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Broken Mussels at SFF 2011

on panel with cast of: BROKEN MUSSELS KIRIK MIDYELERSection: Competition Programme – FeaturesSeyfettin TokmakTurkey, 2011, HD CAM (HDTV), 93 minCast list: Ugur Baris Mehmetoglu, Seydo Celik, Engin Benli, Selma Alispahićphoto by Vanessa McMahon 

OUR GRAND DESPAIR at SFF 2011

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The Turkish film OUR GRAND DESPAIR (2011) screened in the IN FOCUS section in Sarajevo during the SFF 2011. Directed by Seyfi Teoman, The film saw its open at the 2011 Berlinale and this lyrical tribute to love and life's little ironies continues to make its way to festivals around the world.  **Read an in depth interview with the film's award winning DOP, Birgit Gudjonsdottir, here: On April 17th, during the closing ceremony of the 30th Istanbul Film Festival (IFF), the award for the...

J Rosette's Genre-Busting Asian Social-Issue Horror Flick, FREEDOM DEAL Update 7/29/11

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Hello Colleagues in Media, Film, Business, Music, the Arts, Philanthropy, and Beyond: This is writer-director Jason Rosette of Camerado SE Asia, I hope you are all well! With the recent winding down of the 4th edition of the CamboFest, Cambodia Film Festival, our efforts have shifted back to producing a fabulous and compelling feature film that we've been developing for some time.  I hope you'll take a moment to read on - there's never been a movie quite like this, and you'll soo...

WE HAVE A POPE, 17TH SFF

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WE HAVE A POPE (HABEMUS PAPAM, Italy, 2011) This year at Cannes Nanni Moretti’s latest film, HEBEMUS PAPAM, screened in competition. Tonight on July 26th, 2011, the film will screen at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF). Nanni Moretti arrived yesterday in Sarajevo to present his film.The film is about a new pope (played by Michel Piccoli) who decides he cannot take the colossal responsibility of his new public role and ends up seeking psychological help to come to terms with his private pas...

MOTHERS at SFF 17!

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MOTHERS (2010) by director Milcho Manchevski will screen at the 17th Sarajevo International Film Festival (SFF) 2011. Here find a review of the award-winning film that saw its opening in Toronto at TIFF 2010 and continues to travel to festivals around the globe. MOTHERS, a rave review! Fiction, nonfiction, and everything else in between and without- this is the dizzying dialectic of Milcho Manchevski’s latest film MOTHERS (2010). MOTHERS is a feature film structured as a triptych of three part...

Sarajevo Film Festival July 22-31

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From SFF official site:The FestivalThe 17th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival will take place from 22nd till 30th July, 2011.After the 4-year-long siege of Sarajevo, and with an intention to recreate civil society of the City, in 1995, we founded the Sarajevo Film Festival. Today, we are proud to say that Sarajevo Film Festival represents the main meeting place for all regional producers and authors and is recognized by film professionals from all over the world as the pinnacle point for net...

Sofia Meetings in Sarajevo

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ShelterThe 17th edition of Sarajevo International Film Festival will take place from 22 till 30 July. The will be strong presence of Bulgarian films in its programme, which started as projects at Sofia Meetings. During the 8th edition of the film projects market during Sofia International Film Festival in 2011 all the titles had closed screenings. After he presented his debut feature Ave in the competition programme of the Critics Week at Cannes, director Konstantin Bojanov's fil...

Lech Majewski and THE MILL AND THE CROSS at AIFF

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Polish director Lech Majewski of the film THE MILL AND THE CROSS (2011) appeared at the second annual Aruba International Film Festival as a special guest where his film screened and he attended a panel discussion, 'Conversations With', led by journalist Rollo Ross. Apparently, Lech had so much to say about his film and the history of the painting that Rollo only asked three questions and that led Lech to talking for over and hour and a half about his film. Now that’s inspiration!Starring Rut...

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Cine//B wants your film! Deadline 26.08.11 www.festivalcineb.com Short films, feature films, videoclips. Live Action, Documentary, animation, experimental, video art.  Any genre, any running time, any format.

Fantastic Zagreb! Freaky, frightful, fun and fantastic!

Official poster of Festival's kick-off year! Fantastic Zagreb!http://www.fantastic-zagreb.com/en/index.php  visit festival site here: 

Fantastic Zagreb! Freaky, frightful, fun and fantastic!

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 Fantastic Zagreb!Well, for a 'year zero' of an unknown festival this looks to be a fantastic success with sold-out outdoor theaters, perfect summer weather, happy hospitable locals and so much to see in zesty Zagreb, jewel of the Balkans. This new fantasy fest all started with a kick off screening of the supernatural thriller TWO EYES STARING (2010) by Dutch director Elbert van Strien, followed by an opening party oozing with carousers dressed as skeletons, grim reapers, witches and scary cine...

Great Danes! From Cannes to Karlovy Vary!

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photo still from ROOM 304 (2011)Leave it to the Danish to shine (or plaster headlines whatever the case may be) when it comes to cinema. Few can compete with the films churning out of the Danish Film Institute and here goes another one! By director Birgitte Staermose this is the latest editing opus of editor extraordinaire Anne Osterud, the Danish editing genius that cut films like WORLDS APART (2008) and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009) now has her latest work at Karlovy Vary Internationa...

ROOM 304 at KARLOVY VARY, KVIFF

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photo still from ROOM 304 (2011)Leave it to the Danish to shine (or plaster headlines whatever the case may be) when it comes to cinema. Few can compete with the films churning out of the Danish Film Institute and here goes another one! By director Birgitte Staermose this is the latest editing opus of editor extraordinaire Anne Osterud, the Danish editing genius that cut films like WORLDS APART (2008) and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009) now has her latest work at Karlovy Vary Internationa...

Anne Østerud, editor extraordinaire!

 Producer Thomas Heinesen and editor extraordinaire Anne Østerud at Cannes 2011 at the Danish party for LABRADOR (2011) photo by Vanessa McMahon 

CAMERADO Seeks Virtual Assistant

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CAMERADO, a US-founded producer of compelling entertainment and edutainment media with projects ongoing in the US and Asia, is seeking virtual volunteer researchers and a virtual volunteer project manager for a variety of ongoing media projects in SE Asia. Projects include 'Freedom Deal', a Vietnam war era social issue dramatic feature with horror & genre elements; several documentary projects in development; CamboFest, Cambodia's first international film festival since the end o...

MOTHERS, Aruba review!

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MOTHERS (2010) by director Milcho Manchevski screened at the 2nd annual Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF) 2011. Here find a review of the award-winning film that saw its opening in Toronto at TIFF 2010, screened at Berlinale 2011, won the prize for best feature at Belgrade International Film Festival 2011 and thereafter traveled to Sofia (SIFF), Istanbul International Film Festival (IFF), Aruba (AIFF) and many others, continuing its international festival journey. MOTHERS, a rave review! ...

Aaron Hose at AIFF 2011

This year at the 2nd annual AIFF (Aruba International Film Festival) 5 films competed in the 'CSS' section. The director of this competition was Aruban director Aaron Hose and the winner of this year's competition was VOICES FROM MARIEL (2011). this photo from Aaron Hose's pictures. 

Aaron Hose at AIFF 2011

This year at the 2nd annual AIFF (Aruba International Film Festival) 5 films competed in the 'CSS' section. The director of this competition was Aruban director Aaron Hose and the winner of this year's competition was VOICES FROM MARIEL (2011). Here: (left to right) Jose Garcia, Jonathan Viera, Steven Bauer, Aaron Hosethis photo from Aaron Hose's pictures. 

Caribbean Spotlight Series

This year at the 2nd annual AIFF (Aruba International Film Festival) 5 films competed in the 'CSS' section. The director of this competition was Aruban director Aaron Hose and the winner of this year's competition was VOICES FROM MARIEL (2011). this news article from Aaron Hose's pictures.  

Bollywood at Cannes

During the 64th Cannes Film festival-Bollywood has made its presence with some projects including National award winning filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Heroine'-starring Aishwarya Rai, and 'Prague' directed by the creative head of 'Dev.D'- Ashish Shukla,also Shekhar Kapoors 'Bollywood-The Greatest Love Story Ever Told' was premiered in out of competition segment.Three projects with three different genres where He

Bollywood at Cannes

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   During the 64th Cannes Film festival-Bollywood has made its presence with some projects including National award winning filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Heroine'-starring Aishwarya Rai, and 'Prague' directed by the creative head of 'Dev.D'- Ashish Shukla,also Shekhar Kapoors 'Bollywood-The Greatest Love Story Ever Told' was premiered in out of competition segment. Three projects with three different genres where Heroine is dealing with life of an actress as Madhurs real life docus, Bollywoo...

18 DAYS at Cannes

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 At the 64th Cannes Film Festival the Egyptian film about the facebook triggered revolution called 18 DAYS (2011) took place in the Special Screenings window. It is a collection of short films set in Egypt by Egyptian filmmakers devoted to depicting various experiences of the revolution which took place only months ago.see official Cannes page here:  http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/theDailyArticle/58553.html  photos by Vanessa McMahon  photos by Vanessa McMahon ...

premier of 18 Years Later

At the 64th Cannes Film Festival the Egyptian film about the facebook triggered revolution called 18 DAYS (2011) took place in the Special Screenings window. It is a collection of short films in Egypt by Egyptian filmmakers devoted to depicting various experiences of the revolution which took place only months ago.  photos by Vanessa McMahon 

MOTHERS by Milcho Manchevski, Aruba review!

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MOTHERS (2010) by director Milcho Manchevski screened at the 2nd annual Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF) 2011. Here find a review of the award-winning film that saw its opening in Toronto at TIFF 2010 and continues to travel to festivals around the globe. MOTHERS, a rave review! Fiction, nonfiction, and everything else in between and without- this is the dizzying dialectic of Milcho Manchevski’s latest film MOTHERS (2010). MOTHERS is a feature film structured as a triptych of three par...

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