The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced that the HP DreamColor Display will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Sat., Feb. 7. Technical staff from HP and DreamWorks will be recognized at the ceremony for the development of the HP DreamColor LP2480zx Professional Display. The DreamColor Display is receiving the Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy Plaque) for the impact it’s made in film – providing affordable, consistent and stable color throughout the film production process. To learn more about this amazing achievement by HP we interviewed HP’s Greg Staten. Greg Staten is…
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.
The 16th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. (SFFLA) continues on January 24, 25 and to learn more about the festival we had an interview with festival 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 fifteen year old Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. He…
LEVIATHAN, one of the nine films in the Academy Awards shortlist for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, is the latest drama from Andrey Zvyagintsev, the acclaimed director of The Return (Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner and Golden Globe nominee). In LEVIATHAN, Kolia (Alexeï Serebriakov) lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya (Elena Liadova) and his son Roma (Sergueï Pokhodaev) from a previous marriage. The town’s corrupt mayor Vadim Shelevyat (Roman Madianov)…
The 26th edition of Palm Springs International Film Festival will open on January 2nd 2015 and will run until January 12th. It’s a Cinema Without Borders tradition to have a conversation with Director of the Festival every year and before start of the festival. Bijan Tehrani: What is the secret to the success of the Palm Springs International Film Festival?Darryl Macdonald: Really I guess there is only one thing I can point to, and that it is the films. The quality of the line-up and the way the festival audiences perceive the specific films in the festival is all important.…
“Asghar Farhadi” is the title of a new book about the Iranian Oscar winning filmmaker by Tina Hassannia. Tina Hassannia is a film critic and writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Slant Magazine, Reverse Shot, Maisonneuve, Guernica, Little White Lies, Keyframe, Grolsch Film Works, and others. She is the co-host of Hello Cinema, a podcast dedicated to Iranian cinema. She was born in Tehran and lives in Toronto, Canada. You can find her online at tinahassannia.com. Bijan Tehrani: What was that motivated you to write this book? Tina Hassannia: I was approached to write…
Every January Cinema Without Borders offers its HP Bridging The Borders Award at International Palm Springs Film Festival. HP Bridging The Borders Award goes to a film that helps bringing people of our world closer together. HP Bridging The Borders Award is sponsored and its award provided by HP Workstation department. Filmmakers such as Andrzej Wajda, Ari Folman, Terry George and Kieron J. Walsh have won this award in previous years.This is the fourth from a 5 series of articles about HP Bridging The Borders Award and HP’s presence in film industry and we interviewed Danny Holland, a Post Production…
Verizon Wireless is supporting most of the major tablets in the market and these are devices in interest of filmmakers and film fans. Therefore to learn more about this subject we interviewed Ken Muché who responsible for all public relations and philanthropy for Verizon Wireless in Southern California. Ken writes on a variety of topics, including corporate giving initiatives, and how customers are using the company’s 4G LTE network to enhance their lives at home, at work and in their communities. Ken also tweets about local Verizon Wireless happenings on Twitter, using the handle @vzwken. With twenty years’ experience in…
“The Salt of The Earth” is a feature documentary about the work of Sebastião Salgado directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project, which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty.Sebastião Salgado’s life and work are…
On June 22, 2014 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Market named FOAD (Norway), directed by Farzad Samsami as the winner of HP’s 2014 Bridging the Borders Award, presented by Cinema Without Borders. The award ceremony was held at Palm Springs’ Camelot Theatre. The Editor-in-Chief of CWB, Bijan Tehrani, presented the award for this year’s HP Bridging the Borders winner. Farzad Samsami received a gift certificate for an HP ZBook 15 Mobile Workstation with a DreamColor color critical display panel. An approximate $3000 value, awarded from our generous sponsors.Farzad Samsami , an Iranian/ Norwegian filmmaker founded his production company…
CONCRETE NIGHT, Finland’s OSCAR Entry is about S I M O, a 14-year-old boy in search of himself and unable yet to decode and interpret life around him. He and his big brother Ilkka are the sons of a helpless and unpredictable single mother. Their chaotic home is located deep in the heart of a concrete jungle in Helsinki. Ilkka has one day of freedom left before starting his prison sentence and their mother persuades Simo to spend this last night with him. During the course of the day and night spent roaming around Helsinki, the brothers witness incidents they…