The 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honor Marion Cotillard with the Breakthrough Performance Award for her performance in La Vie en Rose. This is the first honoree announcement made for the 2008 Festival. The Awards Gala will kick-off the 2008 Awards Season on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Festival is scheduled to be held January 3-14, 2008. Festival chairman Earl Greenburg said, “Marion Cotillard delivers a tour de force performance as legendary singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose which is sure to be recognized throughout this year’s awards…
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Tribeca Enterprises hosted on Sunday evening, September 23rd, their new festival called- Tropfest@Tribeca. Tropfest@Tribeca is a totally free of charge outdoor film festival that spotlighted 16 independently made films by up and coming filmmakers from around the globe.Tropfest had its humble origins in Australia with creator/movie director, John Polson, and was an unprecedented success- attracting nearly 150,000 people. On this evening in the Big Apple, the energy was indeed high and there was high octane music and food to boot. There were in attendance about 8,000 attendees. In addition, Tropfest was also broadcast live via satellite in Toronto, Canada.Tropfest was…
For this latest edition of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s New Chinese Cinema series, we are pleased to welcome the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) as a partner and to expand the biennial series into a cross-town venture: with Archive screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater and CalArts screenings at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater. The programmatic geography has changed as well—from an exclusive focus on Mainland China to a selection that encompasses Hong Kong and Taiwan, both of whose cinemas the Archive has also presented in years past but in discrete film series. By changing from…
Burbank, California, September 1st 2007 – Today, Dragon Tale Entertainment announced that the Cinema Without Borders Best International Film Award went to Milan ( a co-production of Germany, Serbia and Montenegro), directed by Michaela Kezele. The film tells the story of a family whose farm lies on the receiving end of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo crises in 1999.. Festival Jury members included John Dahl, director of You Kill Me; Bijan Tehrani from Cinema Without Borders; Rebecca Winters Keegan from “Time” magazine; Kimberly Yutani, short film programmer for the Sundance Film Festival; and Amotz Zakai from Echo…
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced that for the second time, one of today’s most significant film directors, Terry George, a true friend of SFF, whom audiences in Sarajevo met at the 11th edition of our Festival. Also thrilling is the fact that, upon George’s invitation, Sarajevo will have the opportunity to welcome one of the most successful, bur also most controversial authors of documentary films of all time – Michael Moore. Terry George will attend the Sarajevo Film Festival as one of the lecturers at the 1st Sarajevo Talent Campus. His presence will be an opportunity for us to…
WMM has announced that GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA has received an Emmy nomination for BEST DOCUMENTARY.Produced and directed by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman, GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA was broadcast on HBO Cinemax’s acclaimed Reel Life Series. An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short, this powerful film has garnered countless prestigious awards, including the Audience Award and Jury Special Mention at Silverdocs.About the Film: The 1994 Rwandan Genocide left the country nearly 70 percent female, handing Rwanda’s women an extraordinary burden and an unprecedented opportunity. An inspiring story of loss and redemption, GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA captures the spirit…
The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute hosts an intensive one-day workshop for directors at Palm Spring ShortFest in August and during the festival, providing practical techniques to get superior performances from actors. When resources are tight, you can’t afford to get average work from your actors. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use intentions and objectives to make your scenes more powerful, and most importantly, answer the age-old question: how do I get results from an actor who just can’t seem to give me what I want? The workshop consists of two two-hour sessions in which…
Academy Award winner and three time nominee RENÉE ZELLWEGER will be coming to Karlovy Vary to introduce Miss Potter. Cold Mountain, Chicago, and Bridget Jones’s Diary are among the films that have attained success with both the public and film critics alike thanks primarily to Renée Zellweger’s outstanding performances. After appearing in several television projects, Zellweger, who graduated from the University of Texas with a literature degree, she made her film debut in 1993 in Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age film Dazed and Confused. Just a year later she drew attention in Ben Stiller’s Reality Bites. Her other film credits include Me,…
Another Isola Cinema festival, the fourth one, is at an end. The winner of the festival audience award competition section, the Harvest, is the film SARATAN (Ernest Abdidžaparov, Kyrgizistan/Germany, 2005, 85′), which was also the choice of the Youth jury, working under supervision of Franci Slak and Boris PalÄiÄ.<br>The closing film of the festival is Vittorio de Seta’s film Letters from Sahara (Lettere dal Sahara).The winner of the festival’s PAH-FEST workshop for best film made using a cell phone, is Joe Underwood, while the award for the best digital portret went to Marko Ocepek. Both winners received ITAK prizes -…
Lead Actress of this Year’s Cannes’s Critics’ Week Grand Prix-Winner is the first to arrive at Isola Cinema!The young Argentinean actress Inés Efron arrived today in Slovenia after having had an exhausting but very successful week at the Cannes Film Festival. She traveled to Cannes to assist in the launch of the Argentinean-Spanish-French co-production XXY. The film –directed by 30 year old Lucía Puenzo– just won the Critic’s Week Grand Prix. In XXY Ines plays the lead role of a young hermaphrodite.Ines is the first Isola Cinema guest to arrive in town. On Saturday night June 2nd at 23:00 she’ll…