The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) announced today that actress Heather Graham (Boogie Nights, Drugstore Cowboy, Austin Powers) will be honored with the prestigious Career Achievement Award at this year's Film Festival, taking place December 1-4 in Nassau.
The Career Achievement Tribute ceremony featuring Graham will take place at the Atlantis Theater on the evening of Friday, December 2nd. Jeffrey Lyons, host of the TV show "Lyons Den", will be mo...
RESTLESS (2011)SUMMARY: “The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII”.During the press conference at Cannes I sat next to actor Henry Hopper’s mother and she said, ‘that’s my son!’ with pride and a twinkle in her eye. Many say that RESTLESS (2011) is a tribute to French cinema. It may even hint to a touch magical realism meets Woody Allen (just read this sweet ...
press conference to RESTLESS (2011) at 64th Cannes Film Festival which screened in the Un Certain Regard category.Actress/producer Bryce Dallas Howard, writer Jason Lew, actress Mia Wasikowska, actor Henry Hopper and director Gus Van Sant all answered questions to eager international Cannes press. photo by Vanessa McMahon
press conference to RESTLESS (2011) at 64th Cannes Film Festival which screened in the Un Certain Regard category.
Gus Van Sant answered questions to eager international Cannes press.
photo by Vanessa McMahon
press conference to RESTLESS (2011) at 64th Cannes Film Festival which screened in the Un Certain Regard category. Actress Mia Wasikowska and director Gus Van Sant answered questions to eager international Cannes press.photo by Vanessa McMahon
press conference to RESTLESS (2011) at 64th Cannes Film Festival which screened in the Un Certain Regard category. Actor Henry Hopper and director Gus Van Sant answered questions to eager international Cannes press.photo by Vanessa McMahon
RESTLESS (2011)SUMMARY: “The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII”.During the press conference at Cannes I sat next to actor Henry Hopper’s mother and she said, ‘that’s my son!’ with pride and a twinkle in her eye. Many say that RESTLESS (2011) is a tribute to French cinema. It may even hint to a touch magical realism meets Woody Allen (just read this sweet ...
press conference for RESTLESS (2011) by Gus Van Sant at Cannes 2011.
press conference for RESTLESS (2011) by director Gus Van Sant (right) at Cannes 2011photo by Vanessa McMahon
press conference for RESTLESS (2011) with actor Henry Hooper (left) and director Gus Van Sant (right) at Cannes 2011photo by Vanessa McMahon
press conference for RESTLESS (2011) by Gus Van Sant at Cannes 2011. Producer is actress Bryce Dallas Howardphoto by Vanessa McMahon
Adrien Brody appeared at the 7:45pm screening of the film "Restless". Restless is one of the films in the "Un Certain Regard" section of the film festival. This movie is directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Henry Hopper and Mia Wasikowska. It is presented by Sony Pictures Classics, Columbia Picture and Imagine Entertainment. This film depicts a love story between a terminally-ill girl and a boy who
Even this year the Stockholm International Film Festival attracted a big audience of 130 000 visitors for the entire year. During the 21st festival Gus Van Sant and Stellan Skarsgård slapped each other open heartedly at the Skandia Theater stage, Harriet Andersson got standing ovations during the Award ceremony and Holly Hunter lead the Jury and raised the festival spirit. 180 films from more than 50 countries were shown during 12 intense days filled with Face2Face meetings with more than 100...
Today, October 26, the program for the 21st edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival will be revealed. Tomorrow, October 27 at 11 AM, the ticket sales begin online and at Kulturhuset. This year's festival program presents 180 films from more than 50 countries, 108 Nordic premiers, and 16 world premiers. We look forward 12 exciting days of quality film.
- The Stockholm International Film Festival is the meeting point for next generation's film creators. Our 21st program is fully l...
While the Polish public certainly is aware of the latest Hollywood films, and with current American television series also freely available here, it is a little surprising that some of the American indie world's most celebrated auteurs are virtually unknown. That is one of the goals of the inaugural American Film Festival, the first film event in Eastern Europe solely devoted to contemporary and classic American cinema. And if the size of the audiences at the screenings is any indica...
New York International Children's FilmFestivalMarch 4-27, 2011 CALL FOR ENTRIESThe #1 Film Fest for children and teens isnow accepting submissions! What we want:Features & ShortsDocumentaryNarrativeAnimatedExperimentalWe are looking for creative, original,non-formulaic works that will help to define a new, more compelling film forkids. We are not shy about showing filmswith mature themes, subject matter, language or sensibilities especially forour teen and pre-teen audiences. What you ...
DEADLINE APPROACHING!New York International Children's FilmFestival (NYICFF) is issuing a call for entries for the upcoming 2010festival, to take place from February26-March 14, for a sold-out-in-advance audience of over 20,000 children,teens, parents, filmmakers and media professionals and a marketing reach of 2million in the New Yorkarea. NYICFF seeks creative, original,non-formulaic works that will help to define a new, more compelling film forkids. NYICFFJURY: Academy Award® winning ac...
New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) is issuing a call for entries for the upcoming 2010 festival, to take place from February 26-March 14, for a sold-out-in-advance audience of over 20,000 children, teens, parents, filmmakers and media professionals and a marketing reach of 2 million in the New York area. NYICFF seeks creative, original, non-formulaic works that will help to define a new, more compelling film for kids.
NYICFF JURY: ...
“Hunger” by Steve McQueen is the kick-off screening for the KunstFilmbiennale 2009Retrospective with rarities by the jury chairman, Gus Van Sant, in Cologne Cologne, 22 July 2009 – On September 18 at 8 p.m., the complete programme of the KunstFilmBiennale 2009 will be publicly presented at the Filmforum in Museum Ludwig in Cologne.To set the mood for an exceptional festival line-up, there will be a screening of “HUNGER”, the first movie of Steve McQueen, the Turner Prize winning star o...
The global financial Crisis, Recession, Depression -- call it what you will - was not overly in evidence at the 59th edition of the Berlin Film Festival which ended its annual ten day run here on Febtuary 14th, Valentine's day. Private VIP and celebrity parties as reported in the gossip tabloids seemed to be as lavish as ever, and public box-office attendance in terms of tickets sold, was the highest ever at 270,000, up a solid 20,000 from 2008. The one festival section that did seem to be aff...
Presenting the best in independent, foreign and local films. Incudes the annual awarding of the Filmmaker on the Edge Award, the 2007 recipient was Todd Solondz. Past recipients include John Waters, Jim Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Mira Nair Gregg Araki..
Directors Guild of America President Third Vice President Taylor Hackford today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2008. "A film is a collaboration, but it is the director's energy and vision that brings the elements of script, performance and production into a satisfying totality. Today's nominees demonstrate how vision, combined with skill and talent, creates magic on the screen," said Hackford. "What makes this award tru...
Gus Van Sant's Milk heads massive gay section – the countdown to Scandinavia's most important film festival can begin It has now been confirmed that Milk by American director Gus Van Sant, starring Sean Penn, will get its Swedish première at Göteborg International Film Festival 2009. Milk tells the story of the first openly gay politician Harvey Milk, who lived in San Francisco and was murdered in the end of the seventies by a conservative opponent. Others actors in the much spoken about hot...
Friday, September 12--------This year, Oscar didn't come to Toronto. Since the Academy Awards calendar was shortened in 2003, Toronto loomed large as the place to premiere Oscar contenders for the end-of-year awards season.In the past few years, films such as Atonement, No Country For Old Men and Last King of Scotland began their Oscar trajectories in Toronto. Many of the Galas here, which have contained some past awards successes, have been poorly received (including The Burning Plain, T...
In recognition of his pioneering career which has helped break down the barriers between independent and mainstream film, IFP announced today that director Gus Van Sant will be presented with a Gotham Awards Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards™ on Tuesday, December 2nd in New York. Presented by IFP, the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, the Gotham Awards™ is one of the leading awards for independent film and the first major honors of the film awards sea...
