East Los Angeles College, Cinema Without Borders Foundation and Consulate General of Czech Republic Los Angeles present the Eight Edition of ELAC International Animation Day dedicated to the Czech Animation on Saturday April 15th from 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM. Screenings will be held at East Los Angeles College, located at 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, CA 91754., Building S1 Screening Room 112. Free parking will be available in Structure 4. On corner of W Floral Drive and Collegian Avenue. The easiest way to get to the event location is to use the following address to get to the…
Author: Sam Tehrani
East Los Angeles College, Cinema and Without Borders Foundation, and Aduren Studio are proud to present the Iranian Animation Day, the seventh edition of the annual East Los Angeles College International Animation Festival. https://vimeo.com/685740508 Attending ELAC International Animation Day – Iranian Animation All attendees must wear a mask all through the event. This event is open to the public and free to attend. But due to limited number of seats available, ALL VISITORS MUST COMPLETE THIS ELAC FORM ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. (Click or touch here) Please reserve your seat and RSVP at rsvpanim@gmail.com Iranian Animation Day will…
Burbank, CA – December 20th, 2021: Today, Cinema Without Borders announced jury members for MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award for the 2022 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2022 Palm Springs International Film Festival will be given to the most successful film in bringing the people of our world closer together. MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award is presented by Cinema Without Borders and award sponsored and prize provided by MOZAIK. The winner of Bridging the Borders Award will receive a cash prize of $2500. Cinema Without Borders’ jury members to decide the 2022 winner…
Today, February 14th 2019, independent site of CinéEqual , the sister publication of Cinema Without Borders goes live. CinéEqual is dedicated to Social Justice Cinema and is supported by Neda Nobari Foundation. CinéEqual represents filmmakers, institutions, and community members with a focus on social justice cinema. As an integrated unit of Cinema Without Borders, it promotes a diverse, inclusive, and equitable democratic society that values the worth of all humans. The purpose is to educate our audience about concepts, theories, and methods related to social justice and to integrate ethical practices for solving social inequities through our online networks and resources. From studio…
Burbank, CA – April 10, 2018: Cinema Without Borders is proud to present its Bridging The Borders Award for the 10 Consecutive year at the prestigious SEEfest, South East European Film Festival LA. Bridging The Borders Award offered by Cinema Without Borders and sponsored by GoEnergistics, goes to the Best Feature Film screened at SEEfest and for the 13th Edition of the festival it will be announced at the Award Ceremony on May3rd at the Writer’s Guild theater. Jury members for Bridging the Borders Award assigned by SEEfest are: Therese Hayes has programmed films for the Palm Springs International Film…
Palm Springs ShortFest International Film Festival and Market will open on June 20th and will run until June 26th. Like the ten past years, Cinema Without Borders offers HP Bridging The Borders Award to a film that helps bringing people of our planet closer together. Nominees for the 2017 HP Bridging The Borders Award, selected by a team of festival programmers are: Eyes of Exodus (USA/Greece), Facing Mecca (Switzerland), Facing the Wall (Israel), Love the Sinner (USA), NORTH (Spain), PANTHEON (France), Pria (Indonesia/USA), Spice Sisters (Australia), Towards the Sun (U.K./USA), THE TRANSFER (Germany/Israel), The Wait (USA/Mexico) and The World In…
Burbank, CA March 25th, 2017: Today East Los Angeles College, Cinema Without Borders and Southeast European Film Festival, LA, celebrated the Southeast European Animation Day, the third edition of the annual East Los Angeles College International Animation Day. At 11:30 AM guests gathered in ELAC’s Music Recital Hall theater building for the reception of the event. Polka Polish Cuisine had provided its delicious appetizers as one of the sponsors of the Animation Day. Students had a chance to get to know celebrities of the world of animation that had attended the event. After the reception Mike Libonati (ELAC) and Bijan…
East Los Angeles College, Cinema Without Borders and Southeast European Film Festival, LA, are proud to present the Southeast European Animation Day, the third edition of the annual East Los Angeles College International Animation Festival. The goal of the ELAC International Animation Festival is to give an in-depth and entertaining introduction to contemporary international animation. Screenings of short animated films from around the world, analyses and Q&A’s with a panel of well-known animation experts, and a tribute to an international animation artist working in the U.S. animation industry are all part of the festival program. Southeast European Animation Day will…
The Paramount Studios played host the 17th Cine Gear Expo over the weekend, and filmmakers of every aspect of production gathered to tour the latest innovations in cinema technology, as well as notable pieces of equipment from recent films, such as the Flying Cam 3.0 (“SARAH”) used in the recent Bond film, Skyfall. Guests were met with unique gadgets at every turn: from a motion-tracking, high-speed, robotic-armed camera, to Porsche mounted cranes. (video on the right) CWB’s Standout Exhibitor for Cinegear 2013 was Radiant Images. A company that started out of a garage with some lofty goals, Radiant Images has…
Most of my professional life I have worked on MACs and I like them, but I am not a die-hard MAC fanatic. When it comes to the list of those I love, my wife comes first. Then it’s Clara (my daughter), Fritz (my dog), my parents, my only brother, and Albert—our neighbor. But I would feel creepy saying that I love an inanimate object, even if it’s a MAC. I know a guy at work that broke up with his girlfriend when she got him a PC laptop for his birthday. He owns everything “i”: from the iPod, to the…