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Exclusive: Biff’s distribution arm Cac (Center of Asia Contents) Entertainment has started picking up titles to launch distribution in Korea in step with Biff’s 20th anniversary next year.

Pick-ups include Emmanuel Shirinian’s It Was You Charlie and Ramiro Belanger’s Clydecynic – both from Canada, and the Russian film Intimate Parts, directed by Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov. All three screened in Biff 2013.

At time of writing, titles hammering out their contracts with Biff included Tsai Ming Liang’s Stray Dogs (Taiwan-France) and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s 1996 film A Moment Of Innocence and his 1991 film Time Of Love.

Others included Asian Cinema Fund support recipients Murali Nair’s Virgin Goat (India), Weng Shou Ming’s Fujian Blue (China), Woo Ming Jin’s Woman On Fire Looks For Water (Malaysia), Tongpong Chantarangkul’s I Carried You Home (Thailand/Singapore) and Khoroldorj Choijoovanjig’s Yellow Colt (Mongolia).

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You'd have to be pint-sized to get stuck in between a partially opened window and the windowsill when trying to leap to your death. This happens to Abner (Michael D. Cohen) in the first few minutes of It Was You Charlie, Emmanuel Shirinian's bleakly funny debut. Abner, a former art teacher-turned-seething, lonely doorman, is an already small person whose self-loathing dwarfs him further. Everyone — the chatty tenants in his building, whose lodgings he sometimes sneaks into, his demented, prying boss, and his estranged relatives — towers over him; even his voice, at its most enraged, is somehow elfin. The movie mostly unfolds in flashbacks to several of Abner's traumatic past birthdays; one year, he lost his longtime crush to his handsomer, slicker brother (A...

Cannes – The worldwide distribution rights to writer/director Emmanuel Shirinian's It Was You Charlie, which stars Michael D. Cohen and Aaron Abrams, has gone to Canadian distributor 108 Media Corp. ahead of its world premiere in Busan. Shirinian's feature film debut is screening at Busan as part of the World Cinema program. Story: 108 Media/Paladin Take U.S. Rights to 'Metro Manila' The film's producer, A71 Entertainment, will also release the dark comedy-drama in Canada. It Was You Charlie features Cohen as Abner, a lonely graveyard shift doorman and once-accomplished sculptor coming to terms with an unresolved conflict with

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Alliance Films will release the dramatic thriller Afghan Luke into theatres September, 2011. The film involves two journalists sent to the remote country of Afghanistan in search of a story on Canadian snipers gone bad. What they find is a story on hashish production instead. Then, they get too close to their subject and mayhem ensues, as suggested by the film's first poster. Nick Stahl (Mirrors 2), Colin Cunningham ("Falling Skies") and Torrance Coombs ("The Tudors") are some of the principal cast members starring and those who enjoy war torn thrillers can have a closer look at this title when it releases in a limited fashion through Alliance Films late in September.

The synopsis for Afghan Luke is here:

"Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers who are possibly mutilating corpses of enemy Afghan combatants is buried, Luke quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to...

Some news came to The Cultural Post that as of today, production will be over for the Canadian film Afghan Luke and The Burgundy of Hash, an upcoming Canadian dramatic comedy. This means that the film is post-production.

Synopsis:

This dramatic comedy directed by Mike Clattenburg follows Luke (Nick Stahl), a war journalist. Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers who are possibly mutilating corpses of enemy Afghan combatants is buried, Luke quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the story. Through the contacts of his offbeat buddy, Luke is offered a job by a stoner magazine to return to Afghanistan and do a 'gonzo' article about the best hashish in the region.

Other informations:

The film was shot in British Columbia, a province of Canada on the West Coast. Obviously, exterior scenes of the film were used in order to give people...