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Hot Docs Opener "God" Picked Up Ahead of Fest

Zeitgeist Films has announced the acquisition of all U.S. rights to this year’s Hot Doc’s Opening Night film "Act of God," directed by Jennifer Baichwal.

It's a Tie In Palm Beach

Anthony Fabian's "Skin," and Uberto Pasolini's "Machan" tied for best feature at the 14th Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival.

BR + VF + FIND = French New Wave?

Banana Republic and Vanity Fair are joining forces with Film Independent to help "Project:Involve," the talent development program that fosters the careers of filmmakers from communities traditionally underrepresented in the film industry. The creative partnership will have 38 filmmakers working in teams to create 10 three-minute short films around the theme "City Stories." All films will be shot in the French New Wave style, and a cash production budget of $20,000 will be provided, courtesy of Vanity Fair And Banana Republic. The filmmakers will receive one-on-one film industry mentors, access to production-based master workshops taught by ...

Boyer Ascends the Directors Fortnight

Frederic Boyer will succeed Olivier Pere as the head of the Directors Fortnight, the SRF (Societe des Realisateurs de Films) which oversees the sidebar that coincides with the Festival de Cannes. Pere will, who took the helm in 2004 and is leaving this year, was named Artistic Director of the Locar...

It's Not Just the Competition! Cannes '09 Breaks out the Classics

Godard, Losey, Antonioni, Visconti and more are on tap for the Festival de Cannes 2009 in a program headed by Martin Scorsese. The Cannes Classics 2009 is a section of the festival esbablished in 2004 to accompany the contemporary films of the Official Selection with a program of restored and redis...

Nobel Winner Among Sundance/Skoll's "Stories of Change"

"Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary," an initiative spearheaded by the Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation, has named five recipients who will take part in "a three-year partnership designed to enable the creation of new, feature-length independent documentar...

Silverdocs To Honor Maysles

AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival announced that it will honor Albert Maysles at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, a centrepiece of the eight-day documentary festival which takes place in June just outside Washington, D.C. The Symposium, named after the late, four-time Academy A...

Regent/Here to Perform "The Art of Being Straight" for Day and Date Release

"The Art of Being Straight," by from first-time writer/director Jesse Rosen has been acquired by Regent Releasing and Here Media. Regent/Here, which acquired the film from Great Graffiti Films for North American rights, will distribute the film in select cities day and date with here! Networks on Ju...