KABHI KABHIE, A COMPELLING MELODRAMA and CHANDNI, A BELOVED SOAP OPERA
by ALEX DELEON
One of the highlights of this year's LA Indian Film Festival was a three film tribute to iconic director of extravagant
Bollywood Romances, Yash Chopa, who passed away last year at age 80. SILSILA (1981) I had already seen on DVD but
this was a rare opportunity to catch two other Chopra landmarks on the big screen ...
With the final films selected and a host of great workshops lined up, the Festival team are ready for action with only three weeks left to go.
The organisers at the Fingal Film Festival are delighted to announce finally, most of the line-up for this years programme after months of planning.
In its second year running, Liz Kenny, Managing Director is delighted to announce its new Media panel. The panel consists of BAFTA Winner Writer / Director Aisling Walsh, IFTA Nomint...
The Oscar nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers”, the best European documentary “Winter Nomads”, the winner of Panorama Berlin “The Act of Killing” and the sequel to the famous hit “The Staircase” directed by the Oscar-winning Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, shall take us in a fantastic voyage from political cinema to the beautiful descriptions of local customs and manners, without leaving CINETECA.
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The High Falls Film Festival (highfallsfilmfestival.com) starts Thursday April 18! The 11th annual festival will present 27 screenings from 13 countries including four premieres, free panel discussions, three parties, and more than 50 award-winning independent features, documentaries and shorts.
The four-day festival, is one of the few film festivals worldwide that celebrates the work of women filmmakers. It will wrap up Sunday April 21 with the Best of Fest narrative and...
2nd Annual celebration hands out “WEB” accolades – delivers stellar event
Though HollyWeb Festival 2013 is over, the success of the event lives on and still has the web series community buzzing. Screening over 100 series in just 3 days, with discussions and panels, plus a full scale blue carpet reception and awards party, HollyWeb now ranks amongst the leaders in festivals which showcase online entertainment. Attended by mainstream film and television stars, plus th...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is proud to announce NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber (alongside Amy Manson, Iain de Caestecker, Kate Dickie, Freya Mavor, Gary Lewis and Henry Ian Cusick), as the Closing Night film of the 67th edition of the Festival.
The red carpet will be rolled out at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on 30th June when the stars and filmmakers attend the World Premiere of this indie romantic comedy set in Glasgow.
Ch...
The St Barth Film Festival/Cinéma Caraïbe celebrates its 18th season from April 25-30, 2013 and continues to offer the population of St. Barthélemy the opportunity to discover films and directors from the Caribbean basin and beyond. The guests of the festival are directors, producers and film professional with a particular tie to the Caribbean cinema and culture on a broad sense.
This year, we will travel from the Caribbean to Argentina via Mexico, with films ...
HERE ARE ALL THE AWARDS ASSIGNED TO THE INDEPENDENT
The big winner is French "Ombline", a story about prison and motherhood Ex-aequo to the Italians 'Aquadro' and "Transeurope Hotel"
Record of public and box office gross for RIFF's 12th Edition - Rome Independent Film Festival (from April 4th to 10th 2013), which has screened, at Nuovo Cinema Aquila, more than 120 films in competition amongst feature films, short films, and docu...
NYF’s TV & Film Awards announced their 2013 competition award winners at NAB in Las Vegas. Here is the link to all of the 2013 TV & Film Awards winners: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2013/.
Olympic Opening Ceremony” Done and Dusted, UK Special Events was awarded the Grand Trophy. The award-winning entry has become one of the most watched programs in history with an estimated 1 billion viewers worldwide.
“Paul Simon's Grace...
by Alex Deleon
The 11th Annual Indian Film festival of los Angeles (IFFLA) opened on Tuesday, April 9, at the usual venue, the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, with a gala screening and reception for "Gangs of Wasseypur". Director Anurag Kashyap was in attendance to host a Q&A session after the screening and greet well-wishers at the followng party. "Gangs of Wasseypur" achieved instant notoriety when it was screened in Cannes last year in the &qu...
Article written by Tushar Unadkat
Facts show that in the first decade of the new millennium, there were on an average of 4 to 5 independent South Asian feature films produced every year. Now, not so much. We spoke to five such independent filmmakers across North America who told us why.
Lonely in America (1990) was shown in 74 countries, 37 film-festivals and was the first Indie American film on HBO which was a landmark opening for South Asian independent cinema in North...
It must be Springtime in London:
With the 12thannual SCI-FI-LONDON film festival approaching (April 30 – MAY 6 2013), we are excited to announcea series of celebration events to unleash your inner geek.As well as the international round-up of the best new sci-fi and fantasyfeatures, short and documentaries, this year’sevents include:
• The annual SCI-FI-LONDON COSTUME PARADE (Sun 28April)
Kicking off from the festival’s...
AND THE WINNERS ARE.....
Narrative Feature
The Story of Luke
Alonso Mayo, Director
Fred Roos, Julien Favre and Nina Leidersdorff, Producers
International Narrative Feature
"Il Cacciatore Di Anatre"
(Italy)
Egidio Veronesi, Director/Writer
Maurizio Panini, Producer
M. Carroll Raver Award for Cinematography
"Icebound"
Ton Hurwitz, Cinematographer
The Bud Abbott Award for Feature Length ...
THE PIANO GODDESS, ROCK MONSTER AND OTHERS IN THE MUSICAL COMPETITION AT THE 53RD KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL
The organizers of the Krakow Film Festival have announced the shortlist of films for the feature-length music documentaries competition, DocFilmMusic. It’s the first edition of this contest, the winner will be awarded with a Golden Heynal.
DocFilmMusic, a new competition, allowing music documentaries of over 30 minutes duration, is included i...
The glitz and glamour of the casino makes it the perfect setting for a film full of scandal, surprise and suspense, so it’s no wonder that many have chosen the glittering lights of the casino floor and the steely silence of the poker table as the setting for their movie. We’re suckers for the seediness and the sexiness of casino games in film; so in no particular order, here are our picks for the best casino scenes:
1. 21
Inspired by a ...
Introduced in 2012, the International Film Music Competition will now become an integral part of the Zurich Film Festival’s supporting programme. The competition venue will alternate between one of the festival cinemas and the Tonhalle Zürich. Composers from around the globe are once again invited to enter their film scores and compete for the Golden Eye for 'Best International Film Music 2013', an award endowed with a 10'000 CHF cash prize. The select short film f...
From April 11-14, live music, film screenings and special events will unite film and music fans
Several special guests are scheduled to appear at the 2nd Annual XPN Music Film Festival produced by the Philadelphia Film Society, which will run from Thursday, April 11 through Sunday, April 14. The first film festival in Philadelphia to be solely dedicated to films about music will feature rockumentaries, biopics about musicians, and movies that are defined by their music soun...
The second edition of the four-day Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam wrapped with Awards.
Curacao IFFR and Fundashon Bon Intenshon congratulate the winner of the First Yellow Robin Award for best film in the Caribbean region, Mexico and surrounding Latin American countries.....
No quiero dormir sola From director Natalia Beristain
Inez Loods and Elyse Isebia took the Audience Award 2013 with their Short Fiction Film La trinitaria Marchi...
Tribeca Online Festival to Stream Seven 2013 Festival Selections and Host Tribeca Film Festival’s First-Ever Vine Competition #6SECFILMS
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Tribeca Film to Premiere Four Festival Titles via Video-On-Demand
New York, NY [April 1, 2013] – The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by founding partner American Express, today announced a variety of programming that will allow domestic audiences to experience the Festival from across the country, including the lineup a...
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) today announced the projects that will receive financial and creative support from the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This year, four projects which were chosen from 127 applicants from around the world, will be awarded a total of $140,000 and will be recognized at the annual Tribeca Film Festival, taking place April 17-28, 2013. The winning films are: 2030, Newton’s Laws of Emotion, Oldest Man Al...
Held from March 20 – 31, the New Director / New Films series is arranged as an annual event by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art and had its 42nd edition this year. Established before similar screenings were held at Sundance and other festivals the ND/NF program remains the most important New York screening of innovative new film makers whose work has not been shown before in the US and whose directorial and formative approach are notewor...
DETOUR 2013 - Detour. Travel Film Festival Padova, 15/20 October 2013
After the success of the first edition of DETOUR Travel Film Festival, here is a preview of the new
edition which will take place in Padova from 15 to 20 October 2013.
The International Competition, like last year, will present in one section feature films and
documentary films connected to the theme of the journey, film which have participated in festivals
both in Italy and ...
MEETINGS ON THE BRIDGE 2013 - PANELS AND MASTERCLASSES
05-12 April 2013
FRIDAY, 05 APRIL
14:00 – 15:30
What Do We Know About “Project Development”
In this panel moderated by producer Enis Köstepen (Bulut Film) and targeting film students, Tobias Pausinger and Gabriele
Brunnenmeyer will be sharing their experiences about the project and development
stages in production.
The panel is free of charge for film stu...
The 56th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 25-May 9 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and New People Cinema in San Francisco and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Held each spring for 15 days, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in one of the country's most beautiful cities, featuring 200 films and live events, 14 juried awards and $70,000 in cash prizes, upwards of 100 participating filmmaker ...
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announced today its 2013 jury, as well as four films that have been added to the program – Toronto Film Festival favorite SHIP OF THESEUS in its U.S. Premiere; the powerful environmental documentary narrated by Darryl Hannah, PAD YATRA: A GREEN JOURNEY; the Walt Disney animated Family Day film ARJUN: THE WARRIOR PRINCE; and short film IRON TRACKS (LOHPATH). In addition, two Panel Discussions have been added to the schedule, whic...
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