Ingrid and Sonia Jean-Baptiste revealed the CFF 2023 JURY
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'O corno / The Rye Horn' lands the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition
The feature film O corno / The Rye Horn (Spain-Portugal-Belgium), directed by Jaione Camborda from San Sebastian, carried off the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition. In addition, the official jury decided to give the Silver Shell for Best Director to Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang for Chun xing / A Journey in Spring (Taiwan), while the Best Scre...
On the stage at the Vitoria Eugenia theatre where fifty years ago he received the Golden Shell for his first film El Espíritu de la colmena, Victor Erice picked up the Donostia Award last night. The actress Ana Torrent, who as a child starred in the very same film, had the honour of presenting the director with the statuette, and said that it was enormously moving to give Erice the award “50 years after coming together in the same place to present El espíritu de l...
Photo : Leila Naghdipari, Jafar Panahi, Majid Berzegar
“Jafar Panahi” the acclaimed Iranian director, published a video in support of the release of “Leila Naghdipari”, the costume and set designer of the movie “Three Faces”.
According to the report of Mansour Jahani, an independent and international cinema journalist, “Jafar Panahi” announced in a statement that “Leila Naghdipari” was arrested on the anniversary ...
We are happy to announce the nominated films for the 22nd Edition of the Miami short Film Festival, November 17–19, 2023.
Best North America Narrative
Hating Beckett - Dir by; Matthew Gossin
Sticks & Stones - Dir by: Emily Singer
Romanova - Dir by: Mark Kaercher
Launch at Paradise - Dir by: Carrie Ann Quinn
It´s a Dog - Dir by: Eli Shapiro
Best Foreign Narrative
Overthinker - Dir by: Nemanja Mladenovic
The Old young Crow - Dir by: Liam LoPinto
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Hafez Awards, the biggest cinema and television event organized by the private sector in Iran, to the extent that a special "Abbas Kiarostami" award is presented to the best experimental film at the ceremony.
This fall, 22nd film and television ceremony of Picture World Magazine (Hafez Awards), the recognition of Iranian cinema and television will be held. A ceremony directed and produced by Omid Moallem and produced by Azar memarian in which Asghar Farhadi and Mehran Modiri are the...
Ron Truppa, Bruce Davison 2023 Career Tribute Award Honoree
CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS 13th ANNUAL EVENT WITH AWARDS PRESENTATION & HONORS ACTOR BRUCE DAVISON WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Notable Festival Attendees include Actors Katrina Law, Lily Brooks O’Briant, Page Kennedy, Wally Kurth and Director Ashley Avis
VIRTUAL FEST SCREENS ONLINE VIA EOAPP FROM SEPT 29TH-OCTOBER 8TH
Catalina Film Festival (CFF) wrapped their 13th annual c...
Mark Antony, Review: Mark and Tony and Telephony
Inspired by the works of Shakespeare’s prodigal cousin, Shake Speer, this assault on your senses is a tribute to the Emperors Brutius and Scissor (real names Mark and Antony). Some 40 years ago, a TV series was made in Mumbai called Indradhanush. It was the first sci-fi, time-travel serial, where a remote control has the power to transport the bearer to a time centuries ago. I should know. I played the Mafia Don villain, who uses this rem...
The Vaccine War, Review: Vaccinema
With a no brainer of a title, the docu-feature is indeed about the vaccine for Covid 19 Coronavirus, India’s first bio-science film. But what about the ‘war’? Granted that the pandemic had to be dealt with in a war-like situation, this is an exaggerated term to describe the war-footing under which Indian scientists prepared the above vaccine, and the desperate measures that some western countries adopted to deride these efforts. Their motiv...
