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EXCLUSIVE: Black comedy to play in competition at Critics Week.New Europe Film Sales has picked up Asaph Polonskys black comedy One Week and a Day and sold all French rights to Sophie Dulac Distribution.The feature debut of US-born, Israeli filmmaker Polonsky was yesterday named as a competition title in the Critics Week sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival May 11-22 .Polonsky is an AFI graduate, whose graduation film Samnang was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013.One Week and a Day tells a story of a grieving father, who finishes a week of mourning for his late son and is urged by his wife to return to their routine. He instead gets high witha young neig
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EXCLUSIVE: RAF Church Fenton to become 100,000 sq ft shooting facility.UK funding body Screen Yorkshire, backers of hit series Peaky Blinders and upcoming film Dads Army, has struck a deal with property investors Makin Enterprises to convert the former RAF site in Church Fenton, Yorkshire, into a film and TV production facility.Yorkshire Studios will see the 100,000 sq ft air base repurposed - depending on council approval - as a shoot facility comprising productionand office space, garages, workshops, parking, roadways and runways.The location, 16 miles from Leeds and 150 miles from London, is situated within 440 acres of clear vistas and comprises three aircraft hangars withenergy throughout the site.While the hangars have a multi-skin roof there is no studio specific soundproofing or lighting rig but the two largest han
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