This year’s edition of the Archive’s celebration of Iranian Cinema presents an array of established and emerging talents. Six recent features combine with timely documentaries and shorts to present a varied picture of Iran’s diverse cultures, experiences and expressions. Directors Shalizeh Arefpour, Khosro Masoumi and Mahdi Moniri; and actress Gohar Kheirandish will attend the events.Friday, February 5 7:30 p.m. 20th Annual Celebration of Iranian CinemaHEIRAN Iran, 2009PROD: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. DIR: Shalizeh Arefpour. SCR: S. Arefpour, Naghmeh Samini. CINE: Hossein Jafarian. EDIT: Sepideh Abdolvahab. CAST: Baran Kosari, Mehrdad Sedighian, Khosro Shakibaei, Farhad Aslani, Zhahleh Sameti.When Iranian high school student Mahi falls…
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Letters To Father Jacob has been announced as winner of four JUSSI awards at the 2010 Finnish Film Awards Gala. Lasse Saarinen and Rimbo Salomaa producers of the Letters To Father Jacob received Jussi for the Best Picture and Klaus Haro won Jussi for Best Director for directing this film. Those that admired the performance of the Heikki Nousiainen as Father Jacob will appreciate the Jussi award he received for Best actor. Dani Strömbäck, composer of the Letters To Father Jacob, was also announced as the winner for the Best Music of the year. Letters to Father Jacob prior to…
Park City, UT-The Jury, Audience, NEXT, and other special award-winners of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival were announced at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony hosted by David Hyde Pierce (star of The Perfect Host which premiered in this year’s Park City at Midnight section) in Park City, Utah. Highlights from the Awards Ceremony can be seen on the Festival website, www.sundance.org/festival.Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from four categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. All films in competition were also eligible for Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards as selected by Festival…
From February 19–24, BAMcinématek, in collaboration with the African Diaspora Film Festival, presents The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival. This six-day series showcases eighteen films that enjoyed popular acclaim during the seventeenth annual African Diaspora Film Festival (ADFF). With a variety of dramatic and documentary films from around the globe, the series spotlights the diversity of filmmaking in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora.This year’s The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival brings together films from countries including Nigeria, Jamaica, South Africa, Bolivia, Cuba, Senegal, Martinique, Egypt, and the U.S. Of the dramatic features, highlights include ADFF…
To announce the nine films of its Best Foreign Language Movie Award, the members of the Academy had to select six films, with an additional three selected by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, from the 65 films submitted by 65 countries.The nine films selected for the Best Foreign Language Movie Award are: El Secreto de Sus Ojus (Argentina, director Juan Jose Campanella)Samson & Delilah (Australia, director Warwick Thornton)The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (Bulgaria, director Stephan Komandarev)A Prophet (France, director Jacques Audiard)The White Ribbon (Germany, director Michael Haneke)Ajami (Israel, directors Scandar Copti and…
Contrary to its tag line “Some cries are never heard”, A CRY WITHIN, a film written and directed by Frances Lozada, is one that speaks volumes. Lozada, who also stars in the short-subject with Franky G (The Italian Job, Jonny Zero), takes an emotional look at the hidden torment gay men and women face when coming to terms with their sexuality.Diore (G) and Clara (Lozada) are strangers, but are strongly connected by their own inner turmoil. Familial and societal pressures force them to suppress their sexual identity (Clara’s mother prays passionately for God to send her a good man, and…
Palm Springs, CA (January 17, 2010) –The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival announced this year’s award winners at a luncheon at Spencer’s Restaurant on Sunday, January 17, 2010. The Festival, held from January 5-18, 2010, screened 189 films from 70 countries, including 40 of the 65 foreign language entries for this year’s Academy Awards. Palm Springs’ increasingly popular Festival continues to expand its diverse programming of quality independent and foreign films, setting the stage for the year’s film festival circuit. Festival Director Darryl Macdonald added, “Record attendance, supremely smooth operations and enormously positive audience and industry feedback made…
The Film Society of Lincoln Center, in association with the Dance Films Association, will present the 38th annual DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL from January 29th through February 2nd, celebrating the synergy of dance and film as conceived in innovative shorts and illuminating documentaries created world-wide. Dance on Camera Festival 2010 opens on Friday, January 29th with the U.S. Premiere of FORTY YEARS OF ONE NIGHT STANDS, Jeff McKay’s delightful history of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, preceded by KEEP DANCING, a World Premiere of a short film by Douglas Turnbaugh and Gregory Vander Veer about the symbiotic relationship between dance icons…
The Sydney Morning Herald: SAMSON & DELILAH triumphed at the Australian Film Industry Awards in Melbourne last night, winning best film, best direction and best original screenplay for writer-director Warwick Thornton. The $1.6 million film explores the problems facing remote Aboriginal communities. Its stars, Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson, both 14 at the time of filming, won the AFI young actor award.Balibo took out best actor for Anthony LaPaglia, best supporting actor for Oscar Isaac and best adapted screenplay for David Williamson and Robert Connolly. Frances O’Connor won the best actress award for her role in Blessed while Rachel Griffiths…
WMM is today announced that Natalia Almada, winner of the US Directing Award: Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for EL GENERAL, was awarded the 2009 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award at last week’s International Documentary Association awards in Los Angeles. This award honors emerging directors of non-fiction films. EL GENERAL has also been nominated for the Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit Award. Film Independent will be announcing the winners on March 5, 2010 in Los Angeles. In this extraordinary tour de force, Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited from her grandmother—reminiscences about Natalia’s great-grandfather General Plutarco…