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INDIAN CENTENARY FILM FESTIVAL IN BANGKOK ( 19-21 OCTOBER)
Bangkok’s first-ever Indian Film festival opened yesterday, at the SF Cinema, Central World,to celebrate the Centenary of Indian Cinema.
Similar Indian film festivals are going to held in other parts of the world,to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the world’s biggest movie industry.
The Indian Centenary Film Festival in Bangkok,will all be 'free' screenings.
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INDIAN CENTENARY FILM FESTIVAL IN BANGKOK ( 19-21 OCTOBER)
Bangkok’s first-ever Indian Film festival opened yesterday, at the SF Cinema, Central World,to celebrate the Centenary of Indian Cinema.
Similar Indian film festivals are going to held in other parts of the world,to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the world’s biggest movie industry.
The Indian Centenary Film Festival in Bangkok,will all be 'free' screenings.
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The festival like a bridge from heart to heart; 10 years passed, everything is still ahead
The Opening Ceremony of the 10th anniversary Film Festival “Pacific Meridian” was surprisingly heartfelt, absolutely sincere. All the speakers congratulated the festival on its first and, as they pointed, not the last anniversary. Everybody was saying that: festival’s guests, spectators and even official persons. And the master of ceremony – an actor Alexander Ol...
Diane Pernet will welcome a host of iconic and inspirational figures from the creative industries as well as several exciting stars-in-the-making to the fifth anniversary edition of her festival, ‘A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION FILM’ (ASVOFF). Actors, designers, filmmakers, artists, critics, entertainers, fashion photographers and celebrities will gather to celebrate ASVOFF's pioneering spirit, leadership and stamina as the world’s first and foremost film festival dedicated to ...
The 34th Aspen Filmfest, which ran October 2-7, showcased previews of new releases, critically acclaimed documentaries and feature films from the international circuit. Film fans of all ages and inclinations filled the Wheeler Opera House and Isis Theatre in Aspen and the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale to view independent productions from around the world and hear filmmakers share the stories behind their works.
"By all accounts, Filmfest was a rousing success. Powerful st...
34th Annual Aspen Filmfest, October 2-7, 2012
Aspen Film announced today the official program for the 34th Aspen Filmfest, a six-day feast of film and fall color for movie lovers of all ages and inclinations. Opening night spotlights Wayne Blair's The Sapphires (10/2), following its successful and warmly received screenings at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals. Set in the late '60s and brimming with Motown hits, this effervescent portrait of Australia's answer to the Supremes is a ...
Whether an established or aspiring filmmakers, here’s your chance to shine—and win a full scholarship or production equipment that will jump-start your career.
The Balkan film portal altcine.com is holding the first online short film festival for the Balkans.
Submissions are open until September 7th and don’t delay: here’s the twist. altcineAction! will screen a maximum of 360 minutes—and films are accepted on a first-come, first served basis.
But there’s another ...
He was born in August 1912. At twelve years-old, he became a paper boy, at seventeen, a criminal reporter for The New York Graphic, at twenty, a ghost writer, at thirty, a decorated soldier. Scorsese said of him that “when you respond to a Fuller film, what you’re responding to is cinema at its essence. Motion as emotion. Fuller’s pictures move convulsively, violently. Just like life when it’s being lived with genuine passion”. This week, we celebrate Samuel Fuller’s centennial.
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Eighty years ago, on the 6th of August 1932 at the Lido di Venezia, on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior, the first international film festival in the world – conceived and organized by the Biennale di Venezia – was inaugurated.
At 9:15 PM, on a screen set up outdoors for the occasion, under sporadic rain showers, it began with a showing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Rouben Mamoulian. The screening was followed by a grand ball in the Excelsior ballroom.
“Stemming di...
New York Asian Film Festival 2012
Organized by Subway Cinema in close cooperation with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Japan Society from June 29 – July 15, The Asian Film Festival has become the most important showcase for films from Asia featuring this year 57 films including 3 programs with short films. For the New York Times critic the NYAFF has become one of the city’s most indispensable film events. The countries represented ...
"THE IRAN JOB" screened at the Los Angeles Fesdtival
The Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF, June 14 - 24) is mounted and presented by FilmIndependent, an organization dedicated to the promotion of independent films by new and upcoming filmmakers and talent. The programs are not studded with the names of iconic directors or well known stars but are more oriented toward intruducing the talent of tomorrow. However, as a nod to the main industry the opening film was the latest by Wo...
After 7 days, 156 hours of films and a public of around 12,000 viewers, Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival announces its winners.
In a ceremony held on Monday evening (6/04) at Guairinha Theater, in Curitiba (Paraná, Brazil), the winning titles in Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival were revealed. In the international competition, the Portuguese feature “Sangue do Meu Sangue” (“Blood of My Blood”) was picked the Olhar Award - Best ...
Geoffrey Gilmore joined Tribeca Enterprises in 2009 as Chief Creative Officer. He is responsible for Tribeca's global content strategy and leads creative development initiatives and expansion of the brand. He was before in charge of the Sundance Film Festival. Under his direction the Tribeca Film Festival has become the most important market oriented U.S. film festival serving commercial and artistic interests. Running from April 18 and through April 29, 2012 the Festival pro...
Day before the end of the 65th edition of the International Film Festival in Cannes, the Critic's Week gave away their awards. The jury was presided by director Bertrand Bonello, whose latest feature House of Tolerance was screened during the 16th edition of Sofia International Film Festival. During SIFF's industry event Sofia Meetings Iliyan Metev's film Sofia's Last Ambulance was presented. Sofia's Last Ambulance was in competition at Critics' Week and now received Canal 4's special Visionar...
I go back quite a way with Gaius Caligula....having studied his crazed life and inevitable death when I was a Classics Scholar at Balliol, and read his first 'biog'in Latin, what more natural than that ,during my third excursion to cover Cannes (for BBC radio and other media), I should have been invited by Andre Previn's movie-exec brother to attend the very secret and first presentation in the world of the full-length, unexpurgated film version of Caligula.It was an off-Marke...
It was a gloriously sunny day but there was a capacity crowd in the East Chapel in Golders Green Crematorium, in north London, for the Celebration of your life, Virginia Dignam, sometime actress, published poetess, film reviewer on The Morning Star, and long-serving hard-working Honorary Secretary of the UK Critics' Circle("a shrivel of critics" you used to call us, in your pert and often impertinent way).It would have been your 87th birthday, but you'd left us, after a sudden, sh...
Un Certain Regard 2012 presented 20 films directed by 26 directors hailing from 17 different countries.
Four of the works were first films.
Presided over by Tim ROTH (actor, director), the Jury was comprised of Leïla BEKHTI (actress), Sylvie PRAS (head of cinema - Centre Pompidou Paris, artistic director - La Rochelle Festival), Tonie MARSHALL (director, producer) and Luciano MONTEAGUDO (critic - Pagina/12 - Buenos Aires).
“This was an extraordinarily strong group of fi...
Rock n' soul will rule the night as Christine Ohlman, the
flashy, gritty platinum-blonde "Beehive Queen," who is the longtime
vocalist with NBC's Saturday Night Live Band, brings her unique voice to
Conversation Crossroad Radio for an 7 pm in-depth interview that will spotlight
songs from her six CDs, including The Deep End, a passionate collection that
garnered five end-of-year 2010 national Top Ten mentions (Rolling Stone editor
emeritus Dave Marsh said,"There are so man...
Kino Otok Isola may offer new experience of film reviewing, chill out spirit and direct contact with the audience, celebrating the originality of cinematic language, radical contents or unconventional forms. The picturesque ancient town center of Izola in Slovenia is reborn as a true cinema island with its romantic Manzioli Square, with open cinema at its centre emerges as the festival's main attraction. Its thorough selection of the films and an interesting experience of the open cinema within...
By Maria Esteves – May 23, 2012
The 57th Annual 2012 Village Voice OBIE Awards (OBIES 2012) honoring theatrical excellence and achievements in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway commenced Monday, May 21, 8:00 pm the legendary Webster Hall ballroom, New York, Monday, May 17, 8:00 pm. The ceremony also featured three outstanding performances by Joshua Henry and Sumayya Ali from ten-time Tony Award nominated Broadway musical The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, David Patrick Kelly from eleven-t...
Alongside the films in Competition, the Official Selection Un Certain Regard also welcomes its own Jury which will announce his awards during a ceremony on stage at the Debussy Theater, on Saturday, May,26.The Jury, presided over by British actor and director Tim Roth, is composed of five personalities of cinema. They will have to choose among the twenty films in Un Certain Regard Selection.
Tim Roth (actor and director), President of the Jury Leïla Bekhti (actress) Tonie Marshall...
The winning short films were:
BEST FILM: NISAPTHAM
BEST DOCUMENTARY: PAHELA BOISHAKHI
SPECIAL MENTION (BEST FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION): LOC …a playground
BEST DIRECTOR: AINHOA MENENDEZ for FABRICA DE MUNESCAS (Dolls Factory)
BEST ACTOR: JACOB C. ONTHIRICKEN For SABDAREKHA
BEST ACTRESS: SYLWIA JUSZCZAK for VANISHING
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: SASWATA CHATTER...
The 27th Midnight Sun Film Festival (13.-17.6.2012) will be graced by the presence of two female actors who began their career in the 1950s: Finland's only Hollywood star Taina Elg, and Ingmar Bergman's protégé Harriet Andersson. Of directors, together with their productions, the American cult movie maker Alan Rudoph, Hungarian Béla Tarr, whose quite personal films never fail to cause a stir, two Swedish talents of a younger generation - Ruben Östlund and Axel Petersén - and the Portugues...
WorldFest-Houston, the third longest-running International Film Festival in North America, celebrated the conclusion of its 10-day run of film, fun and fanfare in its 45th annual independent film showcase with a 17% increase in box-office!
With two engaging luminaries receiving the WorldFest Remi Lifetime Achievement Award this year, Louis Gossett, Jr. on opening weekend and the inimitable Sally Kirkland on closing, WorldFest bookended this year’s ...
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