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Ireland to become more competitive for productions
Martin Cullen, Ireland's Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, has announced improvements to the Irish tax incentive for film and television. Proposed changes to the incentive, which runs to 2012, include raising the cap on individual investments to EUR50,000 from…
Arts Alliance Media secures EUR43 million
Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading provider of digital cinema technology, deployment and content, has signed agreements for EUR43 million of funding from pan-European services company Econocom and other private investors. It has also set up a long term strategic…
New Screen Australia programme guidelines released
Screen Australia has now released its 2009 guidelines for development support, production financing and Indigenous programmes, following three months of industry consultation. The programmes include a suite of new development initiatives that offer screen practitioners a range of pathways to…
Studio Babelsberg and Joel Silver sign five year deal
Studio Babelsberg and producer Joel Silver have agreed to work together until 2013. The Babelsberg Group will share in profits generated by Silver's Dark Castle Films and will act as co-producer for new films made by the company. Silver has…
UK co-productions suffer under new tax credit system
A report by Oxford Economics, on behalf of the UK Film Council, has shown that the Britain's film tax credit system is reducing interest in co-productions with the UK from overseas filmmakers. Since its introduction in early 2007, the tax…
Slamdance to be held in Cape Town for the first time
Slamdance International Film Festival will be held Cape Town for the first time on 28th February 2009. There will be screenings of 40 previously unseen documentaries, features, animations and shorts. The festival is currently looking for 10 short documentaries, a…
Ogilvy Brazil spot awarded Grand Prix at ABP Festival
Dove’s viral video for its deodorant, Invisible Dry, has won the Brazilian Festival of Advertising's Grand Prix in the internet category. The spot was created by Ogilvy Brazil, produced by BossaNovaFilms and directed by Paula Trabulsi. The viral ad, called…
Screen Australia releases Drama Production Survey
Screen Australia's 2007/08 survey shows revealing an above-average result with increases in foreign production and co-production activity, particularly in TV drama. The survey covers all Australian and co-production titles made each year, as well foreign titles if they are shot…
Filming in London to be made easier
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has announced plans to make film a key part of the city's cultural experience in the report Cultural Metropolis. Plans include a London Film Day, an additional USD150,000 for the London Borough Film Fund…
New look Zodiak plans to expand
Italian media and finance company De Agostini is to unify its European production empire under the one name, Zodiak Entertainment. It aims to consolidate its position in Europe and advance into North America and Asia. TV subsidiaries that will come…