Gordon Ampel
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Hey there, my name is Gordon. I’ve been the Vice President of Global Operations for Focus Features since the company’s inception in 2002.
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Walter Donohue
Walter Donohue is an Editorial Director at Faber and Faber where he set up the Faber Film list and has been running it for the past 25 years.
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Walter Donohue is an Editorial Director at Faber and Faber where he set up the Faber Film list and has been running it for the past 25 years.
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Africa First
The Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program was created to foster and develop long-term relationships with some of the most promising up-and-coming filmmakers from continental Africa.
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The Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program was created to foster and develop long-term relationships with some of the most promising up-and-coming filmmakers from continental Africa.
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FOCUS' AFRICA FIRST PROGRAM OPENS 2009 ENTRY PERIOD MONDAY, JUNE 1st
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David Parkinson
David Parkinson is a film critic and historian. Specializing in foreign-language films, he is a contributing editor at Empire and broadcasts regularly on BBC national and local radio.
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David Parkinson is a film critic and historian. Specializing in foreign-language films, he is a contributing editor at Empire and broadcasts regularly on BBC national and local radio.
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Mike Jones
Mike Jones is a screenwriter and journalist. He's held staff positions at Variety, indieWIRE, Filmmaker Magazine, and currently blogs on the film festival beat at The Circuit.
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Mike Jones is a screenwriter and journalist. He's held staff positions at Variety, indieWIRE, Filmmaker Magazine, and currently blogs on the film festival beat at The Circuit.
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Wanuri Kahiu
Wanuri Kahiu from Kenya won an Africa First award with Pumzi [Breath], a futuristic sci-fi tale.
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Wanuri Kahiu from Kenya won an Africa First award with Pumzi [Breath], a futuristic sci-fi tale.
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Jenna Cato Bass
Jenna Bass from South Africa was an Africa First winner with The Tunnel, a 1980s-set story centering around a 10-year-old girl's quest.
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Jenna Bass from South Africa was an Africa First winner with The Tunnel, a 1980s-set story centering around a 10-year-old girl's quest.
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Jan-Hendrik Beetge
Jan-Hendrik Beetge from South Africa directed the Africa First winner The Abyss Boys, a thriller about an illegal trade in a small fishing town.
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Jan-Hendrik Beetge from South Africa directed the Africa First winner The Abyss Boys, a thriller about an illegal trade in a small fishing town.
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Eric Eisner
Eric Eisner, co-founder of L+E Pictures and producer of Hamlet 2, sends us his daily "vlogs" from ComiCon 2008.
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Eric Eisner, co-founder of L+E Pictures and producer of Hamlet 2, sends us his daily "vlogs" from ComiCon 2008.
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Neil Gaiman
Bestselling author Neil Gaiman sends us updates from the set of Coraline, a stop-motion animation based on his book of the same name.
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Bestselling author Neil Gaiman sends us updates from the set of Coraline, a stop-motion animation based on his book of the same name.
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Keith Griffiths
Keith Griffiths has produced many of the films of the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, Patrick Keiller and Chris Petit. He is currently Executive Producing Dave McKean's second feature Luna and developing an adaptation of the classic graphic novel Signal to Noise by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, as well as a full length animated feature Meathead by the award-winning director of the film Rabbit, Run Wrake. He manages Illuminations Films with Simon Field and is currently developing a major new installation Primitive, with Apichatpong Weerasethakul for the Haus der Kunst in Munich for 2009.
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Keith Griffiths has produced many of the films of the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, Patrick Keiller and Chris Petit. He is currently Executive Producing Dave McKean's second feature Luna and developing an adaptation of the classic graphic novel Signal to Noise by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, as well as a full length animated feature Meathead by the award-winning director of the film Rabbit, Run Wrake. He manages Illuminations Films with Simon Field and is currently developing a major new installation Primitive, with Apichatpong Weerasethakul for the Haus der Kunst in Munich for 2009.
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Jenni Olson
San Francisco-based Jenni Olson is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT cinema, and has been blogging for FilmInFocus about the production of Milk.
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San Francisco-based Jenni Olson is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT cinema, and has been blogging for FilmInFocus about the production of Milk.
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CAry Fukunaga
Oakland native Cary Fukunaga studied history at University of California Santa Cruz and L'Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) de Grenoble and Directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before winning a Student Academy Award for his short film Victoria Para Chino (2004). He is currently working on his debut feature for Focus Features, Sin Nombre, and will be blogging about the experience here at FilmInFocus.
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Oakland native Cary Fukunaga studied history at University of California Santa Cruz and L'Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) de Grenoble and Directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before winning a Student Academy Award for his short film Victoria Para Chino (2004). He is currently working on his debut feature for Focus Features, Sin Nombre, and will be blogging about the experience here at FilmInFocus.
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How I Came to Embrace Human Trafficking and Other Sundries
by Cary Fukunaga On April 15 @ 05:21 pm | 3 Comments
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Liz Ogilvie
Liz Ogilvie, is the Head of Programming for Docurama Films®, an independent digital distribution company dedicated exclusively to releasing cutting-edge, critically acclaimed documentary films into the home entertainment market place. She is responsible for a release slate of over 40 documentary films a year.
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Liz Ogilvie, is the Head of Programming for Docurama Films®, an independent digital distribution company dedicated exclusively to releasing cutting-edge, critically acclaimed documentary films into the home entertainment market place. She is responsible for a release slate of over 40 documentary films a year.
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Sandi Christ-Thomas
Sandi is a mother and activist, and shares her thoughts on HAMLET 2.
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Sandi is a mother and activist, and shares her thoughts on HAMLET 2.
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Mike Figgis
The director of Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode keeps us in focus with his guest blog.
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The director of Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode keeps us in focus with his guest blog.
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Frances Harvey
Frances Harvey is acquisitions coordinator at UK independent film distributor Soda Pictures.
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Frances Harvey is acquisitions coordinator at UK independent film distributor Soda Pictures.
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Lunch and a Movie
By Nick Dawson | On November 19 2009 @ 03:31 PM
One of FilmInFocus' contributors, Mike Plante - who wrote articles for us on animation and short films - is...
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Focus Features 2010 Slate
By Peter Bowen | On November 12 2009 @ 02:39 PM
Focus Features announces their line up for 2010. Here is a link to the press release. Greenberg (Friday,...
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