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Tipped for Sundance, Berlin
For the best Tipped for Sundance reports, go to ioncinema. Soon I willl publish Tipped for Berlin.
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RIGHTS ROUNDUP AFM and including TIFF, Locarno et al. (Full Report & Updates Here)
The Rights Roundup shows rights acquired internationally, not just for U.S.
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SXSW Party in L.A.
Perhaps it was because it was the first night of AFM, or perhaps it was a prequel to the first night of AFI Fest, but whatever the occasion, it was a great party Wednesday night at The Cat and Fiddle on Sunset Boulevard given by SXSW Film Conference and Festival. Janet Pierson was the regal hostess and everyone seemed to have a film in post. From Janet Grillo with Fly Away, Seth Nagel, Stephen Israel with three films in post no less: I Am Ben, Audrey and The Secret Lives of Dorks, Matt Wahl to Sam Kitt whose Cherry is screening at AFM and being sold by Unified. Many others were there including Chris and Lilyan Sievernich, Dana Harris and h...
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Our Daily ISA (International Sales Agent): Bleiberg Entertainment and its genre label Compound B
I asked Roman Kopelevich, chief of sales for Ehud Bleiberg's company to send me information on the company which stands out as a U.S. based company which produces and sells quality films both in U.S. and in Israel. Producer Ehud Bleiberg launched Beverly Hills-based production and international sales company Bleiberg Entertainment in September 2005 after 12 years as Chairman & CEO of another international production, distribution and sales company he co-founded in 1993. At that time when he and his partner arrived in L.A. from Israel, the film community was curious to know how the "new Israelis" would fit in. Others had come and gone, leav...
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U.S. Distributors are Popping Up Like Mushrooms - Olive Films
Farhad Arshad's long established Olive Films, a well respected home video company, has ramped up theatrically because John Tilley, the veteran distributor whose Cinevista brought Almodovar to the U.S. in the 80s, in April of 2010 took a risk and left Strand where he was head of home video for a decade. John has extensive and diverse experience as a domestic distributor, marketer, and licensor of domestic and international independent feature films and documentaries. As Executive Vice President for Acquisitions and Theatrical Distribution for Olive Films, he is taking the well established video distributor into the theatrical arena, opening ...
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Rotterdam Film Festival's Trainee Project for Young Film Critics
The 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 26 – February 6, 2011 is the best place to meet the players in international coproduction. Rotterdam Film Festival is the most egalitarian and well organized, intimate and yet major film festival on the circuit. Even though it is the largest ...
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New Festival on the Block: American FF, A First for Eastern Europe.
The American Film Festival in Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) Poland, the first film event in Eastern Europe, was just held October 20 - 24, 2010. Solely devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema, it allows Polish audiences to become acquainted with the contemporary American cinema, as well as the culture and reality of the United States. Debra Granik’s Sundance winner Winter’s Bone (Fortissimo) picked up the festival’s American Independent Narrative Audience Award, which carries a cash prize of $10,000 and a chance at Eastern European distribution. Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist’s The Two Escobars won the $5,000 Do...
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Ira Deutchman: Movie Producer, Distributor, Exhibitor, Columbia University Professor and Cubs Fan
By guest blogger, Peter Belsito
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A Top Ten List I Like
As a blogger we can make our own rules. We can quote others. We can post pictures. We can make top 10 lists. But blogging is not easy to keep up with or to keep new and exciting because so much new and exciting things are going on and you begin to think you have to cover them all and you cannot ...
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Mr. Kim Goes to Festivals
Pusan International Film Festival's outgoing director has written a travelogue on festivals. You can read about it here on Film Business Asia, or scroll down for the full text. Mr. Kim is an extraordinary man who has rebuilt the South Korean film industry and relocated it to its origninal home, Pu...
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