Author: CWB News Department

CWB News Department, collects and republishes most important news and stories about International and Independent cinema, by noting the original source of the articles

New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival has announced the full slate for the 2011 edition, which runs March 4 to 27 at six New York locations. The nation’s largest festival for kids and teens will present four weeks of ground-breaking and thought-provoking new works for ages 3-18, with 100 new films, opening and closing galas, new feature premieres, six short films programs, filmmaker Q&As, filmmaking workshops, and the NYICFF Awards Ceremony.For the first time, NYICFF is an Oscar® – qualifying festival for short films. Additionally, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® is sponsoring the Festival’s Girls’ POV (Point…

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Burbank, CA, February 14, 2011—Cinema Without Borders, an independent publication dedicated to Independent and International Cinema, has declared Mitsubishi’s 73” Diamond Series HD 3DTV as the most ideal High Definition 3D display for film fans. The 2011 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, and HP (along with Adobe and Nvidia)—is bestowed upon Mitsubishi’s Large Screen 3D Display for excellence in providing an exceptional and encompassing experience for film lovers. “Our team of editors, reviewers and experts spent a great deal of time with Mitsubishi’s…

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Park City, UT–The Jury, Audience, NEXT! and other special award-winners of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony hosted by Tim Blake Nelson (star of Flypaper which premiered in this year’s Premieres 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 audiences. The U.S. Audience…

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With focus on the universal themes of revenge and love and the topical themes of the delinquency and desensitization of anguished youth, “Confessions” is a showcase for top Japanese stage, film and television actress Takako Matsu who plays the lead role of a middleschool teacher who accuses students in her class of murdering her young daughter. Following the disturbing accusation, the teacher avows that the students will pay for their actions for the rest of their lives; her ultimate revenge reaches the bottom depths of their already damaged psyches.Last week we interviewed Genki Kawamura, the producer of “Confessions”.Cinema Without Borders:…

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Park City, UT –The 2011 Sundance Film Festival this evening announced the jury prizes in shorts filmmaking and gave honorable mentions based on outstanding achievement and merit. The awards were presented at a ceremony held in Park City, Utah. These award recipients will also be honored at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony hosted by Sundance Alum Tim Blake Nelson on Saturday, January 29. The 2011 Short Film jurors are Barry Jenkins (director, writer, Medicine for Melancholy); Kim Morgan (Film and Culture writer, Sunset Gun, The Hitlist) and Sara Bernstein (Vice president, HBO Documentary films; supervising producer, Baghdad ER, White Light, Black Rain:…

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Santa Barbara, CA — The 26th Annual Santa Barbara Film Festival will honor the cast of THE KING’S SPEECH as the best motion picture ensemble of the year, it was announced today by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. The film, which features performances by an award-winning collection of actors including Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi and Claire Bloom, has garnered critical and industry-wide acclaim, recently winning the Producer’s Guild of America’s Best Picture of the Year Award. The honor will be bestowed on Monday, January 31 at Santa Barbara’s historic Arlington Theatre, as part of…

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New York – EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP, the self-tagged “world’s first street art disaster movie”, took the top award at the 2011 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York.The film, directed by the acclaimed and provocative British artist Banksy and produced by Jaimie D’Cruz, was named the year’s Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking. EXIT also won the Cinema Eye for Outstanding Editing for Chris King and Tom Fulford.Filmmaker Laura Poitras received the Outstanding Achievement in Direction award for her work on THE OATH, which follows the surprisingly…

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The 12th Annual Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. continues this weekend–Jan 15, 16 with twelve more “hot films from the cold North.” Drama, action, adventure, animation, a “jaw-dropping” documentary, and, even laughter! “Yes, there are Nordic comedies!” says Festival Founder/Director James Koenig. “While some Nordic films scratch the under-belly of human experience and tough subjects like incest, abuse, addiction, every possible trauma from diapers to dementia, others embrace the things that keep us human– love, laughter, loyalty, sex, and survival, andadrenalin packed adventure.”Saturday opens with the final exciting film from the Millennium Trilogy THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST. Koenig…

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This coming Saturday Jan 8 -there will be an screening of Mamma Gogo at the opening day of the 12th Annual Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. Momentum for veteran Icelandic Director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s MAMMA GOGO is mounting after a wonderful New York Times review put the film center stage in the race for Foreign Language Film nomination. The film finds the world of cinema converging with Alzheimer’s and the Icelandic economic collapse in a poignant and comic drama that engages cognitive and economic crisis in “pas de troi” with a film makers daily ups, downs, and dilemmas. Fridriksson received an…

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The 36th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards ceremony will be held Saturday, January 15 at the InterContinental, Los Angeles. As previously announced, Paul Mazursky will receive the 2010 Career Achievement Award.Award winners are:PICTURE: “The Social Network”. Runner-up: “Carlos”. DIRECTOR: Olivier Assayas, “Carlos,” and David Fincher, “The Social Network” (tie). ACTOR: Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech”.Runner-up: Edgar Ramirez, “Carlos”.ACTRESS: Kim Hye-ja, “Mother.”Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter’s Bone”.SUPPORTING ACTOR: Niels Arestrup, “A Prophet”.Runner-up: Geoffrey Rush, “The King’s Speech”.SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jacki Weaver, “Animal Kingdom”.Runner-up: Olivia Williams, “The Ghost Writer”.SCREENPLAY: Aaron Sorkin, “The Social Network”.Runner-up: David Seidler, “The King’s Speech”FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: “Carlos” Runner-up:…

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