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Sydney Levine focuses on international film industry developments and analysis of the international film market related to buyers, sales agents, filmmakers, film festivals and distribution.

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Women to Watch: Nancy Gerstman U.S. Distributor

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  • October 7, 2011 5:30 AM
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by Guest Blogger Peter Belsito
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Women to Watch: Dawn Hudson Changes the Face of L.A.

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  • October 7, 2011 5:01 AM
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Dawn Hudson, Los Angeles former head of Film Independent, has, in her first major initiative as the Chief Executive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just changed the face of Los Angeles. The landmark May Company, the art deco entry way to the famed Miracle Mile at Wilshire and Fairfax, will become the long-discussed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. AMPAS and LACMA's joint effort will finally bring Los Angeles, the Movie Capitol of the World, "a much-needed destination for cultural tourists and Los Angelenos to learn more about cinema, and the setting could not be more ideal, nestled next to the largest encyclopedic art museum in the western United States," said co-chairman of LACMA Board of Trustees Terry Semel (former chairman of Warner Brothers and CEO of Yahoo). -- Los Angeles Times
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When Are Films Political? Hell and Back Again

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  • October 6, 2011 2:00 AM
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Hell and Back Again, the feature documentary by Danfung Dennis that won the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Award and the World Cinema Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2011 opens on October 5th at Film Forum in NYC and on October 14th at Laemmle Monica in Santa Monica. New Video is the U.S. distributor and this is one of four films inaugurating its new theatrical distribution initiative. Dogwoof is the international sales agent.
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Freedom of Expression Banned: 6 Iranian Filmmakers Imprisoned

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  • October 2, 2011 2:30 AM
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One of my dearest friends in the business, Katayoon Shahabi, international sales agent and producer of the Iranian documentary A Brief Peace is among the six Iranian filmmakers just imprisoned in Iran for working for the BBC. Her company Sheherazade is the only independent international sales agent in Iran. She sold Iron Island to my other dear friend Don Krim (whose memorial service will be held in N.Y. September 25.) I am completely unnerved by this news. Read the full story in IndieWIRE.You can also sign a petition here for the prisoners' release.
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