Cinema Without Borders will announce winner of CWB’s Seal of Excellence Award by October 17th. A jury of 4 decides the Best International Cinema Streaming site among the 11 nominees: Amazon, Criterion, Fandor, Filmatique, Film Movement, Film Struck, Hulu, Kanopy, kino Lorber, Netflix and Snagfilms Cinema Without Borders Jury members to decide Best International Cinema Streaming site are : Susan Morgan Cooper, James Koenig, Mike Libonati, Steven Richmond, and Bijan Tehrani. Factors to pick up the winner is: Number of available international films, pricing and affordability, international service and easiness of use. About Jury Members: Susan Morgan Cooper Susan Morgan Cooper is a Director/Producer/…
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.
One of the Polish artists attending the 2017 Polish Film Festival Los Angeles is Tomasz Luc, a great composer festival will screen LITTLE JAKUB, a film that he has composed music for. Tomasz was very kind to answer Cinema Without Borders’ request to provide us with an introduction of his work for the LITTLE JAKUB. https://youtu.be/zKGG1bMgKok Composer, arranger and guitarist. Born in 1970. He started writing music in 1993 for the theater in Wroclaw. Since then he has been a music director and composer in over twenty theaters in Poland. The most important events were: “The Angelus European Literature Award” and “Europe…
The American Cinematheque announced today that Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hanks, Chris Messina, Natalie Portman and Kristen Stewart will appear in person to toast Amy Adams, the 31st American Cinematheque Award Sponsored by GRoW Annenberg recipient. The award will be presented to five-time Academy Award-nominee Amy Adams by Meryl Streep at the Cinematheque’s annual benefit gala on Friday, November 10, 2017 at The Beverly Hilton (9876 Wilshire Blvd.) in Beverly Hills, CA. The award presentation will be held in the International Ballroom and will include in-person tributes from some of Adams’ colleagues and friends. The Sid Grauman Award will be presented the same evening, to Richard Gelfond and Greg Foster on behalf of Imax. Proceeds from the evening benefit…
2017 Polish Film Festival Los Angeles will open on October 18th and will go on until October 26th. Here is the complete program of the festival. (All films with English subtitles.) OPENING NIGHT GALA (by invitation only) Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Egyptian Theatre , 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA. 90028 6:00 PM RECEPTION (Catering by Turek) 8:00 PM OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL– Zbigniew Banas (MC) Screening of THE ART OF LOVING. STORY OF MICHALINA WISLOCKA (Sztuka kochania. Historia Michaliny Wislockiej) by Maria Sadowska – (in person: Maria Sadowska, Piotr Adamczyk, Justyna Wasilewsk, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Michal Sobocinski) Laemmle’s NoHo7 Theatre, 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North…
Women filmmakers have an impressive presence in the list of films submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.Women filmmakers have an impressive presence in the list of films submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. So far 83 countries have announced their selection and Ghana, Honduras and United Arab Emirates will submit theirs in the next few days. Among 83 films selected for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, 22 films are directed by woman filmmakers. Iran is the only country represented in this list by two women filmmakers, Anahit Abad, Iranian Armenian filmmaker that her film Yeva is…
Cinema came to Iran courtesy of Mozafaredin Shah, a king of Iran who visited Paris around the turn of the century, fell in love with the Can-Can and the magic of the cinema; he fooled around with the ladies and bought himself a brand new motion picture camera. Accompanying the King was one Ibrahim Khan, part noble, part peasant. He learned to use the camera and then shot the first Iranian movie. No one ever recorded his name in any film history, but he was the first to use panoramic movement in his documentary of the King’s harem and his…
Bita Elahian, the Iranian/American filmmaker has received Honorable Mention at the Eighth Los Angeles Movie Awards for her new short film “Blame” Blame is about A young man that after seven years of marriage, has quarrels with his wife over having children, not realizing that their lives are about to change forever. Bita Elahian last week won Award of Merit: Short Film (Student) and Award of Merit: Women Filmmaker (Student) from the 7th Best Short Film competition in California. Also, “Blame” will be screened on Saturday, October 7th at the 14th “Other Venice Film Festival” in the Short Films competition…
HP Workstation Department is the partner and sponsor of Bridging the Borders Award at the Palm Spring International Film Festival and Palm Springs ShortFest Film Festival. To learn more about what HP Workstation offers for filmmakers and editors and involvement of HP by supporting cultural activities we spoke with Josh Peterson. Josh Peterson is currently Head of Product Management for HP’s Workstation and Immersive Computing business. He has worldwide product portfolio responsibility for desktop workstations, mobile workstations, immersive computing, and all related accessories. Josh has spent over 16 years at HP and has led product management, strategic alliances, and fostering…
The UCLA Film and Television Archive returns the golden age of Spanish language cinema back to Main Street. The Getty Center’s second iteration of the arts initiative “Pacific Standard Time” spotlights the Latin American creative space in Los Angeles, titled “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.” UCLA’s Film and Television Archive teamed up with the Getty to create a lineup of approximately 40 Spanish-language films hailing from different Spanish-speaking countries including Mexico, Argentina and Cuba for the exhibition. The archive restored and rediscovered around 40 Spanish language films, some considered lost or irrelevant, from the golden age of films – the 1930s…
From the opening moments, it’s clear the title character is not a typical female in this patriarchal society: she’s dirt-bike racing. But as the understated domestic drama unfurls, it becomes obvious even a woman this strong is no match for the web of rules around her behavior in Tehran. She works hard at her husband’s pizza joint, but when tragedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rBAWEbtJFA strikes, she struggles to run it alone. This is, after all, a country where a woman delivering pizza on her motorcycle at night is a shock. While not as tightly or artfully wrought as an Asghar Farhadi film, Azar…