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Ten Asian projects in Filmart’s ACE line-up 5j6o6j
Ten producers and feature films from the region are among the 16 currently attending the third Hong Kong co-production lab held by Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE) during Filmart.
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Films Boutique makes Haneke doc sales 5f4c4c
EXCLUSIVE: Michael H Profession: Director sells to Australia, Taiwan, Canada and beyond.
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Australian delegation returns to China 2o245d
An official delegation of Australian film producers, bureaucrats and film service company representatives are heading to China for the third round of formal meetings in four years.
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Australia earmarks $21m for incentives e4q54
The Australian government this week put aside $21m (A$20m) to attract high-budget international film production, but exactly how it is going to be used will not be known until the industry has been consulted, which may be a few weeks.
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Cambodia's Sotho lines up Om-Tuk, Last Reel 2y356a
Filming wraps in a few days in Cambodia on the international co-production Om-Tuk which Australian writer/directors Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody are producing alongside Phnom Penh-based Kulikar Sotho.
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King's Speech producers grab autobiography 426i52
The true story of how a poor five-year-old Indian boy was separated from his mother, adopted by an Australian family, then found her 25 years later, is to be made into a film by See-Saw Films producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.
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Sapphires sweeps Australia's AACTA Awards 335i71
Comedy drama The Sapphires dominated the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, hosted Wednesday night [Jan 30] in Sydney by actor Russell Crowe.
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Australian box office up on 2011; down on 2010 2w3m28
The people of Australia spent $1,173.2m (A$1,125.5m) on cinema tickets in 2012, a 2.8% increase on the previous year but about $7.6m (A$7.3m) less than they spent in a record-breaking 2010.
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Screen Australia backs Thornton, Ayres projects 2rl43
Screen Australia is to invest in five new feature films, three of which are from the proven directors Warwick Thornton (Samson And Delilah), Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories) and Kriv Stenders (Red Dog).
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Screen Australia backs comedies in latest funding round 6v3qi
Australian writer/directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes and producer Julie Ryan have scored development money from Screen Australia for their next picture, crime comedy They Shoot Hostages, Don’t They?
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Boehm moves to Icon Australia 1m2y47
Susan Boehm will take up a new Sydney-based role as head of acquisitions and development at Icon Film Distribution in January.
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Foxtel tightens grasp on Australia's pay TV movie market 1p2i29
Australia’s Movie Network Channels (MNC) has lost its battle to survive and, while there is a lot of uncertainty around the impact, it is going to mean lower prices being paid in Australia for both studio and independent films.
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Al Clark lines up trio including Stephan Elliott comedy 565v5r
Producer Al Clark is working on an untitled comedy with director Stephan Elliott, a pairing that previously created The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, one of the best-known Australian films ever made.
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Sapphires heads nominations for AACTA awards 2p6t5w
This year’s standout box office hit The Sapphires, is up against Burning Man, Lore and Wish You Were Here for the crown of best film in the AACTA (Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts) Awards, to be presented at the end of January in Sydney.
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Beyond The Hill wins best feature at APSA Awards 353e2q
The Turkish film industry was honoured at the sixth annual Asia Pacific Film Awards (APSAs), with three films among the winning line-up including Beyond the Hill, which was judged best feature.
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Asia Pacific heights 1c2d35
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Nov 23) shines the spotlight on a vast region that organisers say does not always receive the attention it deserves. Sandy George reports
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Shopping trip 32g22
Lucrative, stable and sophisticated - it’s no surprise the Australia and New Zealand market is drawing foreign investors. Sandy George reports
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Australian games industry promised $20m at SPAA closing 272d3z
Australia’s Arts Minister Simon Crean has promised $20.7m (A$20m) over three years for an Australian interactive games fund, urging the industry to help set up the fund so that it will be of most assistance.
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Essential Media to finance Joffe’s Violet Town 3i3f15
Mark Joffe’s Violet Town is one of several films being financed at Essential Media and Entertainment, the production company last night awarded the Independent Producer of the Year Award by the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA).
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Australian producers slam government at SPAA opening 6v2lc
Producer Brian Rosen slammed the Australian government in his opening address to the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) in Melbourne today.
