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

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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.

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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.

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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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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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March 23, 2012 10:45 AM
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“DigiTraining Plus: European Cinemas Experiencing New Technologies”, taking place in Amsterdam from 29 August to 2 September 2012:

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March 21, 2012 10:41 AM
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The Venice Film Festival's new artistic director Alberto Barbera has announced that France’s Pascal Diot will head the new Venice Film Market. TIFF goes on. In October, Rome has announced that Marco Mueller has been apppointed Director there and will soon reveal market plans. Moscow has also announced its Red Square Screenings will be held during this crowded fall season. The big question is, who will have the energy to attend yet another market?

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February 29, 2012 11:43 PM
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Russia’s Roskino / SEF – formerly known as Sovexportfilm – will set up business, and open a full time office, in the USA. Recently, while attending the Berlinale European Film Market, the company announced, via Roskino / SEF CEO Catherine Mtsitouridze and US based Commissioner (and longtime film biz Senior Executive) Eleonora Granata, that the new Russian Film Commission will be looking to build relationships with US distributors for Russian films and to promote Russia as a filming location and a strong partner for US international co- productions. Prominent LA based Russian journalist (and Board Member of ‘The Golden Globes’ Award Ceremony for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) Sergei Rakhlin will be Director of the Russian Film Commission Office.

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October 14, 2011 3:30 AM
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by guest blogger, Peter BelsitoEdward Noeltner, CMG

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April 15, 2011 9:15 AM
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ColCoa's Opening Night film, Service Entrance aka Les Femmes de Sixieme (ISA: SND) by Philippe Le Guay will be released stateside by Strand. The laughter from the audience was so resounding that I wondered why it had not been snapped up by Sony Pictures Classics when it first debuted at EFM in Berlin. Service Entrance starring Sandrine Kiberlain and Fabrice LuchiniAnd then I learned the hard facts of foreign language film distribution in the U.S. in a frank discussion with Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber, Ed Arentz of Music Box, Frederic Demey of NeoClassics, and Greg Laemmle of Laemmle Theaters moderated by Unifrance's John Kochman. Popular comedies in foreign languages do not garner critical reviews and critical reviews are the crucial selling point - to theaters - for booking foreign language films. If you continue reading you will get an earful, a vrai compendium of the ills of the foreign film distribution system in the U.S. Each point deserves a chapter to itself, but here follows a quick look at the issues raised.

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March 25, 2011 4:18 AM
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You can download and access Winter Rights Roundup (Deals done in Berlin, Rotterdam, Sundance) here. Ventana Sur is thrown in for good measure along with whatever else until we begin the 2011 Spring and Cannes Rights Roundup.

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

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

6 Latin American Films Participate in Films in Progress 21

ColCoa 2012

Digitization of Theaters in Europe

Venice Film Festival Announces its Market in a Crowded Fall Season

Women to Watch: Russia to Open Beverly Hills Russian Film Commission Office

International Sales Agent of the Day: CMG

ColCoa and Foreign Film Distribution

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