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Costa-Gavras planning a Euro IMDb

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Costa-Gavras planning a Euro IMDb - The Hollywood Reporter
Berlin International Film Festival jury president Costa-Gavras, in his role as president of the Cinematheque Francaise, is hatching plans to launch a European counterpart to online movie directory IMDb.
The initiative was presented to the Paris-based Cinematheque’s board at a recent meeting and was approved in principle, though [...]

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Tags: World Wide Web · filmmaking

Training academies: bane or boon?

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Berlin’s Talent Campus now in fifth year
Variety

Ten years ago, the talk was all about markets: Every film festival had to have one or risk looking like a glorified county fair. Before that, it was about competitive sections — a gold rush that yielded such accolades as the Golden Starfish (the Hamptons), the Golden Apricot (Yerevan) [...]

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Tags: Festivals · education · filmmaking