The official poster of the 64th Cannes Film Festival was unveiled and it features a photo of Faye Dunaway taken by Jerry Schatzberg in 1970. Jerry Schatzberg is a filmmaker from New York who won the Palme d’Or in 1973 for Scarecrow.
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2011 IIFA Award Nominations; Once Upon A Time Leads With 12 Nominations
Once Upon A Time In Mumbai The 2011 Micromax IIFA Awards, officially the 12th International Indian Film Academy Awards aka the Bollywood Oscars announced the films nominations. Milan Luthria’s mafia gangster film, Once Upon A Time In Mumbai, leads the field with 12 nomination, followed by Dabangg, an action film starring Salman Khan, with 11 nominations.
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2011 Tribeca Film Festival Adds Two More Films to Lineup
Adrien Brody in Tony Kaye’s DETACHMENT. The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) has added two more films to its feature lineup: a world premiere of Tony Kaye’s drama Detachment and a work-in-progress screening of Stephen C. Mitchell’s Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon. The 10th edition of the Festival will take place from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan, New York.
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Garden State Film Festival 2011 Winners; Expecting Mary is Audience Choice
Expecting Mary The ninth annual Garden State Film Festival, announced its 2011 winners at its awards dinner Sunday. “Expecting Mary” was a big winner taking home both the Audience Choice award and the Bud Abbott Award for Feature-Length Comedy. The comedy-drama film directed by Dan Gordon and starring Elliott Gould and Linda Gray, tells the story of a pregnant young Mary, who has had all the trappings of an upscale life, but it’s only when she finds herself in a small New Mexico town, in a down-trodden trailer park, that she learns the real meaning of love, sacrifice and family.
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Cleveland International Film Festival wraps without Closing Night Film
Vincent Wants to Sea – Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for Best Film A record-breaking audience of more than 78,000 people attended this year’s 35th Cleveland International Film Festival, but, there was no closing-night film.
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Sundance Film Festival 2011 documentary, REBIRTH in Theatres, August 2011
The Sundance Film Festival 2011 documentary, REBIRTH, directed by Jim Whitaker was acquired and will be released by Oscilloscope Laboratories and Showtime Networks. Oscilloscope will release REBIRTH in theatres in August 2011. SHOWTIME will broadcast REBIRTH on the 10th anniversary of the events of September 11th.
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3D documentary PINA to be released in US by Sundance Selects | Trailer
The 3D documentary PINA which world-premiered at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival will be distributed in the US by Sundance Selects, a sister division to IFC Films. Directed by Wim Wenders’ (WINGS OF DESIRE, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB), PINA is an in-depth look into the work of iconic dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch.
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2011 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival report another record-breaking year + Winners
Best Narrative Feature – A Beginners Guide to Endings – Director Jonathan Sobol The 17th San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF) which ran March 9 – 13, 2011 announced that it had another outstanding year, surpassing income and attendance goals.
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2011 Fallbrook Film Festival Screens 71 Films; Military Films Make the Cut
Pumzi The 2011 Fallbrook Film Festival will run April 8, 9 and 10 at the UltraStar Cinemas at River Village in Bonsall.
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70th Annual Peabody Awards Winners
If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise The recipients of the prestigious 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and two American Masters documentaries won Peabodys. LennoNYC, a poignant, revelatory documentary about John Lennon’s life and work in his adopted home city, and Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia, an homage to the theatrical and film director by Martin Scorsese. Peabodys also went to William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, an Art21 film that provided an intimate look at the creative process of a multifaceted artist whose work includes sculpture, animation, theater and tapestries, and Macbeth, a Great Performances production that sets Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy in a modern, militaristic society.
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Charleston International Film Festival Announces 2011 Official Selections
The 4th Annual Charleston International Film Festival (CIFF), scheduled to run five days May 18-22, 2011 in South Carolina, announced its 2011 Official Selections.
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Whole Foods Market and Silverdocs Festival launch $50,000 Filmmaker Grant for ‘Green’ Films
Whole Foods Market is really serious about its foray into film. The leading retailer of natural and organic foods and AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Festival, the nation’s leading documentary festival, announce the launch of a $50,000 grant program for filmmakers working in the green film genre.