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Cinema Guild Grabs Award-winning ‘Planet of Snail’
The Cinema Guild folks have picked up the prestigious 2011 winner of the IDFA's Best Feature-Length Documentary Award. A portrait that will likely leave makes waves on the upcoming festival circuit (not unlike the IDFA's previous winners in Last Train Home, Burma VJ, Stranded) Seung-jun Yi’s “Planet of Snail" will receive several local U.S festival showings (e.g. Hot Docs, Silverdocs) this Spring and Summer before receiving its theatrical run.
Adopt Films Find Soulmate in Jean-Marc Vallée’s ‘Café de Flore’
After a shopping spree that consisted of Berlin Film Festival winners in Taviani Bros.’ Golden Bear winner "Caesar Must Die", Christian Petzold' Silver Bear for Best Director winning "Barbara", and Ursula Meier's Special Prize Silver Bear winning “Sister”, the Adopt Films folks turn their attention to EFM market item/TIFF preemed Quebecois title from Jean-Marc Vallée.
First Look: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine
We've been raving about this pair of filmmakers since we caught their candid, visual essay The Patron Saints at TIFF last year, and now we've got a pair of stills from Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky's feature film debut, which is set to showcase at the 2012 edition of the Berlin Film Festival.
Joachim Trier’s Finds Shelter for ‘Louder than Bombs’
Good news on the Scandi film front as Joachim Trier's Louder than Bombs (an English language film to be shot in the U.S) appears to have gained some traction as Cineuropa confirms that Sigve Endresen's prod co. Motlys AS will be working alongside Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa's Bona Fide Productions with a fall start date being eyed.
Sony Pictures Classics Grab Audiard’s Rust and Bone
Among the rare times where they pick up a film before completion, Sony Pictures Classics have lassoed the North American, Latin American and Eastern European rights to Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone (Un goût de rouille et d’os), hence continuing their partnership with the French filmmaker after having distributed his last pic, A Prophet.
