Sydney Levine

Boyer Responds to Directors' Fortnight Abrupt Dismissal

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  • June 24, 2011 7:30 AM
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Frédéric Boyer whose edition for Directors' Fortnight in Cannes this year showed eight feature debuts has not been reappointed for the coming year. Boyer also serves as director of Les Arcs European Film Festival held in December and which is now calling for entries.

ScreenSingapore

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  • June 24, 2011 7:00 AM
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Singapore is making moves to put itself more squarely in the center of the Asia Business World. It is cohosting new weekly TV program with the BBC featuring discussions with democratic governments in the region, and ScreenSingapore, which is backed by the government's Media Development Authority, has recently attracted 700 delegates to its three-day film market, the focal point of the weeklong event (its original target was 500, it said). The western press has not covered this event as much as the Asian press except for Variety who cohosted the Winston Baker Film Financing Forum @ ScreenSingapore.

Hyde Park's Amritraj sees Foreign Films' Potential

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  • June 24, 2011 6:55 AM
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Thanks to Patrick Frater and Film Biz Asia for covering the views of master international sales agent Ashok Amritraj of Hyde Park.

Distribution Must Find New Models

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  • June 24, 2011 6:50 AM
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Thanks again to Film Biz Asia and Patrick Frater for covering the subject to distribution models.

Smarter Hollywood Gets Local in Asia

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • June 24, 2011 6:45 AM
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Thanks again to Film Biz Asia for this article by Marcus LimHollywood is getting smarter about engaging with Asia on more equal terms, having learned lessons from earlier unsuccessful attempts, according to two senior Hollywood executives at the second In Conversation seminar held Wednesday at ScreenSingapore.

Sharp Elbows and Acid Tongues at Shanghai Seminar

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • June 24, 2011 6:40 AM
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Again from Film Biz Asia comes this spirited report on the discussions which took place -- This time at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

Latino Time

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • June 23, 2011 5:30 AM
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With LALIFF (Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival) coming up in July, a look at what's happening with Latino films worldwide is due. I will put together and moderate a panel on New Modes and Old of Distribution which will target Latino films. Meanwhile, Rotterdam FF's Hubert Bals Fund has financed 8 new Latino films and a call for entries for Films in Progress, the twice-yearly rendezvous at the San Sebastian Festival and the Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse, has opened the registration period for its coming edition and will close June 30! Films in Progress 20 will take place in San Sebastian on 20 and 21 September 2011 within the framework of the Festival’s 59th edition.

Sunrise, a Film About Child Trafficking in India

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • June 23, 2011 4:29 AM
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Sunrise, the film is an international social media experiment about Child Trafficking in India.

Stop Slavery Now

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • June 23, 2011 2:30 AM
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Dear Sydney,

Sean Farnel - On Moving On From Hot Docs

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • June 22, 2011 9:28 AM
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