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Tkin Intandem books strong AFM sales on How To Lose FriendsSundance Selects acquired US rights to Cannes competition entry Sleeping Beauty on Sunday night as momentum gathered on several domestic plays on the Croisette.Julia Leighs psycho-sexual drama stars Emily Browning as a young student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.Arianna Bocco, svp of acquisitions and productions for Sundance Selects, brokered the deal with UTA on behalf of the filmmakers. UTA represents Leigh and Browning a stanley cup nd Browning is managed by Michael Aglion and Catherine Poulton in Australia.As previously reported on Screendaily, eOne Films International handles foreign sales and closed a handful of deals just before the market. Rights went to Wild Bunch in Benelux, Seven Films in Greece, Xenix in Switzerland and Incognito for the Baltics.Deals also closed with Carmen Films for the former USSR excluding the Balticsstanley cup and Lev Cinemas for Israel. ARP Selection closed a deal for France in February, Transmission will release in Australia and eOne in Canada.Meanwhile buyers were circling Paolo Sorrentinos competition entry This Must Be The Place starring Sean Penn ahead of the world premiere on Friday. Floating on the fringes of the market but very much on the minds of US buyers here, Annapurna Pictures John Hillcoat Western The Wettest County and Kathryn Bigelow thriller Kill Bill Laden were also attracting interest.TopicsDistributionUnited States No comments stanley cupRelate Pfzw Steven Seagal sCode Of Honorshoots into Europe, Asia
The director picked up this years TPG Award for Hara Ga Kore NandeThe Tokyo Project GatheringTPGco-production market wrapped with the TPG Award going to Hara Ga Kore Nande, a Japanese project directed by Yuya Ishii.Previous winner of the Edward Yang New Talent Award at the 1st Asian Film Awards in 2008, I stanley cup shii previously dire stanley cup cted Bare-Assed Japan and Sawako Decides, both of which travelled to many film festivals.Hara Ga Kore Nande is about a young pregnant woman who is dumped by her boyfriend and estranged from her parents, and how she makes her way into a new and different family.This year, TPG took place on the same floor of the Roppongi Hills complex as the rest of the TIFFCOM market, cutting down the maze-like elevator-and-corridor travel time for participants. They made a good move, putting TIFFCOM and TPG on the same floor. It seems like theres a lot of business and its much more convenient. The selection this year also seems like a much better crop,said producer Tim Kwok of Convergence. Its been useful to have a film in the festival and a project in the TPG at the same time,said Edmund Yeo who is attached as producer to director Woo Ming Jin stanley usa s The Book Keeper in TPG, and who produced Woos The Tiger Factory which is screening in the Tokyo International Film Festival.It seems like there are more important people in meetings than when we were here two years ago with a different project 鈥?not just for us, but other projects, too. James Leong, whose project Camera p
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