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Czech director Jan Hrebejk s black comedy Cosy Dens won the popularity vote among audiences at the Sydney Film Festival s traditional home,  <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.com.de>stanley cup</a> The State Theatre, while patrons of the new Dendy Opera Quays cinema voted for Dutch family film Little Crumb, directed by Maria Peters.The other favourites at The State were, in order of popularity, Zhang Yang s Shower from China, Majid Majidi s The Colour Of Paradise from Ir <a href=https://www.stanleycups.it>stanley italy</a> an, Belgium director Frederic Fonteyn <a href=https://www.cup-stanley-cup.ca>stanley cup</a> e s A Pornographic Affair from France, and Paul Cox s local picture Innocence. Down the hill at the Dendy, UK director Alan Clarke had three of the top five films - and four of the top six. Clark s Made In Britain, was in second position, and The Firm, Scum and Elephant in fourth, fifth and sixth. US director Gavin O Connor s Tumbleweeds came in third.The festival, which ran from June 9-23, underwent some structural changes this year. For the first time patrons had the choice of one, four and 10-film tickets in addition to the usual one and two-week and day and evening subscriptions. Festival director Gayle Lake said admissions increased by about 10,000 as a result.            No comments                                                     No comments yet                                            You re not signed in.                Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article.            Sign in            Register Ktdi Per Fly s  Manslaughter  wins best film at Bodil Awards
The UK has a popular film tax credit and newly boosted investment schemes. <a href=https://www.stanleymug.us>stanley mug</a>  But are controversial tax avoidance stories hurting film finance  Geoffrey Macnab reportsA recent stateme <a href=https://www.stanleyusa.us>stanley usa</a> nt issued by Manchester law firm Pannone is headlined:  Investors in film partnership schemes face financial ruin.  This is just the latest in a drip feed of stories, allegations and counter-allegations around recent reports in the UK media about film finance and tax avoidance.In April, in what was described as a landmark victory for Her Majestys Revenue and Customs  HMRC , a tax tribunal ruled that investors in the Eclipse Film Partners No 35 LLP scheme will not be entitled to tax relief, reportedly worth 拢117m  around $184m , because the scheme was concerned with tax avoidance rather than genuine trading.The Eclipse case followed the earlier decision by a tribunal in favour of HMRC in September 2011 in a case against two film partnerships promoted by Future Capital Partners  Samarkand Film Partnership No 3 and Proteus Film Partnership No 1 .Then, in late June as part of its overall investiga <a href=https://www.stanleycup.pl>stanley kubek</a> tions into tax avoidance, The Times newspaper quoted a source from HMRC as saying that it had 600 film schemes under investigation and that such  schemes are a 拢5bn <>7.86bn] risk for us at least .Some of our investors are refugees from the sketchier schemes, which dont seem to have had much benefit for the investorsNigel Thomas, Matador PicturesWhile most financiers cried foul against HMRC, some in the industr
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