Berlinale Generation 2015: Hermetic Worlds and Brave Decision-Makers
A further 14 feature films round off the Generation programmes. In total, 65 short and full-length films from 35 countries were selected for the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions. The...
View ArticleA look back at the Festival circuit this week. Newsletter 670 -...
This weekly newsletter reaches 182 000 subscribers. Read this online I Promote Film to Festivals I Promote Festivals to Filmmakers I Email us I Advertize in our Newsletters and...
View ArticleNew Annapolis Film Festival Poster Art Unveiled
The new poster art for the 2015 Annapolis Film Festival has just been released. Illustrated by the Festival’s Art Director, Joe Barsin, it has a distinctive design style. Says Festival Director, Patti...
View ArticleAlejandro G. Iñárritu to receive Vanguard Leadership Award at the fifth...
Sundance Institute today announced that it will present Alejandro G. Iñárritu with its Vanguard Leadership Award at the fifth annual Sundance Institute benefit on June 2, 2015 in Los Angeles. The...
View ArticleSundance 2015 Full Program of screenings, panels and events
Donwload and Print the program....yes paper? FILMS U.S. DRAMATICPresenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at...
View ArticleSundance Programming team
Meet the programming team JOHN COOPER, DIRECTOR, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL TREVOR GROTH, DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING DAVID COURIER, SENIOR PROGRAMMER SHARI FRILOT, SENIOR PROGRAMMER, CURATOR OF NEW FRONTIER...
View ArticleMeet John Cooper
JOHN COOPER, DIRECTOR, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL“Finding a program of films you love every year is both an exhilarating and daunting task. I have put together an amazing staff that loves dialogue and...
View ArticleMeet Trevor Groth, Sundance Director of Programming
TREVOR GROTH, DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING"In 1989, I was 17 and living in Salt Lake City when I drove my '79 Subaru Brat up the snowy canyon to Park City to experience Sundance for the first time. It...
View ArticleOSCARS 2015: Here Come The Nominees with Chris Pine & Cheryl Boone Isaacs
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentWhat better way to usher in the Oscars Nominees than with the real-time footage that had some of us up on the West Coast at 5:30 am. Of course, since they...
View ArticleAmerican Sniper, Review: Kyler instinct--all hits, no misses!
American Sniper, Review: Kyler instinct--all hits, no misses!Clint Eastwood told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz recently that he was not fond of the war in Iraq, but was "always sympathetic to...
View ArticlePaddington, Review: Please see this film. Thank you.
Paddington, Review: Please see this film. Thank you.In 1956, a BBC cameraman bought a small toy bear left alone on a shelf in the iconic Selfridges store, London, for his wife Brenda. Named Paddington,...
View Article87TH OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED, By Adrienne Papp
SPOTLIGHT MEDIA PRODUCTIONS 87TH OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED By Adrienne Papp Directors Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams, actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the...
View ArticleOscar-nominated Editor Tom Cross on "Whiplash"
Tom Cross surely has a sore neck since hearing the news: his work on Damien Chazelle's Whiplash has earned the picture one of its five Oscar bids -- in his case for "Best Film Editing." It's the Los...
View ArticleOscar-nominated Cinematographer Dick Pope on "Mr. Turner"
Dick Pope's name may have been crapped up as he was nominated for an Academy Award, but there's nothing crappy about the reason for that nomination: his lensing of Mr. Turner. Click below for my...
View ArticleWelsh-Egyptian filmmaker Sally El Hosaini will be in San Francisco this...
Acclaimed Emerging Filmmaker Will Be in Residence February 2-15 with a Full Schedule of School Visits, Film Screenings, a Free Artist Talk and Networking Events The San Francisco Film Society has...
View ArticleOSCARS 2015: Here Come The Nominees with Chris Pine & Cheryl Boone Isaacs:...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentWhat better way to usher in the Oscars Nominees than with the real-time footage that had some of us up on the West Coast at 5:30 am. Of course, since...
View ArticleCanada (NSI) announced the 2015 projects selected for Script to Screen -...
Canada (NSI) announce today the 2015 projects selected for Script to Screen, a development fund partnership with Corus’ Western Canada pay TV service, Movie Central and the Winnipeg-based NSI. The...
View ArticleToday is the deadline to become a voting Member for the 30th Film Independent...
Today is the deadline to become a voting Member for the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards
View ArticleRichard Linklater's speaks on camera about his Oscar-nominated film BOYHOOD...
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar...
View ArticleThe Theory of Everything, Review: A Practical Treat for Everyone
The Theory of Everything, Review: A Practical Treat for EveryoneAmong the most brilliant theoretical physicists of his era, and maybe since Einstein, Stephen Hawking turned 73 last week. From 1979 to...
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