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Strategic Partners Shines Spotlight On India and The United Kingdom at 16th Annual Event, Sept. 12-15 in Halifax

Strategic Parners has grown in importance, takes place immediately after Toronto FF. Strategic Partners, one of the world’s top co-production/co-financing markets focusing on feature film, TV and multiplatform fiction, shines the spotlight on India and for the second year in row, the United Kingdom ...

Berlin Notes #1

The Berlinale is an A-festival, founded in 1951 at the height of the Cold War. It accredits about 20,000 industry visitors and about 4,000 journalists each year with a total of 130 countries. It is one of the largest public festivals, selling about 300,000 tickets. The actual figure is 303,077 up...

Cohen Media's Blancanieves Directed by Pablo Berger Opens March 29

Not only is this great film Blancanieves, written and directed by Pablo Berger (Torremolinos), international sales agent 6 Sales' Marina Fuentes, opening theatrically in the U.S. on March 29 thanks to Cohen Media, it is the film we the jury at the 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival award...

ISA of the Day: Memento and We Are What We Are

I want to put a spotlight on what to look forward to next Sundance (and Berlin) as an example of long lasting effects of filmmakers/ actors/ buyers and sellers.

Making Sense of Sundance Documentaries - Thom Powers on the Sundance Market, Sales, Distribution, Pickups on Docus

Thom Powers is a friend of ours in the business and amazes us by his acumen, generosity, range of activities and devotion to what many of us consider the most frequently relevant, creative and earth changing form of feature length cinema - the documentary.

Dominga's Film Production Kit: The Time Before

Dominga Sotomayer who directed my favorite film of last year's Latino films, Thursday Through Sunday, is now crowd funding to produce a 30 minute short called The Time Before with a Polish co-director on Indiegogo.

ISA of the Day: The Exchange Sees Grand Peaks

I am using the term ISA to stand for International Sales Agent, a term also to be seen in IMDbPro.com when you look for Company Credits. Occasionally, though not daily, before and during the markets, I feature a story on a particularly noteworthy ISA.

European Film Market Begins

Women to Watch: Marina Fuentes

What a surprise to talk to Marina, founder of the Spanish international sales company, 6 Sales and as of Cannes 2012, founder of a second international sales company, with different partners, Dreamcatchers.