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26 May, 2009 By Nancy Tartaglione Source: Screen Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon won the Palme d’Or on Sunday night (May 24) in Cannes. The director accepted the award – his third major prize at the festival – from jury president Isabelle Huppert who starred in his 2001 prize winner La Pianiste. The film tells […]

19 January, 2009 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Gotz Spielmann’s Austrian foreign language Oscar submission Revanche was awarded the FIPRESCI prize for best foreign language film of the year as the The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival came to a close on January 19. Natar Ungalaaq received the FIPRESCI Award for best actor for […]

22 January, 2009 By Mike Goodridge in Los AngelesSource: Screen Daily But perhaps the favourite is still Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight in the domestic market), Danny Boyle’s Indian crowdpleaser which scored 10 nominations including picture, director and screenplay. The UK-originated film also won three nominations for Indian music superstar AR Rahman in original score and […]

28 October, 2009 By Geoffrey MacnabSource: Screen Daily Jonathan English’s Ironclad has completed its casting and has now begun principal photography on location and at Dragon International Film Studios. ContentFilm International is selling worldwide rights to medieval action thriller, directed by Jonathan English (Minotaur) from a script by English and Erick Kastel. The feature is […]

23 October, 2009 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Daily ContentFilm International gets Heartless in run-up to AFM. ContentFilm International has boarded international rights excluding the UK, Portugal and the Middle East to Philip Ridley’s Heartless following hit screenings at Sitges in Spain and Frightfest in London. ContentFilm will commence sales on the Faustian horror tale-psychological thriller […]

26 October, 2009 Source: Screen Daily Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank dominated the nominations for the 12th British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), which were announced today (October 26). The film received eight nominations including best film, best director and two for Katie Jarvis for best actress and most promising newcomer. It is closely followed by Duncan […]

26 April, 2009 By Scott MatthewmanSource: Stage Anna Maxwell Martin was tonight named best actress for her role in Channel 4 drama Poppy Shakespeare, in a ceremony which saw the broadcaster take home eight gongs. It was the second Bafta for Maxwell Martin, who previously won for her role as Esther Summerson in 2005’s Bleak […]

13 August, 2009 By Wendy MitchellSource: Screen Daily ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Jason Lehel’s Gaia, which will have its world premiere in Toronto’s Visions section. Jason Lehel wrote, shot, co-produced (with John Gordon) and directed. The film stars newcomers Emily Lape, Ed Mendoza, Deswood Etsitty and Michael Pierce. The story follows […]

4 February, 2009 By Mansha Daswani, www.worldscreen.comSource: http://www.worldscreen.com/articles/display/19630 LONDON: ContentFilm International has acquired the rights to 20 documentary titles from director Nick Broomfield, including Kurt and Courtney and two films on the serial killer Aileen Wuornos. The collection, which is being showcased in Berlin by ContentFilm, includes Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer […]