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Write About Love - TBA Studios - AFM Office: Loews Suite 704
Producer Ed Guiney Backs Female Driven Drama
Herself Cowritten By Lead Actress Clare Dunne
Ed Guiney courtesy podcast the insidertalks
Herself, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, is produced by Academy Award® nominee Ed Guiney (The Favourite, Room, The Lobster) and Rory Gilmartin (Rosie) for Element, together with BAFTA award-winning actress, writer, producer and director Sharon Horgan, and co-developed by Element Pictures and Merman. The female-driven drama stars Irish actor Clare Dunne, known for her theater work including Lloyd’s all-female version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV. Dunne stars as a single mother determined to build her own home, and rebuilding her life in the process. Clare Dunne originated the story and co-wrote the screenplay together with Malcolm Campbell. Herself was developed with BBC Films and Screen Ireland and with finance backing from Screen Ireland, BBC Films and the BFI (with National Lottery funding). During AFM, Cornerstone Films is handling worldwide sales and has concluded deals with Youplanet Caramel (Spain), BIM (Italy), Longride (Japan), Lusomundo (Portugal), Forum (Israel) and Italia (Middle East). Element Distribution will be releasing the film in Ireland and Picturehouse Entertainment in the UK. Herself was shot on location in Ireland and is currently in post-production in London.

Jonathan Wolf

The AFM Not A One Size Fits All Market
The Ongoing Success Of AFM Screening On Demand
The AFM got underway yesterday, with an estimated 7,000 attendees. Responding to its worldwide members and a changed distribution landscape, three years ago, Jonathan Wolf, managing director, the American Film Market, introduced AFM Screening on Demand during the event and this year going through to March 2020...
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Anant Singh

Family Values And The Spirit Of Community
Anant Singh Acquires The Boys Of Summer
Which Spans The Canvas & Impact Of American
Social Change Corporate Greed & Cultural Identity
Based in South Africa and recognised as the country’s leading independent producer, with more than 80 feature films and TV projects under his banner, Distant Horizon’s Anant Singh has acquired the rights to produce a limited series...
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Juliette Lepoutre

Still Moving Award Winning The Fever
From Brazilian Filmmaker Maya Da-Rin
Still Moving, the Paris based sales agency headed by Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem, coproducers, is handling worldwide sales rights to The Fever, by Maya Da-Rin. The film had multiple awards at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival and had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in Wavelengths program....
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Tiffany Haddish

Billy Crystal And Tiffany Haddish
A Comedic Duo Spanning Generational
Differences That Will Resonate With
Audiences Worldwide
Production is currently underway in New York in a comedy made in heaven. Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish are the stars of the heart-warming feature film Here Today, directed by Billy Crystal and produced by Astute Films’ President Fred Bernstein...
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Bille August

The Pact A Film Of Seduction Manipulation
& Innocence To Be Directed By Bille August
The venerable Danish director Bille August (pictured above) will direct The Pact, a psychological drama about the intense friendship between world renowned Danish author Karen Blixen and the young and promising Danish poet Thorkild Bjønvig, based on a screenplay by Christian Torpe. The film is adapted from Thorkild Bjørnvig’s self-biographical book of the same name. ...
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Dirty Dancing

Ad-Supported (AVOD) Video On Demand
Service By Tubi Shows 40% Increase Over
Four Months The Third Quarter Of 2019
Platforms across the world are proliferating and AVOD the most prevalent. During the recent MIPCOM, Tubi, the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) for movies and tv content, mapped out its progress and future expanding strategy. The company will launch its services in the UK in early 2020, with additional territories ...
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Tilda Swinton Presides Over
Jury At FIFM In Morocco
Tilda Swinton ©Michael Lavine
The renowned Scottish performer and producer is president of the Jury for 18th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM). Tilda Swinton comments: "It is my honour to serve the exceptional festival of Marrakech as president of the Jury this year. The State of Cinema knows no boundary and the prospect of joining with my comrades from around our planet to discover and celebrate work from all her continents is a privilege and joy for which I am sincerely grateful and to which I look forward immensely."

Eight members complete the jury over which Tilda Swinton will preside: French director Rebecca Zlotowski, British director Andrea Arnold, Franco-Italian actress Chiara Mastroianni, Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt, Afghan writer and director Atiq Rahimi, Australian director David Michôd, and Moroccan director Ali Essafi.

With a large local audience attending FIFM, the festival has a showcase of 14 films in official competition. Across the breadth of the disciples of film, as writers, actors, directors, and producers, the jury will share their expertise and insights as they select the winners of the festival’s various awards, including the Etoile d’Or 2019 awarded to the best film. The Jury of the 18th Marrakech International Film Festival will announce the award winners during the closing night ceremony on December 7th, 2019.


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