Tag sea
Festival - Germany - Audiences award two German films at the Seattle fest
2008-06-19 05:00:07Germany was represented at the 25-day 34th Seattle International Film Festival (May 22-June 15) with a total of eight German films and 17 German-international co-productions. Cherry Blossoms - Hanami by Doris Doerrie celebrated its US premiere there and was presented with the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award by the audience. Another hit with the American spectators was the short...
Production - Czech Republic - Three Seasons In Hell preps in Prague
2008-08-18 05:00:06Prague-based Dawson Productions is preparing to begin production on Three Seasons In Hell, a co-production between the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. Photography on the EUR 3m project is scheduled to begin August 22 on location in Prague and conclude November 17. The film is directed by Tomas Masin from his own script, adapted from a story by Lubomír Drozd, which was in turn inspired...
Venice 2008 - Horizons/Awards - Gianfranco Rosi's Below Sea Level crowned top doc
2008-09-07 05:00:06Gianfranco Rosi's Below Sea Level won the Horizons Doc prize for Best Documentary. The Italian director's film - whose screening received a standing ovation - recounts the life stories of a small community who live in the New Mexico desert, without water, electricity, police or government. Rosi followed them for four years in order to discover how they ended up on the margins of society.
Venice 2008 - Horizons/USA-Italy - Rosi goes Below Sea Level
2008-09-09 05:00:10Born in Asmara in Eritrea and both a US and Italian citizen, Gianfranco Rosi is a cosmopolitan filmmaker. A graduate of New York University Film School, he has lived in Istanbul, New York, Rome and Los Angeles. The director now presents his feature debut, Below Sea Level (following his medium-length film Boatman, which was lauded at the Sundance Festival), in the Horizons section on the...
Industry - UK - Blu-ray drives strong DVD holiday season
2009-01-07 05:00:11The relatively new Blu-ray format enjoyed success in the lucrative Christmas/New Year holiday season with 1.5 million sold in December alone - up 400% from 2007 - according to figures released by the British Video Association (BVA). In total, Blu-ray discs sold a total of 3.7 million units in 2008. British director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight, starring British actor Christian Bale, was...
Industry - UK - UKFC launches film search engine
2009-01-28 12:03:20The UK Film Council (UKFC) has launched FindAnyFilm.com, a free film search engine that will allow users to find out when, where and how a film is available in the UK - legally and across all formats and platforms. The site has 30,000 film records in different world languages and is expanding daily. Peter Buckingham, head of Distribution and Exhibition at the UKFC said, “This new...
Releases - Italy - Brizzi's Ex: That crazy little disease called love
2009-02-03 09:00:28Love is a dangerous disease and the reason why we are all destined to becomes "ex-es", according to Fausto Brizzi, director of Ex (to be released February 6 on 600-700 screens by 01 Distribution). Except when we get back together or fall in love with someone else. "In the end, you begin again. The film is about the cycle of love,” said the filmmaker of this comedy that interweaves the...
Bohdan Slama - Director: “The search for love”
2009-03-31 09:00:11Czech auteur Bohdan Slama shares his thoughts behind the story of A Country Teacher and his view of contemporary Czech cinema, and reveals the subject of his next film
Festivals - Latvia - Baltic Sea Forum set for September
2009-04-14 09:00:16The 13th Baltic Sea Documentary Forum will take place this year from September 1-6 in Riga, Latvia. The Forum's key objectives are to develop documentary film culture and to promote documentary filmmaking in the Baltic Region and international co-productions and dissemination of Baltic and Polish documentary films in Europe. The first day of the Forum will de dedicated to documentary...
Festivals - Italy - Europeans take back seat at Taormina awards
2009-06-23 09:00:08The European region of the Mediterranean Basin took a back seat at the awards of the 55th Taormina Film Fest in Sicily (June 13-20). The festival jury - comprising directors Laurent Cantet (The Class) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir) and US actress Aimee Mullins - gave the Golden Tauro Award of the Mediterranea competition to Syrian film The Long Night by Hatem Ali. The Special Jury...
RSS Feed
subscribe RSS feedLatest tags:
review, the, exploding, girl, lions, gate, rejects, icahn, offer, to, buy, shares, (ap), nyc, exmodel, sues, over, use, of, photo, in, comedy, film, (ap), chavez, thanks, sean, penn, for, slamming, his, critics, (ap), fox, mulling, avatar, summer, rerelease, (reuters), matrix, bad, guy, eyes, captain, america, villain, (reuters), reynolds, bateman, switch, bodies, in, comedy, (reuters), anne, hathaway, jim, sturgess, eye, one, day, (reuters), sequels, reboots, bring, sizzle, to, summer, box, office, (reuters), children, of, invention, dramatically, tepid, tale, (reuters),Iinteresting pages:
EXPEKTKonie
European cinema and movies.