Chris Geiser, Product Line Manager, In-Home Distribution NETGEAR, is an experienced marketer who’s 15-year career has included roles in product management, product marketing, consulting and market research. He has worked for leading technology companies, including Metatec (now Zomax), Intel, Honeywell and NETGEAR, where he has been the product line manager for in-home distribution products since the summer of 2008. Chris holds an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and an undergraduate degree in telecommunications from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College.Bijan Tehrani: What is the benefit of the Powerline networking compared to wireless networking?Chris Geiser: Typically, what we are…
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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.
Palm Springs International ShortFest Short Film Festival & Market is, without a doubt, one of the best short film festivals in the world. Last year, Palm Springs ShortFest won the Cinema Without Borders Seal of Excellence as the Best Short Film Festival of 2008.I sat down with Darryl Macdonald, director of the Palm Springs International ShortFest Short Film Festival & Market in his Palm Springs office and we talked about the 2009 event.Bijan Tehrani: Please tell us about 2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival. Are there changes we should expect to see from previous festivals?Darryl Macdonald: Well, it is…
Burma VJ shows a rare, inside-look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of the independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma.While 100,000 people (including thousands of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the country’s repressive regime that has held them hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned from entering and the Internet was shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and dramatic events on handycams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via…
Academy Award Winner, Best Foreign Language Film. From Japan, Departures follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled “Departures” thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a “Nokanshi” or “encoffineer,” a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife…
It’s not easy to be a Moslem when you have to transform yourself into an Italian to get the attention of the ladies. It is summer and Gothia Cup, and the Italian team gets all the girls.The main character of Ciao Bella, Mustafa is kind, caring, ready for some action, but without a chance. So when opportunity knocks, he takes on the role as the slick”Massimo”, an Italian. An entirely new world opens up to him. Red-headed, beautiful, young and looking for anything more exciting than what’s going on in the world’s most boring suburb. What could be better than…
For the last three decades Iranian cinema has been very successful in the international scene. There are a lot of international film fans looking for a chance to watch Iranian films that don’t make their way to film festivals in order to get a better understanding of Iranian cinema and its quality. Film fans can now unite behind Gold Line’s GLbox. Now the internet service of GLwiz.com can be presented on your television by using the company’s box. You can access Iranian television and programs outside Iran including Voice of America and BBC in Farsi. You could watch on-demand items…
Val Mijailovic is a 38 year veteran of martial arts, World Karate Champion, World Karate Union Hall of Fame Inductee, United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame Inductee, Multi-business founder/owner and award winning documentary filmmaker. Val holds a 7th degree black belt in martial arts and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences – Cinematographers Peer Group. Mijailovic is the founder of several companies including: Cine Sports Production Inc., Northstar Video Duplication Inc., Exclusive Pictures Inc., Heaven Fire Productions, Inc., Rainbow Tribe Productions, Inc., Ingles 2000 Inc., and Check Disc Labs, Inc. Mijailovic is currently Senior…
Lemon Tree is the story of Salma, a Palestinian widow who lives on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. She has to stand up against her new neighbor the Israeli Defense Minister when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that Salma‘s trees pose a threat to the Minister’s safety and issue orders to uproot them. Together with Ziad Daud, her young Palestinian lawyer, Salma goes all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court to try and save her trees. Her struggle raises the interest…
Long Nguyen is an award winning visual artist and actor of over a dozen feature films and episodic television shows. Long is the winner of two “Best Actor” awards. One for “Journey from the Fall” in the 2006 Newport Beach Film Festival and one for the short film “Apsara” in the 2003 California Independent Film Festival. Long had supporting roles in the following feature films: Heaven & Earth (directed by Oliver Stone,) Operation Dumbo Drop (directed by Simon Wincer,) Into Thin Air (directed by Robert Markowitz,) Green Dragon (directed by Tim Bui,) Missing Brendan (directed by Eugene Brady,) and Coyote…
An established trained actor; Christine Solomon is of Egyptian, Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity; born in Egypt and raised in Montreal from the age of seven. A member of The Egyptian Actor’s Union, she has performed in a wide range of productions across Canada, United States and Egypt. She is also related to famous Egyptian director Sandra Nashaat.Christine has been a performer since her tender years and took up gymnastics at the age of eight. She thrived from the very beginning until the age of twelve when she developed an interest in the art of theatre. Solomon began modeling at the…