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Actor of Intranquillity
With more roles under his belt than years alive, Jesse Eisenberg (literally “mountain of steel”) today finds himself at the summit of an exceptional career amid the landscape of American cinema. In 38 years, this hyperactive actor, who is also a director, author and journalist, has relentlessly transformed himself, delving into the buried, complex truth at the heart of his characters, confr...
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Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, BLONDE boldly reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, exploring the split between her public and private selves.
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Here are the Winners and Runner-Ups
Supreme Award
Winner: Jason Loftus (Eternal Spring)
Runner Up: George Gittoes (No Bad Guys),
Runner Up: Daizy Gedeon (Enough! Lebanon's Darkest Hour)
Runner Up: Sonita Gale (Hostile)
Best Australian Documentary
Winner: The Power of Activism (Steven Pasvolsky)
Runner Up: No Bad Guys (George Gittoes)
Runner Up: Paper City (...
THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995
Weekly newsletter N°1020 // 1019 Documenting the festivals experience since 1995, reaching over 166 000 subscribers:
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Working Title and Netflix’s deeply moving film, directed and written by Sally El Hosaini and co-written by multi-award-winner Jack Thorne, follows the journey from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics. The Swimmers will open the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 8.
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TIFF is excited and honoured to announce that Steven Spielberg’s first ever appearance at the Festival will take place this September with the World Premiere of his new film, The Fabelmans, at the 47th edition of TIFF.
A deeply personal portrait of 20th Century American childhood, The Fabelmans is a coming-of-age story about a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and oursel...
Julianne Moore will preside the Venezia 79 International Jury with members Mariano Cohn, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Audrey Diwan, Leila Hatami, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
American actress Julianne Moore will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31 – September 10, 2022), which will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards.
Academy Award (Still Al...
The eight work-in-progress films of the 10th edition of Final Cut in Venice have been selected. Final Cut in Venice is the project that has been providing since 2013 concrete support in the completion of films from all African countries and from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. Final Cut in Venice is one of the projects launched by the Venice Production Bridge of the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st - September 10th, 2022), directed by Alberto Barbera and ...
The 9th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 2 - September 4, 2022), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place during the forthcoming 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st - September 10th, 2022) and will offer selected European and global projects the opportunity to close their international financing, through one-to-one meetings with international decision-makers.
Photo Leone d'oro (Credits La Biennale di Venezia - foto ASAC)
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The Venice Settimana Internazionale della Critica (SIC), now in its 37. edition, is the result of a tight teamwork that makes us proud and has always been the crowning achievement of the Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI). First of all, the selection committee headed by the general delegate Beatrice Fiorentino, who is joined by a new group: Enrico Azzano, Chiara Borroni, Ilaria Feole and Federico Pedroni.
Their challenge, as always, is to draft a map of the cinema of the future by choosing...
A Lioness with classical grace to celebrate the 90th anniversary
of the Venice Film Festival in the image of the official poster
by Lorenzo Mattotti, also the author of the opening sequence
Italian illustrator and artist Lorenzo Mattotti is, for the fifth consecutive year, the author of the image for the official poster, and for the fourth year, of the opening sequence for the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia.
The image chosen for the poster t...
The Festival approaches and we cannot wait to welcome you all to Piazza Grande to celebrate this 75th edition!
After two editions marked by the pandemic, this year the event will return to being in all respects what it has always been: an appointment open to all types of audiences, to which access is unrestricted, with hundreds of film premieres presented, and many opportunities to meet and rediscover the pleasure of sharing the seventh art.
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The eclectic and talented British actor, who won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016), will receive the award on the evening of August 3 in the Piazza Grande, where he will also present the Locarno Film Festival's opening film Bullet Train, by David Leitch, a filmmaker who previously attended Locarno in 2017 with Atomic Blonde.
Taylor-Johnson is known for roles as varied as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy&n...
In its anniversary edition, the Locarno Film Festival will open up to the new languages of the contemporary, with a 24-hour live talk on new media on Twitch, through the works and reflections of artists such as Hito Steyerl and the Total Refusal collective, with a virtual reality proposal in collaboration with GIFF, and with the presentation in video essay form of the first results of the work done by USI Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts Kevin B....
The jury of the 22nd New Horizons International Film Festival in Wrocław awarded the Grand Prix and the 15,000 EUR prize to See You Friday, Robinson, directed by Mitra Farahani from Iran.
We prefer to let Jean-Luc Godard, one of the protagonists of this film, write the motivation for this award, so here it is a Godard quote that also sums up the qualities of See You Friday, Robinson:
“Films were invented to look, tell, and study things. They were mainly a scientific tool fo...
Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) has tapped Carl Spence as its new Artistic Director, assuming the role from Kevin W. McNeely, who will transition to Director Emeritus.
“The enthusiasm and passion of Kevin McNeely and Co-Director Ginny Krieger, along with the entire festival team, was infectious and reminded me of the early days of my festival film career,” said Spence. “I look forward to joining the team and continuing the traditi...
7th Castellorizo International Documentary Film Festival 2022 "Beyond Borders"
"Where documentary meets History and Culture"
(August 21- 28, 2022)
With an inspiring Opening Ceremony on August 21st, the 7th Castellorizo International Documentary Film Festival "Beyond Borders" will open its curtain, which will take place in Castellorizo during the last week of August, 21/08-28/08.
The opening film of this year'...
Ever since 1995, the year when the festival became a competition, it has been our ambition to showcase the best of American independent cinema.
This edition’s filmmakers, many making their feature debuts, aspire to provide an artistic answer to questions posed by the world. Interrogating the future, their cameras examine childhood and youth with troubling and moving acuity, making a recurring theme out of the passage into adulthood. One might say these directors are ...
On the evening of July 26th, Ms.Lynn Tang, Chairwoman of the Maeya Culture Exchange Group, and Ms.Libo Li, a senior ethnic theme film producer, were invited to attend a cultural dinner hosted by His Eminence Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. His Eminence Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche was born in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. He was recognized as a holy child and began training as a lama from the age of four. Rinpoche attended the Buddhist University in Sarnath, India...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the Narrating Behavior Change Program of the World Bank, in collaboration with former NASA producer Michael Carbajal, on July 27 presented the first in a series of Global Forums focused on the growth of edutainment programming around the world and the use of entertainment media with educational objectives.
Actor/producer/activist Sharon Stone has joined the panel that includes Christopher Bailey, Arts & Health Lead, World H...
MISMFF 2022, 01: Film fest returns to the Mysterious, Magical Mountains of Mestia, Georgia
Confession: I had not heard about Mestia at all till I learnt about the Mestia International Short & Mountain Film Festival (MISMFF). And it is already in its second edition! So, where is Mestia? Mestia is a municipality, a ‘townlet’ in western Georgia, in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region. Mestia, as well as the whole Svaneti, has a very old history. Distinguished by its amazing, beauti...
BOWERY is an intimate look into the lives of five homeless New Yorkers who live in the Bowery section of NYC. Filming commenced in 2019. and continued through June 2020.
Mintz and Straus reveal the personal struggles of living homeless on the street and facing incomparable challenges with crime, drug addiction, making an income, brutal weather and the ensuing COVID-19 outbreak.
The World Premiere of BOWERY took place in the Tribeca At Home festival section online on June 12th.&n...
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La Biennale di Venezia is pleased to announce the first of two Countries in Focus for this edition of the Venice Production Bridge (September 1 - 6, 2022).
FRANCE IN FOCUS supported by Unifrance
After successfully launching the country focus at the previous edition with the Netherlands, for the second year the Venice Production Bridge will further highlight projects with their filmmakers and producers at the Venice Gap-Fi...
79th Venice International Film Festival announces the Juries for the Orizzonti section
and the “Luigi de Laurentiis” Award for a Debut Film /
Director Isabel Coixet president of the Orizzonti Jury /
Director Michelangelo Frammartino president of the Debut Film Jury
The International Juries have been selected for the Orizzonti section and the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film of the 79th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di V...
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