Here in my hotel room at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel the day after the gala world premiere of "Greetings from Tim Buckley" at the Toronto International Film Festival. The screening took place last night at 6pm at the Bloor Cinema (where I had the pleasure of performing with "The Golem" a few years ago at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival).
The film concerns Jeff Buckley's early days in NYC and my music is featured in it as is my guitar playing. My portrayal in t...
Here in my hotel room at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel the day after the gala world premiere of "Greetings from Tim Buckley" at the Toronto International Film Festival. The screening took place last night at 6pm at the Bloor Cinema (where I had the pleasure of performing with "The Golem" a few years ago at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival).
The film concerns Jeff Buckley's early days in NYC and my music is featured in it as is my guitar playing. My portrayal in the fil...
PALMARES 1ER PRIX ILLY DU COURT METRAGE
Le 1er Prix illy du court métrage sera attribué lors de la soirée de clôture de la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
VENDREDI 25 MAI A 19H30
Partenaire de la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs depuis plusieurs années, illycaffè renforce, en 2012, sa collaboration en créant le Prix illy du court métrage. Entreprise engagée sur le plan artistique, illycaffè encourage et accompagne depuis toujours les jeunes artistes. La marque con...
JAN HARLAN (Head of the Jury)
Producer and Director
„I joined Stanley Kubrick in 1969 for his Napoleon project, which was unfortunately abandoned, but I enjoyed working with Stanley and he liked me, so I added the study of film-production with a great teacher to my previous profession. My first film as an assistant was A Clockwork Orange. Four years later I became Kubri...
A TRIP (2011) producer Ales Pavlin
The Slovenian film IZLET (A TRIP, 2011) by writer/director Nejc Gazvoda and producer Ales Pavlin most recently traveled to the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF) and screened in competition at 'Cinedays' in Skopje, Macedonia. A TRIP's 'trip' will continue to Goa, India for the Goa Film Festival and then begin its tour in the USA. It is the first feature film (of what promises to be many) for both writer/director Nejc and producer Ales.
I in...
A TRIP (2011) producer Ales Pavlin
The Slovenian film IZLET (A TRIP, 2011) by writer/director Nejc Gazvoda and producer Ales Pavlin most recently traveled to the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF) and screened in competition at 'Cinedays' in Skopje, Macedonia. A TRIP's 'trip' will continue to Goa, India for the Goa Film Festival and then begin its tour in the USA. It is the first feature film (of what promises to be many) for both writer/director Nejc and producer Ales.
I in...
A TRIP (2011) producer Ales Pavlin
The Slovenian film IZLET (A TRIP, 2011) by writer/director Nejc Gazvoda and producer Ales Pavlin most recently traveled to the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF) and screened in competition at 'Cinedays' in Skopje, Macedonia. A TRIP's 'trip' will continue to Goa, India for the Goa Film Festival and then begin its tour in the USA. It is the first feature film (of what promises to be many) for both writer/director Nejc and producer Ales.
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Coming to an end with today's screening of the closing film The Ides of March by George Clooney, the Viennale 2011 continues on its path of success. With an attendance of 96,700 at the 2011 festival as compared to last year's 96,300, the Viennale saw a slight increase in the number of visitors, less so than in previous years but at the same time an important and wonderful confirmation of the Viennale's steadily growing popularity. The festival's overall attendance figures also rose slightly fr...
The 2011 Méliès d'Or Award Ceremony will take place on the evening of October 13th at Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. The following films have been awarded a Méliès d'Argent and are competing for the 2011 Méliès d'Or:SitgesRUBBER by Quentin Dupieux (Méliès d'Argent winner Sitges)LeedsTHE LAST EMPLOYEE by Alexander Adolph (Méliès d'Argent winner Leeds)TriesteRARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE by Jalmari Helander (Méliès d'Argent winner Trieste)BrusselsTRANSFER by Damir Luka...
Director: Shota Gamisonia.
It is one day in the life of two friends Moscovites. Their Moscow has got a real sea, the southern sun and home-made wine.
The 2nd Annual Skepto International Film Festival 2011 will take place from late March early April 2010 in Cagliari (Dates are yet to be defined). The main aim of the Skepto Festival is to encourage and give exposure to young independent filmmakers from all over the world thereby creating an open space for dialogue and intercultural exchange. The mission of the event is to create a positive audience exposure for works that would otherwise not easily get seen.The Skepto film festival showcases cutting-edge feature, documentary and short films from independent, first- or second-time directors as well as narrative works of all genres, styles, production budget, musical videoclips, videoart, experimental, new media format, mobile videos and so forth.
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Don’t miss the 12th edition of Maremetraggio. You can win 10.000 euro for the best short film.
All is ready for the 12th edition of Maremetraggio – International Short and Debut Works Films Festival – that will be held in Trieste, Italy, from the 1st to the 9th of July 2011.
Also in 2011 the festival will present to its public a selection of
the best European shorts and the most interesting Italian debut works
recently released in cinemas.
Registration is now open for th...
ISOLA: Port in Slovenia
From: Helen Dobrensky DAY ONE : Kino Otok, Slovenia
Outstanding films of developing countries, cinephiles and friends gathered together again, September 8th, 2010, on the Adriatic Coast, for the KINOTOK Isola Cinema Festival - a laid-back feast of cinema off the beaten track in SLOVENIA.
This charming Mediterranean town, until year 1796, was a former part of the Republic of Venice, across the Bay...
Welcome to Devil's Town (2009), the new international
award winning masterpiece film by writer/director Vladimir
Paskaljevic. A new addition to sales company Film Planet Entertainment,
we promise to make sure the world will visit Davolja Varos, Devil's Town, with us.
Vladimir kindly took time out of his busy schedule to answer some
questions for me. Well, we are friends so I wo
Into each life some volcano ash must fall....and that is why, dear disinterested readers, you did not bump into me on the Croisette last month but may have seen me on the Ginza as the rains fell on Cannes. We have a lot of catching up to do since L annee derniere a Carlsbad ....via many European Smiles at the last Mlada Boleslav Festival of Smiches, as the Czechs so charmingly call it when humour illuminates the human face,then across to merry Moravia for the Znojmo Festival of Media and Gastr...
This year FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema celebrates a special anniversary: 20 years, a time during which the festival did not only expand its programme, but also improved its image to the point of being known as the world's most renowned film festival of East European cinema today. This year's festival motive combines traditional patterns from flags and crests into a new modern design.
Cottbus at the Berlinale
With the traditional East Eu...
The Embassy of Italy, together with Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro announce a three days Italian cinema event in Podgorica.
Podgorica (Montenegro) will be the site of a three days Italian cinema event. From 8th to 10th november Podgorica will host a number of contemporary Italian movies which will be accompanied by open meetings with actors and directors, as well as conferences and food tastings to make Montenegro's public know the beauty of the terr...
DEKALOG 3: ON FILM FESTIVALS
Richard Porton (ed.)
In an increasingly ‘event-driven' cultural environment, film festivals are now regarded as indispensable. Yet are festivals such as Cannes, Sundance and Toronto being sabotaged by their own success? Do they truly serve the needs of cinephiles, as well as the larger public? These are among the questions explored in essays, memoirs and impassioned polemics by a distinguished array of critics and programmers. This timely anthology begins w...
DEKALOG 3: ON FILM FESTIVALSRichard Porton (ed.)http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/dekalog/Dekalog03_on_film_festivals In an increasingly ‘event-driven' cultural environment, film festivals are now regarded as indispensable. Yet are festivals such as Cannes, Sundance and Toronto being sabotaged by their own success? Do they truly serve the needs of cinephiles, as well as the larger public? These are among the questions explored in essays, memoirs and impassioned polemics by a distinguish...
Maremetraggio is ready to celebrate its first ten years of life with a special program for the 2009 edition. It will be a gold edition, as the colour we have chosen for the festival catalogue of this year, with many meetings and novelties. For nine days, from June 26th to July 4th , in Trieste, screenings, conferences and meetings with actors and directors will alternate to offer to the festival audience a total immersion in the world of cinema. To have an idea of how this festival will be, you ...
18th Session
March, 2 to July, 15 2009 Jury's president : Gilles Jacob
Participants
Andreas Bolm
Andreas Bolm was born in 1971 in Cologne, Germany, from a Hungarian mother and a German father. After working as a musician and sound engineer in Manchester, England, he began to experiment in photography and video. He studied film and theatre science in Berlin and at the film FAMU academy in Prague. In 1999, Andreas enrolled in the documentary department of the University of Televi...
Maremetraggio is ready to celebrate its first tenth years of life with a special program for 2009 edition. It will be a gold edition, as the colour chosen for the festival catalogue of this year, with many meetings and novelties. Numbers speak better than words: for Maremetraggio section, reserved to Italian and foreign shorts, there will be 100 films fighting for the Shop & Play Città Fiera prize, that will grant 10.000 euro to the best work of the selection. The selection includes 23 Italian ...
Our need to express and create is powerful. It provokes experimentation and inspires artistic cultural expressions such as visual art and film. On a daily basis we are bombarded with messages and advertising, and we are able to think critically and analyze them. So, it is with film in every country in the region of ex Yugoslavia on Balkan today that has its own characteristics, recognizable by its style and aesthetics. And each one appeals on a certain type of audience. FEST 2009 – The Inter...
The Miami International Film Festival, at Miami Dade College (MDC), has appointed Tiziana Finzi, a seasoned film professional with more than 20 years of experience in film festival programming and coordination, as its new director. She began her new charge on December 1, 2008.
Tiziana Finzi, the new director of the Miami International Film Festival
Finzi served as head of programming for the acclaimed Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland for the past...
