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Daniel Baldock, the Italian acting sensation who appeared in the blockbuster hit Letters to Juliet (2010) is about to take the acting world by storm and stars in the upcoming Italian production, Bloody Sin (2011).
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Today I am speaking with the passionate Jonas Fisch, the talented TV and Film actor recently featured in films like: Angels and Demons (2009), How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and That Side of A Shadow (2010).
ME: Can you talk a little bit about your voiceover role in How to Train Your Dragon (2010)?
JONAS: I feel there's no point talking about "How to train your Dragon" since it was a quick voice over for a Europ...
The Tucson Film & Music Festival (TFMF) is excited to unveil the complete film line-up for the sixth annual event running with expanded dates from Oct. 7-11, 2010. All-access badges are now available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/129793 and the full film listing is online at www.tucsonfilmandmusicfestival.com.The festival opens with the Arizona Premiere of the critically acclaimed concert film Ride, Rise, Roar, featuring ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on tour promoting his fir...
The Anchorage by Swede Anders Edstrom and and American CW Winter, is a sort of minimalist half installation/ half-documentary about primitive Swedish life in the woods. With a Bergmanian pace, it follows Ulla, Anders' real-life mother, as she conducts her daily life on a wild island on the Stockholm archipelago.
We see her taking quick dips in the buff in the ocean, reading, catching and cleaning fish and mooning about in her wooden ecological abode.
Her mon...
Director: Pablo Pappano.
Is the world of online dating full of those who can’t survive in the real dating world? What is the average person’s experience? Do most people find their true love and end up as living, breathing eHarmony commercials, or do most give up in disappointment?
After using Craigslist to find people willing to do on-camera interviews about their online dating experiences, I quickly discovered that many people had a lot in common—especially their larger-than-life personalities.
Audrey is a forty-something would-be actress who fell in love with a mysterious South African boat captain. Marty is an affable, middle-aged father-of-three and swinger with a “black book” containing thousands of names who hopes to find a wife online. Colleen is a single chef who doesn’t want either a one night stand or a boyfriend. She wants something in between. Thirty-something Andy uses online dating and matchmakers but hasn’t found that special someone. Although he did find a woman who, on their first date, offered him $100,000 to father her child.
After recording all of these insightful - and sometimes crazy - stories about the world of online dating, I knew I had a fantastic and original movie to make. Internet dating has been around for more than a decade, but it still isn't clear whether online dating really works. Is “happily ever after” a realistic goal for online daters? Find out by watching Clickin' for Love.
The artists for 2010 TVIFF Music Fest have been selected:
2010 MUSICFEST FINALISTS
JESSICA ERIN, country / pop singer and writer
Originally from Illinois, Jessica currently resides in
Los Angeles, working hard to hone her craft as a singer/songwriter.
She has opened for Grammy Award winning duo Montgomery Gentry, Country
star Darryl Worley, & others. Her song "Girls Night Out", was aired
on NBC TV's hit show "Friday Night Lights". Her song, "...
Premiering here at the Montreal World Film Festival in the same week that saw U.S. President Barack Obama deliver a television address announcing the end of combat operations by the U.S. military in Iraq, the timing could not be better for the new American documentary film CAMP UNITY.
After more than seven years of bloody combat, the American role in Iraq has shifted to one of helping build a solid democracy from the ruins of a devastated nation. What role the 50,000 U....
Is the world of online dating full of those who can't survive in the real dating world? What is the average person’s experience? Do most people find their true love and end up as living, breathing eHarmony commercial, or do most give up in disappointment? Once you've seen the documentary Clickin’ for Love, you'll know a lot more. After using Craigslist to find people willing to do on-camera interviews about their online dating experiences, filmmaker Pablo Pappano quickly discovered that man...
I am super proud to present my good friend Colen C. Wiley. Cole and I met at an NYU interview four years ago where each of us had been interviewed by then NYU film teacher Milcho Manchevski, director of a favorite film of mine, Before the Rain (1994). Cole Wiley is the most educated up and coming filmmaker I know. He is a Harvard Law...
Covering production, distribution, documentary, and emerging media, Film Independent's Filmmaker Forum will provide case studies and presentations on some of today's most interesting new works as well as thought provoking discussions, and networking sessions.
October 29 - 31
Directors Guild of America
7920 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046
http://empower.filmindependent.org/news/
The full schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
OPEN...
The Santa Cruz Film Festival (SCFF), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of moving image arts in California’s Greater Monterey Bay Area, announces the call for entries for its tenth season, May 5-14, 2011. One of the largest and most prominent cultural events in the Central Coast, SCFF is committed to showcasing new moving image art from around the globe, and blending it with one-of-a-kind interactive experiences featuring local artists, dancers and oth...
Ernest Borgnine, who is exuberantly entering his seventh decade of creating memorable characters and award-winning performances, will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)’s most prestigious accolade-—the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Borgnine, who has performed in more than 200 motion pictures, five television series and dozens of television films and guest appearances, will be presented the Award, given annually to an actor w...
Joseph McKelheer in demand; he's an actor, writer and film producer with an impressive film library under his belt. He's here today to speak about himself and his films. ME: Joseph, can you speak about how you got into writing and producing for film? JOSEPH: I think most producers get to a point where the sense of urgency to make a film is so great they'll do almost anything to make it happen. For me, that 'anything' was writing. I never fancied myself as a writer, ...
Meet Jose Rosete, without a doubt one of the busiest actors in Hollywood. Mammamia! How many films can you be in one year??? LOL!!! Well, Mr. Rosete is PRO and PROACTIVE! Check him out!!!
ME: Jose, you rule! To be honest, you're in so many films that I realized there can't be an interview about your films. No, we have to talk about you! So, tell us, please... Who is the real Jos
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Documentary films are supposed to wake us up -- usually to some strange sub-culture (read: the world of Baby Beauty Pageants or Professional Eating Contests) -- to give a glimpse at how remarkably bizarre human beings can be. Typically with films, we're allowed to become voyeurs, stare agape at the amusing spectacle of mankind. Not so with TORN FROM THE FLAG, filmmaker Klaudia Kovacs' chronicle of the 1956 October Revolution in Hungary that...
INDIAN FILM REVIEWS, 2010 -- COMPOSITE with RAAKH (1989) ADDED NEW BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER TO PREMIER AT BERLIN 2010 by Alex deleon -- (reviewed below) for www.filmfestivals.com The much awaited new Indian film "My Name Is Khan" will be premiered at the 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival on Febuary 12, out of competition but very much in the limelight otherwise. MNIK is easily the most anticpated Hindi film of the year as it topline...
Interview with Artan Minarolli, director of Albania's internationally acclaimed film Alive (2009). About a
young man named Koll in Tirana, Albania who is just trying to live the modern life of a university student but gets stuck in an ancient blood feud in the countryside of his ancestral land. Will modern times help Koll escape his
tragic familial fate?
I met Artan Minarolli in January in Palm Springs at the closing night party where were all packed tight in a room hiding from ...
Joseph McKelheer in demand; he's an actor, writer and film producer with an impressive film library under his
belt. He's here today to speak about himself and his films.
ME: Joseph, can you speak about how you got into writing and producing for film?
JOSEPH: I think most producers get to a point where the sense of urgency to make a film is so grea
KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMORALL:THE COMEDY CENTRAL ROAST OF DAVID HASSELHOFF(Taped Live Aug. 1, 2010, at Stage 27, SONY STUDIOS, Culver City, Calif.) by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent At Comedy Central's live taping of David Hasselhoff's Roast, there's a life-like, wildly outsized human replica of of the Hoff, complete with Baywatch red shorts and... uh, back hair. The fake Hoff is grinning from ear-to-ear, popping electric blue eyes and that unmistakeable Hoff-coif. They ev...
The Indie Fest announces its Call for Entries for filmmakers, television producers and videographers.
The deadline is October 29, 2010, but don't wait, send your entries now!
Download the entry form at: www.TheIndieFest.com
The Indie Fest is an independent, top-tier international film awards competition. Our goal is to help independent filmmakers gain publicity and, when appropriate, exposure to distributors. The Indie Fest has been very successful in introducing winners t...
Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival Information
Update
Screenings: August 5th @ 6pm in
the Tower Plaza in Temecula. In the room
directly to the left of Texas Loosey's; walk between Starbucks and Painted
Earth, behind the center gazebo and you will be able to help us select films
for the 2010 festival!
Volunteers: Turn in your
volunteer registration before August 10, 2010 to get priority in selection of
your shifts for the festival. You c...
August 21st, 8 PM: California premiere of "The Godfather´s Lover" at the Nevada City Film Festival: "`Survival of the Crittest`: `Crit` (noun) –Pronounced: `kri-t`. `A person or thing so extremely and naturallyitself that it may pose a threat to ordinary reality.` Note: a nursewill be on hand during the program to attend to anyone overcome by the critness of it all."http://www.nevadacityfilmfestival.com/index.php?page_name=festival_info&sub_page=program_guide...
An Education:
Lone Sherfig's last film An Education (2009) won her Academy Award nominations for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress for Carey Mulligan and Best Sceenwriting adaptation. Her next film, One Day (2011), is in production now.
I met Lone in January in California on a panel for her US premier of An Education, an unusual dark romantic comedy/drama inspired by a memoir about Rachmanism in London during the 1960's. The main antagonist David (played by P...
I spoke with director Jason Liquori about his underground film Alien Vengeace (2010). Really, this is a whole movement in cinema happening in the underground that so much of the international cinema world has no idea about. So, I wanted to share this with everyone.
ME: Hey, Jason. Can you speak to us about your latest film Alien Vengeance?
JASON: The "Alien Vengeance" mo
Next week The Sicilian Girl (2009) by director Marco Amenta starring Veronica D'Agostino and Gerard Jugnot will open in theaters in the U.S. The Sicilian Girl is a based on the true story of Rita Atria, a teenaged girl born into the Cosa Nostra who rebelled against the mafia as a witness in Italian courts to avange her father's death. It is a riveting dramatic thriller that has received international acclaim.
I saw The Sicilian Girl in Palm Springs, California when Amenta screened h...
