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The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) today announced its jurors – a diverse and talented group of 35 individuals, including award-winning filmmakers and screenwriters, celebrated actors, respected journalists and media pioneers. They will be divided among the six competitive Festival categories and will announce the winning films, filmmakers and actors in those categories at the TFF Awards Night Party on April 29. The 2010 Festival runs from April 21 – May 2. Following is a list of all 2010 Festival jurors and their respective categories. World Competition Categories:The jurors for the 2010 World Narrative Competition are:Hope Davis: Golden Globe nominated, Emmy…

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Burbank, California, April 14 – Cinema Without Borders announced that Alan Dunn, a CWB film writer, will be running Cinema Without Borders’ BLOGS as CWB BLOGS Editor.“We had been lucky to have such a great writer as our Blogs Editor. Alan Dunn BLOGS has interesting and challenging subjects and he has a very good understanding about what film related Blogs should be. Alan’s love for international cinema and BLOGS medium makes him a unique blog editor” Says Bijan Tehrani, Editor In Chief of Cinema Without Borders. Alan will also act as Cinema Without Borders representative in UK.Alan Dunn, Cinema Without…

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The Museum of Modern Art marks its 31st annual survey of recent German cinema with Kino! 2010: New Films from Germany, from April 21 through 30, 2010. Included in this year’s exhibition is a selection of 10 features and 14 short films. Features by three leading directors—Andreas Dresen (Whisky with Vodka, 2009), Hans-Christian Schmid (Wondrous World of Laundry, 2009), and Margarethe von Trotta (Vision, 2009)—are highlights of the exhibition. Making their debuts at Kino! 2010 are filmmakers Susanne Schneider with The Day will Come (2009), and Jan Raiber, whose autobiographical documentary All My Fathers (2010) premiered at the Berlin Film…

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Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY), a highly anticipated cultural event, now in its 11th year, will once again showcase classics and premiere award-winning cinema with over 40 films from 13 countries, and provide stimulating audience/artist dialogue with panel discussions, workshops, and Q&A; sessions with international filmmakers, actors, and producers. On April 16th, HFFNY begins with the New York Premiere of the Brazilian film, Veronica, at 1 pm at the Quad Cinema, the festival’s primary screening venue. The Opening Night Ceremony will feature the New York premiere of Los Dioses Rotos, the box office sensation and award-winning film by Cuban…

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This Spring SEE Fest is proudly celebrating its 5th year at its home base, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, GILA. The connection with GILA was a fruitful one and provided the right venue for the festival. Under its elegant roof the filmmakers from the troubled Balkans and ethnically diverse festival audiences found a place to tell their stories and be heard, to meet people they would not meet otherwise and to discover how much they all have in common. SEE FEST brings two wonderful projects this year as part of the new section, SEE Fest Youth Program. One is Transitland, a…

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DALLAS, TX, March 18, 2010 – DALLAS International Film Festival announced it will take over all eight screens of the Angelika Film Center for a Opening Night Celebration that will showcase multiple films and highlighting the great diversity (narrative, documentary, Texas made, classic Mexican cinema, shorts, etc.) within the program this year. 1,600 Dallas film goers will participate in the festivities and see featured films including BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK, MULTIPLE SARCASMS, NOSOTROS LOS POBRES, SKATELAND and a special Shorts block. In addition, the Festival announced a Super Saturday lineup of films packed with four world premieres, including HOLD, SIN…

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New York, NY- The 13th annual New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival held its Awards Ceremony yesterday at The Times Center, with awards presentations, screenings of the winning short films, and a gala reception.In the Attic from Czech stop-motion legend Jiri Barta took the festival’s top prize, the NYICFF 2010 Grand Prize Feature, an audience award selected by audience members age 18 and under. The film is a diabolically inventive stop-motion tale, four parts Toy Story and one part David Lynch, about a group of abandoned toys who stage an ambitious rescue of their kidnapped friend. Jiri Barta was on…

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Not sure how Lewis Carroll would feel about this one.Well in “Alice in Wonderland” costumes are splendid; acting: exquisite and cast: very well suited. Helena Bonham Carter plays a perfectly dry Queen of Hearts, impatient and brainless as a card; Johnny Depp a perfectly mad Mad Hatter; Mia Wasikowska a charming and strong-willed Alice (though a bit too Hollywoodized). The characters are greatly conceived: the White Rabbit, the flowers, the fish and frog and pig and monkey servants, all the animals, the Cheschire cat are all delightful. The sets bear Burton’s ever-so creative signature. Lewis Carroll’s mad world is wonderfully…

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The 39th annual edition of New Directors/New Films, the longstanding collaboration between The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art dedicated to the discovery of new work by emerging filmmakers, will screen 38 films, at both venues, from March 24 through April 4, 2010. The 2010 slate includes a wide variety of films from 20 countries, including 27 feature films and 11 shorts, with numerous appearances and introductions by filmmakers. The opening night feature of this year’s New Directors/New Films is the world premiere of Bill Cunningham New York (USA, 2010) on Wednesday, March 24, at…

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Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated psycho-thriller SHUTTER ISLAND, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams and Patricia Clarkson, lived up to its hype during the second day of the Berlin Film Festival, with the press conference mobbed by hundreds of press folk from over 40 countries. CWB international editor James Ulmer and lead reporter Tanja Meding were there to catch the confusion on their portable Flip HD video camera, and managed to squeeze their way in to the entrance of the jam-packed conference without even scoring a seat ( no surprise, given the shoebox-sized conference room) .That’s what happens…

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