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Monday, June 5----One of the more anticipated programs at the TROIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is its annual competition for American Independent films. The Festival, over the past 22 years, has been an important showcase for films made outside the Hollywood studio system. This year, six worthy films are competing for the award. The first of them kicks off the section this evening.
FLANNEL PAJAMAS, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, is unique in two important ways. It...
Saturday, June 3----FESTROIA: The Troia International Film Festival, will present nearly 180 films, representing 48 countries, with a strong predominance of European cinema, during its 22nd annual showcase. The Festival, the oldest and most prestigious in Portugal, has several competition sections in its wide-ranging program.
The Official Section, in competition for the Golden Dolphin Award, is made up of 14 films, from nations that produce fewer than 30 films per year. This is a unique approa...
Friday, June 2---SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival opens on June 13 with the world premiere of the HBO Films documentary BOFFO! TINSELTOWN'S BOMBS AND BLOCKBUSTERS, directed by Oscar-winning documentary director Bill Couturie.
The film takes a behind-the-scenes look at the high risk world of Hollywood filmmaking, where all bets are off as to whether even the biggest budget film will not be a major box office bomb. Featuring candid, often amusing interviews, with such Holl...
SILVERDOCS: AFI/DISCOVERY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL has become one of the most prestigious events in the world of non-fiction film. The 2006 Festival, a mixture of film screenings, information seminars and special events, will take place from June 13 to 18, 2006 at the AFI Silver Center in Silver Springs, Maryland (USA). Return to this dedicated website to read articles, view photos, hear audio files and view video at North America's most intriguing festival devoted to the work of documen...
SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival has become one of the most prestigious events in the world of non-fiction film. The 2006 Festival, a mixture of film screenings, information seminars and special events, will take place from June 13 to 18, 2006 at the AFI Silver Center in Silver Springs, Maryland (USA). Return to this dedicated website to read articles, view photos, hear audio files and view vide
After two crazy weeks, Cannes is now over. Most people are back home. A few are still there to finish editing their stories, videos, TV shows... I left Sunday to watch the award ceremony on TV.
Awards, as always, were quite surprising. The Palme d'Or (see all videos) went to Ken Loach's the Wind that Shakes the Barley, not my own favorite. Surprisingly, no prize was awarded to Marie-Antoinette from Sophia Coppola nor for the Pan's Labyrinth from Guillermo Del Toro.
See you soon...
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The Cannes 2006 Grand Prix goes to Flanders by Bruno DUMONT
Credits:
Director: Bruno DUMONT
Screenplay: Bruno DUMONT
Cinematography: Yves CAPE
Film Editor: Guy LECORNE
Sounds: Emmanuel CROSET
Sounds: Philippe LECOEUR
Actors:
Adelaide LEROUX
Samuel BOIDIN
Synopsis:
Today, in Flanders, the local young men leave as soldiers to fight in a distant land. The story of soldiers going to the front, their march, the comrades, the misery of war.
The wait for horror - the horror itself - and what...
The Best Screenplay Award goes to Pedro ALMODOVAR for the film Volver:
Director: Pedro ALMODOVAR
Screenplay: Pedro ALMODÓVAR
Cinematography: José Luis ALCAINE
Set Designer: Salvador PARRA
Music: Alberto IGLESIAS
Film Editor: José SALCEDO
Sounds: Miguel REJAS
Actors:
Penélope CRUZ Raimunda
Carmen MAURA Grand mère Irène
Lola DUEÑAS Sole
Blanca PORTILLO Agustina
Yohana COBO Paula
Chus LAMPREAVE Tante Paula
Synopsis:
Three generations of women survive the east wind, f...
The prize goes to Alejandro González IÑ
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The prize goes to all actors from Indigènes from Rachid BOUCHAREB:
Jamel DEBBOUZE
Samy NACÉRI
Sami BOUAJILA
Roschdy ZEM
Bernard BLANCAN
Credits for Indigènes:
Director: Rachid BOUCHAREB
Screenplay: Olivier LORELLE
Screenplay: Rachid BOUCHAREB
Cinematography: Patrick BLOSSIER
Set Designer: Dominique DOURET
Music: Armand AMAR
Music: KHALED
Film Editor: Yannick KERGOAT
Sounds: Olivier / Thomas HESPEL / GAUDER
Synopsis:
1943. They had not yet set foot in France, but because it's war, Saïd...
Credits:
Andrea ARNOLD Director
Andrea ARNOLD Screenplay
Robbie RYAN Cinematography
Helen SCOTT Set Designer
Nicolas CHAUDEURGE Film Editor
Actors:
Kate DICKIE
Tony CURRAN
Martin COMPSTON
Natalie PRESS
Synopsis:
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now sh...
Credits:
Director: Bobbie PEERS
Screenplay: Bobbie PEERS
Cinematography: Jakob INGIMUNDARSON
Set Desig: Guri GIÆVER Set Designer
Music Evan GARDNER
Film Editor: PÃ¥l GENGENBACH Film Editor
Sounds: Thomas Angell ENDRESEN
In a society where everyone has the ability to fly, the citizens anchor themselves to the ground via "gravitation boots". Devoid of sunlight and the open sky, the members of society go about their routine without any hope of personal gratification. One day, however, ...
After 12 days of a rich Festival, the award sceremony took place at 7:30 pm on Sunday 28, 2006.
And the winners are:
- Feature Films
Palme d'Or: the Wind that Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach
Grand Prix: Flanders by Bruno Dumont
Best Actress Award: Penélope CRUZ, Carmen MAURA, Lola DUEÑAS, Blanca PORTILLO, Yohana COBO, Chus LAMPREAVE for Volver
Best Actor Award: Jamel DEBBOUZE, Samy NACERI, Sami BOUAJILA, Roschdy ZEM, Bernard BLANCAN for Indigènes
Best Director Award: Alejandro González IÃ...
Tahiti Film Festival Presentation.
As the Cannes Film Festival moves into its final weekend, it seems that the fine art of booing is still very much “en vogue
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The first Tahiti Film Festival is launched by our friend Pascale above. It will be held this October 21-29 in... Tahiti off course.
In Cannes, the Tahiti beach already gives us a first idea of the coming event and ambiance.
Enjoy the music and dance with this video.
Who would not want to come to such paradise...
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An action packed scene where the tension has finally released but in a tragic scene. Not a clip for kids, this shows the consequences of social tensions.
Directed by
Ken Loach
Writing credits
Paul Laverty
Synopsis: A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland.
Credited cast:
Cillian Murphy .... Damien
Padraic Delaney .... Teddy
Liam Cunningham .... Dan
Gerard Kearney .... Dunica
William Ruane .... Gogan
Country: France / Ireland / UK
Language: English
Everyone knows about the fa,ous Red Carpet of the Fil, Festival. What a lot of people don' know is that not only is there a red carpet, but also a blue carpet, for films still entered into the festival but just in a smaller theater, as well as the theater for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Lets take a look at what all of these carpets are about...
Red carpet, stars, croisette, cocktail dress, limo... this is Cannes. The magic of the festival. But only the magic of it. Most of the professional here are part of the market. Buy and sell, looking at the next success, this is the fist of the International Festival of Cannes. There are not only movies. You can find everything about cinema. Some people sell chairs for theaters, video cameras, posters, everything can be found around here. This unknown part of Cannes looks more like a village market on a Sunday morning than like the perfect shiny dream we see on TV.
Of course, all you thought about Cannes is real too but it's not the main part of it. The inflow of money is amazing and conduces to two opposite milieu. You can meet the first one during the night. Those crazy night birds spend millions euros in champagne, cars, suites, fake breast, drugs and so on. This is the shiny part. From the middle of the afternoon till the sunrise, in this happy-go-lucky wave of parties, rich people come to can to give a chance to the proletarian to have fun with them for the luckiest, or just to look at them for real for once for the most of us. The second milieu is everywhere; it's even part of the previous one. This is the hard-working milieu. 24/7 they meet as many people as they can, spread professional cards all around Cannes, go to the parties, conferences, theaters, everywhere there is someone with something to sell or to buy. Those people who literally make the festival own there headquarter. It's not hiding anywhere; this is here, right in the Palais des Festival. Its location is pretty relevant. Level -1. The only one underground, the one you're not supposed to see but as close to the main entrance as theaters and medias.
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