Slamdunk Film Festival
January 20 - 24
Seven features and 23 shorts have been selected for the the 4th Slamdunk Film
Festival, kicking off in Park City, UT on Saturday January 20th. The festival
will run for four full days, and will include filmmaker discussions, industry
panels, and special presentations and seminars by Macromedia and Level 13. Founded
in 1998, Slamdunk began as an alternative showcase to the Sundance fest. In the
three years since its inception, Slamdunk has quic...
It
is the darker aspect of the psyche that you appear to be interested in.
Why?
Isn’t that all there is?
I think it’s probably the more interesting aspect, but I don’t think that’s all there is.
I just think there’s more unhappy people on the planet than there is happy people. To feel good about yourself and feel good about your world, you have to go through a lot of darkness. Just look at the planet: it’s a pretty ...
After the great success of Darren Aronofsky's
$60,000 debut feature, Pi 2 years ago no one really had any
clue where this 28 year old Brooklyn born director would head next. Perhaps
unsurprisingly though, he turned to another unflinching, original if admittedly
more established Brooklyn storyteller as a source for material. After
tremendous critical and festival acclaim, Requiem
For a Dream (starring the superb Ellen Burstyn) joins that...
When the Sundance Film Festival begins on January 18, the quaint ski resort
of Park City, Utah will again be inundated by hordes of Hollywood insiders,
New York indie moguls and thousands of filmmaker wannabes. Like a biblical plague
of show biz locusts, they will crowd the streets, the restaurants, the bars
with their black-on-black ensembles, their chirping cel phones, their portable
DVD players and a nervous energy whose force could threaten avalanches on the
surroundi...
Independent
Spirit Awards
March 24 (Santa Monica, CA)
Three noise-making
films top the list of nominations for this year's Independent Spirit Awards
to be held March 24, one day before the Oscars. Chuck
& Buck, Requiem
for a Dream and You
Can Count on Me have each been nominated in five categories. Sponsored
by the nonprofit organization Independent Feature Project/West, the Spirit Awards
celebrate films with provocative subject matter and vision. The ceremony...
He was born of
Renaissance art historian Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln and a renowned sculptor
and painter. He has freelanced as a photographer, worked with Ernest Artaria
and Yves Allégret, and made several documentaries (Le Pelé
and Ombres et Mirages). But for the past 22 years, Moritz de Hadeln has
been the director of the Berlin International Film Festival, a position he took
over from its now deceased founder Alfred Bauer. If you think that festival
director is a ...
Before he turned to film directing, Jeremy Stein worked in the Theater area, in Lighting Design.
Regionally, Jeremy designed The Glass Menagerie at Baltimore’s Center Stage, Arms and the Man at the Dallas Theater Center, and America Play at the Yale Repertory Theater and Joseph Papp New York Public Theater (for which he received an American Theater Wing Award Nomination for Design). Some of his credits as an associate include: Snow on the Mesa danced by Martha Graham Dance Company, direct...
The Photographer has just started its festival circuit. It premiered in the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival in the USA, in April 2000. It then went to Taos Talking Pictures, (USA) where it won the Grand Prize Finalist.
It was then screened in the following festivals:
* Camerimage – Film festival of the art of Cinematography 2000 in Poland
*and Saint Louis International Film Festival 2000 in the USA.
It has already been selected to the following coming film festivals...
Andrew is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.
He founded the New Mexico Repertory Theatre, a regional professional theatre based in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. During his tenure as artistic director, the New Mexico Rep became the largest and most successful theatre in the history of the state.
While in New Mexico, Andrew directed Children of a Lesser God, Cloud 9, Talley’s Folly, The Rainmaker, Tw...
The Corndog Man mostly had an American festival circuit.
It had its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival .
It won four different awards in its complete festival circuit:
*Emerging Filmmaker Award at the St. Louis International Film Festival, USA,
*Leigh Whipper Gold Award for Best Feature at the Philadelphia International Film Festival, USA,
*Best Actor Award at the Method Fest, USA and
*Best Feature Film at the Northampton Film Festival, USA.
In total it screened ...
The Corndog Man begins as Ace Barker, a redneck, bigoted, boat salesman, convincingly played by Noble Willingham, receives an anonymous telephone call from the Caller, portrayed by Jim Holmes, who initially only claims he wants to buy a boat from ACE. However, the Caller continues to harass Ace and ultimately tries to convince him that he is Ace’s estranged son. The Caller informs him that Ace’s long-forgotten childhood friend, an African-American named Haywood, has recently died.
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Anna lives with her father in the house she has inherited from her mother.
An unbearable silence, imposed by feelings of guilt, prevails in Anna's house after her mother's death. Communication with her father is difficult and often impossible.
Anna meets Alexander, a very successfull dancer choreographer.
Alexander's midlife crisis is leading him to an unexpected, selfish and often selfdistructive behaviour in his personal life and artistic activity. Trapped in the impasse , ordained by his...
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FRESHFest
Film Festival
January 18th through January 24th
Minneapolis
based filmmaker Tim VandeSteeg has teamed with Subway Restaurants
to present Mulligan, the first independent film sponsored
by the national restaurant giant. The film, which was produced and
directed by Vandy will make its historic debut in Park City, Utah
at the first ever "FRESHFest Film Festival."
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Phoning
from a winter wonderland in Quebec before Christmas, where there
is an undue amount of picturesque snow, 33 year-old director Denis
Villeneuve, father of three, is getting a break. Mom's out with
the kids and the only thing he has to contend with is a recalcitrant
dog.
"Just
a minute," he says in his quick yet accented English. "Couché!"
he snaps at the dog, who ...
The Festival, now 12 years old, attracts large audiences to a full
programme of mostly non-American films and concentrates particularly
on the films nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. There are
also ancillary events which include panels, discussions, and tributes
to distinguished film personlaities.
This year 34 Oscar-nominated foreign films are being shown and
an International Critics Jury orga...
If Wim Wenders has been called a "rootless and restless" director, then Herzog has become, as Anton Kaes states in "World Cinema", "a symbol of the filmmaker as adventurer, vagabond and daredevil, an auteur "willing to risk his life for a film." Filmfestivals.com met him at the European Film Forum of Strasbourg where he received an honorary award, but not before addressing with his usual alertness the burning question of European cinema's future...
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Max Ophüls
Prize- Film Festival
January 16-21 (Saarbrücken, Germany)
Birthplace
of that restless romantic Max Ophüls (born in 1902) - one of the
few directors to have made classic movies in both Europe and Hollywood,
Saarbrücken hosts an excellent, intimate event celebrating his
name and evoking his spirit each January. The 22nd edition again focuses
sharply on young or ...
The 5th edition
of Comedie de l'Alpe d'Huez in France awarded its Grand Prize to Together
by Lukas Moodysson (Sweden), its Special Jury Prize to What's Cooking
by Gurinder Chadha (US), while the Audience Award went to Origine Controlee
by Zakia and Agmed Bouchaala (France). What's Cooking and Origine
Controlee tied for the Critics' Prize. As for short films, the Best Short
went to Les Inévitables by Christophe Le Masne while the Special
Jury Prize and Critics' Prize ...
Dubbed "King
of comedy", called the "successor to Cary Grant" in the
mid-eighties, Tom Hanks is one of the very few American comic actors to
have successfully made his way to more dramatic roles, winning two Oscars
at that (for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump). Back in the
80's, Tom Hanks was not so sure about the looming profile of his career.
"Right now I'm hot. Next year I may not be" he said in David
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