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Film
Market:
Market briefs
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The Nepalese Oscar contender, Eric Valli's Himalaya
(aka Caravan), has been picked up for Australia
and New Zealand by Dendy, it was announced yesterday
by Dendy topper Troy Lum at the European Film
Market. Dendy Films had previously purchased another
of this year's foreign Oscar
contenders, Pedro Almodóvar's Todo
Sobre Mi Madre. JRJ
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Cowboy Booking International has acquired worldwide
rights to Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen's Forum documentary,
Benjamin Smoke. Cowboy will release
the pic in New York this summer and in the rest
of the US during 2000.
Montreal-based
Films Transit will handle international sales,
with Cowboy working on festivals and non-theatrical
foreign bookings. LF
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European distributors C-Sales of Amsterdam, Millivres
Multimedia of London and Salzgeber & Co of
Germany have teamed up in an "informal relationship"
to release
DVDs. Forthcoming titles include Constantino Giannaris'
Panorama pic From The Edge Of The City,
and Panorama opener Burlesk
King by Mel Chionglo. LF
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Voula Georgakokou, head of sales and promotion
at the Greek Film Centre, is very happy with
this year's Berlin film market: "It has been
a very successful Berlin for us," she says.
"We presented 10 films; Peppermint
was in Panorama and The Four Seasons Of
The Law was in Forum. Peppermint was
sold to Japan for theatrical release, and is
in demand in Europe, Germany and Italy in particular.
We also made a deal with Films Distribution
from France for The Attack Of Giant Moussaka.
And today we are signing a deal for Germany
for Four Seasons Of The Law."
DF
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German sales outfit Cine-International has added
Berlin competition entry Paradiso: Seven
Days With Seven Women by Rudolf Thome
to its sales slate. The company has also sold
No Trains No Planes to Russia,
South America and Slovakia, and It Happened
In July has gone to the US for video.
LF
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Jochen Hick's No
One Sleeps has been added to Media
Luna's sales slate. The English-language, German-directed
film is about a young AIDS scientist who is determined
to continue the work carried out by his famous
father into the origin of AIDS. LF
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