While much of the world will be focusing on the creative talents up for Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, the technical geniuses behind the cameras were honored for their contributions at the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on February 12, at the Beverly Wilshire. Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei hosted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards, presenting 11 awards to 23 individual recipients during the evening. . The event is not televised, although portions will be included in the Oscar presentation at the Kodak…
Browsing: Festivals
Hollywood, CA February, 2011—HollyShorts (www.hollyshorts.com) is now accepting submissions for the 7TH annual HollyShorts Film Festival, which takes place August 11-18, 2011. The early bird deadline for submissions is Friday February 11, 2011. Filmmakers from around the world are encouraged to submit their short form projects to take advantage of the discounted early bird rate. HollyShorts is accepting categories which include: Short Live Action, Animation, Documentary, Student, Webisodes, and Music Videos. The running times must be 30-minutes or less. For the first time ever, the festival has also added a Commercials category. HollyShorts is also unveiling the official 2011 HollyShorts…
James Koenig, a dear friend of Cinema Without Borders and director/founder of Scandinavian Film Festival, Los Angeles, not only knows how to run a great festival, but also has a wonderful sense of humor. Here is how he looks back at 2011 Scandinavian Film Festival, Los Angeles. (CWB) The wrung-out reel wrangler sits with eyes wide open like two reels of film without the slag taken up, sleep-deprived pupils reflecting nothing but a portrait-grabbing flash and a digital mugshot moment for an old western “Wanted” poster. “Wanted– dead or alive!” Today I’m dead! There’s a camera rolling! Is it a…
The 12th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. (SFFLA) returns to the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills with a strong selection of Scandinavian Oscar Submissions and a baker’s dozen of handpicked films highlighting Nordic Cinema at its best. Founder- Director James Koenig (classical singer, poet, author was decorated as a Knight of the Order of the Finnish Lion for his work with the American Scandinavian Foundation of Los Angeles. Koenig’s boutique festival is my favorite festival of the year, two weekends packed with great films, great guests, a Scandinavian Cafe and the gracious, humorous Koenig himself.This year’s selection Includes Thomas Vinterberg’s…
This week we had the opportunity to interview James Koenig, director of Scandinavian Film Festival, LA, about the 2011 festival. James Koenig is used to both sub and super-titles in his dealings with foreign language film and in his non-film endeavors as a classical singer. In fact, his voice has been heard in various arts arenas—not only as a singer, but also as an arts advocate, writer, director, commentator, and teacher. He has served on juries evaluating both singers, and films. He is the founder/director of the 12 year old SFFLA. Of German and Swiss heritage, it was life experience,…
Darryl Macdonald is the Director of the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International ShortFest and Short Film Market. He is the co-founder of The Seattle International Film Festival, and was its Executive and Artistic Director from 1975 – 2003. He served as the first Artistic Director of the Palm Springs Film Festival (1989 -1993) and the Hamptons Film Festival (1993 -1996) and was the Programming Director of the Vancouver International Film Festival (1988 -1992). He has also served as the Director of the Goodwill Games Film Festival, the Women in Cinema Festival and the Washington State…
The 12th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. unreels at the Writers Guild Theater (135 S. Doheny/at Wilshire) in Beverly Hills on January 8, 9, 15 and 16, with a program of both blockbusters and discoveries. The festival offers an annual immersion into the world of Nordic film during the winter “film season” that makes its way through festivals and awards in the build up to Academy Awards nominations and the Awards themselves. The festival focuses on the work of filmmakers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden including Nordic Oscar contenders, additional current feature films, and a sampling of shorts and…
New York City has a new festival! DOC NYC – New York’s own Documentary Festival. According to the festival’s website, the first edition this year was first planned as a five-day festival, but just a few weeks before the opening got extended to a seven-day run! Conceived, curated and produced by executive director Raphaela Neihausen and artistic director Thom Powers (also the documentary programmer of the Toronto International Film Festival and curator of the famed IFC Center documentary screening series STRANGER THAN FICTION), the festival is co-presented by IFC Center and NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where Powers…
The 24th Annual AFI FEST returns with its popular “See A Film On Us!” program initiated last year by then fest director Rose Kuo (currently the executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.) AFI Fest 2010 will offer free daytime screenings and a limited number of free tickets to evening screenings and galas, including Opening and Closing Night. Jacqueline Lyanga, an AFI veteran programmer and key architect in the planning and implementation of AFI FEST and other AFI events since 2005, was named Festival Director for AFI FEST 2010, Lyanga, a graduate of the world-renowned AFI Conservatory, was…
Last week, CWB interviewed Jacqueline Lyanga, the Director of the American Film Institute’s annual film festival, to find out more information for our readers on the 2010 AFI FEST.Bijan Tehrani: Please tell us about your involvement at the festival and what we should expect to see this year at the event. Jacqueline Lyanga: This year at AFI fest presented by Audi, we have a really fantastic line-up! There will be a lot of similarities to the program in the past, namely because both myself and the executive of programming have been here for the past five years, so there isn’t…