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Agorateka launches campaign to promote legal supply Agorateka is a pan-European portal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). It was set up through the European Observatory for Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights and is an extension of the Ideas Powered awareness initiative.

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Call for entries: Rialto For Short Rialto stands for innovation and so they want to offer new, undiscovered talent an opportunity to present their films. Are you such a talent, do you make films, video clips, commercials, or whatever? And would you like to see your own film on the big screen?

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Flemish animation projects selected for Annecy Two animated productions specially made for television have been selected for the Official Competition of the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy (10-15 June): Birthday from the Fox and Hare series and The County Fair from the Panic in the Village series.

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Documentary Daymohk van Masha Novikova in premiere The new documentary about the Chechen star dancer and choreographer Ramzan Akhmadov will be shown in cinemas from Thursday 8 May. Ramzan and the group have been given shelter by the current president of Chechnya, Kadyrov.

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Game of Thrones production team apologizes for Starbucks cup In the fourth episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, which was shown on Monday in the Netherlands and a day earlier in America, a Starbucks coffee cup can be seen for a few seconds on a table next to Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), a character from the series.

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Director drops case over possibly stolen Stranger Things concept Director Charlie Kessler, who previously claimed that the makers of the popular Netflix series Stranger Things stole the idea for the series from him, has dropped his case.

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Youth film Fighting Girl named 'best European film of the year' The Dutch youth film Fighting Girl was named the best European film of the year by the Young Audience Award of the European Film Academy on Sunday. The Young Audience Award is declared annually by a youth jury from 34 countries and 55 cities throughout Europe.

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Interview with Florien Hilgenkamp from UNLOST During the Dutch Film Festival, several CineCrowd projects are traditionally put in the spotlight every year. One of these projects was the cinematic concert UNLOST, during NFF 2018 seeking financing from an audience of film fans. We chat with Florien Hilgenkamp.

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Golden Film for BAANTJER THE BEGINNING The film BAANTJER HET BEGIN has been awarded a Golden Film and has attracted 100,000 cinema visitors. Lead actor Waldemar Torenstra was festively surprised with the award by his colleague Tygo Gernandt on Saturday morning in the heart of the Jordaan.

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Financing options for feature film through funds The Film Fund has a number of schemes that allow it to contribute to the costs of developing and producing films. In addition, the Abraham Tuschinski Fund uses a new scheme. This arrangement supplements the equity and/or MG.

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Film Tess with Jennifer Hoffman wins international awards The successful film My very strange week with Tess, starring Luizen Moeder star Jennifer Hoffman and Julian Ras, has once again won two major international prizes.

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Woody Allen doesn't lose memoirs on paving stones Not only in Hollywood are more and more people canceling their collaboration with filmmaker Woody Allen, it also appears that no publisher is interested in his memoirs.

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