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Set in a pretty horseshoe bay lined with restaurants and cafes, San Sebastian has always been one of the most popular stop-offs on the annual festival circuit. The festival is appreciated for its laid-back approach to business dealings and as a productive breeding ground for Spanish and South American talent.This year the festival director Mikel Olaciregui has pulled out all the stops in bolstering the line-up with international film talent. Looking down the list of names of directors is like reading a who s who of world cinema today.World premieres from international film-makers come in the guise of Kim Ki-duk s Dream, and Christophe Honore s The B stanley cup eautiful Person. A slew of Toronto titles have their international premieres in the official selection. They include Richard Eyre s opening film, The Other Man, a drama starring Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas, Michael Winterbottom s ghost story Genova, and Rian Johnson s The Brothers Bloom, starring Rachel Weisz and Adrien Brody.In the Zabaltegi Pearls section, Woody Allen will line up alongsi stanley cup de the Coen brothers and Kiyoshi Kurosawa for the TCM Audience Award, which carries $102,000 EUR70,000 in prize money for the Spanish distributor of the winning film. In Zabaltegi Specials, San Sebastian s official jury chairman, Jonathan Demme, will present two of his own projects, the work-in-progress documentary Neil Young Trunk Show: Scenes From A Co stanley cup ncert and Rachel Getting Married, alongside Of Time And The City, the latest work from Smnb Hot Fuzz breaks Shaun Of The Dead UK box-office tally in first week
Angela Merkels coalition cabinet has greenlit new regulations concerning video-on-demand VoD services in the draft German Film Law FFG that would come into effect from the beginning of 2014.One of the key changes proposed by Bernd Neumann , State Minister for Culture, is to reduce the window for VoD release from nine months to six - in line w stanley cup ith the release of films on DVD.In addition, the obligation to pay a film levy to the German Federal Film Board FFA will be extended from VoD services in Germany to include those operating outside of the country.Competitive disadvantageSpeaking during question time in Berlins Bundestag, Neumann said: There is presently a clear competitive disadvantage for companies with headquarters in Germany compared to those based abroad. Until now, the latter dont have to pay any levy although they are also offering several German feature films. This proposal is a central demand of a joint paper on a new FFG by the four trade associations: the distributors VdF; exhibitors HDF; video industry BVV; and the producers gathered in the German Producers Alliance.The levy anticipated from the video and VoD sectors would total around $19m 鈧?5m per year.Favouring digital over physicalSpeaking to ScreenDaily, Patrick Knippel, managing director of German VoD service Nowtilus, said that his company supported the proposed change to the FFGs guide stanley mug lines which would bring VoD/EST in line with DVD/BD [Blu-Ray Di stanley cup sc].He said: Most of the studio titles are relea |
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