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Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.
Robert Redford, Founder and President of Sundance Institute remarked, "We are, and always have been, a festival about the filmmakers. So w...
Bruno Chatelin (BC): Rodolfo tell me more about the catalyst for your debut film The Well?Rodolfo Carnevale (RC): Every filmmaker has a different catalyst, in my case “The Well” allows me to tell the story of my life, the story of my family, and more importantly, I can accomplish a social function through making the film, namely to educate and make people more aware about Autism.BC: What kinds of films are you and Aporía Productions primarily interested in making?RC: I’m interested in mo...
Competition winners at the 7th The Zurich Film Festival were revealed tonight at a packed awards ceremony held at Zurich's famed Opera House.
Competition winners were announced by their respective
juries. ZFF 2011 winners are:
German
Language Feature Film
"Atmen" (Director: Karl Markovics / Austria)
International
Feature Film
"Take Shelter" (Director: J...
by Maria Esteves
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York Fall/Winter 2011 (MBFW/FW2011) presented by IMG Fashion, commenced February 10-17, 2011 at three runways in Lincoln Center and venues throughout New York.
This season designers who showcased their outstanding Fall/Winter 2011 Collection included Academy of Art University, ADAM, Adrienne Vittadini, Alexandre Herchcovitch, Anna Sui, Azria, BCBGMAXAZRIA, Behnaz Sarafpour, Betsey Johnson, Badgley Mischka, Calvin Klein, Carlos Miele, Caro...
The Aspen Institute and Aspen Film present the second annual NEW VIEWS series highlighting critically acclaimed documentaries and including post-screening discussions with special guests. The series begins Monday, July 18, and continues on Monday nights through August 8. All films will be shown at 7:30 p.m. at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen. New documentaries are playing an exciting role in public discourse, bringing a vibrant voice to culture and society. This selection of important films and spea...
Baffin Babes
There are no babes like the Baffin Babes. Vera, Emma, Inge and Kristin- four Scandinavian girls who tackled a burly 1,200-km ski trip across Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic in 2009-will talk about the challenges of their expedition, including sleeping in a tent in 40 below with polar bears as their closest neighbors.
Wade Davis
Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology and a Ph.D...
James Murdoch Calls for Digitization of Infrastructure & Competitive Home Market for Creative Sector at FICCI FRAMES 2011
James Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive, News Corporation for Europe and Asia, has called for digitization of infrastructure to unlock the potential of India’s creative sector and underlined the need for ensuring that India’s creative market is competitive at home.
In his keynote address at FICCI FRAMES 2011 here today, Mr. Murdoch said that digi...
The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Cinemania sections, as well as Special Screenings and the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival lineup. The 10th edition of the Festival will take place from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan.
"Now that the majority of the program has been announced I believe you will see the rich variety and quality of the films and talent that we are presenting at Tribeca this year," s...
9th Annual Garden State Film Festival
Returns to Asbury Park, NJ March 31-April 3, 2011
Honorees Include:
Honorary Chairperson, John Lloyd, President of Meridian Health Care
Spirit of NJ Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
Beacon Award Lainie Kazan, Movie, TV, Music and Broadway Star
Lifetime Achievement Award-Steve Sabol, President of NFL Films
Plus-Ann Reinking acclaimed BroadwayStar and Choreographer & ...
Out Film CT is pleased to announce that the Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is celebrating its 24th year this May. Throughout the year Out Film CT brings informational and entertaining lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) films to the region. As part of the organization's mission to present timely films on topics relevant to the LGBT community, Out Film CT has shown documentaries, shorts, and full-length feature films on gay marriage, overturning California's Prop...
Right after theNovember Presidential election of 2008, I began to receive these strangeE-mails that appears to come via satellite communication. After having readseveral of these E-mails I began to look forward to receiving these ramblings.These page-long E-mails were at times very lucid, at other times seemingly druginduced weirdness. Because they were so unique I organized these E-mails as"The Bunker Letters". Neither the original author nor the recipient’sidentity was fou...
This month’s blog is guest written by Janice Charles, newly appointed social media strategist for BUFF Enterprises.
Well first of all, I don’t want to be seen as a guest because I actually work for BUFF Enterprises. I was actually given permission to hijack Emmanuel’s email accounts and write whatever I liked which in my opinion would continue to get the word out regarding BUFF. Now we all know that Emmanuel could speak for England when it comes to BUFF so I actually offered to pu...
Emmy Award-winning Murphy Brown creator Diane English has been named recipient of the Writers Guild of America, West's 2011 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television, honoring lifetime achievement for outstanding television writing. English will be feted, along with other honorees, at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony on Saturday, February 5, 2011, in Hollywood.
"Diane English is a total class act - a trailblazing, supremely talented writer whose groundbreak...
It's red carpet season and the stars are getting ready for the Golden Globes and the Oscars. Some movie stars are more loved than others and this year, America's favorite movie star is Captain Jack himself, Johnny Depp who moves up from being number 2 last year. Denzel Washington also moves up one notch this year from number 3 to number 2. And the Duke, John Wayne, moves from number 7 to number 3. John Wayne also has the distinction of being the only actor to be on this list every year since 1...
Exclusive Interview: Gore Vidal, Friend of the Country, Champions THE ENEMY OF THE SMILEby Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentOn Pearl Harbor Day, literary lion Gore Vidal, 85, allowed a rare exclusive interview at the offices of Dr. Hessam Nowzari, DDS, PhD, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Vidal made himself available to discuss Dr. Nowzari's documentary THE ENEMY OF THE SMILE that "addresses the serious global dental health issue of early-in-life oral infection" (the bacterium known as AA, a...
The acclaimed film director of “The Bourne Identity”, “The Bourne Ultimatum”, and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”, as well as Executive Producer of the hit television series, “Covert Affairs”, Doug Liman, discussed his political thriller, “Fair Game”, which is currently out in movie theaters, and is a MUST SEE for EVERYONE this Holiday Season!“Fair Game” stars, “the greatest working actor, Sean Penn, as former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, and Naomi Watts, who gives the performance ...
The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) announced today that Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine,) will be honored with the prestigious Career Achievement Award at this year’s Film Festival, taking place December 1-5 in Nassau. Arkin will be on hand for the tribute, with the special award presentation coming from actress Abigail Breslin, who received an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actress starring alongside Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine.The Career Achievem...
Helen Dobrensky
saw the the avant Première of the dramatic film TROPICO de SANGRE,
illustrating the life and death of the three Mirabal sisters, on November 4th at UNESCO.
In 1999, the United Nations established the day of November 25th, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of the three Mirabal sisters.
Ms. Dedé Mirabal still lives in the same household they all grew up. She has been responsible for keeping their le...
An International Forest Film Festival competition to mark the International Year of Forests, 2011 has named Vance Martin, Jan McAlpine, and Cristina Mittermeier as the judges who will select winning films from 18 finalists in six categories. The International Forest Film Festival competition, launched by the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat, will announce the finalists in December 2010, and the winners will be honoured at the global launch o...
Event: 1st Annual International Bat Film Festival (IBFF) & Awards - 2011
Sponsors: Consortium of US Bat Wildlife Rehabilitators
* additional details to follow
Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011
Time: 9AM to 10PM
Location: Explorer’s Club NYC
www.batfilmfest.com
Email: batfilmfest@gmail.com or batinfo@batfilmfest.comAwards from the prestigious Explorers Club will be given to entries in the following categories:
Best bat sho...
After touring the globe for the past two years, DJ Spooky arrives in Eastern Europe. His visual/music extravaganza REBIRTH OF A NATION serves as the Opening Night attraction for the inaugural American Film Festival, a new film event that launches on Wednesday evening in Wroclaw, Poland. The man himself will be there to both orchestrate the film presentation and to mix sounds at the film's after-party at the chic Club Eter, where dancing will certainly continue into the wee hou...
The FLICKERS North Country Film Festival (NCFF) is pleased to announce that Hollywood screenwriter Chris Sparling, whose credits include the suspense thriller BURIED starring Ryan Reynolds and who is working on a film with M. Night Shyamalan, will be a special guest at the festival.The non-profit festival aims to promote New Hampshire’s Great North Woods as a regional center for the arts, and is expected to bring celebrities, audiences and international filmmakers to the area. This exciting e...
By Maria Esteves - September 2, 2010
Designers from around the world went for the color gold as they
celebrated the final runway shows in the iconic Tents of Bryant Park, New York, at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010 Collections, February 11-18, 2010. Designers and celebrities wore layers of clothes
and shearling coats to beat the cold and snow.
Custo Barcelona Men and Women Fall/Winter 2010 Collections at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in the Tent of Bryant Park, New York....
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