The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that internationally acclaimed filmmaker and Academy Award®-winning director and screenwriter Bernardo Bertolucci will serve as its Guest Artistic Director at AFI FEST 2012 presented by Audi. Last year’s Guest Artistic Director was Pedro Almodóvar, and David Lynch, an alumnus of the AFI Conservatory, held the role in 2010.
As Guest Artistic Director, Bertolucci has selected four feature films for his special sidebar program at...
Alethea Jones, from Melbourne won Tropfest’s 20th Birthday competition. Jones’s film “Lemonade Stand” was awarded first prize by a stellar judging panel of Oscar Winners - Geoffrey Rush, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and acclaimed actresses Toni Collette and Asher Keddie.
Australian directors Alex Proyas and Kieran Darcy-Smith, visiting New Yorker - screenwriter Charles Randolph, Tropfest Arabia Winner Jassem Al Jabbouri and 2011 Movie Extra Tropfest winner ...
Festival Program 7-17 March 2012 Showcasing Aussie talent for the third year running, the Australian Film Festival delivers yet another fabulous program for 2012 filled with free and ticketed films, Q & A's from our best filmmakers, great fun events, workshops and more. The festival opens on Wednesday March 7 with Sydney premiere of action packed thriller, Swerve (7PM) at the Randwick Ritz Cinema.A star studded cast, Swerve stars Vince Colosimo, Emma Booth (Underbelly), David Lyons (Sea Patrol) ...
Movie Extra Tropfest Australia today announces the 15 lucky filmmakers who will light up screens across the nation for Tropfest’s 20th competition. Finalists include second generation filmmaker Matilda Brown, Damian McLindon, director of the self-help documentary The Secret, and Tropfest’s youngest ever finalist, 16 year old star of the Foxtel hit series ‘Tangled’, Eva Lazzaro. For the second year, Tropfest fans have the opportunity to choose the 16th Finalist that will premiere at the ...
Australia's Next Top Model; Montana Cox wins: by Eva Rinaldi
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Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards: Winners And Chaos: by Eva Rinaldi
What a day and what a night. This was Australia's night of nights for kids and teenagers.
Thousands of fans, mainly teenage girls, swamped outside the Sydney Entertainment Centre, some from as early as 5am, waiting for their favorite entertainment industry stars.
By around 2pm, the line ups behind barricades were 30 people deep, and much of the pr...
Australian Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards - 7th October 2011: By Eva RinaldiAustralian Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards - 7th October 2011
The 2011 Australian Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards! are almost upon us.
Everyone is getting ready to hit the orange carpet at the mega event. It all takes place at the Sydney Entertainment Centre tonight. We've found out from our spies about a ton of great performers confirmed to take to the stage!
Joining Gold...
Yet another sunrise over this gorgeous city. Of course since its an all night fest I would arrive at my room (this is a view from my room) in the wee hours and stay up to watch the sunrise. Ahhh! Zagreb! The sun like an egg yoke splitting over the night sky. photo by Vanessa McMahon
And yet another stunning sunrise... Wow, what a city!photo by Vanessa McMahon
And yet another stunning sunrise... Wow, what a city!photo by Vanessa McMahon
The East End Film Festival and Camden Crawl join together to take over London later this year...
There will be no better place to be than the EEFF - Camden Crawl event this May Bank Holiday weekend
As part of our ten year anniversary celebrations in 2011, the East End Film Festival is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Camden Crawl, winner of Best Metropolitan Festival at the 2010 Festival Awards. With both festivals celebrating being a decade old, and having admired the ...
by Marla Lewin The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the official selections of AFI AWARDS 2009, AFI’s almanac that records the year’s most outstanding achievements in film and television, as well as significant moments in the world of the moving image. AFI AWARDS is the only recognition that honors the film and television creative ensembles as a whole—those both in front of and behind the camera—acknowledging the collaborative nature of film and television. Un...
by Marla Lewin The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the official selections of AFI AWARDS 2009, AFI’s almanac that records the year’s most outstanding achievements in film and television, as well as significant moments in the world of the moving image. AFI AWARDS is the only recognition that honors the film and television creative ensembles as a whole—those both in front of and behind the camera—acknowledging the collaborative nature of film and television. Un...
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AFI AWARD FOR BEST TELEFEATURE, MINI SERIES OR SHORT RUN SERIES
* 3 Acts of Murder. Sue Taylor. ABC1
* False Witness. Greg Haddrick, Peter Andrikidis. UKTV
* The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce. Nial Fulton. ABC1
* Saved. Michael McMahon, Tony Ayres. SBS
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
GRAN TORINO
IRON MAN
MILK
WALL•E
WENDY AND LUCY
THE WRESTLER
AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
BREAKING BAD
IN TREATMENT
JOHN ADAMS
LIFE
LOST
MAD MEN
THE OFFICE
RECOUNT
THE SHIELD
THE WIRE
WHAT IS AFI AWARDS?
America's cultural legacy resonates around the world through movi...
BiFF Opens the 2008 Season in Greenpoint, BrooklynWednesday May 14, 2008 - 7pm to 2amPOLISH FILM SHOWCASE & PARTY7pm - 2am (FREE of charge) Complimentary Stella Artois from 7pm to 8pm.Club Studio B: 259 Banker St. (Btwn Meserole Ave. & Calyer St.) http://wbff.org/events/2008/polish.aspFILMS PROGRAM [>] MY EMPIREby Ted Ciesielski, US, 2008, 7', World Premiere[>] FABRYKA (Factory)by Maciej Adamek, Poland, 2007, 30' - US Premiere[>] ALICJA WONDERLANDby Martin Gauvreau, Poland, 2008, 20', US Premi...
Mohammad Majdzadeh, attending this year's festival, has 2 films this year in the Short Film Corner. One is :
'BORN IN WHAT CENTURY ?'
a true story about a woman who killed her husband.
- With an eye for an eye, the whole world would go blind.
See clips and details on www.majdfilms.com
The AFI Awards are the Australian Film and Television Industry's longest running and most prestigious awards ceremony. Now in their 47th year, the AFI Awards offered a night of glamour and style, while focusing both industry and public attention on the best in Australian film and television productions. Recognised internationally, the AFI Awards are the premier event of Australian film culture, acknowledging excellence in a broad range of categories that cover Feature Film, Television, Documenta...
Moviegoers rarely have the opportunity to watch short films, let alone when they deal with environment. Ecocinema 4th International Environmental Film Festival in Rhodes (Greece) tries to fill this gap as it offers a wide selection of short films on the environment we could hardly find anywhere else. Here are the reviews of 5 of the short films which were screened there on the first day of the festival.Water journey - Urumiah, by Javad Taheri from Iran (2002, 27 minutes)This episode of the TV se...
