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  • Celine Song’s Past Lives to Open Seattle International Film Festival 2023 Lineup

    Past Lives directed by Celine Song
    Past Lives directed by Celine Song

    The 49th Seattle International Film Festival, taking place held May 11-21, 2023, will screen 264 films representing 74 countries, including 94 narrative features, 45 documentaries, four archival films, two secret screenings, and 125 short films.

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  • International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Reveals Competition Lineup – Opens with “Riders of Justice”

    Anders Thomas Jensen's "Riders of Justice" starring Mads Mikkelsen
    Anders Thomas Jensen’s “Riders of Justice” starring Mads Mikkelsen

    International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2021 will open with the international premiere of absurdist tragicomedy Riders of Justice by Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, starring Mads Mikkelsen. Riders of Justice with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas centers on the deployed military man Markus who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck – until the mathematics geek Otto shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart and Emmenthaler. Otto was also a passenger on the wrecked train. He is convinced someone must have been behind it. As the clues pile up, it becomes clear to Markus that his wife became a random casualty of what looks like a carefully orchestrated assassination.

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  • BIRDMAN, CITIZENFOUR, IDA Among Winners of 87th Oscars

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    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is the big winner of the 87th Oscars winning four awards, including the top prizes for Best Picture and Best Director.

     The Grand Budapest Hotel also walked away with four awards, all in the technical categories. CitizenFour won for Best Documentary and Ida won for Best Foreign Language Film.

    The complete list of winners:

    BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers

    PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
    Julianne Moore in Still Alice

    PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
    Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything

    ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
    Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
    The Imitation Game
    Written by Graham Moore

    ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo

    ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SCORE)
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Alexandre Desplat

    ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SONG)
    “Glory” from Selma
    Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn

    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
    CitizenFour
    Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky

    ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
    Whiplash
    Tom Cross

    ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Emmanuel Lubezki

    ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR
    Big Hero 6
    Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli

    BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
    Feast
    Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed

    ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
    Interstellar
    Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher

    PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
    Patricia Arquette in Boyhood

    ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
    American Sniper
    Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

    ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
    Whiplash
    Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

    BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
    Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
    Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry

    BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
    The Phone Call
    Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
    Ida (Poland)

    ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier

    ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Milena Canonero

    PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
    J.K. Simmons in Whiplash

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  • Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015 In Theaters January 30

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    ShortsHD and Magnolia Pictures will release THE OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2015 in theaters across the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America on Friday January 30, 2015. 

    ShortsHD™, the world’s only Short Movie Channel in high definition, working with Magnolia Pictures will celebrate its 10th anniversary of its Oscar shorts release by opening “THE OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS” in a record 450+ theaters across the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America on Friday January 30, 2015. “THE OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2015” will showcase the Live Action, Animation and Documentary short film nominees as three separate theatrical events. This is the only opportunity for audiences to watch the nominated short films prior to the 87th Academy Awards® ceremony on Sunday, February 22, 2015.

    This year’s release includes the following nominated short films:

    LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM NOMINEES

    Aya

    Directors: Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
    Synopsis: A young woman waiting at an airport has an unexpected encounter with an arriving passenger.
    Countries of origin: France, Israel
    TRT: 39:50
    Language: English, Hebrew

    Boogaloo and Graham
    Directors: Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
    Synopsis: Jamesy and Malachy are presented with two baby chicks to raise by their soft-hearted father.
    Country of origin: UK
    TRT: 14:00
    Language: English

    Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
    Directors: Hu Wei and Julien Féret
    Synopsis: A photographer and his assistant photograph the inhabitants of a remote Tibetan village.
    Countries of origin: France, China
    TRT: 15:54
    Language: Tibetan

    Parvaneh
    Directors: Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
    Synopsis: An Afghan teenager living in a refugee center in Switzerland encounters difficulties wiring money to her family and asks a young Swiss woman for help.
    Country of origin: Switzerland
    TRT: 24:26
    Language: German

    The Phone Call
    Directors: Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
    Synopsis: A woman working for a crisis center phone line receives a call from a suicidal older man.
    Country of origin: UK
    TRT: 20:56
    Language: English

    ANIMATED SHORT FILM NOMINEES

    The Bigger Picture
    Directors: Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
    Synopsis: Tensions arise between two brothers as their elderly mother requires more care.
    Country of origin: UK
    TRT: 7:27
    Language: English

    The Dam Keeper
    Directors: Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
    Synopsis: A lonely little pig in charge of maintaining the town dam is cruelly bullied by his classmates
    Country of origin: US
    TRT: 18:08
    Language: English

    Feast
    Directors: Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
    Synopsis: The story of the relationship between a young man and the stray puppy he takes in is told through the food the dog receives.
    Country of origin: US
    TRT: 7:00
    Language: English

    Me and My Moulton
    Director: Torill Kove
    Synopsis: Three sisters growing up in an unconventional Norwegian family ask their parents for a bicycle.
    Country of origin: Canada
    TRT: 13:08
    Language: English

    A Single Life
    Director: Joris Oprins
    Synopsis: A mysterious vinyl single gives a young woman the power to move back and forth through the years of her life.
    Country of origin: Netherlands
    TRT: 2:18
    Language: English

    DOCUMENTARY SHORT NOMINEES

    Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
    Directors: Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
    Synopsis: Each month, the Veterans Crisis Line receives over 22,000 calls from military veterans, who account for 20% of all suicides in the U.S. each year.
    Country of origin: US
    TRT: 41
    Language: English 

    Joanna
    Director: Aneta Kopacz
    Synopsis: As she faces a terminal illness, the mother of a young son writes a blog in which she tries to leave a record of what she hopes to teach him.
    Country of origin: Poland
    TRT: 45
    Language: Polish

    Our Curse
    Directors: Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki
    Synopsis: 
    A mother and father face the difficulties of caring for a baby who has been born with a life-threatening congenital breathing disorder known as Ondine’s curse.
    Country of origin: Poland
    TRT: 27
    Language: Polish

    The Reaper (La Parka)
    Director: Gabriel Serra Arguello
    Synopsis: For the past 25 years, Efrain has worked in a slaughterhouse, where he has developed an intimate relationship with both death and what one must sometimes do to live.
    Country of origin: Mexico
    TRT: 29
    Language: Spanish

    White Earth
    Director:  J. Christian Jensen
    Synopsis: Three children and an immigrant mother face a long and difficult winter in North Dakota, which has attracted many people seeking work during an oil boom.
    Country of origin: US
    TRT: 20
    Language: English

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