Alen Drljevic’s “Men Don’t Cry,” which won the special jury prize at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival last month and The young audience award at Sarajevo International Film Festival, has now been selected as Bosnia-Herzegovina’s official candidate for the foreign-language Oscar. The ensemble film, which is released domestically in September, tells the story of a diverse group of veterans of the Balkan wars who gather at a remote mountain hotel to undergo therapy. Bosnia previously won the best foreign-language film Academy Award for Danis Tanovic’s 2001 film “No Man’s Land.” The film secured Bosnia’s only nomination in the category…
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Inspired by the true life story of some homeless people, “Vaya” follows the story of three strangers, who board the train bound for Johannesburg, each on their own mission, with a simple task to complete and in search of a family to help them. “Vaya” recently earned Omotoso the best director win at the 2017 African Movie Academy Awards. He was nominated alongside Daouda Coulibaly, Steve Gukas, Mira Nair, Izu Ojukwu, Daryen Joshua, Alain Gomis, Ala Eddine Slim and Said Khallaf. Receiving the award, Omotoso revealed that it took the scriptwriters six years to complete the script. He also added that the movie was written…
Taking a film from script paper to celluloid (or DCT formatting), from pre-production to post-production, the journey is often described as a life-changing, enlightening and harrowing ordeal. After it leaves the hands of film editors, sound engineers and music supervisors, ideally, it makes it to the big screen. But before a film can be seen by an audience, there comes matters of marketing, distribution and sales. In an ongoing campaign to educate local film-makers about the intricacies of the international film industry, JAMPRO recently coordinated a workshop titled ‘International Film Business: Marketing Sales and Distribution’, where they invited international film…
Once upon a time, the Toronto International Film Festival was about showing movies. It’s time for a reboot. “Our main product used to be film,” it says in a new five-year strategic plan, presented this week to TIFF board members. “Now, our main service must be transformative experiences through film.” Used to be film? Isn’t that like the Toronto Blue Jays saying their main product used to be baseball? What this means, say TIFF’s director/CEO Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey, is that in a diverse world rapidly moving online, it’s no longer enough to simply show movies at…
Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival held in Pennsylvania, US, will showcase three feature films by Iranian directors including ‘Kupal’, ‘Lantouri’, and ‘Inversion’. ‘Kupal’ directed by Kazem Mollaei, ‘Lantouri’ directed by Reza Dormishian, and ‘Inversion’ directed by Behnam Behzadi have been accepted into the main competition section of the 12th edition of Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival in Pennsylvania, US. The 10-day Asian Film Festival will showcase over 25 feature-length films from 15 countries including from India, Japan, China, Turkey, Lebanon, South Korea, Iraq, Philippines, and Iran. ‘Kupal’ is the story of a hunter and taxidermist who accidentally traps himself…
Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk raised questions recently about the erasure of India from the war effort – any portrayal of Indian soldiers or reference to their contribution was noticeably absent. But even in India, the country’s role in the conflict tends to be overshadowed by the major events of the Indian independence movement that coincided with the war years. Within this larger conversation about cultural retellings of the war, it is important to look at the how India’s own film industry responded and how it was filtering the stories of the war through the prism of cinema. Editorials in film magazines such as The Mirror rallied the public…
Tonight 23rd Sarajevo International Film Festival announced the award winners: COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM Jury: Michel Franco, Director, Writer, Producer (President of the Jury, Mexico) Members of the Jury: Mark Adams, Artistic Director of EIFF (UK) Goran Bogdan, Actor (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia) Fatma Al Remaihi, CEO of Doha Film Institute (Qatar) Melisa Sözen, Actress (Turkey) HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM SCARY MOTHER / SASHISHI DEDA Georgia, Estonia Director: Ana Urushadze Producer: Lasha Khalvashi Financial Award, in the amount of 16.000 €. HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DIRECTOR EMANUEL PÂRVU MEDA OR THE NOT SO BRIGHT SIDE…
A documentary about Russian President Vladimir Putin by Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, ‘The Putin Interviews,’ has won the audience award at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Stone also received an honorary award for his contribution to the film industry. “Film fans of the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival have spoken – the Audience Award goes to …Documentary Film: The Putin Interviews,” the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) said in a statement on its website. Stone also received an Honorary Heart of Sarajevo for his contribution to the art of film, the festival added. The award honors individuals “for exceptional contribution to the affirmation…
The film looks at today’s massive global migration issue and examines both the staggering scale and scope of the refugee emergency and its profound personal human impact. Filmed in 23 countries over the course of more than a year, Human Flow captures the current condition of more than 65 million forcibly displaced individuals, who fled their homes in search of new lives. Weiwei produces with Chin-chin Yap and Heino Deckert. Andy Cohen of AC Films and Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann are exec producers. https://youtu.be/pbjLm20ozC0 Altitude is eyeing an early 2018 release in the UK and Ireland, which will be…
FEW technologies capture the imagination like virtual reality does—the technology has brought immersive experiences to the silver screen, and transformed the boundaries of what film can do. Virtual reality (VR) has always been inextricably attached to film, as both are interested in new forms of storytelling, and creatives everywhere are beginning to pay serious attention. When exactly VR began to pick up speed is hard to pinpoint, but the increasing affordability of VR equipment and headsets has definitely had an effect. What was once considered a fringe form of filmmaking has burst into the mainstream, and some analysts estimate the…