Intimate Conversation with Jenny Slate will Precede a Screening of Feature Film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On on Friday, April 22 at The Castro Theatre
Today, SFFILM announced that critically acclaimed actor, author, and comedian Jenny Slate will be celebrated during the 65th San Francisco International Film Festival with a special tribute. The Tribute to Jenny Slate will be held on Friday, April 22 at 7:30 pm at the Castro Theatre, followed by a screening of her highly anticipat...
BEST SHORTS COMPETITION Season: March 2022
Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir (USA), Time is Eternal : Award of Excellence Special Mention: Film Short
In addition to Award of Excellence Special Mention, you have also received the following awards: Award of Merit: Actress: Leading (Berite Labelle as Cleopatra, Mary Wollenstonecraft, mermaid)
Our festivals receive thousands of submissions. You can be justifiably proud of winning top Best Shorts honors that have honored previous f...
Don't miss attending the festival in June for insights on the future of the industry, programming opportunities and unique content strategies from two of the most accomplished and inspiring entertainment executives in the business
Bela Bajaria was named Head of Global TV for Netflix in 2020, overseeing all English language and local language scripted and unscripted series around the world. Bajaria leads the team for all of television, responsible for hit series ...
Thanks to Odessa International Film Festival for sharing the message from Serhiy Bukovsky
Documentary film director, (Spell Your Name produced by Steven Spielberg)
I am Ukrainian film director Serhiy Bukovsky. I am Russian by birth, born in Bashkiria. My mother—film actress Nina Antonova, People's Artist of Ukraine—is also from Russia. As is my father, film director Anatoly Bukovsky, who is from Balashov. All my life I have lived in Kyiv; it is my hometown. Ukraine is my...
FIILM AND STAGE ACTOR/DIRECTOR KAREN ALLEN SCHEDULED TO SPEAK
AT SONOMA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT MEDIA ARTS PROGRAM SCREENING
AT 25TH ANNIVERSARY FILM FESTIVAL MARCH 23-27, 2022
Sonoma, CA— Film and stage star Karen Allen will be a special industry guest at SIFF’s 25th Anniversary Film Festival. While in town for the festival, she will speak at the first of two screenings with Sonoma Valley High School filmmaking students at this year’s Media Arts Program Student Sh...
By the Board's and the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Film Academy decision, Serhiy Loznytsa was excluded from the Ukrainian Film Academy.
On February 24, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. Ukraine is defending itself on all fronts, including the cultural one. The countries of Europe and the whole world should have a complete and unambiguous picture of what the aggressor country is doing in Ukraine. Therefore, every Ukrainian is now the ambassador of his...
"I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth.Please watch and share." Schwarzenegger said in the video, posted by ATTN on Twitter
To my dear russian friends and the russian soldiers serving in Ukraine: I am speaking to you today because there are things that are going on in the world that have been kept from you, terrible things that you should know about...
Watch his video on twitter
I want to thank every si...
On Friday the 29th of April, the Japanese legend
will receive the Golden Mulberry Award for
Lifetime Achievement on the stage of the
Far East Film Festival in Udine.
Press release for the 18th of March, 2022
For immediate publication/release
UDINE – There are artists - actors, writers, singers - who walk by our side our whole life. Artists who never abandon us and who always satisfy our need for beauty. We find them in a movie, or a book, or a song, ...
FilmHedge (http://filmhedge.com), a Georgia based fin-tech company offering financial products for Film and TV producers, has secured a commitment to provide up to $50 million in debt financing from Fallbrook Film Finance to be used to cash flow Georgia tax credits for film and television productions.
Fallbrook Film Finance (https://fallbrooktaxcredits.com) is a nationally recognized tax credit investment and brokerage company headquartered in Los Angeles. Specialties include institutiona...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Sandra Bullock fans can rejoice that America’s Sweetheart is back in a pure escapism romp for these tough times; that would be THE LOST CITY from Paramount Pictures. Opening this coming week, with March dates below, THE LOST CITY is sort of “Romancing the Stone” meets Indiana Jones meets a Harlequin romance novel.
Just Watch the Trailer First
But the personality driving this project is all Sandy a...
À LA VIE
SBIFF 2022
With Director: Aude Pépin
Interview by Emmanuel Itier
Aude Pépin may not have graduated from a film school nor directed anything before this first doc: ‘A La Vie’, but she proves she was born a talented artist with the perfect instinct when it comes to approach a very sensistive subject matter such as the birth of our children and what mothers go through afterwards. ‘A la Vie’ is an ode to life indeed, a poetic dramatic and...
Kyiv native Lena Basse is a HFPA Journalist who lives in Los Angeles. She dropped everything to go to Germany to help the people of Ukraine. This is her PSA. French Riviera Film Festival, in collaboration with Kvartal Concert UA, has launched a PSA Campaign in support of Ukraine. Lena Basse joins award-winning actor Eric Roberts and other festival partners in the multiple spot campaign. Music by Keaton Simons. Additional spots featuring festival partners will be released throughout the...
Day 7 of the 37th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG featured a tribute to Penelope Cruz, who received the Montecito Award. Cruz was recognized for her impressive career and performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS from Sony Pictures Classic.
Cruz sat down with SBIFF Executive Director, Roger Durling, for an in depth discussion about her journey to stardom and her impressive career in film and television.
Ph...
BELLE VIE
SBIFF 2022
With Director: Marcus Mizelle
By Emmanuel Itier
In-jailed between a Mc Donald and a KFC, stands proud and fearless the Parisian-style bistro: “Belle Vie” run by passionate maestro: Vincent Samarco. Director Marcus Mizelle explores what it takes to keep your passion alive and going, especially during a pandemic. But ‘Belle Vie’ is more than a gourmet journey into the heart of a passionate human being it’s truly exploring the...
YOU RESEMBLE ME aka TU ME RESSEMBLES.
SBIFF 2022
With director: Dina Amer
By Emmanuel Itier
Dina Amer is a maverick director/producer. Not only the Egyptian born talented filmmaker who grew up between Egypt and the USA helped produced the Emmy award-winning Documentary, ‘The Square’ but she managed with success to direct her first feature, ‘Tu me resembles’, in French and on a very tricky subject matter: a woman drifting into islam extresmism to become a s...
A PLACE IN THE FIELD
SBIFF 2022
With director: Nikki Mejia
By Emmanuel Itier
Director Nikki Mejia is an atomic director exploding on the screen with a “tour de force” first feature: ‘A place in the field’. She dares to explore and expose the human soul at its most raw incarnation and invite the viewer into a journey of redemption and self-exploration. Nikki’s poetic approach of PTSD among soldiers is a moving and rare inspiring mind...
Smith and Ellis sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s longtime awards columnist and host of its popular Awards Chatter podcast, Scott Feinberg for an in depth discussion about their cinematic careers.
Some of the highlights from the conversation included:
Will looked quite dapper on the red carpet dressed from head to toe in Dolce & Gabbana, see HERE!
Will took us down memory lane from when he made history by being the first Grammy winner for Best...
The newest panel at the festival: the Animation Panel. Attendees gathered for Charise Castro Smith – Co-Writer/Co-Director (ENCANTO), Charlotte De Le Gournerie – Producer (FLEE), Enrico Casarosa – Co-Writer/Director (LUCA) Mike Rianda – Co-Writer/Co-Director (THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES), Don Hall – Co-Director (RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON) in conversation, led by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling.
Some highlights from th...
OUR WORDS COLLIDE
SBIFF 2022
Interview with Directors Jordan Barrow and Matt Edwards, Producers Diane Luby Lane and Samuel Curties ( www.GetLit.org ) and poets: Jason Alvarez, Amari Turner and Virginia Villalta.
And with Anti-Defamation League regional director: Dan Meisel
By Emmanuel Itier
“Life is a living poem”, Boris Vian, the French poet, was so right and “Our Words Collide”, the doc directed by Jordan Barrow and Matt Edwards, is truly a living poem as i...
Some of the highlights from the Virtuosos night included:
Rosario Dawson, Executive Producer of OUR WORDS COLLIDE, World Premiering at SBIFF. Photo HERE.
Alana Haim - Watch HERE.
On driving the stick shift truck in the film: “You do not want me to teach you how to drive stick…I was a terrible driver so I really do appreciate Bradley Cooper and Cooper Hoffman for letting me almost kill them…they lived to tell the tale.”
On her parents pl...
The Writers Panel in-person Saturday, March 5 @ 11:00am, moderated by Anne Thompson. Panelists included:
Kenneth Branagh (BELFAST)
Siân Heder (CODA)
Adam McKay (DON'T LOOK UP)
Denis Villeneuve (DUNE)
Zach Baylin (KING RICHARD)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (THE LOST DAUGHTER)
Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Eskil Vogt (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD)
Day 4 of the 37th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG began with ...
Universal Studio Group's Chairman Pearlena Igbokwe joins as the first Summit Series keynote speaker
Igbokwe leads four powerhouse studios: Universal Television, UCP, Universal Television Alternative Studios and Universal International Studios that produce over 3,000 hours of programming currently airing or streaming around the globe.
The In Conversation series kicks off with a keynote by the Dean of Brown University's School of Public Health Dr. Ashish K. Jha ...
Penélope Cruz received the Montecito Award at the 37th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Tuesday, March 8 at an in-person conversation about her career leading up to this year’s performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS from Sony Pictures Classic.
“In the most complex role written by the master Almodovar, Penelope Cruz delivers the best performance of her career and a master class in calibration and detailed actin...
French Riviera Film Festival in collaboration with Kvartal Concert, UA has launched a PSA Campaign in support of Ukraine. The first spot features a poignant message from festival partner, award-winning actor Eric Roberts, with music by Keaton Simons. Additional spots featuring festival partners will be released throughout the week.
"We're so grateful to our festival partners for joining us to support Ukraine," comments FRFF co-founder Nicole Muj. &qu...
Virtuosos Award presented by UGG to 2022 recipients: Caitriona Balfe (Belfast), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza), Ciarán Hinds (Belfast), Emilia Jones (CODA), Troy Kotsur (CODA), Simon Rex (Red Rocket), and Saniyya Sidney (King Richard)
(An award given to multiple “up-and-coming” actors for achieving a breakthrough performance.)
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