Born in Damascus in 1977, raised in Syria and Iraq, Diana El-Jeiroudi graduated from the University of Damascus with a degree in English literature. With a group of dynamic filmmakers, actors and producers, she started Proaction Films, the only independent film production outfit in Syria operating today, where she works in production. “Dolls” is her debut feature documentary, which is going to have its first public release later this year.“Dolls” explores the phenomenon of the Fulla Doll that has become the dream of every Arab girl kid in the Middle East at the moment. Fulla is the veiled version of…
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Shohreh Jandaghian: Please tell about yourself and how you became the director of “Lola Kenya Screen”?Ogova Ondego (Director of “Lola Kenya Screen”): Perhaps the best way to describe myself is that I am a practitioner in the field of arts, culture, and development. I publish ArtMatters.Info, the premier critical website covering arts, culture and lifestyle in eastern and southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. I am the founder and director of the ArtMatters.Info Critics Guild that works with arts and culture journalists in eastern and southern Africa, and founder and creative director of Lola Kenya Screen, the annual international…
When it’s raining in Prague on a Sunday afternoon, then best you could do is going to see a movie. That is how I decided to see Milos Forman’s Goya‘s Ghosts, and I also invited myself for a coffee ina cosy coffee shop near the theater, where it is easy to sit and talk about the movie. But I had no idea what was waiting for me. I spent the next two hours in a whirlwind of beautiful images and horrible scenes that made me run home and right in bed… but the sleep didn‘t come. I saw many of…
A special collector’s edition of The Raft (Das Floß), one of the most awarded short films in the last two years, is now available on DVD. It contains more than 60 minutes bonus materials including limited original 35mm film frame. The film story is about two starved and exhausted castaways who are lost at sea. A seagull drops a fish to their raft and that is the moment to see what the real friendship is! The pre-production of the film took months due to camera tests, puppet construction, studio preparation and so on. The shooting itself took about six months…
“Do We Accept the Truth” a project first time introduced as a Project in The Studio section of Cinema Without Borders takes a big step towards complition. “Do We Accept the Truth” a short film project by Alexis Dias has received the Central Board of Film Certificate from the Government of India. The CBFC, popularly known as Censor Board is a quasi-judicial body coming under the control of the Govt. of India. Once a film is certified, the exhibition of the film in the cinema halls comes under the purview of the respective State Government. Good Luck, Alex!
Last week I saw “Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále”, “I Served The King of England“ in a film club in the heart of Prague. The film is directed by JiÅ™í Menzel and the impression that it evoked in me was a mixture of amazement, nostalgia, and happiness. I was glad I didn t miss it. Scenes in the film brought back the world from the beginning of the 20th century that promised so much and opened the gates of the modern age and then produced two great tragedies. On the background of art nouveau, where everyday life has its grace and…
Harutyun Khachatryan was born in Georgia in 1955 where he completed his film studies. He worked as director and directing assistant and is now head of the documentary department of the Hayfilm/Armenfilm Studios. Previous films include Voices from our Neighbourhood (1981, short), Chronicles of an Event (1985, short), A Visit With the Commander (1986), Three Rounds in Yengibarian’s Life (1986, short), Kond (1987, short), White Town (1989, short), The Wind of Emptiness (1990), Return to the Promised Land (1992), Verchin gayan / The Last Station (1994), Documentarist (2003), Poeti veradrdze/Return of the poet (2005). Shohreh Jandaghian – Could you please…
An interview with David Abdaladze. Chairman of “Kino Plus”. The Georgian film Producer’s Center David Abdaladze finished his studies in film production at Moscow state institute of cinematography in 1989 and a year later he founded Georgian-British film-centre “Moon globe”. He was the first person to organise a film market in the former Soviet Union territory – the Tbilisi Film Market. He is also the author of “Georgian film Encyclopaedia” which its last part will be published in 2008 at the same time that the 100 year anniversary of Georgian cinema will be celebrated. Shohreh Jandaghian – You are the founder…
Shohreh Jandaghian – Please tell us a bit about yourself, the origins of the Festival and how it came about? Orlow Seunke -There’s not much to tell about myself. I am Dutch and I live for four years in Jakarta and I am the director of the Jakarta International Film Festival (JiFFest) for three years. Shohreh – How did you become the director of the Jakarta International Film Festival? Orlow -Shanty Harmayn and Natacha Devillers started the festival. After 5 years Shanty was tired and almost felt burned out because it was close to impossible to finance the festival. She wanted…
NY-based Animator and Art Director In 1999 Zartosht Soltani graduated from Fine Arts at Azad University of Arts at Tehran. One year later he moved to New York where he is now working as art director and illustrator for an animation studio called FlickerLab. There he works on different projects such as cartoons, TV commercials and broadcast design. Shohreh Jandaghian- What is your educational background and what prompted you to move into a career in animation? Zartosht Soltani- I started painting back home in Iran when I was a kid about 8 or 9… but I was always into animation…