Eduardo "Quintin" Antin is the Director of the Buenos Aires International
Film Festival
What distinguishes your festival?
This is my first year as a director, so I have to wait to see if what I tried
to do worked. This festival is in its third year and is trying to establish
itself. It is devoted to independent films, the word "independent" being understood
also in terms of local distribution. Only 15% of the films screened here already
have distribution, and many p...
Alberto Barbera is the Director of the Venice Film Festival.
Please introduce yourself and describe your background.
I began my career in the Seventies as President of the Italian Association
of Art Film Theaters in Turin, and as a film critic for different newspapers
and magazines. From 1983 to 1985, I hosted a weekly television show on cinema.
In 1982, I joined the Torino Film Festival as press officer, then as general
secretary and member of the selection...
David Nicholas Wilkinson might
be described as a filmmaker’s best friend. He’s not only a film producer
of twenty years experience, but he is chairman of a company that distributes
films as well; British films. He specialises in low budget features and is happy
to distribute decent debut features. And he’s from Yorkshire.
He made his first film with an unknown Kenneth Branagh and gave Sir Anthony
Hopkins his first opportunity to direct film. He was one o...
What about an approach straight to TV?
Well you could, but if you were considering using a distributor, you might
be tying his hands. Filmmakers may make wonderful films, but know nothing about
distribution, so they can shoot themselves in the foot, quite unintentionally.You
have to approach the market very carefully to get as much out of it as you can.
For example, after I had taken Piotr on with Small Time Obsession I discovered
he had once made an approach direct to Cha...
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Gen Art Film
Festival
May 2 - 8 (NY)
Gen Art will once
again be bringing seven nights of premieres and parties to New York celebrating
the best emerging independent American film talent.
Gen Art is proud to announce the slate for the 2001 Gen Art Film Festival. The
festival will open on May 2, at the 880 seat Sony Lincoln Square Theater with
the World Premiere of actor Fisher Stevens directorial debut Just a Kiss
starring Kyra Sedgwick, Marisa Tomei, Taye Dig...
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Can you tell
us a little about your background?
I was involved
with films early and worked on producing documentaries for the National Film
Board. I started my career, basically, critically. I never thought I would organize
a film festival, I was much more interested in writing and researching, looking
at the example of the critics of Les Cahiers du Cinéma, who went
on to make films, and people like Peter Bogdanovich who started as a critic
and became a filmmake...
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Malafemmina
Film Festival
May 17 - 20 (New York)
From Thursday, May 17 to Sunday evening, May 20, the public will have an unprecedented
opportunity to experience and explore the work of Italian American women in
film and video, whether as directors, writers, actors, documentarians, activists,
or scholars. Highlights of the festival, called "Malafemmina," include a screening
of the pioneering film Fatso (1980) by actress Ann Bancroft; video and
performance ...
The Philadelphia
Festival of World Cinema
April 26 - May 7
The Philadelphia
Festival of World Cinema has finished its first weekend and is drawing in people
by the thousands, with 14 sellout screenings.
As a cheering audience looked on, Morgan Freeman received the Philadelphia Festival
of World Cinema's first annual Artistic Achievement Award Sunday afternoon at
the Zellerbach Theatre. As he accepted the award from WHYY-Channel 12's Patrick
Stoner, Mr. Freema...
The 4th Annual Lake Arrowhead International Film Festival
May 4 - 6 (CA)
The premiere west coast resort festival is held 90 minutes from Hollywood in
the beautiful San Bernardino mountains. Modeled after Telluride, this small
but mighty festival in it's fourth year has gained international success and
has also partnered up with FilmFestivals.com and the Lake Arrowhead site will
insure International exposure year round for your film. We will be streaming
winners and...
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Kate Winslet and Judi Dench will each portray British novelist Iris Murdoch in
Iris, the story of the author's life. The story will follow Murdoch from
her days studying at Oxford in the 1950s to her death in 1999, with Winslet playing
the author in her younger years and Dench playing her later years.
Iris will also focus on the love story between Murdoch and John Bayley, who will
be played by Jim Broadbent and then by Hugh Bonneville. The pic is being helmed
by the former director ...
With most of the famous cleft-chinned family already in the movie industry, it
was only a matter of time before the Douglases collaborated on a movie. Now that
Michael Douglas has a sexy young wife in Catherine Zeta-Jones, the couple will
star in Smoke and Mirrors produced by Douglas brother Joel.
In-laws tagged to work on the film include Zeta-Jone' brother David who will co-produce
and Kevin Brodie, brother of Joel's fiance. The story follows the life of French
illusionist Robert ...
The producers of the Oscar-winning Traffic
got in trouble with the school administration at Cincinnati Country Day School,
but it wasn't for drug use like characters in the flick. USA Films paid an undisclosed
amount to the elite private school for the unauthorized use of the school's name
in the film.
The school's name will not be used in any re-release of the film, a lawyer for
the school said. He added that the producers "acted in good faith" and no lawsuit
had been filed....
American Indian Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, brought to fame by his role in Dances
With Wolves, is organizing the first annual Los Angeles American Indian Film,
Television and New Media Festival. The actor who is also a singer and activist
said the festival would counter the "untruth, deception and prejudice" taught
to students.
The festival will be officially announced on Thursday by Peter Coyote and Richard
Masur. Red Crow is helping to organize the festival in conjunction with t...
Nobert Grupe alias the "Prince Wilhem Of Hamburg" was a fearsome boxing legend in the sixties and seventies.He lived lavishly in the U.S. where his boxing career starts. Because of his show talent the audience starts to divide itself. Either you were fascinated by him or you had to hate him. This characteristic point made him very interesting for the film industry in Hollywood.
The film follows the life story of the "Prince" in his ups and downs but will also give a time panorama of the sixti...
Interview
with José-Maria Riba and Laurent Aknin
Director and member of the Critics’ Week selection committee.
This year the
most modest of the Cannes selections, Critics’ Week, organized by the French
Union of Film Critics, is celebrating its fortieth birthday. With special
screenings and tributes combining names such as Michel Piccoli or Ken Loach
and a competition for young directors presenting their first or second films,
the Critics' ...
Barbecue…A Love Story is sweet and tender as it slides down the back of the throat and into the belly. Soon, a fire starts in the gut and spreads through the veins into the body, followed by a pain that strikes the heart.
Set in a barren trailer park located off a rural Texan highway, this dark comedy is about obsession and compulsion in a incompatible relationship. The park inhabitants are people who, for one reason or another, have expended their resources and are struggling to keep a...
Chat online with the director of:BBQ... A LOVE STORY -- LIVE!!!
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Stacy Kirk is an American citizen born in 1965, in Bogota, Colombia, and raised in Venezuela and the United States. Kirk holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from The School Of Visual Arts in New York, where she launched her career as a fine art and commercial photographer. Her photographs have been featured in international exhibitions and publications. Over the last eight years, Kirk’s artistic focus has ...
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