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Hot Docs Fest and Blue Ice Film Announce $1 Million Fund for African Docs
It was announced today at Toronto's Hot Docs Forum, held in conjunction with the festival, that Hot Docs would be teaming with Toronto-based Blue Ice Films to provide $1 million in grants over the next five years to African documentarians. The fund seeks to foster documentaries by Africans to come ...
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Nat Geo to Take "Benda Bilili!" on Tour
The music doc "Benda Bilili!" by French directors Florent de la Tullaye and Renaud Barret will be distributed in the U.S. in fall 2011 by National Geographic Cinematic Ventures. The film follows a band from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Staff Benda Bilili (translation: "Look Beyond"), made up ...
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When Censors Attack: What Really Happened With "A Serbian Film," "Turin Horse" and "Presumed Guilty"
Censorship brought global headlines to three films this week. In Hungary, screenings of native son Béla Tarr's "The Turin Horse" have been canceled. A Spanish festival director is under attack for attempting to screen "A Serbian Film." And in Mexico, a prison documentary has been pulled from distrib...
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"A Serbian Film" Brings Legal Trouble, Support For a Festival Director
Since "A Serbian Film" premiered on the festival circuit last year, the title by first-time director Srdjan Spasojevic has courted controversy for its gruesome depiction of rape, child sodomy, murder and altogether unpleasantness. That said, it also received the Audience Award at Portugal's Fantaspo...
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Shoot Your Movie In Italy, Take 25% Off
Rome's Cinecitta Studios has extended its 25%-off coupon to foreign producers through 2013.
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REVIEW | "I Saw the Devil" is Bloody Good Revenge
"Severely Damaged Souls" -- the title of a retrospective on the work of Korean director Kim Ji-woon currently running at the Brooklyn Academy of Music easily describes the two deranged characters at the heart of his latest feature, "I Saw the Devil." The BAM program derives its name from the languag...
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Strand Will Release Tom Tykwer's "Three"
Strand Releasing has purchased all US rights to Tom Tykwer’s "Three" from Match Factory. The romantic drama, which will open the Kino series at the Museum of Modern Art in April, will receive a theatrical release in late summer.
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Rotterdam Dispatch | Record Audiences Treated to "Wasted Youth" and Retro Commie Westerns
Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, the Rotterdam International Film Festival opened last Wednesday to record crowds yet again. In recent years, the 11-day festival has become the Netherland’s largest cultural event, with attendance at last year’s event topping over 350,000. If th...
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Five Short Films Take Tiger Awards in Rotterdam
Five short films in the International Film Festival Rotterdam received Tiger Awards. The countries represented are Belgium, the U.S., India, Italy and the U.K. The full release follows.
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Academy Announces Foreign Film Shortlist
Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies," Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Biutiful," Susanne Bier's Golden Globe winner "In a Better World," and, in a bit of a surprise, Yorgos Lanthimos's critically acclaimed but rather challenging "Dogtooth," were among the films shortlisted by the Academy of Motion Pictures...
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