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Paris-based sales company Funny Balloons has struck five more deals on Pablo Larrain s Directors Fort stanley cup night title Tony Manero.Th stanley italy e film has sold in Cannes to the UK Network , Italy Ripley s Film , Australia/New Zealand Vendetta and Brazil Imovision . As previously reported, Sophie Dulac Distribution pre-bought French rights.The Chile/Brazil co-production is about a serial killer in 1978 Santiago who loves disco. Tony Manero marks the second feature Larrain has done with Chile-based production company Fabula, the first was Fuga.Peter Danner, managing director of Funny Balloons said: The Cannes screening of Tony Manero has triggered substantial interest after its world premiere. The story is a powerful and radical vision about one man s obsession during a time of social and political repression. This powerful story definitely leaves the theatre with you and we hope to announce further territory sales shortly. Tony Manero was written by director Larrain with lead actor Alfredo Castro and Mateo Iribarren co-writer . Pablo s brother, Juan de Dios Larrain, produced for Fabula.TopicsAmericasCannesMarketsSalesUnited States No comments Related articles stanley cup News Luxbox takes on international sales to Radu Judes offbeat comedy drama Drac Ictp Turin to honour Coppola s American Zoetrope
Abu Dhabi Media Summit turns focus on entrepreneurship.Dan Senor, co-author of Start-up Nation, has told delegates at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit that the start-up economy of the MENA Middle East and North Africa region can take off like a rocket ship providing it meets certain market criteria. Senor spoke of the opportunities for rising entrepreneurs in the MENA region: If you have a combination of a huge market with hungry entrepreneurs who are not as risk adverse, and you add in expertise in venture capital and also building companies, if you can combine all that, this region can just take off like a rocket shi stanley cup p, explained the author and senior adviser at Elliott Management. Senor drew o stanley cup n the example of Israel as a country which, in the early 1990s, had become the farmers of high technology , using the government-funded Yozma program to invest in private venture capital funds and help to build an innovation-based economy. There was a recognition in Israel that, while they had tremendous technological talent and research and development capabilities, they lacked a real understanding of how to build companies, how to assess risk and how to manage . It was the Israeli government who spearheaded th stanley mug e revolution, Senor said. Senor also spoke of the need for an emerging innovation-based start-up economy to accept failure as part of the journey. The one question you need to ask about an economy which will determine whether it can be a successful, entrepreneurial start-up e |
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