The Ancient Trees , is a beautifully and masterfully written, produced, and directed series by young and talented Iranian filmmaker Hamid Koreyli. The The Ancient Trees series is a successful effort to introduce and comprehensively and expertly review the exceptionally-old trees of Iran along with providing unseen pictures and detailed history and information. This collection is produced in the form of a documentary series in six approximately fifty-minute episodes, each episode is focused on the introduction of one of Iran’s tree species. https://vimeo.com/872420790?share=copy In order to introduce these trees, a trip was made to the habitat of each tree and–while…
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Cinema Without Borders has announced its jury members to decide on the winner of 2023 MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award at the LUCAS International Festival for Young Film Lover in Germany. LUCAS programmers have also announced the nominees for the Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award sponsored by MOZAIK Philanthropy. A jury of six, formed by CWB will decide on the winning films at the closing night of the festival. Keely Badger, Executive Director of MOZAIK, the sponsor of the Bridging The Borders Award, will announce the winning film in a video message that will be played at the awards ceremony of the…
“I hope for a day when I would have no subjects left to make movies about,” she said during a 2015 ceremony honoring her for her charitable work. Chances are that, contrary to her wishes, she will not run out of subjects anytime soon. Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is often referred to as Iran’s premier female director. She has the rare honor of being loved by the Iranian public and acclaimed internationally. Her films focus on intractable social problems in Iran, from poverty to the situation of women. She has pushed against the limits of censorship and the Iranian authorities have often…
This year’s Woodstock Film Festival comes at a pivotal moment. From the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes to a global reckoning with equity and accessibility, the film community is in a self-examining mood. Accordingly, the 2023 Woodstock Film Festival’s programming seeks to deepen our engagement with these thorny conversations. The festival runs September 27 to October 1. However, Meira Blaustein, co-founder and executive and artistic director of the festival, emphasizes: “We are very much a 365 organization.” Through year-round programming, it creates opportunities for members of underrepresented groups, including an artist-in-residency program and a youth filmmaking workshop. The festival will screen about 120…
Through martial arts cinema Fighting Spirit Film Festival aims to entertain and inspire people, promote martial arts culture, and support those who have chosen it as a career. The Festival is back in London this year with a two day action packed program, including films, two free seminars, demonstrations, and more. FEATURE FILMS LINE UP: LAYERS OF LIES Ramin Sohrab | 2022 | Finnish, Persian, English | Cert 18 | 90 mins For the team at Fighting Spirit it is always an exciting time to see short film makers making the transition into shooting feature films. ‘Layer of Lies’ is the debut…
The 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a non-specialized festival with two competitive categories, took place from June 30th to July 8th. It was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a.s., with Jiří Bartoška as the president of the festival, Karel Och as its artistic director, Kryštof Mucha as the executive director and Petr Lintimer as the head of production. The 58th Karlovy Vary IFF will be held from June 28th to July 6th 2024. On July 8th, the festival’s juries presented awards for the best films at the closing ceremony of the 57th Karlovy Vary IFF. CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION Crystal…
Cinema Without Borders is proud to present MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award for the 15 year at the prestigious SEEfest, South East European Film Festival LA. MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award offered by Cinema Without Borders and sponsored by MOZAIK Philanthropy goes to a feature film that helps bringing people of our world closer together. Winner will be announced on May 3rd during the closing ceremony of the 18th Edition of the festival at the Fine Arts theater. SEEfest will run from April 26th to may 3rd.. Jury members for MOZAIK Bridging the Borders Award are: Susan Morgan Cooper Susan Morgan…
Burbank, California – April 4, 2023 – Today Cinema Without Borders Foundation announced I, Immigrant International Online Film Festival winning films in an online award ceremony. Bijan Tehrani Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders and Founder and Director of the I, Immigrant, opened the award ceremony by a report on the first edition of the festival: ” For our first edition of the I, Immigrant International Online Film Festival, organized by Cinema Without Borders Foundation, we received 449 submissions. The CWBF Selection Committee chose 33 films and from those films, two programmers, assigned by CWBF, nominated 17 films to…
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…
I haven’t gone to see a movie in a theater for years. Not because I don’t like movies or going to the theater or watching a movie in a theater (and eating movie theater snacks!) but because I’ve been busy writing a dissertation and having babies. It seemed like too much effort to go see a movie when you could stream the latest ones while sitting on your couch. For one thing, you’re not paying a babysitter, and instead of nachos with Velveeta cheese, you can have samosas and chaat (I do miss theater popcorn though). But when “Top Gun:…