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Latino Days Are Here Again!
Looking forward to what's new at Ventana Sur and being able to watch films via Cinando during the event itself, I am made aware that Latin America has a rapidly expanding film industry due to new technologies, new well trained filmmakers and governments who have stepped up local support of local filmmaking. The current call for submissions for Cine En Construcion, the twice-yearly rendezvous held at the San Sebastian and Toulouse Festivals gives a welcome place for networking in Toulouse on March 24 and 25, 2011. This initiative by the San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse focuses ...
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Sundance Film Festival Offers A Window on the World (with Contacts)
Sundance's announcement yesterday of the 4 main categories plus Premieres - U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition -- is a mash of many cultures not only in "World" sections, but within the U.S. sections themselves. Consistent with my vision (and wish) to see world cultures enter the mainstream of independent features as I write about Africa (and its diaspora), Latino films, and about women filmmakers (♀), and Asia, a look at the Sundance lineup takes us beyond these cultures as they increasingly merge with one another. European cinema also looks healthy...
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Ventana Sur Opens a Window on Latin American Films
Ventana Sur December 3-6, 2010The second edition of Ventana Sur is about to open in Buenos Aires and will bring together international sales companies, distributors and buyers from all over the world to offer a complete selection of all the Latin American films produced over the last twelve months. More than 400 films were produced this year. 120 world premières will be presented over the four day event to more than 300 sales representatives and buyers from Latin American and the rest of the world. Devoted to Latin American cinema, organized by the Instituto Nacional De Cine Y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA) in partnership with the Cannes Marche...
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Submissions for Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film - With Contacts (Revised)
Now are the screenings for Academy members of submissions for Academy Award Nomination consideration in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. 65 countries have submitted their selections. The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Over the years, the Best Foreign Language Film Award and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 62 awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty-one have gone to European films,[A] five to Asian films,[B] three to African films and three to films from the Americas.The Female Factor: Of the 65 fi...
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Free Saturday and Sunday on MUBI: Revolucion
EXCLUSIVE WORLDWIDE FREE PREMIEREIn partnership with Celluloid Dreams, playing for free this weekend only is the online premiere of the Cannes-selected Revolución. Made in honor of the Mexican Revolution, it explores the 2010 centenary by uniting ten of the hottest Mexican directors, including Carlo...
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Producers to Watch: J. Todd Harris - Creative Producer
During AFM I spoke at length with J. Todd Harris, who we’ve known since his days running John Davis’ Classics division at Fox and from the go-go days of the dotcom bubble when we were both affiliated with a start up called ReelPlay. Todd and I had a wide-ranging conversation that included his background as a theatre producer, his early independent film days, his recent Sundance films (The Kids Are All Right and Bottle Shock), his current projects, and plans to launch Branded Pictures Entertainment (BPE). His two latest completed projects were both launched at AFM (The Family Tree, ISA: Myriad, and Miss Nobody, ISA: Moving Pictures). Both wer...
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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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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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Our Daily ISA (International Sales Agent): Foresight
Mark DamonOn the IFTA Board of Directors is a nearly legendary international sales agent and the only one I know to have written a history of the international sales business.From Cowboy to Mogul to Monster: The Neverending Story of Film Pioneer Mark Damon is a personal history by Linda Schreyer with Mark Damon which actually gives much food for thought about the evolution of the business today.Mark Damon will also appear on a panel entitled “So They’ve Optioned Your Script! They’ve Decided to Make Your Movie..Now What?” during the American Film Market on Monday November 8 in the press room at the Loews. Do come and hear from one of the mos...
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AFM's IFTA Member Directory
The IFTA Member Directory is a beautiful piece of work. Check it out for company profiles, film lineups, personnel, contact info. before and during AFM (American Film Market) November 3 - 10, 2010 in Santa Monica, California.
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