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Spring Films and F&ME head to Manila Dutch director Jacco Groen’s Spring Films has joined forces with Film & Music Entertainment to produce the feature film Snow White, a drama looking at child prostitution in Manila. Shooting is set to start in Manila in April with Dutch actress Johanna Ter Steege (Tirza) joining the cast to play the role of an aid worker.
LUFF set for eighth year Film London announced the London UK Film Focus (LUFF) will return for an eighth year, to be held June 27-30 at the BFI Southbank. Film London will strengthen its collaboration with the BFI on LUFF and other initiatives. More than 120 international buyers attend.
MultiVisionnaire launches Fringe specialty label Los Angeles-based distributor MultiVisionnaire Pictures has launched the specialty label Fringe Features here and arrives with a slate of around 20 “envelope-pushing” features, including The Four-Faced Liar, Cost Of Love, KickOff and Affirmative Act.
Sandrine Bonnaire making her Absence French actress Sandrine Bonnaire will direct a feature film she wrote with Jérome Tonnerre. An Absence Making Me Angry (J’Enrage De Son Absence) will star William Hurt, Alexandra Lamy and Augustin Legrand. The psychological drama will be sold by Films Distribution and Ad Vitam has French rights.
New Films finds funding partner
BY JEREMY KAY Nesim Hason’s fledgling Los Angeles-based distributor New Films Cinema has struck a 10-film production deal with investment partner and Turkish businessman Jak Kamhi. Hason aims to make five films
in the next three years and has three titles in development which he will announce shortly. New Films Cinema, the domes-
tic releasing subsidiary of New Films International, launched last year with Chain Letter and Dead Awake. Its next US release, Flying Lessons starring Maggie Grace, will open in the autumn followed by Saving Grace B Jones with Tatum O’Neal later in the year. “The films will be of the high-
est production quality with strong stories and A-list cast,” Kamhi said.
Dubai plans German focus
BYANDREAS WISEMAN The eighth edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (December 7-14) will host a spe- cial focus on Germany, it was unveiled here yesterday. The festi- val is developing the section with the Goethe-Institut, German Films and Medienboard Berlin- Brandenburg among others. In addition to showcasing Ger-
man films, the In Focus: Germany presentation will allow for interac- tion between German producers, distributors, sales agents, studios,
scouts, festivals and development agencies and their counterparts in Dubai and the wider Arab world. Abdulhamid Juma, chairman of
Pusan and Mumbai link up
BY JEANNOH The Pusan International Film Fes- tival and the Mumbai Interna- tional Film Festival have signed an MoU, linking the Korean and Indian film industries and sup- porting each other’s festivals. Signed by Pusan director Lee
Yong-kwan and Mumbai’s Srini- vasan Narayanan in Berlin, the
MoU is to be officially announced tonight at the Korean Film Night reception. “Our festivals have previously
co-operated on getting stars and VIP guests. Now our ties are for- malised and our festivals can be liaisons between our respective industries,” said Pusan program- mer Cho Young-jung.
BYMARTIN BLANEY Resurrected German indie dis- tributor Delphi Filmverleih is back in business looking for new films at this year’s Berlinale. The Berlin-based company,
which brought DCM Productions on board as a 50% shareholder at the beginning of 2011 after a financial restructuring, had already picked up Maurice Bar- thélémy’s Low Cost and the cur- rent French box-office hit, Jean-Pierre Améris’ Les Emotifs Anonymes, at the Unifrance Ren- dezvous last month. Delphi also has the untitled fic-
the Dubai International Film Fes- tival, said: “The Arab world, and the UAE in particular, shares a thriving relationship with Ger- many across domains from educa- tion to exports. We are proud to play our part in expanding these relationships by expanding ties with our peers in the German film industry, and facilitating their engagement with the Arab world and its film community through Dubai and the Dubai Interna- tional Film Festival.”
Pictured (l-r): MarietteRissenbeck of German Films, DIFF MDShivani Pandya,Susanne Sporrer of the Goethe-Institut and Jane Williams of DIFF industry office
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Delphi is back to buy at EFM
tional documentary starring Christian Ulmen, and Michael Glawogger’s new feature docu- mentary Whores’ Glory. Delphi CEO Claus Boje told
Screen that Detlev Buck’s next fea- ture film, a 3D adaptation of Dan- iel Kehlmann’s bestsel ler Measuring The World (Die Vermes- sung Der Welt), will begin shoot- ing in Germany, Austria and South America from mid-Octo- ber, and be released at the end of 2012. Boje said Delphi aims to
release between six and eight films a year from 2012.
Hackney Lullabies (pictured) by Japanese director Kyoko Miyake won the Berlin Today Award on Sunday night at the Berlinale Talent Campus. This year’s theme was ‘Leaving The Familiar Sector’. The 2012 award finalists will make short films on the theme ‘Every Step You Take’. The Campus runs until Thursday.
Film Lab launches in Jerusalem
BY WENDYMITCHELL The Sam Spiegel Film & Television School-Jerusalem is setting up an international film lab for writing full-length features. The Jerusalem International Film Lab will launch in December, with an annual budget of $350,000. Each year the lab will welcome 12 film-makers (eight from Israel,
four international) who are in advanced stages of writing their first or second feature film. There will be two sessions in
Jerusalem in addition to periods of writing. The final scripts will go to a panel of international judges, and during the Jerusalem Film Festival, two projects will get pro- duction grants totalling $80,000.
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