Despite the maraichi entertainers that accented the closing night ceremony, it
was Asia and the Middle East that raked in the prizes at the 23rd edition of the
Festival of 3 Continents held in Nantes, France. So much so that only one winning
film did not originate from there, The Wind Horse, which was the only film
representing Africa in the selection, picked up the Young Audience Award and Best
Actor. The big winner was Delbaran from Abolfazl Jalili, a film that has
already won priz...
Cinemagic World Screen Entertainment FestivalNovember 29 - December 9 (Ireland)The 12th Cinemagic World Screen Entertainment Festival, running November 29 - December 9, uses the magic of film and all forms of moving image to inspire and contribute to the development of young people in Northern Ireland. Cinemagic 2001 will open with the Irish premiere of Christmas Carol: The Movie, featuring the voices of Kate Winslet (who also sings!), Jane Horrocks and Nicolas Cage. Another highlight ...
Regus London Film Festival November 7 - 22 (UK)The Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges starrer, K-PAX, closed the 2001 Regus London Film Festival on November 22 with both stars and director Iain Softley in attendance. Bridges, "It's really wonderful to be here. It's been 12 years since I came here with The Fabulous Baker Boys." Spacey blew away some newspaper rumours, "I'm extremely glad to be here, contrary to reports I was not afraid to fly and I'm excited to be here in Lon...
International Film Festival Bratislava November 30 - December 8 (Slovakia)The 3rd International Film Festival Bratislava will take place November 30 - December 8 in Slovakia's ancient capital city. Highlighted films in the Bratislava 2001 international contest of first and second feature films will include: the Austrian film A Dog's Day which won the Venice 2001 Grand Prix; the best debut film at Montreal 2001, Daughters of the Sun; the winner of Rotterdam 2001, the German film Next D...
Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival December 4 - 9 (France) The 7th Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Paris will be kicking off December 4 - 9 at the Forum des Images with almost 30 films comprised of features, shorts, documentaries and avant-premieres showing the vivacity and originality of filmmaking within the gay and lesbian international community. Director of Madonna's breakthrough film Desperately Seeking Susan, American filmmaker Susan Seidelman's Gaudi Afternoon will be ...
Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) November 28 - December 9 (Estonia) Estonia’s largest film festival, the 5th Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) will take place from November 28 to December 9 opening with Cool and Crazy (Heftig & Begeistret) by Swedish director Knut Erik Jensen, an European Film Academy nominee for best documentary film. From year to year, more and more people have come to see the festival's films - 36,800 last year - while the film selection has widen...
Ojai Film Festival November 8 - 12 (US)The Second Ojai Film Festival, presented by the Ojai Film Society, was held Thursday, November 8 through Monday, November 12, 2001. Ojai is located 85 miles north of Los Angeles. Steeped in natural beauty, it was captured on film as the mythical paradise, Shangri-La, in Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon. Ojai, home to an eclectic arts community, and long noted as a mecca for alternative spiritual movements,continues to attract visitors...
The program selections are final, completing the list of films in the 10 major sections to be screened at Sundance 2002. The Native Forum section revealed 15 titles dominated by Canadian and New Zealand indigenous filmmakers. The Premieres revisits a couple of festival favorites: Human Nature (Cannes 2001), Birthday Girl and Lucky Break (Venice 2001) and introduces new films by directors Mira Nair and Gus Van Sant, as well as actor John Malkovich making his directorial debut. In the ...
This year's holiday blockbuster Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (titled Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone in the US) features the film wizard extraordinaire, Harry Potter. Of course, this Potter is no relation to the same name Scrooge-like character, Mr. Henry F. Potter (played by Lionel Barrymore), in Frank Capra's 1946 classic all-time beloved Christmas film, It's A Wonderful Life. Other than sharing the same name, the only other thing both characters share is that their fil...
Emirates Australian Film & Television Awards (AFI) November 16 (Australia)The Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne was abuzz on the evening of Friday November 16, when Australia's most galmourous celebrities stepped onto the red carpte to celebrate the Emirates 43rd Australian Film & Television Awards, presented by AFI.Lantana, by two-time feature film director Ray Lawrence, emerged as the film of the year, collecting seven awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor...
St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) November 8 - 18 (US)The Charter Communications 10th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival concluded with an awards ceremony at the Sheraton Clayton Plaza on Sunday, Nov. 18. handing the Emerson Audience Award for Best Film to German director Roland Suso Richter's The Tunnel.Attendance at this year's event is estimated at 15,500 dramatically up from last year¹s tally of 10,000 and well beyond the previous attendance high o...
Huela Festival of Iberoamerican Cinema November 17 - 24 (Spain)Official Competition jury of the 27th Huelva Festival of Iberoamerican Cinema, composed of Lucía Etxebarría, Antonio Gasset, Tamara Acosta, Laura Mañá, Rodrigo Díaz and Jorge Perugorría, decided to award the Golden Colon to Beatriz Flores Silva's En La Puta Vida. This unexpected Belgian-Uruguayan-Cuban-Spanish production, helmed by 45 year-old Flores (of Uruguayan/Belgian descent),...
European Film Academy Awards (EFA)December 1 (Germany)The best and brightest of European film society will be flocking into Germany' s culture capital to attend the 2001 European Film Academy's Awards ceremony. The glamorous event, honoring the best in European films, will take place in Berlin on December 1 at the new Tempodrom.French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie, the international festival winner and audience favorite, has earned the most nominations from the members of the Europe...
Actor, film director, writer, lyricist, composer, theatre director Melvin Van Peebles, dubbed Godfather of modern Black-American cinema since his seminal Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, stormed through the 23d Nantes Film Festival with a rollering gig performance alongside the French band Little Rabbits. This clip shows Melvin Van Peebles on stage and interviewed about his long-lasting links with the Nantes Three Continents Film Festival....
Pawel Pawlikowsky's Last Resort has scooped awards at dozens of festivals already but when it was released (on March 16 in the UK) it passed by unnoticed. Filmed on a tiny budget, it will probably suffer from an inexcusable lack of promotion despite its immense success. Tom Fogg talked to Pawel about the film, his unformulaic style that allows a cast to collaborate on the script and how magical things must happen for a film to work.I watched a film with someone who is from Scotland and...
Arriving for the Gala Screening of Sexy Beast, Kingsley related how he had to « find the Demon within » for his role as Gary in this psychological thriller....
This UK director, coming from a music video background, presented his first feature, Sexy Beast, at a Gala Screening in Toronto. The film is a thriller where action takes second place to a good old-fashioned battle of two immovable wills: Oscar-award winning actor Ben Kingsley and British stalwart Ray Winstone. Jonathan talks openly about working with Ben Kingsley and a number of projects in the works....
January 1, 2001 - Awards Year Begins December 3, 2001 - Deadline for Official Screen Credit Forms to Qualify Feature Films December 31, 2001 - Awards Year Ends (at midnight) Janurary 8, 2002 - Mail Nominations Ballots February 1, 2002 - Nominations Polls Close February 12, 2002 - All Nominations Announced February 16, 2002 - Begin Screenings of Nominated Pictures in Samuel Goldwyn Theater February 27, 2002 - Mail Final Ballots March 19, 2002 - Final Polls Close March 24, 200...
The revolutionary 1977 science fiction spectacular film, George Lucas's Star Wars, has been chosen as the "greatest film of all time" by an extensive polling of 20,000 viewers by the UK's Channel 4, according to the Guardian. The polling results, compiled from voting via the website, by phone and in one-to-one interviews throughout August, were given at the end of a two-part show broadcast last night which was presented by Graham Norton. Other films chosen for their all time greatness following...
The 22nd International Documentary Film Festival, the world's biggest event of its kind as regards attendees and film screenings, opens in Amsterdam today with Startup.com, the fascinating documentary about the sudden success and downfall of Govworks.com and, moreover, the dot.com industry, according to Variety. The event, which attracted more than 65,000 visitors in 2000, is predicting an increase by as much as 10,000 by the end of the fest on Dec. 2 due to the pre-sale requests. With some 300 ...
Best Picture Eligible for nomination? All feature-length films (more than 40min) of whatever language that are first publicly exhibited (in 35mm or 70mm film) for at least seven consecutive days in a theatre in the Los Angeles area between January 1 and midnight on December 31, 2001. In 1998 the number of eligible features was 286, in 2000 it tallied in at 246. No film will be considered for a nomination which has already shown on broadcast or cable television, home video marketing or...
Sundance 2002, the premiere world event for independent filmmakers running January 10-20, 2002 in Park City, Utah, has announced its line-up of films for the American Showcase, American Spectrum and Competitions sections. The event has moved up its dates this year for security reasons due to the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics which will be held February 8 - 20 and partly performed in the Park City mountain area. According to indieWIRE, the Sundance 2002 programmers received considerabl...
Fulfilling a lifetime dream, Christopher Lee became part of the Tolkienworld through the Peter Jackson adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic sagaLord of the Rings. The tall, deep-voiced actor made famous for hisportrayal of Dracula in the long-running Hammer series of the sixties,portrays Saruman, the evil wizard coveting the One Ring to enhance hislethal power. Prince of Darkness Lee shares with us the secrets of astrange casting session conducted two years ago by Peter Jackson himself....
The 21st Asbury Shorts Show of New York presented a sold out evening of outstanding award winning short films in Manhattan's prestigious DGA Theatre. Short film laureate Tom Schiller hosted the festivities. Tom was the original creator of short films for Saturday Night Live in their glory days. Two of his award winning shorts were screened from those years including "La Dolce Gilda" starring Gilda Radner, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd. The show lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes ...
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick has appointed his advisory film selection committee. Thirteen representatives from the fields of film production, directing, distribution, movie theaters, film review and history will serve as advisors at selection screenings for the Competition of the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival.This year's committee also includes Forum director Christoph Terhechte. This decision reflects how the Berlinale and the Forum will cooperate more closely in th...
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