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17 January, 2007 By Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles Source: Screen Daily The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:Days Of Glory Algeria (dir Rachid Bouchareb)Water Canada (dir Deepa Mehta)After The Wedding Denmark (dir, Susanne Bier)Avenue Montaigne France (dir Daniele Thompson)The Lives Of Others Germany (dir Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)Pan’s Labyrinth Mexico (dir Guillermo […]

12 January, 2007 Source: Screendaily.com NOMINATIONS FILMBABEL – Alejandro González IIrritu/Jon Kilik/Steve GolinTHE DEPARTED – Brad Pitt/Brad Grey/Graham KingTHE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND – Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles SteelLITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (credits to be confirmed) THE QUEEN – Tracey Seaward/Christine Langan/Andy Harries THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the YearCASINO ROYALE – […]

2 October, 2007 Based on the shocking true events of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, ‘BALIBO’ will star Anthony LaPaglia as Australian television journalist Roger East, who takes an unofficial job as the head of the East Timor News Agency at the behest of young idealistic revolutionary José Ramos-Horta. While reporting on […]

:: Danny Deckchair Danny is a working class Aussie fed up with his dull suburban existence and selfish, workaholic wife. One sunny day, Danny decides to fulfill his life-long ambition to travel by air — by tying weather balloons to his deckchair. He gets more than he bargained for when, carried off by a blustery […]

:: It’s a Wonderful Life George Bailey has spent his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinations of the evil […]

:: House of Sand and Fog House of Sand and Fog is the story of three fragile but determined people whose lives become dangerously entangled when a house is improperly seized and sold at auction. Massoud Amir Behrani is a former member of the Shah of Iran’s elite circle who fled during the country’s revolution […]

:: Total Stranger ‘Total Stranger’ relates the compelling tale of a woman who lets a room and finds that she has unknowingly invited a dangerous adversary into her domain. Patti’s home is no longer her castle… it has become more like a fortress with Patti blockaded in her bedroom upstairs. But it is not just […]

:: Twist A gay re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist. Updated to current times, moved out of the poor house and onto the streets, the tale is told from the point of Dickens’ character, Artful Dodger–now Dodge. The prosaically beautiful Oliver falls into the hands of down-and-out young men. Dodge takes the young man […]

2 October, 2007 By Adam DawtreySource: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973165.html?categoryId=19&cs=1 ContentFilm Intl. has acquired worldwide rights outside Australia and New Zealand to Robert Connolly’s upcoming project “Balibo,” a true-life thriller starring Anthony LaPaglia. Movie is about an Australian journalist caught up in the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. Shooting is set for early 2008. Content is […]