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  • Nicole Morganti Tara Erer
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    Bringing “quality to mass audiences”: Amazon’s UK and European originals heads talk film and scripted strategy 5c6ck

    2024-09-30T14:10:00Z 242417

    Tara Erer and Nicole Morganti explain how local talent and targeted demographics are the route to global hits.

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    Joshua Oppenheimer on giving a musical twist to the apocalypse in ‘The End’ 5z5k41

    2024-09-09T11:33:00Z

    ‘The End’ stars Tilda Swinton and George MacKay and had its world premiere at Telluride.

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    Tilda Swinton, Marvel and jellyfish tents: what goes on at the Venice Immersive island? 3w1238

    2024-09-06T15:52:00Z

    Projects include ‘Impulse: Playing With Reality’ and Marvel work ‘What If…?’

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    “It’s a step up,” say Sarajevo industry heads of boosted 2024 programme 1h5z1c

    2024-08-16T09:29:00Z

    The 45 projects in this year’s CineLink include several from Turkey.

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    Sarajevo’s Jovan Marjanovic talks physical expansion, hometown heroes and tackling tricky issues 6f3t6j

    2024-08-16T05:11:00Z

    “We hope it becomes the new centre of the city, and the country,” says the festival director of the newly-expanded festival. 

  • Song Wen
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    How FIRST International Film Festival offers a springboard for new Chinese directors 5wt2s

    2024-07-26T15:20:00Z

    FIFF founder and head Song Wen discusses the spirit of the festival and future of Chinese independent and arthouse cinema.

  • Pearlly Chua, Chong Keat Aun
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    Why Malaysian censors cleared sensitive riot drama ‘Snow In Midsummer’ (exclusive) 6hz6w

    2024-07-16T02:00:00Z

    Chong Keat Aun’s award-winning feature is the first local film about Kuala Lumpur’s tragic race riots of May 1969 to secure a release.

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    “We’re taking risks”: How New York Asian Film Festival’s biggest ever edition is mixing star power with new talent 2w6v43

    2024-07-12T22:03:00Z

    Stars from South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand and beyond are set to attend the festival.

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    ‘Eno’ director on the film’s innovative generative AI engine and how it could work on streaming 6w5s66

    2024-07-12T14:52:00Z

    Sundance title ‘Eno’ plays a different version each time the film screens.

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    Eight rising stars of German cinema at Munich 2024 212d4a

    2024-07-01T13:00:00Z

    They include several filmmakers moving behind the camera with 20 years experience in different fields. 

  • Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröne
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    Christoph Gröner and Julia Weigl reveal how Munich International Film Festival is evolving under their watch k6w3s

    2024-06-28T09:24:00Z

    The festival will screen six world premieres of international titles

  • Ken Watanabe and Ansel Elgort in Tokyo Vice
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    The personal touch made all the difference to the second series shoot of ‘Tokyo Vice’ in Japan 1b1g3r

    2024-06-18T16:40:00Z

    The show’s creative team reveal how filming series two was “night and day” compared to series one

  • Roger Ross Williams
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    Roger Ross Williams on social-issue stories and shaking up Ampas’s documentary branch 2c5nf

    2024-06-18T09:45:00Z

    The US director of films including God Loves Uganda, Life, Animated and Stamped From The Beginning held a masterclass at Sheffield Doc/Fest.

  • Sony's Wayne Garvie speaking at AVP Summit
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    Italian industry debates tax credit reform, co-productions and exploiting local stories at AVP Summit 2x636l

    2024-06-13T12:59:00Z

    The Audiovisual Producers Summit in Calabria was attended by international execs from companies including Sony, Amazon, FIlm and the BFI. 

  • Sofia Vergara as Griselda Blanco in 'Griselda'
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    Birds of paradise, palm trees, banana leaves: How ’Griselda’’s production designer evoked 1980s Miami 4v526c

    2024-06-13T11:58:00Z

    Knut Loewe eschewed the stereotypical pinks for a broader colour palette.

  • 'True Detective: Night Country'
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    How the ‘True Detective: Night Country’ production team doubled Iceland for Alaska 5s3k3j

    2024-06-11T14:16:00Z

    Producer Mari Jo Winkler and production designer Dan Taylor reveal the details that went into creating a fictional Alaskan town

  • Nicole Kidman at the Night Market in ‘Expats’
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    How Prime Video’s ‘Expats’ recreated 2014 Hong Kong in Los Angeles - and Hong Kong 5c445d

    2024-06-05T11:38:00Z

    Director Lulu Wang worked with production designer Yong Ok Lee to painstakingly recreate Hong Kong as it was a decade ago.

  • 'Silver Haze'
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    Is the indie tax credit finally making the UK a valuable co-production partner? 14y5j

    2024-05-31T13:57:00Z

    European producers are taking notice. 

  • Mohammad-Rasoulof
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    Mohammad Rasoulof talks fleeing Iran and making Cannes Competition title ‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’ 2v5t51

    2024-05-23T13:42:00Z

    The dissident director is in Cannes for the premiere of his latest film, which will compete for the Palme d’Or.

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    Celebrity chefs, A-list DJs and rooftop bars: What’s new on the Cannes 2024 social scene? j5ce

    2024-05-13T11:42:00Z

    Festival-goers will still have to weave through and around plenty of construction work.