The eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival announced the winner of The Heineken Audience Award – City Island – tonight at the Tribeca Filmmaker Lounge, sponsored by Union Square Ballroom, in New York City. The voting process for The Heineken Audience Award had been taking place throughout the duration of the Festival, as audiences were encouraged to fill out nomination ballots upon exiting screenings of Festival films. Final results were tabulated and announced during the Festival wrap party. Raymond De Felitta, director of City Island, will receive a cash prize of $25,000. City Island, which made its World Premiere at the…
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Film Movement announces that UNDER THE BOMBS, about an expatriate returning to her native Lebanon in search of her son during the 2006 war, will be available on DVD beginning Tuesday, May 5th, 2009. All Film Movement releases include a short film—this month’s selection is Porn, from Poland. The DVDs will be available at Film Movement (www.filmmovement.com), and also through major retailers such as Blockbuster, Amazon, Netflix and at Passion River Films (www.passionriver.com).Synopsis of UNDER THE BOMBS: During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, a Christian taxi driver brings an untraditional Shiite woman from Beirut to the heart…
Hollywood- Sunday January 11 – Tonight Waltz With Bashir won the Golden Globe’s Best Foreign Language Film Award.Other nominees were The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany), Everlasting Moments (Sweden, Denmark), Gomorrah (Italy) and I’ve Loved You So Long (France).Waltz With Bashir: One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember…
The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) Awards Gala, presented by Cartier, was Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at the Palm Springs Convention Center hosted by “Entertainment Tonight’s” Mary Hart. Honorees Amy Adams and Gus Van Sant were presented with an original Chihuly Glass Sculpture designed by Dale Chihuly while the other honorees received the John Kennedy “The Entertainer” statue. Guests enjoyed “The Cîroc Desert Palm” created especially for the Festival by Diageo.The Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala honors individuals in the entertainment industry with several prestigious awards for acting, director, achievement in film scoring and life…
From October 17 to October 31, the YouTube Screening Room – a platform for premium film content from around the world – will showcase four films by some of today’s foremost Asian filmmakers. From award-winning festival darlings to undiscovered gems submitted directly to YouTube, The Screening Room is a special curation of high quality films from around the world. Rotating the films every other Friday, The Screening Room creates a space for filmmakers to engage a global audience like never before.Leading the line up is “The Princess of Nebraska”, a new feature film from BAFTA-award-nominated Chinese filmmaker, Wayne Wang, director…
Music on Film, Film on Music (MOFFOM) in Prague, Czech Republic announced the award winners of 2008. The festival jury evaluated the best of the competition section entries; here are the authors and films who received the awards at the closing ceremony at Lucerna: the main prize was given to Maciej Pisarek’s SOLO. This Polish movie gives a true picture of the MOFFOM festival vision Music on Film-Film on Music. Two directors received honorable mentions: Jim Heneghan for Kiss Loves You and Ben Herson for African Underground: Democracy in Dakar. Margarita Jimeno’s Gogol Bordello Non-Stop won the Audience Award at…
NICE, New Italian Cinema Events will start its 18th New York edition from November 13 to 17 at the Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street at Laight Street) presenting seven North American premieres. The traveling festival is dedicated to presenting first films by Italian directors to an international audience. The festival will open with MAR NERO (“BLACK SEA”) in the presence of first-time director Federico Bondi, whose protagonist Ilaria Occhini won the award for Best Actress at the International Film Festival Locarno. “Acclaimed Italian star Ilaria Occhini and Romania’s Dorotheea Petre make a lasting impression in a variation on the odd…
A sensitive, intimate film opened the German Currents series at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica last night, “A Year in Winter” by Academy Award-winner Caroline Link (Nowhere in Africa). The movie explores grief and the process of mourning as well as the intricacy of relationships. Although it deals with very strong emotions, it keeps a certain delicacy and modesty throughout.We have five main characters: 22 year old Lili, strong-willed, talented dancer but rebellious, her father, her mother, her brother Alex, deceased a year earlier, and Max, the painter who is commissioned by the mother to paint a portrait of…
Tex box The Film Society of Lincoln Center will host actors, directors, journalists and a judge this August as three of its ongoing programs present four films, mixing political dramas with inventive coming-of-age tales.The editors of Film Comment magazine bookend the month of August with the New York theatrical premieres of two little-seen gems, beginning with the Film Comment Selects screening of Stephen Frears’s “The Deal” (UK, 2005; 90m), Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 8:00 p.m. Frears and writer Peter Morgan’s prequel to “The Queen,” the film traces the devolution in the relationship between the old-fashioned and hard-nosed Gordon Brown (David…
Banned 15 years ago because of governmental resistance in early post-Soviet Estonia, the original, uncensored version of “City Unplugged” is now available on DVD and downloads through the distributor IndiePix films . Directed by Ilkka Javilatury 1993, “City Unplugged” is set in Tallinn, 1991, shortly after Estonia separated from the Soviet Union, and squarely depicts the uneasy and chaotic times that faced the newly independent nation. The portrait of a country in flux is a reason many give for its eventual banning by the government. IndiePix President Bob Alexander expressed the importance of this release, noting, “ [its] a great…