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TORONTO -- The Chloe Sevigny-starring drama 3 Needles will open the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sept. 15, organizers said Tuesday. The festival also announced that Karl Baumgartner of Pandora Film Distribution (Farewell My Concubine, The Piano) will provide the keynote speech at the Strategic Partners co-production conference. 3 Needles, the latest film from Halifax-based actor-director Thom Fitzgerald (The Event), features an ensemble cast that includes also Sandra Oh, Olympia Dukakis, Stockard Channing and Lucy Liu in an epic drama about AIDS that spans three continents.

TORONTO -- The Chloe Sevigny-starring drama 3 Needles will open the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sept. 15, organizers said Tuesday. The festival also announced that Karl Baumgartner of Pandora Film Distribution (Farewell My Concubine, The Piano) will provide the keynote speech at the Strategic Partners co-production conference. 3 Needles, the latest film from Halifax-based actor-director Thom Fitzgerald (The Event), features an ensemble cast that includes also Sandra Oh, Olympia Dukakis, Stockard Channing and Lucy Liu in an epic drama about AIDS that spans three continents.

NEW YORK -- Indie banner Seventh Art Releasing has picked up U.S. rights to filmmaker Andrzej Krakowski's feature documentary Farewell to My Country. Country centers on the stories of Polish Jews who were expelled from their homeland in 1968 in the wake of student demonstrations. According to Seventh Art's press notes, the event marked Poland's expulsion of "the last remaining Jews from what once was the largest Jewish settlement in the world, effectively ending over a thousand years' history." The film was executive produced by Barbara Lavery and written, produced and directed by Krakowski through the Pine Hill Prods. banner in association with the Bendheim Performing Arts Center. The pact was brokered by Krakowski and Seventh Art topper Udy Epstein. Krakowski's feature credits include the screenplay for Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos.