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Gordon set for CPH:DOX Film and video artist Douglas Gordon will curate a special film series at the 2012 edition of CPH:DOX, which Gordon will be attending November 1-11. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, which he co-directed, won the New Vision Award in 2006 at the Copenhagen- based festival.
Mexico revamps Cineteca The Mexican Film Institute here in Cannes unveiled the restoration and redevelopment plans for the Cineteca Nacional, the world’s biggest cinematheque. The government has spent $28m on Mexico’s film archive and national film centre. Four auditoria have been added and a videotheque.
Atrix peddles Children Beatrix Wesle’s Atrix Films has sold doc The Children From Mount Napf to Germany/Austria (MFA+), Netherlands (Contact Film), Denmark (Ost for Paradise), former Yugoslavia (Demiurg) and Taiwan (Way Sen).
Garance kickstarts fund French film investment group Garance Capital is planning to launch a $6m-$13m institutional- backed fund to complement its existing fund aimed at individual investors. The group, which launched in 2010, has already raised $3.6m.
French shoot days stable French feature-film production, in terms of days, was stable in 2011 against 2010, according to a Film France report. Shooting hours stagnated at 6,637 hours for 186 pictures in 2011, against 6,606 in 2010.
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ScreenDaily.com Shochiku fetes Kinoshita
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Japanese studio Shochiku is plan- ning a 10-city retrospective to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Keisuke Kinoshita, whose digitally restored The Ballad Of Narayama is screening in Cannes Classics. Starting in June, around 20 of
Kinoshita’s films will screen in the cities of Sao Paolo and Curit- iba in Brazil, followed by screen- ings at the Summer International Film Festival in Hong Kong in August, New York’s Lincoln Cen- ter and Tokyo Filmex in Novem-
The Ballad Of Narayama
ber and Melbourne in early 2013. Shochiku is also lining up a
Blu-ray release of The Ballad Of Narayama in Japan in October.
The film — later remade by Shohei Imamura in a version that won the Palme d’Or in 1983 — is set in a remote village where old people are cast out to die. “It was made at the pinnacle of
the studio system — it would be almost impossible to make something on the same scale today, as it was filmed almost entirely on 40 large sets,” said Shochiku’s Ichiro Yamamoto. MK2 has French rights for the
restored version of The Ballad Of Narayama and Trigon has Swiss and German rights.
Distrify joins Creative Scotland in website
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Film promotion and distribution service Distrify is teaming up with Creative Scotland on a website dedicated to watching and sharing Scottish films. Executives from Creative Scot-
land and Distrify are in Cannes meeting distributors and sales agents, to launch a distribution platform on
scottishfilms.com later this year. The platform will include such films as Rob Roy, Trainspotting and Red Road
Trainspotting
among hundreds of others. Dis- trify is a pioneer in direct-to-audi- ence online film distribution. It
offers any film institution, film archives or library rights-holder the capability to set up a web plat- form where their content can be digitised and made profitable. “When someone shares a trailer
for a film on your Facebook wall, you watch it and think, ‘This looks cool,’ and then what?” said Distrify co-founder Andy Green. “Until now, you had to wait for it to be released or go hunting for where you could buy it. Now you can click ‘Rent’ or ‘Buy’ immediately.”
Wide’s Eye on Films adds titles, cuts deals
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Wide Management’s Eye on Films label has seen good business on its growing slate since Berlin. Wide’s distributor and festival
collective Eye on Films has added Miro Bilbrough’s drama Being Venice and is in negotiations to add its first animation, Approved For Adoption from directors Jung and Laurent Boileau as well as
Samir Benchikh’s documentary African Awakening. The label has closed deals on
Nadav Lapid’s Policeman for US/ Canada (Corinth Films) and Ger- many (GM Films), and Serbian film Clip for South Korea (Thanks and Love), Finland and Sweden (Njuta) and Russia/CIS (Maywin Films). Mourning has sold to Germany and Austria (Blueberry) and The Mole
has sold to the Czech Republic and Slovakia for Film Europe. French Pakistani drama Noor,
screening at Cannes, has got dis- tribution backing from ACID. Eye on Films is developing a
new VoD catalogue in preparation for the launch of an Eye on Film VoD channel at the end of the year. It has already partnered with Ger- man platform
Realeyz.tv.
Buyers wake up for 3AM
Thailand’s Five Star Production is lining up a second 3D horror, 3AM, following the Asian box- office success of its first such production, Dark Flight 3D. The three-part portmanteau
film has already been pre-sold to several Asian territories including Taiwan (Deepjoy Pictures), Hong Kong (Encore Films) and Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei (Clover Films). Deepjoy, Encore and Clover Films also acquired Dark Flight 3D.
Liz Shackleton
Shahabi docs in Cannes
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Iranian producer Katayoun Sha- habi is working on a feature- length documentary revolving around two former veterans suf- fering from post-traumatic stress disorder, one hailing from Iran and the other from the US. Tehran-based Shahabi, who is
back at the market with her She- herazad Media International, is co-producing the film with the France’s Interscoop. The documentary is drawn
from film-maker Fima Emami’s own experience with her father, a shell-shocked former veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War. Emami and co-director Reza
Daryanoush have also located a US veteran of the second Gulf War, now living in Canada as a deserter. Shahabi is developing a second
doc capturing the situation of women in Iran today. Olivier Mille of Paris-based Artline is co-produc- ing and co-directing alongside Ira- nian film-maker Mina Keshavarz.
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