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Tuba Atlantic, nominated for the Best Live Action Short Film Oscar
Recent film school grad, Hallvar Witzo, got off an 18 hour flight and arrived at the Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon to find himself sitting next to his idols, Martin Scorsese and Steven Speilberg. Hallvar candidly expressed, "This is a big deal for a kid from Norway! It is just surreal." ... Full story
An interview with Michael R. Roskam, dirctor of BULLHEAD, nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
Michael R. Roskam’s BULLHEAD is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille (Mattias Schoenaerts in a ferocious breakout performance), constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat ... Full story
Lucy Walker talks about The Tsunami And The Cherry Blossom, nominated for the 2012 Oscar Documentary Short Films' Award
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, nominated for the 2012 Oscar Documentary Short Films' Award, is a documentary filmed in Japan after the devastating tsunami of March 11th 2011. It shares the journey of survivors in the areas hardest hit, ... Full story
The Shore, Best Live Action Short Oscar Nominee
The Shore nominated for the Best Live Action Short film Oscar, is the uplifting story of two boyhood best friends—Joe (Ciarán Hinds) and Paddy (Conleth Hill)—divided for 25 years by the tumult of "The Troubles". When Joe returns home to ... Full story
SUNDAY, nominated for Best Animated Shortfilm Oscar
One of the five Oscar nominees for the Best Animated Short film t is Sunday from Canada, directed by Patrick Doyon. Sunday is a National Film Board of Canada production. Every Sunday, it's the same old routine! The train clatters through ... Full story
MORGEN
MORGEN is the story of NELU, a man in his forties who works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border, where many illegal emigrants try to cross first to Hungary ... Full story
A Separation, Iran's Oscar nominee
Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering ... Full story
Judy Chaikin talks about The Girls InThe Band
The Girls InThe Band tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 20's to the present day. These incredibly talented women endured sexism, racism and diminished opportunities for ... Full story
An Interview with Jes Benstock about The British Guide To Showing Off
In The British Guide To Showing Off, Loved the world over by celebrities and misfits alike, British artist and living legend Andrew Logan, takes us under his glittering wing and inside his outrageous, anarchic and spectacular costume pageant, the Alternative ... Full story
HAPPY, HAPPY, Norway’s Oscar Selection
Anne Sewitsky’s Happy, Happy is Norway’s Selection for the 2012 Best Foreign Movie Oscar.In Happy, Happy, family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who ... Full story
