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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
CineMart 2011 presents 33 film projects
Inaugural Irish Festival at Old Billingsgate
Record audiences for the 14th Black Nights Film Festival
Audience record at the 9th Festival of German Films in Moscow
Biografilm Festival – International Celebration of Lives
Masterclass with Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Thessaloniki
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FILM NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
Serengeti by Reinhard Radke, the synopsis
The Seregenti: a land of endless spaces, classified by UNESCO World Heritage Centre, stretches many hundred miles from Tanzania to the northern outline of Kenya conservation areas. From the broad plains under the The Ngorongoro Crater highlands, over the central Serengeti thorn bush lands, as far as to the luxuriant pastures in the North, attracting yearly two millions gazelles and zebras, ...
Among the must-watch films at DIFF 2010 are hard-hitting tales from the Arab world and Asia
Screening on Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 10 pm at Cinestar 9, Mall of the Emirates (MoE), is director Shuchen Tan?s ?Baghdad Film School.? The film is about Iraqi born filmmakers Maysoon Pachachi and Kasim Abid who developed the challenging idea to open up the first independent film school in Iraq. With a car loaded with video equipment, they undertook their dangerous journey from Amman to Baghdad and ...
Ethiopian Oscar Contender Set For Palm Springs
The Palm Springs International Film Festival, the first major film event of the 2011 film calendar, is known, among other things, for its embrace of films being considered for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The Festival routinely screens most of the films eligible, screening the films that the countries themselves have put forward for nomination. This offers a ...
GoPro HD Hero community, content shared and aired on TV
GoPro, the world's best selling wearable HD camera company, is celebrating the success of its world famous HD HERO® line of wearable and gear mountable sports cameras by launching a national TV campaign comprised of 16 action sports commercials, nearly all of which are consumer generated. The commercials were shot entirely with the HD HERO camera, which sells for $179-$299 in retail stores includ...
Virtual Pitchfest MADE A MOVIE!
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Changing Locations and the First Films in Berlinale Generation
Consumer generated commercials with GoPro's HD HERO cameras
Wenders in competition for the Berlinale 2011 with Pina
Interview on 'Son of Babylon'
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NEWS FROM THE KEY CIRCUIT PLAYERS
Reinhard Radke the director of Serengeti
Reinhard Radke (Stand Frühjahr 2004, ohne Veröffentlichungen in rein wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften) Jahrgang 1948 Graduierter Elektroingenieur Biologiestudium in Berlin und Braunschweig 1983 bis 1988: Wildbiologische Untersuchungen in kenianischen Schutzgebieten 1990 Promotion (...
Funny With A Dose of Acid: Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards, the American director whose comedic films were always presented with a dose of acid, passed away in his Los Angeles home yesterday. In a career of highs and lows, Edwards carved a particular niche as a funny man with a dark underside and a dramatist who sometimes injected humor in...
Colin Firth interacted with public at ?In Conversation' session at DIFF 2010
Renowned actor Colin Firth, the star of the opening film of the seventh Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), The King?s Speech, interacted with visitors to the festival at the ?In Conversation? session. It followed the actor being presented with the Variety ?International Star of the Year? Awa...
Vijay Jadhav, Director NFAI Pune RIP
Vijay Hanumant Jadhav, Director of the National Film Archive of India and the Press Information Bureau in Pune expired after a heart attack on Dec 14. He had worked with several media related organizations including Press Information Bureau , All India Radio and Doordarshan.Mr Jadhav also had ...
The irrepressible Terry Gifford headed the jury for the international competition
Gifford's upbeat comments about Kathmandu, the festival and Nepal as a whole, went down well at both the opening and closing ceremonies. ...
Writer/director Sofia Coppola discusses her latest film Somewhere
Writer/director Sofia Coppola discusses her latest film Somewhere with Film Independent - It's hard to believe that over ten years have passed since Sofia Coppola burst onto the scene with her 1999 indie hit The Virgin Suicides. Now the Academy Award and Spirit Award-winning writer/dir...
TIFF press conference of the Jury with director Scandar Copti
51st TIFF: Press conference of the Jury (12/7/2010) PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE JURY The 51st TIFF jury held a press conference on Tuesday December 7th . The director of the festival, Dimitris Eipides, was present at the conference. Members of the jury ...
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL masterclass
This year's winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Apichatpong Weerasethakul delivered a masterclass on Wednesday, December 8th at John Cassavetes Theater, within the framework of the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival and presented ...
Colin Firth interacted with public at ‘In Conversation' session at DIFF 2010
Berlinale will Honor Armin Mueller-Stahl with Golden Bear
Charlie Kaufman will be honored at next Goteborg
Pierre Rissient in the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival Jury
Sofia Coppola discusses her latest film Somewhere
Spike Jones returns to executive produce 2011 Writers Guild Awards' Los Angeles Show
Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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AWARDS
Screen Actors Guild Nominees
While it limits its nominations to acting awards for film and television, the Screen Actors Guild Awards are considered very prestigious because they are given to actors by their fellow thespians. The awards ceremony, which used to be a private affair for guild members, is now televised in the ...
Academy Wants You: "Invited to Share the Oscars?!"
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Oscar Goes Public?: As If! As everyone with a pulse knows, the Academy Awards annual Oscar ceremony is fairly exclusive. They even provide journalists with a list of ways the image of the show can be used and how the material must be presented...
Oscar Goes Public?
Oscar Goes Public? ...
Broken Moon bags first prize at Kathmandu
The irrepressible Terry Gifford KATHMANDU ~ The Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) 2010 has concluded with the top award in the international competition going to The Broken Moon (Brazil), directed by Marcos Negrao and Andre Rangel. Announcing the winner, lead judge Te...
Golden Globe Snubs And Surprises
The "usual suspects" were evident at the announcement of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Both the historical biopic THE KING'S SPEECH and the zeitgeist drama THE SOCIAL NETWORK received the most nominations, with such celebrated films as BLACK ...
The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards
NOMINATIONS BY THE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION 2011 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2010 NOMINATIONS 1. BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA a. BLACK SWAN Protozoa Pictures & Cross Creek Pictures & Phoenix; Fox Searchlight Pictures b. THE FIGHTER Pa...
Periferic (Outbound) wins the Golden Alexander!
Last night on December 11, 2010, the 51st Thessaloniki Film Festival awarded its prizes for audience and jury awards to their pick for the best films in competition at the festival. And Romania took most of the awards. Between Bogdan George Apretri's 'Periferic' and Marian Crisan's 'Mo...
Closing of the 10th edition of River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival
The 10th edition of the River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival, under the patronage of Embassy of India, has had its last day on the 9th of December, with great attendance and feedback of the audience and the press, confirming furtherly the importance of the 50 Giorni di Cinema Internazio...
Broken Moon bags first prize at Kathmandu
The Angel Film Awards
The last day of Bulkin wins 6th BuSho
'Black Swan' receives 12 Nominations for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Inception and list of 15 Visual effects Oscar semi finalists
Periferic (Outbound) wins the Golden Alexander!
SOUL BOY wins ADIFF's Public Award for the Best Film Directed by a Woman of Color!
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