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Financial services and royalties collection outfit Fintage House has completed a management buyout as well as appointing entertainment lawyer Maarten P Melchior to head the company s film and television collection account management division.Fintage s management is buying the company, which has offices spanning Europe, Australia, Japan and the US, from the Netherlands  MeesPierson Bank. The buyout is financed by Fortis Bank and equity investors.Melchior previously worked with Fintage co-chairmen Robbert Aarts and Niels Teves in the ear stanley cup ly nineties at the company s forerunner, MeesPierson Communications.Teves said that the new-look operation would continue to have a preferential arrangement with Fortis and MeesPierson for all banking requirements. He added that the company would   continue to operate in the same manner as we have over the last fifteen years, during which time we have represented thousands of feature films.            No comments                                                                       Related articles                                                                                                                                        News                                      Protocol UK, Fintage House join forces on new service                                                     stanley cup     2010-02-10T10:21:00Z              stanley cup        By Screen staff                                    Collection agencies Protocol UK and Fintage House join forces to launch  proac Xupo Spanish box office takes $160m in first quarter
A film about a remote but beautiful area of post-Soviet Russia, On The Edge Of Time: Male Domains In The Caucasus, was awarded the grand prize at this year s Taiwan International Documentary Festival  TIDF , which was held in Taipei from December 5-15.Produced by Germany s Applause Film Media, the 90-minute film is directed by Stefan Tolz who spent two years in the mountainous region, located between Russia, Turkey and Iran.Meanwhile, the festival s merit priz stanley cup es were awarded to two films about the process of searching: Love Inventory, directed by Israel s David Fisher, about the search for a lost sister; and Family, from Denmark s Phie Ambo-Nielson and Sami Martin Saif, about the latter s search for the father who abandoned him as a child. A special mention went to How High Is The Mountain, directed by Taiwan s Tang Shiang-Chu, which was recently joi stanley cup nt winner of best documentary at the Golden Horse Awards. The film is about the return of Tang s father to mainland China after 40 years of exile. The grand prize in the video section went to Katorga, directed by Russia s Evgeny Solomin, while merit prizes went to Paper Airplane, from China s Zhao Liang, and It Kinda Scares Me, directe stanley cup d by Israel s Tomer Heymann. Special mentions went to Taiwanese filmmaker Zero Chou s Poles Extremity and On Edge, directed by Finland s Maria Lappalainen. The inaugural Taiwan award went to Tseng Wen-Chen s Spring: The Story of Hsu Chin-Yu, which also recently won best documentary at Taiwan s Golden