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Americans Hold Off On Buying At Cannes

 Friday, May 23------The whooshing sound that you hear is the rapid departure of film professionals leaving in droves as the Cannes Film Festival enters its final weekend. In fact, professionals have been leaving en masse since Wednesday, with film sales offices at the Marche du Film and the local hotels virtual ghost towns. The American distribution contingent, which were on the Croisette in great numbers, have left Cannes without many major acquisitions. The tepid Cannes market continued what...

VOD Panel: the Internet

OPENING by Wolfgang Closs, Executive Director of the European Audiovisual Observatory FILM MARKET TRENDS 2007 by Martin Kanzler, Analyst from the Department for Information on Markets and Financing, European Audiovisual Observatory INTRODUCTION by André Lange, Moderator and Head of the Department for Information on Markets and Financing, European Audiovisual Observatory WHAT LICENCE FOR WHERE AND WHEN? by Susanne Nikoltchev, Head of the Department for Department for Legal Information, European Audiovisual Observatory

Interview with Olivier Weber Director of Cursed for Gold, (Market Debut in Cannes May 16)

BC: Olivier Hello, why did you choose this topic, the world of gold? After I travelled to the Amazon, I was struck by this peculiar world of gold. The men who live around the gold mines in the forest live in extremely difficult conditions. While very few live by, some become very rich overnight. A war opposes the two-no holds barred. The surrounding brutishness is massive. And yet, they are so well organized! In the depths of the Amazon, the lungs of our planet, the gold mines are surrounded b...

Stan, Blythe, & Joe

Michael Haneke Remake Opens In US

 Friday, March 21-------It is a very rare thing indeed for a European director to have the opportunity to remake a small art film in another language (the only other recent example was Dutch director George Sluizer’s THE VANISHING). But Michael Haneke is that rare director. The English-language version of his domestic thriller FUNNY GAMES, originally shot in his native Austria in the German language and starring Ulrich Muhe (the Stasi spy in THE LIVES OF OTHERS) has just opened in the United ...

Thessaloniki Docu Fest: the DocMarket

Another quiet, yet busy, place near the festival centre where accreditted professionals may view screeners from the heavy line up.

My first day at the Thessaloniki Documentary hfestival

My first day at the Thessaloniki Documentary festival. The city is a BIG city but leaves a nice impression of easy going life, festival smooth operation, sunny competition for dark rooms...  Let's walk together through the main festival location, with press office, festival offices at the Olympion, along with screening rooms, the Green Room: festival bar and central meeting point The Doc Market is located across  the street. The strange posing  statutes on the central place were set up for carnival a few weeks prior the festival.

SXSW panel on digital avenues for filmmakers - Part 2

How can indie directors/producers/filmmakers get their work onto the growing number of digital screens in the US, emerging landscape of digital cinema and digital distribution; is it something that will you save you money ..What are the economics

TAORMINA CALL FOR ENTRIES 2008

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CALL FOR ENTRIES It's time to send a screener of your FEATURE FILM to the Taormina Film Fest 2008, taking place in Sicily from June 15 to 21, 2008. Our deadline for submissions is MAY 9. We are now accepting films for selection in the most exciting summer festival in Europe, a boutique showcase for just 20 new films to be shown to our audiences and distributors from around the world. Once again we will privilege world and international premières, divided into the following three sections: ME...

Lineup and practical info for the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

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The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by presenting approximately 160 films by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program.   A record number of 35.000 viewers and 450 guests attended last year’s Festival, demonstrating the increasing interest of the public and industry professionals in documentaries and the TDF’s success in attracti...

Masterclasses and events at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

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The International Doc Market, introduced in 1999, will be held this year for the first time in the Byzantium hall of the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel at Aristotelous Sq next to the Festival headquarters, providing a much larger space to its participants, outfittedwith 30 fully equipped booths for private viewing of the Market films. The market, organized in cooperation with the Greek National Television (ERT S.A.) and with the support of the Media Program of the European Union, caters t...

Fitou et le cinéma en 3D en salles

Fitou, la révolution 3-D continue Fitou revient en avant programme de la projection en 3-D relief U23D dans le réseau de salles numériques relief du groupe CGR.

2008 European Film Market: Record Turnout and Bountiful Deals

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The European Film Market (EFM) can report upbeat results at the conclusion of the first major business event of the year. In 2008, the EFM hosted a  record number of exhibitors, sales agents and industry professionals at two venues, the Martin Gropius Bau and the EFM Exhibitor Offices, as well as presented close to 1,100 screenings in cinemas around Potsdamer Platz.From the business side, this year’s Market can also report a positive balance. Many companies – including such market stalwarts...

Final Deals At Sundance

 Monday, January 28---------With filmmakers and professionals back at their home bases, a few last minute deals for this year's Sundance season were still announced on the Festival's final day. Sony Pictures Classics, who have been unusually active this year, has closed a deal for North American rights to Jonathan Levine's THE WACKNESS, which stars Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley as a New York City pscyhiatrist who trades therapy for marijuana. The film, which won the Feature Audience Award...

Late Deals As Sundance Eases Into Final Weekend

 Friday, January 25---------Although the Sundance Film Festival continues through this Sunday, with the culminating Awards Ceremony to be held on Saturday night, many film professionals have already skipped town, mulling the films they have seen (bid or passed on) and, frankly, warming up their external digits after 9 days of frigid weather. What began as a barren landscape for dealmaking has made a rebound, although Festival veterans have described this year's event as very lowkey compared to ...

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