South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival and Conference, a four day film conference
(March 9-12) and nine day film festival (March 8 - 16) is an important meeting
place for film industry professionals. The SXSW Film Conference features panels,
workshops, mini-meetings, mentoring sessions, hands-on sessions, and case studies
with internationally prominent film industry professionals. This year's focus
will include digital moviemaking and the technology of the future, homemade
...
Overcast skies didn't put a dimmer on the day for the press who started off
with a 9am screening of Bloody Sunday followed by a noon screening of
the day's other competition film, Bridget from director Amos Kolleck.
Bloody Sunday from director Paul Greengrass is a fiction feature in a
documentary-style (or as the producer Mark Redhead coined it "a messy reality")
giving the account of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, the famous British
paratrooper shootings of civil rig...
Nominations for the 74th Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday, February
12 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Frank Pierson and
his fellow Academy member, Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden.
Pierson and Harden will unveil the nominations in ten of the 24 categories.
Nominations in all categories will be distributed simultaneously to news media
in attendance and via the Internet on the official Academy Awards Web site.
Harden received her first Academy Awar...
The International Forum of New Cinema will present a total of 13 productions
from this year's featured country, the People's Republic of China. The motto
of the programme is "electric shadows", the literal translation of
"dian ying," the Chinese word for film. Although purely coincidental,
the term perfectly describes the passionate, committed and surprising emergence
of a new generation of young independent filmmakers in the shadow of the official
Chinese system.
The ne...
Academy Award Best Actor Russell Crowe joins Best Actress Julia Roberts, both
making their third appearance as an Oscar show presenter.
Roberts received the Best Actress Oscar last year for her portrayal of the
title character in Erin Brockovich. She also received nominations for
her supporting role in Steel Magnolias in 1989 and for the leading role
in Pretty Woman in 1990. Roberts can currently be seen in Ocean's
Eleven and will be seen next in Full Frontal.
Crowe won t...
The Script FactoryACE has the pleasure to announce its first collaboration with the Script Factory for their very first SCENE at the Berlinale on Saturday 9th February. This will be a fascinating programme of 5 live events with a selection of inspirational speakers such as : Saul Zaentz, Paul Greengrass, Mira Nair, Tom Tykwer... For further details, please read the attached document. Hope you'll be able to join us for this event. * The ACE Producers There will be more than 25 of them coming with...
New York International Children's Film Festival is kicking off its fifth year
with "Three Snow Whites," an ensemble screening of Disney's Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs, as well as rarities Betty Boop in Snow White
(1933) by Max Fleisher and Lotte Reiniger's Snow White and Rose Red (1953).
The event, which begins March 1, will take place over five consecutive weekends,
extended from the original two weekends due to audience demand.
Each year NYICFF presents the best new fil...
Wendigo, the first full-length independent film using Microsoft Windows
Media will be released with the support of Digital Cinema Solutions, reports Variety.
The first Windows premiere of the horror film will begin on March 1 in Seattle, and
will then move on to Dallas. The film, starring Erik Per Sullivan of "Malcolm
in the Middle" is a joint effort of ContentFilm, Magnolia Pictures, and Microsoft....
The sun peaked through the clouds sending its golden rays down on Potsdamer
Platz, home to the Berlin Film Festival since the year 2000 edition. Its "Metropolis"
configuration includes the Sony Center with numerous theatres, the Cinemaxx
- the other multiplex venue, as well as the Berlinale Palast where the red carpet
strut takes place each evening.
Temperatures are warmer than usual (10° Centigrade) for this Berlinale
debut and it seems to have brought the fans out early, ...
This year's opening film at Berlin is Heaven, a film already causing a fair amount of commotion. Arrested after a murder plot goes horribly wrong, a young English widow Philippa
is helped by an even younger carabiniero to wreak the revenge she planned on
a Torino drug dealer. But Philippo falls in love with his charge and helps her
escape, with his colleagues in close pursuit.......
There's little surprise that this year's Césars (the French Academy Awards)
has Amélie taking the lead with the largest amount of nominations.
Amongst the 13 nomination categories for the film are Best Actress, Best Director,
and Best Film. Amelie's biggest competitors are Jacques Audiart's Sur
mes lèvres (Read My Lips) and La Chambre des Officiers (Officer's
Ward), pulling in nine nominations each. With the nominees announced, most are
holding their breath until the ceremony on M...
Even the most seasoned critic would have have a hard time making the right
forecast when it comes to the awards showdown at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
The festival makes it a speciality to counter all expectations, yet making sure
that the films with less commercial potential will be awarded. Nevertheless,
one should bear in mind that the festival's mission is to back budding filmmakers
and make sure, through the Tiger film support, that they'll carry on making
quality ...
The Danish Oscars, the 19th Robert Film Awards, showered Kira's Reason
with five wins: Best Film, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Script, and Best
Actress. Kira's Reason was Stine Stengade's feature debut as an actress.
Other big winners were Chop Chop, Count Axel, and Shake It All
About, with two Awards each. The Robert Film Award to Best Non-US Film went
to Moulin Rouge, while the winning American film was Lord of the Rings.
Best Film
Kira’s Reason - Ole Chr. Madsen
...
The nominees for the 54th Annual Director's Guild of America awards for 2001 are
out, with the Award ceremony planned for March 9. This year's nominatees fall
in line with many films believed to be Oscar contenders. There have only been
five occasions in the DGA's history that the winner of the DGA Award did not go
on to win the Oscar for Best Director. Of the five nominatees, three directors
are receiving first-time nominations (Peter Jackson, Baz Luhrmann, and Christopher
Nolan) wh...
Blue Ribbon Task Force Created to Make Recommendations on NATPE’s FutureNATPE President and CEO, Bruce Johansen, confirmed this morning that New Orleans will be the location for the 2003 NATPE Conference. The dates of that conference are January 20-23, 2003, and it will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. At a press conference at the Bel Age Hotel, Johansen also revealed plans for the formation of a blue ribbon industry task force that will guide NATPE during the months ahea...
Stefan Jarl's film The Brick Layer, a film about Actor Thommy Berggren,
took home the Nordic Film Prize of 200,000 SEK ($18,000) on February 2 at the
Göteborg Film Festival. Berggren was born outside of Göteborg in 1937. One of
his pivotal roles was in Gilliap ( 1975), a spoof on the gangster film
genre. The film was a box office disaster that is now enjoying retrospective
kudos in Sweden. Berggren won the best supporting actor 'Golden Beetle' award
in 1998 for The Glas...
The presentation of Spain's 16th annual Goya Awards took place Feb 2 in Madrid.
Awards went overwhelmingly to Alejandro Amenábar's The Others,
which took home over half of its 15 nominations. The film's Goyas included best
original script, production design, editing, cinematography, sound, artistic
direction, and the highly coveted best director and best film trophies. Other
big winners included Julio Medem's Lucia Y El Sexo (Sex and Lucia), which
received two Goyas ...
Three of the MediaPlus Programme of the EU’s most successful and active training providers, ACE, Moonstone and Arista are pleased and proud to announce the formation of AMA, a joint collaboration to increase the efficiency of the development and training services they provide to European film and television professionals.To find out how AMA might be useful to them, delegates at CineMart 2002 are invited to a short presentation about AMA from 5 :00 pm to 6 :00 pm on Sunday 27th January, whi...
Amen by Constantin Costa-Gavras
A Map Of The Heart (Der Felsen) by Dominik Graf
Grill Point by Andreas Dresen
Minor Mishaps (Sma Ulykker), by Annette K. Olesen
Safe Conduct (Laissez-Passer) by Bertrand Tavernier
Monster's Ball by Marc Forster
Bad Guy (Na-Bbun-Nam-Ja) by Kim Ki-duk
Iris by Richard Eyre
KT by Junji Sakamoto
Baader by Christophe Roth
Burning In The Wind (Brucio Nel Vento) by Silvio Soldini
Stones (Piedras) by Ramon Salazar Hoogers
One Day In August (Dekanpentavgousto...
Panorama Features
All About Lily Chou-Chou - Shunji Iwai (Japan)
Altyn Kyrghol (My Brother, Silk Road) - Marat Sarulu (Kirgisistan/Kasachstan)
America so Beautiful - Babak Shokrian (U.S.)
As três Marias (The Three Marias) - Aluizio Abranches (Brazil/Italy)
Big Shot's Funeral - Feng Xiaogang (China)
Boomerang - Dragan Marinkovic (Canada/Yugoslavia)
Bungalow - Ulrich Koehler (Germany)
Chaos - Coline Serreau (France)
El sueño de Ibiza (Ibiza Dream) - Igor Fiorav...
I1
Luang Ta Pakpoom Wongpoom Thailand Fiction 2000 08'00"
Hormoner og andre demoner Sara Johnsen Norway Fiction 2001 26'22"
Mont Blanc Priit Tender Estonia Animation 2001 12'32"
Member David Brooks United States Fiction 2001 16'00"
Palíndromo Philippe Barcinski Brazil Fiction 2001 10'45"
Meska sprawa Slawomir Fabicki Poland Fiction 2001 26'00"
I2
In Search of Mike Andrew Lancaster Australia Fiction 2000 07'48"
Szortírozott levelek Agnes Kocsis Hungary Fiction 200...
F1
Reptil Pascal Stervinou France Fiction 2001 15'00"
L Espèce humaine Stephane Gisbert France Fiction 2001 20'00"
Un vol, la nuit Olivier Laubacher France Fiction 2001 14'30"
Je m'appelle Stéphane Elmadjian France Documentary / fiction 2001 17'00"
Pâques au tison Martine Doyen France Fiction 2001 30'00"
F2
Le Corbeau Frédéric Pelle France Fiction 2001 09'30"
Entre quatre murs Julie Bonan France Fiction 2001 31'30"
Angèle Françoise Tourmen France Fiction ...
N1
False Poupee Linda S. Kim South Korea Animation 2001 06'47"
What's He Building In There? Jeremy Difiore United States Experimental
2000 03'30"
Family Values Eva Saks United States Documentary 2001 24'08"
Les Superficiales Peter Alton United States Fiction 2001 11'00"
Tengo la posizione Simone Massi Italy Animation 2001 04'00"
Touch Jeremy Podeswa Canada Fiction 2001 29'00"
Nothing Special Olivier Petit France Animation 2001 04'32"
Tono to Tono-Monogatari Kenta...
Opening Ceremony Screening
An appetizer of the festivities
China
6 programmes of Chinese short films (Hong Kong, Beijing Film School, etc.).
A foray into a country with a rarely exposed production.
Bovida
3 programmes of short films with our lovely bovine friends before they all go
mad !
Portugal
Highlights of a production which quickly increased over the last ten years.
Memory Programme
A tribute to famous Czech animation filmmakers Jiri Trnka and Jan Svankm...
The 32nd International Forum of New Cinema is once again a window to the world
of cinema, with films from Argentina, Canada, the United States, Australia,
Morocco and Tunisia, western and eastern Europe, Israel, South Africa,Vietnam,
Korea, China and Japan. As always, the emphasis is firmly on socially-aware,
subjectively-oriented and aesthetically unconventional works. The programme
for 2002 includes new films by many guests from previous years, although most
of the faces are new. M...
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