The Serbian film-maker Emir Kusturica will be president of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 64th Festival de Cannes, from 11th to 22nd May 2011. Every year, Un Certain Regard, at the very heart of Official Selection, alongside the Competition, presents around twenty films characterised by the originality of their ideas as well as their aesthetic. Emir Kusturica received the Palme d’Or in 1985 for When Father Was Away on Business. Ten years later, his second Palme d’Or for Underground made him a member of that elite group of directors who have twice been honoured. Accompanied by a jury…
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The Festival de Cannes welcomes the fast-expanding community of film-producing countries to the Village International. Each national pavilion in the Village acts as a small embassy where filmmakers can showcase and celebrate their cultural identities, their institutions and the diversity of their creative work. In a word, they can defend their own approach to cinema while taking advantage of the possibilities of emulation offered by a highly stimulating environment. Moviemakers from around the world are thus encouraged to form fruitful relationships during their time in Cannes. The development of the Village International since 2000 is a token of the importance…
Film Business Asia: Two leading Korean directors will decide the fate of key prizes at this year’s Cannes film festival. Bong Joon-ho (봉준호) will head the jury of the Camera d’Or, the judging panel which gives a prize to the best first film in any section of the festival — the Official Selection (Competition and Un Certain Regard), during Critics’ Week or Directors’ Fortnight. Lee Chang-dong (이창동) will chair the jury of Cannes’s Critics’ Week section. Bong, previously attended Cannes in 2006 with The Host (괴물), which played in the Directors’ Fortnight. He was part of the 2008 Official Selection…
On Demand movie channel eurocinema (eurocinema.com) has joined forces with Nordisk Film & TV Fond (nordiskfilmogtvfond.com) and Diva.AG to create the first ever On Demand film festival, The First Annual Scandinavian On Demand Film Festival, set to debut to North American television audiences beginning May 1st, 2011. The announcement was made today by Eurocinema founder and CEO Sebastien Perioche. Now available in 36 million TV homes in North America, eurocinema has been delivering gems from international and European cinema since 2005 on top platforms, including Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cablevision, RCN, Verizon and DirecTV. The First Annual Scandinavian On Demand Film…
Los Angeles, April 2011 – SEE FEST, the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles (www.seefilmla.org ), the only festival in the United States with a comprehensive coverage of the cinema from that 15-country region, announced today that Bulgarian film by first-time director Dragomir Sholev, SHELTER (Podslon) will open the 6th edition of SEE FEST (www.seefilmla.org) on Thursday, April 28 at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, 5750 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036 in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles. Closing the festival on Monday, May 2 at UCLA Bridges Theatre is life-affirming, musical road movie GYPSY…
LOS ANGELES –The Franco-American Cultural Fund (FACF) today announced the program for the 15th Annual City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA) film festival that will run April 11-18 in Los Angeles. In addition to 26 shorts, the festival will present 34 features, including two World Premieres, eight International and North American Premieres and four U.S. Premieres. “The relationship between COL•COA and our audiences has evolved into a genuine love story over the last 15 years,” stated François Truffart, Director and Programmer. “We are thrilled that for this 15th anniversary year, we will bring an equally exclusive and high profile…
New York – April 2, 2011- The Film Society of Lincoln Center will celebrate India’s greatest filmmaker and one of cinema’s greatest auteurs, Satyajit Ray, with Long Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray unspooling at the Walter Reade Theater in New York City from April 19 through April 26. The promised (and much-requested) follow-up to the 2009 Satyajit Ray tribute, Long Shadows includes all the films made by Ray in the autumnal years of his career. Already an acknowledged giant of world cinema, Ray in these later works reveals a more meditative side: his brilliant powers of observation lead him…
German Films will be presenting the 32nd edition of KINO!2011: New Cinema from Germany from 27 April-2 May 2011 as part of the annual film season curated by program founder Laurence Kardish (Senior Curator, Department of Film) at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.Thanks to the support of the Goethe-Institut New York and the German Consulate General, a total of seven new films and TV productions will be shown in the presence of numerous German artists. German Films will hold a reception at the MoMA for local distributors and representatives of the media. KINO!2011 will open with…
The world’s first-ever film festival dedicated to heavy metal music is set to take place at the Downtown Independent Cinema in Los Angeles, California this coming March 31st through April 3rd, 2011. Festival organizer and long-time metalhead Samuel Douek is proud to announce the first portion of the maiden line-up for 2011’s Heavy Metal Film Festival. Many more films will be announced soon.“I think the Metal community in Los Angeles will be surprised in many ways and people around the world will be intrigued about what our festival is all about. This is shaping up to be an international event…
LOS ANGELES (February 26, 2011) – Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, handed out top honors to Black Swan, Winter’s Bone, 127 Hours, and The Kids Are All Right at this afternoon’s 26th Film Independent Spirit Awards. The King’s Speech, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Get Low, Tiny Furniture, and Daddy Longlegs also received awards at the ceremony, held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica. Tune in to IFC tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT to catch all the action at the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards,…