| Haydenfilms 2.0 Film Festival Winner Announced | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:59:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | John Burgess, a 2005 graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television took home the $10,000 grand prize last week at the Haydenfilms 2.0 Film Festival Awards Ceremony for his film, "The Powder Puff Principle." The winner was announced at a gala event held at New York's Directors Guild Theatre on January 11, 2007, sponsored by Z-CoiL and Miller Lite. Kutztown, Pa. (Billboard Publicity Wire/PRWeb ) January 17, 2007 -- John Burgess, a 2005 graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television took home the $10,000 grand prize last week at the Haydenfilms 2.0 Film Festival Awards Ceremony for his film, "The Powder Puff Principle." The winner was announced at a gala event held at New York's Directors Guild Theatre on January 11, 2007, sponsored by Z-CoiL and Miller Lite. .... | |
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| | | Ingmar Bergman gives name to award for promising film directors | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:53:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Stockholm - Renowned Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman has given his name to a new award honouring promising film directors, organizers of the Goteborg International Film Festival said Tuesday. The first Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award will be presented next year during the 30th edition of the film festival that runs from January 26 to February 5 in the west-coast city of Gothenburg. The award is "a way of encouraging young film makers to deal with the really important issues, in a time where the film industry more and more has taken on the shape and form of a butchery and fornication business," Bergman said in a statement. Organizers said the prize included one week's stay at the Bergman Week on Faro, a tiny island just off the northern tip of the Swedish Baltic Sea island Gotland, where Bergman has retired, as well an engraved stone from the director's own beach.... | |
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| | | Close-up on women in Wales film festival | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:00:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Film is the most powerful medium of our age yet only seven per cent of all directors are female. In November a unique film festival in Wales sets out to improve that situation. The annual Beyond Tv international film festival in Swansea is dedicating an entire evening to local directors and showing international films made by female directors. Festival coordinator D Murphy said today: “Beyond TV will be a chance to meet local women directors and see some great short films. We also have a question and answer session with the Newport director of award-winning film Sisters-in-Law, a story of two female judges who dispense wisdom, wisecracks and justice in Cameroon." The festival will host the premier of Lesbian Civilisation. The film documents the first year of Civil Partnerships in the UK and asks crucial questions about equality.... | |
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| | | Korean tsunami: Lessons for RP s film industry | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 2:59:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE sky is falling! The Philippine film industry is dying! Ticket sales in Metro Manila dropped from 30 million in 1997 to only 15 million in 2001. Nationwide, local films obtained sales of P1.2 billion in 1997 but only P981 million in 2001. Film industry experts direly projected film production to drop from 100 or so films in 2001 to only 30 films in 2006. The culprits, they blamed, were heavy taxation, lower quality films, piracy and other entertainment options. In contrast, however, to the Philippine apologia is the curious upsurge of the Korean Tsunami or the wave of Korean films, TV drama series and music flooding Asia. TV program exports hit $37.5 million in 2003. Korean films and telenovelas inundated China, Taiwan and other countries of East Asia. In the Korean market, local films catapulted from 21 percent market share in 1995 to 48 percent in 2002.... | |
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| | | Kolkata Film Festival starts Nov 10 | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:52:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | A total of 225 films from 53 countries will be screened. Adam's Apples from Denmark by Danish film director Andres Thomas Jensen has been selected as the inaugural film for the festival. The festival has as many as 13 different sections that will include works of several great masters both past and present. Under the centenary tribute to Italian directors, two films of Luchino Visconti and four of Roberto Rossleini will also be screened. Chilean director Miguel Lintin is expected to attend the festival where four of his films are also being screened. Snubbed by the centre for funds to organize the festival an indignant Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee made it very clear that his government was running the festival on its own steam. He said the government was spending Rs 7 lakh and the rest was being managed through sponsorship.... | |
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| | | Call for submisions from the London Film Festival | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:59:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | The London Kurdish Film Festival (LKFF) is the first Kurdish film festival ever to be organized by a group of Kurdish activists in London. In 2006, the festival became a subcommittee of the main Kurdish community centres in the United Kingdom which represents the Kurds from all over Kurdistan to be more accountable for its people. We are happy to announce that the fourth London Kurdish Film Festival will be held in London, 8th-15th December 2006 at Rio Cinema in Dalston. As a festival organising committee, we invite all Kurdish and non-Kurdish directors who have produced films about the Kurdish people to submit their works to this years festival programme. The LKFF accepts feature, documentary and short films with English subtitles for the selection process. Although we can show films in many formats (including 35mm, 16mm, HD, Mini DV etc) our aim is to show films in the highest quality possible.... | |
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| | | David & Layla at 30th Sao Paulo Film Festival | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:54:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Kurdish director Jalal Jonroys first feature film David & Layla is going to be screened at the 30th Annual Sao Paulo Film Festival, in Brazil. David & Layla has been invited to the festival which takes place from Oct 20 to Nov 2 as an Official Selection in New Directors Competition. Sao Paulo International Film Festival is the largest and oldest film festival of Latin America. Inspired by a true story, David & Layla is about the sparks that fly when a Muslim Kurdish and a Jewish American fall in love in NY. Film is unique by being invited not only to regular but also to Political/Human Rights and Love/Romance film festivals. Ghobadi is a Jury member Coincidentally, the most famous living Kurdish filmmaker, Bahman Ghobadi, is this year a Jury member at same festival.... | |
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| | | Pinoy tells Asian film directors: Act local, think global | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 10:54:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | BUSAN, South Korea - A Filipino director urged the brightest young talent in Asia gathered at the 11th Pusan International Film Festival to act locally but think globally. The New Currents section -- the festival's featured competition -- is this week showcasing the work of 10 directors from across Asia. All are united in their belief that the region's film industry should look to its own audience first, but never lose sight of the fact that films speak an "international" language. "Making films in Asia these days is not so much an art form as an extreme sport," said Philippine director Mike Sandejas whose debut feature "Just Like Before" has been selected to screen in the New Currents section. "If you take the situation with the film industry in my country, while the Asian film industry maybe in kindergarten, in the Philippines we are still taking our baby steps.... | |
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| | | Good bets during a jam-packed film festival and conference | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 10:55:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's all about the writing (well, mostly) at the Austin Film Festival and Screenwriters Conference, kicking off its 13th year Thursday. The festival continues through Oct. 26, while the panel-packed conference runs through Oct. 22. Writers, directors and actors (but mostly writers) swoop into town to present their latest films and/or to share their Hollywood experiences on conference panels. .... | |
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| | | PONTECORVO'S DEMISE. BERTINOTTI: WE OWE HIM SPECIAL THANKS | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 12:55:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | (AGI) - Rome, Oct.13 - Lower House speaker, Fausto Bertinotti, sent the Pontecorvo family the following message: "I mourn the demise of Gillo Pontecorvo, one of the greatest authors and film directors of the cinema world, an appreciated protagonist of Italy's modern culture. Pontecorvo's legacy is a passionate civil commitment and original art, innovation and language styles, and a strong sense of critique to face the contradictions of the 20th century. From the folly of concentration camps to the dramatic epilogue of colonialism, from revolutionary utopias to the tension generated by social unrest, Pontecorvo's views have always accompanied us in modern history. By this stage, we owe him a special thanks, and everyone will look to his work with respect and admiration. On behalf of the Lower House, allow me to offer my condolences".(AGI) .... | |
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