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Fish (Balık) to Open Inaugural Golden Island International Film Festival in Cpyrus

The Opening Night film for the inaugural Golden Island International Film Festival (GIIFF) will be Fish (Balık), a touching tale about a family that turns to tradition to heal where modern medicine has failed, but find their lives radically altered as they go against nature. The film, by award-winning Turkish Cypriot director Derviş Zaim, will receive its Cyprus premiere on Thursday 6 November at the Girne American University. The director and stars from the film, Bülent İnal and Sanem Çelik, are expected to attend the Kyrenia opening gala event, along with special guest actors Demet Akbağ and Erdal,Özyağcılar who will be the first recipients of GIIFF’s Honorary Cinema Award along with director Derviş Zaim.

“Siddharth” “Happiness” Win Top Awards at Heartland Film Festival

Siddharth

“Siddharth,” directed by Richie Mehta won the $45,000 Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature, and “Happiness” won the $45,000 Grand Prize for Best Documentary Feature at the 23rd annual Heartland Film Festival (Oct. 16-25, 2014). In the Shorts category, “Record”wins $5,000 Grand Prize for Best Narrative Short and “Showfolk” wins $5,000 Grand Prize for Best Documentary Short.

Emily Blunt to join jury for IWC Filmmaker Award at 2014 Dubai International Film Festival

Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt will be joining the jury for the third annual IWC Filmmaker Award at the 11th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). The IWC Filmmaker Award, launched in 2012 as a collaboration between IWC Schaffhausen and DIFF, offers a cash prize of USD 100,000 to help a talented filmmaker from the Middle East transfer his or her vision from script to screen. The award will be presented to the winning filmmaker at a star-studded gala on 11 December 2014

THE IMITATION GAME, MR. TURNER and WINTER SLEEP Among First Titles Announced for 2014 Lone Star Film Festival

THE IMITATION GAME

The Lone Star Film Festival (LSFF) in Sundance Square announced eight titles from its 2014 lineup, including THE IMITATION GAME, MR. TURNER and WINTER SLEEP. The festival will take place Nov. 6-9 at the AMC Palace Theater with additional screenings at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. THE IMITATION GAME, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and recently picked up the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), will screen at the 2014 LSFF.

The Revenge of the Green Dragons, produced by Martin Scorsese, to Open Boston Asian American Film Festival

The Revenge of the Green Dragons

The Revenge of the Green Dragons, produced by Martin Scorsese, makes its Boston debut on October 23rd as the opening night film of Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF). The film will be released in theaters the following day. It is co-directed by Andrew Lau, whose Internal Affairs was remade into the Oscar-winning movie The Departed, and Andrew Loo. It explores the dark world of Asian American gang life in 1980s and ‘90s New York City. A few of the cast members of “Dragons” will be present at its screening at the Brattle Theatre, including Shuya Chang (Casse-tête Chinois, Karma: A Very Twisted Love Story), Shing Ka (The Manchurian Candidate, God’s Land, Grand Gesture), Celia Au(Detachment, The Unity of All Things, Sonic), Carl Li (Math Warriors, Loveless, Pistol Whipped), and Richard Lam.

Watch TRAILER for “Mardan” Iran’s Official Entry for Foreign Film Oscar

Mardan Mardan

Check out the trailer for Batin Ghobadi’s debut feature Mardan, also Iran’s official entry for Oscar for foreign film for the upcoming Academy Awards. The film, which premiered in September at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows a police officer gripped by a traumatic childhood memory as he searches for a missing man in the rugged mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Abu Dhabi Film Festival Unveils Lineup, Opening + Closing Films, Arab Cinema, Jury, Career Achievement Awards

FROM A TO B

Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) will open, for the first time, with a locally produced film – FROM A TO B by Emirati director Ali Mostafa and Image Nation Abu Dhabi. The closing film of the festival has been confirmed as Disney’s animation film BIG HERO 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams. The Festival will open on October 23 and will last until November 1, 2014.

8 Doc Shorts On Oscar’s 2014 Shortlist

Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 87th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations.

The eight films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:

LEVIATHAN Wins 58th BFI London Film Festival

LEVIATHAN

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s LEVIATHAN, which tells the tragic tale of conflict between an individual and a corrupt system in a small Russian town, is the winner of the Best Film Award at the 58th BFI London Film Festival. The jury also commended Celine Sciamma’s GIRLHOOD about a young woman’s search for identity in the underprivileged suburbs of Paris.

Tommy Lee Jones THE HOMESMAN + Special Screenings and Conversations Added to 2014 AFI FEST

the homesman-tommy-lee-jones-hilary-swank THE HOMESMAN

THE HOMESMAN, directed by and starring Academy Award® winner Tommy Lee Jones, will have its World Premiere as the Centerpiece Gala of 2014 AFI FEST on Tuesday, November 11. In addition to THE HOMESMAN, AFI FEST’s Special Screenings are CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (DIR Olivier Assayas); MERCHANTS OF DOUBT (DIR Robert Kenner); MOMMY (DIR Xavier Dolan); MR. TURNER (DIR Mike Leigh); SAINT LAURENT (DIR Bertrand Bonello); STILL ALICE (DIR Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland); TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER (DIR Nick Broomfield) and TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT) (DIR Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne).

Terry McMahon’s “Patrick’s Day” “Red Lines” Among Winners of 2014 Woodstock Film Festival Maverick Awards

Actor Mo Dunford, Director Terry McMahon and Producer Tim Palmer of Patrick’s Day at 2014 Woodstock Film Festival 15th Annual Maverick Awards Ceremony (photo by Silvia Forni) (Photo by Silvia Forni)

The 15th annual Woodstock Film Festival which began Wednesday, Oct. 15, closed on Sunday, Oct. 19. The Maverick Award for Best Feature Narrative at the festival was presented to Patrick’s Day, directed by Terry McMahon, and The Maverick Award for Best Feature Documentary went to Red Lines, directed by Andrea Kalin and Oliver Lukacs. Oscar-nominated director and writer Darren Aronofsky was among this year’s winner as recipient of the Honorary Maverick Award. Critically acclaimed for his work in films like Black Swan, The Wrestler, and The Fountain, Aronofsky was presented this award by Academy Award Winners Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind), who he directed in his most recent films, Noah and previously in Requiem for a Dream.

Mohsen Mahkmalbaf’s “The President” Wins Gold Hugo For Best Film at Chicago International Film Festival

The President

Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Mahkmalbaf’s “The President” received the Gold Hugo for Best Film, the Festival’s highest honor, in the 50th Chicago International Film Festival Competitions. In this dark satire of power, dispossession and revenge from Iranian New Wave master Mohsen Makmalbaf (Kandahar), a dictator comes face to face with the people he previously subjugated. When a coup d’état overthrows a leader’s brutal rule and the rest of his family flees the country by plane, The President becomes a fugitive, along with his young grandson, and confronts, first-hand, the hardships and anger experienced by his own people. The Silver Hugo, Special Jury Prize went to “Refugiado” directed by Diego Lerman.

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