• Tribeca Film to Present Alex Karpovsky Double Feature Theatrical Release In New York City February 22 2013

     

    [caption id="attachment_3110" align="alignnone" width="550"]Alex (Alex Karpovsky) in Red Flag.[/caption]

    Tribeca Film will release two upcoming features from writer/director/actor Alex Karpovsky (“Girls”) – Red Flag and Rubberneck – in a unique double feature theatrical run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center in New York, starting on February 22, 2013.

    Rubberneck described as “a slow-burn character study-turned-psychosexual thriller” had its world premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. Co-written by Karpovsky and Garth Donovan, the film “is a chillingly believable story of workplace romance gone wrong.” Months after a weekend fling, Boston research scientist Paul (Karpovsky) continues to lust after his beautiful coworker Danielle (Jamie Ray Newman), nurturing his fantasies with the occasional polite exchange at work. But once she starts dating another scientist at their lab, his infatuation quickly turns into obsession – and he finds himself unable to control his desires.

    Red Flag world-premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival, went on to win multiple awards at other festivals, and was recently nominated for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You at the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards.

    Red Flag is described as “a laugh-out-loud road trip comedy, starring writer/director Alex Karpovsky (“Girls,” Tiny Furniture) as Alex Karpovsky, a newly-single indie filmmaker who hits the road with an old friend (Onur Tukel) to promote one of his films. As the pair travels from one half-empty theater to the next, pursued by an adoring fan (Jennifer Prediger) who drives them into an exceptionally uncomfortable love triangle, Alex-as-Alex is forced to suffer an endless series of humiliations, each one more absurd than the last.”

    Karpovsky is one of the stars of the smash HBO series Girls and has appeared in films such as Tiny Furniture, Sleepwalk With Me, and Beeswax; in early 2013, he will be seen in the Coen Brothers’ new feature Inside Llewyn Davis, as well as Supporting Characters (a January 2013 Tribeca Film release). As a writer-director, his prior films include Woodpecker and The Hole Story.

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  • PBS Continues Commitment to Independent Films in 2013 – Short Film Festival and Independent Film Showcase Announced

     [caption id="attachment_3108" align="alignnone" width="550"]The Waiting Room – A film by Peter Nicks[/caption]

    PBS continues it support of independent film with the return of the second annual Online Film Festival and the Independent Film Showcase in the Fall.

    PBS’ Online Film Festival, beginning March 4  will showcase 25 short films and viewers will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite short film from March 4 through March 22; the film with the most votes will receive the People’s Choice Award.The winning film will be announced in early April.

    Additionally, this fall, PBS will present a four-week Independent Film Showcase with programs airing Monday nights at 10 p.m.(broadcast dates TBD). The Showcase will feature films from the landmark series POV and INDEPENDENT LENS.

    The featured films include the following (air dates are TBD):

    “56 Up”- POV A film by Michael Apted

    “56 Up” is the eighth film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 49 years ago when UK-based Granada’s World in Action team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim “Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man,” interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Michael Apted, a researcher for the original film, has returned to interview the “children” every seven years since, at ages 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, and now at age 56. In this latest chapter, more life-changing decisions are revealed, more shocking announcements are made and more of the original group takes part than ever before, speaking out on a variety of subjects including love, marriage, career and class.

    “Brooklyn Castle”- POV A film by Katie Dellamaggiore

    Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318.”Brooklyn Castle”tells the stories of five members of the chess team at a below-the-poverty-line inner city junior high school that has won more national championships than any other in the country. The film follows the challenges these kids face in their personal lives -and on the chessboard – and is as much about the sting of their losses as it is about anticipation of their victories.

    “Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey” – INDEPENDENT LENS A film by Ramona Diaz

    For Arnel Pineda, the past five years have been the stuff that dreams are made of. In 2007, hisfriend began uploading videos of the aspiring Filipino singer covering classic rock songs onto YouTube. One of the videoswas seen by Neal Schon, guitarist for the iconic rock band Journey. Blown away by Pineda’s talent and uncanny vocal similarity to former Journey front man Steve Perry, Schon flew Pineda from Manila to San Francisco to audition for the band.The rest is history. But Pineda’s personal journey had just begun. His mother died when he was 12 and he ended up on the streets. And with no classical music training, he was anything but prepared for the grueling physical and emotional strains that come from fronting a rock band on a whirlwind world tour. Can a man who has already overcome so many obstacles deal with the demands of his newfound fame?

    “The Waiting Room” – INDEPENDENT LENS A film by Peter Nicks

    “The Waiting Room” is an immersive documentary film that interweaves several stories that unfold in surprising ways in the ER waiting room at Oakland, California’s Highland Hospital-a facility stretched to the breaking point. The film is an intimate rendering of the story of our health care system at a moment of great change, told through the eyes of people stuck-sometimes for up to 14 hours-in the waiting room. The program tells the story of a remarkably diverse populationbattling their way through seismic shifts in the nation’s health care system while weathering the storm of a national recession. It’s a film about one hospital, its multifaceted community, and how our common vulnerability to illness binds us together. “This is the rare film that can change the way you think and see the world,” says The San Francisco Chronicle.

     

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  • Variance Films to Release An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty

    Variance Films will release Terence Nance’s award-winning debut, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY in US and Canadian theaters beginning April 12th, 2013. Cinema Guild will then release the film on DVD and digital platforms in late summer 2013.

    AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY, which debuted at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and winner of 2012 Gotham Award for “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You” documents the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. Utilizing a tapestry of live action and multiple styles of animation, Terence explores the fantasies, emotions, and memories that race through his mind as he examines and re-examines a singular moment in time. Executive producers of the film include Jay-Z, Wyatt Cenac, Dream Hampton, and Joy Bryant.

    “It’s been a long road for this film. We first rolled camera in 2006, and on that day I never would have imagined that this day would come,” said Terence Nance. “I’m extremely excited to be partnering with Dylan and Variance to bring AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY to theaters. They are fearless defenders of the theatrical experience, and I’m convinced the best place to see this film is at a theater near you.”

    AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY will be the third Variance Films release from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, after Spike Lee’s RED HOOK SUMMER and Mark Webber’s THE END OF LOVE (in theaters March 1st). Variance’s next release will be Dave Grohl’s SOUND CITY, a 2013 Sundance Film Festival selection, in theaters February 1st.

    AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY is a Media MVMT production, and was produced by Terence Nance, Andrew D Corkin and James Bartlett. The deal was negotiated by Dylan Marchetti on behalf of Variance Films and by Traction Media on behalf of the producers.

     

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  • DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2012

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    The Directors Guild of America today announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries for the year 2012.

    The winners will be announced at the 65th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, February 2, 2013, hosted by director/actor/producer Kelsey Grammer.

    The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2012 are (in alphabetical order):

    MALIK BENDJELLOUL
    Searching For Sugar Man
    This is Mr. Bendjelloul’s first DGA Award nomination.

    KIRBY DICK
    The Invisible War 
    This is Mr. Dick’s first DGA Award nomination.

    DAVID FRANCE
    How To Survive A Plague
    This is Mr. France’s first DGA Award nomination.

    LAUREN GREENFIELD
    The Queen of Versailles
    This is Ms. Greenfield’s first DGA Award nomination.

    ALISON KLAYMAN
    Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry
    This is Ms. Klayman’s first DGA Award nomination.

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  • Amour Among 2013 Golden Globes Winners

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    The Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out the annual Golden Globes last night in Hollywood, and Ben Affleck’s Argo was the night’s biggest winner, taking home awards for best picture and director in a motion picture. Another winner, Michael Haneke picked up the best foreign film award for Amour, which now seems to be a lock on the same award in the upcoming Academy Awards.

    The winners of the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards for Motion Pictures 

     

    BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
    ARGO
    Warner Bros. Pictures, GK Films, Smokehouse Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures

    BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
    JESSICA CHASTAIN Zero Dark Thirty

    BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
    DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Lincoln

    BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
    LES MISERABLES
    Universal Pictures, A Working Title Films/Cameron Mackintosh Productions; Universal Pictures

    BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
    JENNIFER LAWRENCE Silver Linings Playbook

    BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
    HUGH JACKMAN Les Miserables

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
    BRAVE
    Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Pictures

    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
    AMOUR (Austria)
    Les Films Du Losange, X Filme Creative Pool, Wega Film; Sony Pictures Classics

    BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
    ANNE HATHAWAY Les Miserables

    BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
    CHRISTOPH WALTZ

    BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE BEN AFFLECK

    BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE QUENTIN TARANTINO

    BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE MYCHAEL DANNA

    BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
    “Skyfall”
    Music & Lyrics by: Adele and Paul Epworth

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  • 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival Announces Festival Winners, The Sapphires Win Top Prize

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    The Sapphires (Australia) directed by Wayne Blair, and based on the real-life story of an all-female Aboriginal singing group in 1960’s Australia that went from folk to soul with unexpected success, received the Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.

    Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey (USA) directed by Ramona Diaz received the Audience Award Best for Documentary Feature.  This documentary is about the dilemma the rock band Journey faces to replace their lead singer Steve Perry after he quits the band. They eventually find the perfect solution via YouTube: a street kid who fronted a Filipino cover band.

    The FIPRESCI Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year jury selected Fill the Void (Israel), directed by Rama Burshtein, “for portraying a culture usually depicted in stereotypical terms, with subtlety, sympathy and sensuality and employing a style that is intimate, but not intrusive.”  In the film, an 18-year-old in Tel Aviv’s Hassidic community must choose between her heart’s desire and familial duty in a drama that make the conventions of the marriage plot feel brand new.

    The New Voices/New Visions selected The Cleaner (Peru) directed by Adrian Saba.   The film tells the story of a mysterious and deadly epidemic in Lima, Perù, where a depressed and isolated man cleans up after the dying. When he takes in a frightened young boy who has lost his mother, he’s quietly transformed by the experience of caring for another human being.

    The Cine Latino Award was presented to Blancanieves(Spain), directed by Pablo Berger, which was the Opening Night film of the Festival.   This silent movie is an adaptation of Snow White, where the daughter of a famous bullfighter is mistreated by her wicked stepmother.  When she runs away and joins a band of dwarfs, her natural bullfighting talent is discovered, but her stepmother plots to bring her down.

    Stolen Seas (Somalia/Kenya/UK/Italy), directed by Thymaya Payne, received The John Schlesinger Award, which is presented to a first-time documentary filmmaker.  Stolen Seas presents the inside story of Somali piracy.  The filmmakers spent three years in some of the world’s most dangerous places, talking to pirates, hostages, hostages’ relatives, and the shipping company executives caught up in this deadly culture clash. 

    Jump (Ireland/UK), directed by Kieron J. Walsh, received the HP Bridging the Borders Award presented by Cinema Without Borders and Hewlett Packard, which honors the film that is most successful in exemplifying art that promotes bringing the people of our world closer together.  In the film, a fateful New Year’s Eve throws half a dozen characters into cross-purposes in this complex, wildly inventive and occasionally giddy mix of crime caper, romance and moral tale from Northern Ireland. 

    The Palm Springs International Film Festival, held from January 3-14, 2013, screened 182 films from 68 countries.

    The complete list of award winners are:

    Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
    The Sapphires (Australia)

    Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature 
    Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey (USA)

    FIPRESCI Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
    Fill the Void (Israel)

    FIPRESCI Prize for the Best Actor of the Year in a Foreign Language Film 
    Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano and Giovanni Arcuri from Caesar Must Die (Italy)

    FIPRESCI Prize for Best Actress of the Year in a Foreign Language Film 
    Emilie Dequenne from Our Children (Belgium)

    New Voices/New Visions Award
    The Cleaner (Peru) – Winner
    7 Boxes (Paraguay) – Honorable Mention

    Cine Latino Award
    Blancanieves(Spain) – Winner
    Sadourni’s Butterflies (Argentina) – Honorable Mention

    The John Schlesinger Award
    Stolen Seas (Somalia/Kenya/UK/Italy) – Winner
    Far Out Isn’t Fair Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (USA) – Honorable Mention

    HP Bridging the Borders Award
    Jump (Ireland/UK) – Winner
    When Day Breaks (Serbia/Croatia/France) – Honorable Mention

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  • 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards Filmmaker Grant Winners Announced

    Film Independent announced the winners of its four Spirit Awards filmmaker grants today at its annual Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch hosted by Salma Hayek and Jeremy Renner.

    Winners for the remaining categories will be revealed at the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, February 23, 2013. 

     

    Adam Leon, director of Gimme The Loot, received the Someone to Watch Award. The award recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award, which is in its nineteenth year, includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant. The finalists for the award included Rebecca Thomas for Electrick Children and David Fenster for Pincus.

    Peter Nicks, director of The Waiting Room received the Stella Artois Truer Than Fiction Award. The award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not received significant recognition. The award is in its eighteenth year and includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Stella Artois. Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims for Only The Young and Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel for Leviathan were also finalists for the award.

    Mynette Louie received the Piaget Producers Award. The award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources demonstrate the creativity, tenacity, and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The annual award, in its sixteenth year, includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget. Finalists were Derrick Tseng and Alicia Van Couvering.

    Laura Colella for Breakfast With Curtis, which premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival, received the third annual Jameson® FIND Your Audience Award. The award helps one low-budget independent film find a broader audience. The award included a $50,000 marketing and distribution grant, funded by Jameson® Irish Whiskey. The other finalists were Sara Lamm, Mary Wigmore, Kate Roughan and Zachary Mortensen for Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin And The Farm Midwives and Jeremy Kipp Walker and John Mitchell for History Of Future Folk.

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  • Filmmaker Mary Sweeney Named New Chairman Of Film Independent’s Board Of Directors

    Filmmaker Mary Sweeney (The Straight Story, Baraboo) has been elected as the new sitting Chair of the Board of Directors for Film Independent. She takes over the position from outgoing Chair, filmmaker Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part I and II, Gods & Monsters), who has served as Chairman for the last three years. On the Executive Committee, Sweeney joins current Vice Chair, writer/director Rodrigo García (Mother and Child, In Treatment); Secretary, director/producer Alan Poul (The Backup Plan, The Newsroom, Rome) and newly seated Treasurer, Landmark Theatres C.E.O. Ted Mundorff. Condon will remain on Film Independent’s Executive Committee as a member-at-large.

    “We could not be more thrilled to have Mary leading our board at this time,” said Film Independent Co-President Welsh. “She brings such a wealth of knowledge, energy and commitment to the organization and to independent film.”

    “We are so thankful and appreciative for Bill’s incredible leadership during his tenure,” said Film Independent Co-President Mc Manus. “We know Mary is equally devoted to our mission and look forward to working with her to realize our vision.”

    Film Independent produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Festival and Film Independent at LACMA film series.

    Film Independent’s current Board of Directors is comprised of the following industry leaders: Randy Barbato, Adriene Bowles, Effie T. Brown, Bill Condon, Laura Dern, DeVon Franklin, Sid Ganis, Rodrigo García, Vondie Curtis Hall, Michael Helfant, Marcus Hu, Laura Kim, Sue Kroll, Kasi Lemmons, David Linde, Allan Mayer, Ted Mundorff, Gail Mutrux, Tom Ortenberg, Alan Poul, Cathy Schulman, Mary Sweeney, Nancy Utley and Forest Whitaker.

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  • Perspektive Deutsches Kino Program Lineup at 2013 Belinale, to Open with Stephan Lacant’s Freier Fall

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    The Perspektive Deutsches Kino program at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival will open with Stephan Lacant’s film Freier Fall. Max Riemelt (Kay), Katharina Schüttler (Bettina) and Hanno Koffler (Marc) are the protagonists in a love triangle, in which Marc and Bettina are expecting a child at the same time as Marc falls in love with his colleague Kay.

    Three of the fictional films – Silvi (directed by Nico Sommer), DeAD (directed by Sven Halfar) andEndzeit (directed by Sebastian Fritzsch) – were self-produced by their respective filmmakers. Silvi is unmistakably set in Berlin. In it the 47-year-old title character (Lina Wendel) starts afresh after separating from her partner. DeAD is exquisite pulp fiction from Hamburg: following his mother’s suicide, cool Patrick (Tilman Strauß) shows up at his unknown father’s 60th birthday party and immediately makes it clear that things are about to escalate. And Endzeit  depicts survival after a catastrophe, when a young woman (Anne von Keller) turns hunter to still her hunger.

    Two fictional film-academy works explore the boundaries between fictional and documentary film. Anne Zohra Berrached’s Zwei Mütter portrays in an almost documentary style a couple’s wish for a child (Sabine Wolf and Karina Plachetka) and their discovery that most sperm banks do not provide services to same-sex couples. In his 60-minute film Die Wiedergänger, director Andreas Bolm avoids presenting the world in documentary form, but instead seeks the point where fiction begins. The outcome is an artistically austere film about loss and eternal return.

    Perspektive Deutsches Kino film lineup

    Chiralia by Santiago Gil

    DeAD by Sven Halfar

    Die mit dem Bauch tanzen (Dancing with Bellies) by Carolin Genreith (documentary)

    Einzelkämpfer (I Will Not Lose) by Sandra Kaudelka (documentary)

    Endzeit (End of Time) by Sebastian Fritzsch

    Freier Fall (Free Fall) by Stephan Lacant

    Kalifornia by Laura Mahlberg

    Metamorphosen by Sebastian Mez (documentary)

    Silvi by Nico Sommer

    Die Wiedergänger (The Revenants) by Andreas Bolm

    Zwei Mütter (Two Mothers) by Anne Zohra Berrached

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  • Nine More Films Added to Competition Program for 2013 Berlin International Film Festival

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    Another nine films have been selected for the Competition Programme of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Among the nine films is the International Premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects starring Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum and the World Premiere of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s Parde (Closed Curtain).

    Camille Claudel 1915
    France
    By Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, Humanity, Flanders)
    With Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent 
    World Premiere

     

    Elle s’en va (On my Way)
    France
    By Emmanuelle Bercot (Clément, Backstage, Les infidèles)
    With Catherine Deneuve
    World Premiere

     

    Epizoda u životu berača željeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker)
    Bosnia and Herzegovina/France/Slovenia
    By Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land, Hell, Circus Columbia) 
    With Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, Semsa Mujic
    World Premiere

     

    Gold
    Germany
    By Thomas Arslan (Dealer, Vacation, In the Shadows)
    With Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Uwe Bohm, Lars Rudolph, Peter Kurth, Rosa Enskat, Wolfgang Packhäuser
    World Premiere

     

    La Religieuse (The Nun)
    France/Germany/Belgium
    By Guillaume Nicloux (The Flying Children, A Private Affair, That Woman)
    With Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin, Martina Gedeck 
    World Premiere

     

    Layla Fourie
    Germany/South Africa/France/Netherlands 
    By Pia Marais (The Unpolished, At Ellen’s Age)
    With Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Rapule Hendricks
    World Premiere

     

    The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
    USA
    By Fredrik Bond – feature debut
    With Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint, James Buckley
    International Premiere

     

    Parde (Closed Curtain)
    Iran
    By Jafar Panahi (The Circle, Offside, This Is Not A Film) and Kambozia Partovi (The Fish, Café Transit)
    With Kambozia Partovi, Maryam Moghadam,Jafar Panahi, Hadi Saeedi, Azadh Torabi, Agha Olia, Zeynab Khanum, Boy
    World Premiere

     

    Side Effects
    USA
    By Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape; Erin Brockovich, Haywire)
    With Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum 
    International Premiere

     

     

     

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  • 5 Broken Cameras, Detropia Top 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors

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    5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s documentary about Israeli settlements encroaching upon Burnat’s Palestinian village, was named Outstanding Feature at the 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens last night.  

    A slate of Oscar shortlisted films won in the other categories.  Dimitri Doganis received Outstanding Production for The Imposter, T. Woody Richman and Tyler H. Walk won for Outstanding Editing for How to Survive a Plague, Jeff Orlowski took Outstanding Cinematography for Chasing Ice and Oskar Gullstrand and Arvid Steen won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation for Searching for Sugar Man.

    Lee Hirsch’s Bully received the Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize.

    Cinema Eye presented honors for Nonfiction Short Filmmaking to Robert-Jan Lacombe’sGood-bye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima), the Spotlight Award was presented to Wojciech Staron for Argentinian Lesson and the Heterodox Award for Narrative Filmmaking, went to Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, that recognizes a narrative film that imaginatively incorporates nonfiction strategies, content and/or modes of production.

    This year’s Legacy Award was presented to the 1993 verite classic The War Room, which took viewers behind the scenes of the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign.  

    The following is a complete list of Cinema Eye Honors winners for 2012:

    Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

    5 Broken Cameras
    Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
    Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi

    Outstanding Achievement in Direction

    Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
    Detropia

    Audience Choice Prize

    Bully
    Directed by Lee Hirsch

    Outstanding Achievement in Production

    Dimitri Doganis
    The Imposter

    Outstanding Achievement in Editing

    T. Woody Richman and Tyler H. Walk
    How to Survive a Plague

    Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

    Jeff Orlowski
    Chasing Ice

    Spotlight Award

    Argentinian Lesson
    Directed by Wojciech Staron

    Heterodox Award

    Museum Hours
    Directed by Jem Cohen

    Presented by Marie Therese Guirgis and Eugene Hernandez

    Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking

    Goodbye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima)

    Directed by Robert-Jan Lacombe

    Presented by Laura Gabbert and Sam Green

    Outstanding Achievement in an Original Music Score

    Dial.81

    Detropia

    Presented by Laura Gabbert and Sam Green

    Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation

    Oskar Gullstrand and Arvid Steen

    Searching for Sugar Man

    Presented by Jonathan Caouette and Susan Froemke

    Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film

    Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims

    Only the Young

    Presented by Jonathan Caouette and Susan Froemke

    Legacy Award

    The War Room

    Directed by Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker

    Produced by R.J. Cutler, Wendy Ettinger and Frazer Pennebaker

    Presented by Michael Moore

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  • 2013 Oscar Nominations Announced, Beasts of the Southern Wild Surprises With 4 Nominations

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    Beasts of the Southern Wild surprised everyone when the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards® were announced today by this year’s Oscar host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone. The little film received four nominations including Best Picture, Best Director for Behn Zeitlin, Best Adapted Screenplay, Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin and Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis. At the age of 9, Wallis is the youngest ever nominee of the Academy Award for Best Actress.

    Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2013.

    Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards

     Performance by an actor in a leading role

    • Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook”
    • Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln”
    • Hugh Jackman in “Les Misérables”
    • Joaquin Phoenix in “The Master”
    • Denzel Washington in “Flight”

    Performance by an actor in a supporting role

    • Alan Arkin in “Argo”
    • Robert De Niro in “Silver Linings Playbook”
    • Philip Seymour Hoffman in “The Master”
    • Tommy Lee Jones in “Lincoln”
    • Christoph Waltz in “Django Unchained”

    Performance by an actress in a leading role

    • Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty”
    • Jennifer Lawrence in “Silver Linings Playbook”
    • Emmanuelle Riva in “Amour”
    • Quvenzhané Wallis in “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
    • Naomi Watts in “The Impossible”

    Performance by an actress in a supporting role

    • Amy Adams in “The Master”
    • Sally Field in “Lincoln”
    • Anne Hathaway in “Les Misérables”
    • Helen Hunt in “The Sessions”
    • Jacki Weaver in “Silver Linings Playbook”

    Best animated feature film of the year

    • “Brave” Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
    • “Frankenweenie” Tim Burton
    • “ParaNorman” Sam Fell and Chris Butler
    • “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” Peter Lord
    • “Wreck-It Ralph” Rich Moore

    Achievement in cinematography

    • “Anna Karenina” Seamus McGarvey
    • “Django Unchained” Robert Richardson
    • “Life of Pi” Claudio Miranda
    • “Lincoln” Janusz Kaminski
    • “Skyfall” Roger Deakins

    Achievement in costume design

    • “Anna Karenina” Jacqueline Durran
    • “Les Misérables” Paco Delgado
    • “Lincoln” Joanna Johnston
    • “Mirror Mirror” Eiko Ishioka
    • “Snow White and the Huntsman” Colleen Atwood

    Achievement in directing

    • “Amour” Michael Haneke
    • “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Benh Zeitlin
    • “Life of Pi” Ang Lee
    • “Lincoln” Steven Spielberg
    • “Silver Linings Playbook” David O. Russell

    Best documentary feature

    • “5 Broken Cameras” 
      Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
    • “The Gatekeepers” 
      Nominees to be determined
    • “How to Survive a Plague” 
      Nominees to be determined
    • “The Invisible War” 
      Nominees to be determined
    • “Searching for Sugar Man” 
      Nominees to be determined

    Best documentary short subject

    • “Inocente” 
      Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
    • “Kings Point” 
      Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
    • “Mondays at Racine” 
      Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
    • “Open Heart” 
      Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
    • “Redemption” 
      Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill

    Achievement in film editing

    • “Argo” William Goldenberg
    • “Life of Pi” Tim Squyres
    • “Lincoln” Michael Kahn
    • “Silver Linings Playbook” Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
    • “Zero Dark Thirty” Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

    Best foreign language film of the year

    • “Amour” Austria
    • “Kon-Tiki” Norway
    • “No” Chile
    • “A Royal Affair” Denmark
    • “War Witch” Canada

    Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

    • “Hitchcock”
      Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
    • “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” 
      Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
    • “Les Misérables” 
      Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

    Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

    • “Anna Karenina” Dario Marianelli
    • “Argo” Alexandre Desplat
    • “Life of Pi” Mychael Danna
    • “Lincoln” John Williams
    • “Skyfall” Thomas Newman

    Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

    • “Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice”
      Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
    • “Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted”
      Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
    • “Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pi”
      Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
    • “Skyfall” from “Skyfall”
      Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
    • “Suddenly” from “Les Misérables”
      Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

    Best motion picture of the year

    • “Amour” Nominees to be determined
    • “Argo” Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
    • “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
    • “Django Unchained” Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
    • “Les Misérables” Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
    • “Life of Pi” Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
    • “Lincoln” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
    • “Silver Linings Playbook” Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
    • “Zero Dark Thirty” Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers

    Achievement in production design

    • “Anna Karenina” 
      Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
    • “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” 
      Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
    • “Les Misérables” 
      Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
    • “Life of Pi” 
      Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
    • “Lincoln” 
      Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson 

    Best animated short film

    • “Adam and Dog” Minkyu Lee
    • “Fresh Guacamole” PES
    • “Head over Heels” Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
    • “Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”” David Silverman
    • “Paperman” John Kahrs

    Best live action short film

    • “Asad” Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
    • “Buzkashi Boys” Sam French and Ariel Nasr
    • “Curfew” Shawn Christensen
    • “Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)” Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
    • “Henry” Yan England

    Achievement in sound editing

    • “Argo” Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
    • “Django Unchained” Wylie Stateman
    • “Life of Pi” Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
    • “Skyfall” Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
    • “Zero Dark Thirty” Paul N.J. Ottosson

    Achievement in sound mixing

    • “Argo” 
      John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
    • “Les Misérables” 
      Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
    • “Life of Pi” 
      Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
    • “Lincoln” 
      Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
    • “Skyfall” 
      Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

    Achievement in visual effects

    • “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” 
      Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
    • “Life of Pi” 
      Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
    • “Marvel’s The Avengers” 
      Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
    • “Prometheus” 
      Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
    • “Snow White and the Huntsman” 
      Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

    Adapted screenplay

    • “Argo” Screenplay by Chris Terrio
    • “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
    • “Life of Pi” Screenplay by David Magee
    • “Lincoln” Screenplay by Tony Kushner
    • “Silver Linings Playbook” Screenplay by David O. Russell

    Original screenplay

    • “Amour” Written by Michael Haneke
    • “Django Unchained” Written by Quentin Tarantino
    • “Flight” Written by John Gatins
    • “Moonrise Kingdom” Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
    • “Zero Dark Thirty” Written by Mark Boal

     

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