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Horror theme means little sleep on 48 Hour Film Project Fifty teams had to deliver a short film in two days. Last Saturday the teams were busy with the shoot. There was a lot of assembly on Sunday. "I've slept six hours the past two days," says director Shariff Nasr. I will look for that by adjusting the palette."

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First titles of the French-language Film Festival announced The International Festival of French Language Film (FIFF) is preparing to celebrate its 30th edition from October 2 to 9, 2015. On Friday, October 2, the festival will open with Prejudice.

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The 48 Hour Film Project this weekend in Rotterdam A sentence, an object, a character, a genre and 48 hours of time. These are the rules of The 48 Hour Film Project. The fourth edition of the film competition will take place in Rotterdam from 21 to 23 August 2015.

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Video artist gives Panorama Mesdag a modern look With Moving Mesdag, Menno Otten pays tribute to the artist Hendrik Willem Mesdag, who died 100 years ago. His work, combined with the latest 'curved screens' from Samsung, led to the idea for Moving Mesdag.

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Popcorn Time is a threat to new media such as Netflix Popcorn Time poses an increasing threat to on-demand services such as Netflix and Videoland. Young people in particular use the free but illegal on-demand service a lot. This is evident from a study by the Dutch agency SAMR.

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Mediadesk places planning subsidy calls The Executive Agency (EACEA) in Brussels recently published the (provisional) planning of the Creative Europe/MEDIA grant calls. The grant calls are divided into the following subgroups: Producers, Distribution & Exhibition, Training, Promotion and Festivals and Funds.

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Macedonia joins Creative Europe, Ukraine is a candidate Following the entry of Moldova, Georgia and Turkey with partial access to Creative Europe's MEDIA sub-programme (and full access to the Culture programme), Macedonia has had full access to the MEDIA sub-programme since 28 July 2015.

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Successor to De Nieuwe Wildernis, the first Dutch Dolby Atmos film Holland: Nature in the Delta, the successor to the cinema hit De Nieuwe Wildernis, is the first Dutch film released with the new Dolby Atmos sound system. Distributor Dutch FilmWorks announced this today.

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Ghent presents nominations for Film Composer of the Year Alexandre Desplat, Bruno Coulais, Michael Giacchino, Johann Johannsson and Hans Zimmer have a chance to win the title 'Film Composer of the Year' at Film Fest Ghent in October. The World Soundtrack Academy announced this today.

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Free ticket for Pleinbisocoop victims Visitors to the canceled film screening at the Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam on Thursday evening will receive a free ticket. The organization allows the hundreds of victims to see a film of their choice for free. People who ordered online will be automatically notified.

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Rapper Fresku lashes out at 'white' programming 3FM The Eindhoven rapper Fresku has lashed out at radio station 3FM in his new video clip 'Zo Doe Je Dat'. Fresku made the video clip with director Timon van den Elskamp (Teemong).

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The White Knights van Lafosse in Toronto "Les chevaliers blancs", the sixth feature film by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse, has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. The jury consists of the Chinese Jia Zhangke, the French Claire Denis and the Polish Agnieszka Holland.

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