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Hong Kong-based indie sales agent Autumn Sun comes to FilMart with a bulging slate of new film titles from around Asia — including two animated features from mainland China.

Autumn Sun, headed by sales veteran Elliot Tong, is giving a market premiere to “Planet Cat,” an animated feature by Song Yuefeng about a chance meeting between a stray cat and a girl in a city at night. The film is produced by Nuctopus Studio and Dreamers Studio and previously won a development prize at the Beijing International Film Festival. The feature is now in post-production and a promo reel is being screened at the market.

“Dance With the Finless Porpoise,” another Chinese animated feature in post-production, also gets its market premiere. The fantasy imagines the finless porpoises as guardians of the Yangtze River delta, with one who can turn herself into a human princess. The film is co-directed by Chen Xi...

Director and producer Nadia Tass will chair the jury for this year’s CinefestOZ, which had its full line-up announced in Perth yesterday.

The filmmaker will helm voting on the $100,000 CinefestOZ prize, adjudicating in-competition finalists Here Out West, Nitram, River, and The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.

Tass is among the directors to have their work showcased at the event, with her documentary, Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story, announced among the Australian premieres in the line-up.

Speaking to If, she said the festival had always been “invigorating”.

“The event is so elegant, but at the same time it is not empty,” she said.

“There is so much about films that is discussed, both in terms of the creative process and films as pieces of entertainment or communication with an audience.

“They have really thought about how they are going to excite people to come to the event.”

Tass...

Paul Mahoney.

Screenwriter Paul Mahoney was sorely disappointed when pre-production on his first movie Ruby’s Choice was halted two weeks before shooting was due to start – but he is getting plenty of traction on three other features.

Los Angeles-based producer Rosemary Marks (Thirteen) is teaming up with Australian John Tsambazis on Do It Scared, Mahoney’s screenplay based on the true story of Maltese-born Rob Galea’s roller-coaster journey from rebellious, drug-dealing gang member to a teenager with a hit single, priest and X-Factor semi-finalist.

Freshwater Pictures’ Trish Lake has boarded Elvis Town, the saga of a reporter with an Elvis Presley phobia who is reunited with his estranged mother, co-written by Mahoney and Stephen Lance, with Mairi Cameron and Lance set to co-direct.

Alan Arumugam of Ysa Screen Media and Kanesh Mohana Sundaram of Gvkm Elephant Pictures are in late development on action-thriller Ark-13, co-written by Mukund Ramanan and Mahoney,...

Jane Seymour.

Jane Seymour’s abiding interest in dementia led to her landing the lead role in Ruby’s Choice, producer/director Michael Budd’s drama with comic overtones, which starts shooting in Brisbane later this month.

The British American actress who made her name in the 1970s as Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die and in TV’s The Onedin Line, Our Mutual Friend and Battlestar Galactica, will play the title role, a loving grandmother who has dementia.

Coco Jack Gillies will portray her 16-year-old granddaughter Tash.

Jacqueline McKenzie is Ruby’s daughter Sharon with Stephen Hunter as her husband Doug.

Emerging Brisbane writer Paul Mahoney wrote the screenplay, pitched it to Budd and it immediately struck a chord as the filmmaker lost his grandmother to dementia.

Budd approached Seymour’s agent knowing it was a subject close to her heart: Seymour served as executive producer on Glen Campbell...

The torturous new horror flick from director Michael Budd, entitled Love of My Life, is releasing on VOD by Gravitas Ventures on April 29th, and right now we have a look at the artwork for you. Dig it!

In Love of My Life a young man is held captive by a deranged surgeon and given the choice of surviving five days of torture to save the life of the woman he loves or to order her killed and be set free.

Bela Deliá (The Tunnel) stars alongside Diarmid Heidenreich (Underbelly) as the tortured couple with Peter O’Brien (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as their tormentor.

Synopsis

Inside one of the many operating theatres of an old, rundown abandoned hospital, a man awakes strapped to a table, disorientated and scared. On the side of the room is a single monitor, showing him a live feed of his loved one trapped downstairs in...

Gravitas Ventures brings the horror film Love of My Life to VOD on April 29th. The Tunnel's Bel Delia stars. Directed by Michael Budd, the film follows the story of a young man being held captive by a deranged surgeon and given the choice of surviving five days of torture to save the life of the woman he loves, or to order her killed and be set free. Delia stars alongside Diarmid Heidenreich (Underbelly) as the tortured couple with Peter O’Brien (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as their tormentor. Check out the trailer here.

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It seems a week doesn't go by at the moment without news that an Australian indie genre flick is about to start shooting. Seriously, there must be growth hormones in the water out here.Now comes news that body-horror love story Love Of My Life, is preparing a whiplash quick shoot in December this year to turnaround the film for release in March 2013! Now that's fast. To kick things off and show they mean business, the production has cast Bel Deliá - last seen going into meltdown as the lead in viral horror The Tunnel. The film also stars Diarmid Heidenreich and Brendan Clearkin. Love Of My Life is written by Liam Barrett and will be co-directed by Barrett and Michael Budd. Here's the synopsis: Inside one of the many operating theatres...

Bel Deliá, star of the indie horror hit The Tunnel, is returning to the genre with the psychological thriller Love of My Life.  She'll star opposite Diarmid Heidenreich; Liam Barrett will direct with Michael Budd who also co-stars.

Love Of My Life follows the story of a young man who is held captive by a deranged surgeon and given the choice of surviving five days of torture to save the life of the woman he loves, or to order her killed and be set free.

Shooting is expected to begin this December.

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The Cold Light Of Day Trailer. Mabrouk El Mechri‘s The Cold Light Of Day (2012) movie trailer stars Bruce Willis, Henry Cavill, Sigourney Weaver, Caroline Goodall, and Veronica Echegui. The Cold Light Of Day‘s plot synopsis: “While on vacation in Spain a young Wall Street trader’s family is kidnapped. With only hours to find them, he must uncover a government conspiracy and its connection to his father’s secrets.”

Looks like a better version of Abduction.

The Cold Light Of Day also stars Joseph Mawle, Jim Piddock, Rafi Gavron, Óscar Jaenada, Shira Scott Astrof, Roschdy Zem, Emma Hamilton, Michael Budd, and Laura Bayonas.

Watch the The Cold Light Of Day movie trailer below and leave your thoughts on it in the comments section below. For more The Cold Light Of Day videos, photos, and reviews, visit our The Cold Light Of Day Page. The Cold Light Of Day...