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stanley quencher UK s FilmFour and the Film Council s New Cinema Fund have boarded Touching The Void, a new feature documentary from Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald.The film, which starts production in Peru on July 22 and continues shooting in the Alps in September, tells the true survival story of two mountaineers - Joe Simpson and Simon Yates - who met with disaster on a 1985 climb in a remote part of the Peruvian Andes. On their descent from the west face of Siula Grande, a mountain with a 21,000ft peak, Simpson fell and shattered his leg. Touching The Void sees Simpson and Yates returning to Siula Grande together for the first time, and is based on Simpson s bestseller about the experience. The film is produced by John Smithson of independent UK production company Darlow Smithson. Additional pre-sale financing comes from the UK s Channel 4 Television and from PBS in the US. Macdonald won the Best Documentary Oscar in 2000, as well as an Emmy, for One Day In September, about the terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. Macdonald has also directed films abou
stanley cup t underground film-maker Donald Cammell and, more recently, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.Co-producer Sue Summers brokered the rights acquisition of the book for Darlow Smithson, and the project was co-developed with Channel 4 International. It was brought to FilmFour by Charles Furneaux at Channel 4 s
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French filmmaking legend Claude Chabrol died Sunday in Paris at the age of 80.The French government confirmed his death but didnt provide details.French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on French television that Chabrol was a great cineaste and showed humor and truculence, both in his films and in his life. Here at TIFF, French writer/director/actor Guillaume Canet told Screen: I loved his movies, he was my neighbour
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stanley botella ve the way he was working, he loved actors, he was faithful to actors. Cameron Bailey, co-director of TIFF said: Its a great, great loss. Everyone at the film festival will have been moved by his films. Were all thinking ab
vasos stanley out him. Like other members of the French New Wave including Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Chabrol was a critic at Cahiers du Cinema before starting his filmmaking career in 1958 with Le Beau Serge.The prolific filmmaker made almost a film a year from that time until his death, for a total of about 60 films. His best-known works include Le Boucher, La Femme Infidele, Les Cousins, Violette, Story of Women, La ceremonie, Rien ne va plus and LEnfer. His last feature film was 2008 police drama Bellamy starring Gerard Depardieu.Chabrol was born in Paris in 1930 as the son of a pharmacist with a comfortable middle-class life. He then ran a film club when he lived in Sardent in central France during wartime. He studied pharmacology in Paris before seeking a degree in literatur
