On December 12th, Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) will be saluting Arthur C Rolle of Governor's Harbour in Eleuthera who had the foresight to establish the original Parade Theatre in 1965 located across from the ball park in Governor's Harbour. "Rarely do I meet a gentleman like Mr. Rolle, charming, regal, with such a kind soul, resembling Hollywood's best, such as Harry Belafonte or Sidney Poitier. Mr. Rolle single-handedly operates the only movie theater in Eleuth...
by Alex Deleon
LUST (Al Shooq) is an Egyptian film set in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, on the Mediterranean.
However the part of the city we see is no tourist dream -- but a poverty stricken warren of side streets where the central figure, Umm Shooq, a charismatic possessed lady, and her two mod daughters live. When her youngest son falls seriously ill with a kidney condition and needs dialysis treatment --very expensive -- she is forced to beg on the streets to raise the money. When she...
The 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival will screen 14 feature films produced in 2012 in Greece and in coproduction with other countries, two of which will be participating in the International Competition section. In addition, the award-winning Greek films from the Drama Short Film Festival will be presented during the event.
From the roster of this year’s works it is evident that the Greek crisis and its multiple facets, in societal, familial and individual levels, hav...
AWARDS President of the Feature Films Jury of the 38th edition of the Deauville American Film Festival, Sandrine Bonnaire, and jury members Sami Bouajila, Clotilde Courau, Philippe Decouflé, Anaïs Demoustier, Christophe Honoré, Joann Sfar, Florent-Emilio Siri and Alice Taglioni, has given the following awards: GRAND PRIZELES BÊTES DU SUD SAUVAGE (Beasts of the Southern Wild) de/by Benh ZEITLINDistribution France: ARP - Sortie le 12 décembreJURY PRIZEUNA NOCHE de/by Lucy MULLOYVentes à ...
Scott Hillier, President of ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival and Oscar award-winning independent filmmaker is offering a credit on his latest documentary in exchange for transcription and translation work (Arabic – English). We have been shooting in Libya and have 10 interviews (maximum 30 mins long).
This is an unpaid position but you will gain a valuable credit of which you can use in your future filmmaking career opportunities or job prospects. This is a heartf...
The Carnival in Cannes benefit event on May 18th was presented by Giorgio
Armani in support of Sean Penn's J/P HRO, Paul Haggis' Artists for Peace
and Justice and Petra Nemcova's Happy Heart's Fund for their united and
extraordinary work in Haiti.
"Carnival in Cannes" , a c...
While waiting in the last-minute line at the Palais last night in hopes of getting into the second showing of Moonrise Kingdom, I met a few of the young crew members from Future Masters of Technology, a British independent filmmaking company comprised of mulit-award winning individuals who "pride [them]selves on [their] ability to produce low-budget films to a high-budget standard." The first man who introduced himself was Anthony Woodley, the writer, director, and one of the ...
photo still from '1/2 REVOLUTION' (2011)
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The Just Talking session of the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival of Monday, March 12 was coordinated by renowned producer and journalist Peter Wintonick; participating were the directors Stelios Kouloglou (Oligarchy), Daan Veldhuizen (Stories from Lakka Beach), Maria Paz Gonzalez ...
Hungarian cinema comes to Porto during Fantasporto 2012 in Endre Hules' film, THE MAIDEN DANCED TO DEATH (2011).
The film is about two brothers during Communist Hungary who were great dancers and once upon a time danced together. But while one brother kept dancing, the other gave it up. Now they meet twenty years later to dance together again.
I interviewed Endre Hules a year ago before the film was finished. And now here in Fantasporto I will finally s...
The Academy is the partner and organizer of the Festival.
It will offer a large number of festival volunteers and staffers and provide a ground for panels and keynotes.
The current development of the electronic media and broadcasting in Bangladesh has greatly expanded the scope of people's entertainment, information and education.
The electronic media is now playing a significant role in raising social awareness and bringing about a positive change in people's outlook and idea...
Director: HORACI GARCIA, ORIOL FAURA Y JAVIER URTASUN.
SUPERZEBRAMAN, a documentary about how to make the first Spanish Nigerian production of the history without having a clue. The scene: Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry that produces the largest number of films in the world, over the powerful Hollywood and Bollywood industries. A concept of the cinema in which the movies are rolled in two weeks and for less than 20.000 dollars, accessibly a priori and which Javier Urtasun believed attainable. The thing is that this special look to the seventh art definitively is a world full of possibilities, or at least this was what Javier Urtasun thought.
Born in agreement to the requirements of script of the Nigerian industry, SUPERZEBRAMAN (The movie) counts the history of a man who changes the color of his skin thanks to the power of the zebras. An ambiguous starting point that constitutes the first step of a way riddled with anecdotes gathered in this delirious documentary.
Probably after seeing the documentary we will understand why this first Spanish Nigerian film was never done before: it is necessary to have testicles. Great ode to life and to the dreams that it we should never stop fulfilling, in SUPERZEBRAMAN (The Documentary) you realize that though the producer is drunk and the director does not appear, the important thing is to know that the perimeter is defended by a good number of AK47.
CALL FOR ENTRIES : NINTH ANNUAL WE CARE FILM FEST 2012
Entries of documentary films are invited for 9th edition of We Care Film festival 2012 from anywhere from the world on the issues of disability.
We Care Film Fest is an annual international travelling festival of documentary films on disability issues. It is organized by Brotherhood in association with the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...
The 2nd Eko International Film Festival (EKOIFF) opened Saturday morning in Lagos with the Nigerian premiere of Faruk Lasaki’s romantic thriller “Changing Faces” at the Silverbird Galleria on Victoria Island. The feature of 92 minutes is on the psychological trauma of an illicit affair caused by the transference of spirits through sex.
Many people came for the opening day graced by top Nigerian entertainment journalists including Shaibu Husseini of The Guardian who was later ...
Both films (a feature film and a short film) tell a story based on the true life of Rector of The Grande Mosquée de Paris who saved young jews in 1942 by forging certificates of muslim origin for hundreds of young jews.
500 to 1600 the exact figure is not available, on Schindlers's list
there WAS a list
Free Men (Les hommes libres) written and directed by Ismaël FERROUKHI, produced by Fabienne Vonier starring Tahar Ramin... will screen may 19th in Official selection, a spe...
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Cinemas In Morocco is launching its first international conference on the
theme: « thinking about cinema differently » at the cannes festival!
The 64th edition of the
Cannes Festival promises to be rich in discoveries and is likely to delight
industry professionals and ultimately the general public by:
revealing and highlighting works to serve the
evolution of cinema
participating in the
development of the film ...
The first edition of the Yaoundé International Human Rights Film Festival suspended by the Cameroonian authorities
Yesterday, 12 April 2011, the Yaoundé prefecture issued a suspension of a public event auHtorisation, thereby calling off this first edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival in Yaoundé.
Yesterday at the French Cultural Centre, the opening ceremony of the Festival was cancelled at 6 pm in the presence of its audience, guests and journalists. The...
The second edition of Eko International Film festival (EKOIFF), http://www.ekoiff.com/ is coming up in the mega city of Lagos from July 9-14, 2011.
This year's Theme of Eko International film Festival is ‘‘Nollywood - maximizing the Nigerian Film Industry".
The President/Co-Founder Mr. Hope Obioma Opara said the preparations for the second edition are already in progress with a new advisory board made up of accomplished professionals in the Nigerian film ind...
ScreenSingapore exciting line-up of programme includes:
Finance Forum@ScreenSingapore on 7 June
A conference dedicated to film finance, production, distribution, and digital innovation. This conference will provide strategies to bolster continued growth and information for co-production opportunities in this region of the world. The programme will also include a special feature on ‘Made by Singapore' highlighting local post-production and special effects companies.
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While Hollywood films are the last thing on the minds of the Japanese people as they confront the most challenging period in their modern history since the end of World War II, the effect and response from the US entertainment industry has been swift. Japan represents a huge chunk of the international dollars made mainly by Hollywood films and animation projects. As much as 20% of international revenues for Disney comes from the island nation, and the major studios all have large pres...
Director: Martín Seeger.
Piotr Herroll’s family had to leave Nacrovia and now lives in exile in Santiago de Chile. Young Piotr is sent to find work. A friend points him out that the Chilean State supports artists; so, he comes up with a play about the story of his unknown country. This carries several problems: he must have Chilean actors, who are less concerned about the meaning of his work. Also, his citizenship credentials are not very reliable. And the language barrier will result in a series of mix ups that will end altering the play. The film is spoken in a made up language, Nacrovese. The continuing use of subtitles is incorporated into the plot games, making Piotr Herroll a unpredictable hero and turning the film into a sharp comedy about the essence of the Chilean self.
director Johannes Naber at PSIFF 2011, here for the North American premier of his film, The Albanian.
read here for a review on The Albania:
http://www.fest21.com/en/blog/vanessa_mcmahon/the_albanian_a_must_see
ITALIANMIX 2012 is looking for
INNOVATIVE, CREATIVE and INSPIRING works by Italian filmmakers or by
foreign filmmakers but having as their topic Italy or Italian subjects
for ITALIANMIX to be included in the VIEWFest 2012 program in Turin and
on the VIEWFest ITALIANMIX DVD.
ITALIANMIX welcomes works in all genres
and visual forms. An exciting and unique opportunity addressed to
Italian filmmakers, digital artists, and other creative professionals,
to gain valuable exposure ...
Never Again? A close-up on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, this documentary tries to decipher the civil war and its aftermath through interviews with survivors in displacement camps in Sudan and Chad as well as refugees, and activists in Europe and in Israel.
