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Alliance Atlantis Corp AAC has downscaled its Equicap structured financing division as part of a overall strategy to concentrate on its core film and TV production and distribution businesses. In a release, AAC chief financial officer W. Judson Martin described the move as a transition from active to passive participation in film entertainment financing.Equicap will enter a joint venture with Canadian investment house Sentinel Hill Ventures Corp to create a new entity, Sentinel Hill Alliance Atlantis Equicap Limited Partnership. The Partnership will be owned 70% by Sentinel Hill and 30% by Alliance Atlantis Equicap as limited partners, and will have offices in Toronto and Vancouver. Equipcap president Jeff Rayman will leave the company at the end of March.Meanwhile, AAC has acquired all Canadian rights for five pictures from John Fremes Fusion International. Fremes was previously president of AAC s genre outfit Le Monde and launched Fusion at Mifed 1999.The films are The Heist, Crush Depth, Meglodon, The Machinist - all in pre-production - and the completed Stranger. No comments No comments yet
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Four new Danish films have been green-lighted after receiving funding from the Danish Film Institute DFI . Among them are the highly anticipated new film from Annette K. Olesen Minor Mishaps as well as new films from three feature debutantes Malene Vilstrup, Jannik Johansen and Christoffer Boe. Olesen pictured , who received the Blue Angel Award in Berlin for her popular Minor Mishaps this year, will be trying her hand at the Dogme-rules style of filmmaking for her latest project.Forbrydelser Crimes will be produced by veteran Ib Tardini Italian For Beginners, Minor Mishaps for Zentropa on a $1.4m DKR10.5m budget of which $710,800 DKR5.4m comes fr
stanley cup om the Danish Film Institute. Nothing has been revealed about the story, but like Minor Mishaps it will be written by the prolific Kim Fupz Aakeson and developed using the same Mike Leigh-inspired process which they
stanley cup used for their last collaboration. Other backers include national broadcaster DR and distributor Nordisk Film.Another project from Zentropa is the children s film Spoegelseshesten The Ghost Horse from newcomer Malene Vilstrup, best known for her acclaimed animated short A Dog Life 1996 . The story, which sees two lon
stanley cup ely girls finding each other and faith in the future through their common love of a horse, is written by Vilstrup and veteran Hans Hansen, who also produces the film for Zentropa. Budget is set at $1.4m DKR10.6m with some $789,770 DKR6m coming from the DFI.Though only graduating from the Na
