Up and coming screenwriter Ellen Shanman is set to pen the adaptation of TIGER & BUNNY for Imagine Entertainment, All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW), and BANDAI NAMCO Pictures who are developing and producing the English-language live action feature film based on the smash hit Japanese anime series and feature films.
Ellen Shanman is the author of two novels from Random House/Bantam Dell, ‘Right Before Your Eyes’, and ‘Everything Nice’ which she adapted for Charli...
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Ken Loach, welcome back to Locarno. What is your fondest memory of Piazza Grande, where you were awarded with the Pardo d'onore in 2003?
My overriding memory is the enormity of the screen and the audience, the warmth of its response. I can't think a more impressive size to show a film. It's a spectacul...
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Poesía sin fin is by far your most personal movie in many ways, it deals with your own story. How much is fictional and what has been taken from real life?
I wrote a book, La danza de la realidad (The Dance of Reality), which goes from my childhood until today. Now I’m trying to do the movie...
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Paul Haggis, Award-winning Director, Writer and Producer: Show me a Hero. That’s the name of the new HBO mini-series, directed by Paul Haggis, which is rather fitting, consid...
J.A. Bayona will present “A Monster Calls”, out of competition, and the latest works by Diego Galán and Jo Sol will enjoy special screenings in the framework of the Official Selection
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Nine titles with Spanish production will form part of the New Directors, Horizonte...
Sigourney Weaver, star of ''A Monster Calls (Un monstruo viene a verme)'', Donostia Award at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival
The European premiere of J.A. Bayona’s ''A Monster Calls (Un monstruo viene a verme)'' will be presented in the Official Selection out of competition
The Official Selection of the 64th San Sebastian Festival will include the European premiere of the latest movie by J.A. Bayona, A Monster Calls...
Local community leader brings experience and leadership to new position.
Community and business leader Ryan Tarrant has been named the Co-Executive Director of the Sunscreen Film Festival. Tarrant will share duties with current Exec. Director Dwight Cenac II. Tarrant has been a part of the Film Festival’s Board of Directors for the past two years.
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Locarno69 celebrates and pays tribute to the multi-faceted talents of a major actor: Harvey Keitel. In addition to the awards ceremony on the Piazza Grande on August 6, the tribute will also include a screening of Smoke by Wayne Wang, winner of the Prix du Public UBS at Locarno in 1995.
He is the face of Sport, The Wolf, Hal, Charlie, Auggie, Rocco or simply the “lieutenant”. Locarno is awarding one of the greatest of H...
To mark the second year of the collaboration with Red Bull Music Academy, the Festival del film Locarno is pleased to announce a public lecture with Argentinian auteur Gaspar Noé, taking place on Saturday, August 6.
Gaspar Noé is one of the m...
Keywan Karimi is a 30-year-old Iranian filmmaker who has been sentenced by Iranian authorities to six years in jail and 223 lashes. His crime: practicing his profession as a filmmaker and showing the unofficial face of Iranian society.
A graduate from the University of Tehran, Keywan Karimi has studied communication and social sciences and participated in film directing workshops in Germany, Thailand and Russia. His short film Broken Border has received awards at vario...
By Maria Esteves – July 29, 2016
The 39th Asian American International Film Festival 2016 (AAIFF16) Opening Press Conference was held at the Museum of Chinese in New York (MOCA), Wednesday, July 20, 1PM. Presented by Asian CineVision (ACV), executive director John C. Woo, the event highlighted this year’s ten day (July 21-30) celebration of diversity in cast and themes by emerging and established Asian and Asian American filmmakers from 18 countries includes TOTO, directed ...
THE 40th MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL will run August 25-September 5, 2016
Since its founding 40 years ago, the Montreal World Film Festival continues to offer film lovers and professionals a rich program based on cultural quality and diversity, innovation, independence and creativity. The success and international reputation of the Montreal World Film Festival are firmly linked to these principles and goals.
The World Film Festival is the only competitive film event in ...
The star of the opening ceremony of Hungary`s leading IFF, the 13th Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival will be Juliette Binoche. The festival starts with the screening of the masterpiece Three Colors: Blue on the 9th of September. The legendary French actress will receive a special award and the festival`s CineClassics program is going to remember the director of the film, Krzysztof Kieslowski, who passed away 20 years ago.
By now, the Miskolc IFF has become one of...
Roger Corman will be paid tribute during the 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno via screenings of two of his films. Guest of honor at the Filmmakers Academy, the training project for young directors, Corman has long been considered a cult filmmaker who helped change the way films are conceived, produced and directed.
As director and screenwriter he made a long series of films whose low-budget model combined principles of quality and popular appeal in unprec...
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Filmmaker, writer, poet and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky will be awarded with a Pardo d’onore Swisscom at the 69th Festival del film Locarno. In addition to a selection of his films and the award ceremony on the Piazza Grande, Jodorowsky will also participate in a conversation open to all festival-goers.
As son of Russian immigrants exiled in Chile, Alejandro Jodorowsky began his artistic career as a puppeteer, poet and thea...
John Zois has joined prolific independent entertainment studio IM Global as the Senior Vice President, Acquisitions, it was announced today by company founder and CEO Stuart Ford. Zois will report to Ford, and work alongside JR Smith, the company’s Director of Acquisitions.
Zois was most recently the Director of Worldwide Acquisitions for EuropaCorp, where he worked on acquiring films for distribution in the U.S. as well as for France and around the world. While there Zo...
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British actress Jacqueline Bissett, 72, was the special guest this year at the 13th Golden Apricot film festival in Yerevan and three of her early films were screened.
Viewed here as part of the Jacqueline Bissett tribute, "Murder on the Orient Express" (Sidney Lumet, 1974) is so bad it looks like a dress rehearsal for a film that never got made. If the Agatha Christie novel had suspense and snappy dialogue Lumet's film has neither. No susp...
The British actress and singer will be paid tribute at the 69th Festival del film Locarno.
A transgressive voice, persona and epitome of panache in the 1960s, Jane Birkin will be under the spotlight at the 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno on the Piazza where, nine years ago, (2007) another tribute was paid to Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the masters with whom she worked.
Jane Birkin initially appeared on stage in musicals, prefiguring her dual career as both actre...
Ruth Pérez de Anucita - Head of Communication
The San Sebastian Festival adds a new member to its team. Journalist Ruth Pérez de Anucita is the Festival’s Head of Communication, a position vacant for several years now, which encompasses the areas of Spanish and foreign press coordinated respectively by Koro Santesteban and Gemma Beltrán.
The Festival announced the position in November of last year, receiving 118 applicatio...
Yet another year the committee of experts will have the presence of Paz Lázaro, alongside Sergio Oksman and Ada Solomon
The call for the development of projects remains open until April 1st.
In February was opened the call for the second edition of IKUSMIRA BERRIAK, an interinstitutional programme of support for new audiovisual projects committed to innovation and experimentation, or dedicated to new film language or new product...
Bruno Chatelin with Stage 32 Founder RB: Richard Botto and Amanda Toney
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HARRY DEAN STANTON HEADLINES “LUCKY”
Ed Begley Jr., Ron Livingston, Tom Skerritt, David Lynch Co-Star
Los Angeles, CA – July 7, 2016 – Superlative Films announced today the cast of actor John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, “Lucky,” starring iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton in a role written as a love letter to him by longtime friends Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja. Ed Begley Jr. (“Better Call Saul,” “St. Elsewhere&rdquo...
Ed Begley Jr., Ron Livingston, Tom Skerritt, David Lynch Co-Star
Superlative Films announced today the cast of actor John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, “Lucky,” starring iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton in a role written as a love letter to him by longtime friends Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja. Ed Begley Jr. (“Better Call Saul,” “St. Elsewhere”), Ron Livingston (“The Conjuring”, “Office Space,” “Band ...
Richard Branson Supports Sharkwater Extinction on Kickstarter from Rob Stewart on Vimeo.
SHARKWATER Extinction Kickstarter Video from Rob Stewart on Vimeo.
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ODD that the back-to-back obituaries in all the Italian papers yesterday were Elie Wiesel and Michael Cimino, the auteur of "Deerhunter" ... Followed by the débâcle of "Gates of Hell" that brought both his career and that of the studio United Artists down to bankruptcy and ignominous ruin.
(Check it out in the Inkwire )--- I vaguely remember seeing "Heaven's Gate" when it came out and not thinking much of it except for the appearance in an A...
