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"Covariance" will play the Portobello Film Festival in London,
England on Sat., Sept. 8th, 2012. This is the 23rd festival acceptance
for the film.
Portobello Film Festival is held at Westbourne Studios in London, and admission is free to all people over 18 years of age.
For more info, please consult http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com
For more info on the film, and to see a trailer: http://www.dawnwestlake.com
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films selected from 14 countries for the
world’s largest gay and lesbian short film prize
10 US filmmakers make the final
closely followed by 6 from Australia and 5 from the UK.
Venezuela make the final for
the first time joining, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Israel, France, Norway,
Austria, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, US
and UK.
Australian filmmake...
Concorso internazionale
Pardo d’oro
LA FILLE DE NULLE PART by Jean-Claude Brisseau, France
Premio speciale della giuria
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME by Bob Byington, United States
Pardo per la migliore regia (Best Director)
YING LIANG for the film WO HAI YOU HUA YAO SHUO (When Night Falls), South Korea/China
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile (Best Actress)
AN NAI for the film WO HAI YOU HUA YAO SHUO (When Night Falls) by Ying Liang...
I hereby attach the 5-Star-Award Certificate of the BIAFF and the judges´ comments on the short film "The Impossible Fact (El Hecho Imposible)". Thanks to the judging committee of this international film festival in the United Kingdom and thanks to cast and crew for having made this project possible.
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I hereby attach the 4-Star-Award Certificate of the BIAFF 2012 and the judges´ comments on the video clip "Hip Hop International", which had its world premiere at this international film festival in the United Kingdom. Thanks to the judging committee of the BIAFF, to cast and crew.
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Moritz Bleibtreu
actor, Germany
One of the best-known German faces in international cinema,
Moritz Bleibtreu first shot to international attention as Manni in Tom
Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN (1998). He was nominated in 2001 for the EFA
People’s Choice Award for THE EXPERIMENT by Oliver Hirschbiegel and is
now nominated for European Actor for his role as Andreas Baader in THE
BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX by Uli Edel.
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The President:
Wim Wenders, Director, Germany
Wim Wenders attended the Academy of Film & Television in Munich, worked as a film critic for various German publications, and was a founding member of Filmverlag der Autoren. In 1976 he set up his own production company, Road Movies, and, in 2002, Reverse Angle. Often hailed as one of the most important German directors on the international scene, Wenders has received various international awards, including the Golden Lion (TH...
The President
Wim Wenders, director, Germany
The Board:
Chairman:
Yves Marmion, producer, France
Deputy Chairmen:
Nik Powell, director of the National Film and Television School, UK
Volker Schlöndorff, director, Germany
Board Members:
Chris Auty, producer, UK
Bruno Chatelin, producer, France
Adriana Chiesa di Palma, international distributor, Italy
Daniela Ciancio , costume designer, Italy
Helena Danielsson, producer, Sweden
Mike Downey, producer, UK...
Australian film star Greta Scacchi will be president of the international jury of the 36th Montreal World Film Festival, it was announced. “Ms. Scacchi has marked the international cinema with her talent and we are honoured to have her as the president of our jury,” said Festival President Serge Losique.
Born in Milan to an English mother and Italian father, Greta Scacchi was raised in England and Australia and received her early theatrical training as at the Bristol Old Vic...
The 33rd edition of the Durban International Film Festival, with principal funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, this evening (Saturday, July 28) announced its award-winners, prior to the closing film. Winner of the Best Feature Film award, Love (Amour) was applauded by the International Jury as “unmissable”, and the film’s director Michael Haneke, as a “contemporary master with an astute understanding of his cinematic world”. The Best Feature Film award carrie...
Special achievement awards of the 2nd International Uranium Film Festival go to "Chernobyl, the Invisible Thief", by Christoph Boekel (Germany), "Buried in Earthskin", by Helena Kingwill (South Africa), "Australian Atomic Confessions", by Katherine Aigner (Australia), "Radioactive Wolves", by Klaus Feichtenberger (Austria), "The Secret and the Sacred: Two Worlds at Los Alamos" by Claus Biegert, (Germany) and "Rokkasho Rhapsody" by Hit...
Award-winners announced at Durban International Film Festival
The 33rd edition of the Durban International Film Festival, with principal funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, this evening (Saturday, July 28) announced its award-winners, prior to the closing film. Winner of the Best Feature Film award, Love (Amour) was applauded by the International Jury as “unmissable”, and the film’s director Michael Haneke, as a “contemporary master with an astute under...
In September this year a second edition of the biggest festival of contemporary Polish films will commence in the UK. This is Play Poland Film Festival organised by Polish Art Europe. The event will last for four months, until December 2012. It will take place in Great Britain, Ireland, Norway and Canada. Cinema goers will have the opportunity to see popular Polish movie productions (both full length and short) and exhibitions of the best film posters as well as to participate in meetings with...
Besides the customary unveiling of new and upcoming talent from far and wide which is the hallmark of this festival, Karlovy 2012 provided such an extensive look at film history that these selections alone could have constituted an entire festival on their own. Among digitally restored new prints of landmark old films were Fellini's "La Strada, 1954, which among other things made burly actor Anthony Quinn into an arthouse icon, and Miloš Forman's "Fireman's Ball" (1967) the...
The 2nd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2012 awarded
films from USA, Sweden and Germany with the Festival’s "Yellow Oscar". Bill
Keisling's "Not for Public Release: a Nuclear Incident in Lock Haven", USA,
received the Best Feature Award, and Swedish Filmmaker Marko Kattilakoski
received the Short film Award for his movie Coffee Break (Fikapaus). "Leonids
Story" by German film director Rainer Ludwigs and Ukrainian producer Tetyana ...
This award sent to our national and international winners last year. From Australia to Russia, Spain, UK to USA
The 8th edition of Grossmann, taking place from the 16th to the 21st of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia is just around the corner! The festival will begin on Monday at 18h with the opening of the Fear Manifesto art installation and presentation of the competing winemakers.
At 19:00 our film program will begin with the regional premiere of Serbian film Doctor Ray and the Devils, director Dinko Tucaković's new drama/comedy about famous Hollywood rebel Nicholas Ray's stay in Yugoslavia during the 60...
Charlotte Rampling
© Courtesy of I, Anna 2012. Photographer Kerry Brown.
The Festival del film Locarno will present an Excellence Award Moët & Chandon to the English actress Charlotte Rampling. The award ceremony will take place on the Locarno Festival’s opening night on Wednesday 1 August on the Piazza Grande. The following day the public will have the opportunity to participate in a conversation with Charlotte Rampling.
To mark the occasion the Festival del film Locarno will...
Article published in the NY Times
"I'm not an unkind person," says Trudie Styler, "but by the same token, I'm not a people-pleaser."
DURING a visit to India to celebrate her 50th birthday, Trudie Styler consulted a seer. Recently, she recalled the episode, highlighted by a reading of her Vedic chart, with mock incredulity. "Oh, madam, by golly, this chart is very unique,' " she was told. " 'By 2012, you could be asking for the Taj Ma...
Filmmakers and screenwriters from all over the globe including the United Kingdom, Australia, Turkey, Argentina, France, Sweden, Trinidad, Sierra Leone, Bahrain, Romania, Israel, the US, and Canada travelled to Toronto to participate in and celebrate in the 10th Anniversary Female Eye Film Festival (June 20th – 24th, 2012). In a shaky economy The Female Eye Film Festival held strong with unprecedented screenings, script readings, industry panel discussions and the FeFF 10th Anniversary Phot...
Sport is a form of pure art, an individualistic form of art. Even collective sports like football are art in themselves. Yes, sport is definitely an art – water jumps are so beautiful, archery as well. There is something else as well – collective sports like football, volleyball, basketball create a feeling of togetherness, commitment, family. Individual sports such as running, on the other hand, inspire you to challenge yourself every day. The goal off course is not to w...
21st of June 6th day of Cinema City, went off very quickly. Beside a wonderful party, a lovely lunch with editor Bruno Chatelin and extensive talk with NickPowell about the celebrity world and rather interesting programs on festival there were interesting events to go to and films to see. Powell is a film producer, a co funder of Virgin Group (with Richard Branson), director of National Television and Film School in England and founder of Palace Produ...
Director: Serdar YILMAZ.
In a family made up of a grandmother, daughter and a 9-year old
granddaughter, granddaughter is forced to eat. The moral supporter of
this little girl who feels contented about her games and within her
own world, is a man behind the curtain only visible to her and no one
has any clue whether this man is real or imaginary.
While the Fried Chicken is a monstrous and aversive thing for the
little girl, it turns in to a four - meter -long avant-garde object
that is pulled over by the (same) man behind the curtain under cheers
in an isolated corner (street) populated by the homeless.
It was announced today at the annual Sheffield Doc/Fest awards ceremony, hosted by Jeremy Hardy, that the 20th edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2013 will see the introduction of The Tim Hetherington Award presented by Dogwoof. Says Oli Harbottle, Dogwoof, “We are delighted to be collaborating with Doc/Fest on this award. Tim’s legacy will forever define what we do at Dogwoof, and his approach will inspire filmmakers for generations to come”. The Tim Hetherington Award will includ...
Christopher Nolan & Emma Thomas were humble and introspective in front of the eager audience at as they opened Produced by 2012 last weekend. Nolan and Thomas worked together in England before bringing their first film Following to the US in 1998, at a time in the US when there was a "movement of cheap films that secured distribution through the festival circuit." They submitted it to the Sundance Film Festival, didn't make it, but there met a programmer from the San Francisco In...
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