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The 2010 Environmental FilmFestival at Yale (EFFY) announced today it will open with the East CoastPremiere of Houston We Have a Problem on Tuesday, April 6. The documentary thatexposes the hard truths about oil from Texas oilmen themselves, and how the oilindustry must adapt to meet America's future energy needs. Following thefilm will be a discussion with director Nicole Torre and one of the film'ssubjects Matthew Simmons, one of the world's leading experts on the topic ofpeak oil, and moder...
On Saturday night 20 March, the winners of the Go Short awards were announced during an exciting presentation. In arthouse LUX in Nijmegen awards were handed out to seven filmmakers. The jury's were very pleased with the high quality of the selected short films.
Winner of the NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: Fiction
Seeds Of The Fall (Patrik Eklund, Sweden, 2009)
"A surprisingly deadpan well structured comedy that deals with human shortcomings."
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"Welcome to the 15th annual IFFF held at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California. We like the sound of "15". IFFF celebrates cultural diversity, creativity, tolerance and global unity in its exhibition of excellent family films and screenplays. Over the five days, the festival screened 86 film products from 14 countries and 15 professional film schools that attest to our emphasis on multi-cultural themes and global collaboration. On behalf ...
Agnès Varda filmmaker, photographer, editor, composer, occasional actress and producer, will receive international homage and will be awarded with the Silver Mayahuel on the 25th edition of Guadalajara Film Festival.
With over than 40 titles on her career, the international critic considers Agnès Varda as "the Nouvelle Vague lady".
She studied at the Sorbonne and the Louvre Schoole and since 1949 she ventured as a photographer and started reporting in different countries.
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Main awards all go to first films
This Saturday evening, Georgian director George Ovashvili received the CHF 30.000 prize from the hands of jury president Hanna Schygulla. THE OTHER BANK also won the Audience Award. The prestigious "Talent Tape Award" worth CHF 23.000 in non-cash benefit was handed to Iranian director Nader T. Homayoun for his film TEHROUN.
The Special Jury Award was presented to the Mexican contribution NORTEADO by Rigoberto Perezcano....
EDN - European Documentary Network has announced that The EDN Award 2010 is presented to IRDFA - Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association. IRDFA receives the award for their outstanding contribution to the documentary culture.
EDN has chosen to honour IRDFA with the EDN Award 2010 to recognise the impressive work the organisation has done since it was founded in 1996. IRDFA has established a strong national organisation to unite the Iranian documentary sector and made sure that the docu...
Aspen Film announced today the competition finalists that will screen at Aspen Shortsfest 2010, which will be held April 6-11 at the historic Wheeler Opera House in Aspen and the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale. More than 2,500 submissions from almost 80 countries were considered, and 85 short films were ultimately selected for the six-day Oscar®-qualifying International Competition. With additional out-of-competition presentations, this 2010 edition will screen over 100 shorts from North and S...
New York Festivals Television & Film Awards, honoring the "World's Best Work", announced the 2010 competition finalists today. The GRANDJURYTM, comprised of award winning television and film professionals, selected finalists from twenty-nine countries around the globe. All finalists will go on to a second round of judging, with different criteria to determine the prestigious Grand Trophy Award recipients as well as Gold, Silver, and Bronze medalists.
A p...
The Tribeca Film Festival - the renowned international film festival co-founded by Robert De Niro - has announced its program, which includes several films with French roots. Since its founding nine years ago, Tribeca has showcased a breadth of work from around the world. This year's films represent contemporary international filmmaking at its finest, bringing together fresh voices with established storytellers.
Some of the films in the selection have French ties. From Kim Chapir...
“This is the renewed rebellion
This is the recharged fight against the establishment of the expected-
This is the rebirth of the battle for brave new ideas-
This is Sundance, reminded-
This is your call to join us”
and this was what appeared on every projection screen while you took your seat and stripped off layers of weather proofing at the (26th Edition) of the Sundance Film Festival 2010. They announced that a fresh wind had blown through Park City, (bringing with ...
I must confess I cannot wait to see that film.!,
What a smart choice and programming from Tribeca.
Let me share with you one of my dearest professionnal experiences as a film distribution (with Columbia at the time). When I was handling the world premiere in Cannes of Boyz'n the Hood, The film revealed both John Singleton as a director, and Ice Cube as an actor and received 2 Academy Award nominations.
I was in charge of the distribution in France, and ran all the pro...
Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, the nation's first historically Black University, has during its 156-year history educated a remarkable number of luminaries, a short list of whom includes Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall,
Lincoln U., with a current enrollment of approximately 2,000 students, has as its stated mission to "provide the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based core curriculum to meet the needs of students living in a highly technological and global so...
The San Francisco Film Society announced today that Robert Duvall will be the recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award to be presented at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22 - May 6). The Owens Award, named for the longtime San Francisco benefactor of arts and charitable organizations and Film Society board member, honors an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity. The award will be presented to Duvall at Film Society Awards Night on Thursday, Ap...
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‘The Video Store Just Moved InTM' Ad Campaign to Launch This Week via TV, Print and Online to Entice More Consumers to Join Growing Trend in Renting Movies on Demand on Cable
The nation's major Hollywood studios and cable companies have joined forces for a significant push to expand consumer awareness of the extraordinary value offered by Movies On Demand®, a service that provides a convenient and affordable way to rent top-grossing box office hits on cable.
The $30 million TV, p...
What made you start Raindance?
I had worked as a scenic artist and set designer on over 68 feature films and 700 commercials, both here at the BBC Shepherd's Bush 1974-77, and in my native Toronto in the early 80's. When I moved to London in 1986 with my family, I entertained a fantasy of becoming a property magnate, and went bust in the 1990 recession. After a year of wallowing in self-pity, my neighbour, an elderly retired farmer (who served as a barber in WW1) said to me: "Elliot, as ...
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