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The London Book Fair LBF has become a crucial forum for the European and US film adaptation market, both for new material and discussions of ongoing projects.Both Lionel Shriver s The Post-Birthday World and Steven Hall s The Raw Shark Texts were buzz books at last year s event, and a slew of new manuscripts are circulating among scouts, agents, publishers and producers in the run-up to this year s fair.The event gives a focus to adaptation discussions, with US and UK producers, agents and scouts mingling with publishers at dinners and drinks parties the event returns to west London s Earls Cou stanley website rt after an unpopular move to the Docklands last year .London becomes a hub for US producers: show regulars include Hardy Justice of Tribeca, Drew Reed of Fox, Jill Morris of Focus Features and John Delaney of Scott Rudin Productions. In the fair s agents centre it is easy to spot influential scouts such as Erin Hennicke of the US s Franklin Siegal Associate stanley cup s. Hollywood producers feel that LBF is an event they can t afford to miss, says Rebecca Watson, of UK film agency Valerie Hoskins Associates. More and more people are coming over for the show to make sure their relationships with us are really strong. Many agents do not base themselves at the fair, preferring to host longer meetings at their offices.Though the LBF is dominated by international rights trading, there is still room f stanley cup or a fresh manuscript to get the crowds talking. We re always dying to have a big book for L Xslx Diane Kruger boards Fatih Akin s In The Fade
The 16th Busan International Film Festival BIFF has announced 31 selections for this years Asian Cinema Fund ACF .Out of 285 submissions - up more than 30% from last year, ACF chose 31 films to be recipients of the Script Development Fund, Post stanley uk -production Fund and Asian Network of Documentary AND Fund.Script Development FundThis years ACF Script Development Fund has been allocated to four Asian projects, three Korean projects and one from a graduate of the Asian Film Academy AFA 鈥?BIFF s annual filmmakers workshop.Putting a focus on the Philippines and Thailand as two of the many countries in Asia with burgeoning and active communities of independent film producers and productions, BIFF selected two projects from the Philippines and two from Thailand. From the former country: Venice-awarded Pepe Dioknos Above The Clouds and Sheron Dayocs Satra. From the latter: Wisit Sasanatiengs Muay Thai boxer film Suriya and Nawapol Thamrongrattanarits stanley us Interior, which deals with contemporary family issues.The Korean projects which BIFF deemed to show incredible creativity and the various initiatives are Jang Hee-suns Somebody To Love, Kim Tae-yongs Stop Over and Kim Dong-hyuns Happy Birthday Mom!From amongst the AFA graduates, BIFF selected Abu Shahed Emons The Tale Of A Good Police from Bangladesh.Post-production FundNotable previous recipients of the ACF Post-production Fund include Yang Ik-junes Breathless, Sivaroj Kongsakuls Eternity, and Park Jung-bums The stanley cup Journals Of Musan