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14 February, 2009 By Martin Blaney in BerlinSource: Screen Daily Sold internationally by The Match Factory and supported by the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund among others, Llosa’s second feature after her well received Madeinusa centres on a timid 20-year-old girl facing big city life in the Peruvian capital Lima after her mother dies.The evening’s other […]

6 February, 2009 By Audrey WardSource: Screen Daily ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Mythic International Entertainment’s Ironclad which stars James Purefoy and Paul Giamatti. Directed by Jonathan English (Minotaur), Ironclad is an ultra violent medieval action thriller. It is set to go in production in the summer. It tells the true story […]

23 February, 2009 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Daily The widely expected success eclipsed The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, which entered the night as the most nominated picture with 13 nods and left with a trio of prizes for art direction, visual effects and make-up.”When we started out we had no stars, no power or […]

23 February, 2009 Japan’s “Departures” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in one of the few surprises at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Either Israel’s “Waltz With Bashir” or France’s “The Class” had been widely expected to take the trophy. Also nommed were Germany’s “The Baader Meinhof Complex” and Austria’s “Revanche.” “Departures” (or “Okuribito”), directed […]

14 February, 2009 By Scott RoxboroughSource: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i4e22c70790e72ba2874a6a8e22ed8af9 BERLIN — Youth and energy triumphed over experience and political correctness as the jury of the 59th Berlinale, headed by actress Tilda Swinton, chose up-and-coming directors for its top prizes. Peruvian director Claudia Llosa won the Golden Bear for “The Milk of Sorrow,” only her second film, while […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Oscar winning Director Richard Attenborough helms a deeply moving love story, beautifully interwoven between present day and World War 2, about how an American woman honored a wartime promise, with a lifetime of denial – and how the discovery of a gold ring on a distant Irish hillside brought her back to life…In Kentucky, 1941, […]