Azadeh Nikzadeh an Iranian woman filmmaker has been selected as a jury member for the Winter Film Awards. Azadeh Nikzadeh is an Iranian Writer ,director and editor based in New York City. She was the only Iranian filmmaker to receive the prestigious fellowship from Asian Film Academy, Busan International Film Festival in 2010. She also studied directing under the renowned Iranian filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami which shaped her directing style. Azadeh Nikzadeh was also participated at 2012 Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner with her short film “Whisper/ Najva” . She was awarded for her activities and success as a filmmaker as the Top…
Author: Bita Elahian
Three short films from Iran are in international competition section of the 7th New York Winter Film Awards in New York City . New York Winter Film Awards supports Indie film from around the world. Submitted films could be from any genres, but the emphasis is on highlighting the work of women and underrepresented filmmakers. The rapidly growing Festival – which was recently voted as one of the Top 10 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway – seeks to have a diverse collection of creative indie films, ranging from narrative features to short films, from documentaries to animation, and from music…
Gaze, a short film from Iran, won the grand jury Award for Live Action Short Film at 2017 AFI Film Festival. By receiving this award, Gaze will be introduced to the Academy award for nomination consideration. According to Bita Elahian, Cinema without Borders’ reporter, Gaze is directed by Iranian woman film director Farnoosh Samadi that she has co-written it with Ali Asgari. Gaze producer is Pourya Heydari Urea. This is the second year in a raw that Farnoosh Samadi is introduced to the Academy Awards for consideration of nomination. Farnoosh Samadi was first introduced to the Academy for her first short…
Iranian short films “Retouch” and “Lunch Time” received best short narrative award and honorable mention at the 18th annual Ojai Film Festival. According to Bita Elahian, Cinema Without Borders reporter, at the closing ceremony of the eighteenth Ojai film festival, Retouch, a short film directed by Kaveh Mazaheri, and “Lunch Time” directed by Alireza Ghasemi were awarded with the Best narrative short Film award. Bita Elahian, who is also an Iranian/Americans filmmaker received the award on behalf of Alireza Ghasemi. 24 short films competed during the festival. In addition to “Retouch” and “Lunch”, two other fictional short films “Not yet”…
On Thursday April 27th and at the opening night of the 2017 Southeast European Film Festival, Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders, received Ambassador of International Cinema Award from Founder and Director of SEEfest, Vera Mijojlice. This ceremony was held at the Writers Guild Theater, Beverly Hills and was attended by industry professionals and several high rank diplomats and film fans. SEEfest has announced that on the 10th anniversary of Cinema Without Borders, online portal for international cinema in Los Angeles, SEEfest has been honored its founder and editor-in-chief Bijan Tehrani with Ambassador of International Cinema Award.…
A month after winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, the drama picked up Best Screenplay at the Asian Film Awards, which is widely considered to be the East’s version of the Academy Awards. The movie, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, was part of a pack dominated by winners from China and South Korea, most notably a South Korean and a Chinese comedy.
Wild Tales (Spanish: Relatos salvajes) is a 2014 Argentine black comedy-drama film written and directed by Damián Szifrón and starring an ensemble cast consisting of Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg and Darío Grandinetti. It was co-produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar. The film’s musical score was composed by Gustavo Santaolalla. It has been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. The first story and prologue is “Pasternak”: Two passengers on a plane discover that they know a man named Pasternak: the girl was his former girlfriend, and…
BAMcinématek and International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced the full lineup and schedule for Rotterdam @ BAM today, a total of fourteen features and a shorts program showcasing IFFR’s competition films—the VPRO Tiger Awards—taking place from March 3—9, 2010.International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of the largest and most influential international film festivals, focuses on independent, innovative, and experimental cinema from all over the world. This seven-day showcase at BAMcinématek will mark the New York premieres of almost all of the films, with some also making their U.S. and North American premieres, directly after screening in official competition during the 39th…
Scandinavian Film Festival, Los Angeles was opened on Saturday and will continue over the next weekend. In the last two days of the festival 11 films from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland will be screened.Saturday January 16 12:00 pm THE REINDEER PRINCESS (Norway) Nils John Porsanger 12:45 pm THE ACCIDENT (Norway) Marcelino Martin Valiente 2:30 pm STARRING MAJA (Sweden) Teresa Fabik 4:30 pm SEE YOU (Denmark) Jesper Rasmussen 5:00 pm LOVE AND RAGE (Denmark) Morton Giese 7:30 pm A SWEDISH MIDSUMMER SEX COMEDY (Sweden) Ian McCrudden Sunday January 17 10:30 am DECODING ICELAND (Iceland) Hordur Arnarson 12:30 pm REYKJAVIK…
Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani’s Twenty has been awarded at the 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The 88-minute production won the Czech festival’s Special Jury Prize and the Prize of Ecumenical Jury.Twenty is about a reception hall’s staff, who fear for their jobs after the owner decides to sell the place in twenty days. The psychological drama made its international debut in Karlovy Vary after participating in numerous national festivals and being awarded at Iran’s third International Urban Film Festival. Abdolreza Kahani began his film career at the age of 15 and made his first short film, The Smile in…