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Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race
The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk. Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race ...
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BAFTA launches public short competition
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts ( BAFTA ) has launched a new short film competition, 60 Seconds of Fame, in association with Orange and supported by BBC Nations and Regions and the UK’s regional screen agencies.
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Wallace And Gromit add to BAFTA honours
Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit was named as best film at the British Academy Children’s Film and Television Awards.
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Korean film picks up Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki
Korean Kim Tae-yong's second film Family Ties (Gajokeui Tansaeng) won the Golden Alexander for best film at the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the $48,000 (37,000 Euros) cash prize.The film was chosen from 14 first or second film titles by a seven-strong jury, led by US independent producer Christine ...
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Heaven wins grand prize at Tokyo Filmex
Djamshed Usmonov's To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die was awarded the Grand Prize at the conclusion of the 7th Tokyo Filmex film festival (Nov 17-26). The award carried a cash prize of $8,640 (Y1m). The ceremony was followed by a screening of Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want ...
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Delbaran
Dir: Abolfazl Jailili. Iran/Japan 2001. 96mins Socially poignant and often visually poetic, Delbaran, the new Iranian film from the gifted helmer Abolfazl Jailili, was one of Locarno Festival's few undisputed artistic highlights. Continuing the tradition of recent Iranian films about children, the story centres on a 14-year-old Afghan refugee, caught ...
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Rotterdam names first three competition titles
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced the first three films in its VPRO Tiger Awards competition. They are How Is Your Fish Today' by Xiaolu Gao (China/UK), Love Conquers All by Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia) and Ex-drummer by Koen Mortier (Belgium). The competition jury will include Summer Palace director ...
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Exile , Love share top honours at Golden Horse Awards
Aaron Kwok secured best actor for the second consecutive year at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards in Taipei on Saturday night for his role in Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile. The film also took best film and best supporting actor for child star Goum Ian Iskandar. Jackie Chan had ...
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Dragon Fruit wins top prize at Taiwan projects market
Ivan C. Shih's ambitious 3D animation fantasy project The Adventures Of Dragon Fruit took the main prize at the second Taiwan Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) event in Taipei yesterday. The presentations were a major component of the 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital Contents Exhibition, held Nov ...
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Dragon Fruit wins top prize at Taiwan projects market
Ivan C. Shih's ambitious 3D animation fantasy project The Adventures Of Dragon Fruit took the main prize at the second Taiwan Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) event in Taipei. The presentations were a major component of the 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital Contents Exhibition, held Nov 23-25.The ...
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The Orange Rising stars
It was created in honour of the late Mary Selway, BAFTA-winning UK casting director who launched the careers of many young stars. Last year’s Orange Rising Star nominees were Chiwetel Ejiofor, James McAvoy, Rachel McAdams, Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia Bernal.Commenting on his award, the 2006 winner James McAvoy said:‘This ...
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Orange Stars to rise again
The Orange Rising Star Award will return to theBAFTAs in2007 with young hopefuls hoping to follow last year’s inaugural winner James McAvoy as winner of the public vote.
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Sunshine , Nelson lead Spirit Award nominations
IFC Films led the Film Independent 2007 Spirit Award nominations with nine nods including three for American Gun.Fox Searchlight earned seven nominations, five of them for Little Miss Sunshine including feature, director for Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and supporting male nods for Alan Arkin and Paul Dano.First Look Studios ...
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McAvoy and Minghella on Orange Rising Star jury for Bafta
BAFTA has announced the jury for this year’s Orange Rising Star Award.
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Executive Protection
Not even a record-breaking heatwave combined with fierce US blockbuster competition could prevent local Swedish action-thriller, Executive Protection (Livvakterna) from drawing appreciative crowds and topping the Swedish box office last weekend.Despite reviews questioning the plausibility of the plot, about Eastern European gangsters threatening a Swedish businessman in Estonia, Anders Nilsson's ...
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56 foreign-language films qualify for Golden Globes
Fifty-six foreign-language films have qualified for consideration in the 64th Golden Globes race.
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The Artist's Cinema is designed to focus on the increasing importance of cinema exhibition for contemporary artists. It's a collaboration to construct, programme and run a cinema for artists film and
The commissions are produced by Frieze Projects (a public arts commissioning opportunity for artist's) and LUX (a charity which exists to promote and support artist's movingimage work) in collaboration with the Independent Cinema Office. Five artists were commissioned by LUX and Frieze projects to make short 35mm films. The films ...
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Sundance unveils competition section lineups for 2007
Hailing a wider global perspective in American film-making and a compelling array of international work, Sundance festival director Geoff Gilmore unveiled the 64 Independent Film and World Cinema documentaries and dramatic films that will play in competition in the 2007 event, which runs from Jan 18 to 28.'American film-makers are ...
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This Is England wins BIFA Best Film
Newcomers caused a few surprises at the ninth British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) in London Wednesday night, with Red Road's Tony Curran and Kate Dickie taking the best acting prizes over more established names including Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren.No single film swept the top honours -- Shane Meadows' This ...
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Half Nelson dominates New York's Gotham Awards
Ryan Fleck's inner city drama Half Nelson dominated IFP's 16th Annual Gotham Awards last night [Nov 29].The picture won best feature, breakthrough director for Fleck and breakthrough actor for Shareeka Epps, who tied with Babel's Rinko Kikuchi. Half Nelson was released earlier this year in North American through THINKFilm.Alejandro Gonzalez ...