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Grappell’s QUADRANGLE To Premiere at Sundance
15 hours ago ago from Persistence of Vision
AFS Filmmaker member Amy Grappell ’s short documentary, QUADRANGLE , will be making its world premiere in the Shorts Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and having European premiere at the Rotterdam Int. Film Festival. Grappell, a director, writer, producer, actress, and casting director, has been active in the Austin film community for the last decade. Grappell wrote and directed LIGHT FROM THE EAST (2005), which premiered at ...
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3 hours ago ago from Bao Viet Nam
Three Vietnamese films including Dung dot (Don’t Burn), Trang noi day gieng (The Moon at the Bottom of the Well), and Choi voi (Adrift) will be shown at the 2009 Asia-Pacific Film Festival in Kaosiung City, ( China ) from December 17-20. Poster of the film Trang noi day gieng (The Moon at the Bottom of the Well) Two documentaries, Bai ca tren dinh Ta Nung (A song on Ta Nung Mountain) and Loi nguyen cau ...
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21 hours ago ago from The Evening Class
A FIPRESCI award-winner, an Oscar® candidate and seven U.S. premieres highlight The Global Film Initiative 's upcoming Global Lens 2010 film series. As announced late last week, 10 award-winning narrative feature films from Algeria, China, India, Iran, Mexico, Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Uruguay and Vietnam will headline Global Lens 2010. "We're very excited about the 2010 series," says Susan Weeks Coulter , Board Chair of the Global Film ...
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4 hours ago ago from Anna Christopher | News
The HW stats revealed below make my AFI directing class of 28 with 6 women directors seem progressive. NYT, December 13, 2009 WOMEN IN THE SEATS BUT NOT BEHIND THE CAMERA By MANOHLA DARGIS IN March 1993 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , the organization that hands out Oscars, decided it was a good time to celebrate women. It wasn’t an original idea: 1992 had been popularly known as the year of the ...
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Discuss: Should the Golden Globes Honor Documentaries?
16 hours ago ago from Cinematical
The Golden Globe nominees are often looked at for hints as to what films might go on to the Academy Awards. But there's one major Oscar category that can't be predicted based on the picks of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association: Best Documentary Feature. There hasn't been a Golden Globe given for best documentary since 1977, and the category had only existed for five years. Certainly non-fiction films aren't the most popular type, but if ...
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19 hours ago ago from BBC
Polanski won the best director Oscar in 2003 for The Pianist Roman Polanski's latest film, The Ghost Writer, is to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February. The French-Polish director is currently under house arrest in Switzerland. He is detained at his home over his 1977 US conviction for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. He fled the US in 1978 before he could be sentenced. The Ghost Writer, based on Robert ...
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13 hours ago ago from BV On Movies
At the end of the day, it's all about the performance. While others may care about whether she comes out to promote her work or not, critics pay no heed to that and have spoken when it comes to MoNique and her searing performance in the drama 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire.' Over the weekend and today, the funnywoman won the Best Supporting Award from both the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York Film ...
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