Peruvian director Adrián Saba’s breakout first feature film ‘The Cleaner’ (‘El Limpiador’, 2012) has won multiple awards (including the prestigious the New Voices/New Visions award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival) and traveled to numerous film festivals around the globe since its world premier in the New Directors category of the San Sebastian International Film Festival. This haunting and lyrical Peruvian gem is reminiscent of the post apo...

painting: The Titian painting Venus with a Mirror, from which Severin gets the idea of Venus in furs.    'Venus with a Penis' by Vanessa McMahon. Based on the 1870 Austrian novella ‘Venus im Pelz’ by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Roman Polanski’s latest film, "La Vénus à la fourrure" (‘Venus in Fur’, 2013) recently screened in competition at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Set in a Paris theater playwright and director &ls...

painting: The Titian painting Venus with a Mirror, from which Severin gets the idea of Venus in furs.    'Venus with a Penis' by Vanessa McMahon. Based on the 1870 Austrian novella ‘Venus im Pelz’ by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Roman Polanski’s latest film, "La Vénus à la fourrure" (‘Venus in Fur’, 2013) recently screened in competition at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Set in a Paris theater playwright and director &ls...

16TH SONOMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO OPEN WITH: ARIEL VROMEN’S “THE ICEMAN” AND CLOSES WITH NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF “A MONKEY ON MY SHOULDER” FEST TO HONOR ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE DEMIÁN BICHIR WITH SPOTLIGHT AWARD: The Sonoma International Film Festival (April 10-14) is proud to open their 16th edition with The Iceman, directed by Ariel Vromen and starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans and James Franco, and will present ...

Interview with screenwriter David Magee for his adaptation of ‘Life of Pi’. At the 85th Academy Awards the film won 4 Oscars (more than any other film nominated) including- Best Achievement in Cinematography by Claudio Miranda; Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures Original Score Mychael Danna; Best Achievement in Visual Effects by Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik De Boer, Donald Elliott; and Best Achievement in Directing by Ang Lee.   Interview wi...

Interview with screenwriter David Magee for his adaptation of ‘Life of Pi’. At the 85th Academy Awards the film won 4 Oscars (more than any other film nominated) including- Best Achievement in Cinematography by Claudio Miranda; Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures Original Score Mychael Danna; Best Achievement in Visual Effects by Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik De Boer, Donald Elliott; and Best Achievement in Directing by Ang Lee.   Interview wi...