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Film Festivals: 'Office' exec producer earns writing award -- The Austin Film Festival will honor scribe-helmer Greg Daniels with the 2008 Outstanding Television Writer Award at the festival's kudos luncheon on Oct. 18.
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Film Festivals: Cannes selection will screen at Toronto fest -- Independent U.S. film distributor Regent Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to "Serbis" -- a new film by Filipino filmmaker Brilante Mendoza. Regent acquired the film from international sales agent Fortissimo Films.
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Film Festivals: Premieres include 'Rachel,' 'Wrestler,' 'Porno' -- The Toronto Film Festival got off to its customarily polite start Thursday, opening with a handful of modest deals and a gala launch of $20 million Canadian WWI epic "Passchendaele."
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Film Festivals: Somber Teutonic titles make up lucrative slate -- As this year's lineup of Teutonic titles at Toronto clearly illustrate, German cinema is thriving on the international stage.
It should be no surprise that German cinema has become a hot export, considering that in the last five years, three German-language films have taken the best foreign-film Oscar, while three Teutonic pics have also won the European Film Awards' top honor.
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Film Festivals: Gallic agents acquiring more international titles -- Back in March, on the first night of Mexico's Guadalajara fest, one figure towered at the bar of its central Fiesta Americana Hotel: six-foot-plus Peter Danner, from Paris sales company Funny Balloons.
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Film Festivals: Carlos Armella's film wins Cortissimo prize -- Mexican helmer Carlos Armella's short "Tierra y pan" is the winner of the 65th Venice Film Festival's Corto Cortissimo prize for shorts.
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Film Festivals: Festival opens with less than stellar guest list -- The Deauville American Film Festival opens today in the French seaside resort with a much less stellar guest list from Stateside than 2007.
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Film Festivals: Bigelow film follows elite bomb squad in Iraq -- The Iraq war dominated the day at the Venice Film Festival, where the world preem of Kathryn Bigelow's high-adrenaline bomb-squad actioner "The Hurt Locker" gave the Lido a jolt and emerged as the Iraq pic that may break through to American auds.
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Film Festivals: Distributor takes U.S. rights -- Strand Releasing has grabbed U.S. rights to one of the best-received pics on the fest circuit, Terence Davies' "Of Time and the City."
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Film Festivals: Full Festival program to be announced Sept. 10 -- The European premiere of helmer Danny Boyle's Indian-set drama "Slumdog Millionaire" will close the London Film Festival on Oct. 30.
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Film Festivals: $1.7 million invested in Toronto fest vets -- The Ontario Media Development Corp. Film Fund has invested C$1.8 million ($1.7 million) in five features and two docs in development or production in Ontario, it was announced Wednesday.
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Film Festivals: Papamichael film stars Rice, Goldberg, Willis -- "From Within" joins the "8 Films to Die For" lineup as part of the third annual After Dark Horrorfest.
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Film Festivals: Buyers say they'll be selective in filling out slates -- There's a lot of pressure on Toronto to show the way ahead for the film business, particularly the indies. With a plethora of available titles -- and many that are deemed quite commercial -- the festival could be the place where distributors start filling out their 2009 slates.
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Film Festivals: Int'l talent eager to soak up Canadian adoration -- Toronto's enthusiastic auds and famous hospitality continue to inspire talent to make the trek to North America's largest fall film fest gathering.
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Film Festivals: Animated feature to kick off festival -- Helmer Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" will open Amsterdam's Cinekid, the international film, TV and new media festival for tykes age 4-14, on Oct. 18.
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Film Festivals: Marketing execs ready North American debuts -- Pic marketing execs start to road test movies in Toronto, awards season's unofficial opening event. Fewer titles seem to be trawling for early kudo signs this year, with several year-end releases not ready for viewing.
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Film Festivals: Festival announces recipients -- The Hollywood Film Festival has announced the craft honorees for this year's Hollywood Awards.
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Film Festivals: Festival unveils Canadian Images lineup -- The Vancouver Film Festival unveiled the Canadian Images lineup on Wednesday, and literary adaptations figure highly again.
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Film Festivals: Film industry touts dependable crews, facilities -- Times are tough for the production biz north of the U.S. border. Hollywood filming in Canada has slowed to a trickle this year as a result of the stronger Canadian dollar, lucrative tax credits in many U.S. states and the labor strife in Hollywood.
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Film Festivals: Bailey takes over Toronto fest's balancing act -- When Piers Handling persuaded a young film critic to join the Perspective Canada program committee almost 20 years ago, it was a prescient move.