The Best Student Films at the 2006 Munich Filmschoolfest From November 19 - 25, the Munich International Festival of Film Schools will be a forum for film students from around the world for the 26th time. It has long been the most important student festival of its kind, in which the public can get a glimpse of the cinema of the future and check out the latest worldwide trends. In Munich's Film Museum, we will be screening 65 theatrical shorts, animation films and documentaries from 42 film schoo...
Saturday/Sunday, October 21/22-----THE ARCHITECT is a sophisticated urban drama about a Chicago architect (played by Anthony LaPaglia) confronted by an outspoken female activist (Viola Davis) living in a dangerous housing project of his design. LaPaglia plays Leo Waters, an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family. Viola Davis is Tonya Neeley, a pragmatic activist who is trying to keep her family together while living in one of the city’s most drug and crime...
The 6th Annual Russian Film Week in New York Gears Up For a Week of Premieres and PartiesWe are gearing up for an exciting week of Russian films and parties, October 13-19, 2006. The carefully selected films were all made in 2006 and will showcase the work of the hottest and most influential filmmakers in Russia. Don't miss this exciting week-long cultural event in New York City.New York, NY (PRWEB) October 8, 2006 -- The 6th Annual Russian Film Week in New York proudly announces its return to M...
AN SEBASTIAN POST-MORTEM SPLIT TOP PRIZE QUESTIONED AND LACK OF STARS LAMENTEDIn my last report I got so carried away by the phenomenom of Bahman Ghobadi's second straight Golden Concha Best-Film prize, that I failed to mention that the award was an "ex-aequo" or shared award. I did, however, note that it might come in for some discussion in the post-festival press -- which, in fact, it did ---Bigtime!The top prize was shared with Mr. Ghobadi by Martial Fougeron of France for "Mon fils à moi" (...
The legendary Swedish actor, Max von Sydow, had the chance to provide an overview of his long, illustrious career in film and theatre at the press conference that he gave before receiving the first of this year’s Donostia Awards yesterday. He admitted that it was “a great pleasure and honour to accept this award”, as he very much admired the great Spanish filmmakers. Several of the questions inevitable focused on his work with Ingmar Bergman and he acknowledged that he owed him tremendous ...
La Biennale di Venezia63rd Mostra Internazionale d’Arte CinematograficaJuan José Bigas Luna, Paulo Branco, Cameron Crowe,Chulpan Khamatova, Park Chan-wook, Michele Placidoin the international Jury of Venezia 63. presided by Catherine DeneuveThe Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia, presided by Davide Croff, has approved the proposal by the Director of the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica Marco Müller, regarding the composition of the international Jury of Venezia 63 pr...
9th BROOKLYN INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (BiFF)2006 edition winnersGrand Chameleon AwardBLOOD: DEATH DOES NOT EXISTBest FeatureBLOOD: DEATH DOES NOT EXISTBest Documentary / Diane Seligman AwardRADIOPHOBIABest ShortOUSMANEBest ExperimentalCAROUSEL RITEBest Animation (ex-equo)JOURNEY TO MARSCRAB REVOLUTIONBrooklyn Excellence AwardDOUGLAS STEINER, Chairman of Steiner Studios Spirit Awards:films in which the festival recognizes its own spiritFeature: AHLAAMDocumentary: BEFORE FLYING BACK TO THE EARTHShort:...
Premiers
Today in the Lumiere Theater Marie Antoinette and The Right of the Weakest premier.
$970m To Media
The European Union's Media Programme has banked $970 million dollars from the years 2007-2013. The money will be spread through the media and entertainment industry. The percentages of the fund will be used for training (7%), developing(20%), distribution (55%), promotion (9%), and pilot projects (4%). This budget is a huge increase since the last budget of $659m from 2001-2006.
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During the 33rd Flanders International Film Festival-Ghent French filmmaker Agnes Varda will receive the Joseph Plateau Lifetime Achievement Award. As a tribute to Varda, the festival is putting together a retrospective of her film work. In cooperation with S.M.A.K. (the Ghent museum of contemporary art), two of her recent video installations will be shown.Agnes Varda is the leading lady of the French Nouvelle Vague movement that thrilled the European film audience in the sixties. With films as ...
Film Festival Maastricht 6th - 9th April- The film event of the South!For a period of 4 days Filmtheater Lumière will be the venue for the annual ’film festival Maastricht’. The second edition of the festival comprises more than 40 titles for your consideration. With anything between new mainstream films, cutting-edge independent-productions from the U.S., the best in world cinema from all over the globe and major new works from renowned artists in the business making up the program, it ...
If the Cannes Film Festival represents the culture of central Europe, for the film media, there are several international film festivals in Europe and the world, and one in Eastern Europe, the International Film Festival FEST in Serbia and Montenegro. FEST, The International Film Festival takes place in Belgrade and has the long 34-year-old tradition. During its 34 years, this festival hosted big names in the filmmaking show business. It is not easy to promote the world cultural co-operation, in...
This is a film made by a Swede - now how do you define that? By blood, by territory, by residency, by a hyphenated ethnic identity? Miko Lazic is actually a second generation Swede. He's a Serbian-Swede. His film ...
29th SAO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALFestival runs October 22nd to November 4th. For the 29th year the BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival brings to the Brazilian public a selection of the best films of the world's cinema. Nearly 350 films will be shown from more than 50 different countries. Homage to cinema's great names such as Manoel de Oliveira, Roberto Rossellini and Victor Sjöström and retrospectives and special exhibitions are also part of the program. In ad...
The official jury gave their first press conference on May 11th. President Emir Kusturica opened by saying for the record that “the nature of cinema does not have a parallel with democracy”, adding that, “this is a fun jury so that the melodrama can be completed”. He assured the press that the jury “won’t make pathetic decisions because there is no democracy inside!” Festival president Gilles Jacob has already declared prior to this Cannes there will be no declarations like Que...
The curtain went up on the 58th edition of the Festival de Cannes at the bidding of the mistress of ceremony Cécile de France and Jury President Emir Kusturica; the latter was of course in the company of the other Jury members: directors Agnès Varda, John Woo, Benoît Jacquot & Fatih Aki, actors Nandita Das, Javier Bardem & Salma Hayek as well as writer Toni Morrison. The Jury has the task of bestowing the Palme d'Or to one of the 21 feature films in the Official Selection.Following the Openin...
Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris“ was saluted by Emir KusturicaVilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris“ ended last week with the remarkable record of audience attendance. During the Festival (1-14 of April) the cinema “Lietuva“ was attended by 41 251 spectators: 13 000 more than last year. Lithuanian spectators proved once again their interest in European, Asian, African, American and Oceanian cinema.This year celebrating the 10th anniversary the Festiv...
Word from the Jury President Of Cannes 2005, May 11-22Being President of the Jury is a great occasion to pay tribute to cinema and the profession of filmmaker. I like paying attention to all identities and their expression, to seize reality from many different perspectives.I feel like the head of a troop and I will take care that the Jury is able to express its point of view and present its vision of cinema. We will receive the films attentively and then discuss them as freely as possible. Cinem...
Triumvirate of Acclaimed Film Writer/Directors: Claude Lelouch, Costa-Gavras and Bertrand Tavernier Host Premieres of New Films at 9 annual city of lights, city of angels: a week of french premieres in Los Angels. April 11-17, 2005“Men And Women,” the latest offering of veteran writer/director Claude Lelouch, will have its world premiere, opening night of City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival (COL•COA) on Monday, April 11, 2005. The west coast premiere of writer/director Bertrand T...
The 2004 AsoloArtFilmFestival was held from 25 to 31 October.The Festival was revived in 2001 in the wake of the ‘Festival del Film sull’Arte e di Biografie d’Artista’ founded in 1973 by Flavia Paulon. The first of its kind, in being autonomous, the Asolo Festival has won international acclaim thanks to the participation of famous directors such as Andrej Tarkovskij, Luciano Emmer and Adrian Maben, and of Italian and foreign art and film critics. The festival was refounded by the A.I.A.F...
The Russel Tribunal, by Staffan Lamm, a documentary short from Sweden took home the grand prix at the 23rd Uppsala International Short Film Festival. The film is documentary footage of the 1967 Russel Tribunal which took the United States government to task for atrocities against Vietnam civilians during the Vietnam War. The tribune consisted of artists and activists such as Jean Paul Satre, Simone De Beauvoir, Stokely Carmichael, author Sara Lidman from Sweden, and dramatist and filmmaker Pete...
