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In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Berlin Film Festival 1997
Powell accepts that the image of EFA has declined, but thinks this was probably almost inevitable, at any rate it is in the context of what has happened to other, similar bodies.
Powell's aim is to begin the slow process of building EFA (back) into something major, broadening the membership from the original elitist 100, and setting up Associate (non-voting) membership for anybody interested in European film.
And top PR company DDA will be working with Powell and EFA to promote and produce the event and the ceremony, which will be held in its usual slot in December (though the precise date cannot be confirmed until a venue is fixed).
www.filmfestivals.com /berlin97/bfilmc18.htm   (788 words)

  
  Utter Trash--Nik Turner
Nik Turner is a founding member of legendary British “space rock” band Hawkwind.
After leaving Hawkwind, Nik put out several albums with the band Inner City Unit in the seventies and eighties, and has continued making music both as a solo artist and as a member of several projects right up to the present.
Nik is currently involved with the British band Space Ritual (made up entirely of former Hawkwind members) and the American group Spaceseed, who will be backing him up on his current U.S. tour.
www.uttertrash.net /nikturner.htm   (1394 words)

  
 The Hindu News Update Service
Mr Powell, who is also Chairman of the European Film Academy which annually awards good productions within the continent, said audiences in the West were now beginning to accept films from Bollywood and China and this was a heartening sign.
Nik, whose father had been a civil servant in India before Independence, said just as India had the "Bollywood and non-Bollywood cinema," the UK had independent and studio-based cinema.
Nik has produced over forty films including ‘Ladies in Lavender’, ‘Calendar Girls’ which attracted a lot of media attention in the west.
www.hinduonnet.com /holnus/009200412051926.htm   (323 words)

  
 NSE : What's new : Press Office - NATIONAL CHARITY LAUNCHES FILM TO SHOWCASE SERVICES
Nik Powell, the talented film producer behind films such as Calendar Girls and Ladies in Lavender, has helped to produce a short film to showcase the excellent work of the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE), the UK’s largest epilepsy charity.
She commented: “Nik Powell’s backing of a short film was a gifted opportunity for NSE to show the world the wide range of work we undertake as a charity.
Nik Powell, who himself has epilepsy, co-founded Virgin Records with close childhood friend Richard Branson in the 1970s.
www.epilepsynse.org.uk /pages/whatsnew/pr/show_pr.cfm?ID=278   (282 words)

  
 Interview: Golden Boy Makes Good
Powell - bullish, unkempt, hip, capable of having two telephone conversations at once while reading an e-mail; a social animal who can party till 5am but still be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for a 9am breakfast meeting with a potential financier.
Nik opined that 'with these two it shouldn't be much of a problem raising the finance.
Despite Nik's tenacious efforts in bringing our various financiers together, we were nowhere near being green-lit - which would mean that the money's in the bank, everything necessary to make the film is in place, and barring a major catastrophe it will happen.
www.charlesdance.co.uk /lavender_blues.html   (3935 words)

  
 Draken 6/2
Nik Powell and I are sliding across the ice.
Nik Powell was once one of the people that created Virgin Records.
But Nik is laughing and his desire to find a cup of espresso is suggesting that he was taking part of the rock n´ roll side of the festival last night.
www.grafit.o.se /draken/6/6.html   (757 words)

  
 European Film Academy: Staff und Structure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
EFA members Nik Powell, Dieter Kosslick, Agnieszka Holland, and Krzysztof Zanussi are speaking at a conference organised by the Greek Ministry of Culture on the occasion of the Hellenic Presidency of the European Union.
Nik Powell and Marion Döring attend the closing ceremony of Cinedays in Rome, organised by the European Commission.
Nik Powell, Humbert Balsan, Stephan Hutter and Marion Döring travel to Brussels to meet with the Media Programme’s Gregory Paulger and Jacques Delmoly.
www.europeanfilmacademy.org /htm/4Diary2003.html   (1128 words)

  
 Nik Powell - Moviefone
Nik Powell on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
Childhood friend of Richard Branson, Nik Powell was the co-founder of Virgin and helped build Bransons empire in the vital early days.
Nik Powell - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Nik Powell Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/nik-powell/106966/main   (101 words)

  
 Kulturelle Ampellehre - Video-Interviews: Europas Kultur im Gespräch
Nik Powell ist Brite und arbeitet als Direktor an der Londoner National Film & Television School (NFTS).
Zusammen mit Richard Branson gründete Powell 1970 das Plattenlabel Virgin Records, bevor er in den 80er Jahren als Filmproduzent Erfolge feierte.
What we should be doing is defending the rights of European citizens to travel and work and do what they like within the borders of Europe.
www.bpb.de /themen/E3K1HP,0,Kulturelle_Ampellehre.html   (454 words)

  
 Night Club - 14/6/2002: Nik Powell and Globowood
Nik Powell started Virgin records with Richard Branson.
Powell is in Australia for the world premiere of Black and White, the feature film about the Max Stuart case which his company Scala Productions has co-produced.
This is the subject of Powell's Macpherson Lecture at the Sydney Film Festival on Sunday June 16th.
www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/nclub/stories/s582098.htm   (134 words)

  
 Why I won't make any more movies Evening Standard (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
SHOCK waves rippled through the British film industry when Nik Powell, one of its most prolific, popular and - sometimes - successful producers, announced that he is to take over next month as director of the National Film and Television School (NFTS).
Powell leans back languidly in his chair and takes a slurp of tea.
Powell, who had the vaguer "executive producer" credit, attracted less glory.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20030807/ai_n12056666   (857 words)

  
 Kaos Films & NFTS presents The British Short Screenplay Competition f— BSSC 2006 — "The best & ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Nik Powell is one of the co-founders of the Virgin group alongside Richard Branson.
In 1982 Powell went into partnership with Stephen Woolley, proprietor of the Scala Cinema.
Powell acted as Executive Producer on all of Palace’s productions including Absolute Beginners, Letter To Brezhnev, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game, Fever Pitch, Little Voice, Fanny and Elvis.
www.kaosfilms.co.uk /judges/powell.html   (169 words)

  
 Nik Turner - Discography
Nik "Thunder Rider" Turner (sax, flute and vocals)
Nik "Thunder Rider" Turner - sax, flute, vocals
Nik and friends, plus members of Pressurehed, perform classic Hawkwind® and Nik tunes.
www.nikturner.com /discog.shtml   (805 words)

  
 Nik Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Powell married 60s singer Sandie Shaw in the early 80s and helped relaunch her career during that decade.
In 1983, Nik, alongside Stephen Woolley, founded Palace Productions - which went on to produce The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (film) (1986) and The Crying Game (1992).
After presiding over the collapse of Palace Pictures in 1992, Nik Powell controversially re-established himself in the film industry with Scala Productions in the early 1990s and has since produced Fever Pitch, TwentyFourSeven, Last Orders and Ladies In Lavender.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nik_Powell   (192 words)

  
 Nik Turner - "Transglobal Friends and Relations"
The rest of the album is comprised mainly of live songs from Nik's Hawkwind-revival tours of '94 and '95, some differing enough from previously-released versions (see "Space Ritual 1994" and "Past or Future"), some not.
Still, this gets me so pumped and is a good example of Nik and co. doing more than just covering a Hawkwind song, but forcefully altering it into a new piece.
As it was a Nik show, Len del Rio is also in attendance to add his epic keyboards, and Farflung's love for change-of-pace/build-up drama is as powerful as ever.
www.aural-innovations.com /issues/issue17/nik03.html   (922 words)

  
 56 Locarno International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
After withdrawing from Virgin Records, which he co-founded with Richard Branson, Nik Powell went into partnership with Stephen Woolley, ex-Scala Cinema; together, they established the British group of companies Palace, which soon extended its reach to the USA.
With two films currently in post-production and seventeen in development, Powell, also President of the European Film Academy is undoubtedly one of the most dynamic producers in Europe.
A former member of Cannibale, a movement of young Italian writers wanting to «devour» their elders, Niccolò Ammaniti has since established his position on the peninsula's literary scene; he was also the recipient in 2001, of the Viareggio Prize for Io non ho paura.
www.pardo.ch /2003/sito/giuria/ufficiale.jsp?lang=e   (980 words)

  
 NETRIBUTION - NIK POWELL - Nikular Powered Virgin
Nik Powell is to Richard Branson as Steve Wozniak is to Steve Jobs.
I brought it back and I proudly showed it to all the staff at Palace, showed it to Daniel Battsek who was head of distribution at the time, who now runs Disney.
He and some of the staff came back to my office, and came to see me and said ‘Nik, we’ve just watched this film, it’s completely crap, and if you were not our boss, we’d fire you.’ That’s the advantage of being a boss is people can’t fire you.
www.netribution.co.uk /2/content/view/43/267   (4860 words)

  
 Variety.com - Award Central 2007  - Omissions cloud Euro awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
That's because the board of the European Film Academy board reserves the right to insert late arrivals into the list of nominees, on the grounds that its far-flung members did not have enough chance to see and judge them by the voting deadline.
Powell has spearheaded the reform of the EFAs into a more audience-oriented event since its disastrous early days as an orgy of self-congratulation.
With its lengthy speeches in several languages, it has always been an uneasy compromise between the different factions of the Euro film biz, with their divergent views about the purpose of cinema, and what constitutes an entertaining night out.
www.variety.com /article/VR1117953744.html?categoryID=13   (514 words)

  
 Wood Green Film Festival
He has shaped the British entertainment industry over the last 25 years and continues to be one its most provocative advocates and challengers.
Nik founded Virgin Records with Richard Branson, ignited the home entertainment industry with The Evil Dead and went on to produce some of the seminal British films of recent years, including Scandal, The Crying Game, Fever Pitch, Little Voice and Last Orders.
Always a passionate supporter of new filmmakers, Nik is now Director of the National Film and Television School.
www.woodgreenfilmfestival.com /fringe.html   (395 words)

  
 Motives | New Web Order - Nik Cubrilovic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The general feedback was that yes, the operation to achieve full occupation of Iraq would continue.
When asked if Iraq’s full co-operation with the United Nations could help avoid war, Colin Powell responded to CNN with “even then the United States believes the Iraqi people would be better served with a new kind of leadership.”
So all the pre-war “diplomacy” was simply the US dancing around trying to align itself adequately to begin its long-planned occupation of Iraq.
www.nik.com.au /archives/2003/03/22/motives   (454 words)

  
 BBC - Films -article article - London Film Festival: Day 4
Before the screening, we spoke with most the film's cast, the producer Nik Powell, plus invited guests Richard Branson and Ken Livingstone.
Watch executive producer Nik Powell talk about the film.
Richard Branson talks about his old friend Nik Powell.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/11/11/london_film_festival_day_four_report_article.shtml   (391 words)

  
 Media Production | Staffordshire University | BA Degree course
The students took part in debate with key directors/producers Ben Gibson, Nik Powell, Stephen Woolley and Paul Watson, which was chaired by Yossi Bal.
They certainly held their own and were very well received by the panel and the audience.
It was a little nerve wracking being interviewed by Nik Powell, but a great opportunity for networking and seeing the audience reaction.” Said media production graduate Dermott, Co-director of Fish Out of Water.
www.staffs.ac.uk /schools/art_and_design/underinfo/mediaproduction/mp_news/2005_06/eos.htm   (204 words)

  
 Goethe-Institut Eurovisionen - Referenten - Großbritannien
In 1982, Powell formed Palace Productions together with Stephen Woolley and acted as Executive Producer on all of Palace's productions including Neil Jordan's award winning Company of Wolves, Jordan's Oscar-nominated and Cannes award-winning Mona Lisa, and Neil Jordan's Oscar winning The Crying Game.
In 1992, Powell and Woolley formed Scala Productions where they produced Terence Davies' The Neon Bible, the Oscar nominated and golden globe winning Little Voice by Mark Herman, and Fred Schepsi's Last Orders.
From September 2003 on, Nik Powell takes over as director of the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in London.
www.goethe.de /ins/vb/prj/euro/ref/gb/de113830.htm   (144 words)

  
 Nik Powell
In the early 1970s, Nik Powell set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson.
In 1992 Nik and Stephen formed SCALA Productions where they produced Terence Davies' The Neon Bible, the Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning Little Voice by Mark Herman and Fred Schepsi's Last Orders.
Nik's latest film is Ladies in Lavender starring Dame Judi Dench.
www.bafta.org /site/page224.html   (129 words)

  
 BBC News | FILM | UK film entrances festival
Powell said it is a faithful adaptation of the popular Graham Swift book and describes the casting alone as "exciting".
But all the effort appears to have initially paid off, with hardened critics moved by the performances.
There are reports that the film may be in the running for the prizes at the prestigious festival.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/1569490.stm   (363 words)

  
 Fanny & Elvis
In the early 1970's Nik Powvell set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson and in the space of ten years the pair turned a small mail-order record operation into a multimillion pound conglomerate.
The first film that Nik Powell was executive producer on for Scala was Backbeat, directed by Iain Softley.
Nik was co-founder of The Film Consortium, is a member of the British Screen Advisory Council and in 1996 was appointed Chairman of the European Film Academy who host the Annual European Film Awards.
www.sf-film.dk /fannyogelvis/biographies.htm   (2082 words)

  
 UIP Short Film Release
The European Film Academy was established in 1989 by a group of prominent European directors, actors and producers, led by Ingmar Bergman.
Following the election of a new Board of Directors, headed by Chairman Nik Powell and President Wim Wenders in 1996, the Academy embarked on an aggressive recruitment drive in order to embrace more film makers and technicians, as well as completely re-engineering their annual showcase, the European Film Awards.
Academy membership has grown from 100 in 1997 to close to 1000 and it is expected to double to 2000 by the end of 2001.
www.preview-online.com /sept_oct00/uipshortfilm.html   (968 words)

  
 Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission - Director, National Film & Television School
One of the UK's best known feature film producers, Nik established Virgin Records with Richard Branson in the early 70s.
Nik was Executive Producer on all of Palace's productions including Company of Wolves, Absolute Beginners, Letter to Brezhnev and Neil Jordan's Oscar-nominated Mona Lisa.
Nik was a co-founder of The Film Consortium; and has been Chairman of the European Film Academy since 1996.
www.niftc.co.uk /team.asp?id=1&index=8   (177 words)

  
 Nik Turner - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
One of the founding members of Hawkwind, saxophonist/flutist Nik Turner has had perhaps the most prolific and varied outside career of all its many alumni.
Turner grew up in Margate, Kent, England, with future Hawkwind bandmate Robert Calvert, and came to Hawkwind's original 1969 lineup from a band called Mobile Freakout.
Genesis P-Orridge; Helios Creed; Chrome; Alan Powell; Terry Ollis; Dikmik; Robert Calvert; Del Dettmar; Lemmy; Simon King;
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/card/0,,503804,00.html   (161 words)

  
 2003 March | New Web Order - Nik Cubrilovic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
And is the end result worth it considering the precedents set, and the damage caused.
On a lighter note, if you want to take a break from the war and stretch your legs, we will be blogging the World Cup Cricket final match between Australia and India this Sunday.
Bush can not be trusted, Powell bungled diplomacy, Blair is a wreck, Putin is far too indecisive.
www.nik.com.au /archives/2003/03/page/2   (1411 words)

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