Author: CWB News Department

The Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival, founded by producer Talize Sayegh, continues tonight at the Egyptian theatre with four more days of films showcasing Brazil’s up and coming indie filmmakers. This year, tickets to most of the films will be free, thanks to the generous support of the Grace Helen Spearman Foundation, the General Consulate of Brazil in Los Angeles, and the Brazilian Foreign Relations Ministry. Tonight, Thursday June 76 PM – Feature : IS THE CITY ONE ONLY? (A CIDADE É UMA SÓ?) – 80 minDirected by Adirley QueirósBrasilia hoped to become the expression of a modern urban concept. However,…

The 4th annual edition of the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival (HBR FEST) festival will showcase selected narrative and short films by up and coming Brazilian filmmakers and will take place in the heart of Hollywood, California from June 6th to the 10th at the Egyptian Theatre. Indie Filmmakers from all corners of Brazil will showcase their work and will interact with Hollywood industry professionals in exclusive networking events. HBR FEST is the first Hollywood-based film festival dedicated to addressing the cultural and commercial exchange between Hollywood, the World Film Industry and the Brazilian Film Community. Tickets to most screening are…

The Tuscia Operafestival, now in its sixth season in the historic papal city of Viterbo, will see its Californian debut with the opening of the Italian Opera Festival™ in Orange County, the pearl of Southern California, at the Soka Performing Arts Center of Soka University in Aliso Viejo. The series of events will begin on Saturday, May 26th at 5:00 PM with a press conference hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute (1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles) and its director, Alberto Di Mauro, and will end on June 2nd, the “Festa della Repubblica”, national Italian holiday commemorating the independence of the…

2012 Cannes Film Festival announced the award winners tonight. Responding to questions from journalists at the press conference that followed the closing ceremony, Nanni Moretti and his jurors readily commented on their selected winners.In the preamble, the President of the Jury Nanni Moretti said that the jurors had got on particularly well together, that they had held eight meetings, and talked a lot about the films. He said that no film had been unanimously selected. Raoul Peck added that despite this, “everyone in their own way added to the opinions held by others” and that “somehow a middle ground was…

On May 24 the Best Animated films From Stuttgart Festival 2012 were screened at the Goethe Institute, Los Angeles. The night opened with a reception and then Fareed Majari, Director of the Goethe Institute, Los Angeles, introduced the selected films from the Stuttgart Festival 2012 to the audience. All animated films from Germany were well received by a full house of audience. Most applauded films were German Wurst and Zing. The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) is one of the world’s largest and most important festivals for animated film. From May 08 to May 13, 2012 around 1,000 of…

Cannes 2012 – Alain Resnais held a press conference for You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet in the company of his producer, Jean-Louis Livi and several members of his cast: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny, Anny Duperey, Hippolyte Girardot, Denis Podalydes, Lambert Wilson. They all paid emphatic and moving tribute to their director, in particular Anne Consigny, who said, “I give you my heart”.Alain Resnais, on the film’s title:lt just sort of crept in unnoticed to the editing room. It was a joke at first and became a sort of catchphrase between my editor, Hervé de Luze, and me. Then…

The Feature Films Jury presided over by the Italian Director, Nanni Moretti, explained what it intends to do in a press conference held a few hours before the Opening Ceremony:Nanni Moretti :”We’re going to meet up every other day to discuss the four films that we’ve seen. We’re going to watch twenty-two films in total and our views will undoubtedly differ. I’ll play the role of a school prefect! The key thing is to watch all of the films with the same level of interest and respect.”Diane Kruger :”It’s a great honour to form part of this Jury. However, I…

There’s a phone on the floor, and lying next to it is a teenage girl with her hand down her pants, masturbating to the voice of a male phone-sex operator. And thus, Norwegian filmmaker Jannicke Systad Jacobsen introduces moviegoers to the unfamiliar territory of female adolescent sexuality in her raw and poignant comedy, “Turn Me On Dammit!”Based on the novel by Olaug Nilssen, “Turn Me On, Dammit!” is about Alma (Helene Bergsholm), a fifteen year old girl trapped in a dull rural town (when passing the sign for Skoddeheimen, she and her friend Saralou habitually raise their middle-fingers in disgust).…

(Los Angeles, May 8, 2012) – South East European Film Festival, SEE Fest 2012 concluded Monday night at UCLA’s Bridges Theater in Los Angeles with the screening of the Turkish epic FUTURE LASTS FOREVER, an exploration of the parallel pasts and research of Anatolian elegies directed by Özcan Alper, which also won Bridging the Borders award for best feature film of the festival. Honorable Mention went to another Turkish film, DO NOT FORGET ME ISTANBUL, a collection of seven stories by seven directors under artistic direction of Turkey’s auteur Hüseyin Karabey. Both awards are traditionally presented by Cinema Without Borders,…

Burbank, California, May 7th, 2012 – Today, Cinema Without Borders announced that Darryl Macdonald, Director of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival & Film Market and Executive Director of the Palm Springs Film Society, will be the winner of the first Cinema Without Borders annual “Friend Of International Cinema Award”. This new award goes to a person or an organization that helps promote international cinema in the U.S. “Darryl Macdonald, through years of working as a festival director, has been a true friend and ally of international cinema. Mr. Macdonald has introduced films from…