Tonight, Thursday April 26th SEEfest celebrates the opening night of its 13th edition at Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Doors open at 6 PM and after the red carpet, screening of the opening night film HAWAII, a Romanian film directed by Jesús del Cerro starts at 7 PM. The opening gala will continue with a reception after screening of the film. https://vimeo.com/262390626 HAWAII. Suspense mounts after Andrei and his father Vasile receive news of an inheritance that communist Romania won’t let them claim. As they try to get travel documents to go to Yugoslavia, a cat and mouse game ensues with…
Author: Bijan Tehrani
Bijan Tehrani
Bijan (Hassan) Tehrani Founder and Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders, is a film director, writer, and a film critic, his first article appeared in a weekly film publication in Iran 45 years ago. Bijan founded Cinema Without Borders, an online publication dedicated to promotion of international cinema in the US and around the globe, eighteen years ago and still works as its editor in chief. Bijan is has also been a columnist and film critic for the Iranian monthly film related medias for 45 years and during the past 5 years he has been a permanent columnist and film reviewer for Film Emrooz (Film Today), a popular Iranian monthly print film magazine. Bijan has won several awards in international film festivals and book fairs for his short films and children's books as well as for his services to the international cinema. Bijan is a member of Iranian Film Writers Critics Society and International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). He is also an 82nd Golden Globe Awards voter.
SEEfest, South East European Film Festival LA, is an important film festival for fans of international cinema. SEEfest growth over the last 13th years is just amazing and Vera Mijojlic, Founder and Director of the festival has managed to transform it from a small event to a major local film festival. To learn more about the upcoming SEEfest we had a video interview with Vera Mijojlic. https://vimeo.com/263033128 2018 SEEfest with the theme of “Passport to Trieste,” runs for 8 days from April 26 to May 3rd. SEEfest 13th will include film screenings, gala opening and closing events, international speakers, Q&A…
East Los Angeles College, and Cinema and Without Borders are proud to present the Latin American Animation Day, the fourth edition of the annual East Los Angeles College International Animation Festival. The goal of the ELAC International Animation Festival is to give an in-depth and entertaining introduction to contemporary international animation. Screenings of short animated films from around the world, analyses and Q&A’s with a panel of well-known animation experts, and a tribute to an international animation artist working in the U.S. animation industry are all part of the festival program. Latin American Animation Day will be held on Saturday,…
A Fantastic Woman Wins Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Other nominees were The Insult (Lebanon), Loveless(Russia), Body and Soul (Hungary) and The Square (Sweden). Chile, A Fantastic Woman , Director: Sebastián Lelio A Fantastic Woman (Spanish: Una mujer fantástica) is a 2017 Chilean drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. https://vimeo.com/258549064
On Saturday March 24th Cinema Without Borders and East Los Angeles College celebrate the 4th edition of their annual International Animation Day. The 2018 event is called Latin American Animation Day. Jaime Cañas, a Chilean animation artist is among individuals that has helped to make this event happen. Here is our video interview with Mr. Jaime Cañas about his work and state of animation in Chile. https://vimeo.com/257283888 Jaime Cañas was born in Santiago of Chile. After some design studies he moved to Germany, where Jaime studied animation at the “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, Konrad Wolf”, in Postdam, near Berlin. In…
The SoCal Film Festival is now the Huntington Beach Film Festival! The new name better represents this fest and helps promote the Huntington Beach to the visitors. Since 2005, the Huntington Beach Film Festival has been bringing the best of independent film to Southern California wonderful community. Set in the quintessential Southern California beach town, filmmakers, writers and passionate film-lovers from around the world have enjoyed all that Surf City USA has to offer. 2018 Huntington Beach Film Festival will run from February 22nd to February 24th. https://vimeo.com/256719560 The above is our video interview with Alexandra Graham, the Programming Director of the Huntington…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the biggest success at the Bafta Film Awards with five wins, while Gary Oldman was the only British star to take an acting award. The ascerbic story of a strong woman standing up for justice in small-town America was a fitting winner on a night when Time’s Up pins and black dresses were an ever present reminder of the sexual harassment scandal coursing through the entertainment world. The point was not lost on Martin McDonagh, its British director. “What I’m most proud of, especially in this Time’s Up year,” he said, “is it is…
Burbank, Ca — February 8, 2018 — At Cinema Without Borders, we are thrilled to announce Go Energistics as the new sponsor of our Bridging The Borders Award. The humanistic goals of GoE executives, their broad vision of how people of our world should come together, and their understanding of how the art of filmmaking bridges over invisible borders makes them the perfect match for the Bridging The Borders Award. The Bridging The Borders Award, sponsored by Go Energistics, will be offered at the Palm Springs ShortFest International Film Festival, The Southeast European Film Festival – Los Angeles, The Polish…
Agnès Varda has been making movies for more than 60 years without any Oscars, so what would she need one for now? That’s the essence of the 89-year-old French filmmaker’s comments to the Associated Press about her dual nods from the Academy this year, one in the Best Documentary Feature category with her daughter Rosalie Varda and street artist JR for their film Faces Places, and one honorary Governors Award, which she received along with filmmaker Charles Burnett and actor Donald Sutherland last fall. And, well, it was nice—but nothing to base your self-esteem on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKZcAiLHlY “There is nothing to be proud of, but happy,” she…
Academy Awards announced the nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film Award: A Fantastic Woman (Chile), The Insult (Lebanon), Loveless (Russia), Body and Soul (Hungary) and The Square (Sweden). Good news is that The Insult, Winner of Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award is among the nominees. The big disappointment is that In The Fade,a masterpiece by Fatih Akin is missing from the list of nominees. Chile, A Fantastic Woman , Director: Sebastián Lelio A Fantastic Woman (Spanish: Una mujer fantástica) is a 2017 Chilean drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of…