Eminent Chinese director, screenwriter and producer, Huang Jianxin, will head the International Jury for the third annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). He will be joined by Australian playwright and screenwriter David Williamson, Iranian filmmaker Tahmineh Milāni, Indian playwright, screenwriter and director Feroz Abbas Khan and Korean writer/director Gina Kim. The International Jury will determine winners in the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards to be announced in a ceremony on Australia'...
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Cinema Passion Festival will pay a tribute to screenwriter/director Thomas Gilou and will screen Victor his lates comedy, in release in France as we speak.
The film cast will accompany Thaomas Gilou: Bruno Solo, Lambert Wilson, José Garcia and Messaoud Hattou.
Thomas Gilou has more than one string to his bow.
After directing numerous short films, including "La combine de la giraffe" (a Cesar award nominee in 1983), he took up feature filmmaking in 1986.
His first feature...
Uma Thurman in MOTHERHOOD
At the Woodstock Film Festival, which today concludes its five-day marathon of film premieres, industry seminars, music concerts and groovy parties, film directors generally get all the attention. However, after my own personal marathon screenings, it is the performances of several standout actors that has made the biggest impression. Of course, for an independent filmmaker, casting is a critical part of the process. Luckily, it has been par...
Bill Mechanic, President/CEO of Pandemonium LLC and former Chairman/CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, (my boss when I was running Fox distribution in France) delivered the keynote speech at the annual Independent Film & Television Alliance Production Conference in Santa Monica. here below is a transcript of his keynotes.
He addressed the current state and the future of the independent film business and offered a number of observations about his experiences at FOX and Disney.
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By Maria Esteves - October 1, 2009
Franc. Reyes is a songwriter, choreographer, dancer, scriptwriter, and film director. His songs have charted on the Billboard Magazine’s Top 40 list and in films. In 2002, Universal Pictures released director Reyes first major film “EMPIRE,” and his second feature film "ILLEGAL TENDER," in 2007. Reyes latest film "THE MINISTERS," is set to premiere in New York, Friday, October 16, 2009. I had the honor and privilege of interviewing ...
The New York Film Festival provides extraordinary access to some of world cinema's most interesting film talents via the HBO Films Directors Dialogue Series. Among those who are participating (all of whom have films in the festival proper):
MARCO BELLOCCHIO
With a career that spans the heyday of 60s Italian art cinema (Fists in the Pocket, China is Near) to religion (My Mother’s Smile, NYFF 2002) to political drama (Good Morning, Night, NYFF 2003 and this year’s Vincere), Marco B...
Alain Resnais Meets Jonathan Demme
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Roman Polanski is weighing his legal options after his arrest Saturday at the Zurich Airport.
If he agrees to allow extradition, he could be sent to the U.S. within a few days. If he fights the order, it could take several months for the case to get through Swiss courts.
Ever since being charged in 1977 for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, Polanski has lived in Paris and has avoi...
The following solidarity note was issued yesterday and read out at the Zurich Film Festival's special event held in honour of Roman Polanski:As members of the European Film Academy and the European film community we protest at the arbitrary treatment of one of the world's most outstanding film directors. We declare our deep respect for our colleague and friend Roman Polanski and we demand his immediate release.
Wim Wenders
Volker Schloendorff
Victoria Abril
Peter Susc...
The Zurich Film Festival received an unexpected international focus in the media when the news of Polanski's arrest became public.
Polanski Le Locataire The tenant
Roman Polanski was arrested september 27th by Swiss police in connection with a 32-year-old sex case at the request of U.S. authorities as the director arrived in the country to...
There are not too many film masters whose works have influenced the length and the breadth of the "seventh art" who are still walking among us. However, today in New York, a true living legend not only is in our midst, but is presenting his latest film, which opens the prestigious New York Film Festival later this evening.
Alain Resnais, 87 years young, is the iconic French film director who began his vaulted career in the 1950s and has continued ever since, is in ...
Ashton Kutcher and Demi MooreBill MurrayBrenda BlethynChristopher PlummerClive OwenColin FarrellColin FirthDanny BoyleDiablo CodyEdward NortonEllen PageEthan HawkeJeff BridgesJulie Christie
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Brad Pitt arrival at San Sebastian Festival for The Inglourious Basterds opening presentation.Brad Pitt
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SUBMIT YOUR FILM NOW; ALL Genres Welcome! With the motto “REthink, REplenish, REcommit”, the
GOING GREEN FILM FESTIVAL encourages green filmmaking by rewarding filmmakers who have lessened their
carbon footprint on the planet during production, used alternative transportation within the storyline of their
films, or have created a film whose subject includes the environment, third world issues, etc.
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As an indication of the ever increasing outreach of Bollywood, one of the most famous practitioners and directors of this special Indian brand of film, Yash Chopra, 76, will be honored at the upcoming 14th annual Pusan IFF in South Korea, where he will be named "Asian filmaker of the year".
An Asian (Indian) cinema night will be held in Chopra's honor. Since his directorial debut in 1959 with a film called "Dhool ka Phool" (Blossoms in the dust) Chopra has dir...
San Francisco Film Society announced today the ten finalists for the Djerassi Residency Award/San Francisco Film Society Screenwriting Fellowship. The fellowship is part of the Film Society's expanded suite of filmmaker services programs and activities designed to foster creativity and further the careers of independent filmmakers. The Djerassi residency, located 40 miles south of San Francisco in the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, offers living and studio accommodations and...
