After winning the top prize at the IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the world’s most prestigious showcase for non-fiction film, the Canadian/UK co-production LAST TRAIN HOME is making a splash at its International Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Now the clear favorite for awards recognition in the World Cinema Documentary competition here, the film seems poised for a distribution deal.
LAST TRAIN HOME by director Lixin Fan is a beautif...
On the second day of Just Talking, Monday, March 10 at the Excelsior room of Electra Palace hotel, the invited discussion group member were: Jeffrey Morgan, director of Lillie and Leander: A legacy of violence, Yung Chang, director of the documentary Up the Yangtze, Samantha Zarzosa, producer of the film City of cranes, Lucian Muntean and Natasa Stankovic directors of the film Journey of a red fridge, Peter Entell, director of Shake the devil off and Lydia Karra, director of the film My Life and...
On Sunday, March 9, a press conference was given at the Green Room of the Olympion, in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The Lucian Muntean and Natasa Stankovic of the film Journey of a red fridge the director Tom Lemke and the producer Sebastian Runschke of the film The whispering of the trees and the director Yung Ghang of the film Up the Yangtze were present. Speaking about The whispering of...
CANADIAN DOCS The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century celebrates its 10th anniversary and its strong, long-standing relationship with the Canadian documentary industry, which was instigated in 2000 at the 2nd TDF with the Canadian Focus section. This year, as every year since its inception, the TDF will showcase a significant number of new Canadian documentaries and a delegation of Canadian film directors, producers, distributors and journalists will attend t...
The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century celebrates its 10th anniversary and its strong, long-standing relationship with the Canadian documentary industry, which was instigated in 2000 at the 2nd TDF with the Canadian Focus section. This year, as every year since its inception, the TDF will showcase a significant number of new Canadian documentaries and a delegation of Canadian film directors, producers, distributors and journalists will attend the Festival. To m...
The 26th Vancouver International Film Festival will hand out eight awards just before the Closing Gala screening of “Priceless” on October 12. The awards ceremony takes place in the Visa Screening Room at the Empire Granville 7 Cinemas (855 Granville at Robson). The awards are: • Kyoto Planet "Climate for Change" Award ($25,000) • Citytv Western Canada Feature Film Award ($12,000) • Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short ...
