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Telefonica-backed digital satellite platform Via Digital publicly responded Thursday to growing concern in the Spanish film industry about the pay-TV sector s steep reduction in financing for both local productions and foreign acquisitions.At a pre
stanley cup ss conference given at the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga to announce Via s and sister broadcaster Antena 3 s renewal of their sponsorship of the festival for five more years, new Via director of contents and programming Carlos Taboada told a skeptical crowd of journalists and a few local producers that Via had already
stanley cup invested some Euros 7m in 25 Spanish films since the start of 2002.Taboada, who replaced veteran Ramon Colom on April 15, called Via the great platform of Spanish cinema, and vowed that despite the crisis in the industry Via Digital won t turn its back on Spanish cinema. However, he refused to name any of the 25 financed films on the spot and downplayed the fact that the 35 to 40 films Via plans to finance this year represent roughly half the number the platform backed last year. It behooves the industry to make fewer films, Taboada argued, pointing to Via s own risk in financing too many films which don t get adequate theatrical releases in Spain s crowded marketplace.Meanwhile Teddy Villalba, general manager of Antena 3 s feature film division Ensueno Films, said the broadcaster had already boarded six co-productions and acquired rights to 16 featur
stanley usa e films this year. Among the co-productions are The Bell C Mlgp Marketing Movies Online conference planned for June 13 in London
HerbertKloiber s theatrical arm Concorde Filmverleih has acquired the French film TheBeat That My Heart Skipped, which screened in Official Competition at last week s Berlinale.JacquesAudiard s film, an homage to
stanley cup James Toback s 1970s classic Fingers, went on to win the SilverBear for Best Film Music by Alexandre Desplat .Inaddition, Concorde picked up directorial duo Joern Hintzer and Jakob Huefner s MeasuresTo Better The World Weltverbesserungsmassnahmen , which is described as a lovinglycritical satire that shows what happens when Germans try to change theworld. The episodic film h
stanley cup ad had its world premiere in the PerspektiveDeutsches Kinos sidebar.Meanwhile,Splendid Film has announced that it acquired Mike Mills debut Thumbsucker, which won the film s youngstar Lou Taylor Pucci the Silver Bear in the Best Actor category. No commen
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