The Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) is proud to announce the film line up for its 13th annual festival, themed STUNT. The competitive event will run from June 4TH through June 13TH at indieScreen and the Brooklyn Heights Cinema.BiFF will present over 100 film premieres that were selected from over 2,400 submissions coming from 92 countries. This year, BiFF will screen a record 16 films that were made by Brooklyn filmmakers with 12 films set in Brooklyn.The films will be combined in 64 film programs (each film will be shown twice). BiFF will operate two screening rooms throughout the festival.…
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The third edition of the New York Documentary Film Festival – Festival dei Popoli (May 26-30, 2010) at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003) is part of an ongoing project of the Festival dei Popoli. Based in Florence, Italy, it is the oldest International Documentary Film Festivalin Europe. It aims to broaden the audience for its rich collection of archival footage, as well as Italian documentaries in general. Founded in 1959, the FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI is devoted to promoting and studying social documentary cinema. In fifty years, the collection has grown into an unparalleled treasure of…
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) has announced the 2010 line-up of films for its 4th annual Festival, which runs June 10 – 13 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. LAGFF is excited to present 7 feature films, 4 documentaries and 5 shorts, including 1 world premiere, 12 US premieres and 3 LA premieres during the 3-day Festival.Opening night of the Festival is the US premiere of director Vardis Marinakis’s BLACK FIELD (Mavro Livadi), starring Sofia Georgovassili. This 1650‘s based love story of Anthi, a young nun, and an Ottoman warrior, truly tests boundaries and delves into matters of identity,…
Southeast European Film Festival, Los Angeles opened on Thursday April 29th and continues until May 2nd at Goethe-Institut Los Angeles located at 5750 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 100. Closing night of the festival will be held on May 3rd at James Bridges Theatre in UCLA campus, Westwood. There will be also a Business Conference on May 3rd between 9 AM to 3 PM at UCLA Anderson, organized by the Southeast European Film Festival, Los Angeles.Monday – May 3rd – 9:00 am to 3:00 pmFestival’s ProgramThursday – April 29th 7:00 pm THE WALL(USA, documentary vignette; 1989 1 min.) double feature GOODBYE, HOW…
The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff announced the winners of its world competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City. The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 20 countries. Two awards were given to honor New York films, which were chosen from seven narrative and six documentary features. Awards were also given for the best narrative, best documentary and student visionary films in the short film competitions. This year’s Festival…
Montreal–The National Film Board of Canada is taking its long-time relationship with animation filmmaker Cordell Barker in an exciting new direction. Barker, creator of three NFB animation shorts that are among the most popular in the public producer’s catalogue, has signed on as a creative consultant with the NFB’s Prairie and North West centres. He will advise NFB producers on animation projects generated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, as well as work from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Barker will consult on all genres and forms of animated films and assist producers in discovering and working with emerging and experienced…
New York – In a rare move, Woody Allen revealed today the title, cast and story details for his latest film in pre-production. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS stars Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and Carla Bruni. Also in the cast are Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Tom Hiddleston, Corey Stoll, Mimi Kennedy and Kurt Fuller. The film shoots this summer in Paris. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS is a romantic comedy that follows a family travelling to the city for business. The party includes a young engaged couple that has their lives transformed throughout the journey. The film celebrates a young…
Those familiar with Nicholas Kristof’s column in the NY Times will know his admiration and championship of the courageous rape survivor who refused to be silenced by shame. AFTER THE RAPE: THE MUKHTAR MAI STORY recalls a local event with global implications. In 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman from a remote part of the Punjab, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan. Instead of committing suicide or living in shame, Mukhtar spoke out, fighting for justice in the Pakistani courts—making world headlines. Further…
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Last night, at the 10th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF) closing Gala Awards ceremony, “3 Saisons,” a feature-length drama from writer/director/producer Jim Donovan, received the Golden Palm Award and the Audience Award for Best Feature Film. The Brazilian documentary “Sequestro” (“Kidnapping”)—which received a five-minute standing ovation during the World Premiere on Opening Night—was awarded Best Director for Jorge W. Atalla and the Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary, went to the film’s executive producers, Frederico Lapenda and Christian Gudegast. Lapenda announced that he is next producing the live action version of the film with…
Jorge W. Atalla’s hard-hitting, critically acclaimed documentary, “Kidnapping” (“Sequestro”), chronicling economic kidnappings in Sao Paulo, Brazil and the specialized police team formed to combat the epidemic, has been selected as the opening film of the 10th Beverly Hills Film Festival (April 14 – 18th, 2010 at the Clarity Theater in Beverly Hills), marking the film’s North American premier.What had first begun in the 1980’s as a political crime committed by Leftist guerilla idealists increasingly escalated into random hostage situations perpetrated by common criminals for profit in the 1990’s. As a government response to the increased terror of the population and…