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The Slamdance Film Festival announced its winners tonight in 10 categories
at the Sparky Awards' ceremonies in the festival's headquarters at the Silver
Mine in Park City. The number of women filmmakers in this year's festival was
at an all time high with Lucia Small scoring wins in two categories for My
Father, The Genius and short animation filmmakers Lisa Yu (Vessel Wrestling)
and Atsuko Kubota (Better Life) for their films. The festival was also
marked by a high numb...
Some felt is was too small, too independent, too experimental, too slow, too
boring, too un-marketable, but none of this matters now, because as of last
night Gus Van Sant's cinematic meditation on friendship and survival, Gerry,
was acquired by ThinkFilm. They are hoping for a Fall 2002 release. ThinkFilm's
marketing of Gerry will surely be an interesting campaign to keep an
eye on later this year.
Acting God John Malkovich's directing debut The Dancer Upstairs was
fin...
Rotterdam Competition Announced
Sixteen features will take part in the 31st International Film Festival Rotterdam
Jan 23-Feb 3. All films are either world, international or European premiers,
which will compete for the Festival's VPRO Tiger Awards. Available to competitors
are the three Tiger awards, each worth 10,000 euros, is given to first- or second-time
directors. Also included is the assured possibilites for broadcast or distribution
in Dutch theaters. The Festival hop...
Absolute Hundred (Yugoslavia, 2001)
Agitator (Japan, 2001)
American Magus (USA, 2001)
As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of B (USA, 2000)
Asta e (Romania/Germany, 2001)
Blue Spring (Japan, 2001)
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight (USA, 2000)
Bread and Milk (Slovenia, 2001)
Brève traversée (France, 2001)
Butterfly Smile (China, 2000)
Camel(s) (South Korea, 2001)
Chicken Rice War (S...
Away from Home (Turkey, 2001)
Don's Plum (USA/Denmark, 2000)
Donnie Darko (USA, 2001)
Pau and his Brother (Spain/France, 2001)
Taxi para tres (Chile, 2001)
Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in DaeHakRoh (South Korea, 2000)
Tokyo X Erotica (Japan, 2001)
Der schöne Tag (Germany, 2001)...
Bonanza (Argentina, 2001)
De la calle (Mexico, 2001)
Demasiado amor (Mexico/Spain, 2001)
Hangtime (Nigeria/Zimbabwe, 2001)
Japón (Mexico/Spain, 2001)
Kali salwaar (India, 2001)
Lalsalu (Bangladesh, 2001)
Miradas (Cuba, 2001)
Occident (Romania, 2002)
Raya (South Africa/Zimbabwe, 2001)
Sagkoshi (Iran, 2001)
Tirana Year Zero (Albania/France, 2001)
L' autre monde (France/Algeria, 2001)
La fiebre del loc...
#23.2, Book of Mirrors (The Netherlands, 2002)
*Corpus Callosum (Canada, 2002)
The 2001 Dedications (1-3) (Canada, 2001)
5% (USA, 2001)
>Fader (Austria, 2001)
A not = A or for Devatas who keep on Dancing (Japan, 2000)
ATOZ (France/USA, 2000)
L' Anglaise et le Duc (France, 2001)
Anna Hanusova. 27.06.01, 5h 40 (Austria/ United Kingdom, 2001)
Apologia (USA, 2001)
Arnulf Rainer (Austria, 1960)
Bardosphère (Poland, 2000)
Bautismo (USA, 2000)
Bobrennen im Sommer...
+81 b.p.m. Music Promo's from Japan (Japan, 2001)
Austrian Abstracts (Austria, 2001)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (USA, 2001)
Electric Cinema (2001)
The French New Wave (France, 2000)
Michel Gondry - Special Screening (USA, 2001)
Music Video Director in Focus: Michel Gondry
Music Video Director in Focus: Spike Jonze
Music Videos from England: 3 Directors in Focus (United Kingdom)
New York New York
No More Stars
Panel: The Look...
Britney Baby - One More Time (USA/The Netherlands/France, 2002)
The Cat's Meow (Germany/United Kingdom, 2001)
Expulsion from Paradise (Czech Republic, 2001)
Festival in Cannes (USA, 2001)
Film School Confidential (USA, 2001)
The Fluffer (USA, 2000)
H-Story (Japan/France, 2001)
Hotel (Italy/United Kingdom, 2001)
Lisa Picard is Famous (USA, 2000)
Planet der Kannibalen (Germany, 2001)
Sauvage innocence (France/The Netherlands, 20...
On September 23, 2001, several big names in show biz got together to write,
rehearse, and direct an ensemble of six plays. Exactly 24 hours later, the plays
were performed, with seats selling at $100 a ticket. Why the rush and the price?
All benefits from the performance went towards Working Playground, a non-profit
organization, to help children of New York deal with the trauma of September
11.
In ticket sales alone, the benefit raised over $30,000. In the sold-out audienc...
This year's People's Choice Awards echoed much of last year's winners. While
"ER" won for the Favorite Television Dramatic Series, as did "Friends"
for the comedy category of television, both shows have received numerous People's
Choice Awards in past years. Other repeat favorites include Jennifer Aniston
as Favorite Female Television Performer and Garth Brooks as Favorite Male Musical
Performer. Shrek took top pick for Favorite Motion Picture and Tom Hank...
Festival organizers announced the winners of the 2002 SLAMDUNK FILM FESTIVALthis evening in an awards ceremony. This is SLAMDUNK'S fifth year in ParkCity, adding to the growing list of "alternative" fests that have mushroomedaround the SUNDANCE Film Festival.The winners are as follows:BEST FEATURE FILM: Ordinary Sinner, Dir. John Henry DavisBEST DIRECTOR: John Henry Davis, ORDINARY SINNERBEST ACTOR: Roger G. Smith, A HUEY P. NEWTON STORYBEST ACTRESS: Annabeth Gish, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESSBEST S...
The American labor union is currently at a crossroads, a position that director
Kristi Jacobson captures with commitment and clarity in her first feature length
documentary, American Standoff. Produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara
Kopple (with whom Jacobson co-directed a short film about capital punishment),
and headed for an HBO airing later this year, the film follows, from its inception,
a lengthy Teamsters strike against Overnite Transportation, a powerful national,...
Breaking out on the festival buying circuit this year is Fine Line Features,
which bought the North American rights to Finn Taylor's dramatic competition
film Cherish. According to Screen Daily, Fine Line sealed the $1 million
deal complete with soundtrack, and rumor has it there may be a summer release.
Likewise, Gus Van Sant's film, Gerry, was taken by THINKFilm for under
$1 million, with a release planned for next fall. The film received mixed reviews
at this year's Su...
Presenters of the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival,
Frameline, announced that the Sundance Channel will become their Premier Sponsor
for the 26th Annual Festival taking place June 13-30. Frameline brings the best
in lesbian and gay films and videos to communities across the country through
Frameline Distribution, the nation's only distributor solely dedicated to lesbian
and gay film and video.
The San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festiva...
Finally, the snow flurries blew into Park City giving the town the kind of
white powder that pleased skiers as well as filmgoers who might feel a greater
sense of coziness during a matinee. Jill Sprecher’s Thirteen Conversations
About One Thing, being one well received option, but a fair number of people
checked out the House of Docs, a sprawling but comfy clubhouse for documentary
makers who are making quite a presence with their films this year.
Since the subjects o...
The Jubilee needs your help to keep bringing you the films and filmmakers you
would never get to see or meet without us. This may not be the best timing for
a plea for dollars due to holiday bills, a crashing economy with an uncertain
future, and the multitude of great causes and human needs that are worthy of
financial support. Too often arts and culture take a hit when times are tough,
but this is when we need the arts the most.
The arts reflect our times, our culture, ou...
A unique cooperation has saved one of the most valuable cinemas in Europe,
the Skandia, located in the very heart of Stockholm, closed to the public since
1995. Beside the Stockholm International Film Festival and Svensk Filmindustri
other partners in the venture are the Swedish Film Institute, the Stockholm
City Council and Hufvudstaden.
Skandia was opened in 1923 by Svensk Filmindustri. Skandia is considered as
one of the great masterpieces of Swedish 20's classicism. It w...
Located in the media capital of the world, having produced countless events
for 12 years in Hollywood and New York City, we know filmmakers, screenwriters
and actors need MEDIA ATTENTION. And although it's tough to secure ‘ink’
from a major urban publication, garnering good reviews from sources like The
LA Weekly, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter or The Los Angeles Times will certainly
help screenwriters and filmmakers secure representation, film distribution,
te...
Director Louis J. Horvitz will helm his sixth consecutive Oscar telecast,
who received his third Emmy for his direction of the 72nd Academy Awards broadcast.
Horvitz is one of Hollywood's most prolific television directors, with more
than 6,000 hours of programming to his name.
In 1998, Horvitz won an Emmy Award for his direction of the 70th Annual Academy
Awards. He was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1997 for directing the 69th Oscar
telecast and in 2001 for the 73rd Awards...
The 7th Lumieres Awards, bestowed by the foreign press to French cinema production,
tilted for Amelie on January 12th during a modest ceremony. Jean-Pierre
Jeunet's little love story picked up Best Film, Actress (for Audrey Tautou)
and Screenplay for Jeunet and co-writer Guillaume Laurant. Best Director was
reserved for Patrice Chereau for Intimacy, while Billy Elliot
was considered Best Foreign Film.
Best Actor went to Michel Bouquet for his role in Comment j'ai tué
m...
Slamdance 2002 kicked off Jan 11 with the premier of 13 Moons, a film
about a bizarre assortment of people that find themselves all together in an
effort to save a six-year-old boy's life. Slamdance, taking place at the Silvermine,
is a festival of independent, low-budget films that runs independently of, but
at the same time, as the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Slamdance
runs from Jan 11-19, with films falling under eight categories: $99 Specials,
Special S...
A lot has been happening around the town of Park City the last few days. Many
of these happenings have involved large sums of money being put on the table
to buy little independent films with big stars. And sadly, another of these
happenings has been the mourning of director Ted Demme (Blow). As news
of Demme's death slowly reached the Sundance Film Festival, it at first was
treated as juts a rumor on the streets. The rumor became truth during Monday
afternoon as many new...
Mondays usually have that back to business feeling and this definitely seems
to be the case today. The crowds have thinned a bit - the afternoon Eccles screening
of Todd Solondz's Storytelling, is not nearly as thronged as Saturday's
Gerry showing, which seems to be emerging as a big buzz film, more for
its artistic triumph than its commercial possibilities.
Of today's screenings, people are talking about Patricia Cardoso's debut feature,
Real Women Have Curves, Finn Taylor...
The Panorama section of the 52nd Berlinale has now confirmed two thirds of
its Main Program, the Panorama Dokumente and the Panorama Special. With productions
selected from over 1500 films, 26 nations will be participating this year. France,
the USA, Germany and Japan are focal points. Eastern Europe, South America and
other countries in Asia are also well represented. In Panorama well known directors
as well as newcomers are presented.
Certain topics are in the air worldwi...
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