Celebrated actor from the former Yugoslavia and well known character actor in the USA, Rade Serbedzija (Shooter, Saint, Macedonian Oscar-nominated Before the Rain, recurring guest star in TV’s 24, with other memorable roles in features such as Eyes Wide Shut, MI2, Snatch, Batman Begins, Broken English, to name just a few) officially opened the South East European Film Festival 2007 this week in Los Angeles. He was joined by Hettie Lynne Hurtes, KPCC radio personality, who served as the celebrity MC. Other guests included the Honorable Ivo Mouskourov, Consul General of Bulgaria, the Honorable Catalin Ghenea, Consul General of Romania,…
Author: Admin
Burbank, California, May 6st 2007 – Today Dragon Tale Entertainment announced that its publication “Cinema Without Borders” would be giving an Award for the Best Film at the 2007 South East European Film Festival, held in Los Angeles. The ‘Cinema Without Borders Critics Choice Award’ will be given by a jury of the magazine’s critics: Tobe A. Roberts, Jim Davis, Rosa Laura Lucherino and Bijan Tehrani. “We are proud to be able to support international film community by covering stories about filmmakers and movies from around the world” says Dr. Mehdi Hatamian co-founder of Dragon Tale Entertainment and publisher of…
The South East European Film Festival 2007 opens today at Goethe Institute, Los Angeles.The South East European Film Festival 2007 showcases the work of filmmakers from Southern and Eastern Europe, and films made by expatriates who live California. The box office Bulgarian hit “L’s Rebellion,” opens the festival, with Romanian Oscar entry “The Way I Spent the End of the World.” Rade Serbedzija, celebrated actor from the former Yugoslavia & well known character actor in the USA (Battle in Seattle, Shooter, and recurring in 24) is the official celebrity opening the festival. Hettie Lynne Hurtes, KPCC radio personality, is celebrity…
2007 marks the Archive’s 17th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema, now in its home at the Billy Wilder Theater in the heart of Westwood’s “Tehrangles.” This year’s offerings feature a greater number of films than ever before, including 13 films from Iran and the diaspora. Featured in the series this year are works by established filmmakers whose films we have showcased in the past (Bahman Farmanara and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad) and works by emerging directors. Also included are five new documentaries that illuminate Iranian life, art, and popular culture. Some of this year’s themes include male bonding and friendship, emigration, censorship,…
The Vietnamese-American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and the VietNamese Language and Culture (VNLC) at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will present the 3rd biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF). April 12 – 15 & 19 – 22, 2007 Screening Locations: University of California, Irvine (UCI)’s Film & Video Center with selected screenings and panel discussions at UCLA and in Westminster, California. Opening Night will be at the Edwards University Cinema 6, Irvine. For complete program schedule, please visit http://www.vietfilmfest.com/home/home.htm . Tickets are available online and Tu Quynh Book Store (714) 531-4284 OPENING NIGHT – Thursday, April 12, 2007 at…
Color Me Kubrick is a film based on the true story of Alan Conway, a con artist who in the 1990’s fooled many by passing himself off as the great director Stanley Kubrick. The film first introduces Alan Conway (John Malkovich) as an eccentric, middle aged man residing in a small apartment in the United Kingdom. From the beginning two things are clear; the first being that Conway uses Stanley Kubrick’s celebrity to, ironically feel as if he, himself were famous. The second is that by doing this he is able to scam people by feigning to help them with…
The April 17th session of the Animation 21 Lecture Series is dedicated to two presentations: Character Design and 2D Animation & Game Development. In the first session, Phil Mendez will demonstrate the techniques and essentials of character design. Phil Mendez started the comic strip in the Mercury Shopper’s Guide at the age of sixteen; he was hired by Dancer – Fitzgerald – Sample at the age of eighteen as an assistant art director on the General Mills account; he freelanced on comic books in 1966 for Charlton Press and DC Comics; and worked as a storyboard artist, head designer and…
Offside is a humorous and socially aware film that exposes what many female football aficionados do in Iran in order to attend the sport events of which they are not permitted into. The film is directed by Jafar Panahi and it tells the story of a group of six women who are caught sneaking into the Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to see the football match that will either qualify or eliminate Iran from participating in the Germany 2006 World Cup. Although there are women who are well familiarized with the process of deceiving security and entering these sport events without being…
The Polish American Film Society has announced that the eighth annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles will be held under the auspices of the First Lady of the Republic of Poland, Madam Maria Kaczynska. The First Lady will be attending the festival to celebrate the achievement of Polish filmmakers from April 26 – May 3, 2007. On April 26, 2007 the Polish Film Festival Los Angeles will launch its eighth annual, week-long event with an Opening Night Gala at the prestigious Directors Guild of America. We are thrilled to announce that acclaimed director David Lynch will join us at the…
After screening 85 films from 32 countries over nine days, the 10th annual Bermuda International Film Festival, which ran March 16-24, 2007, drew to a close on Saturday night. Following a screening of the closing film “Eagle vs. Shark,” the first film by Kiwi stand-up comedian Taika Waititi, winners of the juried prizes and the audience award were announced during the closing night festivities. The Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for Best Narrative Feature was chosen by jurors writer/actor Carrie Fisher and actor/director/producer Richard Dreyfuss. A tie was announced and the two films sharing the title were Dror Shaul’s “Sweet Mud”…