New York: Japan Cuts - Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema
JAPAN CUTS offered a cross section of contemporary Japanese film productions of which 12 were co-presented with the NYAFF in their sixth year of collaboration.
The remainder of JAPAN CUTS 39 features was screened through July 28 at the Japan Society. What Sam Javier, the programmer of Japanese films observed several years ago, still applies,” … unhinged [film] insanity is unleashing hell on unsuspecting U.S. ...
Tiburon Film Society will present "Delta - Oil’s Dirty Business" at the Bay Model located at 2100 Bridgeway in Sausalito on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 @ 6 PM.
Running Time: 64 minutes
Country: Greece
Genre: Documentary
Director: Yorgos Avgeropoulos
At the Delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, where a vast proportion of
the planet's oil is excavated, bomb attacks, abductions and murders
THE SYDNEY GOOD DOG! INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
17-19 AUGUST 2012
The Good Dog! International Film Festival launches 17 August 2012 with the feature film “My Dog – an unconditional love story” starring fashion leader Isaac Mizrahi and his beloved dog Harry as well as other celebrities and their dogs. Trailer can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qp-NNtihDY
Featured in the film are visits to Glenn Close and her playful dogs at her home; Richard Gere and Carey L...
"Covariance" was nominated Best Short Film at the 2012 Rwanda International Film Festival in Kigali last week.
http://www.hillywood.org/
This
is the third such nomination for the film. It received Best Film nods
at the Cape Winelands Film Fest in Capetown, South Africa in March, and
Best Digital Film and Best Actress nominations at the Art Deco Film Fest
in Sao Paulo, Brazil this month.
For more info on the film, please visit http://www.dawnwestlake.com
...
In Montevideo, on the 20th of July of 2012, gathered the International Jury of the 21st International Festival of Cinema for Children and Youth of Uruguay, Divercine 2012. Conformed by Jesús Pérez from Bolivia, Liliana Sulzbauch from Brasil and Juan Pablo Zaremella from Argentina, and after watching and analyzing the pieces in contest, the Jury has decided to award the following prices:
Fiction Short Film
For its nostalgic portrait of a small town held up in time, the award g...
"Covariance" has been nominated for two awards by the jury of the 2012 Art Deco Film Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The
13.5-minute film which explores the fantasies of two gambling addicts
has garnered nods as Best Digital Capture Film and Best Actress for Dawn
Westlake.
http://www.festivalartdeco.blogspot.com/p/indicacoesnominations.html
Westlake was named a Canon Platinum Filmmaker in 2002. She made
"Covariance" with generous support in the camera d...
Silver Princess Statuette
(replica of the original "The Palace" statue of Ilejana,
daughter of the Romanian Queen Mary of Edingburgh)
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Nominees for BEST FICTION:
Joey ( dir. David Forster / Australia / 07'24'')
Guang ( dir. Shio Chuan Quek / Malaysia / 14'00'')
Short For Vernesa B. ( dir. Jons Vukorep / Germany / 10'47'')
The Factory ( dir. Aly Muritiba / Brazil / 15...
Imagine a festival that would give film students and recent graduates the chance to showcase their short films. And imagine if this festival was open to students from all over the world to submit their films, regardless of language or genre.Well, some very innovative and creative people in Dublin not only imagined it, they did it. And thanks to their efforts, 40 young film makers are having their work shown on the big screen this weekend in Dublin at the inaugural Freshly Squeezed International ...
Director: Serdar YILMAZ.
In a family made up of a grandmother, daughter and a 9-year old
granddaughter, granddaughter is forced to eat. The moral supporter of
this little girl who feels contented about her games and within her
own world, is a man behind the curtain only visible to her and no one
has any clue whether this man is real or imaginary.
While the Fried Chicken is a monstrous and aversive thing for the
little girl, it turns in to a four - meter -long avant-garde object
that is pulled over by the (same) man behind the curtain under cheers
in an isolated corner (street) populated by the homeless.
Program details for the 3rd annual Aruba
International Film Festival (AIFF), which takes place June 22-28, 2012, were
announced today. The Festival will showcase a diverse array of films from 18
different countries and feature several international and South American
premieres. The lineup was announced by AIFF
Artistic Director Claudio Masenza along with Festival founder Jonathan Vieira.
AIFF will open with the international premiere of director Rob Reiner’s
...
After 7 days, 156 hours of films and a public of around 12,000 viewers, Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival announces its winners.
In a ceremony held on Monday evening (6/04) at Guairinha Theater, in Curitiba (Paraná, Brazil), the winning titles in Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival were revealed. In the international competition, the Portuguese feature “Sangue do Meu Sangue” (“Blood of My Blood”) was picked the Olhar Award - Best ...
The Ischia International Arts Academy along with American Express, BNL-Group, BNP PARIBAS, Fay and Planter’s are proud to announce that the 10th Annual Ischia Global Film & Music Festival will take place from July 8th through the 15th on several of the most beautiful locations on Ischia, Italy’s renowned green island resort (www.ischiaglobal.com).
The Festival will launch with the European premiere of Rob Reiner’s latest movie, “The Magic of Belle Isle” starring Morgan Free...
"Covariance" (2011/USA/13.5 mins.) received its 22nd film festival acceptance from Sao Paulo, Brazil for the Art Deco Film Festival, July 2-21, 2012.
The film stars David Razowsky and Dawn Westlake. Cinematography is by Francesco Uboldi. 2nd Unit/DIT/Editing by Brandon Bondehagen. The film was generously supported in the camera department by Canon USA, Inc. and was shot on three Canon 5D Mark IIs.
For more info and to see a trailer, please visit: http://www.dawnwestlake.com...
The Columbian, Brazilian and French co-production film ‘LA PLAYA D.C.’ (2012) by Columbian director Juan Andrés Arango held its world premier last week in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. I held an interview with Juan the day after his first screening, which had been successfully met with ardent applause.
ME: You have a new movie from Columbia called: LA PLAYA (2012) that has just opened here at Cannes. Can you tell us about it?
...
The Columbian, Brazilian and French co-production film ‘LA PLAYA D.C.’ (2012) by Columbian director Juan Andrés Arango held its world premier last week in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. I held an interview with Juan the day after his first screening, which had been successfully met with ardent applause.
ME: You have a new movie from Columbia called: LA PLAYA (2012) that has just opened here at Cannes. Can you t...
The Columbian, Brazilian and French co-production film ‘LA PLAYA D.C.’ (2012) by Columbian director Juan Andrés ARANGO held its world premier last week in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. I held an interview with Juan the day after his first screening, which had been successfully met with ardent applause.
ME: You have a new movie from Columbia called: LA PLAYA (2012) that has just opened here at Cannes. Can you t...
In 2006 a group of friends who call themselves The League of Noble Peers, shot the documentary Steal This Film. The subject of the film is the fight between world’s biggest torrent Piratebay and
several smaller, also based in Sweden websites, offering free but
according to a lot of countries’ laws, illegal downloading of films on
one hand, and Hollywood majors on the other. The film is notable for its
critical analysis of an alleged regulatory capture attempt performed by
the Hollyw...
The Ischia International Arts Academy along with American Express, BNL-Group, BNP PARIBAS and Planter's are proud to announce that the 10th Annual Ischia Global Film & Music Festival will take place from July 8th through the 15th on several of the most beautiful locations on Ischia, Italy's renowned green island resort (http://www.ischiaglobal.com/). The Festival will launch with the European premiere of Rob Reiner's latest movie, "The Magic of Belle Isle" starring Morgan Fr...
2012 ISCHIA GLOBAL FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL TO LAUNCH JULY 8th WITH THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF ROB REINER'S THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE'Reiner To Receive Ischia Lifetime Achievement AwardFest Lineup Includes The Italian Premiere of ‘Snow White and the Huntsman'And a 15-Minute World Premiere of ‘Lovelace' Footage10th Edition of The Fest To Run From July 8th through the 15thCANNES, May 19, 2012 - The Ischia International Arts Academy along with American Express, BNL-Group, BNP ...
Feature Films
Nespresso Grand Prize for La Semaine de la Critique Jury : Bertrand Bonello (president) and film critics Francisco Ferreira (Expresso, Portugal), Akiko Kobari (Yukan Fuji, Japan), Robert Koehler (Variety, USA) and Hanns-Georg Rodek (Die Welt, Germany).
AQUÍ Y ALLÁ Antonio Méndez Esparza
Visionary Prize France 4 Jury : Céline Sciamma (president) and young film critics Victor-Emmanuel Boinem (CineBel, Belgium), KIM Sehee (Cine21, South Korea), Ryan Latt...
By Maria Esteves – May 23, 2012
The 57th Annual 2012 Village Voice OBIE Awards (OBIES 2012) honoring theatrical excellence and achievements in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway commenced Monday, May 21, 8:00 pm the legendary Webster Hall ballroom, New York, Monday, May 17, 8:00 pm. The ceremony also featured three outstanding performances by Joshua Henry and Sumayya Ali from ten-time Tony Award nominated Broadway musical The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, David Patrick Kelly from eleven-t...
This year the Festival de Cannes celebrates Brazil as its “special guest country”. Following on from Egypt in 2011, it is the second year in a row that the Festival has shone the spotlight on a great filmmaking nation.
The quality of Brazil’s output is clearly on display with four films in Official Selection, plus On the Road by Walter Salles in Competition.
A Música segundo Tom Jobim by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, co-directed with Tom Jobim’s granddaughter Dora Jobim, ...
The Ischia International Arts Academy along with American Express, BNL-Group, BNP PARIBAS and Planter’s are proud to announce that the 10th Annual Ischia Global Film & Music Festival will take place from July 8th through the 15th on several of the most beautiful locations on Ischia, Italy’s renowned green island resort (www.ischiaglobal.com). The Festival will launch with the European premiere of Rob Reiner’s latest movie, “The Magic of Belle Isle” starring Morgan Freeman and Vir...
Retrospective of Solanas’ Work To Be Presented as Part of Festival’s Salute To Argentina
Famed Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician Fernando Solanas will receive a “2012 Ischia Legend Award” in recognition of his lifetime of outstanding contributions to the cinema of Argentina during the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Fest to be held from July 8th to 15th on the isle which is located off the coast of Naples. The announcement was made here today by actor ...
10th Annual African Diaspora INTERNATIONAL Film Festival will run in Chicago June 14-21, 2012 Facets Multimedia and the African Diaspora Film Festival will celebrate 10 years of collaboration in the production of a festival that has brought to the imagination of people films such as: The Tracker, Kirikou and The Sorceress, Gospel Hill, Massai, The Rain Warriors, Sia, The Dream of the Python, Made In Jamaica and many more. South Africa, Surinam, The United States, Brazil, Cuba and Came...
