Burbank, CA (June 26, 2008): The international film website Cinema Without Borders announced today that Mr. Fred Nassiri is the winner of its 2008 Bridging The Borders Award. A singer, songwriter, filmmaker and peace activist of international renown, Mr. Nassiri has received the award in recognition of his extraordinary and ongoing mission to help children throughout the world generate hope for world peace, and to bring all people of the world closer together through the arts of film and music.“Mr. Nassiri is an exceptional humanitarian as well as an accomplished artist in the fields of film and music,” noted CWB’s…
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.
Laura Soloff has more than 25 years of experience in career-focused education and human resources management. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is actively involved in educational and community initiatives and serves on the Board of Directors of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce and formerly served as past President of the California Academic Decathlon Board of Directors. Laura currently presides as President of The Art Institute of California—Los Angeles, one of The Art Institutes, a system of over 40 education institutions located throughout North America, since February 2003. She served as…
Film and Television writer/producer/director and development executive David Schreiber directed his first short movie at age 13 and has been in love with the art form since that early age. As a development executive in Hollywood, he helped shepherd into production some of the most commercially and artistically successful movies of the 1980’s, from The Elephant Man and The Fly to My Favorite Year and more.In the world of multi-camera production, Mr. Schreiber wrote for the Emmy-winning children’s shows Double-Dare and What Would You Do? As well as many game and reality shows. Having worked as a film reviewer for…
Richard Raddon is currently in his ninth year as Festival Director at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Before joining the festival, Mr. Raddon worked as an independent producer. His credits include: A Slipping Down Life, starring Guy Pearce, Lily Taylor, and Bruno Kirby, which premiered in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Lions Gate Entertainment in May 2004; Shooting Lily, which garnered the grand prize at the 1997 South by Southwest Film Festival; …And God Spoke which was released theatrically by Live Entertainment; and Flow, an organ donation educational film for the Jamie Redford Institute.…
Tannishtha Chatterjee is emerging as one of India’s leading art house actresses. Her film credits include Shadows of Time (2004) directed by Oscar winning German director Florian Gallenberger and Swaraj (2002), for which she gained a National Best Supporting Actress nomination. Other award winning features which have screened globally are: Let the Wind Blow (2004), an Indo-French venture; Bas Yun Hi (2003); Strings; Divorce: Not Between Husband and Wife (2005); and Kasturi. Tannishtha’s latest principal role was in Bibar, based on the famous Bengali novel and has so far netted her the Best Actress awards at Osian’s Cinefan and the…
Brick Lane is story of Nazneen’s life, a girl is turned upside down at the tender age of seventeen,. Forced intoan arranged marriage to an older man; she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her…
When Did You Last See Your Father? is an unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur’s terminal illness and imminent death. Blake’s memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and teens are interspersed with tender and heartrending scenes in the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of conflict, and learns to accept that one’s parents are not always accountable to their children.Directed by Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie), from a screenplay by David Nicholls, adapted from Blake Morrison’s novel of the same…
In 1938 the first Laemmle’s Theaters were opened in Los Angeles by Max Laemmle, and his brother, Kurt. Since then, the Laemmle’s Theater chain has vastly expanded, growing their reach throughout Southern California. Over time, Laemmle’s Theater’s have become the leaders in showcasing art house, independent, and foreign film in the Los Angeles area. There are currently seventeen Laemmle’s locations, and the chain has recently added a five-plex theater in Claremont, and has plans to add a seven-screen complex in the north Hollywood arts district. Throughout their expansion and success, Laemmle’s Theater has remained a family owned business. Greg Laemmle,…
Cliff Robertson is the only actor to have won the Academy Award, Emmy Award, Theatre World Award, as well as the Advertising Age Award. His brilliant performance in Charly earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. That critical success was followed by the Emmy Award for Best TV Actor in the drama The Game, directed by Sydney Pollack. He also starred in, directed and wrote the outstanding rodeo drama J.W. Coop, and directed and starred in The Pilot. Other films include Star 80, Escape from L.A., Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, and the recently released Stephen King’s Riding the…
Sergei Bodrov illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, MONGOL. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, MONGOL delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. MONGOL shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and…