Sunday, January 28-----The Sundance Film Festival roared into its Awards Ceremony last evening with the speed of an on-going train, as the nervous anticipation of filmmakers, sales agents and distributors filled the cavernous Racquet Club for the festivities. Anchored by the unflappable Festival Director Geoffrey Gilmore, the choices for Jury and Audience Awards in the US and International Feature and Documentary categories were a bit of a surprise, since many of the films that received nods w...
The Sundance Film Festival roared into its Awards Ceremony last evening with the speed of an on-going train, as the nervous anticipation of filmmakers, sales agents and distributors filled the cavernous Racquet Club for the festivities. Anchored by the unflappable Festival Director Geoffrey Gilmore, the choices for Jury and Audience Awards in the US and International Feature and Documentary categories were a bit of a surprise, since many of the films that received nods were not high on the radar...
What does a Spanish box office hit look like? Which of their films are the Finnish most crazy about? Why are French films so successful? Spring 2007 sees 10 to 15 national audience successes from various European countries presented on the silk screen in Berlin, Madrid und London at EFP’s new film-event Picture Europe! The Best of European Cinema. This pan-European event is being organized by European Film Promotion (EFP) in cooperation with selected cinemas in the three metropolises:Madrid: 1...
Friday, January 26---On the eve of the Festival's closing weekend, several impressive distribution deals have been announced, which have made this one of the more active Festivals in recent years. In light of the box office and awards bonanza of the little-film-that-could LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (a Sundance pick-up last year for Fox Searchlight), acquisition execs have been aggressive in snatching up films with equal potential. Of course, whether these were wise decisions that will pay off hands...
Nominations for the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for outstanding performances in 2006 in five film and eight primetime television categories were announced this morning in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg introduced Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy) and Elijah Wood (Bobby, Happy Feet), who announced the nominees for this year’s Actors®. Screen Actors Guild will honor its own at the 13th Ann...
Thursday, December 28-----In a bold new experiment designed to reach younger audiences, New York's famed Metropolitan Opera will offer several of its most celebrated productions to an international network of movie theaters. The first of these will be the December 30th presentation of Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE. The production, directed by stage and film director Julie Taymor, will be beamed live from the stage of The Metropolitan Opera directly into movie theaters around the globe.
All of ...
Tuesday, December 26----Following the international success of Pedro Almodovar’s acclaimed femme fest VOLVER, arthouse distributor Sony Pictures Classics is presenting a national tour of eight Almodovar classics in spanking new 35mm prints. New Yorkers can sample the series when it unspools at the Walter Reade Theater starting tomorrow through January 3. VIVA PEDRO, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, is a wonderful way to see out the old year, or ring in the new one. And with ...
HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION - 2007 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2006Nominations for the 64th edition of the golden Globe Awards have been announced by the Hollywood Foreign Presss Association. Biggest winners are Babel and The Departed with 7 and 6 nominations; Warner and Paramount happy with 13 and 12 nominations.Another good vintage year for Clint and Leonardo both enjoy two nominations (Leonardo cited twice for best actor, Eastwood for best director) Eddie Murph...
Three talented artists from the Academy award-winning team at Sony Pictures Imageworks (US) and Sony Pictures Animation will be anchoring the Australian Effects & Animation Festival Sydney. They will be providing an inside view of three of the year’s biggest cinema events: Superman Returns, Monster House and Open Season.
Day One sees Imageworks’ animation supervisor Troy Saliba deliver the opening presentation on the animated feature film Monster House, which utilizes the proprietary Ima...
The Santa Fe Film Festival celebrates its 7th season Dec. 6-10 with
its most prestigious slate ever, anchored by galas including MISS
POTTER, PERFUME: STORY OF A MURDERER, THE PAINTED VEIL, VOLVER and
VENUS. In addition, special presentations are planned for PAN’S
LABYRINTH and THE ASTRONAUT FARMER.
All told, the festival will showcase nearly 200 works in eight
separate series, running in nine venues citywide. Announced recipients
of the festival’s Luminaria Awards for lifetime achieveme...
JailCity, For the Love of God, Blues by the Beach, Hot Afternoons There Have Been in Montana, and Intimità win audience-voted grand prizes, and take home “Roger” statuettes The 2006 Avignon/New York Film Festival announced the winners of its 12th annual “transatlantic crossroads of independent cinema” at last night’s Closing Night ceremony at Danny Kaye Playhouse on New York’s Upper East Side. This year’s event included 23 features and 23 short films, panel discussions, filmmaker ...
DIGITAL MEDIA FESTIVAL 2006 Sydney Convention Centre, December 5-7 Booking formsSESSION UPDATESAustralian Effects & Animation Festival - December 5-7Monster House Animation Supervisor Troy Saliba will be presenting at this at this year’s AEAF conference. Sony Pictures Animation has confirmed that CG Supervisor Max Bruce will be attending to present the session on the new CG animated feature Open Season, due out in Australian cinemas November 30. Also on the blockbuster program for this year’...
Interview (Part 1) with Nancy Collet, Driector, Programming, AFI FestWe were fortunate enough to have an opportunity to interview Nancy Collet, programming director for the AFI film festival. She has been with the festival for 10 years and is originally from Manhattan. In 2006, AFI Fest is celebrating its 20th year as a program of the American Film Institute. The festival grew out of Filmex, which premiered "The Last Picture Show" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. An exThe move to the Arclight happe...
Interview With Nancy Collet, Director, Programming, AFI Fest
Rita M. Johnson
We were fortunate enough to have an opportunity to interview Nancy Collet, programming director for the AFI film festival. She has been with the festival for 10 years and is originally from Manhattan. In 2006, AFI Fest is celebrating its 20th year as a program of the American Film Institute. The festival grew out of Filmex, which premiered "The Last Picture Show" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. An ex
The move to the...
Tuesday, November 6----When Argentinian director Fabian Bielinsky died suddenly this past June at the age of 47, the international cinema world mourned the loss of one of its more blazing contemporary talents. The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival will present the director's final work, a metaphysical thriller with strong spiritual overtones with the evocative title of THE AURA.
Bielinsky started shooting films at the tender age of 13. He later attended the National Cinematographic...
Le SATIS (Salon des Technologies et des Solutions Audiovisuelles 7-9 novembre - Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles - Hall 5.) ouvre ses portes dans deux semaines et propose un ensemble unique d’animations, de conférences et de projections liées à la création numérique et à l’innovation. À ce jour, plus de 16 600 visiteurs (soit + 10% par rapport à l’année dernière) se sont préenregistrés. Link Text
Le SATIS, seul évènement français dédié aux innovations technologiques sur le...
+HOLLYWOOD POST ALLIANCE AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCEDTop Post Production Talent to be Feted November 1st Nominees for the Hollywood Post Alliance Awards have been announced. The awards recognize top talent in a number of categories which are critical to creative and technical post production for motion pictures, television and commercials.In announcing the awards, Leon Silverman, President of the HPA, noted “The entire creative process requires collaboration, often in the extreme. And, it comes...
“DROOL” WINS 2006 SLAMDANCE SCREENPLAY COMPETITIONTen Finalists Chosen From Over 2,000 Submissions Los Angeles, CA – Nancy Kissam’s “Drool” has won the 11th Annual Slamdance Screenplay Competition. The announcement was made at a special awards presentation and reception last night at the Writers Guild of America, west, attended by Slamdance alumni and members of the WGAw Independent Writers Caucus. Kissam’s story of a housewife that kills her abusive husband, then along with her ki...
Rio International Film Festival 2006 will run September 21 - October 5 It is not by chance that the city which has inspired filmmakers across the world hosts the world's fifth largest film festival. Last year, a record 230,000 tickets were sold in the two week period of the festival, and more than 300 filmmakers and industry delegates turned up to celebrate the art and craft of cinema. This year's Rio Int'l Film Festival (Festival do Rio), which kicks off this Thursday, September 21 and continue...
The Portable Film Festival 2006 is a free, international festival of short films downloadable to portable video devices. Launching on September 13 and running until October 22, this year’s program will feature over sixty pre-selected films compressed especially for viewing on Sony PlayStation Portables, iPod Videos, 3G phones, laptops and even deskbound computers.Entries have been received from Australia, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Romania, Canada, Austria, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Sin...
The Rio Film Festival is Latin America's largest event of its kind, and is one of the largest venues for world cinema. During the fifteen days of the festival, producers, sales agents, broadcasters, and many other audio-visual professionals come from all over the world to participate. Last year, the Festival screened more than 436 films and thousands of spectators packed the Festival's theaters to see the best films from Brazil and abroad. The event, over the course of fifteen days, is attended...
The Rhode Island International Film Festival hosted its 'Actor Turned Filmmaker Showcase' this Saturday, August 12, 2006 at the historic Columbus Theatre Arts Center, 270 Broadway in Providence, RI.The afternoon and evening screenings feature the producing and directorial film debuts of superstars Gwyneth Paltrow, Tiffani Thiessen, Tori Spelling and Adrian Grenier.The films also feature all-new original scores and songs by Grammy Award-winning artists including Paul Doucette (Matchbox 20) and Ta...
SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2006 announces award winners!The 3rd SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2006 was over on July 23rd.The awarding ceremony was held on July 23rd at Visual Hall and the each prize were announced by Jury committee.FEATURE COMEPTITION (International)Members of Jury – President Richard Jobson (Producer, U.K)Robert Allan Ackerman (Director, USA)Yoko Narahashi (Casting Director, Japan)Bong-ou Lee (Producer, Japan) GRAND PRIZE / Sony D-Cinema Aw...
“ONCE IN A LIFETIME,” A SOCCER DOCUMENTARY NARRATED BY MATT DILLON, OPENS ISCHIA GLOBAL FEST 2006 ON TUESDAY, JULY 11; FIRST OF 43 FILMS TO BE SCREENED, INCLUDING 12 PREVIEWSThe incredible history of the New York Cosmos soccer team, narrated by Matt Dillon in the documentary by Paul Crowder, will inaugurate the 4th Ischia Global Film & Music Fest on Tuesday, July 11. The Cosmos of three decades ago assembled an international array of all-stars such as Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff,...
58 universities from all over the World are participating in the second edition of UNIFEST The 2nd International University Short Film Festival has achieved its objective of enhancing its international scope, on receiving 162 films from 19 different countries UNIFEST has become consolidated for the second year in a row as the pioneering festival in its category in Europe and the rest of the worldUNIFEST’06 promises to be an overwhelming success. Following an initial edition where the expectati...
