NEWS CANNES BRIEFS
Dubai pacts with Lincoln Center for Arab spotlight The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) is partnering with the Film Society of New York’s Lincoln Center to showcase Arab cinema in a special DIFF Focus (August 24-30).
Six backers join BFC tie The British Film Commission has added six commercial sponsors to its new public/private partnership: Warner Bros, Disney, Framestore, the Pinewood Studios Group, RSM Tenon and Harbottle & Lewis.
Metrodome celebrates St George’s Day Metrodome has acquired UK rights to UK crime thriller St George’s Day starring Frank Harper, Craig Fairbrass and Vincent Regan.
Shoreline’s great eight Shoreline Entertainment has acquired all international rights to John Winter’s self-financed Black & White & Sex, in which eight actors play one sex worker.
Malaysia launches festival
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Malaysia’s National Film Develop- ment Corp (FINAS) is launching a film festival and contents market in Kuala Lumpur in November. The International Film Festival
Malaysia (IFFM) will be held on November 10-18, while the Kuala Lumpur Content & Communica- tions Industry Market (KLCCIM) will be held on November 15-18. The festival will feature a com-
petition for films from Asia and the ASEAN region; a sidebar of
local-language hits from around the world; an arthouse section; as well as separate strands for contemporary and classic Malay- sian films. Two internationally renowned
Malaysians had been tapped to oversee the festival — Hong Kong- based producer Lorna Tee has been appointed co-director and New York-based critic Dennis Lim as artistic director. “Under Malaysia’s Economic Transformation Programme, the
Sitter thrills for Kaukomaa, Giddings
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Tero Kaukomaa of Blind Spot Pic- tures (Iron Sky) will partner with Los Angeles-based producer Gud- run Giddings (Thale) on Scandina- vian thriller Don’t Come After Me. The English-language project is
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due to shoot in 2013 in Finland and Sweden. It is to be directed by AJ Annila (Jade Warrior, Sauna) and produced by Annila and Gid- dings with Kaukomaa serving as
executive producer. Based on the novel Gladiaattori by Nina Honkanen, the film tells the story of Jenna, who poses as a babysitter to get close to the woman who abandoned her as an infant. Producer Giddings is currently
executive-producing Knockout, to be directed by Catherine Hard- wicke (Twilight) and starring Noomi Rapace. The film is due to shoot this summer in Europe.
content industries have been iden- tified as one of the key sectors that will help drive economic growth,” said FINAS director-general Mohd Naguib Razak, who is also the fes- tival co-director. Malaysia also recently launched
a production incentive under which foreign films that spend $1.6m while filming in the country will be able to claim back 30% of their spend. The country is also gearing up for the opening of Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios in 2013.
Millennium, West Coast partner
BY JEREMYKAY Millennium Films is jointly financ- ing and producing the Gerard But- ler thriller White House Taken with West Coast Film Partners, as the parties unveil a $100m production venture to co-finance two to three wide releases a year. Millennium boss Mark Gill sealed the deal with West Coast CEO Klay Schroedel.
Carol Polakoff
Polakoff strikes Wrubel alliance
BY JEREMYKAY New York and Paris-based pro- ducer Carol Polakoff is ramping up efforts to attract talent, funding and partnerships to her eclectic slate and has struck a strategic alli- ance with veteran acquisitions and packaging executive Susan Wrubel. Carol Polakoff Productions’
slate includes Walter Mosley adap- tation The Man In My Basement with Anthony Mackie in talks to star, while Kasi Lemmons is set to write and direct the Zadie Smith adaptation On Beauty, set up with Ruby Films and Film4. The roster includes Waiting For
Bardot with Will Frears directing, The Great Cyberheist with pro- ducer Doug Davison, drama Secret Sky with Eran Riklis set to direct, and American Prometheus.
A new film centre and the doors widely open to the international projects
Lithuanian Films: we have something to tell
*** We invite you to meet ,,Lithuanian Films” at Palais – Level 01, booth no. 24.05. You will find the newest feature, documentary, animation and short films created in Lithuania throughout the year at the national
Lithuanian Films stand.
The freshest news from Lithuania – a newly established film centre. The guests of Cannes are the first ones to whom we present the activities of the centre, the axis of which are the ambitions to develop Lithuanian films, promote its competitiveness and open the doors and windows wide to the international projects in our country. Having a new film centre will allow a way easier and smoother coordination of co-production projects with foreign countries! You can find more information about that at our stand – please come by.
Lithuanian author films at Marché du Film and Short Film Corner, please note the dates of the screenings:
VANISHING WAVES, dir. Kristina Buozyte 20/05/2012 PALAIS E 18:00 22/05/2012 GRAY 5 18:00
NARCISSUS, dir. Dovile Gasiunaite 23/05/2012 PALAIS I 18:00
Lithuanian shorts at Short Film Corner
On Wednesdays, dir. Ieva Javaityte. Megillah, dir. Laura Kazbaraite.
With love, Lithuanian Films
www.lithuanianfilms.com
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