Film Festivals

  • Les Fros will be the opening film of this year’s Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)

    The grand premiere of Les Fros, the second feature by the Mont Laurier-based director Stéphanie Lanthier, kicks off the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) on November 10.

    Produced by DOC Productions and co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Les Fros takes us inside the world of Abitibi’s brush cutters. Every year, workers from Romania, Mali, Russia and Albania travel north to swell the ranks of local cutters. For long months, they toil in harsh conditions deep in the boreal forest, creating a warm and brotherly community despite their differences and tensions. This is the tender and tough reality that Stéphanie Lanthier has chosen to share with us by filming the daily lives of these new lumberjacks.

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  • Naples International Film Festival 2010 Winners

    Bedrooms directed by Michael D. Olmos and Youssef Delara
    Bedrooms directed by Michael D. Olmos and Youssef Delara

    Bedrooms directed by Michael D. Olmos and Youssef Delara was announced as the winner of Best Feature film award at the Naples International Film Festival’s closing ceremonies Sunday evening at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts.

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  • 2010 Kerry Film Festival Award Winners

    Juliette Binoche, Recipient of The Maureen O’ Hara Award

    The Kerry Film Festival, in Kerry, Ireland, which is celebrating eleven years of bringing film to Kerry, announced the winning short films from the 2010 edition of the festival.

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  • 2010 Sheffield International Documentary Festival Awards

    The Special Jury Award: “Pink Saris”

    Sheffield Doc/Fest, which describes itself as “bringing the international documentary family together to celebrate the art and business of documentary making for five intense days in November” recently wrapped and announced its 2010 winners. “Pink Saris” bested nominees “12th & Delaware,” “The Embrace of The River,” “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” “Marwencol,” “Nostalgia for the Light,” “Russian Lessons,’ and “Secrets of The Tribe” to take top prize for The Special Jury Award.

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  • Jane Russell to receive Lifetime Achievement in Acting Award from Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

    Actress Jane Russell will be honored with The Lifetime Achievement Award by Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. The event is SOLD OUT.

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  • 2010 Cucalorus Film Festival Selections

    Enter the Void (France) – Gaspar Noé

    Cucalorus Film Festival returns to the historic port city of Wilmington, North Carolina for its annual cinematic celebration this November 11-14th.  Film selections include Gaspar Noe’s cinematic wonder Enter the Void, Sundance World Cinema documentary winner The Red Chapel by Mads Brügger, and a healthy list of additional independent and international titles.

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  • 18th Damascus International Film Festival Lineup

    Opening Night Film, Bal (Honey)

    Mr. Mohammed Al-Ahmad, Director General of the National Film Organization, nveiled the lineup for the 18th Damascus International Film Festival during a press conference held at Al-Kindy Theater in Damascus, Syria.  Mr. Al Ahmad emphasized the importance of Damascus Film Festival and the important role it plays in improving cinema production in Syria.

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  • 10th Whistler Film Festival Announces Lineup Including 56 Premieres

    Daydream Nation (starring Kat Dennings and Josh Lucas)

    The Whistler Film Festival (December 1–5, 2010) announced its 10th anniversary lineup featuring an unprecedented 9 World Premieres, 5 North American Premieres, 5 Canadian Premieres, 21 Western Canadian Premieres, 2 English Canadian Premieres, and 14 BC Premieres, and work from wide-ranging movie mavericks such as Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce McDonald and Monte Hellman to name a few.

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  • WFF Announces Films in Borsos Competition and Inaugural New Voices International Feature Competition

    Daydream Nation, dir: Michael Goldbach

    The Whistler Film Festival announced the films competing for $25,000 in cash prizes as part of the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature Film and the inaugural New Voices International Feature Film Competition.

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  • World Premiere of Hard Core Logo 2 rocks out the 10th Anniversary Whistler Film Festival

    Canadian indie film legend Bruce McDonald (dir: Hard Core Logo, Pontypool, Highway 61) rocks the Whistler Film Festival (WFF) this year with the World Premiere of his newest punk rockumentary Hard Core Logo 2. Fifteen years after filming his rock and roll doc Hard Core Logo, Bruce the filmmaker (played by Bruce McDonald himself) receives a call asking if he wants to interview Care Failure, the sexy lead singer of Canadian punk band Die Mannequin, who claims to have channeled the spirit of the Hard Cores lead singer Joe Dick. Presented by Alliance Films, Hard Core Logo 2 is based on the book Hard
    Core Logo written by Michael Turner.

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  • 10th Annual Whistler Film Festival kicks off with the British Columbia Premiere of Daydream Nation

     

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  • Leeds International Film Festival Special: Tsai Ming-Liang Study Day to be Held

    The Taipei Representative Office in the UK, University of Leeds and Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) are cooperating to organise a special event in Leeds focusing on the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang. The event will be held on 15 and 16 November 2010.

    This event begins on 15 November with a screening of his film The Wayward Cloud. A workshop will be hosted by Tsai himself at the University of Leeds in the morning of 16 November, which will be followed in the afternoon by an event entitled “An audience with Tsai Ming-liang,” at the Hyde Park Picture House. This latter event will include a screening of Tsai’s short film, Madame Butterfly, followed by a Q&A session with the director. To mark this occasion, Leeds International Film Festival plan to present the Golden Owl Lifetime Achievement Award to Tsai to celebrate his achievements, and his contributions to world cinema. Tsai will be the first ever recipient of this Golden Owl Award.

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