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NEWS


Daly, Abrahamson line up for Dubliners


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THE ZIGZAG KID Dir: Vincent Bal Prod: BosBros (feature, 90’) • Wed Sep 12, 15:15 Cinema 5 (press & industry)


• Sat Sep 15, 15:00 Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 2


BY WENDY MITCHELL Lance Daly (Kisses) and Lenny Abraham- son, director of TIFF selection What Rich- ard Did, are among the directors lining up to direct an omnibus Dubliners project for producers Fastnet. Other directors confirmed for the 15-sec-


tion project include Kirsten Sheridan and Ken Wardrop along with writers including Roddy Doyle and Mark O’Halloran. Each short will be 5-10 minutes long and based on one of the stories in James Joyce’s Dub- liners. “Everybody loves the idea and there are a lot of Joyce fans out there,” Fastnet co-founder Macdara Kelleher told Screen. “The idea is to contemporise them and really be free. We want to keep the spirit and themes but then nothing is too sacred.” Some UK and international directors are also expected to join the project. Fastnet’s slate also includes revenge drama The Ranger, to be directed by Game


(From left) Cameron Bailey, Rola Nashef and Ruba Nadda


THE DEFLOWERING


OF EVA VAN END Dir: Michiel ten Horn Prod: Pupkin Film Sales: M-Appeal (feature, 98’) • Fri Sep 14, 18:15 Cinema 5 (press & industry)


• Sat Sep 15, 18:15 Scotiabank 9


Of Thrones cinematographer PJ Dillon. The 1850s-set project will shoot in spring 2013 as a likely co-production with Luxembourg but it will have heavy UK elements. After backing Rebecca Daly’s Cannes


Directors’ Fortnight title The Other Side Of Sleep, Fastnet is also working with her on Mammal, a drama being developed at the Berlinale Residency. Also, the company has optioned Artemis


Fowl author Eoin Colfer’s Airman. The slate also includes Daly’s Life’s A


Breeze, starring Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt and Eva Birthistle, which Magnolia is selling internationally (the film is in post). The story follows a son who cleans out his hoarder mother’s house, accidentally throw- ing away her life’s savings in a mattress. Fastnet is also the Irish co-producer on


The F Word (sold by eOne) starring Daniel Radcliffe, which is now shooting in Toronto before moving to Dublin.


Holden gets Exclusive deal


BY WENDY MITCHELL UK producer Ben Holden will leave his post as Exclusive Media’s director of Euro- pean Film and TV group to become an independent producer at his own Light- bulb Pictures, with a non-exclusive deal with Exclusive. Under the deal, Lightbulb will receive


development funding from Exclusive for a slate of projects across all genres, and Holden will produce new projects for Hammer, which is a division of Exclusive Media. Holden is currently producing Ham-


mer’s thriller The Quiet Ones, directed by John Pogue and starring Jared Harris. Holden will work on upcoming projects


for Hammer including an untitled original action-horror feature written by Matthew Read (the UK Pusher remake) and super- natural thriller Coven, to be written by Blake and Dylan Ritson. He is also working with Hammer/


Exclusive on The Woman In Black: Angels Of Death.


TORONTO BRIEFS


Allegiance goes to XLrator XLrator Media has acquired all domestic rights to the military thriller Allegiance starring Shad ‘Bow Wow’ Moss, Seth Gabel, Aidan Quinn, Malik Yoba and Pablo Schreiber. CEO Barry Gordon brokered the deal with Nate Bolotin of XYZ Films for the film-makers.


Rola Nashef has won the inaugural Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award at TIFF. The festival’s artistic director, Cameron Bailey, and Canadian film-maker Ruba Nadda presented Nashef with the Discovery Award for her feature Detroit Unleaded, which is being hailed as the first Arab-American romantic comedy. With the help of the $10,000 award, Nashef plans on continuing to explore the Detroit Arab-American community in future projects. “If I can get an audience to be entertained and go through an emotional journey with an Arab-driven character, then they’re going to have a harder time stereotyping us or buying into all the fear factors that are out there. That is my activism,” she told Screen.


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Kurosawa travels back to 1905


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BY JASON GRAY Japanese film-maker Kiyoshi Kurosawa will direct Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai in period action-drama 1905, set up as a Japan-China co-production. Leung will play a loan shark who must


venture from Guangdong province in China to Yokohama, Japan, to recover debts from a band of anti-Manchu govern- ment revolutionaries. The film will com- mence production in November with plans to recreate the port of Yokohama as it was 100 years ago on location in Taiwan, with additional shooting in Japan. Sil-Metropole is also a backer on the


$10m project, which will raise funds through pre-sales to Asia and Europe. A France-based sales company is yet to be officially confirmed.


Isabel Davis grows role at BFI


BY WENDY MITCHELL Isabel Davis has taken on the newly expanded role of head of international at the British Film Institute. Ben Roberts announced the news last night at a UK reception. Davis (pictured) had been at the UK Film Council since 2006 and she trans- ferred to the BFI in 2011. She will now be responsible for the BFI’s


international strategy working across cul- tural exchange, international co-production, external partners, inward investment and film export. She will continue to track international film-making talent who might partner with the UK.


Submarine and Music Box celebrate 30th in Style Submarine Entertainment and Music Box Films have partnered on the release of two cult films celebrating their 30th anniversary release: Wild Style by Charlie Ahearn and Downtown 81 by Edo Bertoglio.


New scheme for Scottish shorts Creative Scotland have announced they are financing an initiative aimed at investing in producers, writers and directors. Jointly managed by Hopscotch Films and DigiCult, Scottish Shorts will work with up to 10 teams with short-film proposals before commissioning four live-action or animated films in early 2013.


Stealth adopts The Child Stealth Media Group has taken on Zsolt Bacs’ psychological thriller The Child, which will be delivered later this month. Eric Roberts leads the cast in the story of a child serial killer.


Raven Banner moves into horror Dark Hollow Raven Banner has acquired sales rights to the mythological horror Dark Hollow. The project is based on US author Brian Keene’s bestseller set in the present day about an evil satyr. Production is set to begin in spring 2013


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