If ever there was a film that needed to do well, ‘Cake’ is it. And not because it is a brilliant film made with great skill, but because its failure would be a sad indictment of the taste of Pakistani filmgoers. It would mean that years and years of bad cinema has dumbed the country’s viewers down to a level that they are unable to appreciate a genuinely original, technically sound and emotionally astute film. It would also mean that the celebration of resurgent Pakistani cinema has been miserably inconsequential. The Pakistani film industry and the resurgence of Pakistani cinema…
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East Los Angeles College, and Cinema and Without Borders are proud to present the Latin American Animation Day, the fourth edition of the annual East Los Angeles College International Animation Festival. The goal of the ELAC International Animation 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. Latin American Animation Day will be held on Saturday,…
Feras Fayyad will ask you to hold your hand up to your ear, rub your thumb across the pads of your fingers, then rub it against a more callused part of your hand. He will tell you to observe the soft friction and ask, “What does it sound like? How do the sounds change?” Fayyad has spent most of his adult life chronicling the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo—a result of the seven-year-long civil war that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is inflicting upon his own people. That incomprehensible devastation is the focus of Fayyad’s Last Men in Aleppo, nominated this…
This is an interview with director Maryam Goormaghtigh, who enthralled audiences in the ACID section at 2017 Cannes with her light comedy road movie Before Summer Ends, Cineuropa: You have Swiss, French and Belgian nationality (and have Iranian roots through your mother), you were born in Geneva and studied at the INSAS in Brussels. Does this mix of cultures influence your work as a filmmaker? Maryam Goormaghtigh: For this film I think it did yes, because I started working on it after wanting to reacquaint myself with Iranian culture, which I didn’t know a lot about. I was born and grew…
Palm Springs – January 13, 2018— Today, at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Cinema Without Borders named Ziad Doueiri’s The Insult as the winner of 2018 HP Bridging the Borders Award offered by Cinema Without Borders. The prize for HP Bridging The Borders Award is an HP ZBook 15, a $3000 value. The prize was provided and sponsored by HP. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival will be given to the most successful film in bringing the people of our world closer together. Neda Nobari, Founder and CEO of Neda Nobari Foundation, and Bijan…
19th edition of Scandinavian Film Festival, Los Angeles opens on Saturday January 6th and continues on January 7th, 20th and 21st. Here is the complete program of the festival for its first weekend: Saturday, January 6 12:00 pm Kayayo, the Living Shopping Baskets (documentary) (Norway), 2016, 32 minutes, Mari Bakke Riise In the capital of Ghana, 10,000 girls from the ages of 6 work as real life shopping baskets – called Kayayo, carrying heavy loads on their head (from 130 to 220 pounds), earning very little and some end up in prostitution to make ends meet. This documentary is about…
Burbank, CA – December 19th, 2017: Today, Cinema Without Borders and Palm Springs International Film Festival announced jury members and the eight nominees for HP’s Bridging The Borders Award at 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival selected by Palm Springs International Film Festival Programmers. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2018 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 2018 winner of the HP Bridging The Borders Award are: Sylvie Bolioli Sylvie Bolioli has worked in the…
In January 13th, 2017 Cinema Without Borders will announce the winner of 2018 HP Bridging The Borders Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival Award Ceremony. In this relation, we will have a few interviews with international filmmakers using HP Workstations about their work, how HP Workstations help them to accomplish their tasks and the impact of HP Bridging The Borders Award in the world of filmmaking. In our first interview we talked to Hasraf ‘ HaZ’ Dulull,director of The Beyond on camera. Hasraf ‘ HaZ’ Dulull started his career as a Visual Effects Supervisor / Producer before establishing a reputation from…
AYITI MON AMOUR is Haiti Oscar entry for the Best Foreign language Film Award. This is a first for Haiti. This is the first time that Haiti in its film history that Haiti is competing at the Oscars and it is also the first time that a woman of Haitian (Haitian-American) origin realizes a feature length fiction in Haiti to Jacmel (in 2016). We had the opportunity of interviewing Guetty Felin, writer and director of AYITI MON AMOUR on camera. https://vimeo.com/246380736 “Ayiti mon amour” has already been awarded twice in 2017 at the “Blackstar Film Festival” and the “Festival International de Cine America”…
To learn more about Kanopy, winner of the CWB’s Seal of Excellence Award for the Best International Cinema Streaming Site, we had the opportunity of interviewing Olivia Humphrey, Founder and CEO of Kanopy. Olivia Humphrey has many years of media distribution experience, including at BBC Worldwide in London, Austar Satellite TV and Roadshow Entertainment in Sydney, where she managed the non-theatrical release slate. She founded Kanopy in 2008 to address the opportunity to build film as a core resource for all students in higher education before expanding into public libraries in 2016. Headquartered in San Francisco, Kanopy distributes a catalog…