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Hardcore fans of The Clash might not like the sound of this: there's a potential biopic of the band in the works. The good news is that it takes a punk attitude to make a faithful biopic of a punk band and its Christine Vachon's Killer Films who are brewing up a biopic of some kind.

While I've yet to see the doc myself (I reference Claire Denis' White Material when I think of what the film might hold narratively), when the Cinema Eye Honor Noms were released I was surprised to see that, despite the positive buzz, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African only manage to grab one nomination. Clearly the film is a favorite for the 2009 edition of the IDA Awards - it picked up three nominations in the Feature Documentary, ABCNews VideoSource Award an the Pare Lorentz Award categories.

Producer Mark Gordon wanted me to direct the film and, quite frankly, I didn't jump at it. Not because I didn't want to direct, quite the opposite, I was on my way to directing another film, but because I didn't think I was experienced enough to take it on.

With the film eligibility dates covering portions of two years, the 2009 European Film Awards finds itself in an awkward mode of having a clear favorites from circa 2008 (Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In) go up against cream of the crop from Cannes 2009 (A Prophet, The White Ribbon and Fish Tank).

We might be getting a double dose of the "Green Zone" in 2010. We have the actioner film by Paul Greengrass coming out in early 2010, and then we should see Ken Loach staking out this region in war-torn Baghdad with DP Chris Menges by his side.