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Children of Men", a British pic directed by Mexican helmer Alfonso Cuarón shakes San Sebastian

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The attention grabbing film in San Sebastian, on day number three, was "Children of Men", a British pic directed by Mexican helmer Alfonso Cuarón and starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. The film, projected in the special side-bar, ZABALTEGI- PERLAS or "Pearls of the Open Zone", is set in the not too distant future, one generation from now, and presents the possibility that humanity could die out if the last pregnant woman on Earth does not give birth. In the film all females ...

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Fest21.com welcomes all festival organisers, movie pros, film fans and all festival goers from around the world to share fun, experience, information, pictures, videos and pod casts... Create your community, your own group, discuss and enhance your projects, promote them, distribute them, be on the Featured videoblog list... Open your own videoblog with free video storage. Festival Blogs, dailies, ambiance and panache. The Films showcased here will enjoy the privilege of close encounters with ...

Palmarès des précédentes éditions des JCC

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Tanits d'or et films tunisiens primés aux JCC ¨ Tanits d'or des éditions précédentes Un hommage sera rendu à tous les films arabes et africains primés depuis 1966, date de la première édition du Festival de Carthage. 2002 : Le prix du pardon de Mansour Sora Wade - Sénégal 2000 : Dolé de Imunga Ivanga - Gabon 1998 : Vivre au paradis de Bourlem Guerdjou - Algérie 1996 : Salut cousin de Merzak Allouache - Algérie 1994 : Les silences du palais de Moufida Tlatli - Tu...

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A letter from our partner Jennifer Wood: Editor with MovieMaker Magazine Dear Friends: As a friend of Filmfestivals.com, you've gotten to know what it takes to make it at the world’s top film festival events. Now it's time to learn what happens before that big screening—the techniques and methods of today's top directors, actors, cinematographers, editors, producers and screenwriters—with MovieMaker Magazine. For a limited time, we're offering friends of Filmfestivals.com the chance t...

Antalya’s Eurasia Film Market gets thumbs up

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Antalya’s Eurasia Film Market gets thumbs up ANTALYA, Turkey ~ The first film market ever held in Turkey ended yesterday in Antalya and was hailed as a success both by buyers and sellers, several of whom were clearly taken aback by the sheer professionalism of the organisers. A combined total of some 200 buyers and sellers from approximately 30 countries attended the inaugural Eurasia Film Festival which took place over four days during the week-long 43rd Golden Orange Eurasia Film Festival...

The wind that shakes the barley: a searing, sometimes harrowing film, with superb cinematography

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SYNOPSIS: In 1920 Ireland, the ordinary people of the land unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face the ruthless Black and Tan squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland's bid for genuine independence. As the freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to breaking point, a treaty is declared. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and men who have fought side by side, now find themselves pitted against one another as enemies, in disagreement about the t...

RUNE to Become First-Ever Feature Film Released Exclusively for Free iPod Video Download Simultaneous Download and DVD release

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RUNE to Become First-Ever Feature Film Released Exclusively for Free iPod Video Download Simultaneous Download and DVD release October 10 Independent filmmakers of the new movie RUNE see video iPod as new world wide venue for independent feature films. RUNE to become first-ever feature film release exclusively for free iPod video download on October 10 from runethemovie.com. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 14, 2006 -- As Strother Martin and Paul Newman both say in Cool Hand Luke “What we h...

Money Bag the 1st true African Martial Arts Movie

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Money Bag The 1st true African Martial Arts Movie is the first movie in Africa promoting the beauty of African Martial Arts and African Martial Artists in general. Starring Joe ATEBA alias the Unbeatable a Cameroonian Martial Arts Champion with Marina ALIMA a Cameroonian Top model & singer.Not forgetting the African American Super Martial Arts Star Khalil MAASI who's an associate producer of the film with Dr Soke Mike VAMPLEW a British citizen World President of International Martial Arts A...

Al Gore whenChange becomes Charge

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When Change becomes Charge, interview from Cannes. Al Gore was invited to Cannes for the premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, his documentary about climate change. “I know this about politics. The political system has one thing in common with the climate system: it too, is non-linear. It can appear to change only gradually. But it can cross a tipping point, beyond which it moves dramatically, ...

Amazon gambles in film

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In its first feature-film venture, Amazon has optioned screen rights to Keith Donohue's bestselling novel "The Stolen Child." Amazon will move to secure a filmmaker and then a studio partner to turn the fantasy into a live-action feature. Move marks the first foray of the world's biggest online retailer into content creation not limited to its Web site. Company isn't looking to co-finance the film but does bring an intriguing variable to the table: a pledge to use the clout of its site as a ma...

Marion Hänsel gives Variety Cinema Militans Interview

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Marion Hänsel gives the Variety Cinema Militans Interview as part of the Holland Film Meeting during the 26th Netherlands Film Festival. On Saturday 30 September at 17:30, the filmmaker will get into conversation with Variety's Katja Hofmann about her vision on the future of cinema. The fixed theme of this section, 'the position and viability of cinema in the present age', is an adaptation of the theme of Dutch film theoretician Menno ter Braak's essay 'Cinema Militans' (1926). Directly after...

Rooftop Films summer festival is in full swing

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Brooklyn - Rooftop Films summer festival is in full swing. Now in it’s 10th year, Rooftop Films has become one of the premiere venues, in New York City and beyond, for new, underground and independent short films and underexposed feature films. Running from June 1 through September 23, Rooftop Films is hosting more shows than ever before in 2006. The films come from around the globe, and include both world premieres and festival award-winners. The artists presented include first-time filmmaker...

Eden Story

Eden Story, the next project of Metis Art Production. The film is based on the conflict between love, and sexual desire, our conception of what is legal and illegal, and what is the truth and what is an illusion... It is an exploration on the conflict between flesh and spirit, and the origin of man consciousness. Few words from the director: I really like to work on the perception and the ambiguity of things upon our conditioning to believe reality and things as something absolutely inflex...

Eden Story

Based on the Eden’s myth, Eden Story is a modern adaptation of one of the oldest story on the human being...

SILVERDOCS Announces Jury and Audience Awards

Monday, June 19---The 4th annual SILVERDOCS:AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival ended its six-day event with the announcements of Jury and Audience prizes in a number of diverse categories. The Festival, which had a significant breakthrough this year, in terms of content, celebrity attendance (Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Al Gore, Thomas L. Friedman, Will Shortz and others) and audience response has more than reinforced its claim as the premiere documentary film festival in North Ameri...

Trailer of Zidane, a portrait of the 21st Century

Film directed by Philippe PARRENO, Douglas GORDON This is a portrait on film, in action and in real time, of one of the greatest players in the history of soccer, Zinédine Zidane. Seventeen synchronized cameras were used, mixing super 35mm and High Definition, each focusing solely on Zinédine Zidane from the first kick of the ball to the final whistle. This 360 degree perspective along with a sound universe that recreates the environment of the crowd allows us to enter into a multidimensional space leading the spectator to experience the sensations, the psychology and the body of a moving athlete.

The Costly Price of the Iraq War

Saturday, June 17----As the US Congress debated this week on the future of the war in Iraq, four documentaries presented at the SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival provide a more in-depth understanding of the cost of this bloody conflict to the American economy, the American morale and America’s standing in the world. While the Bush Administration offers platitudes of bringing Western style democracy to the Middle East, the true politics of that region are “petro politics...

The New Frontiers of Digital Distribution

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Friday, June 16----The new frontiers in distribution of documentary films has been a running theme at the SILVERDOCS International Documentary Conference. While other topics such as film financing, working with non-profits and foundations, and producing for public television are rather evergreen and non-changing from years past, the arena of distribution is on fire, with a number of panels pointing to incredible new opportunities for documentary filmmakers to reach wider audiences. On Thursday ...

Jim Jarmusch's Dialogue with Martin Scorsese

Thursday, June 15----It doesn't get much better than this....legendary film director Martin Scorsese being honored for his documentary film career, in a rare on-stage dialogue with independent auteur Jim Jarmusch. That was the scenario this evening, as Scorsese was honored at the SILVERDOCS 2006 Guggenheim Symposium, named in honor of four-time Academy Award winning documentarian, and Washington DC resident, Charles Guggenheim. Scorsese is one of the few Hollywood directors who has moved from...

The Triumph of the Human Spirit

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Thursday, June 15----A documentary film festival always has some common threads to it. Many involve hot-button political issues about social inequity, conflict and the abuse of government. SILVERDOCS certainly has its share of those. However, a more personal genre, that can best be described as films that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit, is also in evidence here, in a number of superb films. BLACK SUN by UK director Gary Tan, had its premiere at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival and was ...

Faith And Film: SILVERDOCS Finds Religion

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Thursday, June 15----One of the tenets of the American system of governing is a strict separation of church and state. It is very clearly written into our Constitution, and was certainly the intention of our "founding fathers", who had experienced the persecutions of state religions in Europe. This seperation between church doctrine and the rule of law has been scrupulously followed but that wall is definitely crumbling. A number of documentaries premiering at the SILVERDOCS festival this week,...

International Documentary Conference Opens

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Wednesday, June 14---As the SILVERDOCS festival entered its first full day of programming, today was also the start of the very ambitious International Documentary Conference, which brings together an illustrious group of film and media professionals who will address topics of interest to the dozens of documentary filmmakers and distributors who are attending this year's event. With 30 sessions over 4 days, this is an unprecendented "intensive" for all those interested in where documentary film ...

SILVERDOCS Opens This Evening With Tales of Hollywood

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Tuesday, June 13-----The 4th edition of SILVERDOCS: The AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, the leading documentary film festival in North America, launches this evening with a reflective view of the creative and economic pressures of the Hollywood system. BOFFO! TINSELTOWN’S BOMBS AND BLOCKBUSTERS, directed by veteran documentarian Bill Couturie, is based on the book written by long-time Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart, in celebration of the film trade’s 100th anniversary. The ...

Spotlight on International Documentaries at SILVERDOCS

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Monday, June 12---While most US-based film festivals regularly showcase at least a few international documentaries as part of their program, non-fiction from around the world is a definite spotlight of the SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, which launches on tomorrow night at the AFI Silver Center. In a section called World View, which also includes US documentaries, the subject matter and geographical origins of the films bring a broader understanding of political, social ...

Amnesia Trailer

Amnesia, short film by JF Morin, produced by Metis Art¨Production.

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