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The Thessaloniki International Doc Market

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Coming up with an extensive coverage and dailies do not miss the 12th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century - MARCH 12 – 21, 2010 The parallel events of the 12th TDF include the Doc Market and several industry-related activities, as well as Panel Discussions, Masterclasses and Exhibitions. The International Doc Market, introduced in 1999, will be held in the Byzantium hall at the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel at Aristotelous Sq next to the Festival headquarters...

French film in Australia, plenty to chew, mon vieux (old chap)

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FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2010 AUSTRALIA – PREVIEW   Festival dates: Sydney: March 2 -21 Melbourne: March 4 – 21 Canberra: March 18 – 31 Brisbane: March 17 – 31 Perth: March 17 – 31 Adelaide: March 18 -31   PLENTY TO CHEW ON, MON VIEUX The French have a reputation and a tradition unmatched in globally successful cinema, except perhaps by Hollywood, and the 21st Alliance Française French Film Festival giv...

Formula One Fast Tracked to Big Screen

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Exclusive Media Group's (EMG) documentary unit, Spitfire Documentary Films, is teaming with Flat-Out Films and Diamond Docs to produce the definitive feature documentary on Formula One motor racing, the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the FIA and the richest, most glamorous sport in the world. The announcement was made today by EMG's Co-Chairman & CEO Nigel Sinclair. The creative team comes from Diamond Docs, who recently helped craft the 2010 Acade...

From A Whisper awarded best film at PAN AFRICAN FILM & FESTIVAL Awards

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blank_page The Jury, Audience, Festival, and other special award-winners of the 2010 PAN AFRICAN FILM & FESTIVAL (PAFF) were announced tonight at the Festival's Awards Ceremony hosted by actress CCH Pounder (Avatar) at the Culver Plaza Theatres (9919 Washington Blvd. Los Angeles).  The Kenyan narrative FROM A WHISPER won for Best Narrative Feature.  A three-way tie was announced for the Audience Favorite Narrative Award for films SOUL DIASPORA, A STING IN A TALE, and ...

Chrysalis

Director: Tony Clark.
Peter and his parents arrive on their holiday hut in the idyllic Tyrolean Alps. Although seemingly a happy family, not everything is well under the picture-perfect surface. Peter's parents are unusually quiet, father seems tense and mother is becoming more and more distant. Something is wrong, yet Peter isn't let in on the cause. One fine day his father sets out for an unexpected hike in the mountains, taking the boy with him. As they walk towards the snowy peak of the mountain, the truth that has been carefully kept from Peter is slowly revealed...

Nippon Connection – Preview on the Festival Program

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10th Japanese Film Festival in Frankfurt/Main April 14-18, 2010  The preparations for the 10th anniversary of Nippon Connection Film Festival are moving into high gear. From April 14-18, 2010, more than 150 new short and feature films from Japan accompanied by a wide cultural program will again find their way to Frankfurt. Once more, the biggest festival for Japanese cinema worldwide will show what has recently moved the screens in Japan. We can already announce the first highlights of t...

Oscar Snubs and Surprises

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    Yes, we all expected AVATAR and THE HURT LOCKER to have good showings for this morning's Oscar nomination announcements (they are both tied at 9 nominations each) and we were not surprised when the names George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep were intoned at the 5:30am ceremony in Los Angeles. And yes, even the six nods for PRECIOUS (including well-deserved nominations for Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, director Lee Daniels and screenwriter Geoffrey Flet...

Hasidic Drug Dealers At Sundance

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The Sundance Film Festival is an event full of unusual stories....but Hasidic drug dealers? That has to be a first. The film, appropriately called HOLY ROLLERS, was produced and stars Danny A. Abeckaser, who is best known as a rock impressario and club promoter. The film, set in New York in the 1990s, is about a pair of Hasidic Jews who become part of an ecstasy smuggling ring. The film is the feature directorial debut of Kevin Asch with a screenplay by actor/scenarist Antonio Masc...

Cinequest 30th to celebrate the real revolutionaries, the Mavericks

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            The 20th Anniversary Cinequest Film Festival (CQFF20), Feb. 23 - March 7, 2010, celebrates the vision of Cinequest's founding artists and innovators: Mavericks. In the past year, our country increased its national debt by $1.9 trillion, including $245 billion in bailout funds as part of a greater effort to create change. Conversely, Cinequest, a company that has stayed in the black since inception, spent less than $2 m...

Cinequest 30th to celebrate the real revolutionaries, the Mavericks

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In the past year, our country increased its national debt by $1.9 trillion, including $245 billion in bailout funds as part of a greater effort to create change. Conversely, Cinequest, a company that has stayed in the black since inception, spent less than $2 million to create change by empowering the artistic revolutionaries of our time: the Mavericks, those who astound, electrify, inspire, laugh, pioneer—and in turn create rippling effects throughout the world. The 20th Anniversary Cinequest...

Restepro Trailer (the Sundance opener)

One Platoon, One Year, One Valley RESTREPO (US Documentary Competition) having its World Premiere is directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. This film will show what it is actually like to be in a country at war and trying to rebuild. National Geographic Channel has acquired exclusive global broadcast rights to a RESTREPO prior to its screening at Sundance. The movie will premiere in the fall on ...

Bush was most dangerous president in history: Oliver Stone

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BANGKOK ~ Oliver Stone said he’d seen the lies of the Reagan administration in the ‘eighties, and how the USA had intervened in 60 or 70 countries, but nothing had prepared him for the Bush years. “This has been the worst decade of my life” Stone told reporters in Bangkok yesterday. The film-maker, in Thailand to deliver a series of talks organised by the International Peace Foundation, said “Bush was the most dangerous president in history,” because of his policy on ...

The Global Film Village: Afghan War Film Opens 2010 Sundance Film Festival

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by Marla Lewin Marla Lewin co-producer Life After War photo by Jimmy Malecki                           Back in 2002 we were in Park City at Sundance with Doug Pray of Scratch. It was four months after 9/11, and we had heard about what was going on in Afghanistan the previous night over dinner. At lunch the next day with Doug we began discussions about p...

New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival Lineup

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By Maria Esteves - January 14, 2010 The 14th Annual 2010 New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (NYSJFF10) commence February 4 - 11, 2010, at the Center for Jewish History. The festival sponsored by American Sephardi Federation/Sephardic House (ASF) and Yeshiva University Museum, annually celebrates the rich, vibrant history, customs and culture in Sephardic Jewry cinema. This year's 20th Anniversary of the festival's inception honors NYSJFF founders Dr. Janice Ovadiah, Mr. Morrie Yohai, and I...

FIVE COLORS NEWS FILMS ALEX QUIROGA

Director: ALEX QUIROGA.
Madrid, a young Colombian woman consults a priestess on its future, this tells you which should help seven strangers, in very different ways, so that your life is heading, though they share without knowing the same place and same time. These seven different stories speak of love, pain, friendship, envy and hatred of ways. The screenplay is based on poems by Adan Quiroga. The film will open in 2010. Madrid; una joven colombiana consulta a una santera sobre su futuro, ésta le dice que deberá ayudar a siete extraños, de formas muy distintas, para que su vida se encamine aunque todos comparten, sin saberlo, un mismo espacio y un mismo momento. Estas siete historias diferentes hablan del amor, el dolor, la amistad, la envidia y el odio de distintas maneras. El guión está basado en poemas de Adan Quiroga.

14th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival Official Lineup

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By Maria Esteves - January 14, 2010 The 14th Annual 2010 New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (NYSJFF10) commence February 4 - 11, 2010, at the Center for Jewish History. The festival sponsored by American Sephardi Federation/Sephardic House (ASF) and Yeshiva University Museum, annually celebrates the rich, vibrant history, customs and culture in Sephardic Jewry cinema.  This year's 20th Anniversary of the festival's inception honors NYSJFF founders Dr. Janice Ovadiah, Mr. Morrie ...

19th Annual 2010 New York Jewish Film Festival Official Lineup

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By Maria Esteves - January 10, 2010 The 19th Annual 2010 New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF10) commences January 13-28, 2010, at the Walter Reade Theater. The festival presented by The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, annually showcase world cinema that investigates, records, and celebrates the Jewish experience. This year's festival lineup includes over 20 features, documentaries, and shorts, along with panel discussions, gala receptions, and special events (Opening ...

The 2010 Buff New Year's Message (from Buff Enterprises)

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Film buffs will continue to be spoiled in 2010 as the awards season continues in full swing with the long awaited release of ‘Precious’ at the end of January. Produced by Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, Precious (Based on the novel 'Push’ by Sapphire) is set in Harlem in 1987 and is the powerful and disturbing story of an obese teenage black girl whose life is a living hell. Pregnant for the second time by her father and bullied and abused both emotionally and physically by her mother, she ...

How to open a door dimensional

This is a boy to which is developed a great power of to open the dimensional doors and to pass to another universe or world and I called it Man Dimension (DimensionMan a human being that you see the dimensions). When DimensionMan learns how to use its power, he understands that the planet is not only and that it is occupied for extraterrestrial but in another dimension and that we cannot see them because to us still ...

New hero called it MAN DIMENSION (DIMENSIONMAN)

This is a boy to which is developed a great power of to open the dimensional doors and to pass to another universe or world and I called it Man Dimension (DimensionMan a human being that you see the dimensions). When DimensionMan learns how to use its power, he understands that the planet is not only and that it is occupied for extraterrestrial but in another dimension and that we cannot see them because to us still ...

New hero called it MAN DIMENSION (DIMENSIONMAN)

This is a boy to which is developed a great power of to open the dimensional doors and to pass to another universe or world and I called it Man Dimension (DimensionMan a human being that you see the dimensions). When DimensionMan learns how to use its power, he understands that the planet is not only and that it is occupied for extraterrestrial but in another dimension and that we cannot see them because to us still ...

New hero called it MAN DIMENSION (DIMENSIONMAN)

This is a boy to which is developed a great power of to open the dimensional doors and to pass to another universe or world and I called it Man Dimension (DimensionMan a human being that you see the dimensions). When DimensionMan learns how to use its power, he understands that the planet is not only and that it is occupied for extraterrestrial but in another dimension and that we cannot see them because to us still ...

New hero called it MAN DIMENSION (DIMENSIONMAN)

This is a boy to which is developed a great power of to open the dimensional doors and to pass to another universe or world and I called it Man Dimension (DimensionMan a human being that you see the dimensions). When DimensionMan learns how to use its power, he understands that the planet is not only and that it is occupied for extraterrestrial but in another dimension and that we cannot see them because to us still ...

New hero called it MAN DIMENSION (DIMENSIONMAN)

This is a boy to which is developed a great power of to open the dimensional doors and to pass to another universe or world and I called it Man Dimension (DimensionMan a human being that you see the dimensions). When DimensionMan learns how to use its power, he understands that the planet is not only and that it is occupied for extraterrestrial but in another dimension and that we cannot see them because to us still ...

New hero called it MAN DIMENSION (DIMENSIONMAN)

This is a boy to which is developed a great power of to open the dimensional doors and to pass to another universe or world and I called it Man Dimension (DimensionMan a human being that you see the dimensions). When DimensionMan learns how to use its power, he understands that the planet is not only and that it is occupied for extraterrestrial but in another dimension and that we cannot see them because to us still ...

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