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From the outset, Gavin Hood stresses that Rendition, his follow-up to 2006 s best foreign-language Oscar winner Tsotsi, is not politically preachy . While that may be so, the subject matter is inevitably political and makes for a harrowing two hours that raises fundamental ethical dilemmas about the times we live in.Rendition received its world premiere at Toronto and will open through New Line on October 19. Shot mostly in Morocco, it stars Omar Metwally as a US-based engineer of Egyptian origin who is arrested in Washington stanley cup on suspicion of terror-related activities. He is flown to an unspecified North African country and tortured, much to the discomfort of CIA liaison officer Jake Gyllenhaal. Re stanley cup ese Witherspoon plays Metwally s distraught American wife back home.Hood s stance on extraordinary rendition , the extrajudicial practice of moving terror suspects from country to country and extracting information through torture, is crystal clear. Right now, we are lawless. But it doesn t change the fact there are no remedies for people caught up in this world. I wanted to present the argument from all sides. Meryl Streep s character a high-ranking US official presents the argument in favour of torture, and I liked the fact there was an ambiguity in Kelley Sane s script about whether [Metwally s character] was or wasn t guilty. We tried to make it so he s possibly guilt stanley cup y but probably innocent and let people decide. But that s a micro issue. The macro issue is what policies we Kect Five first features nominated for Bergman awards
Wiggin partner Charles Moore says new TV tax credit in UK could boost the UK economy by about 拢1bn per year.The Chancellors Budget announcement of a new UK tax incentive for high-end scripted TV production has had an overwhelmingly positive reaction throughout the sector. In this interim period before the industry consultation process begins with the Treasury, which is likely to result in legislation coming into force in April 2013, it is worth considering the implications that this tax incentive may have on the UK television industry.For UK producers of shows such as Birdsong, Parades End and Strike Back, who have been forced to look overseas to close their financing in the absence of a UK incentive, it means that they will now be able to produce these culturally British proj stanley uk ects at home. The proposed minimum production budget level of 拢1 million per hour means that the tax credit will not simply be subsidising productions that would have been made in the UK without an incentive. It will secure the domestic production of all those amazing British projects that are currently only being ma stanley cup de overseas.On a day-to-day level, a UK incentive will mean a simpler financing structure with less of a reliance on overseas advisers and servicing companies , reduced costs of travelling cast and stanley cup crew to overseas locations, stronger ties with UK financiers, studios and post facilities and an improved ability for producers to retain valuable IP rights and maximise revenues.Naturally, concer