Russia courts foreign producers
Studios advertise wares in Cannes
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Kiarostami handed Venice prize
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Thessaloniki focuses on Middle East
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The first-ever Russian Pavilion opens Wednesday and execs are launching a business offensive Friday.
Alexander Golutva, deputy head of the federal culture and cinematography agency — who doubles as president of the producers guild — will tell an International Village roundtable about opportunities for foreign producers to shoot in Russia or contract out services.
Alexey Sokhnev, CEO of Vusion Consult, and executives from studios such as St. Petersburg’s Lenfilm, new southern Russian facility Solar Film and Russian World Studios will also participate.
“Mongol” director Sergei Bodrov will deliver a masterclass Sunday morning.
Fipresci prexy Andrey Plakhov, one of Russia’s top film critics, will host a mid-morning workshop Monday on “international perspectives of Russian cinema.”
With a fresh new four-year mandate, Marco Mueller finally has a chance to burnish his legacy on the Lido and take it to a higher plateau.
In frugal times, studios are rethinking the value of expensive European preems and the impact on box office and Oscar.
European producers, sales agents and financiers are approaching the fall festivals with trepidation. Toronto will be the first real chance for them to inspect the damage.
Vet docu-essayist Avi Mograbi permits his personal ideology and interests to overpower "Z32," an idiosyncratic take on soldiers' traumatic memories of horrors both seen and perpetrated.
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