The 36th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards ceremony will be held Saturday, January 15 at the InterContinental, Los Angeles. As previously announced, Paul Mazursky will receive the 2010 Career Achievement Award.Award winners are:PICTURE: “The Social Network”. Runner-up: “Carlos”. DIRECTOR: Olivier Assayas, “Carlos,” and David Fincher, “The Social Network” (tie). ACTOR: Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech”.Runner-up: Edgar Ramirez, “Carlos”.ACTRESS: Kim Hye-ja, “Mother.”Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter’s Bone”.SUPPORTING ACTOR: Niels Arestrup, “A Prophet”.Runner-up: Geoffrey Rush, “The King’s Speech”.SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jacki Weaver, “Animal Kingdom”.Runner-up: Olivia Williams, “The Ghost Writer”.SCREENPLAY: Aaron Sorkin, “The Social Network”.Runner-up: David Seidler, “The King’s Speech”FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: “Carlos” Runner-up:…
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The beginning of July marks the official start of the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) and Jan Vrijman Fund (JVF) Cinema Mondial Tour in Tanzania, then one day later in Rwanda. The two funds, which provide support to filmmakers in developing countries, have set up a joint film programme that will tour film festivals in Africa until March 2011. The film programme consists of a total of 12 fiction films and documentaries, all made with support from the Hubert Bals Fund and the Jan Vrijman Fund, respectively.Cinema Mondial Tour in AfricaThe films included in the programme come from various African countries,…
Palm Springs, CA (June 14, 2010) – The 2010 Palm Springs International ShortFest announced its roster of 314 films, selected from more than 3,000 worldwide entries. Now in its 16th year, ShortFest will showcase 58 World Premieres, 55 North American Premieres and 24 U.S. Premieres. The selection of films for screening and competition features star-studded casts and award-winning films from 43 countries around the world. All selections are structured into 52 themed programs, which will screen June 22-28, at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs, CA. See attached or visit www.psfilmfest.org for a complete list of this year’s film programs.Commenting…
Dave Seperson, senior technical product planning manager for Sony’s home audio/video business, brings a wide range of experience from sales and marketing with over 20 years of CE experience and 11 years with Sony. He has held several different positions with the company from training to product marketing and planning. Dave has been involved in product and technologies launches including DVD, media storage, LCD displays, handhelds, E-ink readers, and Blu-ray Disc™ technology. Bijan Tehrani: Can you tell us a little bit about Sony’s approach to 3-D television?Dave Seperson: We are trying to make entertainment more immersive and exciting for consumers,…
Demotix: The Oscars of Indian cinema, the IIFA Weekend awards ceremony is being held in the island nations capital Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, June 5, 2010 Attended by a host of Indian cinema stars it is being promoted by Sri Lanka as an event to bolster its war torn economy after suffering a near three decades of violence. The separatists were defeated by the islands military last May. Though certain sections of the South Indian film fraternity in Tamil Nadu have urged a boycott of the event it is going ahead as scheduled. Several stars have stated that they are…
It is still five days to the start of the world cup in South Africa. However, there are already plenty of reasons for celebrations and grand emotions: At the 26th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, the competition winners received their awards this evening. This year’s short film world champion is South Korea: Director Ran-hee Lee wins the jury prize of the International Competition (Hamburg Short Film Award) for his film A Perm. The winners of the jury awards and the audience awards of the German Competition, No Budget Competition, Three-Minute-Quickie Competiton, of the competition-overlapping awards by ARTE and ZDF_neo as…
Screenhead.com-Danish film director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) is originator of “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc”, “The Word”, “Gertrud” and other immortal classics. He has influenced Lars von Trier, and his films are continuously in demand around the world.In May the Danish Film Institute launched a new website, that easily converts to English, on the Danish director, inviting audiences around the world to explore the full extent of Dreyer’s ingenious art through a rich collection of original material and fresh perspectives contributed by Danish and international advocates of the filmmaker’s legacy.Carl Theodor Dreyer is Danish cinema’s most celebrated director and is…
We had a chance to speak to Sean Kilbride. the technical marketing manager for NVIDIA’s Quadro and Professional Solutions products. about new products of NVIDIA that are interest of filmmkers.Cinema Without Borders:. NVIDIA is going through a very exciting year involving in many different fields with a long list of partners. Please give us an overview of NVIDIA’s projects and goals in 2010/2011 Sean Kilbride: For our Professional Solutions Group, which includes our Quadro professional graphics solutions, I’d say that the overreaching goal of NVIDIA moving forward is very much the same as it’s always been. We have been focused…
The 45th Karlovy Vary festival will present a complete retrospective of the films of distinguished Czech director and thinker Karel Vachek. The filmmaker, who turns 70 this year, studied at Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU), and his graduation work Moravian Hellas (1963) had a difficult turn with the public because of its nonconformist character. In 1968 he shot Elective Affinities focusing on the participants of Prague Spring. Vachek returned to documentaries after the revolution of 1989, winning the prestigious Berlinale Camera a year later. Vachek’s seminal work of the period is the “Little Capitalist” tetralogy, which focuses on the newly forming…
Cannes International Film Festival winners have been announced. Cannes 2010 was under the shadow of political events of our time and an evidence of that was the imprisonment of one the jury members, Jaefar Panahi in Iran. Guardian (UK) under the title of ” Cannes film festival 2010: a triumph of politics over art” writes: “The consensus seems to be that Cannes 2010 was far from a stellar year. But the competition produced a bewitching Palme d’Or winner, there were frequent gems elsewhere, and flashes of real social engagement from the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Lucy Walker.Cannes 2010 may…