Author: CWB News Department

It is still five days to the start of the world cup in South Africa. However, there are already plenty of reasons for celebrations and grand emotions: At the 26th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, the competition winners received their awards this evening. This year’s short film world champion is South Korea: Director Ran-hee Lee wins the jury prize of the International Competition (Hamburg Short Film Award) for his film A Perm. The winners of the jury awards and the audience awards of the German Competition, No Budget Competition, Three-Minute-Quickie Competiton, of the competition-overlapping awards by ARTE and ZDF_neo as…

Screenhead.com-Danish film director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) is originator of “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc”, “The Word”, “Gertrud” and other immortal classics. He has influenced Lars von Trier, and his films are continuously in demand around the world.In May the Danish Film Institute launched a new website, that easily converts to English, on the Danish director, inviting audiences around the world to explore the full extent of Dreyer’s ingenious art through a rich collection of original material and fresh perspectives contributed by Danish and international advocates of the filmmaker’s legacy.Carl Theodor Dreyer is Danish cinema’s most celebrated director and is…

We had a chance to speak to Sean Kilbride. the technical marketing manager for NVIDIA’s Quadro and Professional Solutions products. about new products of NVIDIA that are interest of filmmkers.Cinema Without Borders:. NVIDIA is going through a very exciting year involving in many different fields with a long list of partners. Please give us an overview of NVIDIA’s projects and goals in 2010/2011 Sean Kilbride: For our Professional Solutions Group, which includes our Quadro professional graphics solutions, I’d say that the overreaching goal of NVIDIA moving forward is very much the same as it’s always been. We have been focused…

The 45th Karlovy Vary festival will present a complete retrospective of the films of distinguished Czech director and thinker Karel Vachek. The filmmaker, who turns 70 this year, studied at Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU), and his graduation work Moravian Hellas (1963) had a difficult turn with the public because of its nonconformist character. In 1968 he shot Elective Affinities focusing on the participants of Prague Spring. Vachek returned to documentaries after the revolution of 1989, winning the prestigious Berlinale Camera a year later. Vachek’s seminal work of the period is the “Little Capitalist” tetralogy, which focuses on the newly forming…

Cannes International Film Festival winners have been announced. Cannes 2010 was under the shadow of political events of our time and an evidence of that was the imprisonment of one the jury members, Jaefar Panahi in Iran. Guardian (UK) under the title of ” Cannes film festival 2010: a triumph of politics over art” writes: “The consensus seems to be that Cannes 2010 was far from a stellar year. But the competition produced a bewitching Palme d’Or winner, there were frequent gems elsewhere, and flashes of real social engagement from the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Lucy Walker.Cannes 2010 may…

The Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) is proud to announce the film line up for its 13th annual festival, themed STUNT. The competitive event will run from June 4TH through June 13TH at indieScreen and the Brooklyn Heights Cinema.BiFF will present over 100 film premieres that were selected from over 2,400 submissions coming from 92 countries. This year, BiFF will screen a record 16 films that were made by Brooklyn filmmakers with 12 films set in Brooklyn.The films will be combined in 64 film programs (each film will be shown twice). BiFF will operate two screening rooms throughout the festival.…

The third edition of the New York Documentary Film Festival – Festival dei Popoli (May 26-30, 2010) at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003) is part of an ongoing project of the Festival dei Popoli. Based in Florence, Italy, it is the oldest International Documentary Film Festivalin Europe. It aims to broaden the audience for its rich collection of archival footage, as well as Italian documentaries in general. Founded in 1959, the FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI is devoted to promoting and studying social documentary cinema. In fifty years, the collection has grown into an unparalleled treasure of…

Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) has announced the 2010 line-up of films for its 4th annual Festival, which runs June 10 – 13 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. LAGFF is excited to present 7 feature films, 4 documentaries and 5 shorts, including 1 world premiere, 12 US premieres and 3 LA premieres during the 3-day Festival.Opening night of the Festival is the US premiere of director Vardis Marinakis’s BLACK FIELD (Mavro Livadi), starring Sofia Georgovassili. This 1650‘s based love story of Anthi, a young nun, and an Ottoman warrior, truly tests boundaries and delves into matters of identity,…

Southeast European Film Festival, Los Angeles opened on Thursday April 29th and continues until May 2nd at Goethe-Institut Los Angeles located at 5750 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 100. Closing night of the festival will be held on May 3rd at James Bridges Theatre in UCLA campus, Westwood. There will be also a Business Conference on May 3rd between 9 AM to 3 PM at UCLA Anderson, organized by the Southeast European Film Festival, Los Angeles.Monday – May 3rd – 9:00 am to 3:00 pmFestival’s ProgramThursday – April 29th 7:00 pm THE WALL(USA, documentary vignette; 1989 1 min.) double feature GOODBYE, HOW…

The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff announced the winners of its world competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City. The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 20 countries. Two awards were given to honor New York films, which were chosen from seven narrative and six documentary features. Awards were also given for the best narrative, best documentary and student visionary films in the short film competitions. This year’s Festival…