Author: CWB News Department

Hollywood, CA February, 2011—HollyShorts (www.hollyshorts.com) is now accepting submissions for the 7TH annual HollyShorts Film Festival, which takes place August 11-18, 2011. The early bird deadline for submissions is Friday February 11, 2011. Filmmakers from around the world are encouraged to submit their short form projects to take advantage of the discounted early bird rate. HollyShorts is accepting categories which include: Short Live Action, Animation, Documentary, Student, Webisodes, and Music Videos. The running times must be 30-minutes or less. For the first time ever, the festival has also added a Commercials category. HollyShorts is also unveiling the official 2011 HollyShorts…

Santa Barbara, CA – The 26th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2011 festival competition at a Press Conference and Sunday morning brunch at the famed Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort. To the joy and surprise of both patrons and industry professionals, the festival’s 26th season managed to surpass even the great success of last year’s silver anniversary. Throughout the past 11 days, cinephiles from around the globe packed the theaters of State Street, creating one of the most vivacious periods the area has ever seen. Commented SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling, “This year in particular, I…

WMM (Women Make Movies) films continue to garner awards and nominations! For the fifth year in a row, a WMM film has won an award at Sundance – Dee Rees’ PARIAH, produced through the Women Make Movies Production Assistance (PA) Program, took home the Excellence in Cinematography Award, Dramatic Film, and has now been picked up for distribution by Focus Features. Also, for the fifth time in the past six years, a WMM film has been nominated for an Academy Award© with Jennifer Redfearn’s SUN COME UP, in Best Documentary, Short Subject. Films from WMM’s internationally recognized distribution program that…

New York, NY –The Athena Film Festival: A Celebration of Women and Leadership, announces its 2011 lineup of narrative and documentary films. Straight from the Sundance Film Festival, the New York City premiere of Miss Representation, a film about the media’s disparaging portrayals of women, punctuated by candid interviews with Katie Couric, Nancy Pelosi, Rosario Dawson, Lisa Ling, Catherine Hardwicke, Geena Davis among many others. Desert Flower, a film based on the bestselling book recounts the incredible journey of African refugee Waris Dirie who became a top international model. The Festival is also proud to announce the U.S. premiere, in…

While the Berlinale Talent Campus brings together filmmakers who represent the future of cinema, this year’s Campus programme will also address the future look and feel of cinema. Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders, director of masterpieces such as Wings of Desire, the Cuban music documentary Buena Vista Social Club and Paris, Texas will give a masterclass on his latest documentary Pina, a 3D dance film on the late German contemporary dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, premiering in the Competition section. The main topic will be how 3D expands possibilities for storytelling, with film excerpts to illustrate how these new possibilities also…

NEW YORK – February 2011 – The Dance Films Association Board of Directors President Marta Renzi announced the Jury Prize winners for the 2011 Dance on Camera festival following the Closing Night presentation of DANCING DREAMS at the Walter Reade Theater on Tuesday, February 1. Taking the jury prize for documentary film was Inna Sahakyan’s and Arman Yeritsyan’s THE LAST TIGHTROPE DANCER IN ARMENIA, the jury’s selection for Best Dancefilm went to Rannvá Káradóttir’s BOW, and Anne Linsel’s and Rainer Hoffman’s DANCING DREAMS received a Special Jury Mention. Renzi relayed the jury’s comments regarding each of the honorees to the…

New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival has announced the full slate for the 2011 edition, which runs March 4 to 27 at six New York locations. The nation’s largest festival for kids and teens will present four weeks of ground-breaking and thought-provoking new works for ages 3-18, with 100 new films, opening and closing galas, new feature premieres, six short films programs, filmmaker Q&As, filmmaking workshops, and the NYICFF Awards Ceremony.For the first time, NYICFF is an Oscar® – qualifying festival for short films. Additionally, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® is sponsoring the Festival’s Girls’ POV (Point…

Burbank, CA, February 14, 2011—Cinema Without Borders, an independent publication dedicated to Independent and International Cinema, has declared Mitsubishi’s 73” Diamond Series HD 3DTV as the most ideal High Definition 3D display for film fans. The 2011 iteration of the prestigious Seal of Excellence Award—received in the past by the Palm Springs International Short-Fest Film Festival, Vudu HD On-Demand, and HP (along with Adobe and Nvidia)—is bestowed upon Mitsubishi’s Large Screen 3D Display for excellence in providing an exceptional and encompassing experience for film lovers. “Our team of editors, reviewers and experts spent a great deal of time with Mitsubishi’s…

Park City, UT–The Jury, Audience, NEXT! and other special award-winners of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony hosted by Tim Blake Nelson (star of Flypaper which premiered in this year’s Premieres section) in Park City, Utah. Highlights from the Awards Ceremony can be seen on the Festival website, www.sundance.org/festival. Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from four categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. All films in competition were also eligible for Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards as selected by Festival audiences. The U.S. Audience…

With focus on the universal themes of revenge and love and the topical themes of the delinquency and desensitization of anguished youth, “Confessions” is a showcase for top Japanese stage, film and television actress Takako Matsu who plays the lead role of a middleschool teacher who accuses students in her class of murdering her young daughter. Following the disturbing accusation, the teacher avows that the students will pay for their actions for the rest of their lives; her ultimate revenge reaches the bottom depths of their already damaged psyches.Last week we interviewed Genki Kawamura, the producer of “Confessions”.Cinema Without Borders:…