'Dark' lights up Fantastic festival prize
BUCHEON, South Korea -- After months of controversy, the ninth Puchon Fantastic Film Festival came to a close Thursday night, with Paul Fox's The Dark Hours taking the top prize, the Best of Puchon award. Joaquin Oristrell won the best director award for Unconscious. Best actor went to the four leads of the Thai film Rahtree: Returns -- Phan Rojanarangsri, Supaliorn Srisawat, Sowjai Sukjai and Banphot Weerarat. Best actress gongs were shared between Orsi Toth for Johanna and Kate Greenhouse for The Dark Hours. The Jury Choice award was won by Olivier Smolders' Nuit Noire and the Pruzio Citizen's Choice award went to Bharatbala Ganapathy's Hari Om.
- 7/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance digest: Hammer slips on 'Ring'
USA Network and Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer announced Monday that she had obtained domestic rights to Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, directed by Dan Klores and Ron Berger, which premiered Saturday in the Documentary Competition. ... The Sundance Channel and Docurama, the only all-documentary label on DVD, have joined forces to launch the Sundance Channel Home Entertainment Documentary Collection. ... Here! Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Joaquin Oristrell's Unconscious (Inconscientes), a Spanish-language film from Latido International. ... The Sundance Institute, in partnership with the Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers, has selected Ted Kroeber for the 2005 Mark Silverman Fellowship.
- 1/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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