WorldPingSkintown, the latest feature by Kieron J.Walsh, has won the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. Walsh’s Skintown beat out nine other features in the EIFF competition.
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WorldPingSan Sebastián has set Le Faux Soir, a WWII feature directed by Belgian filmmaker Michaël R. Roskam, as the closing film of this year’s festival, which is set to run from September 18 to 26.
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WorldPingMetFilm Sales has acquired worldwide sales rights to “Boatbuilders,” Luke Lorentzen’s portrait of a Maine boatbuilding community, which is set to receive its world premiere in the Open Section of the 83rd Venice Intl. Film Festival on Sept. 7.
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WorldPingNina Sosanya, Paul Whitehouse and Roman Kemp have been added to the voice cast of Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, the latest animated feature from the popular series, set to be produced by Sky, Aardman and StudioCanal.
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WorldPingFrom a cake-baking Elton John to possibly the most horrible man in the world, comedians reveal how they get in character – and how far they can push things In the Covid lockdowns, I was drawing all these silly things, and one day I drew Elton John as a scone.
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WorldPingThe music festival begins on Thursday 27 August and runs until Sunday 30 August.
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