Cedar Boys to be distributed by Hoyts

Cedar Boys From Simon de Bruyn at If Magazine

“Mushroom Pictures has inked a deal with Hoyts Distribution for the upcoming July release of its Australian-Lebanese drama Cedar Boys.
The deal comes on the back of news that the film has sold out its two world premiere screenings at the 56th Sydney Film Festival next month.”

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Bright Star a hit at Cannes

Ben Wishaw and Abbie Cornish as John Keats and Fanny BrawneFollowing it’s world premiere at Cannes, Jane Campion’s film Bright Star has sold to Atlantic Film for Scandinavia, SSG for Taiwan, Babilla for Colombia, Phars for the Middle East, PT Camila for Indonesia, Golden Village for Singapore and Myndform for Iceland.

It also sold Spanish rights to Vertigo. Bright Star was acquired for the US prior to the festival by Bill Pohlad and Bob Berney’s as yet unnamed new distribution venture. The film is now virtually sold out internationally.
From – www.screendaily.com

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Bright Star will screen in Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

logo_festival_cannes Bright Star, the new film from Jane Campion starring Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, has been selected for the Official Competition and is the first Australian film to be included in the Official Competition since since Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge in 2001.

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Not Forgotten on SBS this Anzac Day

notforgotten2 330,000 Australians volunteered to play their part in the First World War.
2 in 3 would end up dead or injured.
Australia experienced loss and grief on a scale not known before or since. This Anzac Day Mark Lee (Gallipoli) pieces together the stories of some of the men remembered on memorials around the country, examining the way in which every family in Australia was touched by the war.
Jane Jeffes’ documentary “Not Forgotten” will be broadcast on SBS 5.30pm April 25th 2009.

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