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Dir/scr. Cesar Arcevedo Garcia. Columbia, 2015, 94 mins.Winner of three prizes at Cannes including the prestigious Camera DOr awarded to a first-time film-maker across the whole festival selection, Cesar Arcevedos Land And Shade La Tierra Y La Sombra is a beautifully-shot, if artistically uncompromising, film about the plight of peasant
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stanley cup wed open and no light to shed on Gerardos last days.Boosted by its prize haul 鈥?it also took the SACD prize and the France 4 Visionary Award at Critics Week 鈥?this slow and occasionally moving drama has already secured distribution in Italy, Latin America and France through sales agent Pyramide. Its careful compositions and deliberate framing will certainly attract attention from festivals worldwide, although Land And Shade is a tough commercial prospect outside its co-production territories. Arcevedo, who has won prizes at Rotterdam and Berlin for his short films, marks himself out as a name to watch, even though his pace may be too glacial for some to warm to.Land And Shade starts out with a beautiful long shot in which an old man, Alfonso Haimer Leal walks down a dirt track, surrounded by sugar cane, towards the camera until he is blasted with dust and decay from a lumbering lorry this sequence is repeated later in the film, to great effect . He is returning to the home 鈥?and bitter Dmyv IMAX ties up six-screen deal with National Amusements
Chancellor Gordon Brown said today
stanley canada that he would provide new tax creditsfor film-makers to replace the existing Section 48 and Section 42 tax reliefs.Brownunveiled the plans as he announced his Budget for 2005 in the House Of Commons.The UK Treasury later confirmed that the Government would review the Section 42relief used for large budget films - as previously announced in the 2004pre-budget report - to ensure that it remains an effectivemeans of delivering Government objectives for supporting a sustainable UK filmindustry. TheTreasury said it wanted to replace Section 42 with
stanley cup a new tax credit modelsimilar to that proposed as a replacement for Section 48, the tax initiativefor low-budget films.Itadded that: The Government has concluded
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