Sam Tehrani
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Sam Tehrani
Sam Tehrani is one of the news editors of the Cinema Without Borders and also edits picture and sound for CWB videos.
Ken Muche, 4G, and the future of wireless connectivity.
Last week we had the opportunity to speak with Ken Muche, Director of Public Relations for Verizon Wireless in Southern California, about what Verizon is offering in terms of 4G Wireless networking and WiFi. Cinema Without Borders: The last time we spoke was about a year and a half ago and ... Full story
Darryl Macdonald received the first Cinema Without Borders' Friend Of International Cinema Award
Last Thursday, on the evening of May 10th, Cinema Without Borders held the award ceremony for the First Annual Friend Of International Cinema Award at the Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles. The evening began with Italian wine and Persian appetizers ... Full story
The Shore directed by Terry George wins the Best Live Action Short Oscar
Tonight The Shore directed by Terry George won an OSCAR for the Best Live Action Short film Oscar. earlier this month, we asked Terry George about the chances of The Shore to win an Oscar: "Well I guess we have a ... Full story
CWB's Top Ten products of 2011 for filmakers & film fans
Happy Holidays, film fans! Cinema Without Borders has put together a list of our Top Ten Products of 2011. We encountered many of these technological treats in our tests, as well as in personal use, and would like to share ... Full story
Academy Awards announces nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film Award
Academy Awards announced the five nominees for the Best Foreign language Film Award. The five nominees are: A Separation (Iran), Bullhead (Belgium), Footnote (Israel), In Darkness (Poland), and Monsieur Lazhar (Canada). Cinema Without Borders’ visitors, could go to our Home Page ... Full story
A Separation, wins at the Golden Globe Awards
Tonight A Separation, a film by Asghar Farhadi, won the Golden Globe Award for the Best Foreign Language Film Award. Other nominees in this category were The Flowers of War (China), In The Land of Blood and Honey (USA), The Kid ... Full story
Terraferma wins CWB's Bridging The Borders Award at 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival
Palm Springs – January 15, 2012— Today, Palm Springs International Film Festival named Terraferma as the winner of Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging the Borders Award. Le Havre, from Finland, took home runner-up honors. Emanuele Crialese, director of the Terraferma , the ... Full story
Nominees for CWB's Bridging The Borders Award at 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival
Burbank, CA – January 10, 2012: Today, Cinema Without Borders has announced the five nominees for its Bridging The Borders Award at 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film ... Full story
Verizon's MiFi, Hitchcock & Jean-Luc Godard
For six years now, I’ve used a mobile device for my video and film watching life. I love watching movies to death, and I’ll spend a great deal of time with my iPad in café or restaurant, streaming video to ... Full story
HP professional displays, great fit for film editing
During last year HP presented a few incredibly high quality displays that are ideal to use by film editors and added a few new one recently. To learn more about HP displays, we had a conversation with Larry Mahoney. Larry ... Full story
HP Z600, a workstation for film editors
At Cinema Without Borders we are planning on running a series of reviews and stories about film editing on HP Z600 Workstation. To introduce this system we had an interview with Barry Lewis, senior product manager, Workstations Worldwide Market, HP.CWB: ... Full story
International Exile Film Festival wins CWB's Seal Of Excellence award
Burbank, California - October 4 - Cinema Without Borders (CWB), today announced International Exile Film Festival, as the winner of CWB’s “Seal Of Excellence.” The Festival is scheduled October 6-14, 2011. “International Exile Film Festival is one of world’s most extraordinary ... Full story
Hp's Z210 entry level Workstation is a powerful film editing system
Hp's Z210 entry level Workstation is a powerful film editing system with an affordable price tag. To learn more about Z210, we interviewed Renganathan Subramanyam (Renga) who is responsible for worldwide product marketing of HP's entry-level personal workstation product line. Renga ... Full story
The Best Video Game Console for Film Fans?
Over the years, we’ve received countless emails from our readers asking about video game consoles, and most seem to fall along the same line: Which video game console will best suit my needs as a gamer and film fanatic? Well, ... Full story
Becas Wins CWB's Bridging The Borders Award at 2011 Palm Springs ShortFest
Palm Springs – June 26, 2011 - Today at the Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival, Cinema Without Borders jury members voted Bekas, directed by Karzan Kader, as winner of the Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award. The CWB ... Full story
2011 Palm Springs ShortFest announces nominees for CWB Award
Every year at the Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival and Market, Cinema Without Borders' Bridging The Borders Award goes to a short film that helps to bring people of the world and different cultures closer together. In 2011 the ... Full story
Ollies Animation Festival honored the legendary artist, Phil Mendez
The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles, an educational institution for career preparation in the visual and culinary arts, recently held its inaugural animation event, The Ollies Animation Festival. The event, which is named after animation great Ollie Johnson, ... Full story
The hidden charm of XOOM, a tablet for film fans
My story with the Motorola XOOM tablet was like love-at-first-sight, and I don’t care if the XOOM is not the Twiggy of tablet world. It has a lot of charm to cover that little extra weight and thickness, and even ... Full story
Let "Flip Boom Draw" awaken the animator within you
Vying for new ways to unleash the artist within you? Whip out your iPad and try Flip Boom Draw. This unique iPad app allows for creating animation using just the tips of your fingers. Flip Boom Draw is a great ... Full story
Abbas Hojatpanah' films and photographs at Exile Film Festival, Sweden
Iranian photographer, filmmaker, Abbas Hojatpanah will hold an exhibition of his photos and screening of his documentaries in Sweden with the help of Exile Film Festival.Abbas, started his filmmaking in Iran and in NIRT and then continued his work as ... Full story