"Charlie's Country" (2014) by Dutch/Australian director Rolf de Heer screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Australian actor David Gulpilil won the prize for Best Actor.
“Charlie's Country” tells the story of 'Blackfella Charlie', an aboriginal man who is marginalized and discriminated against by domineering whites in his Australian village. The police are always on his back to forget his traditional ways- he is one of...
PALM SPRINGS SHORTFEST ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR 2014
Palm Springs, CA – The 2014 Palm Springs International ShortFest & Short Film Market announced the first 10 films chosen to represent the ShortFest Online Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the select films will play on a special section of the festival website (www.psfilmfest.org/shortfest) starting today. Online voting for these films will open on June 10 and run through June 21, with the “Sho...
Documentary “Salt of the Earth” (2014) by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribero Salgado about the life work of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it picked up the Special Prize Award.
The film follows Salgado's life from the time he and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado left their native Brazil, then under military dictatorship, and his journey to become one of the world's ...
CINEFEST-OZ UPDATE!
Last call to enter CinéfestOZ Film Prize!!!
Filmmakers have until 6 June 2014 to enter the inaugural CinéfestOZ Film Prize.
The CinéfestOZ Film Prize is a $100,000 award open to Australian feature films that meet eligibility criteria.
CinéfestOZ, Western Australia’s film festival dedicated to Australian and French film (20 – 24 August 2014) launched the $100,000 film prize in December 2013, after securing a new three-year sponsors...
THE DAILAN WANDA GROUP ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR CREATION OF NEW STUDIO AND MEDIA COMPLEX, AND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN QINGDAO, CHINA
Stephen Mensch announced as CEO of the Qingdao Oriental Movie Industrial Park with Rose Kuo named as the CEO of the Qingdao International Film Festival
Cannes, France (May, 2014) – Hawk Koch, President of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and Special Advisor to Dailan Wanda Group announced at a press conference during the 67th edition of t...
New Artists Alliance's partners Gabe Cowan and John Suits are two of the most prolific producers of indie filmmaking today. While most industry players will attest to how hard it is to even finish one film in today's uber competitive climate, this indie powerhouse team is cranking out 5-6 new films a year and going on strong. When asked how they do it, Gabe just replies with a solar smile: “We don't sleep”. Most recent on the NAA slate are two debut films at the 2014...
Only a hand full of people in the world can say they spent 23 years involved in the telling of Muhammad Ali's life story, and American director Bill Siegel is one. To Siegel, Ali is not only a world renown international athlete and hero, but a mirror into which any person can see a piece of themselves. In his latest film about Ali, 'The Trials of Muhammad Ali' (2013), Bill tells a three part story of the man who went from Olympic winning athlete to spiritual leader for t...
What would you do if you had a lot of money, exquisite taste and a talent for taking pictures of nude men? Well, in Angela Christlieb's film NAKED OPERA (2013), she offers us a peak inside the world of someone who lives just so. Meet Marc. He is a unique and very wealthy man from Luxembourg who believes himself to be a real life Don Giovanni. Marc spends all his money and time in the effort to create his existence modeled after the opera while traveling all over the world to see Don Giovanni...
SONOMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Sonoma, CA (April 6, 2014) - The Sonoma International Film Festival’s 17th edition came to a rousing close Sunday night following five spectacular days that featured capacity audiences for a wide variety of films from around the world, infused with gourmet food and phenomenal wine, serving up a bountiful cinematic feast.
“This has been an extraordinary year,” said SIFF Executive Director Kevin McNeely. &ld...
Ah, beautiful Paris! City of lights, city of love, city of des Beaux-Arts and grand history...city of great poverty and a rising homeless population. Meet Jeni, Wenceslas, Christine, Pascal and many others who live on the streets all year long in Paris during freezing winters, hot summers and wet shoulder seasons. While they struggle to subsist under the bridges, in alleyways and in the metros in plain sight, they endure a near invisible existence. In his visually stunning and touching documen...
BASTARDS (2014) at 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival.
'Bastards' by British director Deborah Perkin focuses on the troubled fate of illegitimate children in Morocco. The film opens with the official English definition of the word 'Bastard': “1) a person born of parents not married to each other and 2) an unpleasant or despicable person”. Just after we are reminded of what the word truly means, multiple images of innocent children grace the screen. Adorabl...
Anastasia Christoforidou's short film doc 'The Phantasmagoria of Defeat' (2013) screened at the 16th annual Thessaloniki Doc Fest.
“Fuck Picasso!” That's what this cutting edge Greek pop artist says. Yorgos Tzinoudis is rapidly building a reputation for himself as the Andy Warhol of Greece who spends all his time creating art and making wine. During the 16th annual Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, filmmakers took one of Yorgos' wine tours of the wine m...
Canadian director Shawney Cohen's film The Manor (2013) screened at the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival last week.
This award winning doc depicts the modern American family at its best, and worst. This is the story of Shawney Cohen's paradoxically functional family in all its dis-function. Shawney is a struggling filmmaker balancing between the world of film and his family run strip club. He is the designated manager of a strip club his father bought thirty years ago when he...
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Images from 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 14-23 March
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The curtain fell on the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century with the closing ceremony that took place on Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 at the Olympion theater. The awards of the festival’ s 16th edition were bestowed during the ceremony.
The ceremony was presented by journalist Maya Tsokli, who made special reference to the recently deceased, dear friend of the Festival, Peter Wintonick. The 16th TDF paid tribute to the acclaimed Canadian documentary filmmak...
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century (March 14 - 23, 2014) AWARDS
AUDIENCE AWARDS
- The Peter Wintonick Audience Award for a film over 45’ in the International Selection goes to:
FOUR LETTERS APART – CHILDREN IN THE AGE OF ADHD by Erlend E. Mo, Denmark, 2013
The Audience Award for a film under 45’ in the International Selection goes to:
BEACH BOY by Emil Langballe, UK 2013
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Brazilian director Petra Costa's film ELENA (2012) screened this week at the 16th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Petra Costa
Edited down from 200 hours of footage to 83 minutes, the film is visually stunning with every shot edited to create cinematic poetry.
ELENA is told through the eyes of Petra Costa from her years as a seven year-old looking up to her then teen actress sister, Elena Andrade, to her own years as a young adult in search of her sister's lost soul. W...
Photo by Vanessa McMahon
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OPENING CEREMONY of the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century. 14-23 March 2014
The curtain rose on the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century with a discrete opening ceremony held on Friday, March 14, 2014, at a packed Olympion theater. Nastia Tarasova’s documentary Linar, which chronicles the touching adve...
'Linar' (2013) by Nastia Tarasova, Russia.
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014
OPENING FILM Linar by Nastia Tarasova, Russia, 2013 A young boy with a wise heart leads the way for the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival opening night. Linar by Nastia Tarasova follows the odyssey of Linar, a Russian boy who travels to Italy to receive a heart transplant. Tarasova narrates with sensitivity and r...
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014
16th TDF FILM LINE-UP, FIPRESCI JURY & SIDEBAR EVENTS
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, presents approximately 185 films (shorts and features) by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program.
FILM PREMIERES
The 16th TDF presents 3 world, 12 international, 8 Euro...
Sundance 2014 Winners!
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury, Audience and other special awards of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, in Park City, Utah. Video of the ceremony in its entirety is available at www.sundance.org/live.
The U.S. Grand JuryPrize: Documentary was pres...
"RETURN TO HOMS" Grand Jury Prize Winner for World Cinema Documentary @ Sundance 2014
RETURN TO HOMS, the powerful and timely documentary from Syrian filmmakers director Talal Derki and producer Orwa Nyrabia, had its North American premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
At the Sundance awards ceremony, where the film won the Grand Jury Prize, the jury said: "We wanted to choose a film that really deeply captured our hearts. From on...
"Playing with cards is like life itself. You don't play with the cards you wish you had, but with the hand you're dealt." Jean-Yves Ollivier (October 8, 1944).
The film PLOT FOR PEACE (2013) tells the story of Algerian born Jean-Yves Ollivier and his work as a French unofficial diplomat between Europe and Africa in the 1980’s. He has worked as a well-connected businessman for underdeveloped growing markets for over 40 years and was a personal advisor to Jacques Chirac....
RETURN TO HOMS, the powerful and timely documentary from Syrian filmmakers director Talal Derki and producer Orwa Nyrabia, will have its North American premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
The film recently had its world premiere at the highly respected International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), where it was the opening night film and received acclaim from audiences and critics.
Sundance programmer Caroline Libresco had t...
The Broken Circle Breakdown nominated for Foreign-language Oscar
BEVERLY HILLS/BRUSSELS, 16 January 2014. Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, which is representing Belgium at the Academy Awards, is among the five films nominated for this year’s Best Foreign-language Oscar, it was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) today. The film is Belgium’s seventh nomination in this category. The winners of the 86th Academy Awards will be ...
