Author: Laura Korman

Shortly following the international-dominated Golden Globes this past month, French actor, Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor award in a Drama at the 18th Annual Screen Actor Guild Awards this Sunday. The award ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for its sixteenth consecutive year. A shocked and tearful Dujardin could only utter “Oh my god” multiple times before beginning his prepared speech. He said, “I was a very bad student. I didn’t listen in class, I was always dreaming. My teachers called me “Jean Du Lun,” Jean of the Moon. And I realize now…

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The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards took place Sunday evening, January 16, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in LA. “The Artist” and “The Descendants” were clearly the big winners of the night. It seems fitting that “The Artist,” a foreign film, dominated the awards ceremony Sunday as the Golden Globes is an annual ceremony organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The HFPA is composed of film journalists located in multiple continents with ninety members representing at least fifty-five countries in the world. Consequently, the Globes is seen in one hundred ninety nine countries every year.BEST MOTION PICTURE –…

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A special screening of Renny Harlin’s film 5 Days of War was held at the 13th Annual Scandinavian Film Festival in Los Angeles on January 8, 2012 at 3pm PST. Cinema Without Borders’ Editor-in-Chief, Bijan Tehrani, bestowed Director Renny Harlin with the “Bridging the Borders Award” for his powerful and moving film. “Harlin dealt delicately and artistically with the inhumanity and injustice of a war imposed on a small nation. It showed how people from different cultures could come together to fight against injustice, which is created by a crazy war,” Tehrani said at the awards ceremony. Harlin, a prominent Finnish…

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With fourteen films selected from sixteen different production and co-production countries, the foundation has been laid for an international programme in the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions. Generation’s complete programme will be published in mid January. Generation Kplus: Kauwboy (Netherlands, by Boudewijn Koole) – A young jackdaw falls out of its nest straight into Jojo’s hands. The 10-year-old feels great empathy for the baby bird, which has no mother and is looking for a loving father just as he is. World premiere Die Kinder vom Napf (The Children from the Napf, Switzerland, by Alice Schmid; documentary) – They take an aerial cable car to school and when class…

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Slamdance Film Festival recently announced the Narrative and Documentary Feature Competition Programs for the 18th Annual Slamdance Film Festival. The Feature Competition Programs present highly anticipated, breakthrough films by first-time feature film directors from around the world. The 2012 Slamdance Film Festival will showcase 18 feature-length competition films – 10 Narrative Films and 8 Documentary Films, including 13 World Premieres. With nearly 5,000 submissions this year, Slamdance will present the best of emerging filmmakers who are pushing the boundaries of filmmaking with innovation and unique talent. This year’s festival celebrates Slamdance’s continued commitment to diversity, courage and experimentation of truly…

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Set against the aftermath of the July 7th 2005 London terrorist attacks, London River is a moving and emotional film that follows two parents on a pursuit to find their missing children. Elisabeth (Brenda Blethyn), an English Christian widow from a small farming community in Guernsey, travels to London after the bombings when she fails to hear from her daughter. Similarly, Ousmane (Sotigui Kouyaté), a French African Muslim, also travels to London to find his missing son, who he has not seen since the child was six years old. However, the film immediately indicates Elisabeth and Ousmane’s vast cultural differences:…

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