Latest festival news – Page 462
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NewsVentana Sur attendance up 42%; FilmSharks sells Saving Private Perez to CIS
Ventana Sur came to a close on Monday (5) after four days of meetings, panels and conferences with a smattering of deals and the announcement of the winners of the Primer Corte competition of works in progress.
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NewsLay The Favorite, Bachelorette among Sundance Premieres
Joining Stephen Frears and Leslye Headland are narrative entries 2 Days In New York from Julie Delpy, Nicholas Jarecki’s financial thriller Arbitrage and Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer. Documentary Premieres includes fresh work from Joe Berlinger, Stacy Peralta and Ice-T.
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Iceland's Either Way wins top prize in Turin
Les Eclats (Ma Guele, Ma Revolte, Mon Nom) won best documentary.
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Porfirio wins Golden Peacock at IFFI Goa
Colombian drama Porfirio, directed by Alejandro Landes, was awarded the Golden Peacock for best film at the close of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Goa on Saturday night.
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NewsPlus Camerimage's top cinematography prize goes to Dylewska for In Darkness
Polish feature Suicide Room also picks up two awards.
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NewsMike Leigh tapped as jury president for Berlinale 2012
Leigh was last in Berlin with 2008’s Happy-Go-Lucky.
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NewsWingard, Swanberg among Sundance Midnight line-up
Sundance organisers announced on Dec 1 the out-of-competition sections Spotlight, Park City At Midnight, NEXT and New Frontier.
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NewsZurich Film Festival launches international music competition
The five best compositions will be performed by the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, as part of next year’s film festival.
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NewsSundance unveils US, World Cinema competition sections
Todd Louiso’s Hello I Must Be Going, Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen Of Versaillies, Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here [pictured] and Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching For Sugar Man will open the festival, representing the US Dramatic, US Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Documentary competitions.
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NewsTallinn's Black Nights gives grand prix to A Simple Life
Other festival prize winners include We Need To Talk About Kevin, Barzakh, 33 Animals of Santa Claus, and Kotoko.
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NewsHeather Graham To Receive Career Achievement Award At Bahamas
Boogie Nights star Heather Graham will be honoured with the career achievement award at the Bahamas International Film Festival this month in Nassau.
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NewsEl Estudiante and Declaration of War win Gijón Film Festival
Declaration of War, the French candidate for the Oscars, and El Estudiante, a low budget political satire and drama, won ex aequo the 49 edition of the Gijón Film festival, which ended this weekend in the Spanish city of Asturias.
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NewsOld Dog takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex; inaugural edition of Talent Campus Tokyo wraps
Director Pema Tseden’s Tibetan-language Chinese film Old Dog was awarded the grand prize and $12,800 (Y1m) at the closing awards of the twelfth edition of Tokyo Filmex, which ran from Nov 19-27.
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Ladakh to host international film festival
Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the north of India, is set to host its first ever international film festival from June 15-17 next year.
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NewsPlanet of Snail wins top prize at IDFA
Special jury award and audience prize goes to 5 Broken Cameras.
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NewsMalatya's Crystal Apricot award goes to The Future Lasts Forever
The second Malatya International Film Festival in Turkey closed Nov 24 with the Crystal Apricot award going to The Future Lasts Forever (Gelecek Uzun Surer).Ozcan Alper’s second feature, a love story about a Turkish woman’s voyage to find her Kurdish lover, was praised for “translating the pain of the war ...
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NewsGolden Horse project market sees 67% growth; Yi’s animation project takes top prize
Film financier attendance also up, including 12 venture capital companies.
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NewsIDFA unveils prize nominations; Tea Time wins Central Pitch prize at FORUM
Feature competition finalists are The Ambassador [pictured], Bad Weather, Planet of Snail.
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NewsPeter Weir to head DIFF Muhr Arab Features jury
Weir’s last feature The Way Back, was featured in DIFF’s Cinema of the World section in 2010.