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Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, David Blackman, UMG Team for Velvet Underground Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland - From "Velvet Goldmine" to the Velvet Underground: Todd Haynes, director of such acclaimed U.S. independent films as "Far From Heaven" and "Carol," is teaming with longtime producing partner Christine Vachon of Ki


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Locarno: Raimondo Rezzonico Prize Winner Michel Merkt on 12 Strategies for Producing

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Some producers have strategies, but fewer execute, and far fewer still achieve their goals. One of the remarkable things about Swiss producer Michel Merkt ("Elle" "Acquarius"), the Locarno Festival's Raimondo Re


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Italy's Alice Rohrwacher Shooting 'Lazzaro Felice,' Match Factory Takes World Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

By Nick Vivarelli

LOCARNO, Switzerland - Italian director Alice Rohrwacher ("The Wonders") has started principal photography on "Lazzaro Felice," about a man living on the margins of society who travels through time. The film's European A-list ense


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Locarno: 'Let the Corpses Tan,' 'Iceman,' 'Winter Brothers,' 'Lucky' Lead Buzz and Biz

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- "Let the Corpses Tan," "Iceman," "Winter Brothers" and "Lucky" led biz or buzz as Locarno headed towards its final straits on Wednesday morning, with, of new films, "Three Peaks" and "A Skin So Soft" having draw


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Locarno: Dawood Hilmandi's 'Badeszenen' and We Ra's 'One Summer Day' Win Open Doors Top Awards

By Emilio Mayorga

LOCARNO, Switzerland --  Dawood Hilmandi's "Badeszenen" and We Ra's "One Summer Day" won the biggest awards at the Locarno Festival's Open Doors co-production forum. A magic-realistic tale, "Badeszenen" is produced by Mohamed


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Locarno: Swiss Cinema Gets a Reality Check

By Emilio Mayorga

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- The first leg of a pioneering three-festival industry forum, Connect to Reality, ended with calls for larger release window flexibility,  closer working relations with sales agents and above all, for Switze


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Locarno: Cinema as Resistance - Palestinian Director Annemarie Jacir on 'Wajib'

By Leonardo Goi

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir has been a pioneer of Arab cinema. Her 2003 "Like Twenty Impossibles" was the first short by a Palestinian director to be selected at Cannes; her feature "Salt of This Sea" (


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Locarno: Sri Lanka's Sky Entertainers Presents Lineup at Open Doors Lab

By Emilio Mayorga

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Leading Sri Lanka production outfit Sky Entertainers, headed by Rasitha Jinasena, is presenting a multi-title slate at Locarno which, taken together. suggest how the South Asia production scene is growing not on


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Actress Golshifteh Farahani on Anup Singh's 'The Song of Scorpions'

By Jaime Grijalba and Matt Turner

Golshifteh Farahani is the protagonist of Anup Singh's third feature, "The Song of Scorpions," and the film, world premiering at Locarno, is another stepping stone for an actress who keeps on challenging herself. In the film, Farahani'


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Locarno: Radu Jude Discusses Historical Guilt, Images' Ability to Hide

By Irina Trocan

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Radu Jude's found-footage film "The Dead Nation," attempts a fragmentary account of Romania in the 1930s and 1940s, using an extensive photo archive by Costică Acsinte together with a voice-over reading of conte


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Locarno: Director Felipe Hirsch on 'Severina,' Jorge Luis Borges, Women

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- If the Locarno Festival were to draw up a list of candidates for next year's Raimondo Rezzonico Prize, given to an outstanding independent director, it could bear a thought for RT Features' Rodrigo Teixeira. Jus


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