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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...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 29, 2013 -- For a 17th consecutive year, the Hollywood Film Awards® continues its mandate of celebrating Hollywood cinema and recognizing excellence in Hollywood, both in-front and behind the camera. This year the Hollywood Film Awards® Gala ceremony takes place on October 21, 2013, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills.
In the last 10 years, a total of 96 Oscar nominations and 34 Oscars were given to the honorees of the Holl...
Written, directed, produced by Billy Raftery (‘Children Rise’, 2012), ‘Angels in Exile’ (2013) is a documentary of the social disaster of rampant poverty in South Africa. The film focuses on two indigent youths- Zulieka and Ariel- who have grown up in the streets of Durban, South Africa. Billy follows the lives of these two for nearly a decade from glue-sniffing children to young adults. The film is narrated by Charlize Theron.
Recently I interviewed Billy Raftery abou...
Daniel Sol and Theo Dumont on opening night
What is the mission of your festival and what motivated its launch initially and what is your role there?
The mission of HollyShorts is to offer the best showcase platform possible for the worlds best short films and short content in a world class venue, The Chinese Theatre, in the heart of Hollywood.(webisodes, trailers, commercials, student films, etc).
The festival was motived in part by my college experience, when I re...
© Festival del film Locarno
Aleksandr Sokurov will return to Locarno after winning a Leopard of Honor in 2006, and will participate in several events of L’immagine e la parola. The evening of 26 March the prominent Russian filmmaker will introduce the screening of his latest film Faust, Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Festival. The evening will start at 20:30 at Teatro Kursaal (Locarno) and will be preced...
The Hollywood Film Festival announced the appointment of Fest veteran Jon Fitzgerald as Executive Director of the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Festival.
Jon's experience in the online, film festival, and worldwide film communities will be a great asset to the growth and new direction of our Festival,said Carlos de Abreu, founder of the Hollywood Film Festival.
As a co-founder and former executive director of Slamdance, AFI Fest, Santa Barbara and Abu Dhabi film fest...
I"I am honored to be associated with one of the world's premier Jewish Film Festivals and one of New England's largest cultural events," says Widman. "I look forward to watching as the festival continues to engage and excite our community while celebrating the vibrancy of the Jewish experience.
Widman, a Wellesley resident, has been involved with the Boston Jewish Film Festival for more than 10 years, most recently as the Festival’s vice president. As...
Claude Lanzmann today
BERLINALE 2013 – CLAUDE LANZMANN, HOLOCAUST CHRONICLER, AT BERLIN -- His Documentary films are Epic Bulwarks against Historical Forgetfulness
By Alex Deleon-Pevner
Many international stars and film luminaries passed through the portals of the latest Berlin film festival in February 2013 but, very probably, the one who will be longest remembered in historical terms is Claude Lanzmann, 87 year old French chronicler of the Holocaust. Mr. L...
By Maria Esteves – March 14, 2013
AKA DOC POMUS, directed by Peter Miller and Will Hechter, conceived by Sharyn Felder premiered at the 22nd New York Jewish Film Festival, January 9, and the 5th Annual Reelabilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival, March 12, 2013. Celebrity guests, industry professionals, festival attendees, cast, and crew attended the sold out premieres. A post screening Q&A session with director Miller, producer Felder, and editor Amy Linton (NYJFF) immediately fol...
PLUS CAMERIMAGE, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, announced today that Sławomir Idziak will be the recipient of the Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 21st edition, which will be held in Bydgoszcz from November 16 – 23, 2013.
Sławomir Idziak is a Polish cinematographer of truly worldwide reputation, though he is also an acknowledged director, screenwriter, educator and a professional filmmaker who is constantly taking ...
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