At the Invitation of the Délégation Wallonie-Bruxelles in China, the director of the Belgium film “Formidable”, Dominique Standaert, traveled to Beijing and Chengdu to participate to the EU Film Festival's events. On Tuesday November 24, Dominique Standaert had a master class at the Communication University of China in Beijing in front of forty students. On Wednesday November 25,  Dominique Standaert presented his film at the Italian Istitute of Culture (It...

 Thursday, October 18-------THE DIVIING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, the latest film from painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel has won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize, which will be presented at the Hamptons International Film Festival this weekend. For the 8th consecutive year, the $25,000 cash prize is being awarded to a feature-length film that explores science and technology themes in fresh, innovative ways and depicts scientists and engineers in a realistic and compelling...

Presented in Competition at this 60th Cannes Festival, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is Julian Schnabel's third feature-length film, following Basquiat (1996) and Before Night Falls (2000). The film is an adaptation of the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby, whose life changed completely in 1995 when he had a massive stroke. The 43-year-old journalist, father of two children, spent twenty days in a deep coma. When he woke up, he found the damage to his brain stem had resulted in a rare form of...