Los Angeles, California – Tonight Burma VJ directed by Anders Ostergaard and produced by Lise Lense Moller won the OSCAR for the Best Documentary Feature at Academy Awards ceremony.Cinema Without Borders’ Editor in Chief had a CWB exclusive interview with both Anders Ostergaard and Lise Lense Moller Anders Ostergaard graduated from the Danish School of Journalism in 1991. Mixing documentary footage with staged shots has been a hallmark of Østergaard’s films almost from the beginning. Awarded Best Documentary at Odense International Film Festival in 1999 for The Magus. He was writer-director on the international awarded Tintin et moi in 2003;…
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.
Independent and international filmmakers are in a constant search for the most powerful and affordable mobile workstations for film editing. To find desirable solutions ever-so-important matter, we interviewed Chris Convertito, the Worldwide Category Manager for mobile workstations at Hewlett Packard’s Workstation Global Business Unit, which is based out of Houston, Texas. Chris is responsible for the overall category strategy, new product planning, and HP’s high-end Business Notebooks and Mobile Workstation platforms.Cinema Without Borders: In the filmmaking market there is a growing need for mobile workstations, the issue being that most of these filmmakers are independent. Because of this they are…
Cinemagic is a charity that embraces the magic of film, television and digital technologies to educate, motivate and inspire young people through the medium of workshops, film screenings and industry led master classes. Cinemagic currently delivers festivals in Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Nottingham, France and now plans to open in New York and L.A. in 2010 with further US cities planned for 2011 – 2013. Sponsors of the festival are: Tourism Ireland, Culture Ireland, NI Bureau, American Consulate, Sesame Street, The Jim Henson Company, REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) International Children’s Film Festival, Ghetto Film School, Irish Arts Center, ELMA,…
In Easier With Practice Davy Mitchell sets out on a road trip to promote his unpublished novel with his younger brother. However, the idealism of being on the road wears off and it quickly proves to be a lonely and unfulfilling experience for Davy. One night in a motel room, he gets a random phone call from a mysterious woman named Nicole. They start a funny and intimate long distance relationship that leaves Davy happier than he has been in years. Hoping there is more to the relationship then a voice and a phone bill, Davy decides he wants to…
RED RIDING trilogy is based on factual events and adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from David Peace’s series of novels. The trilogy follows several characters in intertwining storylines united by the horror wrought by the “Yorkshire Ripper,” a serial killer who terrorized northwest England in the 1970s and ’80s. RED RIDING – 1974 (Directed by Julian Jarrold) centers on a rookie journalist, Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield), whose investigation of a series of child abductions and murders leads him to suspect that there’s a terrifying connection between the perpetrators and the upper echelons…
Every Story Has Two Sides: “Tehran: Another Side” is a film of an Iranian-American who returned to his family’s homeland, and discovered another side of the city erased from the narratives of mainstream media. This is his Tehran, but also a Tehran he aspires to offer into the popular American imagination.Sam Ali Kashani was born in New Jersey in 1985, grew up in Los Angeles where he attended film school at California State University, Northridge. He received his B.A. in Cinema and Television Arts in 2006. at 2009 he wrote, directed, and produced his debut documentary “Tehran: Another Side”. As…
Ajami is a powerful crime drama set on the streets of Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood – a melting pot of cultures and conflicting views among Jews, Muslims and Christians – and told through the eyes of a cross-section of the city’s inhabitants: a young Israeli (Shahir Kabaha) fighting a criminal vendetta against his family, a Palestinian refugee (Ibrahim Frege) working illegally to finance a life-saving surgery, a Jewish police detective (Eran Naim) obsessed with finding his missing brother, and an affluent Palestinian (Scandar Copti) dreaming of a future with his Jewish girlfriend. As their stories intersect – and the film’s narrative…
This is our first article in a series of interviews and reviews focusing on Digital Film Editing. Cinema Without Borders proudly starts this series by interviewing Mike Diehl, an expert on hardware from Hewlett-Packard.Mike Diehl is a product manager for the personal workstation business at Hewlett-Packard’s Workstation Global Business Unit. Mike is responsible for the feature definition and life cycle management for HP’s high-end workstation platforms. During his 24+ years at HP, Mike has had a diverse set of assignments in both R&D; and Marketing. He was a lead architect and engineer in HP’s workstation R&D; lab. This included the…
The official Danish selection for this year’s Academy Awards and winner of 7 Robert Awards (Danish Oscars) including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay, TERRIBLY HAPPY spins a riveting yarn about Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren), a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated marshal position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople.Quickly spiraling into an intense fable, director Henrik Ruben…
DONKEY takes place in the sweltering summer of 1995 as Croatian army forces complete operations that would end the civil war. A troubled relationship is revealed as Boro (Nebojsa Glogovac) drives his irritated wife, Jasna (Natasa Janjic), and their 6-year-old son, Luka (Roko Roglic), from Zagreb to Drinovci, the remote Herzegovinian village where Boro was born. It has been seven years since their last visit, and when the dysfunctional clan arrives in Drinovci, it becomes clear where Boro’s uncommunicative, patriarchal attitudes come from. Boro hasn’t spoken to his equally stubborn father Pasko in quite some time. Boro’s wheelchair-bound refugee brother…