Das Werk LA
10950 Washington Blvd., Studio A
Culver City , CA 90232
USA
Chris Bialek
Tel: 310-559-8310
Fax: 310-559-3108
Daybreak Pacific Ltd.
23 Westhaven Drive, Westhaven
. Auckland , 1001
NEW ZEALAND
John Davies
Tel: 64-9-373-2214
Fax: 64-9-483-2888
De Angelis Group
Via G. Avezzana, 6
Rome , 00...
M6 Droits Audiovisuels
89 avenue Charles de Gaulle
Neuilly sur Seine , 92575 CEDEX
FRANCE
Catherine Dessagnes
Tel: 33-1-4192-6866
Fax: 33-1-4192-6869
cdessagnes@m6.fr
Madhu Entertainment
A/704, Remi Bizcourt, Plot No. 9
Shah Ind. Estate, Off. Veera Desai Rd., Andheri (W),
Mumbai , Maharashtra, 400 053
INDIA
Dand Hirachand
Te...
Rex Media
17351 Sunset Blvd., Suite 304
Pacific Palisades , CA 90272
USA
Cynthia Kuipers
Tel: 310-230-8420
Fax: 310-230-8520
cyndy@rexfilms.com
RGH/Lions Share Pictures
8831 Sunset Boulevard
Suite 300
West Hollywood , CA 90069
USA
Eric Louzil
Tel: 310-652-2893
Fax: 310-652-6237
rghlionssharepictures@hotmail....
January 30th 1972, British soldiers shot 13 civilians dead during a civil rights march in Northern Ireland. In the years since, this event has become infamously known as Bloody Sunday, believed to be the beginning of the Irish conflict that has lead the country into civil war and violence. By focusing on four men from both sides involved in the event, Bloody Sunday tells the story of what happened in a matter-of-fact, realistic style. ...
Santa Monica, CA, February 19, 2002—Dolby Laboratories has been named the “Official Audio Technology of the 2002 American Film Market” in response to Dolby’s technical support provided to all 23 participating theatres during this motion picture industry trade event. The American Film Market (AFM) takes place February 20–27, 2002, in Santa Monica, California.“Dolby Laboratories continues to better the cinema industry by providing top-notch technology and excell...
News From Sweden
Hallström Moving Back to Sweden
Swedish film director Lasse Hallström and his wife, Swedish actress Lena Olin
are moving from Bedford, New York back to Stockholm in April. Olin's daughter
Tord will begin school in the fall, but more to the point, Hallström has grown
tired of Hollywood. His latest film The Shipping News selected for the
2002 Berlin Film Festival official competition, received poor reviews in the
US after glowing reports from My Life as ...
Tunisian born legend Claudia Cardinale originally didn't want to be an actress.
But what can you do when the greatest Italian masters - Fellini, Visconti, Leone
- are running after you and would do anything to have you in their films? Present
at the Berlin film festival where she received an Honorary Golden Bear, Claudia
Cardinale confides thoughts and feelings about a long and fruitful career graced
with some delightful culinary secrets!
What sort of young woman were you be...
With his usual blend of whimsicality, smooth poetry, spiritual depth and eco-protest vigour, Miyazaki works all the way through towards a positive message about the resourcefulness of kids. "It's not so much a story in which the characters grow up" said Miyazaki, "as a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances... I wanted to tell such a story in this movie. I want my young teenage friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have ...
Rebounding from one quirk of fate to the other, Elling gives a keen and funny insight into the fears and dreams of two deeply inhibited beings longing to soar into the world with full-fledged wisdom. With a strange allure conveying the quirkiness of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean and the solemnity of Anthony Hopkins, Norway's number one acting talent Per Christian Ellefsen portrays Elling, a deeply inhibited mother's boy flung into the big world after psychological therapy.
...
Following the publication and release of a controversial film poster, Greek
filmmaker Constantin Costa-Gavras says he will rethink his latest film's poster
that shows a crucifix twisted into a Nazi swastika, reports Reuters as quoted
by Yahoo. The film, Amen, is based upon the controversial 1963 play "The
Deputy," about the reaction of the Catholic Church to the Holocaust, and was featured at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. The
poster for the film was created ...
The American Society of Cinematographers honored Roger Deakins with this year's
Best Feature Film Photography Prize for his photographic work in the black-and-white
feature The Man Who Wasn't There. The film, directed by Joel Coen, won
over two of the year's highest Oscar contenders: The Lord of the Rings: The
Fellowship of the Ring and Moulin Rouge. This was Deakin's fifth
nomination for the award, which he won in 1995 for The Shawshank Redemption.
Other past nominations...
The Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema runs from April 4-15, and its full
program, event schedule and guest appearances will be announced in early March.
The PFWC, as well as the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
in July, is being produced by the Philadelphia Film Society, a new non-profit
tax-exempt organization dedicated to the promotion of film and film culture
in the region.
Special Events and Highlights
For the second year in a row, a world-re...
For over half a century, French critiques have come together each year to
award their Prix de la Critique to the best films of the preceeding year. These
prestigious awards are voted upon by 230 film critics that look to honor films
for artistic talent rather than box-office success. Since 1946, the Melies Award,
which goes to the Best French Film, has recognized young talents like Godard,
Resnais, and Truffaut for their first, early films, who have since gone on to
beco...
Attending the American Society of Cinematographers 16th Annual Outstanding
Achievement Awards on February 17, 2002 at the Century Plaza Hotel I was amazed
and truly impressed with the magnitude of talent that was represented in the
audience of cinematographers, producers, directors, and actors.
The Honorees:
Stanley Donen Board of Governors Award presented by Warren Beatty
Laslo Kovacs, ASC, Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Vilmos Zsigmond,
ASC
Garret Brown, Prese...
"You must celebrate, the more, the merrier," said Jury president
Mira Nair with a beaming smile at the Awards press conference, just before announcing
the 2002 Golden Bear. It seems her Bollywood good spirit and sense of partying
played some role in the final palmares which allows two totally different works
to cohabit for one of the most prestigious festival awards : Hayao Miyazaki's
light hearted animation Spirited Away and Paul Greengrass's gripping
part-reconstruction...
How interesting that the final film of the 2002 Berlin Festival would be The
Great Dictator from Charlie Chaplin, who made this satire of Hitler in 1940,
before the true atrocities of WWII were known. According to indieWIRE, Chaplin
confessed in his autobiography that he would have never made this film if the
truth about concentration camps had already been known. The film was banned
during the war years in Europe and only arrived in German theatres in 1958.
In choosing t...
The sequel to the Golden Globe-nominated and AFI Award-winning The Lord of
the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which grossed $350 million worldwide
in its first two weeks of release, The Two Towers follows the continuing
quest of Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and the Fellowship that has joined together
to destroy the One Ring and stand against the evil of the dark lord Sauron.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stars (in alphabetical order)
Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando B...
The following independent juries awarded prizes in the presence of Berlinale
Director Dieter Kosslick and Secretary of State Ms Monika Beck on Saturday 16
February:
FIPRESCI Jury Awards
To a film in the Official Program: Lundi Matin (Monday Morning)
by Otar Iosseliani
"for his very personal and elegant portrayal of the absurdity and boredom
of everday life".
To a film in the Parallel Sections: Les Soviets Plus l'Electricite
(Soviets plus Electricity)
...
Ridley Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer and Colonel Mathews from the US special forces
came to present Black Hawk Down to a French VIP crowd on Sunday Feb 2nd
on the Champs Elysees. Former French minister of culture Jacques Toubon and a
prestigious crowd seemed under spell of this powerful film set against the Somali
US marine ranger's commando on Mogadischio, a 24h fiasco that was meant to last
for 45 minutes.One of the Black Hawk aircrafts was shot down causing the offcers
to command a tra...
In a new twist to the traditional Big Pitch session at the Small Screen BIG
PICTURE Television Conference, "The Small Pitch" has been incorporated
as part of the conference to give local documentary producers the opportunity
to collect $6,000 towards the development of their program.
The Small Screen BIG PICTURE Television Conference 2002, which is hosted by
ScreenWest, attracts international and national speakers and delegates and provides
an international perspe...
The EFA Presents the Directors Masterclass:
*The Soul of the Actor*
A five-day Masterclass directed by Michael Radford, the prolific and passionate
director of films like Il Postino, Dancing At The Blue Iguana and
1984.
"This Masterclass will be a radical experiment in understanding what it
means both to be an actor and to work with actors." (Michael Radford)
Venue: Dublin/Ireland
Dates: 10th - 14th March 2002
Fee: € 250
Application deadline: 22nd Februa...
TLAVideo.com has been named Best Video-DVD Web site by Cybersocket Web Magazine
for the second year in a row. The site was one of 31 Web sites to receive the
2002 Cybersocket Web Awards for service to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered
community.
For its second annual award presentation, Cybersocket Web Magazine, a national
bi-monthly publication, assembled a committee to nominate Web sites in 31 categories
for their achievements as "technological innovators and im...
Attorney Mark Litwak's Newsletter
Manager Attempting To Option Screenplay Violates Labor Code
Agents are licensed by the California Department of Labor. Managers are not.
Agents can procure employment for artists, while managers cannot. It is not
always clear, however, when a manager's activities are considered procuring
employment. One might think that selling a writer's finished script is not procuring
employment because the writing services have been completed. But a rece...
Claudia Cardinale, one of the most successful and well-known European Actresses,
will be awarded a Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement on Friday 15 February
. The Golden Bear will be presented to her prior to the screening of Federico
Fellini's 8 1/2, screening this year as part of Retrospektive "European
60s".
After her film debut at the age of 17, the Tunisian born actress, Claudia Cardinale
celebrated national and international success. Since then she has acted in over
...
The First Annual Made In Miami Film & Video Festival recently wrapped its
debut as one of the largest juried, competitive film festivals in the Southeast.
In all, 12 awards in 10 categories highlighted the best of 39 works that encompassed
the more than 50 screenings during the weeklong festival late January. Kicking off the first ever Made
in Miami Film & Video Festival was actor Stephen Baldwin, whose film Cutaway
opened the Festival and set the tone of fun and casualness f...
Chatelin Bruno 
