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A Tribute to director Citto Maselli
by La Biennale di Venezia
together with the Giornate degli Autori
and the Venice International Film Critics’ Week /
Monday September 6th Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema), 2 pm
La Biennale di Venezia is pleased to announce, together with the Giornate degli Autori and the Venice International Film Critics’ Week, a Tribute to director Citto Maselli, the pseudonym of Francesco Maselli, an auteur who has graced many years in Italian cin...
Tabitha Jackson's message from Festival Director Tabitha Jackson on the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, scheduled for January 20–30, 2022.
Dear Friends,
This time last year, I wrote to share some early thoughts about how we were approaching my first Sundance Film Festival as director — and the first Sundance to be held in the midst of a pandemic.
Since 1985, artists and audiences have gathered at the Festival to affirm the transformative power of independent film and media....
The Sundance Institute Board of Trustees today announced that Ebs Burnough will serve as the nonprofit’s next Chair, Board of Trustees, starting in October 2021. Ebs was appointed as the Board’s Vice Chair in 2020, and he will succeed Pat Mitchell when her term as Chair expires in October 2021. She will continue on as a Trustee when Ebs assumes the role of Chair. Pat has been an actively engaged Trustee for 25 years, serving as Chair of the Development Committee...
Selected by artistic director Manuel Asín and chaired by him, it is to be made up of four leading names in the sector.
Four experts, two women and two men, together with Manuel Asín, are to make up the new Punto de Vista Festival Programming Committee, embarking on a new stage following the appointment of the new artistic director last June.
Lucía Salas, Miguel Zozaya, Lur Olaizola and Pablo García will be working togeth...
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(Photography by @jlufair)
Award-winning Editor, Writer, Director, Producer Bobby Huntley has been making films since the age of ten. Having always known he wanted to be a filmmaker he went to film school to become a professional. He has since written, directed, edited and produced over a dozen films which are character driven dealing with individuals at odds with society at large with aesthetics influenced by music, classic genres and playful perspectives that make him a unique...
Jon Gosier
SCAD alumni American producer and entertainment industry professional Jon Gosier’s finance background began in venture capital and Tech, having built data focused software companies. Having started in the entertainment industry after college in music engineering and post audio working with Tyler Perry, he later went into the venture capital space but now finds himself coming full circle back into film through film finance. During his successful business venture in t...
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 Amazing Spide...
CRUTCH chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punk—on crutches.
CRUTCH
https://www.crutchdoc.com
Bentonville Festival 2021
Interview with Directors: Sachi Cunningham and Chandler Evans
CRUTCH (Trailer) from VAYABOBO on Vimeo.
Q: How did you come up with this inspiring Doc about Bill Shannon aka “Crutch Master”, a multi-disciplinary ...
THE HIGH LIFE
By and with Stephanie Sanditz
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1102885
Q: What was the inspiration with this new series and what were you trying to explore?
Stephanie: I grew up a “Christmas tree-jew”! My father was jewish and an insurance sales man. He had a keen sense of humor but never let it out. My mother was from a Christian family with Texas and Ozark roots. Therefore I was always a seeker and I we...
(Photography by @jlufair)
Award-winning Editor, Writer, Director, Producer Bobby Huntley has been making films since the age of ten. Having always known he wanted to be a filmmaker he went to film school to become a professional. He has since written, directed, edited and produced over a dozen films which are character driven dealing with individuals at odds with society at large with aesthetics influenced by music, classic genres and playful perspectives that make him a unique...
Producer James P. Axiotis
Born in Athens, Greece, producer James P. Axiotis was adopted at a young age and raised in Southern California. A multi-range producer of feature films, shorts, original TV content, TV series and Post-Production, James serves on the National Board of Directors at the PGA (Producers Guild of America) and is also a member of The Producers Guild of Europe, The Television Academy and American Film Institute. James also spends his time as a volunteer to the Chil...
London-based director and screenwriter Eva Lanska has directed multiple award-winning films which focus on subjects of individual adversity in situations of societal issues at large. A selection of the Washington Jewish Film Festival, Lanska’s film “Little French Fish” (2020) faces the issue of an interracial marriage of an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim man. Her previous picture “Okay, Mum” (2018) about domestic violence in the h...
Riker Lynch with Bruno Chatelin at 74th Cannes Film Festival.
A resident of LA since 2007, multi-talented artist Riker Anthony Lynch is a musician, actor and director. In 2009, Riker and his siblings started the pop/rock band R5 for which Riker played bass and sang vocals. R5 toured five continents and played over 300 live performances, catapulting them into international renown. Riker’s acting career took off when he appeared in the TV show “Glee” in 2010. In...
Award-winning French director and producer Bertrand Normand is a graduate of Canada’s Vancouver Film School. In 2016, Normand founded the production company Les Films du Jour Prochain, which has produced the short films "The Taste of Ginger", by Jean-Robert Thomann and "Iskra", by Adrian Replanski, both of which won awards at the 2021 French Riviera Film Festival. His short film, "The Photographer", has participated in more than seventy festivals i...
Producer Jon Gosier
SCAD alumni American producer and entertainment industry professional Jon Gosier’s finance background began in venture capital and Tech, having built data focused software companies. Having started in the entertainment industry after college in music engineering and post audio working with Tyler Perry, he later went into the venture capital space but now finds himself coming full circle back into film through film finance. During his successful business ven...
Producer James P. Axiotis
Born in Athens, Greece, producer James P. Axiotis was adopted at a young age and raised in Southern California. A multi-range producer of feature films, shorts, original TV content, TV series and Post-Production, James serves on the National Board of Directors at the PGA (Producers Guild of America) and is also a member of The Producers Guild of Europe, The Television Academy and American Film Institute. James also spends his time as a volunteer to the Chil...
London-based director and screenwriter Eva Lanska has directed multiple award-winning films which focus on subjects of individual adversity in situations of societal issues at large. A selection of the Washington Jewish Film Festival, Lanska’s film “Little French Fish” (2020) faces the issue of an interracial marriage of an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim man. Her previous picture “Okay, Mum” (2018) about domestic violence in the h...
Riker Lynch with Bruno Chatelin at 74th Cannes Film Festival.
A resident of LA since 2007, multi-talented artist Riker Anthony Lynch is a musician, actor and director. In 2009, Riker and his siblings started the pop/rock band R5 for which Riker played bass and sang vocals. R5 toured five continents and played over 300 live performances, catapulting them into international renown. Riker’s acting career took off when he appeared in the TV show “Glee” in 2010. In...
Award-winning French director and producer Bertrand Normand is a graduate of Canada’s Vancouver Film School. In 2016, Normand founded the production company Les Films du Jour Prochain, which has produced the short films "The Taste of Ginger", by Jean-Robert Thomann and "Iskra", by Adrian Replanski, both of which won awards at the 2021 French Riviera Film Festival. His short film, "The Photographer", has participated in more than seventy festivals i...
The Dallas Screenplay Competition, presented by Torfoot Films and Event Horizon Films, revealed today the award-winning filmmakers who will select the top writers to be recognized during the Dallas International Film Festival.
Three time Oscar-winner Jana Memel, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, who most recently worked as showrunner for S.W.A.T. on CBS, Billy Kelly, screenwriter of Disney’s Enchanted, Disney Channel-writer Jonathan Hurwitz and award-winning director Johnathan Brownlee w...
Christopher Backus (HBO’s “Big Little Lies”, Netflix’s “Mindhunter”, Apple TV+’s “Truth be Told”) and Skye P. Marshall (Netflix’s “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”, NBC’s “This is Us”), are set to star in Chad Bishoff’s highly anticipated psychological-thriller Daft State. Principal photography on the feature, written by Bishoff and Sam Harter, is set to commence on location in Omaha, Nebraska on A...
Photo credit: Jean-François Maillot
Marc Haaz: May 8, 1988 - July 30, 2021
Bio-filmography:
Marc Haaz, born May 8, 1988 in Besançon, lives in Frotey-les-Vesoul, is educated at the Jean Macé college, then at the Haberges high school. These teachers noticed his pronounced taste for culture: member of the Young Jury of the International Festival of Asian Cinemas, organizer of theatrical performances and sword fights.
He continued his cinema studies in Me...
Aissa Maïga's Marcher sur l'eau (Above Water) was a special treat at the Cannes special screening section of the 74th Cannes Film Festival. Set in the Azawak of West Africa in Niger Aissa follows a nomadic family in an area deprived of water. Beautifully told and made by the filmmaker and filmed by Rousslan Dion.
Maïga shows the close bonds of a family within a community in search of water. She follows the journey from walking for miles in sea...
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