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The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has wrapped today and set its winners with Bulgarian road-trip comedy The Father taking home the top prize Grand Prix Crystal Globe, which comes with cash prize of $25,000. Scroll down for a full list of winners. The Czech festival’s special jury prize went to German…

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 28 – July 6) will this year fete Julianne Moore and Patricia Clarkson with Crystal Globe awards for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. At the Czech festival, Moore and screenwriter-director Bart Freundlich will present U.S. drama remake After the Weddin…

Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians has taken the top Crystal Globe award at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Czech fest’s Special Jury Prize went to Ana Katz’s Sueño Florianópolis, and Olmo Omerzu was named best director for the film Winter…

EXCLUSIVE: Loco Films has picked up international sales rights to Crystal Swan, the debut feature from Belarusian director Darya Zhuk, which has been produced in association with Vice Films. This comes ahead of its debut at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic this weekend. The film tells…

Directors' Fortnight has added a special screening title to its lineup for this year's event which kicks off at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The Nothing Factory, by Portugal's Pedro Pinho, is described as a riff on the subject of industrialization, unemployment and the workers' struggle. Fortnight chief…

ITV has ordered a second season of WWII drama Home Fires from ITV Studios. The show currently airs on Sunday evenings, comfortably winning its slot with a consolidated average rating of 6.2M viewers to date and a 24% share. Home Fires follows a group of inspirational women at the heart of a rural Cheshire community…

Karlovy Vary Fest To Present Its Highest Award To Mel Gibson Mel Gibson will receive the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival‘s top award for his “many years of artistic engagement in international cinema”. The actor-helmer-producer will present a screening of the 2006 film Apocalypto, his most recent directorial…

Hungarian director János Szász took home top Grand Prix honors for the WWII-set The Notebook (Le grand cahier / A nagy füzet) at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Czech fest also awarded a special jury prize to UK director Ben Wheatley for his 17th century period pic A Field In England, which will…

At Least Four UK Nets Lining Up To Bid For FA Cup Rights A bidding war reportedly is gearing up in the UK for TV rights to soccer tournament the FA Cup for the three seasons to 2017-18. Financial Times reports that BT, ITV, BSkyB and the BBC are entering bids. BT and ITV currently share rights to the FA Cup until the…

Chello Zone Bringing 'Hardcore Pawn' To Several Territories International TV provider Chello Zone has acquired all nine series of the US reality TV show Hardcore Pawn for its CBS Reality network in Poland and one of its EMEA feeds. CBS Reality will air the shows in primetime across Poland, Cyprus, Hungary, Romania…

European Film Academy To Honor Comedy Amour was the big winner at last year’s European Film Awards, and that was no joke. But the European Academy will add a bit of humor to the proceedings in 2013 with a new prize for European Comedy. The award is designed to "pay tribute to a genre which has proven that it is able…