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Film4 backs Chatwin biopic Film4 is teaming with producers Rachael Horovitz and James Wilson to develop a film about writer- traveller Bruce Chatwin. Hari Kunzru and Katie Kitamura are writing the script based on Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography.
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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.
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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
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www.ukfilmcentre.org.uk n 8 Screen International at the Cannes Film Festival May 13, 2011
CLARIFICATION: It has emerged that Oren Peli will write and serve as a producer — but not direct — his untitled genre project about friends stranded in an abandoned city, as reported on Wednesday. FilmNation is fully financing and handing pre-sales and CAA and Linda Lichter represent North American rights.
Doha to host Black Gold Quinta Communications’ Arabian epic Black Gold will make its world premiere at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (October 25-29). Co-produced by Quinta and the Doha Film Institute, the film is directed by Jean- Jacques Annaud and stars Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto and Tahar Rahim.
Intandem takes Idiot sales Intandem Films has taken on sales and is executive producing for a new thriller based on Dostoevsky’s classic, The Idiot. Paul Williams directs and Donald Kushner produces.
Anchor Bay has Corman doc Anchor Bay Films has picked up North American rights to the Far Hills Pictures documentary Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel, which screens in Cannes Classics.
Trejo to star in Strike One Danny Trejo will star as ex-gang member Manny Gerardo in David Llauger- Meiselman’s Strike One. Altadena begins sales here.
Kang Ji-hwan
Buyers ecstatic for Sex China 3D Digital Entertainment has sold 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy to M Pictures for Thailand, and a Turkish deal is imminent. Film talents will attend the Cannes Market premiere and party today.
Kang to join Tomorrow News manga
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Korean star Kang Ji-hwan has joined the cast of Tomorrow News, an adapta- tion of the cult manga of the same name being produced by Seoul-based Mirovision. Production on the $8m
fantasy thriller is due to start in August for delivery in early 2012. Derek Son will direct from a script by Lee Won-jae. Mirovision’s Jason Chae is producing. The company plans to turn the manga into a franchise including a remake, TV series and new comic book.
K5 boards indie thriller Phantom
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB K5 is to handle international sales on writer-director Todd Robinson’s supernatu- ral thriller, Phantom. K5’s sales and finance
partner Daniel Baur, sales and marketing partner Carl Clifton, and Ben Weiss of Paradigm — representing North American rights — negotiated the deal. Inspired by a true story
from the Andropov era, Phantom comes billed as a heart-pumping, all-action thriller in the vein of The Hunt For Red October and Crimson Tide.
Ed Harris Ed Harris, Andy Garcia
and William Fichtner star in the film, about a subma- rine crew trying to foil a plot to destroy humanity. Phantom is set to shoot in the US later this summer. K5’s other Cannes titles
include Vehicle 19, Voice From The Stone, Liberty Lane and Here.
Owen in Foresight’s Blind
BY JEREMY KAY Clive Owen is confirmed and Cannes Competition juror Uma Thurman is in talks to star in the romance Blind, which Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited is sell- ing worldwide rights on here.
Damon is producing
alongside Michael Mailer and Diane Fisher on the story of a novelist blinded in a car crash which kills his wife. Several years later he
rediscovers his passion for life when he embarks on an affair with the wife of an indicted businessman. John Buffalo Mailer
wrote the screenplay and Damon reports brisk sales. Meanwhile Damon’s Sundance premiere The Ledge, which was picked up in Park City by IFC Films, this week became the first film to premiere on the new app and online distribution service SundanceNOW.
Wide takes
Trump doc BY NANCY TARTAGLIONE Wide Management has acquired You’ve Been Trumped, a documentary by Anthony Baxter about the real estate/media mogul — and potential US presidential candidate — Donald Trump. The film, according to Wide, is a sort of real-life Local Hero about Trump’s bid to build a resort on the Scottish coast with golf courses, a hotel and 1,500 luxury homes. Baxter was a Trump pro-
tester arrested by the local police and tells the tale without narration, “captur- ing the cultural chasm between the glamorous, jet- setting and media savvy Trump and a deeply rooted Scottish community”, said Wide which is selling world rights excluding Canada.
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