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Locarno Festival's StepIn Program Explores New Business Models for Indies

By Nick Vivarelli

The recent controversy in Cannes over Netflix's stringent theatrical release policy only scratched the surface of pressing issues the global indie film industry is facing as it scrambles to contend with the disruptive effect of giant s


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Locarno: Films Boutique Handling Denis Côté's 'A Skin So Soft,' Samuel Benchétrit's'Dog' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

Having represented the most talked-up title at this year's Karlovy Vary, Berlin-based Films Boutique will hail into Locarno, Europe's biggest summer festival, with two unannounced titles on its books: "Dog," the latest from French aute


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Todd Haynes to Receive Locarno Lifetime Achievement Award

By Nick Vivarelli

ROME - The Locarno Film Festival will pay homage to Todd Haynes with its Pardo d'Onore Manor lifetime achievement award. The Oscar-nominated U.S. director will also be celebrated by the prominent Swiss fest with screenings of his


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Locarno: Sales Agent Pick-Ups, Expansion, Digital Drive Early Industry Agenda

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Memento Films Int., Films Boutique, Luxbox, Wide Management, Stray Dogs, and New Europe Film Sales have all swooped on titles in the run-up to the 70th Locarno Festival, Europe's biggest mid-Summer film event, a


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Memento Films International's Artscope Boards Ilian Metev's Locarno-Bound '3/4' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

Artscope, Paris-based Memento Films Intl.'s label for new talent, has boarded Ilian Metev's eagerly-awaited "3/4," his follow-up to "Sofia's Last Ambulance," which won the France 4 Visionary Award at the 2012 Cannes Critics' Week. Set


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Locarno: Swiss Dominik Locher's 'Goliath' Scooped Up by Wide Management (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell and Emiliano Granada

Driving into new talent, Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management has swooped on world sales rights to Dominik Locher's "Goliath," the only majority-Swiss film in main competition at this year's Locarno, Switzerland's biggest film f


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Locarno: France's Luxbox Acquires 'Cocote' Sales Rights (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

In the run-up to Switzerland's Locarno Festival, Paris-based sales company Luxbox has acquired world sales rights to "Cocote," one of this year's standout titles from the Dominican Republic. The fiction feature debut of Nelson Carlo de


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Locarno Fest Selects South Asian Projects for Open Doors Platform

By Nick Vivarelli

ROME – The Locarno Film Festival's Open Doors Co-Production Lab, dedicated to promoting cinema in areas where filmmaking is especially tough, has unveiled the projects, directors, and producers from South Asia who will make the t


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An Appreciation of Sam Shepard: A Countercultural Playwright Who Became, as an Actor, an Ironic Icon

By Owen Gleiberman

There's a grand irony to the life and career of Sam Shepard, who died Thursday at 73, that couldn't have been lost on him. In the late '60s and early '70s, when he was first coming up as a playwright, he was part of a shaggy experiment


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Pedro Almodovar's Cinematographer Jose Luis Alcaine to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival

By Nick Vivarelli

ROME - Spanish cinematographer Jose Luis Alcaine, known for his vivid color palette and his work with Pedro Almodovar and other influential directors, will be recognized by the Locarno Film Festival with its Vision Award honoring techn


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Locarno: Isabelle Huppert as 'Madame Hyde,' Fanny Ardant as a Transgender Woman

By Nick Vivarelli

ROME - The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled a rich mix of titles spanning many genres for its 70th edition, marked by a strong French presence that will include Isabelle Huppert playing a physics teacher who undergoes a major pe


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Adrien Brody to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Locarno Film Festival

By Nick Vivarelli

ROME - Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody will be feted by the Locarno Film Festival with its Leopard Club Award for lifetime achievement. Brody is expected to make the trek to the prominent Swiss fest dedicated to indie and cutting-edge


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Locarno Film Festival to Honor Swiss Producer Michel Merkt (EXCLUSIVE)

By Nick Vivarelli

ROME - The Locarno Film Festival will fete Swiss producer Michel Merkt with its Raimondo Rezzonico Prize, which is awarded to a producer who epitomizes the indie ethos. In the past 10 years, the Monte Carlo-based Merkt, 44, has sh


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Influential French Auteur Jean-Marie Straub to Receive Locarno Lifetime Achievement Award

By Nick Vivarelli

ROME -- French auteur Jean-Marie Straub, who with his late wife Danièle Huillet formed one of cinema's most intense, innovative and influential collaborations in modern cinema, will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival w


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