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Nadine Vinzens the star of Four Senses an an EroMantic adventure is our exceptional FilmFestival Ambassador in Cannes.
She shares her discoveries, surprises and meetings with our audience and reviews the key films in competition.
Let me tell you my thought on these films which were part of the main official selection.
The great gatsby: The Cannes opener
I love movies which are set in an earlier century. The style of the dresses, how they used to live, the language. V...
Samuel Jamier in action at Japan Society giving the introductory speech for the LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Globus film series of 2012. Both images "courtesy of Samuel Jamier".
JAPAN CUTS was launched as an annual event by the film department of the New York based Japan Society in 2007. It arranged co-presentations of Japanese films at the New York Asian Film Festival followed by additional days of programs at the Japan Society. In 2009 Samuel ...
A remarkable testament to aging with dignity
France loves its icons, one of whom is certainly the grande dame of French cinema Jeanne Moreau. In A LADY IN PARIS, Moreau gives a wonderful performance as the flinty Frida, who proves more than a challenge for Anne, played by Laine Mägi. Anne, who is dealing with the recent death of her mother, is employed from Estonia by café owner Stéphane (Patrick Pineau) to care for his former lover who is now eighty years old. Anne...
BE DISCOVERED IN HOLLYWOOD
CALL FOR ENTRIES: HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL®- OCT 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 2013
The 17th Annual HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL is now open for submissions in the follow genres: Features (all genres including animation, drama, comedy, horror), Docs, and Shorts (including animation). http://www.hollywoodfest.com
SUBMISSION LATE DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2013 – SUBMIT TODAY!
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CAMERA D’OR 2013 : PRESIDENTE AGNES VARDA
La Caméra d’or consacre chaque année le meilleur premier film issu de la Sélection officielle, de la Semaine de la Critique et de la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. En 2013, ils sont 23 à concourir (dont 6 femmes réalisatrices toutes issues de la Sélection officielle) pour cette récompense qui sera remise lors de la soirée de clôture le dimanche 26 mai. La Préside...
By Maria Esteves – April 28, 2013
Hilla Medalia (HM) is an Award winning producer and director. Her documentary shorts and features have received numerous awards. In 2004, Daughters of Abraham received the Angelus Award for best documentary short. In 2005, 39 Pounds Of Love received the Ofhir Award (Israeli Academy of Film & Television) and an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short. Her film John Foppe received the Regional Emmy Award for best Documentary Short.
In 2007, Medalia...
Both “The Rocket” director Kim Mordaunt and his 10-year old protagonist – Ahlo – have a gift for turning the rarely-seen countryside of Laos into a playground for the imagination. The film is a visually engaging, triumph-of-the-underdog piece, where ingenuity can summon beauty and power from a land littered with military debris.
As the film opens, we witness the birth of young Ahlo and his twin brother, who is stillborn. According to Laotian superstition, twins are sai...
To mark the restoration of one of the masterpieces of world cinema, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the Festival de Cannes has invited its heroine, Kim Novak, to grace the event with her presence.
Novak will attend the screening of Vertigo, filmed in 1958, which will be shown in its restored form as part of Cannes Classics. She will also take part in the closing ceremony for the 66th Festival de Cannes where she will award one of the Prizes on Sunday 26 May 2013. Novak first attende...
Claudio Giovannesi’s first dramatic feature is an engrossing coming-of-age story following one week in the life of sixteen-year-old troublemaker Nader, an immigrant teenager who stops at nothing to fit in to Italian youth culture despite his family’s insistence that he respect his Egyptian and Muslim roots. He gets into fights, does drugs, steals and pursues an Italian girlfriend against his mother’s threats to disown him. It is a wonderfully non-judgmental study of a young m...
American director and producer Steven Spielberg will preside this year over a star-studded Jury. Eight top-flight international film celebrities, active in a variety of creative fields, will help him select the winners.
Vidya Balan (Indian actress)
Naomi Kawase (Japanese director)
Nicole Kidman (Australian actress/producer)
Lynne Ramsay (British scriptwriter/director/producer)
Daniel Auteuil (French actor/director)
Ang Lee (Taiwanes...
by Alex Deleon
Deepa Mehta, Canadian based Indian director
The 2013 edition of the Los Angeles festival of Indian Film closed shop with a brace of films on successive evenings by two of the best known Indian woman directors, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta. The films in question were respectively Nair's recent "Reluctant Fundamentalist" and Mehta's newly minted "Midnight's Children" based on Salman Rushdie's latest novel of ...
CIFEJ in collaboration with “Dytiatko” Festival will organize the International Conference on “GlobalVillage, Children, TV and Cinema”.
As a leading professional organization focusing on film industry - high quality films with useful educational content for children and young people - The International Center of Films for Children and Young People (CIFEJ) has decided to launch this conference as a premier forum for communications and network rese...
To mark the restoration of one of the masterpieces of world cinema, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the Festival de Cannes has invited its heroine, Kim Novak, to grace the event with her presence.
Novak will attend the screening of Vertigo, filmed in 1958, which will be shown in its restored form as part of Cannes Classics. She will also take part in the closing ceremony for the 66th Festival de Cannes where she will award one of the Prizes on Sunday 26 May 2013. Novak first attended the Fest...
Gerald Potterton is a British director, producer and animator. He is best known for directing the animated cult classic Heavy Metal and for his animation work on Yellow Submarine.
Potterton has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Born in London, Potterton attended the Hammersmith Art School. After working as an assistant animator in London, (Animal Farm, 1954 Halas and Batchelor), Potterton joined the NFB where he directed both animated and l...
Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director, scriptwriter and producer, will be this year’s President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes Official Selection.
Born in Copenhagen in May 1969, Thomas Vinterberg received his training at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 1993 as the school’s youngest student.
His first short films Last Round (Sidste Omgang, 1993) and The Boy Who Walked Backwards (Drengen der gik baglæns) (Le gar&cc...
One of the young talents at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is Israeli TV Director Jonathan Gurfinkel who presents his startling and disturbing first feature, Six Acts (Shesh Peamin).
Powered by the haunting performance of young actress Sivan Levy, it is the story of Gilly, a sixteen year old girl who transfers to a new Tel-Aviv high school and looks for love in all the wrong places.
As Gilly's quest for acceptance leads her into ever sadder and more da...
“Dytiatko” festival is a noncommercial one; participation in it is free of charge. Children TV and animated studios and also TV companies and producer centers which make programs for children are welcomed to take part in the festival.
Nominations:
- “Best Play Film of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best Documental Film of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best TV Program of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best News Progra...
2013 Dallas International Film Festival
Presented by AutoNation Volkswagen Dealers
Announces Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Recipient of
Dallas Shining Star Award
Award to be presented at Dallas Film Society Honors Awards April 12
Dallas, TX, April 2, 2013 – The Dallas International Film Festival presented by AutoNation Volkswagen Dealers announced today that actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead will accept the Dallas Shining Star Award ...
By Maria Esteves – April 5, 2013
The Search Engine Strategies New York Conference & Expo 2013 (SESNY 2013) commenced March 25-28, 2013 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. Presented by Incisive Media, SES is the leading International Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Marketing (SM) conference that showcase keynote presentations, seminars, panel discussions, receptions, exhibitors show floor, and special events.
This year’s SES New York conference top industry panelist Thom ...
By Maria Esteves – April 5, 2013
The Search Engine Strategies New York Conference & Expo 2013 (SESNY 2013) Opening Keynote Social TV: How Marketers Can Reach and Engage Audiences by Connecting Television to the Web, Social Media and Mobile, with Hill Holliday senior vice president and director of Social Media Mike Proulx, co-author of “SOCIAL TV” commenced Tuesday, March 26, 9:00 AM, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. Proulx discussed how the convergence of television and t...
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announced today its 2013 jury, as well as four films that have been added to the program – Toronto Film Festival favorite SHIP OF THESEUS in its U.S. Premiere; the powerful environmental documentary narrated by Darryl Hannah, PAD YATRA: A GREEN JOURNEY; the Walt Disney animated Family Day film ARJUN: THE WARRIOR PRINCE; and short film IRON TRACKS (LOHPATH). In addition, two Panel Discussions have been added to the schedule, whic...
It is very appropriate that Tom Hanks’ Broadway Debut would be starring in a play written by the late, great, journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger, Nora Ephron (1941-2012). Ephron, known for her adorable romantic comedies (some of which, starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan), included, “Sleepless in Seattle”, “You’ve Got Mail”, ”When Harry Met Sally”, and "Julie and Julia”. A t...
Intro by Quendrith Johnson
Doomsday scenarios are a favorite pastime for depressives in Spring... hold on, wait a minute! That's just an alternative opening paragraph to the reality we are presented in Director Pasha Roberts' debut feature "Silver Circle."
Here's the conventional opener -- Director Pasha Roberts feature debut animated film "Silver Circle" opens April, 5, at the Laemmle, NOHO.
Don't miss this missive-in-a-screed for the ...
Hollywood Film Festival - DEADLINE is APRIL 30, 2013. SUBMIT NOW!
Our mission at the HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL is to bridge the gap between established Hollywood and the global creative community, while providing an avenue of discovery for emerging filmmakers. Be discovered in Hollywood. Submit NOW!
Our Executive Director, Jon Fitzgerald, was the co-founder and former executive director of Slamdance, AFI Fest, Santa Barbara and Abu Dhabi film festivals among others. In add...
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