LAIFAFEST 2004 CLOSING NIGHT FILM PRESENTATIONWINDY CITY HEAT: THE MOST ELABORATE PRANK EVER ATTEMPTED IN WORLD HISTORYSATURDAY, APRIL 24, 20048:30 PMARCLIGHT CINEMAS HOLLYWOOD6360 SUNSET BOULEVARD - HOLLYWOOD"This is unbelievable what those guys did. You have to see this thing.There isn't a part that isn't funny . It is the funniest thing I've ever seen. It should have been a theatrical release, this movie. It is the best thing I ever saw in my life." HOWARD STERN"I've watched it over and over ...
The Deep Pool, a mystical anecdote set in an evocative wilderness, by Sharon Shostak, has won the Special Prize to the Best Short Film in the New York Short Film Festival, organized by the Annual Program Without Frontiers.The awarded films by categories have been Love & Stuff, by Sorrel Ahlfeld, Integral Realization; ...The Making Of..., by Benjamin Fannin, Direction; A Time For Anna, by Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen, Screenplay; The Schoolboy, by Edina Kontsek, Art Direction: Marion Schubert; Gas St...
2nd Z E B R A Poetry Film Award / July 1 - 4, 2004As part of the Berlin 2004 poetry festival, the literaturWERKstatt berlin, together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (German Technical Cooperation) and interfilm berlin, is inviting submissions for the 2nd international ZEBRA Poetry Film Award, which is endowed with total cash prizes of 10,000 EURO. The international jury will announce the winners from July 1 to 4, 2004 at the ARSENAL CINEMA in Berlin. ZE...
FOREIGN FILM FESTIVALII EDITION 22-26 June 2004The Art Movie & Music Association is proud to announce that the second edition of the Foreign Film Festival International Contest, the first European Festival dedicated to film locations, will be held in Ischia from 22 to 26 June 2004. The Festival will award productions that promoted little known Italian and European locations or presented them to the public in an original and innovative way through films, TV fiction works and adverts. The idea of ...
The winners of the best films and filmmakers (Golden Reel Awards) were announced in a ceremony with many filmmakers and foreign dignitaries in person. TIFF congratulates all the winners. Best Film: The Gift (Italy), by: Michelangelo FrammartinoBest Director: Ventura Pons, Anita Takes A Chance (Spain)Best Screenplay: Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba, for: The Bookstore (Tunisia)Best Cinematography: Kirill Davidoff, for: The Gun (USA)Best Documentary: Aging Out (USA), by: Roger Weisberg & Vanessa Roth; &: En...
FESTIVAL'S AWARD-WINNING FILMS ANNOUNCEDIndependent Pictures and the Ohio Independent Film Festival are pleased to announce the winners of the 8th Annual Ohio Indie Awards, bestowed to the best films from the 2003 Ohio Independent Film Festival. The winners were selected by a jury from a set of nominees that were chosen by the audience. Five categories comprise the Ohio Indie Awards.…And the winners are:MOST INNOVATIVEThe Green Sheik by Cosmo SegursonBEST SHORTTaringa 4068: Our Place & Time by...
Academy Award Winner and Her Friend Oscar Not Allowed to Board PlaneRecent Academy Award Winner and Durango Film Festival Winner Maryann DeLeo and her Oscar Award tried to leave Durango early this morning. La Plata County Airport officials had different plans though for DeLeo's friend Oscar. Officials felt that Oscar could have been used as a weapon in flight and would not allow DeLeo and Oscar to board. After some careful packaging and long discussion DeLeo and Oscar were allowed to board th...
HDFEST 2004 World Tour which will take place in Australia, Los Angeles, Finland, Miami, London and New York, beginning May 21st in Sydney and concluding December 19th in New York. HDFEST is known as "the world's only high-definition film festival" as the event screens content created exclusively with high-definition technology. HDFEST material includes features, shorts, television programs, music videos, animations, documentaries and commercials; festival events also include a competition as we...
Three major independent motion picture releases will have their Arizona debut at the 2004 Phoenix Film Festival, April 1-4. These presentations are in addition to the feature and short films shown as part of the competition.Festival executive director Chris LaMont says, “It’s great when the studios give our audience the opportunity to screen the latest premiers first, films that will be coming soon to multiplexes across the country”.The 2004 Phoenix Film Festival Showcase films are: “S...
Weight-loss Story Launches Film Festival ProgrammingIn anticipation of its fifth annual Port Townsend Film Festival in September, event organizers launch their annual spring membership drive March 21 with an advance screening of a film entitled "Lbs."New York actor/writer/producer Carmine Famiglietti will journey to Port Townsend to discuss his narrative film that created a sensation when it played at the Sundance Film Festival in January.In a tale about food addiction, Famiglietti made mincemea...
Darren Vigil Gray, a 2004 Durango Film Festival Artist, will be honored at a reception March 10th from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Sorrel Sky Gallery.Darren Vigil Gray is a modern Indian and a modern painter. His loose and colorful style is based soundly on the idea of artist as a mediator between the earthy world of paint and the unearthly realm of artistic creation. Gray never compromises the elements of the natural world, and manages to remain firmly in the modern world. Other works by the a...
Darren Vigil Gray, a 2004 Durango Film Festival Artist, will be honored at a reception March 10th from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Sorrel Sky Gallery.Darren Vigil Gray is a modern Indian and a modern painter. His loose and colorful style is based soundly on the idea of artist as a mediator between the earthy world of paint and the unearthly realm of artistic creation. Gray never compromises the elements of the natural world, and manages to remain firmly in the modern world. Other works by the a...
AIDAC - Italian Association of Audiovisual Script Translators and Adaptors Italian dubbing actors, directors, assistants and dialogue writers are intering into their 6th week strike in a fight to achieve working conditions that will allow them to improve both their performances and the quality of dubbed films and TV fiction.The expired 5-year-old national agreement has up to now rarely been respected by dubbing companies which – after an extenuating 8-months discussion with the Unions – stil...
LATINO FILMMAKERS LAUNCH FIRST-EVER ONLINE AUCTION FOR GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS In a first move of its kind, two Latino filmmakers are reaching out to global distributors in an unconventional way: they are auctioning distribution rights to their feature film, Alvarez & Cruz, on eBay. Alvarez & Cruz is an English-language crime drama that focuses on two Latino conmen/carjackers and their relationships -- or lack thereof -- with their deadbeat fathers. Ricky Alvarez (Alex D¹Lerma) & Jojo Cruz (...
FITZROY SHORTS March 3rd"it doesn’t matter that it’s short as long as it fitz.."This month features short doco Cut Outs about the current stencil art boom in Melbourne by Cassandra Bakic and Tropfest Best Film award winner Emma Freeman’s new short film Mittens which was pre- selected for the Academy Awards in 2003 …and one to surprise us all is the hilarious mocumentary Stunt C*ck’s all the way from the U.S, featuring Lou Diamond Phillips and real life porn star Ron Jeremy (and no it...
In 2004, a year particularly rich in events and markets, making it a “busy 2004” MIFED feels it is necessary to work ahead of time, in total partnership with the industry and with special attention to its specific needs: short and long term needs. Ahead of time and ahead of AFM: dates for MIFED have been moved forward to October 12 to 16.To that respect, MIFED has prepared a special 2004 participation package with discounts going up to 20% reserved to companies which have exhibited at either...
The Director's View Film Festival, having just completed its 5th annual program celebrating and honoring the director's role in filmmaking, has announced its 2004 winners. They are:The Director's View 2004 Independent Narrative Festival:Grand Prize: The Fall Before Paradise, Director: Steven Gillilan, Reisterstown, MDFirst Prize, Feature: Nothing Really Happens, Director: Fred Newman, New York CityFirst Prize, Short: 51 Kilohertz, Director: Julius Sevcik, Prague, Czech RepublicThe Director's Vie...
2004 LE PRIX INTERNATIONAL FILM STAR AWARDS AND GALASUNDAY, MARCH 28th AT 5PMORPHEUM THEATER AND FAIRMONT HOTEL NEW ORLEANSThe 2004 Le Prix International Film Star Awards will be held Sunday, March 28th at 5pm at the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana.A black-tie patron Gala follows the Awards presentation in the famed Blue Room of the Fairmont New Orleans Hotel. The Le Prix International Film Star Awards is the only international awards show that honor entertainers for their body of work...
The Association of Independent Film Exhibitor's First Annual Conference:>From Analogue to Digital - Cinema in the Digital Age The Birmingham Screen Festival will behosting the Association of Independent Film Exhibitor¹s first Annualconference on the 4th and 5th of March 2004. The Association of Independent Film Exhibitors, the specialist tradeassociation committed to supporting independent venues, is looking to thefuture with their first Annual conference by offering a beginner¹s guide tothe n...
The grand awards of Golden Bear for best film and several Silver Bear awards, 54th Berlinale will be chosen today at 2pm with a red carpet awards ceremony at 6.30. The International Jury for 2004 composed of Frances McDormand, Maji-da Abdi, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Samira Makhmalbaf, Peter Rommel, Gabriele Salvatores and Dan Talbot, will announce the award winners.Moira Sullivan...
The BLUE ANGEL for Best European film goes to Björn Runge's "Daybreak" with the prize of € 25.000. The festival jury also awarded the entire Swedish acting ensemble a special prize. Daybreak received several national Swedish awards, and best film prize awarded by the Swedish Critics Association.Moira Sullivan...
Andreas Wilson is Sweden's Shooting Star that participated in the "Shooting Star" Event at the Berlinale February 8th. He was born in 1981 and attended the Tibble Gymnasium, where he was trained in both acting and singing. Andreas began his professional career at a young age, having been cast in several productions at the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm while still in school. On stage, he held the lead roles in several musicals, including West Side Story and Grease. In 2003, he made an auspi...
Transport a film by Silvio Helbig will be showing on February 12th, 9pm and 13th, 4 and 8 pmSomewhere in the future. A train driver of the powerful Transport Corporation is told by his controller to steer a course through the forbidden sector. When his train breaks down in a dilapidated tunnel of the forbidden sector the driver is bound to face a catastrophe. The CharactersThe driver Herold (Anatole Taubman), after having barely survived an accident, is on the verge of being evicted from the Tr...
The programme series Selling Democracy - Welcome Mr. Marshall will be opened on Sunday, 8 February at 10:30 am by the curators Sandra Schulberg and Dr. Rainer Rother in CinemaxX 6. There will be a Q&A session about the series following the opening speeches.The following short films will be screened:Ich und Mr. Marshall, 13 min.The Shoemaker and the Hatter, John Halas, 16 min. The Story of Koula, 21 min.Nicht stören - Funktionärsversammlung, Hans Herbst, 16 min.Village without Waters, David Kur...
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