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Festivals
of the Week
The
latest prizes leading up to the Oscars and festival wrap-ups
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Santa
Barbara Fest Fetes Sweet 16
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Santa
Barbara International Film Festival
March 1 - 11 (CA)
What do Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton, Ben Kingsley, Producer Doug Wick
(Gladiator),
French film writer/director Francis Veber and director Rob Nilsson
have in common? They're all guests expected to attend this year's
16th annual festival. As the 11-day event turns Sweet 16, the SBIFF
offers an opportunity for attendees to discover mainstream and alternative
films, including documentaries, shorts, and animation.
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UK's
Bradford Boasts Worldly Fare
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Bradford
Film Festival
March 2 - 17 (UK)
The
7th Bradford Film Festival hits the North of England and opens with
the anticipated Enemy
at the Gates. Other American cinema on offer is You
Can Count on Me (for which Laura Linney has got an Oscar
nom. for Best Actress), the haunting documentary Dark Days
and the closing gala film The
Contender.
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Oscar
Nominated Shorts in Theaters Now
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Apollo's
"This Shorts Showcase"
March weekends (Santa Monica)
For some Oscar-viewers the "short films" category during
the Academy Awards ceremony is the time to refill drinks or make
popcorn. The films are so rarely shown in theaters that only regular
festival-goers have any familiarity with the nominees. Apollo Cinema
is set to change that. For the first time ever, Oscar nominated
shorts are being screened in a showcase that runs on four consecutive
weekends beginning Saturday, March 3. The Academy Award nominated
short films are Seraglio (USA, 2000); By Courier (USA,
2000) and One Day Crossing (Hungary, 1999).
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