Butterflies crew at AOF IFFFirst of all, let me thank all of you for your constant support and if you did make it to our World Premiere, I hope you enjoyed the film. I would like to start by announcing that Butterflies walked out from AOF International Film Festival with The Alan J. Bailey AOF Award of Excellence for Documentary Filmmaking!!!! We were also nominated for Best Social Commentary 2009, but this Award went to the amazing Victory of the Underdog. I honestly believe thi...

Here are the awards for the 2009 edition of the Short Film Festival of Los Angeles. Special Prize to the Best Short Film BECOMING ROMAN by NATHAN J MORSE - United States Becoming Roman is a classic tale of the struggle of power to escape seemingly preordained roles and the fragile reality of an existential being. Life, Death, Comedy, Tragedy, War and Peace, told in one act. Awarded Category: Direction SERIAL KILLER by BAUDOUIN DU BOIS - Belgium / New-Zealand The Gerards arri...

From 24 to 26 September, Creativity and Innovation Will Reign in AmsterdamAmsterdam, 27 May 2008 – The programme of PICNIC’08, the international event on media, technology and entertainment, has been revealed. PICNIC takes place in Amsterdam on 24, 25 and 26 September this year. The main theme, ‘Create the Future’, brings together a conference featuring a host of renowned international speakers with a wide range of results-oriented seminars and workshops. The full programme is available ...

 Documentary 1000 Journals showed at the San Francisco International Film Festival this week.  Director Andrea Kreuzhage and also the main subject of the film, Someguy, were in attendance for a Q and A after a screening Wednesday.  1000 Journals is the directing debut for Kreuzhage, who has worked in the film industry since 1986 with companies Beyond Films and Sony Classics, on films like Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Bookies (2003), to name a few. In the summer of 2000, a man living in San Fr...

TV GUIDE: http://www.tvguide.com/movies/hats/review/293092 The face may be vaguely familiar, and if the name "Mimi Weddell" doesn't ring a bell it will after you've seen Jyll Johnstone's affectionate documentary portrait of this unstoppable nonagenarian model and actress. The patrician-looking star of countless print ads, TV cameos and a surprising number of schlocky horror movies, long-time New Yorker Weddell realized her dream of becoming a star (of sorts) after the death of her ...

 On Tuesday, March 11, in the Olympion's "Green Room", a press conference was held in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The participants were Krzysztof Kopczynski, director of the film Stone silence, Pola Rapaport, director of the film Hair, let the sun shine in, Sylvain Biegeleisen, director of the film Τhe last card and Hilary Helstein, director of the film As seen through these eyes. Krzysztof Kopczynski, speaking about his documentary Stone Silence - whic...

 Thursday, March 22----Online film critic and industry raconteur David Poland hosted A Conversation With....Richard Dreyfuss and Carrie Fisher, the acclaimed actors who are also co-chairs of the Bermuda International Film Festival Jury, on Wednesday afternoon in front of a packed audience of filmmakers, Festival guests and local film buffs. Sandy Mandelberger, Bermuda FF Online Dailies Editor...