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Market Events May 20th...Next and more

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  Screenings: Latest Updates   Additions: 9:30am - VIRGIN MOUNTAIN - Palais H 11:30am - THE 13TH STEP - Gray 4 5:30pm - MAGIC WORLD - Palais B Check Cinando for the most up-to-date schedule!         ...

NEXT Brings in Prime Examples for Video on Demand Talk

NEXT Brings in Prime Examples for Video on Demand Talk Today in the NEXT Pavillion brought in different ways to promote film through Video on Demand. The talk was titled, "VOD: The challenges and opportunities of Digital Distribution and How To Embrace Them." The talk was put on by FilmDoo. The two projects that were focused on were The Tide Project and Walk This Way. The Tide Project is a part of Europa Distribution and its purpose is to experiment with new business models that hav...

Cargo Entertainment and Radiant Films International have entered into a multi-faceted, strategic partnership

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Cargo Entertainment and Radiant Films International have entered into a multi-faceted, strategic partnership to expand their combined production, finance and sales capabilities for commercial feature films, it was announced today by Cargo’s CEO and Managing Partner, Marina Grasic, and Jan Korbelin Managing Partner and Radiant’s President and CEO, Mimi Steinbauer.   As the first step in their new collaboration, Cargo has made an investment in Radiant with Steinbauer assuming th...

Main Events in the Market May 19th

10:00am - Olympia 1 Video on Demand Opportunities in China. Round table moderated by Liz Shackleton (Screen International) with an introductory speech by Hou Po (Deloitte). Panelists: Marc Ganis (Jiaflix), David U. Lee (Leeding Media), Li Yansong (iQIYI) and Allen Zhu Huilong (Youku Tudou).         10:00am - Palais K Cinema Innovation in the Digital Experience Economy. Round table presented with Europa Cinemas, moderated by Michael Gubbins (Sampomedia) with spe...

Today at Next , May 19

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Cinema Innovation in the Digital Experience Economy 10:00 am - 12:00 pm | @Palais K - Palais des Festivals - Level 4 Digital Distribution of Films : Real and Concrete Business Cases  2:30 - 3:30 pm | @NEXT Pavilion  FILM4CLIMATE: Taking Action on Climate Change!  4:00 - 5:00 pm | @NEXT Pavilion ...

PIXAR Panel with “Inside Out” director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera at AMPAV

May 19th 10:00am - 11:00am American Pavilion Limited seats TimesTalks Presents: DISNEY PIXAR'S “INSIDE OUT” CAST AND CREATIVE Check out this fascinating, fun talk with “Inside Out” director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera—the team behind the Oscar-winning film “Up”—plus award-winning actors Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Lewis Black and Phyllis Smith, who provide the voices of Joy, Disgust, Anger and Sadness in this original new mov...

Quick Profile of ORI ANIMATION in Cannes with animation

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ORI ANIMATION (http://www.ori-animation.com/en_index.html).     ORI ANIMATION CO., LTD China, founded in August, 2006, is a national animation enterprise authorized by the Chinese Government. With over 120 million dollars total assets, ORI is equipped with more than 280 high-technical employees, building partnership with over 20 animation production teams at home and abroad. By the end of 2014, ORI has completed 5 original animated feature ...

Animation Production Day 2015 is expanding

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  “Producers Meet Producers”, the new event in the Animation Production Day 2015 programme, promises to be a great success – 76 producers have signed up for it. New funding from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) has created a positive stimulus. With 120 participants from 12 different countries and 37 selected projects with a combined production volume of 130 million Euros, this is the biggest APD yet.     Animation Production Day (organised by t...

Venezuelan Cinema at Cannes International Film Festival 2015

      CINÉFONDATION   Title: ANFIBIO / AMPHIBIAN Filmmaker and Script: Héctor Silva Núñez Production: Marco Olmos & Héctor Silva Núñez 15 min / Spanish/ Short Film / Fiction Production company: Films 808 Year: 2015 Synopsis: Jesús lives with his father on the shore of a large lake. José, his older brother, has returned home carrying with him a criminal past. This morning, Jes...

Red Sea Media brings eight completed titles to the Cannes market

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Roman Kopelevich’s Red Sea Media will bring eight completed titles to the Cannes market and handling international sales. The company’s expanded sales slate includes: ALIENATE directed by Michael Shumway; BLACKLINE written and directed by Christian Johnston, starring MAX RYAN; LUMBERJACK MAN directed by Josh Bear; MORNING written and directed by Leland Orser, starring Jeanne Tripplehorn and Laura Linney; PALE HORSE directed by Pearry Reginald Teo; GNOME ALONE directed by Timothy Wood...

Foresight Unlimited is launching a television sales arm

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Foresight Unlimited is launching a television sales arm with an initial slate of three original series from Timothy Scott Bogart and Gary A. Randall’s Boardwalk Entertainment.  Foresight’s Mark Damon and Tamara Birkemoe will handle foreign sales and work with international partners to co-produce projects with international themes which will be for the most part, shot abroad.   The first of the three one-hour dramatic scripted series will be “Headliners”, an in...

Content Media Takes Worldwide Sales Rights and Will Debut the Project in Cannes

Noomi Rapace (“Prometheus,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Drop”) has signed on to play the iconic and most influential female opera singer of the 20th century, Maria Callas, in the feature biopic “Callas.”   Niki Caro (“McFarland, USA,” “Whale Rider,” “North Country”) is attached to direct “Callas” from a screenplay she adapted from Alfonso S...

Strong figures on Market opening, with 11 000 registrations so far

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Today is the opening day of the Marché! So far, 11,000 attendees have already registered, with a strong increase of participants from Korea and Italy. From these numbers, producers make up 29%, followed by distributors with 24% and sales agents with 11%. The Marché welcomes a record number of 117 countries. For the first time Albania, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan will be represented. 3,300 films will be on sale. 950 films will be shown in the 1,400 screenings alre...

UDI Cannes 2015 final Lineup

  IN CANNES: RIVIERA H2 Click here for full line up   OFFICIAL SELECTION ALIAS MARIA by José Luis Rugeles Gracia     Drama - Colombia, Argentina, France - 2015 - 92min Maria, a 13-year-old guerrilla soldier, has to fulfill a mission along with 3 other soldier-kids: take the commander’s new-born baby to a safe town. But nobody knows the secret she conceals: she’s pregnant and giving birth is fo...

Do you want some BLOOD PUNCH at CANNES?

          More New Titles Available Now:   Misogynist A chauvinist teaches his prodigy how to control women, only for the student to find out he's not everything he seems. Ghost Bride Jason Chen is trapped between two women, two cultures, and tw...

media luna Cannes 2015 Lineup

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 media luna new films presents its brand new acquisitions at Marche du Film 2015 with 10 Market Screenings!  ABSOLUTION  by Petri Kotwica (Finland, Ireland 2015; Drama) MARKET SCREENING: Monday 18th - 10:00H (Riviera 3) - From the Director of “Black Ice” (Berlinale Competition 2008). Starring Laura Birn (“A Walk Among the Tombstones” by Scott Frank, Winner of Berlinale ERP Shooting Star) Kiia hits something driving on her way the hospital, where s...

OneEyedFilms brings hypnotic scifi arthouse 'Morgenrøde' ('Dawn) SCIFI arthouse

'MORGENRODE' ('DAWN)   BEST SCIFI MIAMI  FANTASPOA, BERGEN LONDON SCI FI  '''evocation of Nordic apocalyptic mythology'' DEVILDEAD 'hypnotic, layered in mystery'' BLOODGUTS     MORGENRØDE (DAWN)   Dir Anders Elsrud Hultgreen  71’ Norway 2014   Science Fiction   "Hypnotizing and unique’’ SPETAKULART     "The beautifully crafted elemen...

Ariztical Entertainment's Cannes 2015 Lineup

  Ariztical Entertainment's Available Films at Cannes 2015   A Reunion   WATCH TRAILER  View in Cinando HERE   Comedy, Drama, Gay / USA / 80 minutes / English   An Ebersole Hughes ...

The Little Film Company announces today the acquisition of Klaus Härö’s touching drama THE FENCER

The Little Film Company announces today the acquisition of the latest feature from the highly-acclaimed, award-winning director Klaus Härö, THE FENCER (LETTERS TO FATHER JACOB, MOTHER OF MINE).     Härö’s touching drama THE FENCER, about love and a man who finds meaning in his life through children who need him, is written by Anna Heinämaa and stars Märt Avandi andß Ursula Ratasepp.  The film is a Making Movies production, produced by ...

TomCat Films to present All Saint's Eve

    An evil preacher in the late 1700’s leads an angry church mob to murder a farmer and his family in order to steal his land. In his dying breath, the farmer incites an evil curse and vows vengeance. One fateful Halloween night, the curse is accidentally unleashed and a group of teenage friends must now fight to stay alive and solve the ancient mystery before the whole town is doomed for eternity.   Watch the trailer here   Selling Points   St...

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