South East European Film Festival, SEE Fest 2010 concluded Monday night in Los Angeles with the screening of award-winning Turkish feature that explores religious extremism and people caught up in its violent agenda, “A Step into the Darkness” directed by Atil Inac. The film won festival’s Critics Award for Best Film, presented by Cinema Without Borders founder, Bijan Tehrani and director of the SEE Fest Vera Mijojlic. Hosted by radio personality Hettie Lynne Hurtes, the evening’s guests from South East Europe included directors Artan Minarolli (Alive!) from Albania, and Atil Inac (A Step into the Darkness) from Turkey; producer Amra…
Author: Luz Aguado
This Sunday, the 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Cinema Without Borders will be ready to report the international cinema related Oscar news. (Please check The Notebook section for interviews with five directors of the movies nominated for the Best Foreign Language movie award)The five nominees for the Best Foreign Language film of 2009 are “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany, “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France, “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan, “Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria,…
Palm Springs – August 26 , 2008: Today a panel made up of select members of the Palm Springs International Shortfest jury, along with members of the Festival’s programming team voted Angels Die in the Soil as the winner of the Cinema Without Borders Best International Film Award.The award ceremony for the 2008 Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival was held at Camelot Theatres and Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders, presented the Cinema Without Borders Best International Film Award.“International short film authors and directors are becoming a strong voice in cinema today. They introduce new ideas…
Burbank, California— Cinema Without Borders has been awarding the Bridging The Borders Award since 2007 at Palm Springs International ShortFest. Last year, Cinema Without Borders awarded its Bridging The Borders Award to Milan (a co-production of Germany, Serbia, and Montenegro), directed by Michael Kezele. For the 2008 award, Cinema Without Borders has nominated the following five films at the 2008 Palm Springs Short FilmFest, which is currently running until August 27, 2008 . The winner of this year’s award will be chosen by a panel made up of select members of the Palm Springs International Shortfest jury, along with members…
Burbank, CA – July 23, 2008 – Dragon Tale Entertainment, L.L.C., publisher of Cinema Without Borders (CWB), today announced Palm Springs International ShortFest & Film Market (Palm Springs ShortFest), one of the most acclaimed short film showcases in the world, as the winner of CWB’s “Seal Of Excellence.” The Festival is scheduled August 21-27, 2008.“ShortFest is one of the most amazing film events on our planet, where you witness the future of cinema and the birth of new, great filmmakers. The Palm Springs International ShortFest film market also opens new horizons for filmmakers, who are given opportunities to create more…
Celebrated black actor Earl Cameron was honored over the weekend by the Bermuda International Film Festival. Cameron, a Bermuda native, was one of the first black actors to play leading roles in English cinema. He was seen recently in “The Queen” with Helen Mirren. Cameron came in for a screening of “Pool of London” (1951), the film that provided his breakthrough role, and then amused the audience with stories of his career as he spoke with National Public Radio’s Peter Rainer. Cameron’s accomplishments in both theatre and more than 61 films were celebrated at the event. “Mr. Cameron has been…
Approximately twenty-five years ago, Israeli’s premiere rock musician left fame and fortune in Israel and came to the United States. Since that time, Meir Fenigstein has become a major force in the entertainment industry, particularly as Founder and Executive Director of the Israel Film Festival. From its earliest beginnings with a few, Hebrew language films (without sub-titles) shown in a dusty theater in a less than stellar section of Boston, it has grown to be the premiere showcase of Israeli films in the world today. This year, the 21st Israel Film Festival will present 35 films in 3 cities to…
NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced the release of NVIDIA Gelato 2.1 high-quality, GPU-accelerated rendering software, which now includes support for Joe Alter’s Shave and a Haircut software for computer-generated hair and fur effects. Other enhancements in this newest release of Gelato include support for Autodesk Maya 8.5 and 3ds Max 9.0, improved stereo rendering, fog lights, and significant performance improvements. “Gelato is extremely powerful rendering software capable of delivering amazing results,” said Joe Alter, CEO Joe Alter, Inc. “Now, with support for Shave and a Haircut, Maya users can easily add Gelato to…
Women Make Movies (WMM) has acquired a number of films from Sundance and other Film Festivals in 2007. Enemies of Happiness, which took home esteemed awards at the Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary) and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Silver Wolf Award), has been acquired by WMM. The film, by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem, tells the inspiring story of 27-year-old Afghan women Malalai Joya. Malalai is a women’s rights activist and local hero who was elected to the newly formed democratic parliament of Afghanistan in 2005. WMM also announced that they acquired These Girls and…
Nearly 200 films will be on hand for the first AFI Dallas International Film Festival, starting March 22nd in Texas. The festival will begin with Steven Sawalich’s “Music Within” and close on April 1st with Sarah Polley’s “Away From Her.” The large list of films has surpassed the expectations of even the organizers. There will be 99 features and 92 short films for the inaugural Dallas event. Organizers have also noted that the Victory Plaza site will also feature film screenings from the AFI 100 Greatest Films list running near 24 hours a day throughout the festival. “Music Within” has…