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David Puttnam and Hani FarsiLord Puttnam Partners With Hani Farsi To Produce First Film in 17 Years, Greenpeace Tale ‘Arctic 30′ – Cannes

 

Lord Puttnam, a legendary figure in the British film industry, is making a return to producing after a nearly two-decade absence to produce Greenpeace activist drama Arctic 30. He is teaming with Corniche Pictures’ Hani Farsi for a joint venture to produce a feature based on the recently published book Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg by Ben Stewart, about the true story of 30 men and women who took on Russia’s largest oil company to save Earth’s most precious landscape. a legendary figure in the British film industry, is making a return to producing after a nearly two-decade absence to produce Greenpeace activist dramaArctic 30. He is teaming with Corniche Pictures’ Hani Farsi for a joint venture to produce a feature based on the recently published book Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg by Ben Stewart, about the true story of 30 men and women who took on Russia’s largest oil company to save Earth’s most precious landscape.

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Lord Puttnam

 

Politician, producer and Ireland’s digital champion guides Euro industry battle vs. E.U. Single Digital Market Strategy

Former producer David Puttnam set a roadmap Saturday in Cannes to help Europe fight the European Commission’s proposed Digital Single Market Strategy that threatens territory-by-territory licensing and single country release strategies.

At the same panel, the Motion Picture Assn. (MPA) and Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) joined other producer and distributor trade orgs to call for an E.U. digital policy that preserved territorial licensing.

“This is a political argument that needs to be won,” Puttnam said. “Unintended consequences haunt almost all legislation. We can’t promote the idea of bad guys and good guys. What we need to do is come to the argument with sufficient power so that it is politically acceptable and in a way that the Commission does not look foolish.”

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Lord Puttnam discusses trust and youth voting at the Marketing Society Annual LectureAs Great Britain takes to the polling stations, Labour peer Lord Puttnam spoke to Marketing about the key political and societal issues threatening democracy and brand trust.

Lord Puttnam took to the stage last month at the Marketing Society Annual Lecture at BAFTA to discuss his view on leadership and call on marketers to use their position to drive social change.

One of Lord Puttnam's primary concerns is the "serious" level at which younger people are becoming disengaged with politics.

Should you make democracy that simple? Should you make it inexpensive?

"A lot of people try to pretend there isn’t a problem or that it will go away. What I am showing is that there is a problem with young people and disengagement with politics. It really has now set in and it is really serious," he said.

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Lord Puttnam discusses trust and youth voting at the Marketing Society Annual LectureAs Great Britain takes to the polling stations, Labour peer Lord Puttnam spoke to Marketing about the key political and societal issues threatening democracy and brand trust.

Lord Puttnam took to the stage last month at the Marketing Society Annual Lecture at BAFTA to discuss his view on leadership and call on marketers to use their position to drive social change.

One of Lord Puttnam's primary concerns is the "serious" level at which younger people are becoming disengaged with politics.

Should you make democracy that simple? Should you make it inexpensive?

"A lot of people try to pretend there isn’t a problem or that it will go away. What I am showing is that there is a problem with young people and disengagement with politics. It really has now set in and it is really serious," he said.

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Lord PuttnamToo many “bad” heads are shunning the arts in their schools because they are worried about their exam league table rankings, according to Oscar-winning film producer David Puttnam.

Lord Puttnam, a former education adviser to the Blair government, wants education standards watchdog Ofsted to place more weight on arts provision during school inspections.

“I know it doesn’t at the moment,” he said in an interview withThe Independent. “ It might just be a footnote to a report: the arts provision is excellent.

“Really, a school ought to be awarded outstanding status if it has excellent performance in the arts and is just achieving decent results in other areas.”

Lord Puttnam added:  “For good or ill, arts provision in schools really relies on the ambition of individual headteachers.

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Lord David Puttnam 

Over 140 joined a cosy and intimate room at BAFTA to hear from Lord David Puttnam.

'The tasks you set yourself cannot be achieved in a single lifetime', he started out saying. With a rallying call to action he spoke eloquently and passionately about how democracy is not a spectator sport. He argued that he felt we have returned to the levels of inequality last felt in 1914, which is a sad state of affairs to be in.

Speaking at length about trust, he said democracy is about passing on a public trust. 'Our tabloid papers carry about as much news as Tit Bits paper [when I was growing up] and are about as reliable.'

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David Puttnam at Keighley

David Puttnam is supporting Keighley’s RATMA international film festival.

He has filmed a special message to play before the festival’s gala screening of winning entries this month.

Lord Puttnam’s big-screen appearance at Keighley Picture House will launch a major expansion of the already-successful annual RATMA day.

He is allowing organisers to screen his own debut on film, a video for Paul McCartney’s solo single Maybe I’m Amazed which was filmed in the 1970s.

Lord Puttnam, who spearheaded the revival of the British movie industry in the 1980s, is the first of several film-world notables who have pledged support for RATMA.

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David Puttnam talks technology with Cappabue pupils Hannah Campbell and Bonnie Dale

TO the delight of 29 movie-mad students at Cappabue National School, Lord David Puttnam gave generously of his time when he visited Kealkil last Friday to unveil their Digital School of Distinction Award. 

Lord Puttnam, who is Ireland’s Digital Ambassador, took a genuine interest in the pupils’ and their digital projects, some of which were honoured with national and international film awards.

Student Jack Desmond, who  hails from Whiddy Island, presented Lord Puttnam with a copy of Cappabue’s latest short film  ‘Trasna na dTonnta’, which was filmed on location on Whiddy.

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Renowned film-maker Lord Puttnam has called for a European digital single market that retains scope for territorial licensing to boost cultural diversity and consumer choice and warned against an inflexible approach to release windows.

Puttnam, President of Film Distributors’ Association (FDA), made the comments in a keynote address at an FDA event for the UK film industry in London.

He also urged all branches of the film industry to embrace innovation as the digital revolution continues “at blistering speed”.

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After an outstanding career in the film industry, David Puttnam left the entertainment world behind to take on the challenge of reforming education.

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