Author: CWB News Department

CWB News Department, collects and republishes most important news and stories about International and Independent cinema, by noting the original source of the articles

Academy Award winner and three time nominee RENÉE ZELLWEGER will be coming to Karlovy Vary to introduce Miss Potter. Cold Mountain, Chicago, and Bridget Jones’s Diary are among the films that have attained success with both the public and film critics alike thanks primarily to Renée Zellweger’s outstanding performances. After appearing in several television projects, Zellweger, who graduated from the University of Texas with a literature degree, she made her film debut in 1993 in Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age film Dazed and Confused. Just a year later she drew attention in Ben Stiller’s Reality Bites. Her other film credits include Me,…

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(Los Angeles, May 23, 2007) – At a special ceremony held yesterday in Los Angeles, the first Audience Choice Award of the just concluded South East European Film Festival was presented to the honorable Catalin Ghenea, Consul General of Romania. Romanian film The Way I Spent the End of the World, directed by Catalin Mitulescu, got a perfect 4.5 score from the festival’s audience. The award, presented by the director of the festival, Vera Mijojlic, is yet another recognition for Romanian cinema which continues to dazzle the audiences and critics around the world. Winner of Best Actress award for Dorotheea…

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The Tribeca Film Festival has tapped the romantic drama Lucky You, directed by Curtis Hanson, to have its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express. Lucky You, a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, stars Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall and Debra Messing, many of whom will attend the star-studded gala premiere on May 1st. “Lucky You is a romantic drama with a stellar cast, and we are delighted to be able to host its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of the Festival. “Warner…

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40 new films, including 20 features (all premieres) and 20 new shorts, will be shown at the 11th Annual City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA). Acclaimed Berlin Film Festival opening film, “La Vie En Rose,” writer-director Olivier Dahan’s masterful biopic of Edith Piaf, starring Marion Cotillard and Gérard Depardieu, will open the showcase on Monday, April 16, 2007. Picturehouse will release the film on June 8th in New York and Los Angeles. The U.S. Premiere of “Michou D’Auber” (also starring Depardieu) written and directed by Thomas Gilou, will be the closing night film on April 21st. COL•COA’s program will…

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MadCat is a highly acclaimed festival that exhibits independent and experimental films and videos directed by women from around the globe. The Festival emphasizes work that is inventive and visionary. MadCat takes place each September in the Bay Area.CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSMadCat Women’s International Film Festival seeks provocative and visionary films and videos directed or co-directed by women. Films can be of any length or genre and produced ANY year. MadCat is committed to showcasing work that challenges the use of sound and image and explores notions of visual story telling. All subjects/topics will be considered.Submission Fee: $10-30 sliding scale. Pay…

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It is almost impossible to ignore that the movie’s title exemplifies its plot in a profound and eloquent manner. Water, is a film that encapsulates the isolation and seclusion that many Indian widows were forced to undergo in the 1930’s. Chuyia (Sarala) is a young girl who at the age of eight becomes a widow and is consequently forced to live the rest of her life in a widow shelter. The director Deepa Mehta, uses Chuyia as an instigator who questions why she should live this way. At an age where nothing is remotely complicated, where the sky is either…

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Opening number one at the box office and still playing strong in theaters, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the breakout comedy hit of 2006, was shot in classic documentary style with Panasonic’s AJ-HDC27 VariCam HD Cinema cameras. In the run-up to the Hollywood awards season, Borat has been named a Golden Globes’ nominee for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and the film’s star and creator Sacha Baron Cohen (HBO’s Ali G) is a Globes’ nominee for Best Actor. Baron Cohen was recently named Best Actor by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Distributed…

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Director, Robert Lynn Pushes Camera to New Limits in His Latest Handheld Style Feature. Director Robert Lynn shot his new movie, Havoc, with the GY-HD110U ProHD camera. Havoc is a horror/thriller about a team of paintball players who stop at an abandoned prison and encounter a paranoid schizophrenic war veteran who mistakes them for a team of assassins. “The technology in the GY-HD110U amazes me. I put it through some really rough extremes and it performed flawlessly,” said Lynn. “The HD images are truly unbelievable.” Shot at the old Tennessee State Prison, Lynn put the GY-HD110U to the test during…

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Days of European films started to exist thirteen years ago thanks to several Prague ambassadors from the European Union who loved movies. At the beginning OF nineties, there were not so many films in Czech cinemas like today and these diplomats wanted to show the Czech audience the best what could be seen from the European cinematography. With a minimal organizational and technical background they created a film festival that was accepted with great interest and showed that events OF this type are very tempting for Czech public. The first „experimental“year of this festival saw about 6:000 visitors and the…

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The selection of Sacha Cohen for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy for Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan was the best thing that happened at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards. Of course, the question still remains as to why there are two categories for best actor. Borat and Little Miss Sunshine were the only movies with fresh, new ideas made in US. To our surprise, amongst the presence of great movies such as Pan’s Labyrinth, The Lives of Others, and Volver—the real foreign language movies—Clint Eastwood’s…

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