REVENGE OF THE PEARL QUEEN
55 years after a very young Japanese actress became a big hit in her native country upon revealing a scantily-wrapped magnificent figure, Udine FAREAST Film Festival has spotlighted another Shintoho vintage treasure movie this morning, at the Visionario Cinema.
Although Maeda MICHIKO, the
star of the 1956 film, directed b...
This Shin Toho 1960 production directed by Ishikawa Yoshihiro is a fantasy pic, The Ghost Cat Of Otama Pond (Kaibyo Otama-ga-ike). It features a young couple caught in a web of ghostly revenge, with a black cat monitoring the scenes between those living and those dead.
The shadowy period atmosphere of a haunted mansion plunges a young fiance to be possessed by a mysterious vision of an "old bag". Keiko's boyfriend is told that the spirit of the cat that possessed her...
The twelfth edition of FAREAST Film Festival has opened the lid of a treasure box containing vintage New films produced in the 50s and 60s, from the defunct SHIN-TOHO ("New Toho") film company, an off-shoot of the major TOHO-TOEI, created in 1947 to make genre films which the latter would distribute.
The studio was one of six functioning during the Golden Age of Japanese cinema in the 1950's and employed some of the most famous directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, a...
This probably is not the same in other cultures.
How do you differ from your peers in cinema in Hong Kong ?
I choose the topics I want and stick to them, no matter what. I don't sollicit co-productions, so my films are completely Hong Kong productions. It is essential for me to maintain absolute director's control.
Have you had any offers to work for Hollywood ?
In fact, I have, but I refused because I want that complete artistic control over my work under a...
How did Gabriele Roberti (an Italian composer based in Hong Kong) get into the project to compose the music for the film ?
Gabriele : " I come from a small town in Italy and had no connections in Rome, so I started sending out demos of my work and got an offer for a film in Hong Kong. PANG saw it and one of his agents contacted me. When I read the first three lines of the synopsis of DREAM HOME, I really went for the idea and made up my score from there.
The nice thing about w...
Dream Home, the incredible slasher movie, in Udine for its World Premiere and directed by Hong Kong's Pang ho-cheung, who will be guest of honour amongst all the stars appearing at the festival.
Theme : If your dream home costs a fortune, how can you lower its price? Simple.
Kill all of your future neighbours and you will soon find that potential buyers are put off. This is the strategy used by Josie Ho to give her brother and dying father a new home. Pang Ho-Cheung writes grues...
PARTIR AUTREMENT festival, took place April 10th and 11th at the Espace Reuilly in Paris and inspires itself on eco-tourism, sustainable development and adventurous and interpred travelling to unusual countries.
Organised by an association called ABM, which stands for "Aventure du Bout du Monde "(Adventure to the End of the World), its aim is to provide a gathering for sharing travel experiences around the world.
•Can we make another form of tourism possible ?
Tour...
From April 7th, 2010 and for the next week, Cinematheque Francaise will host a retro of Pola Negri films.
The week of Pola Negri movies is
part of an even longer three-month series entitled "Tournages:
Berlin-Paris-Hollywood". Pola's week will run April
7-12, 2010, and will feature the recent 2006 Pola
Negri documentary and thirteen Pola Negri movies
from Bestia
(1915) to Tango Notturno (1937).
Born Barbara Appolonia
Chalupek in Janowa, Poland on December 31st, 189...
23rd April to 1st May 2010 - Teatro Nuovo “Giovanni da Udine” and the Visionario UDINE FAR EAST FILM 12 The Udine Festival is granted, for its launch on the 23rd April, the World Premiere of Dream Home, the highly anticipated slasher by Pang Ho-cheung! 15th March 2010 UDINE – The highly anticipated World Premiere of Dream Home by Pang Ho-cheung will be the film to open the late-night section of Far East Film 12, during the Festival’s o...
The fables of peasants in the Enchanted Forest are typically Gallician folklore. "El Bosque Animado"
("The Enchanted Forest"), Jose Luis Cuerda's bittersweet fantasy set in Galicia in northwest Spain in the 1920's celebrates the enduring character of the Spanish peasant: his passions, biases, superstitions, strengths and weaknesses.
A series of interlocking tales about mercilessly picturesque characters who live in or near the ...
Atieh Atar
zadeh
Atieh Attarzadeh, a talented Iranian female director, is presenting her recent documentary to the attention of film festival directors worldwide.
She says this film is a documentary about contemporary women poets and she interviewed almost 20 women poets. Some of them talk about their lives, their approaches to art and their notions about women and poetry in Iran while others ...
Surely the most versatile of Hollywood Directors, and although his name
rings no bells, Gordon DOUGLAS - sometimes billed as Gordon M. Douglas,
created a remarkable piece of work, his cinematic career spanning over
five decades.
Indeed, what Hollywood film director could
boast having helmed such a spectrum of personalities ranging in the
30's, from a hoofing Al Jolson, through action westerns with Randolph
Scott in the '40's, rambling on to culminate in rock sensation Elvis
Presley...
Video Still Images 1 & 2
Exhibitions/ Screenings:
2010, The Onassis foundation, BIOS exhibition space, Athens, Greece, (screening)
2009/ 2010, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berln/ Madrid, New cinema &
Contemporary Arts (opening film and programmed screening)
Strike 2Video Still Images 1 & 2
Exhibitions/ Screenings:2010, The Onassis foundation, BIOS exhibition space, Athens, Greece, (screening...
Elena Sunbeam, Head of the World Content Market and
President, SUNBEAM ENTERPRISES
Events
The conference program is under development.
22 February 2010
09:00—19:00
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Help in face-to-face meetings
The aim of the World Content Market is to facilitate business between buyers and sellers of audiovisual content through face-to-face meetings.
Face-to-face meetings are held in fully equipped exhibitor offices in the Movenpick Hotel Prague (hotel's suites are transformed to exhibitor offices for negotiations).
Participants can use the powerful on-line matchmaking facilities (that inclu...
Yolande Racine YOLANDE RACINE
Having grown up in Canada, it was my pleasure to meet, on the occasion of the Rencontres Cinéma Paris/Berlin/Madrid, held in Paris, early December, the Head of the Québec Cinémathèque, Madame Yolande Racine. This accomplished lady holds an M.A. (Master of Arts) in Art History from the University of Montréal.
She began her career in museology in Canada, as Head of the Education Service at Montréal's Museum of Contemporary Art, then movi...
Festival on Wheels Prizes
Festival on Wheels shoots for Police, Adjective
The winners of the 15th Festival on Wheels have been
announced. Among the 10 films competing from 10 countries, Corneliu Porumboiu’s latest feature Politist, adj. (Police,
Adjective) won both the Golden Bull and the SİYAD (Turkish Film
Critics’ Association) awards. İki Dil Bir Bavul (On
the Way to School), co-directed by Orhan
Eskiköy and Özgür Doğan, was
named second best film.
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What is Voix Libres?
Voix Libres is an international association that was founded in 1993 by Marianne Sebastien.
Overall Goal
Voix Libres’ goal is to offer alternatives to child labour in the mines, fields, garbage dumps and streets of Bolivia.
Once trained and educated, the young people direct their own projects. Their commitment ensures long-term development for the common good. Interest-free micro credits: From slave to wo...
Watching the shorts on the plight of Bolivian children in the mining region of Potosi hurts. Have we lost all notions of concern and respect for one another ? What has Evo MORALES, now reconducted as Bolivia`s first indigenous President done in his first mandate to reinforce protection of minors in his own country. Nothing, because the situation at present is particularly alarming. Close to 90% of all the children are abused and exploited before reaching adulthood, if they ever do.
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THE THIRD EDITION OF THE USHUAIA SHH. MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL TOOK PLACE 19TH TO THE 24TH OF AUGUST 2009, IN USHUAIA, TIERRA DEL FUEGO, ARGENTINA.
ONE WHOLE WEEK FILLED WITH FILMS, NATURE, CULTURE, ADVENTURERS' STORIES AND MOUNTAINEERING AWAITS THE AUDIENCE IN THE WINTER'S AIR. EXPERTS, FANS AND GENERAL PUBLIC ONCE AGAIN ABLE TO ENJOY AN EXQUISITE FILM EXHIBITION.
THE EVENT PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESSMEN, AMATEURS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO MEET, EXCHANGE EXPERIENCES AND IDEAS, CRE...
From
November 30 to December 9, the "Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin/Madrid" will create a space of discovery and reflection
betweennew cinema and contemporary art in Paris:
• at the Centre Pompidou,
• the Jeu de Paume national museum,
• the Châtelet Theatre.
• the Reflet Medicis movie theater.
With the presence of 120 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. ...
