Burbank, CA – January 4, 2016: Today, Cinema Without Borders has announced jury members and the seven nominees for HP’s Bridging The Borders Award at 2017 Palm Springs International Film Festival selected by Palm Springs International Film Festival Programers. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2017 Palm Springs International Film Festival will be given to the most successful film in bringing the people of our world closer together. Cinema Without Borders’ jury members to decide the 2017 winner of the HP Bridging The Borders Award are: Susan Morgan Cooper Susan Morgan Cooper is a Director/Producer/ Writer and her credits…
Author: Sara Tehrani
East Los Angeles College, Cinema Without Borders and the Polish Film Festival Los Angeles are proud to present the Polish Animation Night Festival, the first of the annual East Los Angeles College International Animation Day Festival. The goal of the ELAC World Animation Nights Festival is to give an in-depth and entertaining introduction to contemporary international animation. Screenings of short animated films from around the world, analyses and Q&A’s with a panel of well-known animation experts, and a tribute to an international animation artist working in the U.S. animation industry are all part of the festival program. An exhibition of…
Chinese director Wong Kar Wai will be the Jury President of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The other members of the International Jury will be Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen, Ellen Kuras, Shirin Neshat, Tim Robbins and Athina Rachel Tsangari.Wong Kar Wai (Jury President)Chinese director Wong Kar Wai has won many international awards and is one of the most important representatives of world cinema. His unique and extraordinary style has inspired countless filmmakers and made him a cult figure of contemporary auteur cinema. He made his directorial debut in 1988 with As Tears Go By. In 1994, he achieved his…
PALM SPRINGS, CA –The 2012 Palm Springs International ShortFest, the largest short film festival and market in North America, announced its Festival award winners on Sunday, June 24, 2012. 324 short films screened throughout the Festival along with more than 3,000 filmmaker submissions available in the film market. A total of $118,800 in prizes, including $16,000 in cash awards, were awarded in 20 categories. Held from June 19-25, 2012, the Festival had another record-breaking year in attendance for ticket buyers, filmmakers and film industry delegates.Darryl Macdonald, ShortFest Programming and Executive Director, said, “It’s been a great year for ShortFest, with…
Palm Springs – June 24, 2012 – Today at the Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival, Cinema Without Borders jury members voted Road to Peshawar, from USA, directed by Hammad Rizvi, as winner of the Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award. The CWB Jury also picked Dura Lex from Belgium, directed by Anke Blondé, as the runner up. The award ceremony for the 2012 Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival was held at Camelot Theatre and Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders presented The Bridging The Borders Award to Hammad Rizvi director of Road to Peshawar.…
Every year at the Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival and Market, Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award goes to a short film that helps to bring people of the world and different cultures closer together. In 2012 the winner of Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award will receive a certificate for an upcoming Method Acting Intensive with a value of $2000 from Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. The seven nominees for the 2012 CWB’s Bridging The Borders Award are Asad (South Africa), Buzkashi Boys (Afghanistan), Dura Lex (Belgium), The Other Side (Israel), Poetry Of Resilience (USA),…
Tonight Academy Awards announced the Danish film, In A Better World, directed by Susan Bier, as the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Award. Susan Bier, director of In A Better World received the OSCAR from Russel Brand and Helem Murray. In a Better World is the story of Anton (Mikael Persbrandt) a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and…
For the last time this year, the stars and prominent guests of the festival were lit up by the paparazzi flashes on the Red Carpet in front of the Berlinale Palast. Together with millions of TV viewers, everyone anxiously awaited the decision of the International Jury. After the presentation of the Bears for the Best Short Film, the awarding of the Silver Bears and the Alfred-Bauer-Award, the final moment came. Isabella Rossellini, as the president of the International Jury, announced the decision she and her fellow jurors had arrived at: The winner of the 2011 Golden Bear is Jodaeiye Nader…
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…
Academy Awards has announced the five nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film Award. In A Better World from Denmark is among the five nominees after winning the Golden Globe Award. The five films with a chance of winning an Oscar are: Biutiful, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, from Mexico. Dogtooth, directed by Giorgos Lanthimos from Greece, In A Better World, directed by Susan Bier from Denmark, Incendies, directed by Denis Villeneueve from Canada and Outside the Law directed by Rachid Bouchareb from Algeria. Biutiful: (Mexico, a film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) this is a story of a man in…