Film News: Jafar Panahi sentenced to prison
Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammed Rasulov have been jailed for six years, and banned from making films or leaving the country for twenty years
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New on DVD – Machete and Dinner for Schmucks – January 4, 2011
Annoying guests and lots of deadly cutlery: an ex-Fed becomes a pawn in a cross-border power struggle in the hyperviolent exploitation flick Machete, while Paul Rudd invites Steve Carell and a host of other annoying folks over for a Dinner…
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Salon Films launches filmmaker training program
Salon Films will launch a cross-border training program for young Singapore and Hong Kong filmmakers and a funding initiative in connection with the Hong Kong government subsidy for filmmakers Salon chairman Fred Wang told The Hollywood Reporter.
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