Actress Elizabeth Banks will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards at The Beverly Wilshire on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. Banks will present 15 awards to 45 individual recipients during the evening.Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation honors achievements which demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures and need not have been developed and introduced during 2009. Then event is not televised, although portions are included in the Oscar presentation on March 7, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, and televised live by the ABC beginning at…
Author: Sara Tehrani
Palm Springs – January 17, 2010: Today, the Palm Springs International Film Festival named Letters to Father Jacob as the winner of Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award at the 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The award luncheon for the 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival was held at Spencer’s Restaurant in Palm Springs, California. Finland’s Los Angeles Consul General Kirsti Westphalen and the New York’s Consul General Ambassador Ritva Jolkkonen accepted the award on behalf of Klaus Haro, director of Letters To Father Jacob, from Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders. “First of all,…
At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the 22nd European Film Awards. The new EFA website about the Awards went online at www.europeanfilmawards.eu Over 2,000 EFA Members will now vote for the winners which will be presented during the Awards Ceremony on December 12 in Bochum. Nominated are: EUROPEAN FILM 2009Fish Tank, UKwritten and directed by Andrea Arnoldproduced by Kees Kasander & Nick LawsLåt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One in), Swedendirected by Tomas Alfredsonwritten by John Ajvide Lindqvistproduced by John Nordling & Carl MolinderUn Prophete (A Prophet),…
For this year’s 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the Karlovy Vary festival has prepared a special program section entitled 20 Years of Freedom. “Time has moved faster during those 20 years, new things have happened, and for many of us who lived through that period, those times seem very far away,” says festival president JiÅ™í Bartoška, who in part thought up the new section because the current young generation thinks of the Revolution as ancient history seen in films for old-timers. “We believe it is commendable and, above all, necessary to remember that one of the basic…
South East European Film Festival, SEE Fest 2009 concluded Monday night in Los Angeles with the screening of two Romanian films, Marian Crisan’s Palme d’Or winner Megatron (short), and feature Elevator by George Dorobantu, at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre. Hosted by radio personality Hettie Lynne Hurtes, the evening’s guests included directors George Dorobantu (Elevator) and Adela Peeva (Divorce Albanian Style) from South East Europe, and from Los Angeles directors Jennifer Rawlings (Forgotten Voices) and Italian video artist Luigia Martelloni (Journey into Sex Slavery), as well as Gail Kligman, director of UCLA’s Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Bernd Desinger, director…
Palm Springs – January 18, 2008: Today, the Palm Springs International Film Festival named Waltz with Bashir as the winner of Cinema Without Borders “Bridging The Borders Award” at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The award luncheon for the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival was held at DST Studios in Palm Springs, California. Yael Bar-Tur, acting on behalf of the film’s director Ari Folman, accepted the award from Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders. “At a time in which physical, religious, racial, cultural and economic borders divide the population of our planet and wars…
Palm Springs – January 16, 2008: Today, Cinema Without Borders has announced the five nominees for its Bridging The Borders Award. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival will be given to the most successful film in bringing the people of our world closer together. Richard Bluth, a documentary filmmaker and president of Bluth Enterprises of Burbank, led the film selection committee of CWB for the Bridging The Borders Award. “This is has been an amazing year for international cinema and our job wasn’t easy. We watched over forty-five films to find our five…
South East European Film Festival, SEE Fest 2008 concluded Monday night at the elegant Clarity Theater in Beverly Hills with Austrian film “THE RULE OF LAW- JUSTICE IN KOSOVO” winning the Critics, and Turkish “BLISS” Audience Awards. More than 20 films were shown over six days at the festival’s main venue, the Goethe Institute in Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles. Given by the Cinema Without Borders publisher, Bijan Tehrani, Cinema Without Borders Critics Choice Award recognized the Austrian film for its excellent analysis on how cultural differences complicate attempts to deliver justice in the troubled Balkans. Austrian Consul, the…
Palm Springs – January 13, 2008: Today Cinema Without Borders named The Band’s Visit as the winner of its Bridging The Borders Award at the 2008 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The award luncheon for the 2008 Palm Springs International Film Festival was held at Spencer’s Restaurant and Ehud Bleiber, The Band’s Visit’s producer, received the award from Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders. “At a time in which physical, religious, racial, cultural and economic borders divide the population of our planet, efforts to bridge those borders should be appreciated.” said Bijan. “In that spirit, Cinema Without…