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

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Six films from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay participated in the 21st edition of Films in Progress at the Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse, jointly organised with San Sebastian Festival. The second part of this twice yearly rendezvous will take the shape of Films in Progress 22 at San Sebastian this coming September. A total of 118 films were received for Films in Progress 21.

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January 2, 2012 3:31 PM
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There is a little known niche in the international film business of buying and selling that is inhabited by a handful of professionals called Buyers' Reps. They acquire films on behalf of a slate of distributors. There are surely other women in this unique and difficult niche service group who are not named below, and I ask forgiveness if I have not included them here. The job of buying for distributors around the world involves so many interpersonal skills, the buyers (distributors) interacting with the sellers (international sales agents), reading scripts, watching films, negotiating deals, making everyone happy in a business which is notoriously unhappy for one reason or another (usually economic) takes a heavy toll. These women are survivors and they have been plying their trade for a generation and not without a struggle. There are men in this fields as well, Gordon Steel who invented the niche, Darius Kapfer, Andre Boissier, and others, and in tribute, two who died so prematurely - Steve Hirsch and Richard Glasser, so beloved by everyone that it still hurts to remember. As new distributors survey the wide array of sellers and product, they need to consider the services of these veterans who have maintained strong relationships in the business of buying and selling for a generation already.

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November 2, 2011 10:55 AM
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North American sales agency and distributor FiGa Films has recently acquired several new Ibero American titles just in time for the American Film Market.

From Mexico, The Last Christeros (Los ultimos cristeros) by Matias Meyer, photo below, which had its world premiere in Toronto Film Festival, and Machete Language, directed by Kyzza Terrazas, which had its world premiere in Venice.

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November 2, 2011 4:43 AM
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October 31, 2011 12:00 PM
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Matching Jack, which won best picture at the Milan International Film Festival, was feted in Los Angeles with a gala screening Wednesday night November 2.

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October 30, 2011 2:30 AM
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Everyone in the film world knows the American Film Market in Santa Monica is one of the Big 3 world film markets which generate about $3 billion in deals. The business of independent motion picture production and distribution - a truly collaborative process - reaches a peak every year at the American Film Market, the Cannes Film Festival's Marche May 16-27, 2012 and the European Film Market during the Berlinale February 9 - 17, 2012.

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October 27, 2011 12:00 PM
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This project is one of our faves.

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October 27, 2011 2:30 AM
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UCLA is hosting a DIY Day this Friday 9AM to 7:30 PM and The Film Collaborative's Orly Ravid and Jeffrey Winter will present their new must-read book "How to Sell Your Film Without Selling Your Soul" at 6:30. It will all take place at the Charles E. Young Research Library on the north side of the UCLA campus. Parking in Structure 3.

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

6 Latin American Films Participate in Films in Progress 21

Women to Blog About: Kelley Green, Gloria Feldman, Laurie Woodrow, Valerie Holt-Sapienza et al

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FiGa Films New Acquisitions for AFM

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