By Maria Esteves - May 23, 2013
The 58th Annual 2013 Village Voice OBIE Awards (OBIES 2013) co-hosted by Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos honoring theatrical excellence and achievements in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway commenced Monday, May 20, 8:00 pm at the legendary Webster Hall ballroom, New York. The official sponsors included Stella Artois, Parenteau Guidance PR, A.R.T. NY, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Fragoli, and Barefoot Wine & Bubbly.
2013 OBIE Awards Ceremony featured performan...
22 May – Presentation of Dubai Force Films (FashionTV Films introduces Dubai Force starring Jean-Claude van Damme to the public)
23 May – Photographers Awards Night (The best photographers of the world are honored with the FashionTV Photographers Award)
24 May – FashionTV Model Awards with Models whose ambition it is to become Movie Stars (Models which had been presenting the latest fashions throughout the week will present the last collection before the best is crowned Mis...
By Maria Esteves – May 18, 2013
Fashion Icon Betsey Johnson launched her 2013 American Icons Collection at Macy’s, New York Thursday, May 16, 6:00pm. Hosted by TV personality Micah Jesse, the successful full house event previewed Betsey’s latest collection of dresses, swimwear, shoes, handbags, and accessories modeled by Gemmy Quelliz and Isabella Farrell. Industry professionals, style enthusiasts, guests, and shoppers enjoyed dance music by celebrity DJ Kalkutta, an intimate...
Nadine Vinzens the star of Four Senses an an EroMantic adventure is our exceptional FilmFestival Ambassador in Cannes.
She shares her discoveries, surprises and meetings with our audience and reviews the key films in competition.
Let me tell you my thought on these films which were part of the main official selection.
The great gatsby: The Cannes opener
I love movies which are set in an earlier century. The style of the dresses, how they used to live, the language. V...
Samuel Jamier in action at Japan Society giving the introductory speech for the LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Globus film series of 2012. Both images "courtesy of Samuel Jamier".
JAPAN CUTS was launched as an annual event by the film department of the New York based Japan Society in 2007. It arranged co-presentations of Japanese films at the New York Asian Film Festival followed by additional days of programs at the Japan Society. In 2009 Samuel ...
A remarkable testament to aging with dignity
France loves its icons, one of whom is certainly the grande dame of French cinema Jeanne Moreau. In A LADY IN PARIS, Moreau gives a wonderful performance as the flinty Frida, who proves more than a challenge for Anne, played by Laine Mägi. Anne, who is dealing with the recent death of her mother, is employed from Estonia by café owner Stéphane (Patrick Pineau) to care for his former lover who is now eighty years old. Anne...
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CAMERA D’OR 2013 : PRESIDENTE AGNES VARDA
La Caméra d’or consacre chaque année le meilleur premier film issu de la Sélection officielle, de la Semaine de la Critique et de la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. En 2013, ils sont 23 à concourir (dont 6 femmes réalisatrices toutes issues de la Sélection officielle) pour cette récompense qui sera remise lors de la soirée de clôture le dimanche 26 mai. La Préside...
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By Maria Esteves – April 28, 2013
Hilla Medalia (HM) is an Award winning producer and director. Her documentary shorts and features have received numerous awards. In 2004, Daughters of Abraham received the Angelus Award for best documentary short. In 2005, 39 Pounds Of Love received the Ofhir Award (Israeli Academy of Film & Television) and an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short. Her film John Foppe received the Regional Emmy Award for best Documentary Short.
In 2007, Medalia...
Both “The Rocket” director Kim Mordaunt and his 10-year old protagonist – Ahlo – have a gift for turning the rarely-seen countryside of Laos into a playground for the imagination. The film is a visually engaging, triumph-of-the-underdog piece, where ingenuity can summon beauty and power from a land littered with military debris.
As the film opens, we witness the birth of young Ahlo and his twin brother, who is stillborn. According to Laotian superstition, twins are sai...
To mark the restoration of one of the masterpieces of world cinema, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the Festival de Cannes has invited its heroine, Kim Novak, to grace the event with her presence.
Novak will attend the screening of Vertigo, filmed in 1958, which will be shown in its restored form as part of Cannes Classics. She will also take part in the closing ceremony for the 66th Festival de Cannes where she will award one of the Prizes on Sunday 26 May 2013. Novak first attende...
Claudio Giovannesi’s first dramatic feature is an engrossing coming-of-age story following one week in the life of sixteen-year-old troublemaker Nader, an immigrant teenager who stops at nothing to fit in to Italian youth culture despite his family’s insistence that he respect his Egyptian and Muslim roots. He gets into fights, does drugs, steals and pursues an Italian girlfriend against his mother’s threats to disown him. It is a wonderfully non-judgmental study of a young m...
American director and producer Steven Spielberg will preside this year over a star-studded Jury. Eight top-flight international film celebrities, active in a variety of creative fields, will help him select the winners.
Vidya Balan (Indian actress)
Naomi Kawase (Japanese director)
Nicole Kidman (Australian actress/producer)
Lynne Ramsay (British scriptwriter/director/producer)
Daniel Auteuil (French actor/director)
Ang Lee (Taiwanes...
by Alex Deleon
Deepa Mehta, Canadian based Indian director
The 2013 edition of the Los Angeles festival of Indian Film closed shop with a brace of films on successive evenings by two of the best known Indian woman directors, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta. The films in question were respectively Nair's recent "Reluctant Fundamentalist" and Mehta's newly minted "Midnight's Children" based on Salman Rushdie's latest novel of ...
CIFEJ in collaboration with “Dytiatko” Festival will organize the International Conference on “GlobalVillage, Children, TV and Cinema”.
As a leading professional organization focusing on film industry - high quality films with useful educational content for children and young people - The International Center of Films for Children and Young People (CIFEJ) has decided to launch this conference as a premier forum for communications and network rese...
To mark the restoration of one of the masterpieces of world cinema, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the Festival de Cannes has invited its heroine, Kim Novak, to grace the event with her presence.
Novak will attend the screening of Vertigo, filmed in 1958, which will be shown in its restored form as part of Cannes Classics. She will also take part in the closing ceremony for the 66th Festival de Cannes where she will award one of the Prizes on Sunday 26 May 2013. Novak first attended the Fest...
Gerald Potterton is a British director, producer and animator. He is best known for directing the animated cult classic Heavy Metal and for his animation work on Yellow Submarine.
Potterton has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Born in London, Potterton attended the Hammersmith Art School. After working as an assistant animator in London, (Animal Farm, 1954 Halas and Batchelor), Potterton joined the NFB where he directed both animated and l...
Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director, scriptwriter and producer, will be this year’s President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes Official Selection.
Born in Copenhagen in May 1969, Thomas Vinterberg received his training at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 1993 as the school’s youngest student.
His first short films Last Round (Sidste Omgang, 1993) and The Boy Who Walked Backwards (Drengen der gik baglæns) (Le gar&cc...
One of the young talents at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is Israeli TV Director Jonathan Gurfinkel who presents his startling and disturbing first feature, Six Acts (Shesh Peamin).
Powered by the haunting performance of young actress Sivan Levy, it is the story of Gilly, a sixteen year old girl who transfers to a new Tel-Aviv high school and looks for love in all the wrong places.
As Gilly's quest for acceptance leads her into ever sadder and more da...
“Dytiatko” festival is a noncommercial one; participation in it is free of charge. Children TV and animated studios and also TV companies and producer centers which make programs for children are welcomed to take part in the festival.
Nominations:
- “Best Play Film of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best Documental Film of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best TV Program of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best News Progra...
2013 Dallas International Film Festival
Presented by AutoNation Volkswagen Dealers
Announces Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Recipient of
Dallas Shining Star Award
Award to be presented at Dallas Film Society Honors Awards April 12
Dallas, TX, April 2, 2013 – The Dallas International Film Festival presented by AutoNation Volkswagen Dealers announced today that actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead will accept the Dallas Shining Star Award ...
By Maria Esteves – April 5, 2013
The Search Engine Strategies New York Conference & Expo 2013 (SESNY 2013) commenced March 25-28, 2013 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. Presented by Incisive Media, SES is the leading International Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Marketing (SM) conference that showcase keynote presentations, seminars, panel discussions, receptions, exhibitors show floor, and special events.
This year’s SES New York conference top industry panelist Thom ...
By Maria Esteves – April 5, 2013
The Search Engine Strategies New York Conference & Expo 2013 (SESNY 2013) Opening Keynote Social TV: How Marketers Can Reach and Engage Audiences by Connecting Television to the Web, Social Media and Mobile, with Hill Holliday senior vice president and director of Social Media Mike Proulx, co-author of “SOCIAL TV” commenced Tuesday, March 26, 9:00 AM, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. Proulx discussed how the convergence of television and t...
