Sydney Levine

Global Film Initiative - One of U.S.'s Most Creative Distributors at the 65th Cannes Film Festival!

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • May 22, 2012 1:33 AM
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The Global Film Initiative is a leading distributor and funder of films from Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, including Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard film MISS LOVELY (dir. Ashim Ahluwalia, India) being sold by Fortissimo and screening May 24 and May 25.

Technicolor and Rightstrade Announce Partnership to enhance media asset distribution & management

  • By SydneyLevine
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  • May 19, 2012 10:30 AM
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Recap of Personnel Shifts

  • By SydneyLevine
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  • May 17, 2012 3:24 PM
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At the risk of being redundant, I publish this so that when Cannes folk meet one another at the myriad of cocktail receptions and parties, they will be aware of where old friends and acquaintances are now working

Berkeley Student goes to Cannes to serve as a Jurist and Critic

  • By SydneyLevine
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  • May 17, 2012 10:30 AM
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As the recipient of a College to Cannes award from the San Francisco Film Society and French Consulate, Ryan Lattanzio, freshly graduated from UC Berkeley, will take an all-expenses-paid trip to be a jurist and critic at the Cannes Film Festival wher he will share an apartment with three other students — from South Korea, Belgium and India — who together will select the 2012 Cannes “Visionary Award” for a fledgling independent filmmaker.

International Sales Agent: New for Cannes, Blue Galaxy Launched by Vets Marcy Rubin, Andrew Stevens and Fiorenza Cella

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • May 15, 2012 10:30 AM
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Born of the power and passion of two prominent members of the international film community, Blue Galaxy International takes sales, distribution, and media production to the next level.

International Sales Agent: New for Cannes, Blue Galaxy launched by vets Marcy Rubin and Fiorenza Cella

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • May 10, 2012 10:30 AM
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Born of the power and passion of two prominent members of the international film community, Blue Galaxy International takes sales, distribution, and media production to the next level.

LatinoBuzz: Mexico's Young Filmmakers Are Breaking Records and Pushing Boundaries

  • By Vanessa Erazo
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  • May 9, 2012 11:55 AM
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Mexico’s film industry broke records last year. Box office attendance reached an all-time high and due in part to increased public funding, local productions rose to more than 70 feature films. Yet, as is true in all of Latin America, Hollywood blockbusters edged out national films.

Roskino Celebrates U.S. Office Opening of The Russian Film Commission at a Beverly Hills Luncheon

  • By Sydney Levine, Peter Belsito
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  • May 7, 2012 7:22 PM
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Major Hollywood and international film players turned out to welcome Serge Rakhlin, Russian member of HFPA and Director of the Russian Film Commission, and Commissioner Eleonora Granata Jenkinson as they announced today the office opening in the USA of The RUSSIAN FILM COMMISSION created by ROSKINO/SEF, Russia’s only state enterprise responsible for the image of the Russian film industry and represents Russia’s film interests internationally.

International Sales Agent: Memento, We Are What We Are

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • May 3, 2012 10:27 AM
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One of my favorite international sales agent is Memento. Now they are representing the film of one of my favorite people in the biz, the hyphenate director-producer-writer who also was put into the role of casting director by Steve Soderbergh while casting Che, Rodrigo (Rigo to his friends) Bellot.

ColCoa 2012

  • By SydneyLevine
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  • April 6, 2012 11:45 AM
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The 16th Annual City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA) film festival will run April 16-23 in Los Angeles . Sponsored by The Franco-American Cultural Fund (FACF), the festival will present 34 features and 21 shorts, including 10 North American and U.S. Premieres, and 14 West Coast Premieres. “The historic triumph of The Artist (ISA:Wild Bunch) reflects a remarkable year for French cinema and we are glad to introduce a broad spectrum of new films to Hollywood that reveal both the quality and diversity of recent French productions,” stated François Truffart, COL•COA Executive Director and Artistic Director.

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