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'OTELO BURNING'
One of most talked-about films in S. Africa today.
One of the most talked-about contemporary films from South Africa, is ‘Otelo Burning ’, which combines sport, racism, politics, family and peer relationships with gentle but awesome power.
It will have a special screening at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT),in Bangkok .
The film is the debut feature of Sara Blecher, who has made many notewort...
Kenneth Fernandez does voices...
Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito
Mussolini, Joe Stalin,
Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Leonid Brezhnev,
Fidel Castro, Pierre Trudeau, Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, Jean Chrétien,
Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, F.W. De Klerk,
Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney,
Margaret Thatcher, Hugo Chavez,
Yasser Arafat, Giscard
d’Estaing, Shimon Perez, Yitzhak Rabin, George H.W. Bush,
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama
3:41 minutes (3.38 MB)
Bibesh Roy is The Cox's Beach International Film Festival founder, he is also
CEO at JATRA School of Performing Arts
Executive Director at Media Foundation
CEO at Praxis Production
Executive Director at International Academy of Film and Media
President at Motion Cine Club
Secretary Genarel at Sergei Bondarchuk Film Club
Advisor at Woman Film Society of Bangladesh
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Calling all cineastes! There's a film series starting tonight from a part of the world that's had an huge influence on South East Europe, so I wanted to alert you. It's being put on by the UCLA Center for European and
Eurasian Studies. The first film is tonight:
Date: Tues., Jan. 17, 2011
Time: 6:30pm
Place: UCLA, 11630F
Charles E. Young Research Library
Park: Structure 3
(off Sunset)
Walk south past Melnitz Hall and the Broad Art...
music director Bhupen Hazarika is dead.
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THE 30th PORDENONE SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
Pordenone (Italy), Teatro Comunale G. Verdi, 1-8 October 2011
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Giornate del Cinema Muto / Pordenone Silent Film Festival (1-8 October 2011) offers this year a particularly strong and varied programme.
One of the most anticipated events is the international première of the recently rediscovered first three reels of Graham Cutts' The White Shadow (1924), t...
During the 2nd annual Aruba International Film Festival, the film VOICES FROM MARIEL (2011) screened to a tearful audience. The film ran in competition with five other films in the selection of ‘Caribbean Spotlight Series’ and director Jim Carleton received the CSS Special Jury Award for the film.
When the film had finished, festival producer Jonathan Viera went up to speak to the filmmakers, in tears:
JONATHAN: You know, the whole time I was watching the film, ...
During the 2nd annual Aruba International Film Festival, the film VOICES FROM MARIEL (2011) screened to a tearful audience. The film ran in competition with five other films in the selection of ‘Caribbean Spotlight Series’ and director Jim Carleton received the CSS Special Jury Award for the film. When the film had finished, festival producer Jonathan Viera went up to speak to the filmmakers, in tears:JONATHAN: You know, the whole time I was watching the film, I had to check my phone ...
Reconciliation: Mandela's Miracle a film : documentaryReconciliation: Mandela's Miracle a filmby Michael Henry Wilsonby RonGilbert The title of this film says it all. Yes! Nelson Mandela is amiracle and an inspiration. In America we hadMartin Luther King and in SouthAfrica they hadNelson Mandela, who has this fortitude and determination and he never lost hopeeven after spending 26 years in prison. He is a precious gift to everyone. Oscarwinning director Clint Eastwood’s voice is at the openi...
River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival celebrates its 10th edition with a tribute and a photographic exhibition on multi-award winner and celebrated director Satyajit Ray, in addition to the films in competition and special screenings.The 10th River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival, founded and directed by Selvaggia Velo, will take place in Florence, Italy, from 3rd to 9th December, 2010.Under the Patronage of the Embassy of India in Rome, the Festival will take place in the cinema...
Today is my first day in a blog, I'm hoping to do it well. I'm a filmaker from Cuba, working as an independent, looking for getting into the real stuff, so now I'm working on a documentary of a very well known painter, that paints Fidel Castro, I'm hoping to take it to next level in the documentary comunity by using the path of fest.21
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Documentary filmmakers can be very serious. It is a serious art. The Italian Consul-General of New York, Francesco Talo, aptly describes the Festival dei Popoli's New York Documentary Film Festival as "recognising social problems through documentary expression". But the most magical moments and memorable quotes of the festival were so refreshingly funny that I nearly fell off my chair. Like the best of Italian cinema, the three distinguished Italian directors featured in tribute at the festival ...
India wins 7 Awards at Asian Festival of First Films, Singapore
India hogged limelight with seven wins at the Asian Festival of First Films (AFFF) held in Singapore. Sona Jain's "For Real" swept four awards in the feature film category while Faiza Ahmad Khan's documentary "Malegaon Ka Superman" grabbed th...
Director: Helga Landauer.
The 20th Century begins. Carefree people roam from one attraction to another, laughing, flirting, renting boats and carriages, betting, smoking, playing with sand, changing clothes, flirting. As they circle around seashore parks and streets, they look for more diversions. They are seeking for ways to distract themselves from the fact that the war is about to start, that the summer is coming to an end, that they are long dead
Director: Ashim Paul.
The film is about a refugee (Somu) of post Babri Masjid Demolition from Bangladesh who has migrated to India. There he faces several other character, in a space where political turmoil is still on. A child labor, Kanai, who works at an adjacent tea stall is willing to go to the cities to work as a construction labor. At the end, Somu feels deserted in the space and leaves. After he leaves, a puritan love in form of a lady, Sathi, the daughter of the landlady where Somu used to live, explores Somu's past and feels great attachment towards him through the decor of the space.
The ERA New Horizons International Film Festival has a reverence for “film as art”. This is indeed the focus of the FILMS ABOUT ART International Competition, which will present 14 feature documentaries from around the world. An international jury will award a prize of 10,000 euros, with a guarantee of distribution in Poland. Peter Greenaway, who will be at the Festival tomorrow to deliver a lecture on film and art, will present his latest film REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE, which uses the famed...
by Sandy Mandelberger, Online Dailies Editor
The ERA New Horizons International Film Festival has a reverence for “film as art”. This is indeed the focus of the FILMS ABOUT ART International Competition, which will present 14 feature documentaries from around the world. An international jury will award a prize of 10,000 euros, with a guarantee of distribution in Poland.
Peter Greenaway, who will be at the Festival tomorrow to deliver a lecture on film and...
11th TDF: SURPRISE FILM (3/13/2009)
SURPRISE FILM
On Saturday at 20:00, 24 hours after the opening of the 11th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, a surprise film is expected to stir vivid interest among the audience at the Olympion cinema.
The multi-award winning director Oliver Stone composes a meaningful portrait of Cuba’s emblematic political leader in his documentary Looking for Fidel, screening for the...
On January 3rd, 2008, The Toronto Star ran a Front Page by Peter Crawford entitled "Mobster Confesses"! The interview was in Amsterdam N.Y. on a snowey nite, right after Christmas. 2007! Mr. Peter Crawford came 400 miles to interview a former general member (made) of the old Lansky Group (Meyer) and a Full Member of the NCS (old Combination) in the United States, not Canada. The interview was about 5 hours long at the America's Best Hotel in Amsterdam, N.Y.(about 30 miles from Albany...
It was 1974 and Mr. Lansky was still pissed off at the World for not letting him buy it. I had been with Meyer since 1968, in my own world, in upstate N.Y. My mentor was my father, who worked for Meyer and Doc Farone, an old ally and bootlegger with Meyer. Doc was the first legitimate Molsen Beer Distributer in America. I learned in 68 that he had just used Molsen as a front to ship moonshine back into Canada. Doc would put me on errands with money to Ray Patriarca in Providence, R.I. and giv...
I have joined www.fest21.com today inorder to get my projects to the screen. I will tell my story in short form over the next few weeks, hoping to get some help. I am the last executive enforcer for a major syndicate Boss left. I have had to wait until all my partners were dead and my own beloved mother to pass inorder to tell the facts. I look forward to all your input and request help. I should be a household word by now for I had the contracts to kill Fidel Castro and Pierre Trudeau, plus e...
* A critics interview with the making of the history making film Love & Suicide cast and crew, on their accomplishment in filming a feature length film in Havana, Cuba without the expressed concent of either government. LOVE & SUICIDEA Lisa France Film After their film Anne B. Real, which was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, had been accepted into the Havana International Film Festival, producer-writer Luis Moro and writer-director Lisa France played with the idea of...
2nd RUSSIAN FILM FESTIVAL 18-28 September, London Building on the success of the 1st Russian Film Festival, Academia Rossica is now launching Russian Film Festival 2008. ProgrammeThe main programme will present the very best of internationally-acclaimed new Russian cinema. It will include London premieres of 10 films that have received awards at international and national film festivals in 2007-2008. Documentary and animation films, as well as shorts will complement the main programme. In showca...
Ischia, island of cinema and human rights: director Billy August, will receive the Ischia Humanitarian Award for his film “Goodbye Bafana”, dedicated to the legendary South African president Nelson Mandela, winner of the Nobel peace prize.Enzo Cappello, special commissioner of the Tourist Board of the Islands of Ischia and Procida announced that the Danish director will receive the award during the fifth Ischia Global Film & Music Fest (July 13-20, 2008).“In the year in which we are launch...
For cineastes and critics, the Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale, is a frequent target of criticism, since it is argued that the official competition has become subverted by commercialism, that politics drives the final selection in the official competition, or that Dieter Kosslick’s craving for media attention prevails. Thus the chorus of nay sayers grew more intense this year. After all, having the Rolling Stones, Madonna, and Sharukh Khan on the red carpet and bestowing the ...
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