the mystery that guides her fate." The Crooks are managed by Ilana Sparrow and their attorney is Jamie Feldman. C...