Animation Libation Studios & Animation Magazine are reviving The World Animation Celebration beginning this year with a short film animation festival. This event will take place for one day on November 1 at The Los Angeles Film School, in Hollywood California. Animation Magazine, is the leading magazine promoting the business, art, and technology of animation globally and Animation Libation Studios, works with artists and visionaries to create original content from around the world. Together, they are reviving this historic event with limited FREE* tickets. The festival is showcasing animated shorts from 47 countries including categories of CG, Traditional, Student Films,…
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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. We are planning to run five articles about HP Bridging The Borders Award and HP’s presence in film industry. For our first article we interviewed Rick Champagne is Worldwide…
Two powerful, eye-opening programs deconstruct and recontextualize women’s complex relationship with Islam in Iranian culture and society. Ranging from experimental film and video to documentaries, the works draw attention to ways women are posited both within Islam and at its border, with codes of sexual propriety, veiling and separation functioning as signifiers of a condition fraught with contradiction and hope.Artists include Haleh Anvari, Samira Eskandarfar, Loghman Khaledi, Firouzeh Khorosvani, Nassrin Nasser, Pooya Razi, Jinoos Taghizadeh and Nikoo Tarkhani. Part of the Los Angeles/Islam Arts Initiative (LA/IAI), which links nearly 30 L.A. institutions to explore traditional and contemporary arts from Islamic…
The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque will celebrate the 8th edition of German Currents on October 9th -12th, 2014 at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.German Currents 2014 – 8th Annual Festival of German Film Los Angeles begins with an opening film and gala on the evening of Thursday, October 9th, 2014. Continuing through Sunday, October 12th, German Currents 2014 will present a varied selection of current German cinema; including features, documentary, and short films, as well as a family/youth film. To learn more about 2014 German Currents we had an interview with Fareed Majari Director of Goethe-Institut…
Polish Film Festival Los Angeles will open on October 7 and will run until October 16. 2014 marks the 15th anniversary of this successful film festival that presents the best of Polish cinema in Hollywood every year. Here is the complete program of the festival: OPENING NIGHT GALATuesday, October 7, 2014Egyptian Theatre6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA. 900286:00 PM RECEPTION (Catering by Turek; bar by Shekspeare Vodka)8:00 PM OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL– Zbigniew Banas (MC)HB Barnum LIFE Choir – Polish & American National AnthemsPresentation of Awards Screening of SOPHIE SEEKS 7 (Facet (nie)potrzebny od zaraz) by Weronika Migon(in person: Weronika Migon,…
SEPTEMBER X, 2014 (LOS ANGELES) – Member States from the European Union will hold the first annual EUphoria Film Festival, celebrating films from across the European Union, at the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), it was announced by the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), European Languages and Movies in America (ELMA) and 13 EU Consulates in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The festival will be held at the USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex from September 19 – 24, 2014. All screenings will be free and open to the public, except for the opening night ceremony and presentation…
Jānis Skulme is a Latvian filmmaker based in London. He recently sat down with Cinema Without Borders to talk about his latest project, a video for Olga Korsak, the Latvian pop singer based in Toronto. Cinema Without Borders: How did the project come about? Jānis Skulme: As a filmmaker from RIJA films (http://www.rijafilms.lv) and a visual effects artist from Latvia, I did a short test video (https://vimeo.com/31230362) for the Toronto-based Latvian singer Olga Korsak and she liked it, so she invited me to make a music video for her song “Behind Closed Doors” for her new music album (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/olga-korsak-debut-album). I…
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 8, 2014 — HP today introduced its most powerful Z Workstations combining increased system expandability, higher-speed memory and multicore updates, as well as access to the latest technologies to help customers future-proof their investment in HP’s broadest workstation portfolio. HP Z Desktops and HP ZBook Mobile Workstations are built to address the constraints of compute-intensive industries, including media and entertainment, graphic design, CAD, architecture, photography, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, scientific imaging, and oil and gas exploration. The new additions to the portfolio include: The new HP Z840, Z640 and Z440 desktop workstations feature the latest Intel Xeon…
The Venezia 71 Jury, chaired by Alexandre Desplat and comprised ofJoan Chen, Philip Gröning, Jessica Hausner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandy Powell, Tim Roth, Elia Suleiman and Carlo Verdone having viewed all 20 films in competition, has decided as follows: GOLDEN LION for Best Film to: EN DUVA SATT PÅ EN GREN OCH FUNDERADE PÅ TILLVARON (A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE) by Roy Andersson (Sweden, Germany, Norway, France) SILVER LION for Best Director to: Andrej Koncalovskij for the film BELYE NOCHI POCHTALONA ALEKSEYA TRYAPITSYNA (THE POSTMAN’S WHITE NIGHTS) (Russia) GRAND JURY PRIZE to: THE LOOK OF SILENCE by…
Here is the list of tilms at International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres at 71st Venice Film Festival.FATIH AKIN – THE CUT Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Canada, Poland, Turkey, 138’Tahar Rahim, Akin Gazi, Simon Abkarian, George Georgiou ROY ANDERSSON – EN DUVA SATT PÅ EN GREN OCH FUNDERADE PÅ TILLVARON (A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE) Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, 101’Holger Andersson, Nisse VestblomRAMIN BAHRANI – 99 HOMES USA, 112’Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Noah LomaxRAKHSHAN BANIETEMAD – GHESSEHA (TALES) Iran, 88’Fatemeh Motamedaria, Peiman Moadi, Baran Kosari, Farhad Aslani, Mohammadreza Forootan, Golab Adineh, Mehdi…