PXL THIS 20 (The 20th Annual Toy Camera Film Festival) featuring Pixelvision films made with the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camcorder, were screened on May 19, 2011 (8:00 PM) at the Echo Park Film Center. PXL THIS 20 is one of LA’S oldest continuous film festivals.The PXL-2000 is a plastic toy video camera made by Fisher-Price in the 1980s. With it’s fixed focus aspherical lens and lower frame rate it produces low-resolution pixelated black and white images reminiscent of the super 8 images favored by avant garde artists in the 70’s. The PXL-2000 came into it’s own in the avant garde scene…
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The Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival and Market was created to bridge the gap between Hollywood, the world film community and the Brazilian Film Industry. Financiers from both Hollywood and Latin America will meet for daily seminars designed to highlight bilateral business opportunities and new film financing opportunities for both Hollywood and the Latin American film community. HBFF is the first Hollywood-based film festival dedicated to addressing the cultural-creative and commercial exchange between Hollywood, the international film industry and the Brazilian Film Community.To learn more about the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival we had an interview with Talize Sayegh, Executive Producer/Founder of…
Un Certain Regard 2011 presented 21 films directed by 22 directors hailing from 19 different countries. 2 of the works were first films.Presided over by Emir KUSTURICA (Director, actor and musician – Serbia), the Jury was comprised of: Elodie BOUCHEZ (Actress – France), Peter BRADSHAW (Critic-The Guardian – United Kingdom), Geoffrey GILMORE (Chief Creative Officer-Tribeca Enterprises – USA), Daniela MICHEL (Director of the Morelia Festival – Mexico). PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD Ex-æquoARIRANG by KIM Ki-DukHALT AUF FREIER STRECKE (Stopped on Track) by Andreas DRESENSPECIAL JURY PRIZEELENA by Andrey ZVYAGINTSEVDIRECTING PRIZEBÉ OMID É DIDAR (Au revoir) by Mohammad RASOULOF
HMFF, the National traveling festival, showcasing the best of recent Mexican Cinema, arrives in Los Angeles, playing at Hollywood’s historic Ricardo Montalban Theatre May 19th-25th.For the third year, founder-director Samuel Douek celebrates the rich diversity of Mexican film. He has a lot to choose from, as the Mexican Film Industry is enjoying a renaissance, celebrated in film festivals.Mexico, a place like the movies! (¡México está de película!) is the theme of the 2011 edition of HMFF, presenting the contrasting multiple faces and the reality of Mexico, from the landscapes and history to the human experience in terms of class, economic…
Hollywood Reporter – CANNES – Arrested together with Jafar Panahi while they were preparing a new film, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has succeeded, under what the Cannes Film Festival refers to as “semi-clandestine conditions,” in completing Goodbye, a dark tale focusing on a young woman lawyer and openly attacking the blind repression of Iranian civil society. A slow-moving mood piece in which women are virtually the only actors on screen, it is a powerful statement against the political regime in art film format, of chief interest to afficionados. Still, the international wave of sympathy for Rasoulof and Panahi’s plight and…
The Fifth Annual LA Comedy Fest plays from May 12-22 at the ACME Comedy Theatre in HollywoodI spoke briefly with festival director Lawrin Goulston Salazar. “We had the great honor, in our last festival of having the West Coast premiere screening of this year’s OSCAR winning live action short, “God of Love.” There are many gems in this year’s lineup of 60+ shorts. The features are terrific with several showcasing the Australian sense of fun and laughs. We are thrilled to hold the USA premiere of “The Wedding Party”, the film that opened this year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival. The LA…
South East European Film Festival, SEE Fest 2011 concluded Monday night in Los Angeles with the screening of the Austrian documentary that explores the roots of the famed Balkan Gypsy music, “GYPSY SPIRIT: HARRI STOJKA, A JOURNEY” directed by Klaus Hundsbichler. The big winner of this year’s festival was Romanian MEDAL OF HONOR directed by Calin Peter Netzer, which won Cinema Without Borders award for Best Feature Film. The jury members Bijan Tehrani, editor in chief, James Ulmer, international editor, and Turkish director Atil Inac who won this award last year, gave the overall top score to the Romanian film.…
South East European Film Festival-L.A. is an annual event where film devotees are able to see the best of South East European films. Fueled by her passion for film and love of introducing new films, Founder and Director of the festival, Vera Mijojlic, has been the driving force behind the event’s growth and popularity. To learn more about SeeFest 2011, we sat down with Vera for an interview. Bijan Tehrani: What is new in SeeFest 2011?Vera Mijojlic: Plenty of new: new web site, new promo, new people on the team….SeeFest is getting better design, and I am very happy with…
On Demand movie channel eurocinema (eurocinema.com) has joined forces with Nordisk Film & TV Fond (nordiskfilmogtvfond.com) and Diva.AG to create the first ever On Demand film festival, The First Annual Scandinavian On Demand Film Festival, set to debut to North American television audiences beginning May 1st, 2011. The announcement was made today by Eurocinema founder and CEO Sebastien Perioche. Now available in 36 million TV homes in North America, eurocinema has been delivering gems from international and European cinema since 2005 on top platforms, including Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cablevision, RCN, Verizon and DirecTV. The First Annual Scandinavian On Demand Film…
City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA) was created in 1996 by The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, the Writers Guild of America West, and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM). COL•COA is also supported by l’Association des Auteurs-Réalisateurs-Producteurs (ARP), the Film and TV Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles and UNIFRANCE.COL•COA is committed to promoting new French films in Hollywood and to showcasing the vitality and the diversity of French cinema: comedies and dramas, box office hits in France and novelties,…