Interview with Frogman, Director, Producer and Writer ofEAGLE TALON THE MOVIE: THE CHANCELLOR ONLY LIVES TWICEClaus Mueller:Can you just briefly comment about your background?Frogman:I have been involved in television productions and drama for fifteen years. About four years ago I started with flash animationCM: What kind of films have you done before EAGLE TALON?F: It is actually my first film but I have produced many TV seriesCM: What prompted you to use flash animation?F: When I moved to the ...

In keeping with their well-established tradition of showcasing the best in world animation, NYIIFVF is delighted to announce that the Japanese flash animation feature “Eagle Talon The Movie” will premiere on February 29th at 8pm at the ImaginAsian Theater with a private afterparty to follow. Directed by charismatic animator FROGMAN, Eagle Talon The Movie has received two major NYIIFVF Jury nominations including the prestigious Grand Jury Prize for Best Animation as well as a Best Director n...

The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) will host the First Annual Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation on April 24-26, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio. Reel Stuff screenings held at various theatre venues throughout the three-day festival will celebrate the diverse and colorful world of aviation as depicted through invited Hollywood studio productions and independent documentaries. The NAHF is a Congressionally chartered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to honoring America’s outstanding a...

In keeping with their well-established tradition of showcasing the best in world animation, NYIIFVF is delighted to announce that the Japanese flash animation feature “Eagle Talon The Movie” will premiere on February 29th at 8pm at the ImaginAsian Theater with a private afterparty to follow. Directed by charismatic animator FROGMAN, Eagle Talon The Movie has received two major NYIIFVF Jury nominations including the prestigious Grand Jury Prize for Best Animation as well as a Best Director n...

If you have not discovered "Wilbur" on Discovery Kids, you're missing something. "WILBUR" is designed to help preschoolers develop early reading skills by increasing their print recognition, their oral vocabulary and their listening comprehension. It shows actual text onscreen which helps kids learn that print on a page symbolizes words, that these words tell a story and that the pictures shown represent what the words say. In each episode, Wilbur (the animated calf star)and ...

The 5th Asiana International Short Film Festival begins its fifth flight on 1st November to 6th, in Seoul, Korea. AISFF2007 offers and presents an encounter and communication with splendid short films around the world beyond 6 continents and 5 oceans. AISFF shows all about short films : Originated from the world’s first ‘In-Flight film festival’ with a goal of popularization of short films, AISFF has been one of the frontiers in the worldwide competitive festival of short films. AISFF is ...

From Sunday, September 30 until Saturday, October 6, 2007, the beautiful international resort destination of Phuket, Thailand will realize its first international film festival.To be held at the new SF Cinema theaters at the international shopping destination of Jungceylon Shopping Center on Patong Beach, the Phuket Film Festival (PFF) will feature over 30 award winning feature films, documentaries and shorts from around the world. In its first year, PFF is aiming for a “sanook” (Thai for �...

The Farewell Ceremony and bestowal of the Volkswagen Score Competition final award on Thursday marked the successful close of the Berlinale Talent Campus #5. 362 young filmmakers from all over the world were welcomed to the three buildings that make up the “Hebbel am Ufer” theatres for six intensive days. Panel discussions with renowned film and media experts, excursions, screenings and workshops - with over 80 different events the fifth Campus could offer an array of interpretations of this...

The Farewell Ceremony and bestowal of the Volkswagen Score Competition final award on Thursday marked the successful close of the Berlinale Talent Campus #5. 362 young filmmakers from all over the world were welcomed to the three buildings that make up the “Hebbel am Ufer” theatres for six intensive days. Panel discussions with renowned film and media experts, excursions, screenings and workshops - with over 80 different events the fifth Campus could offer an array of interpretations of this...

After the little liked and little seen Canadian drama, Mr Rice’s Secret, in 2000, David Bowie makes a stylish return to movies as brilliant Serb-born scientist Nikola Tesla – the only character based on a real historical figure in Christopher Nolan’s new film, The Prestige. Tesla’s life and work are every bit as magical as the film’s subject matter, reports Andrew L. Urban, and Bowie gives him a profound mystique.The first time you see him on screen, there is a moment of hesitation; yo...

Tam Tam Digifestival sponsors IPSE DIGIT, a competition reserved to digital audio-video productions. If you have realized only by digital a videoclip, an Internet documentary, a mobile movie or a newsreel reportage, please send your work to: Coop. Tam Tam, Via Ugo Niutta 33, 80128 Napoli / Naples - Italy. It can last from one minute to one hour. The competion is from October 1st to December 31st 2006. It will award 5 between the best works in each section (Digi Music, Fahrenheit Planet, Mobile T...

Ali Selim is a softspoken man from Minnesota with an expressive face and an obvious passion for filmmaking. His first film, SWEET LAND, which is the only American film included in the First Works competition at the Troia International Film Festival, has the scope, integrity and humanity of a John Ford epic. The film captures the limitless landscapes of the Minnesota plains in the period just after World War I, when immigrants from Scandinavia began to exert their cultural heritage on the America...

3rd Festival of European Film SmilesMladá Boleslav (10.-17.9.2005)Festival of European Film Smiles was held for the very first time in 2003. It is a contest show of new film comedies from Czech as well as foreign production. The main purpose of the festival is to popularize European comic production that is still in spite of its quality and diversity not efficient in competing with American production. Other goal of our Festival is, in cooperation with Škoda Auto a.s. company (General Partner ...

The second time was twice as nice - it's raining prizes at the conclusion of the Berlinale Talent Campus"This is one of the most important initiatives for the future of the Berlinale" - commented Director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain) about the second Berlinale Talent Campus. Yesterday the Campus concluded with a large Farewell Party at which two prizes were awarded: The Argentinian Martin Romanella won the Talent Movie of the Week with his film Funeral Etiquette. The w...