Dylan Penn, lead actress of "Flag Day" alongside her father Sean Penn, wearing CHANEL for the 47th edition of the Deauville American Film Festival. Before the screening of the film, Dylan Penn received the New Hollywood rising star award which honours the talents of tomorrow's cinema.
Dylan Penn is an American model and actress. She is the daughter of renowned actors Sean Penn and Robin Wright. Although originally born in L...
CEO of Production Company Mirror Water Entertainment, Christina Rose co-founded the company with her brother Michael. She is an American-German director, producer, and screenwriter and plays an active role in the new "Hollyworld Movement", bringing international entertainment to the world. She has worked in North America, Europe, Africa (the famous Atlas Studios in Ouarzarzate), and Asia. Prior to starting her own company, Christina worked for Arad Productions (The Am...
By Maria Rosaria D'amico
Toni servillo is in Venice with 3 amazing Italian movies.
Toni Servillo is for Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino what Marcello Mastroianni was for Federico Fellini. They have worked together since the beginning of their career. Sorrentino came to Venice 20 years ago with Toni Servillo presenting “Un uomo in più” and now they are back with “E’ stata la mano di Dio”, an autobiographical and very moving picture about Sorrentino...
Oliver Stone revealed in excellent French, and in American, the three lies that defined his personality, the divorce of his parents, then the heavy state lies around Vietnam and Kennedy, his quest for the truth and his investigation into the assassination of Kennedy. He came to Deauville to present his latest documentary "JFK revisited: on the other side of the mirror", presented at the last Cannes film festival.
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MIKIS THEODORAKIS, GRRECE’S LAST GREAT (1925-2021)
Mikis Theodorakis
If you were alive in the 60s and 70s in Greece, it would have been impossible not to know – and be impassioned by – the forbidden songs of Mikis Theodorakis. Then, the younger generations knew him as the giant composer who was always involved in politics and was a proponent of world peace and social justice. In short, Theodorakis is integral to the modern Greek identity. His loss on September 3rd, ...
Masterclass with Roberto Benigni, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2021. Moderator: Gianni Canova.
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The emcee for the Opening Night of BZN2021, has been revealed: comedian Bassem Youssef will be launching the festival on September 9!
Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian comedian, writer, producer, surgeon, doctor, media critic, and television host. Dubbed the Jon Stewart of the Arab World, Bassem was the host of a popular TV show called AlBernameg (The Show) from 2011 to 2014, the first of its kind political satire show in the Middle East. Originally a 5-minute show on YouTube, AlBer...
As part of its desire to transmit and share, the Deauville Festival is organizing two public encounters. Festival-goers will be able to exchange with Johnny Depp on Sunday, September 5th, following his appearance in CITY OF LIES directed by Brad Furman.
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Saturday, September 4th at 4:30pm in the Lexington Auditorium
Fifteen years after joining us with his film World Trade Center, the Deauville American Film Festival celebrates its reunion with American director and screenwriter Oliver Stone. Born in 1946 in New York, he has been known throughout the world since the 1970s for his body of work and its numerous awards, notably the Oscar f...
Additional Conference speakers & Industry Selects titles announced for the 46th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival® announced today its Talent Development programmes, including TIFF Filmmaker Lab, TIFF Talent Accelerator, TIFF Rising Stars, and the TIFF Micki Moore Residency, as well as the recently confirmed Media Inclusion Initiative participants.
“Removing barriers for creators, storytellers, and performers so ...
Director Jay Silverman with stars William Moseley and Johanna Braddy
SAVING PARADISE
Directed by: Jay Siverman
Q: Why this film? What were you trying to express with this feature?
Jay: First, we discovered the screenplay on the famous “black list”, the list of unproduced screenplays. We then came to term with the writer, Van Billet. Together we worked closely on developing this project. And we ended up, what I consider, a meaningful picture. We started in 2018...
THE MADNESS INSIDE ME
Chat with Director: Matthew Berkowitz
Trailer
Q: How did this film happen and what was the inspiration?
Matthew: I’m a huge fan of Brian De Palma, Hitchcock but also European master like Lars Von Trier or Gaspar Noé. Also, my mother is a psychologist and therefore I have a personal connection to the world explored in “The Madness inside me”. Some of the stories I heard as a kid from my mother left an impact on me. And I thought t...
The BFFoundation, the nonprofit organization formed late last year to produce the Geena Davis-chaired Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas, is launching a production company that like the foundation and fest will champion women and inclusive voices in filmmaking.
The new Bentonville Way Entertainment already has a slate of films in the pipeline featuring alumni from from past Bentonville fests: the Amber McGinnis-directed Buddy, the Jennifer Gerber-directed Has Been Beauty Qu...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Diane Warren is often cited as among the most distinguished and awarded songwriters of all time, with hits from Aerosmith "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" to Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me," not to mention Toni Braxton's "Un-break My Heart." With a dozen Oscar nominations, Warren will be honored with a sweeping career award from Film Fest 919 in October. Here are the details for the celebration:
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From left to right: Klaus Eder, Marianna Economou, Maro Anastopoulou and Bruno Chatelin.
Klaus Eder (JURY PRESIDENT) was born in Augsburg, Germany in 1939. He studied German literature at Stuttgart University. He worked as a film critic from the mid 1960s, for the national radio (“Bayerischer Rundfunk”) and for several film magazines. He is the writer of many publications including books on Andrzej Wajda, Luis Bunuel, Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovski, Arturo Ripstein,...
Intrepid humanitarian journalist, filmmaker and entrepreneur Daizy Gedeon has been making international headlines with her latest feature documentary “Enough!: Lebanon’s Darkest Hour” (2021). Born in Lebanon amidst unrest, Daizy's family moved her to Sydney where she grew up. After decades spent on faraway shores, her Lebanese identity and passion for her birth country has only grown stronger with time.
Before her career as an award-winning documentarian, she wa...
Tryon International Film Festival will offer six workshops for filmmakers and film lovers Friday, Oct. 8, through Sunday, Oct. 10, as part of its 7th annual celebration of cinema in the North Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Admission to these educational opportunities by industry leaders is included in the price of general admission.
“After a great deal of research and organizing, we are proud to ...
Laborat, 2014, Guillaume Cailleau
Film as a Subversive Art 2021: A Tribute to Amos Vogel
A Retrospective by the Austrian Film Museum and the Viennale
October 22 to November 25, 2021
The 2021 joint retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum is dedicated to Amos Vogel (1921-2012). Born as Amos Vogelbaum to a Jewish family in Vienna, he fled the Nazi terror and emigrated to the United States via Cuba in ...
Director Daizy Gedeon.
Intrepid humanitarian journalist, filmmaker and entrepreneur Daizy Gedeon has been making international headlines with her latest feature documentary “Enough!: Lebanon’s Darkest Hour” (2021). Born in Lebanon amidst unrest, Daizy's family moved her to Sydney where she grew up. After decades spent on faraway shores, her Lebanese identity and passion for her birth country has only grown stronger with time.
Before her career as an award-w...
Visit our Facebook page to see some great photos of our 2021 festival by Adrienne Row-Smith! Adrienne snapped awesome shots of the Kimberly Sunstrum x Hingman Leung live music + film performance, our technicians hard at work, and Q&As with filmmakers from the New Visions and Moving Images programs! Photos here: https://bit.ly/3sGT79N
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