Ready but with a slight stress.
My tickets due from DHL two days ago should only be delivered to my home 3 hours before take off :-(
"Run Bruno Run"
Is my pass ok? well I am sure they will tell me eventually, enough technology built in this official bit of paper
How about liquid through customs? I was not planning to bring wine anyway, tooth paste? perfume???
travel light bruno
Due to speak on a panel at the summit next tuesday afternoon:subject: Film Festivals- Innovative Use of Digital Te...
Marthi films are known for good scripts and contents. And MATI MAY of Chitra Palekar, MATI MAY is no exception. It is a story about a grave keeper. The film is adopted from Mahashweta devi’s original story. Chitra preferred to give Varadi flavor of Marathi language as the film is shot in remote village of Amarawati districts of Maharashtra. The film has been well accepted in major towns and even at International platform.
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Friday, December 1----As the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) heads into its final weekend, the speculation is growing on which films will win the major prizes at the ceremonies on Saturday night. There has been, as one would expect at a festival with many heart-felt opinions, many passionate discussions on the merits (or demerits) of certain films.
Last evening, the nominations were announced for IDFA’s competition programs: the Joris Ivens Competition for best lon...
Winners to be Unveiled at the Slamdance Film Festivali in Park City, January 18-27
Slamdance, an organization always looking to foster new and innovative ways to assist emerging artists and writers, has established the Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition. This contest is a natural extension of Slamdance’s stated mission to nurture, support and showcase truly independent works and will be held concurrently with the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 18-27, 2007.
A gam...
The 2007 Sundance Film Festival announced today that the Opening Night Film for the upcoming Festival is the world premiere of CHICAGO 10, written and directed by Brett Morgen. CHICAGO 10 is an innovative documentary that combines historical storytelling, archival footage, animation and music to tell the story about the 1968 anti-war protests around the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that resulted in the famous Chicago Conspiracy Trial in 1969. The 2007 Sundance Film Festival runs Jan...
Thursday, November 30----While it is true that most major international film festivals do showcase important documentary films, the explosion of documentary-only film festivals, as evidenced here at the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) in Amsterdam, is nothing less than an explosion. With brochures littering the industry areas, it is amazing and heartening to see such a massive public interest in the documentary form.
So, instead of writing a long article, I am simply going to l...
Thursday, November 30----One of New York's biggest film parties was held last evening. The 16th Annual Gotham Awards were presented at New York's fashionable Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River. The star-studded program is a fundraiser for the Independent Feature Project (IFP), a not-for-profit filmmmaker association that helps novice indies throughout the year.
The Awards were recently reorganized to be half film celebration and half film tribute. While the Gothams have awards for Best Pictur...
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Borat, the smash cult-film hit of the autumn, will be previewed at the Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival on Friday, December 29.
After opening to big box office and big laughs in the United States, the creation of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has spread to the United Kingdom and France, and now will come to Italy for the great festival on the Blue Island after a stop at the Festival of Rome. In the satirical film, subtitled “Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glo...
NEW JAMES BOND FILM, CASINO ROYALE, TO RECEIVE ITS ITALIAN PREMIERE AT CAPRI, HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL DECEMBER 28
Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s film debut in the role of James Bond, will be introduced to Italy on December 28 at the Capri, Hollywood Film Fest. Giancarlo Giannini, a co-star in the film and chairman of the 11th annual international festival, was in Bond’s home base of London to announce the Italian premiere.
"Capri is the ideal beautiful place to introduce this beautiful fi...
International screen stars and industry leaders of the European, American and Italian film communities will celebrate the ever-evolving culture of cinema at the 10th Annual Capri, Hollywood - Kimbo International Film Festival on the spectacular Isle of Capri, Italy from December 27th through January 2nd.
The Capri, Hollywood – Kimbo International Film Festival has established itself over the past decade as one of the world’s most distinguished Winter-season film festivals – boasting an ar...
Marthi films are known for good scripts and contents. And MATI MAY of Chitra Palekar, MATI MAY is no exception. It is a story about a grave keeper. The film is adopted from Mahashweta devi’s original story. Chitra preferred to give Varadi flavor of Marathi language as the film is shot in remote village of Amarawati districts of Maharashtra. The film has been well accepted in major towns and even at International platform.
Chitra is of the opinion that, fair representation should be given ...
Tuesday, November 28----With Amsterdam experiencing a rare warm wave in late November, and with Christmas lights and decorations going up all over the city, the beauty of this special place, especially at night, is pleasing to the eye and warming to the soul. A few impressions.....
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Tuesday, November 28---Director Michael Apted swung into Amsterdam for a brief junket, mainly to introduce the screening of his latest film MARRIED IN AMERICA 2, the second entry in his ambitious series about being married in america. The film had its world premiere at IDFA on Sunday evening. Following the same methodology that he has used in his very successful 7 UP series (which has been following the same group of people every seven years since they were seven), MARRIED IN AMERICA 2 follow...
The European Film Academy and the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI have announced that the
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS’ AWARD 2006 – Prix FIPRESCI goes to
LES AMANTS REGULIERS
by Philippe Garrel
As Andrei Plakhov, president of FIPRESCI, has explained, "Philippe Garrel made his first film when he was 16, and by 20 had earned the reputation of the Nouvelle Vague's Wunderkind and 'younger brother of Godard'. His sophisticated cinematographic style, with long concentrated ...
Tuesday, November 28---With December 1st marked as World AIDS Day, a day to reflect on the progress made since the disease was first discovered 25 years ago, as well as concern that it is still raging in most parts of the world, a film festival in New York will mark the occasion with a series of screenings and events. The New York AIDS Film Festival (NYAFF), now in its fourth year, that runs from November 29 to December 4. It is a five day series of HIV- and AIDS-related film screenings, panel...
The 16th Cottbus International Film Festival festival closed its five day run on Saturday November 18th with the distribution of the prizes and the premiere of the new German film "Herzentöter" (Heartbreaker) by Cottbus born director Bernd Heiber.
This absurd slap-sticky comedy set completely in the local Spreewald area, went over well with the local audience but is not likely to travel very far from Lusatia.
The main prize, 25,000 €, for Best Film went to the Serbian competition entry "Sutra...
Monday, November 27----Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage will be the recipient of the Career Achievement Award at the 3rd annual Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), which runs from December 7 to 10 in the beautiful island nation in the Carribean. Cage, a long time Bahamas resident, will receive the Award by screen icon Sean Connery, who was recently honored himself at the inaugural Rome Film Festival last month.
Over the four day Festival, BIFF will screen a selection of Nicolas Ca...
Monday, November 27---Aside from the extensive public events and screenings here at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA), a number of professional events are in high gear as the Festival moves into its mid-way point.
The IDFA FORUM, a co-production and financing networking extravaganza, creates networking opportunities for a number of selected documentary producers and directors, who get a chance to pitch and dialogue with visiting commissioning television editors, dis...
November 29th - December 4th, 2006
The New York AIDS Film Festival, now in its fourth year, is a five-day series of HIV- and AIDS-related film screenings, panel discussions, and special events. The festival takes place each year during the first week of December (World AIDS Week). The 2006 festival will also serve to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS.
The NYAFF mission is to utilize visual media to prompt social action in the fight against the global AIDS...
Saturday/Sunday, November 25/26----The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced the "short list" of feature documentaries that will compete for Best Documentary honors at the 79th Academy Awards in February, 2007. The AMPAS Documentary Screening Committee viewed 81 eligible documentary features, shortening the list to 16 contenders. From this group will come the 5 films that will be compete for the final Best Documentary Oscar. Films on the "short list" include such r...
Saturday/Sunday, November 25/26----Robert Altman, one of the most influential film directors of his generation, passed away earlier this week at Cedars of Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Rumors about Altman's declining health have been circulating since his announcement at last year's Academy Awards that he had received a heart transplant in the last few years. What the public and even close associates didn't know was that the iconic director had been diagnosed with cancer over a year ago, but ...
Read it here The prestigious Tahiti Film Festival magazine will be offered to all Festival guests. It is also available online for easy reading. Discovery Tahiti, the black pearls, the Festival films, events, jury... ...
Saturday, November 25----The Dutch documentary FOREVER by Heddy Honigmann has been recognised with a Crystal Film Award for achieving over 10,000 tickets sold since its release. The award will be presented at IDFA on Monday, November 27 in the Filmmuseum, prior to the screening of the film.
FOREVER is a film about the power and vitality of art and about a place where beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The film already won a Golden Calf for Best Documentary at The Netherla...
