<b>Darryl Macdonald</b> is the Executive Director of the Palm Springs International Film Society, which produces both the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. He is the co-founder and has been the Executive and Artistic Director of The Seattle International Film Festival since its inception in 1975, where he served in that capacity until assuming the position of Executive Director of the Palm Springs International Film Society in October of 2003. Simultaneously, he served as the Artistic Director of the Palm Springs Film Festival (1989 -1993), the Hamptons Film Festival (1993 -1996) and…
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Shohreh Jandaghian: Please tell about yourself and how you became the director of “Lola Kenya Screen”?Ogova Ondego (Director of “Lola Kenya Screen”): Perhaps the best way to describe myself is that I am a practitioner in the field of arts, culture, and development. I publish ArtMatters.Info, the premier critical website covering arts, culture and lifestyle in eastern and southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. I am the founder and director of the ArtMatters.Info Critics Guild that works with arts and culture journalists in eastern and southern Africa, and founder and creative director of Lola Kenya Screen, the annual international…
Ryo Nagasawa Program Officer, of Japan Society Film Program was Born in 1979 in Yamagata, Japan and she grew up in a family-owned movie theater business in northern Japan. Ryo moved to US in 1998 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Purchase College, State University of New York in 2004.In 2004 and 2005 Ryo Nagasawa worked on two film series, Critic’s Choice: Susan Sontag on Japanese Film, Part II and Otaku Cinema Slam!. She has also worked as a film coordinator on After War, Hiroshi Sugimoto Film Series: The Moving Image of Modern Art and Against…
PhDr. Julietta Zacharová studied German and English languages and American literature at the University of Salzburg, Austria. After moving back to her hometown, Prague, she studied film history and theory at the Faculty of Philosophy. She graduated from the Charles University with a Doctor Degree. In her final diploma work, entitled Cinematography and the State: To the Genesis of the Cinematographical Legislation until the Year 1918, she concentrated on early history of cinema in Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, focusing on the first laws applied to film business. She cooperated with Prague National Film Archive on several research projects that where dealing with…
In three short years, since Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (multiple wins including Un Certain Regard in Cannes, Silver Hugo in Chicago, and several critics awards in 2005) managed to get on scores of 10-best lists, finishing in 2006 as the No. 1 movie in the ndieWIRE Critics Poll of 107 voters, young Romanian filmmakers have made a name for themselves much like the Iranian cineastes did before them. Director of Trafic, Catalin Mitulescu won Palme d’Or for Best Short in Cannes in 2004, then went on to direct his first feature, The Way I Spent The End…
Richard Raddon joined the .Los Angeles Film Festival as its Festival Director in 2000. Since that time, the Festival has grown from a 5 day event with an attendance of 22,000 to a nationally recognized 10 event in June with an audience of over 100,000 visitors. Before joining the Los Angeles Film Festival, Mr. Raddon worked as an independent producer, his credits include: A Slipping Down Life, starring Guy Pearce, Lily Taylor, and Bruno Kirby, which premiered in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Lions Gate; Shooting Lily, which garnered the grand prize at the…
Cinema Without Borders:What is new in 2007 TREMBLANT FILM FESTIVAL, any new events or categories?<br>Tremblant Film Festival: Two new additions should be highlighted for the second edition of the Tremblant Film Festival.The first one allows us to program events outside the Tremblant resort. We are now partnering with the City of Mont Tremblant and have scheduled screenings at the ‘’Parc au Fil de l’eau’’. This partnership is important to us: it allows us to reach out to an even greater audience and include the inhabitants of the Laurentian region, who may not necessarily attend the resort events. Our intention is…
Film restorer, historian, and producer, <b>Serge Bromberg</b> founded Lobster Films—the renowned Paris based production and distribution company—22 years ago. Bromberg has shown his talents as a TV host, pianist for silent films, and a member of the board of the Cinemathèque Française, and—in 1999—he became Artistic Director of the <b>Annecy International Animation Film Festival.</b> Bijan Tehrani: Please tell us about the history of Annecy International Animated Film Festival.Serge Bromberg: The Annecy Festival took place for the first time in 1960, but it was held every other year for quite a while. Now it’s an annual festival, and this year is…
Irene Kotlarz, founding director of the PLATFORM International Animation Festival, is launching the newest and most ambitious animation festival in the U.S. PLATFORM will focus on establishing an environment for innovative animators and filmmakers to showcase their artistry and creativity through a dynamic art form that has experienced exponential growth in the global market. Over the last two decades, Irene has been very influential in the animation industry, holding high level executive positions in a number of premier animation festivals, while also writing and producing in the field.Irene became interested in animation while teaching art history at Surrey Institute of…
A Monaco national, <b>David Tomatis</b> was a government officer in the Finance Minister’s Office in Monaco from 1988 until April 1996. During this time he was also the Executive Vice President of the Sportel Organisation. He became Deputy Secretary General of the <b>Monte-Carlo TV Festival</b> in April 1996. From January 2002 David became Chief Executive Officer of Monaco Mediax organisers of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Imagina, SportelMonaco, SportelAmerica, SportelAsia, WIMA and the Monaco Media Forum.Bijan Tehrani: Please tell us about the history of Monte Carlo Festival David Tomatis: This year will see the 47th edition of the Monte Carlo Television…