David Lee Strasberg serves as Creative Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles and New York. The world famous Institute was founded by Lee and Anna Strasberg in 1969 and serves as an international center for training method actors. The Institute also features the new Lee Strasberg Digital Film School that nurtures the personal visions and skills of new directors.Strasberg has produced short films and dozens of plays with The Group at Strasberg, an in-house production company based at the not-for-profit Lee Strasberg Creative Center in Los Angeles. Before taking the reigns of the…
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Ryo Nagasawa Program Officer, of Japan Society Film Program was Born in 1979 in Yamagata, Japan and she grew up in a family-owned movie theater business in northern Japan. Ryo moved to US in 1998 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Purchase College, State University of New York in 2004.In 2004 and 2005 Ryo Nagasawa worked on two film series, Critic’s Choice: Susan Sontag on Japanese Film, Part II and Otaku Cinema Slam!. She has also worked as a film coordinator on After War, Hiroshi Sugimoto Film Series: The Moving Image of Modern Art and Against…
Cinema Without Borders: Your performance playing Pope in The Pope, The Man is magical, how did you achieve such a difficult task?Piotr Adamczyk: It is so difficult to explain how. I was asking for a miracle, and I have been given many miracles I was 35 years old when I got this offer to depict his whole life his youth, and the last moments of the life of the holy father. I didn’t think it was possible, I remember the, and who knew him personally. He has the great gift that even in a moment I met the Holy Father,…
PhDr. Julietta Zacharová studied German and English languages and American literature at the University of Salzburg, Austria. After moving back to her hometown, Prague, she studied film history and theory at the Faculty of Philosophy. She graduated from the Charles University with a Doctor Degree. In her final diploma work, entitled Cinematography and the State: To the Genesis of the Cinematographical Legislation until the Year 1918, she concentrated on early history of cinema in Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, focusing on the first laws applied to film business. She cooperated with Prague National Film Archive on several research projects that where dealing with…
Richard Raddon joined the .Los Angeles Film Festival as its Festival Director in 2000. Since that time, the Festival has grown from a 5 day event with an attendance of 22,000 to a nationally recognized 10 event in June with an audience of over 100,000 visitors. Before joining the Los Angeles Film Festival, Mr. Raddon worked as an independent producer, his credits include: A Slipping Down Life, starring Guy Pearce, Lily Taylor, and Bruno Kirby, which premiered in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Lions Gate; Shooting Lily, which garnered the grand prize at the…
Cinema Without Borders:What is new in 2007 TREMBLANT FILM FESTIVAL, any new events or categories?<br>Tremblant Film Festival: Two new additions should be highlighted for the second edition of the Tremblant Film Festival.The first one allows us to program events outside the Tremblant resort. We are now partnering with the City of Mont Tremblant and have scheduled screenings at the ‘’Parc au Fil de l’eau’’. This partnership is important to us: it allows us to reach out to an even greater audience and include the inhabitants of the Laurentian region, who may not necessarily attend the resort events. Our intention is…
La Vie En Rose is a biopic of the late, great French singer Edith Piaf. Set in both France and America, the film begins with Edith collapsing on stage as she is performing in New York City. From there the film flashes back and forth on Piaf’s tumultuous life, from her unorthodox upbringing to her rise and ultimately her downfall and untimely death. Oliver Dahan’s La Vie En Rose is not the best film ever made of its genre yet, Dahan does do a worthy attempt at putting the life of Edith Piaf on the big screen. Like many biopic…
Film restorer, historian, and producer, <b>Serge Bromberg</b> founded Lobster Films—the renowned Paris based production and distribution company—22 years ago. Bromberg has shown his talents as a TV host, pianist for silent films, and a member of the board of the Cinemathèque Française, and—in 1999—he became Artistic Director of the <b>Annecy International Animation Film Festival.</b> Bijan Tehrani: Please tell us about the history of Annecy International Animated Film Festival.Serge Bromberg: The Annecy Festival took place for the first time in 1960, but it was held every other year for quite a while. Now it’s an annual festival, and this year is…
Irene Kotlarz, founding director of the PLATFORM International Animation Festival, is launching the newest and most ambitious animation festival in the U.S. PLATFORM will focus on establishing an environment for innovative animators and filmmakers to showcase their artistry and creativity through a dynamic art form that has experienced exponential growth in the global market. Over the last two decades, Irene has been very influential in the animation industry, holding high level executive positions in a number of premier animation festivals, while also writing and producing in the field.Irene became interested in animation while teaching art history at Surrey Institute of…
A Monaco national, <b>David Tomatis</b> was a government officer in the Finance Minister’s Office in Monaco from 1988 until April 1996. During this time he was also the Executive Vice President of the Sportel Organisation. He became Deputy Secretary General of the <b>Monte-Carlo TV Festival</b> in April 1996. From January 2002 David became Chief Executive Officer of Monaco Mediax organisers of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Imagina, SportelMonaco, SportelAmerica, SportelAsia, WIMA and the Monaco Media Forum.Bijan Tehrani: Please tell us about the history of Monte Carlo Festival David Tomatis: This year will see the 47th edition of the Monte Carlo Television…