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BERLINALE 2012 Market / UK

Searching for Sugar Man for Protagonist Pictures

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Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man – a Swedish-UK documentary that won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was immediately picked up for the US, Australia and France - continued to rock’n’roll at the European Film Market in Berlin.

Screening in the market, the story of two South Africans’ efforts to find out what really happened to their 1970s’ musical hero was among UK international sales company Protagonist Pictures’ hot tickets at the Berlinale, as was another documentary feature, UK director Bart Layton’s The Imposter.

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”We had excellent sales this year, still I think there were fewer people around – I usually judge from the load of our brochures left, and there were more than there have been the last couple of years,” said head of marketing Bridget Pedgrift, of Protagonist, who had four films on show, two in post and four in pre-production.

A five-minute promo reel sparked strong interest in UK director Nick Love’s action thriller The Sweeney, a 21st-century version of the ITV’s 1970s police drama following the Flying Squad, now starring Ray Winstone and Ben Drew - the film will be ready later this spring.

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, UK actor-turned-director Richard Ayoade will have a loose crack at Dostoevsky’s novella, The Double, which will shoot over the summer. The dark comedy follows a man driven to near breakdown by the appearance of his doppelganger.

Also in pre-production is Monsters – The Dark Continent, the sequel to Gareth Edwards’s 2010 sci-fi actioner. Edwards will this time act as executive producer following up on Monsters’ alien invasion of Earth, when 'infected zones' have now spread worldwide.

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