Tiburon – California: The Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF), founded in 2001, completed another very successful 9-day event from March 22 to March 30, 2007, in Tiburon. Tiburon, is just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge in beautiful Marin County. This year’s Festival was the 6th Annual Film Festival to be held in Tiburon. More than 3,000 films were submitted for consideration in 2007 with 250 independent films selected for the Festival from 90 countries.<br> The rich and varied Special Programs this year included Short Films from Pixar Animation Studios, Independent Filmmaker Animations, Spotlight on Tunisian Cinema,…
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An interview with Koen Daela, Program Director of Isola Cinema.<br> Cinema Without Borders: Please tell us about the history of IZOLA Cinema Film Festival. Koen Van Daele: The Isola Cinema festival took place for the first time in May 2004. Its programme focus was on African, Asian, Latin American and Eastern European cinema. The over thirty films of the official programme were shown on three venues, while the festival marked 5000 visitors, most of them enchanted by the spells of the open air cinema on Manzioli square. The festival hosted thirteen film artists and many more important guests from around…
(Los Angeles, May 23, 2007) – At a special ceremony held yesterday in Los Angeles, the first Audience Choice Award of the just concluded South East European Film Festival was presented to the honorable Catalin Ghenea, Consul General of Romania. Romanian film The Way I Spent the End of the World, directed by Catalin Mitulescu, got a perfect 4.5 score from the festival’s audience. The award, presented by the director of the festival, Vera Mijojlic, is yet another recognition for Romanian cinema which continues to dazzle the audiences and critics around the world. Winner of Best Actress award for Dorotheea…
Carl Spence is currently the Artistic Director of the Seattle International Film Festival Group and the director of programming at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Before his tenure at these two organizations he was director of programming at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Prior to his work in San Francisco, Carl spent eight years at the Seattle International Film Festival as a programmer and associate director of the organization. He began his career successfully curating two years of film programs, concerts and live events at the University of Washington in 1991 followed by a brief stint working for…
Established in 2002, as a response to the Sept. 11th attacks, The Tribeca Film Festival was conceived by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff. For the purpose of creating a resurgence of economic prosperity, through the visual and performing arts, Tribeca has become one of the most attended celebrations of filmmaking in the world. With multitudes of filmmakers across the globe convened in Lower Manhattan to share their unique visions. This event will mark the 6th annual festival for the Big Apple. Spread across Tribeca and as far north as 34th street in order to view the various…
(Los Angeles, May 8, 2007) – On May 7 The 2007 South East European Film Festival held its closing night screening of Harun Mehmedinovic’s AFI-produced short film, “In the name of the son”, followed by the Serbian feature, “Seven and a half” by Miroslav Momcilovic, at the beautiful 1920’s art deco theatre Fine Arts in Beverly Hills. Hosted by radio personality Hettie Lynne Hurtes, the evening’s guests included Gary McVey, executive director of the American Cinema Foundation and Bijan Tehrani, editor-in-chief of the Cinema Without Borders film magazine. They spoke about the importance of the festival and its growing impact…
Celebrated actor from the former Yugoslavia and well known character actor in the USA, Rade Serbedzija (Shooter, Saint, Macedonian Oscar-nominated Before the Rain, recurring guest star in TV’s 24, with other memorable roles in features such as Eyes Wide Shut, MI2, Snatch, Batman Begins, Broken English, to name just a few) officially opened the South East European Film Festival 2007 this week in Los Angeles. He was joined by Hettie Lynne Hurtes, KPCC radio personality, who served as the celebrity MC. Other guests included the Honorable Ivo Mouskourov, Consul General of Bulgaria, the Honorable Catalin Ghenea, Consul General of Romania,…
South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles showcases the work of filmmakers from Southern and Eastern Europe, and films made by expatriates who live in California and who trace their origins to the Balkans, the countries of the Danube, and the Black Sea. The only one of its kind in the United States, its message is not only to show films but to educate about South East Europe, its troubled history, and cultural diversity. In Los Angeles since 1992, Vera Mijojlic founded the first-ever festival of films from Southeast Europe, www.seefilmla.org, and launched promotional campaigns for Balkan films, as…
The Polish American Film Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a higher level of understanding of Polish culture through film. This organization showcases outstanding achievements of Polish cinema right in the heart of Hollywood. Each year, the Polish Film Festival of Los Angeles screens the finest selection of contemporary Polish cinema including full-length features, documentaries, animations, and shorts. Polish Film Festival provides an exciting venue for Polish filmmakers and actors to share their talents with an American audience. In an interview with Cinema Without Borders, Vladek Juszkiewicz, Director of the Polish Film Festival of Los Angeles talked about the…
Francois Truffart COLCOA Director and programmer after completing a Master’s degree in Politics in Paris in 1989 became the cultural attaché in charge of cinema promotion at the French Embassy in Hungary, Japan and the United States (Los Angeles) successively. He has also been the Director for the Cinefondation at Cannes Film Festival and represented the Cannes Film Market in the US. He is a programming consultant for festivals and also for film finance and international film distribution through his LA-based company Sorry Angels, Inc. In 2004 in Tokyo, he founded the Japanese music label, Cinemania 35. He has been…