Burbank, CA, April 20, 2015 —Cinema Without Borders, an independent publication dedicated to Independent and International Cinema, has declared the Verizon Wireless Network as the winner of its Seal of Excellence Award for its excellence in wireless performance and video streaming. The 2015 iteration of the prestigious Seal of Excellence Award—received in the past by HP Workstations, the Palm Springs International Short-Fest Film Festival, Adobe, and Mitsubishi—is bestowed upon the Verizon Wireless Network for excellence in the field of streaming video to serve both professional filmmakers and film fans. Our editors tasked the Verizon Wireless network in challenging situations and…
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Palm Springs – January 10, 2015— Today, the Palm Springs International Film Festival named George Ovashvili’s Corn Island as the winner of HP Bridging the Borders Award offered by Cinema Without Borders. Isa Qosja ‘s Three Windows and a Hanging, from Kosovo, took home Cinema Without Borders’ Special Jury Mr. Frank P. Greine Honorary Georgian Consul in California, received HP’s Bridging The Borders Award on behalf of George Ovashvili for Corn Island. The prize for HP Bridging The Borders Award is an HP ZBook 15 with a built-in HP DreamColor display, a $3000 value. The prize was provided by HP,…
Burbank, CA – January 6, 2015: Today, Cinema Without Borders has announced the six nominees for HP’s Bridging The Borders Award at 2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival selected by Palm Springs International Film Festival Programers. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival will be given to the most successful film in bringing the people of our world closer together. The six nominees for HP’s Borders Bridging The Borders Award are selected by Palm Springs International Film Festival programmers are: A FEW CUBIC METERS OF LOVE (Afghanistan), CHARLIE’S COUNTRY (Australia), Corn Island (Georgia), THREE…
Last night at the award ceremony of the Hungarian Film Festival, Los Angeles, Bijan Tehrani as president of the jury of the festival announced the Best Film Award of the festival:”I am fascinated by the quality of Hungarian cinema, every single film that we watched is done beautifully regardless of genre. Therefore I want to congratulate Mr. Bela Bunyik and all the other individuals and organization that have made this festival to happen. I am supposed to announce the film that has won the best film award, but this year for the first time in history of Hungarian Film Festival…
Polish Film Festival Los Angeles has been started on October 7 and will run until October 16. 2014 marks the 15th anniversary of this successful film festival that presents the best of Polish cinema in Hollywood every year. Here is the complete program of the festival for October 16:Laemmle’s NoHo7 Theatre, 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601 (310-478-3836): Thursday, October 16, 2014 (in person: Dawid Ogrodnik) 7:00 p.m. LIFE FEELS GOOD (Chce sie zyc) by Maciej Pieprzyca (107 min.) Mateusz has cerebral palsy. In addition to his obvious physical handicap, he was diagnosed at a very early age as…
Polish Film Festival Los Angeles has been started on October 7 and will run until October 16. 2014 marks the 15th anniversary of this successful film festival that presents the best of Polish cinema in Hollywood every year. Here is the complete program of the festival for October 14 and 15:Laemmle’s NoHo7 Theatre, 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601 (310-478-3836): Tuesday October 14, 2014 (in person: Dawid Ogrodnik)7:00 p.m. YOU ARE GOD (Jestes Bogiem) by Leszek Dawid (110 min.) The promising documentary by Leszek Dawid tells the story of Paktofonika, one of Poland’s pioneer hip-hop collectives. In the process…
Polish Film Festival Los Angeles has been started on October 7 and will run until October 16. 2014 marks the 15th anniversary of this successful film festival that presents the best of Polish cinema in Hollywood every year. Here is the complete program of the festival for October 12 and 13: Laemmle’s NoHo7 Theatre, 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601 (310-478-3836): Sunday, October 12, 20114 (in person: Beata Pozniak, Ryan Cross, Janek Ambros, Jacek Bromski, Ludek Drizhal, Spenser Gibb, Kasia Smiechowicz, Daniel McVicar)1:00 p.m. Doc.2: CHILDREN CALLING (Dzieci dzwonia) by Andrzej Mankowski (30 min.) There is a film about…
Polish Film Festival Los Angeles has been started on October 7 and will run until October 16. 2014 marks the 15th anniversary of this successful film festival that presents the best of Polish cinema in Hollywood every year. Here is the complete program of the festival for October 10 and 11:Laemmle’s NoHo7 Theatre, 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601 (310-478-3836): Friday, October 10, 2014 (in person: Lukasz Bedkowski, Emmanuelle Seigner) 7:00 p.m. THE CABARET OF DEATH (Kabaret smierci) by Andrzej Celinski (94 min.) The World War II story about the Jewish artists fighting for survival using the only weapon…
Polish Film Festival Los Angeles has been started on October 7 and will run until October 16. 2014 marks the 15th anniversary of this successful film festival that presents the best of Polish cinema in Hollywood every year. Here is the complete program of the festival for October 8 and 9: Laemmle’s NoHo7 Theatre, 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601 (310-478-3836):Wednesday, October 8, 2014 (in person: Zbigniew Czapla, Antoni Pawlicki)7:00 p.m. Animation Program: BEACH (Plaza) by Pawel Prewencki (4 min.) A summer, lazy day at the beach. The wind unhurriedly turns the pages of a book read by one…
Strong Coffee Isn’t That Bad, a short film directed by Alek Pietrzak, won Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award for Best Short Film at the 2014 Polish Film Festival, Los Angeles. Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders, announced the jury’s decision during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Polish Film Festival, Los Angeles, held at The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. “The winner of our award is a film that deals with conflicts of two generations; a son visits his old, stubborn father after many years and they both struggle greatly to overcome their distance and differences.”…