Just a few seconds after Shirley MacLaine announced the Oscar winner for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, The Salesman from Iran, Cinema Without Borders posted the video of this announcement in its Facebook page. To this moment, this post has received over a million people, 1,015,625, and this number is going up every second that passes by. The video has been watched over 243,000 times and 3612 people have shared the video, the post has over 3600 likes and more than 300 comments. Since the Oscar nomination announcement of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman, it has been the center of…
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.
Miami Film Festival is coming up early March and to learn more about the festival we interviewed its Executive director and director of programming Jaie Laplante. Jaie Laplante is an internationally recognized leader and influencer in film culture. As a critic and journalist in Canada in the late 1980s, he published more than 400 pieces on contemporary commercial and international art cinema for a variety of publications, and first championed his career-long efforts to organically connect regional audiences with homegrown artists, recognizing it as an essential component of maintaining and building the medium’s power. During this time, he became one…
On Sunday February 26th we will know if Iranian filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, will be the second filmmaker in history of Oscar to win two Oscars for The Best Foreign Language Film Award after Vitorrio De Sica, the Italian filmmaker. Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman has won several awards internationally and has been admired by many film critics. But there are those who believe this film is not as good as it has been claimed and if it wins an Oscar it’s because of the Trump’s policies on travel ban. To learn more about this situation, we have interviewed the well-known and…
BOB BAKER DAYS 2017 – This coming weekend you can attend the 3rd Annual Celebration of Bob Baker’s legacy! The puppets and the people of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater will entertain you with the sights and sounds of a celebration you’ll never forget – now this annual event is extending into an ENTIRE WEEKEND! This 2-day festival debuts the opening of a new act for The Bob Baker Marionette Theater as a non-profit organization, unveiling long-awaited plans for another half-century… and it’s brimming with marionettes and ice cream cups for generations of Angelenos and visitors, both new and seasoned!…
Coming straight from an exciting film festival run as Audience Award Winner at SXSW, Best Documentary at Sofia International Film Festival, Audience Choice at IDFA and San Francisco Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, HotDocs, Full Frame and more, Abramorama is thrilled to bring you MR. GAGA. Tomer Heymann’s MR. GAGA is a unique documentary experience that tells the story of the internationally acclaimed choreographer Ohad Naharin, who created the daring form of dance and “movement language” Gaga. When he was 22, he was invited to perform with the prestigious Martha Graham dance company, and attended Juilliard and the School…
One of the main reasons we support Sling TV is its international cinema resources, and having access to those resources at an affordable price. For $20 a month you can join Sling TV Orange and access 30 tv channels as well as have the ablility to use the Fandor Festival channel. Fandor Festival on Sling TV offers the best of the most important international film festivals such as Sundance, Austin’s SXSW, Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and Toronto. You can browse the films based on the festival or genres. Good news is that you can watch 5 films for free every month.…
The 18th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. (SFFLA) will be on January 14, 15, 21 and 22. To learn more about the festival we had an interview with festival’s director and founder James Koenig.James Koenig is someone whose voice is heard in various arts arenas. He graduated from Northwestern University with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in voice continuing studies in Italy, Germany, and California. As a classical singer he has sung in opera and concert venues around the United States and in Europe. He also enjoys teaching, directing, and writing. He is the founder/director of the eighteen-year-old Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.…
If you belong to the millions of Farsi speaking crowd living outside Iran, your best bet to watch TV channels broadcasting in Farsi from Iran and the rest of the world is MTC. MTC also covers programming in other languages such as Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and Arabic. You can watch MTC on your computer, your Android and IOS devices as well as Ruku Box. We found MTC’s menu and navigation tools very easy to use and response time to change the channels are quite quick. A one year plan of MTC costs $99, 3 year plan $199 and unlimited plan…
To coordinate and pull together an international film festival, is no easy task. It takes diligence, a firm point of view of how things should unfold, and above all, it requires you to absolutely love the films your presenting to the community. With long white hair and a whistful smile, Vladek Juszkiewicz is just that kind of man.Vladek Juszkiewicz was born in Glogow, Poland. He graduated from the Szczecin Technical University with a degree in Engineering. While attending the University he became a member of The Szczecin Technical University Choir, going on to serve as the President and manager of…
HP Bridging The Borders Award, offered by Cinema Without Borders at Palm Springs International film Festival in early January is now a well-recognized award in the film community around the world. CWB will be a running a series of articles about this award and sponsor of the ward, HP Workstation department. For the first article we interviewed HP’s Rick Champagne . Rick Champagne is the Worldwide Media & Entertainment Segment Manager for HP Z Workstation Technologies. Working closely with customers and industry partners, Rick guides HP’s strategy and business development within the film, television, broadcast, and games industries. With a…