Berlinale Talent Campus would like to invite you and/or your colleagues to apply for Talent Press, a project of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Goethe Institute, and FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics). Young film critics and film journalists will be invited to Berlin to report on the films at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (February 9–19, 2012) and on the events of the Berlinale Talent Campus (February 11–16, 2012).
The call for applications for Talent ...
The film THE INVOCATION (2010) is one of the most enterprising documentaries to come out of the past year, tackling the endlessly debated question: is world peace possible? Many contest that human nature is conflict and thus war is and always will be inevitable. But others maintain that peace indeed is possible, and THE INVOCATION explores how. These filmmakers, Emmanuel Itier and Claude Budin-Juteau, took it upon themselves to travel all around the world speaking to some of the most important...
We are pleased to announce that the fourth annual EcoFocus Film Festival will run March 23-31, 2012 in Athens, Georgia. Films submitted for consideration for the 2012 festival will be accepted through September 15, 2011. There are three submission categories: features, shorts (20 min. max), and family programming. Films may be submitted to more than one category. Learn more about EcoFocus at www.ecofocusfilmfest.org. To submit your film, please review submission details at www.ecofocusfilmfest...
The African premiere of Emmanuel Itier’s multiple award winning movie THE INVOCATION narrated by the famous Hollywood actress Sharon Stone will be at the 2nd Eko International Film Festival (EKOIFF) on Saturday July 9, 2011, at the prestigious Silverbird Galleria, 133 Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos.
THE INVOCATION is a thought provoking film about God and World Peace. An exploration of the notion of the Divine around the world and through Religion, Spirituality...
This year at the 2nd annual AIFF (Aruba International Film Festival) 5 films competed in the 'CSS' section. The director of this competition was Aruban director Aaron Hose and the winner of this year's competition was VOICES FROM MARIEL (2011). Here: (left to right) Jose Garcia, Jonathan Viera, Steven Bauer, Aaron Hosethis photo from Aaron Hose's pictures.
This year at the 2nd annual AIFF (Aruba International Film Festival) 5 films competed in the 'CSS' section. The director of this competition was Aruban director Aaron Hose and the winner of this year's competition was VOICES FROM MARIEL (2011). Here- Jonathan Demme and Aaron Hosethis photo from Aaron Hose's pictures.
This month, the Alliance Francaise de Bombay's Ciné-Club and Chill N Read collaborate to explore the art of adapting novels into movies. Film and book lovers are invited to come along Monday the 4th of July, 5.30pm with such a book and share opinions in the Alliance Française library over a cup of chai!
Can’t think of a particular title of book or movie? Check all the novels adapted into films available at the Alliance Française Library on their website: bombay.afin...
Interview with Alessandro Calza in Aruba at AIFF 2011. Alessandro Calza part wrote and starred in the film CIAO (2008), a love story about two lovers brought together from two different worlds through the internet, and through the loss of a mutual lover. With Ale, I did a double up interview with Getty Images UK. I asked the questions and cameraman Chris rolled camera and recorded. We began the interview with Ale’s views on social systems in various countries before jumping in to talk a...
Interview with Alessandro Calza in Aruba at AIFF 2011. Alessandro Calza part wrote and starred in the film CIAO (2008), a love story about two lovers brought together from two different worlds through the internet, and through the loss of a mutual lover. With Ale, I did a double up interview with Getty Images UK. I asked the questions and cameraman Chris rolled camera and recorded. We began the interview with Ale’s views on social systems in various countries before jumping in to talk a...
Milcho Manchevski in conversation with Wendy Mitchell (Screen International)... When you went to your film school in Illinois, did they expose the works of New York avant garde and nouvelle vague, and should young filmmakers be exposed to that?"yes and yes, and so it should be, its essential to know where authors have gone before entering this industry."Funny enough I had applied to National Film School in Łódź, they were not able to give me an answer as to when i could enter, so ...
Call for Entries to the 2012 International Freethought Film Festival is now open. Submit your film via Withoutabox: http://www.withoutabox.com/login/8456
Deadlines:
~August 30th, 2011....................Early Bird
~December 30th, 2011...............Regular
~February 15th, 2012.................Late
~April 15th, 2012.......................Extended (Withoutabox)
ABOUT THE FILM FESTIVAL
The International Freethought Film Festival is a niche film festival for th...
Djo Tunda wa Munga drives “Viva Riva” into the fast laneBy Ron GilbertDirector Djo Tunda wa Munga has become a director to watch with his first feature which impressived audiences and distributors at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival. He started out as a documentarian and puts his foot on the gas(literally) with “Viva Riva” and the inside of life in the Congo underworld. My former classmate Martin Scorcese will agree with my comparison to his films, ”Mean Streets and Good Fellas” onl...
SLEEPING BEAUTY (2011)One of the films in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival was SLEEPING BEAUTY (2011) by writer/director Julia Leigh. While one might recall the sweet animated Disney film SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) or the classic fairytale in reference to this title, this film is a far cry from these classics with the same name; rather, this ‘sleeping beauty’ is about the erotic desires of a young woman and her ‘female gaze’, as opposed to the much discussed, much debated cinem...
SLEEPING BEAUTY (2011)One of the films in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival was SLEEPING BEAUTY (2011) by writer/director Julia Leigh. While one might recall the sweet animated Disney film SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) or the classic fairytale in reference to this title, this film is a far cry from these classics with the same name; rather, this ‘sleeping beauty’ is about the erotic desires of a young woman and her ‘female gaze’, as opposed to the much discussed, much debated cinem...
The Zlin Film Festival, which is entering its final weekend, is most definitely a showcase for emerging directors. There is in fact a competition exclusively devoted to European filmmakers making their first films. However, strong early efforts are studded throughout the program, and none heralds as exciting new talent as French writer/director Céline Sciamma who is presenting her second feature film TOMBOY here in the Features Films For Youth competition.
Céline Sciamma, on...
Short Films, Long Amazement – at the 27th Hamburg International Short Film Festival The first films shown to amazed audiences on fairs and during vaudeville shows all had one thing in common: They were short. Likewise, many early attempts at film making, in which directors develop concepts and ideas for future features, are quite often rather short as well. Even though the short film started because of technical limitations, it is now offering impressive opportunities: There is hardly any othe...
Canadian actor Ryan Gosling (AFP, Anne-Christine Poujoulat)
CANNES, France - The Cannes film festival got a shot of high-octane
drama on Friday with "Drive," a violent film-noir thriller set in Los
Angeles, rich in Detroit iron and inspired in part by the Brothers
Grimm. Canadian actor Ryan Gosling stars in Danish auteur Nicolas
Winding Refn's tale of a solitary Hollywood stunt-car driver and
part-time wheelman for armed robbers who morphs into a cold...
"A.L.I.C.E." has been nominated for TWO awards at the Art Deco
Film Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil: BEST DIGITAL FILM (Dawn Westlake)
and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Francesco Uboldi). The film screens there on
May 20th, 2011.
"A.L.I.C.E." is currently screening in Cannes, presented by Ouat Media.
For more information, please contact fred.joubaud@ouatmedia.com
For more info on the film, please visit: http://www.dawnwestlake.com/dawnwestlake/rondecana/films/ali...
amfAR event tonight in Antibes and guess who will be covering the event!!!! Yours Truly! Will keep you all updated with the event later tonight!!!!! amfAR Cinema against Aids will bring out some of the biggest names of the world! Elton John, Donatella Versace, Angelina Jolie and More!...
This 4-evening course covers entertainment law and legal issues that are critical to all filmmakers. From script to production to distribution, entertainment lawyer Jindra Rajwins gives you the legal framework to understand securing rights and trademarks, film funding and investor issues, the legalities of distribution deals, and strategies for negotiating the legal landscape for your film project. Packed with information, this is a must-have resource for any filmmaker who is serious about buil...
The San Francisco Film Society wrapped its 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) with 265 screenings of 193 films from 48 countries, which were attended by 278 filmmakers and industry guests from 22 countries around the globe.
"I had a hell of a good time!" exclaimed Frank Pierson, recipient of this year's Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting. "I enjoyed the informality of spirit and the professionalism of execution of the who...
