Jane Campion is to head up the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury of the 66th Festival de Cannes, a position held previously held by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Michel Gondry, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Martin Scorsese and John Boorman.
Originally from New Zealand, Jane Campion has attracted critical acclaim s...
Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Eli Roth and Régis Roinsard all set to attend.
Glasgow Film Festival is delighted to announce that Joss Whedon, the man behind long-running TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as well as 2012 blockbuster Avengers Assemble, is expected to attend GFF’s Closing Gala, the UK Premiere of his film Much Ado About Nothing, on the evening of Sunday 24 February.
Whedon’s reputation alone meant that...
For Filmfest Hamburg, 2013 is beginning spectacularly with a ‘knighting’. Festival Director Albert Wiederspiel will be made a “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres”, with the French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne doing the honors.
Festival Director Albert Wiederspiel © Wolfgang Schildt
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What a voice also!
Jeanne Moreau was born in Paris on January 23, 1928 and began training as an actor in 1946 after finishing high school. She was only 20 when she was she invited to work full time with the venerable Comédie-Française. She subsequently moved to the Théâtre National Populaire, where director Louis Malle saw her in a production of Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and cast her in the leading role in his first f...
Two Academy Award winners, Roger Corman and Jiří Menzel, are the first confirmed guests of this year’s Odessa International Film Festival (July 12-20, 2013). Both will deliver lectures at OIFF’s Summer Film School. OIFF will also present a retrospective to give tribute to Sergei Paradjanov - one of the most controversial and internationally celebrated filmmakers of the former USSR.
Kiev/Berlin, February 5th, 2013. American film producer, director and actor Ro...
I worked with Joel on Flatliners with Julia Roberts, his film was a hit of course in France, where I distributed it. I consider him a very creative visual director and have since followed his career, he will bring talent to the festival.
Bruno Chatelin
Yoshimoto Kogyo today announced the programs of the 5th Okinawa International Movie Festival (OIMF) through a press conference held at its Tokyo office. With Takashi Fujii and Ayako Kisa hosting the conference, total of 19 comed...
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Tradition et contre-courants dans le cinéma contemporain
From left to right: Arta Dobroshi (Republic of Kosovo*), Luca Marinelli (Italy), Christa Théret (France),Laura Birn (Finland), Dieter Kosslick (Festival director Berlin International Film Festival), Nermina Lukač (Sweden), Saskia Rosendahl (Germany), Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (Denmark), Ada Condeescu(Romania), Jure Henigman (Slovenia), Carla Juri ( Switzerland).
Following ...
Tuesday, February 12, at 4:30 – 5:30 pm at the ZEIT Online Zaloon, Askanischer Platz 1
The Berlinale Residency programme supports writer/directors from around the world, who have already enjoyed their first festival and cinema successes, in developing their new fiction, documentary film or cross-media projects.
The first Berlinale Residency took place from September – December 2012. The selected filmmakers stayed in Berlin for four months and worked on their new film projects wit...
Recently the 3D documentary film 'STORM SURFERS' (2012) made its World Premier at the 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film is about two best friends, surfers Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll, who brave some of the most dangerous of Mother Nature's elements, monstrous waves, in search of Australia's largest and most threatening.
Narrated by Australian actress Toni Collette with stunning cinematography and edge-of-your-seat suspense, this documentary is sure...
The new EFA Members
actors: Colin Firth UK ★ Herbert Knaup GERMANY ★ Sven Nordin NORWAY ★ Åsmund Andreas Swensen Høeg NORWAY ★ actresses: Anita Caprioli ITALY ★Audrey Fleurot FRANCE ★ Caterina Murino ITALY ★ Anjorka Strechel GERMANY ★ cinematographers: Oscar Durán Barcena SPAIN ★ Stéphane Fontaine FRANCE ★ Gherardo Gossi ITALY ★ Darius Khondji FRANCE ★ composers: K. S. Eidnes Andersen DENMARK ★ Stefan Will GERMANY ★ costume des...
A FOCUS ON NETWORKING
EFA Director Marion Döring talks about upcoming projects
Looking back at the 25th European Film Awards – do you see these as the end of an era?
To me, anniversaries never feel like the end of something. On the contrary, and especially in the case of EFA, they always mark the beginning of something. That is probably because of the fact that Europe and our film culture and industry are constantly changing - whether this has to do with politics...
Quvenzhane Wallis of Beasts of the Southern Wild before receiving her award at SBIFF.
Photo by Benjamin Schwartz
**STAY TUNED!!! for 28th SBIFF interviews, film reviews and panel overviews coming daily.
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With WONG Kar Wai serving as Jury President, the International Jury will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2013 Berlinale Competition.
The other members of the International Jury will be Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen, Ellen Kuras, Shirin Neshat, Tim Robbins and Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Chinese director WONG Kar Wai has won many international awards and is one of the most important representatives of world cinema. His unique an...
By Liza Foreman
And in more Berlinale news, Johnny Depp is confirmed to star in Cross Creek's crime thriller "Black Mass," as Boston’s most notorious gangster, Whitey Bulger. Sales for the film will begin at the European Film Market.
The film will be to co-produced and co-financed with Exclusive Media, and directed by Barry Levinson. "Black Mass" will be released by Universal Pictures in the U.S. through Cross Creek’s d...
Robert Redford and Michelle Satter talk about the history of Sundance.
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Eight films compete for the Dragon Award Best Nordic Film. The award is 1.000.000 SEK (110 000 EUR) and a Dragon Award statuette. The Award is sponsored by the Region of Västra Götaland, City of Gothenburg and Ernströmgruppen. This year’s nominated films.
Members of the jury
Samira Makhmalbaf
Chairwoman of the jury. At age 17 she became the youngest director ever to be chosen for Cannes film festival with her d...
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu is a prolific filmmaker with each of his feature films having held premiers at the Cannes Film Festival. His first feature ‘Occident’ (2002) screened in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. He later won the Palme d’Or for his film ‘Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days’ (2007). His most recent film ‘Beyond the Hills’ (2012) was nominated for the Palme d’Or and won awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress...
On January 26th, actor Daniel Day Lewis spoke to a sold out audience of 2000 at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara during the 28th SBIFF.
Writer/Director/Producer Michael Mann ('The Last of The Mohicans', 1992) introduced his longtime friend beginning with a powerfully edited montage of all his films spanning Daniel Day’s entire eclectic career, after which Daniel Day modestly replied: ‘this is some cruel and unusual torture’.
The two-time Oscar winning actor is...
Berlinale 2013: Internationale Jury
Unter dem Vorsitz von Regisseur WONG Kar Wai entscheidet die Internationale Jury über die Vergabe des Goldenen und der Silbernen Bären im Wettbewerb der Berlinale 2013.
Die weiteren Jury-Mitglieder sind Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen, Ellen Kuras, Shirin Neshat, Tim Robbins und Athina Rachel Tsangari.
WONG Kar Wai (Jury-Präsident)
Der chinesische Regisseur WONG Kar Wai wurde mit zahlreichen internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet und g...
Jane Campion, Anita Ekberg, Bence Fliegauf, Nina Hoss, Ken Loach, Lucrecia Martel, John Cameron Mitchell, Walter Murch, Hengameh Panahi, Ulrich Seidl und Paul Verhoeven bei der 11. Ausgabe des Berlinale Talent Campus
Seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt bringt der Berlinale Talent Campus erfolgreich die nächste Generation vielversprechender Filmemacher aus der ganzen Welt mit erfahrenen, hochkarätigen Filmschaffenden und Branchenexperten im Rahmen der 63. Internationalen Fi...
