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Peccadillo picks Beauty UK distributor Peccadillo Pictures has acquired Oliver Hermanus’ Un Certain Regard title Beauty (Skoonheid) from French sales outfit MK2 (review, p11). Peccadillo has also taken a trio from M-Appeal: My Last Round, So Hard To Forget and The Last Summer Of The Boyita.
The ManWho Laughs to shoot in November EuropaCorp and Incognita Films plan a November shoot for French director Jean-Pierre Améris’ romantic drama The Man Who Laughs (L’Homme Qui Rit), which will star Gérard Depardieu. Améris’ credits include Romantics Anonymous.
FilmSharks snap up City FilmSharks International has closed a deal for the Brazilian film Our Home— The Astral City (Nosso Lar) with VideoVision for all rights in Africa. Sales chief Guido Rud also licensed rights to Amazonia Films for Venezuela for theatrical and video. Japan and Germany are in talks.
Abbass prepares debut
BY WENDY MITCHELL Hiam Abbass, starring here in The Source, will start shooting her first feature, Inheritance, in Israel in July. Abbass (who has acted in
projects including Lemon Tree and The Visitor) wrote the screenplay with Ala Hlehel, Nadine Naous and Ghazi Albuliwi, based on Hlehel’s original script. Hafsia Herzi will star alongside Albuliwi and Abbass, among others. It follows a Palestinian family
in 2006 who are celebrating a wedding as their internal conflicts mirror the Israel-Lebanon war.
Hiam Abbass The $2.5m film is a France-
Israel-Turkey co-production between Agat Films, Alma Films, Mozer Films, DEPO Films and Imaj, with support from Arte Cin- ema and Canal Plus (France), the Israeli Film Fund and Fonds Sud. Films Distribution handles
world sales with Diaphana on board for French distribution.
Silver defends MEDIA plans
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Aviva Silver, head of the MEDIA and Media Literacy Unit at the European Commission, has dis- missed the charge that the indus- try was “not part of the process” in planning the EU’s new MEDIA programme. Silver said she was “amazed”
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Abu Dhabi names 11 funding winners The Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) has announced the 11 projects chosen to receive support from its SANAD fund in the first application cycle this year. The projects, which won funding for development or post-production, include submissions from established Arab film-makers such as Lebanon’s Jocelyne Saab and Syria’s Hala Alabdallah, along with newcomers such as Safinez Bousbia, whose El Gusto will screen at ADFF in October.
Artefacto joins Filmed Imagination’s Dream Prince Artefacto Producciones’ Fernando Cortizo, the Spanish director of O Apostolo, has come on board Filmed Imagination’s 3D stop-motion animation film The Dream Prince, with shooting set to begin in autumn 2012. Daniel Dreifuss and Marius Haugan of Los Angeles-based Filmed Imagination are producing, along with Isabel Rey of Artefacto.
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