The Corndog Man mostly had an American festival circuit.
It had its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival .
It won four different awards in its complete festival circuit:
*Emerging Filmmaker Award at the St. Louis International Film Festival, USA,
*Leigh Whipper Gold Award for Best Feature at the Philadelphia International Film Festival, USA,
*Best Actor Award at the Method Fest, USA and
*Best Feature Film at the Northampton Film Festival, USA.
In total it screened ...
The Corndog Man begins as Ace Barker, a redneck, bigoted, boat salesman, convincingly played by Noble Willingham, receives an anonymous telephone call from the Caller, portrayed by Jim Holmes, who initially only claims he wants to buy a boat from ACE. However, the Caller continues to harass Ace and ultimately tries to convince him that he is Ace’s estranged son. The Caller informs him that Ace’s long-forgotten childhood friend, an African-American named Haywood, has recently died.
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Anna lives with her father in the house she has inherited from her mother.
An unbearable silence, imposed by feelings of guilt, prevails in Anna's house after her mother's death. Communication with her father is difficult and often impossible.
Anna meets Alexander, a very successfull dancer choreographer.
Alexander's midlife crisis is leading him to an unexpected, selfish and often selfdistructive behaviour in his personal life and artistic activity. Trapped in the impasse , ordained by his...
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FRESHFest
Film Festival
January 18th through January 24th
Minneapolis
based filmmaker Tim VandeSteeg has teamed with Subway Restaurants
to present Mulligan, the first independent film sponsored
by the national restaurant giant. The film, which was produced and
directed by Vandy will make its historic debut in Park City, Utah
at the first ever "FRESHFest Film Festival."
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Phoning
from a winter wonderland in Quebec before Christmas, where there
is an undue amount of picturesque snow, 33 year-old director Denis
Villeneuve, father of three, is getting a break. Mom's out with
the kids and the only thing he has to contend with is a recalcitrant
dog.
"Just
a minute," he says in his quick yet accented English. "Couché!"
he snaps at the dog, who ...
The Festival, now 12 years old, attracts large audiences to a full
programme of mostly non-American films and concentrates particularly
on the films nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. There are
also ancillary events which include panels, discussions, and tributes
to distinguished film personlaities.
This year 34 Oscar-nominated foreign films are being shown and
an International Critics Jury orga...
If Wim Wenders has been called a "rootless and restless" director, then Herzog has become, as Anton Kaes states in "World Cinema", "a symbol of the filmmaker as adventurer, vagabond and daredevil, an auteur "willing to risk his life for a film." Filmfestivals.com met him at the European Film Forum of Strasbourg where he received an honorary award, but not before addressing with his usual alertness the burning question of European cinema's future...
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Max Ophüls
Prize- Film Festival
January 16-21 (Saarbrücken, Germany)
Birthplace
of that restless romantic Max Ophüls (born in 1902) - one of the
few directors to have made classic movies in both Europe and Hollywood,
Saarbrücken hosts an excellent, intimate event celebrating his
name and evoking his spirit each January. The 22nd edition again focuses
sharply on young or ...
The 5th edition
of Comedie de l'Alpe d'Huez in France awarded its Grand Prize to Together
by Lukas Moodysson (Sweden), its Special Jury Prize to What's Cooking
by Gurinder Chadha (US), while the Audience Award went to Origine Controlee
by Zakia and Agmed Bouchaala (France). What's Cooking and Origine
Controlee tied for the Critics' Prize. As for short films, the Best Short
went to Les Inévitables by Christophe Le Masne while the Special
Jury Prize and Critics' Prize ...
Dubbed "King
of comedy", called the "successor to Cary Grant" in the
mid-eighties, Tom Hanks is one of the very few American comic actors to
have successfully made his way to more dramatic roles, winning two Oscars
at that (for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump). Back in the
80's, Tom Hanks was not so sure about the looming profile of his career.
"Right now I'm hot. Next year I may not be" he said in David
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Anna lives with her father in the house she has inherited from her mother.
An unbearable silence, imposed by feelings of guilt, prevails in Anna's house after her mother's death. Communication with her father is difficult and often impossible.
Anna meets Alexander, a very successfull dancer choreographer.
Alexander's midlife crisis is leading him to an unexpected, selfish and often selfdistructive behaviour in his personal life and artistic activity. Trapped in the impasse , ordained by his...
Lucia Rikaki studied History of Art Graphic Design, Cinema and Photography in 1984. She created the production company Orama Films producing art films, TV and theater in 1995. And she created the "104 Art Theater stage" and the "104 Comedy Club".
She teaches actors in acting schools.
She was president of The European Producers Network and a member of the Governing Boards of EURO AIM,DOCUMENTARY,MAP TV. She is a member of the Governing Board of the Greek Film Directors and Producers Union....
Dancing Soul opened theatrically in Greece the 29th of January 1999.
Since it has won three awards. It has been awarded:
* Bronze Award at Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, USA
* Prix Agenda 21 at ECOFILM International Film Festival in Lille, France
* State Quality Award at Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece.
Dancing Soul has also been selected in the following film festivals in the Competition Sections.
*2000 Worldfest International Film Fe...
A year after becoming the toast of New York City’s art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career.
Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein’s industrial New York City i...
A young pregnant woman arrives in New York City from Russia seeking her boyfriend and finds herself abandoned and living with his friend - a trip-hop D.J.
Her mind drifts into her past when she was coming of age in a coal mining town in Russia.
As relationships in New York develop along side her memories, her storytelling contemplates the borders of self-liberation and self-deception. ...
Tony Pemberton was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1966. He is a graduate from the State University of New York at Purchase with a BFA in film in 1990, and later the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts: Bard College with an MFA in film in 1993. He is also known for acting the role of the Young Genet in Todd Haynes' Poison.
Cited in Variety as One of Ten Directors to Watch in 2000, he has previously shown films at The Anthology Film Archives, the Kino Museum in Moscow, Russia, The Whitney Amer...
Beyond the Ocean premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2000 in the Dramatic Competition. In this competition it was nominated for Grand Jury Award.
Afterwards, it went through many international film festivals such as:
* Munich Film Festival , Germany, 2000, European Premiere
* Karlovy Vary Film Festival ,Czech Republic, 2000
* Moscow Film Festival , Russia, 2000
* Sao Paolo Film Festival , Brazil, 2000
* Milano Film Festival , Italy, 2000
* Mannheim Film Festival , ...
In this dark and dangerous Film Noir-meets-German Expressionism directorial debut from veteran visual effects man Les Bernstien, paunchy ex-con Joe Butcher (John Voldstad – “The Newhart Show”) heads South of the Border, tumbling head first into the boiling vat of corruption that supports Tijuana’s thriving snuff film industry. Through a booze-induced haze, Butcher encounters a Mexican spitfire, a grizzled drunk, a villainous dwarf and an obese sexpot, as he frantically retraces his brot...
Les Bernstien schooled and worked in graphic design and photography in New York City until moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a Visual Effects Director of Photography on such varied works as The Hollow Man , Stuart Little , Fight Club , Small Soldiers , City of Angels , The Game , Dante’s Peak , Contact , Batman Forever , Ghostbusters I and II , along with many other films and commercials.
In television, Les has won an Emmy for Star Trek: The Next Generation , as well a...
