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Third Eye, 2022, 19, 05: Iranian film Open Season bags the Best Short Film award at Asian Film Festival

Third Eye, 2022, 19, 05: Iranian film Open Season bags the Best Short Film award at Asian Film Festival The week-long Third Eye Asian Film Festival was held at the P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, Prabhadevi, Mumbai, from December 12 to 18. Deputy Secretary in the Tourism and Culture Department of the Maharashtra Government, Mrs. Vidya Waghmare was present at the closing ceremony of the festival. Mrs. Vidya Waghmare, Kiran Shantaram (Chairman, Asian Film Foundation and Third Eye A...

Pete Stevenson, Director of The Edge Picture Company Joins New York Festivals TV & Film Awards Advisory Board

New York Festivals® TV & Film Awards announced the addition of Pete Stevenson, Executive Director of The Edge Picture Company to the 2023 TV & Film Advisory Board.    “We are thrilled to welcome Pete Stevenson to the TV & Film Awards Advisory Board. As an award-winning director he brings his wide-ranging creative expertise to the 16-member panel of storytellers and industry executives,” said Rose Anderson, VP & Executive Director, New York Festivals ...

Cindy Di Xin Has Found Her Voice

China native Cindy Di Xin is an award-winning filmmaker who has written and directed six short films. She earned master’s degrees in film production with an emphasis in directing from Chapman University in Orange County, California and The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Over the past three years, Cindy has been nominated and awarded at seventeen film festivals, including several Academy Award-qualifying festivals. In her films, she enjoys exploring family and multi-cultu...

Academy Award winning and internationally renowned actor and filmmaker Jackie Chan awarded on Closing RSIFF Ceremony

The second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RedSeaIFF), closed by honouring Academy Award winning and internationally renowned actor and filmmaker Jackie Chan for his unparalleled talents and contribution to the film industry, paving the way as a legendary actor, director, producer and stuntman.   Mohammed Al Turki; CEO of the RedSeaIFF said: “We are thrilled to close the second edition on a high by honoring Jackie Chan, a true pioneer, and legend. His extraordi...

How Dream Team Directors, a husband and wife filmmaker team broke through in Hollywood

68x award-winning husband and wife filmmakers Daniel Lir and Bayou Bennett’s recipe of rejecting the status quo of modern Hollywood’s content of murder, sex and disturbance but instead pushing entertainment, beauty, originality and inspiration is attracting world wide acclaim for the couple who built their personal love story on making films together. First meeting at a vegetarian cafe on the Lower East Side of NYC in 2007 and connecting over their love of cinema, the couple are n...

$70,000 in fellowships has been awarded to filmmakers Temi Ojo and Mark Ingber for uplifting science in narrative films

SFFILM SLOAN SCIENCE IN CINEMA INITIATIVE SFFILM AND THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION CELEBRATE SCIENCE IN CINEMA WITH THE 2022 SFFILM SLOAN FELLOWS $70,000 in fellowships has been awarded to filmmakers Temi Ojo and Mark Ingber for uplifting science in narrative films in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the nation’s leading philanthropic grantor for science and the arts—has announced the recipients of fellowships from their signature program, the SFFILM Sloan Scien...

Visions du Réel will honour the outstanding Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter Lucrecia Martel

Visions du Réel will celebrate the outstanding Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter Lucrecia Martel by giving her an Honorary Award during its 54th edition (April 21–30, 2023). A major figure in contemporary film and a leading name in the New Argentine Cinema, Lucrecia Martel will give a masterclass during the event, which will explore her body of work and her relationship with reality. A retrospective of her films will also be presented during the edition. According to tra...

Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York - The team

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Director: Matthew Taylor (Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible, Invisible Hand, The creepy Line, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible, Safeguard: An Electoral College Story)   Writer: Matthew Taylor (Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible, Invisible Hand, The creepy Line, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible, Safeguard: An Electoral College Story)  d Producer: Michelle Taylor  (Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible, In...

Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York - The director Matthew Taylor

Director Biography - Matthew Taylor Matthew Taylor is an American artist and technologist who works in film, sculpture, and photography. Taylor was classically training in painting, drawing, art history and theory, but moved into filmmaking in the late 90’s while still in art school. Starting with short concept films, digital installations, music videos and fashion films, Taylor eventually started making documentaries. As a filmmaker, Taylor has filmed all over t...

Tales of Babylon Director bio: Pelayo de Lario

Director Biography - Pelayo de Lario London-born and bred writer director Pelayo de Lario brings a new and fresh outlook on cinema and how stories should be told to fit an ever-changing audience, whose habits have become more fast-paced and hectic. Initially having trained as an actor, Pelayo developed an interest in directing when working in plays such as The Crucible and Macbeth at Queen Mary University and as a member of the New Youth Film Academy. He merg...

Tales of Babylon full cast and crew

The Cast     Clive Russell ... Silver Dragon Billie Gadsdon ... The Kid Aaron Cobham ... Y Beatrice Fletcher ... The Receptionist Paul Cassidy ... Mr. Richter Liran Nathan ... ...

„When the Woodlark Sings“ – Official Selection on the Iconic Images Film Festival

Our film "When the Woodlark Sings" was selected on the Iconic Images Film Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania in the categories BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR and BEST DRAMA FILM! We are glad, enchanted and thankful!  Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/oXuEJiN3rD0 Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/sDsy_MdP4gE More information: https://heidelerche-film.cittador.com ...

Palm Springs International Film Awards To Present Austin Butler With The Breakthrough Performance Award

The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Austin Butler is the recipient of the Breakthrough Performance Award for his performance in Elvis. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 16, 2023. The event will be presented by American Express and sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts.   “Austin Butler commands the screen with a larger-than...

Palm Springs International Film Awards To Present Bill Nighy With The International Star Award, Actor

The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Bill Nighy is the recipient of the International Star Award, Actor for Living. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 16, 2023. The event will be presented by American Express and sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts.   “Bill Nighy delivers a tender and moving performance, addressing both the...

Palm Springs International Film Awards To Present Viola Davis With The Chairman's Award

The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Viola Davis is the recipient of the Chairman’s Award recognizing her work as an actress and producer for The Woman King. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 16, 2023. The event will be presented by American Express and sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts.   “Whether as an actress or...

Interview with UK Producer Simon Fawcett @ 2022 AFM

UK producer/financier Simon Fawcett is a prolific producer with more than thirty films to his credit. In the last five years, Simon has been a producer on eight films, including: “Come Away” (2020) a drama starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo; “Compulsion” (2016), a drama starring Analeigh Tipton, an Italian Canadian co production; “No Man's Land” (202), starring Frank Grillo and Andie McDowell; “Edge of the World” (2021), starring Jonat...

Interview with UK Producer Simon Fawcett @ 2022 AFM

UK producer/financier Simon Fawcett is a prolific producer with more than thirty films to his credit. In the last five years, Simon has been a producer on eight films, including: “Come Away” (2020) a drama starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo; “Compulsion” (2016), a drama starring Analeigh Tipton, an Italian Canadian co production; “No Man's Land” (202), starring Frank Grillo and Andie McDowell; “Edge of the World” (2021), starring Jonat...

The Red Sea International Film Festival hosted the first ‘Celebration of Women in Cinema’ gala

The Red Sea International Film Festival hosted the first ‘Celebration of Women in Cinema’ gala this week in partnership with Vanity Fair and Chopard at the Park Hyatt, Jeddah to celebrate visionary female talent both on and behind the camera from around the world.   At a gala event hosted alongside the second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival, the event brought together working at the heart of the film industry.    The RSIFF continues to suppo...

VIDEO: Hans FRAIKIN Abu Dhabi Film Commissioner on the soft money and incentives panel at RSIFF 360

Always happy to meet my former colleague from FOX in new places! Hans Fraikin Abu Dhabi Film Commissioner came to Jeddah to speak at RED SEA 360°  organized by Winston Baker about soft money and tax incentives in the region.   PANEL | Show Me the Soft Money: Incentives to Explore There are multiple avenues to subsidize your budget through Funds, Rebates, Development and Support Programs. Budgets for film production can be overwhelming, especially in the indie mar...

VIDEO Interview with the director of the Qisah London Festival

Qisah International Film Festival provides a single platform for films from across the Muslim world enabling filmmakers, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to represent these local worlds in all their cultural diversity, nuance and depth. By Muslim world we mean not only Muslim majority countries but also those with significant Muslim minorities and the Muslim diaspora in Europe, North America and elsewhere. In bringing local film-maker’s representation of their life-worlds the festival aims to...

RSIFF In-Conversations happening at this year’s festival in Jeddah with Jackie Chan, Akshay Kumar, Nadine Labaki, Guy Ritchie...

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The Red Sea International Film Festival (RedSeaIFF) in partnership with VOX Cinemas and the MBC GROUP, today announced its stellar line up of In-Conversations happening at this year’s festival in Jeddah. Cinema talents including Jackie Chan, Akshay Kumar, Nadine Labaki and Guy Ritchie are just some of the renowned artists participating in the strong series of In-Conversations at the Festival, which will celebrate highly lauded directors, legendary actors and actresses, and emergent i...

Winston Baker partners with RSIFF to bring a very comprehensive program December 3-6

RED SEA 360° in Association with Winston Baker The Red Sea 360° offers four days of thrilling and relevant talks on the Entertainment Industry, Finance and Innovation.  Festival attendees will be able to join 13 sessions covering various topics such as Sales & Distribution, International Co-Productions, Opportunities in the Arab Region, Incentives & Tax Rebates, Funding & Investing in Content, Storytelling...

Interview with Acclaimed "Catch Me If You Can" (2002) Producer Michel Shane @ Producers Without Borders Panel, AFM 2022

Michel Shane has spent the last three decades of his distinguished career as a venerable entrepreneur, with the intuition and foresight to perceptively spot trends before they go mainstream in the film and consumer spheres. At the helm of Shane Gang Pictures, which has developed, created, and executive produced major blockbuster motion pictures, including “Catch Me If You Can” (2002) and “I, Robot” (2004), he has driven the process from thought generation to i...

Interview with Actor Producer Director Tom Malloy For Directorial Debut Film "Ask Me To Dance" (2022) @ AFM

  Actor, Producer, Director Tom Malloy is a critically acclaimed actor, initially known for his indie-cult favorite Gravesend (1998), produced by Oliver Stone. Malloy became a trendsetter as one of the first successful triple-hyphenate Actor/Writer/Producers. Later, Malloy starred in the thriller Trauma Therapy (2019). Prior to that, Malloy starred in the found footage horror/thriller #Screamers (2016). Additional feature credits include: Fair Haven ...

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