The Baader Meinhof Complex opens in LA on August 28. The Baader Meinhof Complexhappens in Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by…
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Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) today announced key members of the team that will head up the inaugural 2009 Festival. Amanda Palmer, head of entertainment for Al Jazeera English, has been named DTFF Executive Director. Palmer will lead the Festival and work with a team from Tribeca that includes Geoffrey Gilmore, Chief Creative Officer of Tribeca Enterprises, to shape the program. Locally the team will include Arab documentary and short films expert Mohamed Maklouf, serving as the festival’s Regional Programs Advisor, and award-winning Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti serving as Community Outreach Programmer. Doha Tribeca Film Festival will run October 29…
WMM has announced the release of MRS. GOUNDO’S DAUGHTER from Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, which had its world premiere at Silverdocs last month, followed by a screening at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Threatened with deportation, Mrs. Goundo must convince an immigration judge that her two-year-old daughter is in danger: if returned to her family’s native country of Mali, she will be forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the United States. But it’s not just because of the ethnic conflict and drought that has plagued her native Mali. Threatened…
July 27-Aug 2, 2009 marks the Tenth Anniversary of the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival, the premier Urban Latino film event in the country and will be screening the independent film RHYME ANIMAL Sunday, Aug 2 at SVA Theater Screen 1, 5:15PM. RHYME ANIMAL was created, co-written and co-produced by Jorge Rivera, Latino filmmaker and former member of the seminal Afro-Latin Rock band, “Bay of Pigs”. This short film has had a brief but successful run at eighteen film festivals in the circuit such as: Winner – Best Short Film – Spaghetti Junction Urban Film Festival April, 2008Finalist…
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go has its national broadcast premiere on Tuesday, July 28, 2009, at 10 p.m. on PBS during the 22nd season of POV (Point of View). American television’s longest-running independent documentary series, POV is the recipient of a Special Emmy for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking. The series continues on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. through Sept. 22 and returns with two specials in November and December. In Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, one of Britain’s leading documentary filmmakers takes a vérité look at Oxford’s Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children. Mulberry’s heroically forbearing staff…
Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani’s Twenty has been awarded at the 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The 88-minute production won the Czech festival’s Special Jury Prize and the Prize of Ecumenical Jury.Twenty is about a reception hall’s staff, who fear for their jobs after the owner decides to sell the place in twenty days. The psychological drama made its international debut in Karlovy Vary after participating in numerous national festivals and being awarded at Iran’s third International Urban Film Festival. Abdolreza Kahani began his film career at the age of 15 and made his first short film, The Smile in…
The Evil City Film Fest initially founded in 2005, is now the Royal Flush Festival (RFF), a brand new force in the independent film, art and music scenes that will rock its way from New York City’s East Village with a program of over 100 independent films, music videos, live music performances, and underground art openings from October 15-18, 2009. RFF’s main venue will be the Anthology Film Archives, located at 32 Second Avenue.RFF is named after its new partner, Royal Flush Magazine, a nationally-distributed killer rag that celebrates underground music, art, video games, pop-culture and indie movies with a…
Film London’s Best of Borough Film Awards (BoBs) took place at a prestigious ceremony at BAFTA last night. BoBs patron and award-winning director, Gurinder Chadha, presented Hackney film-maker Alex Taylor with the Jury Award for Kids Might Fly, and Gary Grant from Enfield the Audience Award for Daisy’s Last Stand. Both film-making teams received a cash prize of £2,000 each for producing the best shorts produced through this year’s London Borough Film Fund Challenge (LBFFC).The Audience Award was selected by members of the public who viewed and voted for their favourite film on the Film London website. Over 4,000 people…
The Hindu – New Delhi (IANS): Artist and acclaimed short filmmaker K.M. Madhusudhanan, who has directed award-winning Malayalam film “Bioscope”, says that regional cinema is now getting noticed because Bollywood is going through a slump. “Bollywood has reached stagnancy over the years with repetitive story lines, songs, stunts, etc. Even the so-called ‘new films’ are predictable. As a result, I feel that regional films are getting more attention,” Madhusudhanan said.in an e-mail interview. “The recent commercial trends clearly show that Bollywood ventures are by and large a failure,” he added. Talking about “Bioscope”, he said: “This is a film about…
With his second feature film Cypriot Christos Georgiou seems to come in due season this summer: released at the beginning of June in Germany, Small Crime already achieved figures of more than 350.000 Euros at the box-office. Small Crime, produced by Twenty Twenty Vision in co-production with Lychnari Productions and Bad Movies, is a witty, heartwarming comedy about the police graduate Leonidas, who is stuck up in a small, sleepy island in the Aegean. While dreaming of solving serious crimes in the big city, he just chases traffic offenders and nudists on the beach. His life changes, when villager Zacharias…