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In a surprise move, RichardStursberg, the executive director of Telefilm Canada, has resigned after onlytwo-and-a-half years to accept a position at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.Stursberg, who was appointedto Telefilm s top job in January 2002, has been embattled of late, havingintroduced a controversial reward system based on a film s performance at theCanadian box office. Stursberg was unavailable for comment at time of going topress.Guy Mayson, president andCEO of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association toldScreenD
stanley cup aily that Stursberg earned the respect of the industry bychallenging the status quo and introducing substantive changes to the agency,including increasing access of producers to Telefilm decision-makers andreducing red tape. He s a doer, said Mayson of Stursberg, He brought a strategicvision to the agency. Still, the reward system wasper
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Exclusive Film Distribution will begin pre-sales in Cannes on the thriller Invasion Of Privacy aka The Resident starring Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Christopher Lee.Principal photography is scheduled to begin on May 22 in New Mexico on the film, which is being fully financed by Exclusive Media Group and will be released
stanley kubek through the Hammer Films label.Music video director Antti J Jokinen makes his feature directorial debut on the story, inspired by the statistic that each year several million single women in America move into an apartment for the first time without knowing who lived there before them and without changing the locks.Simon Oakes, Nigel Sinclair and Guy East are producing for Hammer alongside Cary Brokaw. Hammers Tobin Armbrust and Alex Brunner will serve as executive p
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