Ms. Ulla Bergström will be taking on the responsibilities of Executive Director in DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival on August 1st 2012.
Before DocPoint Bergström (born 1970) has worked at Turku European Capital of Culture 2011 Programme team as a Production Coordinator. In movie industry Bergström has been working as an animation director, animator and character designer at Bergani Films Ltd, YLE and Per Holst AB. She has also lectured about media production and animat...
By Alexander Acosta Osorio
culturamas.es
“Legend tells the hero cut off the head of Medusa and threw it to the
water. However, the blood of that head became a red stone under the
sea. That is the origin of coral. In the early 20th century, a deaf
fisherman will bring the myth to life.”
Mikel
Gurrea was born in Donostia-San Sebastian, in the Basque country. When
he was 18, he moved to Barcelona to study Audiovisual Communications at
the Pompeu Fabra University. Whil...
The Ruby Mountain Film Festival is a 100% volunteer based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of film and video as an art, spotlighting film talent from around the world. RMFF presents a full range of storytelling through visual arts from independent and student filmmakers.
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Friday morning Oct. 8 at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, something huge happened in "Hollywood" -- no, it wasn't a Lohan lapse or star scandal -- it was the Media Access Awards brought to you by Superman with a little help from just about every guild and association in town. Picture AFTRA, CSA, PGA, SAG, WGAw, and the Christopher Reeve Foundation, in conjunction with Friends of Californians with Disabilities and the Govern...
On June 7, 2010, Full Sail University (fullsail.edu) will cut the ribbon on the opening of the Full Sail Studios Gateway Project, a 22,000 sq. ft. multi-purpose facility that features a 500-seat venue and world class game production and recording studio spaces. To commemorate the opening, the morning will include an induction ceremony for the Full Sail University 2010 Hall of Fame class and begin a three-day series of special events and celebrity and industry leader appearances. Highlights of th...
True Story Italian Whodunit GIDE IN LOVE Reveals Dark Secret 50 years after
50 years after the disappearance of a young Sicilian boy purported to be French writer Andre Gide`s last love, Danielle Russo, a young journalist on the editorial staff of the Paris literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Littéraire, is sent to Sicily in 2000, to the elegant resort town of Taormina and finds herself embroiled in a complex labyrinth of shocking "truths" involving the literary set vacationing a...
The organisers of the Navarra International Documentary Film Festival, who are already working on the sixth edition, have a Programming Coordinator, Gonzalo de Pedro, and a Production Coordinator, Marta Artica Zurano.Gonzalo de Pedro (Pamplona, 1978) is a film critic. He's a contributor to the Público newspaper and has been a member of the editorial board of Cahiers du Cinéma España since 2007. He has been working for Punto de Vista since 2005, performing communication tasks until 2008 and be...
Formerly the Ojai Film Festival, the Ojai-Ventura International Film Festival is proud to announce that Meegan Huff has been named the this fall. The behind-the-scenes leadership change comes on the heels of the Festival’s recent announcement that it is broadening its regional footprint by becoming an event encompassing the cities of Ojai and Ventura. “We are thrilled to have Meegan as a part of our team,” says David Shor, chairman of the Festival. “She brings a strong creative energy ...
HELEN's FILMS AND FESTIVALS
Pelin is an unlikely new candidate for Hollywood. I met her in ERZERUM on a four-hour bus trip back to KARS, where she was helping to run the Hospitality Service of the Festival on Wheels in Eastern Turkey. Although she had several projects up her sleeves, she was promoting and selling pre-fab housing throughout Turkey in order to please her father at that time !
But when she came throu...
Melissa Montero, a New York documentary filmmaker and Hofstra graduate. Melissa Montero is a Latina filmmaker living in Queens, New York, of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian decent. She has co-produced and directed a non-broadcast promotional video/documentary on Casa Atabex Ache, a non-profit organization that does healing and transformation work for women of color. Melissa has also taught video production classes at the Grand Street Settlement After school Beacon Program where she produced and dir...
