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Burbank, CA, March 15, 2012—Cinema Without Borders, an independent publication dedicated to Independent and International Cinema, has declared Toon Boom Animation Inc.’s Storyboard Pro as the most ideal storyboard solution in traditional and digital animation, and bestowed our Seal of Excellence upon the software. The 2012 iteration of the prestigious Seal of Excellence Award—received in the past by the Palm Springs International Short-Fest Film Festival, Vudu HD On-Demand, HP (along with Adobe and Nvidia) and Mitsubishi—is bestowed upon Storyboard Pro for excellence in providing an exceptional and encompassing experience for storyboard artists. “Our team of editors, reviewers and experts spent…

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Tonight A Separation from Iran, directed by Asghar Farhadi received the first ever OSCAR for an Iranian film. A Separation won the OSCAR for The Best Foreign Language Film Award. When in December 2011 Cinema Without Borders Interviewed Asghar Farhadi and he was asked about the chances of A Separation to be nominated or to win the OSCAR, he said: “To tell you the truth, I’m not very familiar with the process at the Golden Globe and Oscars. But two factors count in a competition besides the quality of the film, one is the other contenders—and evidently many good foreign…

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When I visit the Cinefamily, I know I’m in for a treat and often a rare find. As a lot of their programming is a bit on the disturbing side however, I was pretty curious to see what their children’s show might look like (and yes, I took a chance and brought children along) so I went to see The Enchanted World of Children’s Animation Sunday as part of the Masters of Polish Animation series. Presented by the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Cinefamily, the series boasted a few gems of Polish animation and stop-motion, all shorts produced…

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Life Without Principle (Dyut Ming Gam), the new film by the contemporary maestro of Hong Kongese action cinema Johnnie To, will be presented in its world premiere in Competition at the upcoming 68th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st to September 10th) directed by Marco Müller and organized by la Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta. Life Without Principle is the 22nd film announced in the Competition section Venezia 68, to which a surprise film will be added. Life Without Principle marks Johnnie To’s return in Competition at Venice four years after The Mad Detective (2007) and the earlier Exiled…

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This Wednesday, October 20 – 7:30 PM, another film from the RECENT BELGIAN CINEMA, Angel At Sea (2009), will be screened at American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre.The narrative feature debut of documentarian Frédéric Dumont’s “Angel At Sea” is an adept study of the emotional abuse a child suffers when enmeshed with a parent. French bureaucrat Bruno (Olivier Gourmet) oversees an international food program in Morocco. The program is failing and manic-depressive Bruno walls himself off in his room. Calling his 12-year old son Louis (Martin Nissen) in from a football game, he shares a toxic secret: he plans to suicide. Louis’s…

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Burbank, CA, October 23 – Cinema Without Borders proudly welcomes ELMA (European Languages and Movies in America) as its partner in bringing information on European Cinema to fans in the United States.“European Cinema in U.S.” – A new section found in Cinema Without Borders- includes cinema-related news, festival reports, film reviews, and interviews. As ELMA leads other organizations in sponsoring European Cinema events in Los Angeles, CWB will extensively cover such events. ELMA’s sponsorship of “NOW SHOWING: European Films in the U.S.” enables CWB to offer previously inaccessible information. Fans can now find out when European films will be shown…

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John C. Martin II, VP of Product Marketing, leads Reallusion’s award-winning CrazyTalk and iClone Studio. A founding member of Reallusion USA, John represents Reallusion’s brands and the continued development of evermore accessible filmmaking technology. John’s role as spokesperson for Reallusion connects audiences with demonstrations of Reallusion’s real-time filmmaking software that’s fueling the frenzy of user-generated video content on the web.John specializes in emerging media and social networks including Machinima and virtual worlds. He recognizes the vast potential to use virtual worlds and real-time game and animation engines to unite technology with the new era of digital storytelling and social interaction.…

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At the 45th Karlovy Vary IFF 2010, the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema will be presented to director Juraj Herz, a filmmaker who has shot over 25 feature films in his career, many of which were awarded at prestigious festivals. Juraj Herz entered the world of Czech filmmaking in the opportune 1960s. He graduated in photography from Bratislava’s School of Applied Arts, and in direction from the puppeteering department of Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts. He debuted in 1965 with the medium-length film The Junk Shop (SbÄ›rné surovosti) based on a work by Bohumil Hrabal. In…

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In September 2007, more than 100,000 Burmese citizens – including thousands of Buddhist monks – took to the streets of Rangoon to protest the repressive regime that has held them hostage for more than 40 years. Although foreign news crews were banned from entering the country and the Internet was shut down, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a collective of anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs), recorded these historic events on handycams at great risk to themselves and smuggled the footage out of the country, to be broadcast worldwide via satellite.Anders Østergaard’s documentary BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED…

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DALLAS, TX, April 16, 2010 – At the first “Dallas Film Society Honors” presented by the Gail L. and Arthur E. Benjamin Foundation awards event in the four-year history of the DALLAS International Film Festival, Ryan Piers Williams’ THE DRY LAND was announced as the winner of the unrestricted $25,000 cash prize for the Target Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature and Lucy Walker’s WASTE LAND received the unrestricted $25,000 cash prize for the Target Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary Feature. The Documentary competition jury also gave a Special Jury Prize to Michael Pertnoy’s and Michael Kleiman’s THE LAST SURVIVOR…

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