Why the Palm Beach Women's International Film Festival counts!
You don't need Windex to see the glass ceilin at Pixar films, as director Brenda Chapman just learned! Walt Disney Studios confirmed recently that Brenda Chapman--hailed as the first woman to direct an animated film "Brave" for Pixar films has been replaced by a male director. Neither studio gave a reason for this change but Pixar has been criticized in the past for the lack of women behind the camera.
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“The festival has grown up, but it still refuses to go feature-length.”Gone are the days when a feature length was precededby a handful of tasty film tit bits, bite size chunks of mini-flicks.These days, it's the trailers that are more like mini movies. The‘short' is a mark of cinema's early days. Butover recent years it has been redeployed as an ideal space in which to playwith distinct forms, from animation to documentary to experimental, all ofwhich the Chilean festival, Fesancor, inc...
The 2010 Feel Good Film Festival (FGFF) announces it will return to American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood Friday, August 13 through Sunday, August 15. The three-day event once again will feature films aimed at both adult and family audiences that highlight positive themes, happy endings, laughter, and capture the beauty of our world.The Opening Night presentation of Joe Ballarini’s FATHER VS SON will kick start a program that will feature 64 films, including 14 features (11 n...
Last night, amid a sea of colorful balloons, the stars ascended the red carpet for the premier of Disney-Pixar's “Up”. The film is the firstanimated feature to open the Cannes Film Festival. The crowds clamored forviews of the red carpet while tuxedo clad paparazzi snapped away.
Fans in evening gowns and tuxedos could be spotted holding signsreading: “One ticket for “UP”? S'il vous plaît?” Most were unsuccessful as ticket beggars, still in formalwear, dusted the...
UP, the new animation film from the Disney•Pixar studios, produced under John Lasseter's supervision, will be the Opening Ceremony film of the 62nd Festival de Cannes, a World Premiere in Disney Digital 3-D on Wednesday May 13th, 2009.
UP, a comedy adventure in which 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen fulfils his dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America, only to discover that he has brought with him his biggest nig...
THE ACTION/CUT 2004GRAND PRIZE SHORT FILM AWARD“THE 17th MAN” Directed by Yimeng JinWritten by Yimeng Jin & Adam J. KrepsProduced by Brooke Krinsky, Brett Jacobsen, Adam J. KrepsSynopsis: A dark-tale thriller about a best-selling author haunted by his fictitious femme fatalewhen she comes to life after he tries to put an end to her in his final book "The 17th Man”…a psychological mind-game of deception ensues and only one can survive!This film was produced at the Florida State University...
