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Patrick Frater Reports on Korean Films in France
Maybe it's not kosher to take articles verbatim like this and my previous ScreenDaily reprint. But Patrick Frater, former journalist with Screen and Variety among other pubs, started his data-based online news Film Business Asia not too long ago and it is filling a much needed position covering Asia from both Eastern and Western povs. This article on how three great South Korean films, Poetry, The Housemaid and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Livesfared in their French theatrical release is unique. The stories are derived from the data collected by Patrick and his partner Stephen Cremin. As they describe it, Film Business Asia is a ...
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Reliance backs Mumbai with Film Bazaar and All-Woman Jury ♀
Reliance Big Picture, the company behind Dreamworks and IM Global is backing its home festival, the 12th Mumbai Film Festival (October 21-28) along with a film bazaar with 25 top international buyers and sellers. Screen's Udit Jhunjhunwala reports that 200 films from 58 countries will screen and an...
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Film industry streaming platform Festival Scope goes live!
This is an important new way to keep up with (and see!) festival films even when you cannot attend the festival. It was founded by three former sales executive Alessandro Raja, formerly of Celluloid Dreams, Mathilde Henriot, formerly of MK2, and Lucie Kalmar, formerly of Wild Bunch, They know buyer...
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Current Press Releases from Abroad
Lots of interesting news is coming from offshore and so I am starting my own "wire service". When I get the news, I'll post a line and the link for those who are interested in following the links. This one I particularly like because I like the film so much and it came to U.S. via COLCOA where Overbrook made a remake deal with Danny Boon, the same director, for a the English language remake to be released 2013. Welcome to the Sticks, the French comedy about a postal civil servant in France being relocated to the North of France, to "the sticks" has been remade by the Italians as Benvenuti al sud (Welcome the The South) by Cattleya in whic...
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Muslim Fundamentalists Attack Jakarta Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
FPI disrupts gay film festival from The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 09/29/2010 10:04 AMMembers of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) staged rallies at foreign cultural centers on Tuesday, demanding the termination of the 9th Q! Film Festival, which showcased LGBT artwork. The group demanded the cultural centers close down the festival within 24 hours.Word here in Berlin is that the threatening of Goethe Institute, Erasmus Huis Dutch Cultural Center, Centre Culturel Francais Jakarta and the Japan Foundation for their support of this event highly politicizes this on an international scale. The festival went ahead at several foreign cultural cent...
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Festivals Undergoing Major Sea Changes As Seen in Fall Fests...Focus on Latino and Spanish Language
IFP, NYFF, TIFF, Locarno, Venice, San Sebastian …and Special Focus on Latino and Spanish Language Oriented Festivals and Business
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European Distributors Discuss New Trends in Euro Distribution at San Sebastian Int'l Film Fest
By guest blogger Peter Belsito
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San Sebastian Meeting of International Film School Students
14 schools from 12 countries participated in the 9th International Film Students Meeting. Danis Tanovic chaired the jury of students from the participating centers. Danis Tanović (Cirkus Columbus)
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San Sebastian FF Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion) Awards
I am in San Sebastian International Film Festival September 20 to 25 covering Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion), Latino films (Horizontes Latinos) and The International Film School Meeting.
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Eleven Latin American Films to Contend for the Horizontes Award
Eleven movies from different Latin American countries will contend for the Horizontes Award and its 35,000 Euros at San Sebastian. The Horizontes Latinos section showcases a selection of the most interesting and innovative Latin American films made over the last twelve months, with a number of titles backed by awards garnered at the big festivals of the year and others set for promising futures. Horizontes Latinos consists of features totally or partially produced in Latin America and either directed by moviemakers of Latin origin or set around the framework or subject of Latin communities throughout the rest of the world. These movies must...
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