AACTA Awards Results From Sydney, Australia David Parer ABC1 (Out of Ashes) The highly anticipated inaugural Samsung Australian Academy of Cinema and Televisions Arts (AACTA) Awards commenced with the AACTA Awards Luncheon, presented by Digital Pictures at the prestigious Westin Hotel in the heart of Sydney. Today’s ceremony is for the Documentary, Short Film, Television and technical awards in Feature Film, with the writing, acting, di...

2010 PLUS CAMERIMAGE FESTIVAL PRIZEWINNERS OF FESTIVAL COMPETITIONS MUSIC VIDEOS COMPETITION: Best Music Video: Kora, “Zabawa w chowanego" (Game of Hide-and-Seek) - Cinematographer Marek Sanak; Director Bartłomiej Ignaciuk For the Best Video, the jury felt almost unanimously, that Kora Jackowska's video for "Zabawa W Chowanego" did an excellent job of visually contributing to communicating an important socially relevant mess...

Plus Camerimage Festival Presents the first edition of the Cinematographers' and Directors' Debuts Competitions. Each of the Debuts Competitions will present eight feature films selected out of the submitted titles. The directors' and cinematographers' debuts lined up in the Competitions will be judged by two separate juries, chaired by: Jos Stelling (Directors' Debuts Competition) and Michael Ballhaus (Cinematographers' Debuts Competition). Three movies were selected to be screene...

I saw this Sundance 2010 Grand jury prize winner at the www.lafest.com and it rocked. The director David Michod and I met there and last week we had an in depth conversation to be posted in the next issue of www.independentfilmquarterly.net.The words that stick out in my mind are complexities and preparation. Everybody wants to make their movie so they get a camera and start shooting their script. Very different with this awesome feature film debut of this extremely talented writer /director. So...

Director David Michod rules in Animal Kingdom  I saw this Sundance 2010 Grand jury prize winner at the www.lafest.com and it rocked. The directorDavid Michod and I met there and last week we had an in depth conversation tobe posted in the next issue of www.independentfilmquarterly.net.                                 &nb...