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TOMORROW’S EVENTS PROGRAMME FRIDAY 13 MAY
Director Shekhar Kapur in conversation with Cary Rajinder Sawhney, London Indian Film Festival
14.00-15.00
One of India’s most prolific directors, Shekhar Kapur discusses his body of work from Bollywood to Hollywood success including his creative collaboration with the UK on award-winning Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, through to his forthcoming film Paani. An internationally celebrated filmmaker, Kapur was a Cannes Jury member in 2010 and his work has won BAFTAs and received Oscar® recognition. His new documentary film, Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, commissioned by the Cannes Film Festival, is premiering this year with an Out of Competition special screening.
TOMORROW’S 1-2-1 SURGERY:
Career coaching 1-2-1 meetings booked at the Events and Services desk
14.00-16.00
Lyn Burgess is a leading life coach who specialises in working with the entertainment industry. She works closely with Women in Film & Television, the premier membership organisation for women working in creative media in the UK. Her ten minute 1-2-1 sessions, offer writers, directors, producers and actors advice on how to make the most of networking opportunities in Cannes, how to stay focused and how to keep motivated in an increasingly competitive, global industry.
SATURDAY 14 MAY HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Breakfast with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
EIS gateway to bigger budgets for independents
An A-Z of cross-media in 60 minutes
We Need to Talk About Kevin: Tilda Swinton, director Lynne Ramsay and producer Luc Roeg
Working with the UK 8:00-10:00 12.30-13.30 14.00-15.00
Myriad touts Holmes and Crawford rom-com Myriad Pictures commences talks with buyers this week on the Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford rom-com Responsible Adults, which starts shooting in Los Angeles in the autumn. Jon Poll, the director of Charlie Bartlett, is directing from a screenplay by Alex Schemmer.
MediaXchange starts finance market in LA MediaXchange, Katrina Wood’s international media consultancy, is launching the first MediaXchange International Finance Market (MIFM) in Los Angeles, October 30-November 1. The event will bring together international and US film producers and film financiers to discuss new projects. MIFM is led by an advisory board including Cassian Elwes, Patrick Russo of The Salter Group, producer Jason Blum, Fox’s Sanford Panitch, John Sloss of Cinetic Media and Michael J Werner of Fortissimo Film Sales.
Films Boutique gets Tunisia doc Films Boutique has acquired documentary No More Fear (Plus Jamais Peur), about the Tunisian revolution. Mourad Ben Cheikh directs and Habib Attia produces. The film is a festival special screening. It shows the revolution through the eyes of a blogger, a human-rights activist and a journalist.
15.00-16.00 17.00-18.00
UK Film Centre Pavilion No 120, Village International Telephone: 04 93 99 86 17. Open 09:00 - 18:00
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Rossellini squares up for The Zigzag Kid Isabella Rossellini and Burghart Klaussner (The White Ribbon) will star with Dutch actor Fedja van Huet and 13-year-old Thomas Simon in The Zigzag Kid. The film is based on the book of the same name by Israeli author David Grossman. Vincent Bal is directing and co-writing. Shooting will start this summer.
Dead Cert
On the eve of the Cannes market, UK sales outfit Moviehouse closed a US deal on Steven Lawson’s horror picture Dead Cert. Following its UK release via Momentum Pictures, the British vampire film has been snapped up for US distribution by Shout! Factory. Dead Cert has also sold for France (FIP), Germany (I-ON New Media) and Australia/New Zealand (Visual Entertainment Group), with other deals pending. Moviehouse has taken on Riot On Redchurch Street, a rock’n’roll love triangle directed by Trevor Miller. The company is also giving a market premiere to Wide Blue Yonder, starring Lauren Bacall, Brian Cox and James Fox.
Geoffrey Macnab New Films opens Novel
BY JEREMY KAY New Films International is launching sales here on A Novel Romance starring Shannon Elizabeth and Steve Guttenberg. The story, screening in
the market next week, tells of two New Yorkers who fall in love after they move in
together following job and relationship failures. NFI chief content officer
Ron Gell closed the deal with Graham Taylor of WME Global and producer Morris Levy. Allie Dvorin wrote and directed the fea- ture and the cast includes Natalya Rudakova.
Cinemavault sells to UPI
BY SUZANAYSCOUGH Universal Pictures Interna- tional has acquired select European rights to both Brazilian mobster biopic Boca and paintball thriller War Games from Toronto- based Cinemavault. Boca will be distributed
by UPI in the UK, Benelux and France, while J-bics acquired rights for Thailand and Mediamax for Turkey.
Director Cosimo Alema’s
War Games has also been sold to UPI for the UK, France, Benelux and Scan- dinavia. M Pictures has taken
Thailand, Nikkatsu has Japan, Transmission has Australia, Mediamax has Turkey, KSM has Germany, Sundream has Hong Kong and MIP picked up the rest of the Middle East.
FilmSharks sinks teeth into The Misfits
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding the US, Canada and Latin America, to Jorge Ramirez-Suarez’s comedy drama The Misfits, which won the audience prize at Guadalajara. The Mexican film is split into four segments,
directed by Ramirez-Suarez, Sergio Tovar Velarde, Javier Colinas and Marco Polo Constandse, focusing on different types of misfits. Ramirez-Suarez produced for Beanca Films. Latin America has already been sold to Gussi and US/ Canada to Distrimax. Sarah Cooper
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