Directors: Daryl Cloran, Anita Doran, Mateo Guez Interactive Narrative out of 5 stars I caught the interactive narrative “Late Fragment” during SXSW’s Global Doc Days series — which Jaman sponsored this year — and I’m so glad I did. Producers Ana Serrano of the CFC Media Lab and Anita Lee of the National Film Board of Canada commissioned three writer/directors (Darly Cloran, Anita Doron, and Mateo Guez) to fashion interweaving narratives, all involving either the perpetrators or vi...
The future of cinema will not be defined by a single direction. Old genres will live alongside new genres. But it is increasingly becoming clear that at least one of these directions will take the form of cinema as some kind of participatory experience, where the audience of one or many may impact how a narrative unfolds itself over space or time. These new forms should not be reduced as simply "choose your own adventure" models but instead should be seen as the coming to life of post-...
Eyelids smeared with black shadow, a teenage girl pulls the trigger on a sleeping man. In an instant, lives shatter. Faye a distant mother is haunted by love, lust, betrayal and memories of a dead man. She lives in a world of denial. A repressed man has lost everything — marriage, career, and the respect of his son. He sees blood on the floor. Now it's gone. Onstage in a nightclub, a beautiful young man dance
Eyelids smeared with black shadow, a teenage girl pulls the trigger on a sleeping man. In an instant, lives shatter. A distant mother is haunted by love, lust, betrayal and memories of a dead man. She lives in a world of denial. A repressed man has lost everything — marriage, career, and the respect of his son. He sees blood on the floor. Now it's gone. Onstage in a nightclub, a beautiful young man, Theo,
Eyelids smeared with black shadow, a teenage girl pulls the trigger on a sleeping man. In an instant, lives shatter. A distant mother is haunted by love, lust, betrayal and memories of a dead man. She lives in a world of denial. Kevin, a repressed man has lost everything — marriage, career, and the respect of his son. He sees blood on the floor. Now it's gone. Onstage in a nightclub, a beautiful young
The last day of the 31st Göteborg International Film Festival is here and time has come for som facts and figures. This year 124 000 tickets were sold for 750 screenings of 450 films from 67 different countries. 30 488 member ship cards were sold. This means that the festival manifests its strong position on the high - and even increases ticket sales with 6000 and memberships with 3 488.During the closing press conference today Marit Kapla summed up her first year as festival director. ”We ar...
Michael Jones is Managing Editor at Variety.com, covering the film festival beat from opening to closing night.
The evening of the second Sunday in Advent saw the cinema projector in Stockholm being turned off for „German Films Go North".In retrospect, one can say that the fourth Festival of German Films surpassed the success of the previous year. Both the audience figures and the interest of the press and distributors were higher.In Copenhagen (26 – 29 November), the most enthusiastic reception was given to the film THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE) by Fatih Akin, which won the Audience Awar...
AFI FEST announced the audience and jury award winners today. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to all the filmmakers who submitted their films. JURY AWARDS Grand Jury Prize Shorts: SPIDER (Directed by Nash Edgerton) Grand Jury Prize for Feature: MUNYURANGABO (Directed by Lee Isaac Chung) Grand Jury Prize for Documentary: tie between AFGHAN MUSCLES (Directed by Andreas Mol Dalsgaard ) and OPERATION FILMMAKER (Directed by Nina Davenport) Best Animated short: I MET THE WALRUS ...
AFI FEST announced the audience and jury award winners today. JURY AWARDSGrand Jury Prize Shorts: SPIDER (Directed by Nash Edgerton)Grand Jury Prize for Feature: MUNYURANGABO (Directed by Lee Isaac Chung)Grand Jury Prize for Documentary: tie between AFGHAN MUSCLES (Directed by Andreas Mol Dalsgaard ) and OPERATION FILMMAKER (Directed by Nina Davenport)Best Animated short: I MET THE WALRUS (Directed by Josh Raskin) AUDIENCE AWARDSShorts: KIDS + MONEY (Directed by Lauren Greenfield)Documentary: SP...
Monday, October 29-------Ending what was undoubtedly a highly successful sophomore edition, the Cinema: Rome Filmfest announced its major awards at a gala Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening, in conjunction with a live concert event saluting and playing the music of Italian master composer Ennio Morricone. The Festival delivered on the glamour and the glitz, while also highlighting many worthy films in its various film sections.The Popular Jury of the official Competition Section, made up of...
Monday, October 29-------Ending what was undoubtedly a highly successful sophomore edition, the Cinema: Rome Filmfest announced its major awards at a gala Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening, in conjunction with a live concert event saluting and playing the music of Italian master composer Ennio Morricone. The Festival delivered on the glamour and the glitz, while also highlighting many worthy films in its various film sections.The Popular Jury of the official Competition Section, made up of...
Interview with Daniel Snyder (Director) of Dreams on Spec (USA) feature documentary film by Mercury Productions - now available on DVD from Amazon & NeoFlix! The film follows three aspiring screenwriters as they try to get their scripts turned into film. The film features established screenwriters James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment), Nora Ephron (Sleepless In Seattle), Gary Ross (Seabiscuit), Ed Solomon (Men In Black), Steven De Souza (Die Hard) and Carrie Fisher (Script Doctor and On The ...
Tuesday, August 21---------The Pusan International Film Festival, which will take place in Pusan, South Korea from October 4 to 12, has become the largest and most respected film festival in Asia. Considered a kind of "Asian Sundance" because of its commitment to cutting-edge works by international auteurs, the Festival has announced a number of award tributes for its upcoming session.Taiwanese director Edward Yang, who helped build Taiwan's new wave cinema of the 1980s, will be...
The Hollywood Reporter today announced that it has named industry veteran Elizabeth Guider as Editor. With an 18-year tenure at Variety, she most recently served as Editor at Large and, before that, as Executive Editor for News. She has also held management responsibilities for Daily Variety Gotham, Daily Variety Los Angeles and Weekly Variety. During her 25-year journalism career, Ms. Guider has reported on the entertainment and media industries for various publications from Rome, Paris, London...
The Toronto International Film Festival announced the addition of eight titles to screen as Special Presentations during this year's Festival, running September 6 - 15, 2007. These films join 17 titles as previously announced Special Presentations to date, and offer the latest achievements from an array of veteran filmmakers, directors on the rise, and celebrated actors working behind the camera. Titles announced today feature some of cinema's most well-known talent, including performances by Br...
ln June the public media authorities of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), the most populous German state with the largest economic output, staged the annual Medien Forum in close cooperation with the media industry and professional associations. The Forum was first initiated in 1988 by the governing social democratic party and had the objective of facilitating the transition of NRW’s steel and coal based economy to a knowledge intensive service economy with a strong information and media compon...
Thursday, July 12---------The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has mailed out the entry forms for the Foreign Language Film competition to 95 countries, in preparation for the 80th Academy Awards. To qualify for the 2007 Awards, a film must be released in the submitting country between October 1, 2006, and September 30, 2007, and be publicly screened in 35mm or 70mm film or in a qualifying digital cinema format for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial motion picture theate...
The 33rd edition of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) initiated its marathon 24 day run on Friday, May 25, with 18 films bursting out of the starting gates at six festival venues strategically located around the city from the landmark Space Needle to the University District (and a seventh across the lake in satellite city Bellevue). The opening event I chose to attend was "An Evening with Lisa Gerrard", hypnotic Australian song-bird/composer, introducing the screening of a mystico-...
PITCHERS MagazineThe printed version of PITCHERS offers each film sales company the opportunity to pitch their movie across a huge double page spread. On the left hand page is 'the pitch', a 500 word synopsis detailing the tone, style and content of the film, with contact details; Opposite this will be a full color poster page advertisement.These double page spreads are divided according to genre. Every sales company is given equal status no matter the size of the company or its location...
Saturday, May 5--------The Cadillac Audience Award , voted on by Festival audiences, was announced this evening as the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival moves towards the finishing line. The Award winner is WE ARE TOGETHER (Thina Simunye), a documentary film from the U.K. directed by Paul Taylor and produced by Paul Taylor and Teddy Liefer. The film tells the story of children in the South Africa Agape Orphanage, most of who have lost their loved ones to AIDS. Told with compassion and grace, thi...
Saturday, May 5--------The Cadillac Audience Award , voted on by Festival audiences, was announced this evening as the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival moves towards the finishing line. The Award winner is WE ARE TOGETHER (Thina Simunye), a documentary film from the U.K. directed by Paul Taylor and produced by Paul Taylor and Teddy Liefer. The film tells the story of children in the South Africa Agape Orphanage, most of who have lost their loved ones to AIDS. Told with compassion and grace, thi...
Future of Film Salon @ Cannes Interactive Cinema WorkshopShort Film Corner Date & Time: TBD 1 hour From Janet Murray's Holodeck to Lev Manovich's Database Cinema, the interactive narrative represents the "holy grail" of the interactive medium. For some, the pleasure derived from interactive stories is found in the theorizing of them. For others such pleasure has yet to be found in mainstream practice. ...
