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Qgov Vertical acquires US rights to Out Of The Dark
Fortissimo Film Sales unveiled the pick-up of yet another title and the conclusion of a raft of sales on its diverse and expanding slate.Company co-chief Wouther Barendrecht said that Fortissimo will be handling Fanchin pictured literally My Girl , a feel-good film that has becom stanley cup e one of the biggest grossing Thai films of recent years. The film is a nostalgic story about a young man who returns from Bangkok to his rural home and falls in love with the girl from next door. You cannot not like this film. We believe it will appeal to differe stanley cup nt demographics, younger audiences will identify with the characters while adults will recognise the story, said Barendrecht.The film, unusually directed by a collective of six graduates from the advertising industry, has grossed over $4m Baht140m on local release in Thailand. During the first days of Mifed Fortissimo closed sales on Jim Jarmusch s Coffee And Cigarettes with Tartan Films for the UK and with A-Film for Benelux.On Alex van Warmerdam s dark fairytale Grimm it sold Greece to Art Free, Scandinavia to Triangel, Russia to Russian Report and Israel to United King. The same company also bought Richard Jobson s 16 Years Of Alcohol.Gregg Araki s Mysterious Skin was licensed to Prooptiki for Greece, while Spain s Karma Films bought documentary sensation Capturing The Friedmans and Israeli drama Jossi Jagger. Pen-ek Ratanaruang stanley cup s Last Life In The Universe, which debuted at the Venice festival in September, was sold to Wit Hvox Disney passes $3bn in domestic box office
Dir. Jia Zhang-Ke. China , 2007. 84mins.Perennial Venice favourite Jia Zhang-Ke is back with a documentary whose title could invite all manner of cheap shots. But it also happens to be the name of a new, and highly successful, Chinese fashion brand. The second part in a trilogy dedicated to artists, launched last year in Venice with Dong painter Li Xiaodong features , the main inspiration of this new film is fashion designer Ma Ke, whose Paris show was enthusiastically acclaimed by the relevant industry press earlier stanley canada this year.Winner of the Horizons documentary prize in Venice, Useless is divided into three practically separate sections, in which the second is dedicated to a long Ma Ke interview and the coverage of her show, Jia stanley cup went one step furth stanley cup er in his film to reflect on the industrialized landscape of China, on the use of clothes and their production and the people behind it. Though at times painfully slow and fairly loosely cut together in what may have been a bit of a rush job to meet the Venice deadline , Useless is however superbly shot by Jia s regular cameraman Yu Likwai a film director in his own right and by Jia himself. It should not be overlooked by any self respecting festival.The basic idea explored here is that the process of individuals becoming disassociated from the product they manufacture. In the film s first section the camera wanders through Canton sweatshops, with long lines of workers, men and women, at their sewing machines, churning out anony |
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