Author: CWB News Department

Hennie returns to Toronto, this time in Headhunters: Norwegian actor Aksel Hennie’s latest film selected for a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival between September 8-18. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters (Hodejegerne), from Jo Nesbø’s best-selling crime novel with Aksel Hennie in the lead, will have its North American premiere as a special presentation in the 36th Toronto International Film Festival, which takes place between September 8-18.It will be Hennie’s third appearance in the official progamme of the festival, after his own directorial debut, Uno (2004), and Joachim Roenning-Espen Sandberg’s Max Manus (2009). Headhunters, which will be launched…

New York, NY– The Economist Film Project, which presents documentary films that reflect the types of hard-hitting issues The Economist is known for covering, announced today that the documentary Mugabe and the White African has been selected as part of The Economist Film Project. Directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson and produced by Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock and David Pearson, Mugabe and the White African is an intimate account of the struggles for justice that Michael Campbell, one of the few hundred white farmers left in Zimbabwe after President Robert Mugabe began his violent “Land Reform” program in 2000, went…

“Seventeen years ago more than 1,050,000 people were killed over a 100 day period during the bloody Rwandan Genocide. As one of the most gruesome, horrific mass murders in modern history, it is also regarded as a dark period where the world community failed to act- and many across the globe failed to take notice. To coincide with the seventeenth anniversary of the mass murders in the African country, Explore.org, a non profit created to champion the selfless acts of others, is launching the Raindrops Over Rwanda Facebook page- a hub of learning, interaction and multi-media maintained by survivor and young…

Over the past two decades, Belgian cinema, be it from Flanders or from the French speaking part of the country, has risen to prominence in the international filmmaking arena, boasting richly diverse films that consistently garner critical praise and worldwide anticipation. From the unsettling but still urgently relevant MAN BITES DOG which rocked the Cannes Film Festival in 1992 and the quirky and vibrant tale of identity mix-up in TOTO THE HERO, to the monumental saga of DAENS or the Oscar nominated EVERYBODY FAMOUS, the outstanding thrillers MEMORY OF A KILLER and DOSSIER K, and the string of critically-lauded dramatic…

Woody Allen announced today the full cast for “The Bop Decameron,” his latest film in pre-production. Starring, in alphabetical order, are: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Co-stars include Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi. “The Bop Decameron” is a Gravier Productions film produced by Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum. This is Allen’s first film to be financed by the Italian production and distribution company, Medusa Film. “The Bop Decameron” begins production on July 11 and marks Allen’s…

Freestyle Production Team Set To Open Fest with Showcase of Top Projects and Industry Super Panel at Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Dome Thursday, August 11, 2011 Showcase to Include: Kristen Kiwi Smith’s “The Spleendectomy,” starring Anna Faris, Jennifer Aniston and Andrea Buchanan’s “Room 10;” Jennifer Aniston’s “Free Burma,” starring Woody Harrelson; Kate Hudson’s “Cutlass,” starring Dakota Fanning, Virgina Madsen, Kurt Russell, and Kirsten Stewart; and Sean Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano’s hit “Greg The Bunny” Hollywood June 13, 2011-The organizers of HollyShorts (www.hollyshorts.com) announced today that the 7th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival will kick off by honoring the award-winning production…

Haskell Wexler, the two time Academy-Award Winning Cinematographer (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Bound for Glory) and three time Oscar nominee (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Matewan, Blaze), is a well-respected industry icon who suffers the same fate as any independent filmmaker: he anxiously awaits the release of his narrative feature shot in Nicaragua during the 80s. He has directed over a dozen films including Medium Cool, which has been selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry and by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” And despite Wexler’s credentials, he has…

Anthology Film Archives, Cinema Tropical and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York are proud to announce the launching of a special film initiative dedicated to celebrating the vigorous revitalization of recent Mexican cinema and featuring some of its most exciting and celebrated emerging directors. It’s been over ten years now since Alejandro González Iñárritu’s AMORES PERROS stormed the Critics’ Week at Cannes, winning its top prize and heralding an exciting new era for Mexican cinema. Since then Mexico has witnessed the birth of a vigorous and dynamic generation of young filmmakers who have been challenging many of the traditional and…

2011 Los Angeles Greek Film Festival closes tonight. The CLOSING NIGHT GALA will take place at the Writer’s Guild Theater (135 S. Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90211). All the screening of July 12th will take place at Laemmle’s Sunset 5. Laemmle’s Sunset 5, 8000 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046 11 AM1.2 MILLION CHILDREN (1.2 Ekatommyria Paidia)Greece, 2010, 3 min, US Premiere (Animated)Director: Effie PappaProducers: Effie Pappa, Stelios PolychronakisThis animated short brings light to the tragic issue of children being bought and sold across international borders.WHAT TIME WILL YOU BE BACK? (Ti Ora tha Gyrisis?)Greece, 2010, 20 min,…

2011 Los Angeles Greek Film Festival opens its third day by Special Industry Panel – Crossing Borders, focusing on Foreign Films in Hollywood, followed by five show times all through the afternoon and evening. ALL SCREENINGS and events for Saturday will take place at Laemmle’s Sunset 5. Laemmle’s Sunset 5, 8000 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046 Special Industry Panel – Crossing Borders: Foreign Films in HollywoodThe age of global interconnectedness is shaping the ways films are made,distributed and exhibited in the US and abroad, while the dividing lines between foreign films, independent productions and Hollywood studio films are…