105 films from 38 countries will compete in DOCUMENTA MADRID 08 • DOCUMENTA MADRID 08 presents its International Jury, who will select the best of the 105 films participating in the five competitive sections.• In its fifth year, the festival is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of May 68 as seen in its epicenters: France, the USA, Latin America and Eastern Europe.• The series What a Movement! brings back to
Madrid, April 7, 2008 In its fifth year, DOCUMENTA MADRID continues it strong commitment to the Official Section.Out of the 999 films received—nearly a hundred more than last year (570 full-length films and 429 short films), 105 have been selected to participate in the different categories. The total prize-winnings this year have gone up to 73,000€. By category, they will compete in: 53 in the Original Documentary Section (19 full-length films and 34 short films); 27 in the Documentary Repor...
More than 15 long features and co-productions, representing a diversity of French cinema, will be showcased during IFFI, the International Film Festival of India, that begins in Goa later this week.From the inception of this new form of art, more than a century ago, both France and India felt a strong inclination for what was to be commonly known as the seventh art, says Jérôme Bonnafo (rpt Jome Bonnafo), Ambassador of France in India.Among them, the French Oscar entry ''Orchestra Seats"(...
Panjim (Goa), Nov 22: More than 15 long features and co-productions, representing a diversity of French cinema, will be showcased during IFFI, the International Film Festival of India, that begins in Goa later this week.From the inception of this new form of art, more than a century ago, both France and India felt a strong inclination for what was to be commonly known as the seventh art, says Jérôme Bonnafo (rpt Jome Bonnafo), Ambassador of France in India.Among them, the French Oscar entry ''...
Last month, on December 4, 2006 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the Audiovisual Resource Center Bophana was inaugurated. A lifelong dream of acclaimed Cambodian film director Rithy Panh, (director of award wining ‘The Khmer Rouge Death Machine’ 2003) president of the Association for the Research, Production and Archiving of Audiovisual documents (ARPAA), the opening of the Bophana archives was, in Mr. Panh’s words, “Symbolic for us – because the Khmer Rouge did not only kill people but they ...
Christian Cappe, President of 2C Associés, and Jean-François Boyer, Vice-President of the USPA (the Syndical Union for Audiovisual Production), have successfully launched, with the sponsorship of the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first International Festival dedicated to television works : the « Djerba TV Festival ». The first edition of the festival kicked off on the 27th April and runs till the 1st of May.The Festival aims to valorize the vari...
