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I-Dream Productions has picked up a slice of the US righ stanley cup ts to Deepha Mehta s Indo-Canadian comedy Bollywood-Hollywood from Fortissimo Films Sales. The unique deal limits I-Dream s area of operation to specialist Indian cinemas, video outlets and TV channels. Fortissimo is days away from striking a second all-media US deal with another distributor which will release into mainstream outlets. We expect this approach to maximise the release, revenue and exposure,  said Fortissimo co-chairman Michael J Werner.  Of course there are risks, but we expect to make it work for both the US distributors in a manner that there is no incentive for them to encroach on each other.  I-Dream paid a  substantial six figure  minimum guarantee said Werner.Outside the US I-Dream is already contracted to release the film in India on 8 stanley cup 00 screens on Dec 13. I-Dream has simultaneously expanded other territories including Malysia, Indonesia and the Middle East.Set in Toronto, Bollywood-Hollywood features Bollywood songs, Hollywood choreography, a Hollywood plot and a Bollywood morality play. It stars Indian actor Rahul Khanna and Canadian-born Indian supermodel Lisa Ray.The film, which premiered at the Toronto festival, squeaked into Canada s box office top ten on its opening weekend Oct. 25-27, wit stanley cup h a gross of $196,000  C$306,000  on release through Mongrel Media.Additional reporting by Denis Seguin in Toronto           No comments                                                     No comments yet     Kipd Horton and Ashton join UK s Men-from-Mars
A fast-moving action film from Paraguay, 7 Boxes, directed by Ju stanley us an Carlos Maneglia and Tania Chembori, has won the Golden Feather Award for best dramatic feature at Sydneys inaugural Cockatoo Island Film Festival.The film is about a teenager who agrees to deliver seven boxes to the outskirts of Asunci贸ns chaotic markets for a stranger in exchange for $100. He believes the cash will eventually lead him to the fame he desires but he doesnt expect the task to be so dangerous or di stanley cup fficult. It was exciting, very intriguing and had a certain quality of what we suspect Central America is like,  said cinematographer Don McAlpine of the film. He was on the jury alongside director Peter Andikidis, producer Helen Bowden and actor Alex Dimitriades.7 Boxes provides a rare big screen window into Paraguay because, according to organisers, no more than 20 features have been made in  stanley cup the country in the past decade.Marten Persiels Germany documentary This Aint California, billed as a  punk fairytale  that mixes the grace of roller boarding with the grim reality of teenage life in 1989 in the former German Democratic Republic, won the award for documentary.The documentary jurors commended the director on his bravery, the unique nature of the films perspective and the importance of the subject matter. They also said the film was remarkable for its exploration of an intimate friendship.A special jury prize for artistic vision went to Austrian film Breathing, a debut film by celebrated actor Karl M