The 3rd annual Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth will run from March 15-17, 2013 in Utah, and will feature a jam-packed program of feature-length films from around the world. This year’s festival presents 11 feature films from 7 countries including Latvia/Estonia, Germany and Ireland.
All screenings will be presented at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.
2013 Tumbleweeds Film Festival Line-up
KOCH, a documentary by Neil Barsky will open in Los Angeles on March 1 at The Royal, Town Center and Playhouse 7. Film opens in Palm Springs on March 8.
Former Mayor Ed Koch is described as “the quintessential New Yorker.” Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. Ed Koch passed away at at the of 88 on February 1, 2013 – the day KOCH documentary opened in NYC.”
2013 Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the complete line-up for new category addition Lee Brian Schrager’s Culinary Cinema, featuring films with a culinary twist.
Lee Brian Schrager’s Culinary Cinema will open on Sunday, March 3rd, with the North American premiere of Eric Belhassem’s Why Did You Leave?. The documentary features Jacquin and Suaudeau, as well as their French contemporaries, Roland Villard, Alain Uzan and Emmanuel Bassoleil. The film highlights a group exceptional French gastronomic chefs and their decision to leave their homes and rebuild their lives in Brazil, meshing their continental sensibilities with the rhythms of their new home.
The other two films which will screen as part of Lee Brian Schrager’s Culinary Cinema category are Meat Hooked and Oma & Bella.
Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling new film, The East, will close the 2013 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival. In addition to The East. SXSW also announced an additional 15 features and 3 shorts films to screen at this year’s festival. SXSW Film will open on Friday, March 8, 2013 with the world premiere of Don Scardino’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, and run through Saturday, March 16 in Austin, Texas.
Producer and director Chris Brinker, best known for producing The Boondock Saints died suddenly Friday morning in Los Angeles California. According to reports, the 42-year-old producer was rushed to a Marina Del Rey hospital late Thursday night after experiencing a sharp pain in his chest and then later transferred to Kaiser’s Los Angeles Medical Center where his 4 a.m. surgery was unable to fix an aortic aneurysm he’d suffered. Chris is survived by his family and longtime fiancee, Erika Bruun-Anderson. Chris Brinker will still […]
The winners of the 2013 Irish Film and Television Awards were revealed on Saturday, and winning big in the film categories, What Richard Did picked up five awards throughout the night including the award for Best Film. Jack Reynor picked up the award for Actor Lead Film whilst Lenny Abrahamson and Malcolm Campbell picked up IFTAs for Best Director and Script with their fifth IFTA going to Nathan Nugent for Editing Film.
Argo won the IFTA for Best International Film while Daniel Day-Lewis was voted Best International Actor for Lincoln and Marion Cotillard for Best International Actress for her role inRust and Bone.
WINNERS OF THE 10TH ANNUAL IRISH FILM & TELEVISION AWARDS
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will feature 45 films making their World, International, North American, and U.S. premieres. From this year’s lineup, MIFF will screen 10 feature films making their World premiere, five films will make their International premiere, nine films will make their North American premiere, and 16 films will be screening for the first time in the U.S.
Premiering films will be shown at Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, Regal South Beach, MDC’s Tower Theater, Coral Gables Art Cinema, Miami Beach Cinematheque, and O Cinema in Miami, Florida. The 30th edition of Miami International Film Festival runs March 1-10, 2013.
SXSW 2013 today revealed the film lineup for the Midnighters and Shorts sections. Highlights of this year’s Midnighters include Vincenzo “Cube” Natali’s terrifyingHaunter, the U.S. Premiere of Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem, and the the Big Ass Spider. The Shorts section includes106 films in the lineup, and the winner of the Grand Jury Award in this Narrative Shorts category is eligible for a 2014 Academy Award nomination for Best Narrative Short.
The complete lineup of films in the Mignights and Shorts sections include:
Film Independent selected eight filmmakers and projects for its 12th annual Directing Lab. This year’s Lab Mentors include Karen Moncreiff (The Trials of Cate McCall, The Dead Girl), James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, Smashed) and Angela Robinson (True Blood, The L Word).
Starting today and continuing through mid-April, the Directing Lab is an intensive program in Los Angeles, designed to assist directors with strong, original voices develop new narrative feature films, improve their craft, and advance their filmmaking careers in a nurturing yet challenging creative environment.
The 2013 Film Independent Directing Lab filmmakers and their projects are:
The 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, announced the winners of the 2013 festival competition. The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema, given to a unique independent feature that has been made outside mainstream Hollywood, went to BABYGIRL, directed by Macdara Vallely. A Puerto Rican girl in the Bronx sets a trap to expose her mother’s boyfriend as the creep she thinks he is.
The other winning films of the 2013 Santa Barbara International Film Festival include
Ben Affleck won the Directors Guild of America’s Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Argo at the 65th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Malik Bendjelloul won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for Searching for Sugar Man. This is Ben Affleck and Malik Bendjelloul’s first win.
MATTERHORN by Diederik Ebbinge took the UPC Audience Award and Haifaa Al Mansour’s WADJDA was awarded with the Dioraphte Award for best Hubert Bals Fund-supported film at the 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Both awards come with 10,000 Euro prize money. MATTERHORN tells the tragicomical story of widower Fred (Ton Kas) who leads a lonely life after his wife passed away. His life takes an unexpected turn when a stranger (René van ’t Hof) calls at […]