2012 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST
ANNOUNCES FESTIVAL WINNERS
Monday, June 24th sees the close of the 2012 Palm Springs International Shortfest Film Festival. The festival was held from June 19-25th and screed 324 short filmsm bringing in shortfilm filmmakers from across the globe, including filmmakers Robert Elswit, Gus Van Sant and Oorlagh George, to honor their film at what is undisputedly the largest short film festival in North America. Shortfilm prize-winners were anno...
The Living Theatre: A Day in the Life of Paris
Français
German
By Jen Wallace and Marc Rickenbach
On May 25, at Le Pavé d’Orsay, a narrow empty space tucked away in
Paris’ 7th, we attended the Introductory Cocktail and Press hour
celebrating the return of The Living Theatre to Paris after a twenty
year absence. The following weekend, in collaboration with the Bilingual
Acting Workshop, The Living Theatre would hold a workshop and two
perfor...
New York’s crowded film festival calendar has now become positively stifling with the (welcome) addition of the SoHo International Film Festival NYC (SIFFNYC), which builds on its auspicious debut of last year to offer a second edition of 8 days of films, professional workshops and special events. The Festival will be held at downtown New York’s Quad Cinema from Friday, April 15th through Friday, April 22nd.
Nearly 100 features, shorts and documentaries, from bo...
Bill Cunningham New York
Documentary on a Legendary Fashion Photographer
By Ron Gilbert
The preview opening at LACMA presented
by the Costume Council was the best venue to view this film. The Costume
Council provides extraordinary resources to expand audiences’ awareness of
fashion, design, costume and adds to the LAMCA World class Costume and Textile
Collection.
Needless to say all the fans
of Bill Cunningham whose work has graced the fashion world for 5...
During our festival, the world cinema stars will conduct the film workshops. Roger Christian, an FX expert in the most famous sci-fi productions will focus on the creative and technical aspects of the job of an art director. Ellen Chenoweth will advise on how to successfully carry out the castings. Roger Christian is an Oscar winner for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration for George Lucas' “Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope” (1977), where he was responsible for the Jedi lightsabers a...
Multi-talented Argentinian director/writer/producer Miguel Mas shares
his thoughts and feelings of his recent film Love Equation (2009)
ME: Can you speak a little bit about Love Equation and what it is about?
MIGUEL: The film features an exce...
Multi-talented Argentinian director/writer/producer Miguel Mas shares
his thoughts and feelings of his recent film Love Equation (2009)
ME: Can you speak a little bit about Love Equation and what it is about?
MIGUEL: The film features an exceptional story line of love counting issues of
friends that are involved in such particular feeling: sensibilities and
weaknesses of hu
Dennis Hopper , who was a fellow member of the famed Actors Studio, has left us for another stage in his famous and turbulent career, but he was and will always be held close to us all . I remember seeing him at Golds Gym in Venice in the 1990's after he had appeared on Inside the Actors Studio in NY with James Lipton ,where I was an audience member. So since we had known each other , I walked over to him and told him that he was so inspirational and his clarity was awesome and he ...
CA- Academy Award® and three-time Golden Globe winner Angelina Jolie will be honored on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at the 23rd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival with the Outstanding Performance of the Year Award for her critically acclaimed performance in “A Mighty Heart”, it was announced today by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. Past recipients include Kate Winslet, Heath Ledger and Helen Mirren for her performance in “The Queen.” Based on the bestselling book b...
The 6th annual installment of the Coney Island Film Festival hits the shores of Coney Friday, October 6th through Sunday, October 8th. This year's festival features eighty-one films from around the world; a stunning array of high and low-brow fare, as diverse as the neighborhood it represents. Subjects range from the profound to the profane, showcasing the independent spirit and irreverent nature of the one and only Coney Island.This year's centerpiece film is director Stephen Verona's lost clas...
REBECCA DE MORNAY APPEARS IN-PERSON FOR “FULL CIRCLE: THE ‘BOUNTIFUL’ JOURNIES OF REBECCA DE MORNAY” AT THE MARILYN MONROE THEATRE THURSDAY APRIL 29TH, 2004 at 8:00PM Acclaimed actress REBECCA DE MORNAY returns to her training ground at the Lee Strasberg Institute in West Hollywood to discuss, demystify and decode what it takes to maintain movie star status and emerge as a serious actress. De Mornay is a rare breed who has managed to accomplish both. In this appearance, De Mornay will...
