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AniFest 2010, the only international specialized competition animation festival in the Czech Republic announces that the festival´s 9th edition will take place in May 18 - 23, 2010 in the North Bohemian spa city of Teplice.
After 8 years in Trebon the AniFest management decided to move the festival to Teplice,
a larger, and both technically and logistically well equipped city. On top of that, more favorable conditions for holding such an international film event have bee...
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EX ORIENTE FILM 2010
SESSION ONE - FIND YOUR WAY
March 23 - 28, 2010 / Roztoky u Prahy, Czech Republic
Unfazed by global crises, doomsday stories or utopian fantasies, the Institute of Documentary Film is ready for another workshop season. Kicking off in grand style, the Ex Oriente Film Session One (Mar 23 - 28) offers several lectures, screenings and seminars that are open to all documentary professionals. It is a great honour to welcome film ...
Spring has sprung and Kino pavasaris" (or Cinema spring) is fast approaching. This year the motto of the Festival is "Reborn at the Cinema" and from March 18 to April 2 you are all invited to rediscover the magical world of film.
2010 marks the 15th anniversary of the Festival an...
Interview with Jonas Mekas
Why do you make film? Why do you make such films (not that predictable narrative ones)?
I do not know why I make films. It's an obsession.
I make diaristic films, it's basically a narrative form of cinema, only that people do not know that I am making a different kind of narrative film. They are used to the oldfashioned narrative cinema.
But why diaristic? It stands so on the edge of becoming uninteresting and you, more or less, let the viewer into ...
From 1st till 18th of April 2010 DotFest Online Film Festival will take place in the World Wide Web.
Jonas Mekas
These fine gentlemen honored us by agreeing to be on the jury list:
Jonas Mekas - the godfather of American avant-garde cinema,
Jean-Gabriel Periot - French film direc...
Nominados Bogocine de Oro 2010
Best film
"La Pasión de Gabriel" de Alberto Restrepo
"Los Viajes del Viento" de Ciro Guerra
"La Sangre y la Lluvia" de Jorge Navas.
Best Director
Ciro Guerra
Harold Trompetero
Jorge Navas
Luis Alberto Restrepo
Nicolás Entel
Best Actor
Andrés Parra
Diego Trujillo
Marciano Martínez
Quique Mendoza
Best Actress
Gloria Montoya
Maria Cecilia Sánchez
Ma...
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...
> FIFDH Paris 2010 Awards :
The 8th edition of the Paris International Film Festival on Human Rights (FIFDH) which took place at the Nouveau Latina cinema (4th arr.) from 9-16 March managed to reveal the complexity of human rights breaches as well as those of economic social and cultural rights (DESC) and civil and political rights.
The juries of the "Creative Documentaries" and "Investigative reports" categories were made up of two teams of professional...
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."
...
"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 ...
Chatelin Bruno 
