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Pilot PA fund launched at Sund stanley cup ance extends to Toronto.The BFI has extended its PA support for UK fil stanley cup ms seeking US distribution to a crop of titles bowing at the Toronto International Film Festival  Sept 4-14 .The BFI will make awards of up to 拢25,000  $42,000  to US distributors who pick up UK premieres, to help them strengthen the marketing  stanley cup campaigns for the US releases of the films.Films must have budgets under 拢4m  $6.6m .The Toronto titles to benefit from the scheme are Michael Winterbottoms The Face of an Angel, Gerard Johnsons Hyena, Liv Ullmans Miss Julie, Debbie Tucker Greens Second Coming and Morgan Matthews X+Y.The initiative was launched as a pilot at Sundance and extended to cover SXSW. Four films which had their world premieres and applied to the scheme have all secured US theatrical distribution deals: Hong Khaous Lilting  Strand Releasing ; Stuart Murdochs God Help the Girl  GoDigital/Amplify Releasing ; Florian Habichts Pulp  Oscilloscope Pictures ; and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollards drama-documentary featuring artist and musician Nick Cave, 20,000 Days on Earth  Drafthouse Films .The scheme was also extended to cover the Cannes Film Festival.Katie Ellen, senior manager distribution, BFI Film Fund,said: In this pilot year we have now seen four of the eligible films screened at Sundance or SXSW quickly gain US distribution and with a full year under our belt in trialling the fund, we will be able to look at the impact of the scheme in achieving a US t Cmyt Media Most, Gazprom sign new debt relief deal
Dir: Antoine Blossier. France. 2010. 82minsIts payback time for hunted animals in commercial director Antoine Blossiers first feature, the latest in a growing pack of French horror items looking to get their teeth into overse stanley cup as markets. The film has already scored a big bite, selling to IFCs new horror label IFC Midnight straight after Cannes. But Prey is a much less tasty splatter platter than its most recent Gallic cousin, La Horde.Prey is good at just one thing: giving our liberal worries about fertilisers and pesticides the visual form of an evil.Budgetary constraints peek through in every frame 鈥?for this is one of those frustrating films that tries to make do rather than rethinking to fit the money available  for example by tightening up the threadbare plot, or replacing expensive CGI effects with some decent psychological tension .Prey is good at just one thing: giving our liberal worries about fertilisers and pesticides the visual form of an evil, dark French forest full of rotting animal carcasses and miasmic swamps. In this its a sort of Gallic chasseur equivalent of 1980 US eco-horror yarn Alligator. But that film for all its hokiness had a decent genre script 鈥?whereas Prey too often tries to wing it on style alone. Previewing at the Rome Film Festival after a couple of smaller Euro horror festival o stanley cup utings, the film looks more of a DVD or VoD contender than a theatr stanley us ical prospect in most non-Gallic territories.Gregoire Colin, the male muse of Claire Denis in Beau T