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Seven Films Selected for 43rd New Directors/New Films

Richard Ayoade’s THE DOUBLE (UK)

Seven films have been picked as official selections for the 43rd New Directors/New Films Festival (ND/NF), presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and taking place March 19 to 30, 2014. Representing eleven countries from around the world, the initial seven selections are Richard Ayoade’s THE DOUBLE (UK), Benedikt Erlingsson’s OF HORSES AND MEN (Iceland), Abdellah Taïa’s SALVATION ARMY (L’Armée du salut) (France/Morocco/Switzerland), Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS (Estonia/France), Roberto Minervini’s STOP THE POUNDING HEART(Belgium/Italy/USA), Albert Serra’s STORY OF MY DEATH (Història de la meva mort) (Spain/France), and Vivian Qu’s TRAP STREET (Shuiyin Jie) (China).

The seven official selections include:

THE DOUBLE (2013) 93 min
Director: Richard Ayoade
Country: UK
Richard Ayoade has built a loyal following with his hilariously off characters, notably the one he plays in the TV series The IT Crowd and those that inhabit his 2010 directorial debut, SUBMARINE. His cerebral, visually arresting follow-up, THE DOUBLE, based on Dostoevsky’s 1846 novella, enters slightly darker territory, and recalls the stylizations of Terry Gilliam. Starring Jesse Eisenberg as both Simon James, a humdrum worker drone, and James Simon, his gregarious doppelgänger, the film is set within both the claustrophobic confines of Simon’s bureaucratic workplace and his paranoid mind. Aided by a stellar supporting cast (including Wallace Shawn, Mia Wasikowska, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, and Chris O’Dowd), THE DOUBLE firmly establishes Ayoade as a leading voice in contemporary cinematic comedy. A Magnolia Pictures release.

OF HORSES AND MEN (2013) 80 min
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Country: Iceland
The debut feature by celebrated stage director Benedikt Erlingsson announces the arrival of an innovative new cinematic voice. Set almost exclusively outdoors amid stunning Icelandic landscapes, the film features in equal parts a cast of exquisite short-legged Icelandic horses and human characters—including the terrific Ingvar E. Sigurdsson and Charlotte Bøving as meant-for-each-other but put-upon lovers—illuminating with great inventive flair the relationship between man and beast. Several narrative strands defined by the way each character relates to their horse recount a variety of situations according to the particulars of the seasons, resulting in a surprising and sometimes humorous symbiosis between horses, humans, and nature.

SALVATION ARMY (L’Armée du salut) (2013) 81 min
Director: Abdellah Taïa
Countries: France/Morocco/Switzerland
Like the book it’s based on—Abdellah Taïa’s own 2006 landmark novel—the Moroccan author’s directorial debut is a bracing, deeply personal account of a young gay man’s awakening that avoids both cliché and the trappings of autobiography. First seen as a 15-year-old, Abdellah (Saïd Mrini) habitually sneaks away from his family’s crowded Casablanca home to engage in sexual trysts with random men in abandoned buildings. A decade later, we find Abdellah (now played by Karim Ait M’hand) on scholarship in Geneva, involved with an older Swiss professor (Frédéric Landenberg). With a clear-eyed approach, devoid of sentimentality, this wholly surprising bildungsfilm explores what it means to be an outsider, and with the help of renowned cinematographer Agnès Godard, Taïa finds a film language all his own: at once rigorous and poetic, and worthy of Robert Bresson in its concreteness and lucidity.

A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS (2013) 98 min
Directors: Ben Rivers and Ben Russell
Country: Estonia/France
As collaborators, Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, two intrepid and nomadic talents of experimental film and art, have created one of the most bewitching cinematic experiences to come along in a great while. In A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS, Robert A.A. Lowe, the celebrated musician behind Lichens and Om, gives a strangely affecting, perhaps even trance-inducing performance as the film’s Parsifal figure, a quixotic man who embarks on a quest for utopia—the holy grail of infinite truth, self-knowledge, and spiritual connectedness. He finds some measure of it in three seemingly disparate contexts: in a small collective community on a remote Estonian island, in isolation in the northern Finnish wilderness, and onstage fronting a black metal band in Norway. While his experience seems to be a perpetual one of home, exile, and return, for us, it is purely magical.

STOP THE POUNDING HEART (2013) 100 min
Director: Roberto Minervini
Countries: Belgium/Italy/USA
Sara (Sara Carlson, playing herself) is part of a devout Christian goat-farming family with 12 children, all home-schooled and raised with strict moral guidance from the Scriptures. Set in a rural community that has remained isolated from technological advances and lifestyle influence—no phones, TVs, computers, or drunken teen brawls—the subtly narrative film follows Sara and Colby, two 14-year-olds with vastly different backgrounds who are quietly drawn to each other. In Minervini’s intimate documentary-style portrait—the third in the Italian-born filmmaker’s Texas trilogy—Sara’s commitment to her faith is never questioned. It’s the power of the director’s nonintrusive handheld-camera style that reveals his protagonist’s spiritual and emotional inner turmoil about her place in a faith that requires women to be subservient to their fathers before becoming their husbands’ helpers. By also presenting an authentic, impartial portrayal of the Texas Bible Belt, Minervini allows for the humanity and complexity behind the stereotypes to show through.

STORY OF MY DEATH (Història de la meva mort) (2013) 148 min
Director: Albert Serra
Countries: Spain/France
No one else working in movies today makes anything remotely like the films of Catalan maverick Albert Serra, a cerebral oddball and improbable master of cinematic antiquity. Known for his unconventional adaptations of Cervantes’s Don Quixote (HONOR OF THE KNIGHTS) and the Biblical parable of the Three Kings (BIRDSONG), Serra here stages the 18th-century passage from rationalism to romanticism as a tussle between two figures of legend, Casanova and Dracula. Against a backdrop of candlelit conversation and earthy carnality, Serra sets in motion contrasting ideas about pleasure and desire, alternating between winding philosophical dialogue and wordless passages of savage beauty. Winner of the top prize at the 2013 Locarno Film Festival, the film is both a painterly feast for the eyes, abounding with art-historical allusions, and an idiosyncratic, self-aware revamping of the costume melodrama.

TRAP STREET (Shuiyin Jie) (2013) 94 min
Director: Vivian Qu
Country: China
Notions of surveillance and observation are turned inside out in TRAP STREET, producer Vivian Qu’s first turn as a director. While surveying city streets for a digital-mapping company, engineer Qiuming catches sight of Lifen, a beautiful young woman. Immediately smitten, he follows her to a street that doesn’t appear on any map or even a GPS. In between his other gigs—installing security cameras, sweeping hotel rooms for electronic bugs—he tries to get to know this alluring stranger. And he does—sort of. But things take a disturbing turn when Qiuming is accused of stealing secrets from the lab where Lifen works, and the mystery, as well as the paranoia, deepens from there. Noir in tone, and a great representation of the newest generation of Chinese filmmakers, TRAP STREET is a bold story about who is really watching whom that, while firmly embedded in the current cultural context of China, could happen to any one of us.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival Heads to Toronto; Opens with THE SQUARE on Feb 27, Closes on March 6 with HIGHWAY OF TEARS

Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Matthew Smiley's hard-hitting documentary HIGHWAY OF TEARS Matthew Smiley’s hard-hitting documentary HIGHWAY OF TEARS

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns for its 11th year in Toronto with eight films that the festival describes as bravely bearing witness to human rights violations in Canada and around the globe, and make an impassioned call for social change through their empowering stories of perseverance, resilience and hope. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens at Toronto International Film Festival TIFF Bell Lightbox on February 27 with THE SQUARE (2013), director Jehane Noujaim’s (Control Room) thrilling documentary chronicle of activism, unrest and revolution in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and closes on March 6 with the world premiere of Canadian director Matthew Smiley’s hard-hitting documentary HIGHWAY OF TEARS (2013).

Narrated by Nathan Fillion (Castle), HIGHWAY OF TEARS chronicles the notorious, decades-long string of murders and disappearances of young Indigenous women along British Columbia’s Highway 16. Addressing similar issues to Those Who Take Us Away, the 2013 report released by Human Rights Watch, the film explores how this systemic violence is linked to the effects of generational poverty, residential schools, and high unemployment rates on First Nations reserves. TIFF and Human Rights Watch welcome the film’s director Matthew Smiley and producer Carly Pope alongside Human Rights Watch researchers in the Women’s Rights Division, Samer Muscati and Meghan Rhoad for a special introduction to the screening. Meghan Rhoad is also the author of Those Who Take Us Away.

Other highlights include Harry Freeland’s IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN (2012), an intimate and emotional documentary that follows two Tanzanian men afflicted with albinism — a condition viewed with superstitious fear and murderous hatred in their country — as they pursue their dreams in the face of virulent prejudice; Rithy Panh’s 2013 Un Certain Regard prize-winner, THE MISSING PICTURE (2013), which uses handmade clay figurines and detailed dioramas to recount the suffering of Panh’s family at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime following the communist victory in Cambodia in 1975; and director Yuval Adler’s first feature BETHLEHEM (2013), about a young Palestinian man who is recruited as an informant by the Israeli secret service Shin Bet, and finds himself caught between two very different kinds of loyalty when he discovers that his employers are plotting to assassinate his radical brother.

This year’s lineup also includes first-time feature filmmaker Marta Cunningham’s VALENTINE ROAD (2013), which investigates the 2008 murder of openly gay California teenager Larry King by his school crush Brandon McInerney and paints a shocking portrait of the homophobia, sexism, racism and classism that inform the lives of America’s youth; Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Academy Award–winning SAVING FACE (2012), which addresses one of Pakistan’s most unique, and horrific, social problems — the alarmingly frequent acid attacks on women, many of them perpetrated by spouses or other close family members — through the stories of two survivors attempting to bring their assailants to justice and move on with their lives; and a startling look at global capitalism in action with award-winning documentarian Rachel Boynton’s BIG MEN (2013), which takes audiences inside the rapacious world of the global energy industry.

BELLE and Master Animator Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES to Open 2014 Portland International Film Festival

Portland International Film Festival

The 37th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF 37) opens on February 6th with two films – THE WIND RISES, the final work from master animator Hayao Miyazaki, will screen at at OMSI and Cinema 21, and the critically-acclaimed feature BELLE, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Emily Watson, and Tom Wilkinson screens at the Whitsell Auditorium, located in the Portland Art Museum. The festival will run through the February 22nd, 2014.

This year’s Festival includes the return of the popular PIFF After Dark program, showcasing midnight movies like Ti West’s (THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL) THE SACRAMENT and Ari Folman’s (WALTZ WITH BASHIR) THE CONGRESS. Seven animated features on the lineup include THE APOSTLE, MY MOMMY IS IN AMERICA AND SHE MET BUFFALO BILL, and the latest film by Portland-born animator Bill Plympton, CHEATIN’. Other highlights of PIFF 37 include screenings of Tsai Ming-Liang’s (WHAT TIME IS IT OVER THERE?) STRAY DOGS, Rithy Panh’s THE MISSING PICTURE, Doug Pray’s (HYPE!) LEVITATED MASS, François Ozon’s (SWIMMING POOL) YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL, Jillian Schlesinger’s MAIDENTRIP, Alain Guiraudie’s STRANGER BY THE LAKE, Anthony Chen’s ILO ILO and Claude Lanzmann’s (SHOAH) THE LAST OF THE UNJUST.

THE WIND RISES

In THE WIND RISES, Miyazaki, co-founder of the legendary Studio Ghibli, eschewing his typically fictional characters ensconced in a fantasy world, instead brings to life the story of Jiro Horikoshi, visionary designer of one of history’s most beautiful airplanes—the prototype for the Zero WWII fighter. Adapted from Miyazaki’s own serialized manga, which was itself inspired by Tatsuo Hori’s 1937 story of the same name, this epic tale of love, invention, and hope spans decades, sweeping through great historical moments of 20th-century Japan. In what he has said is his last film, the winner of dozens of international awards, Miyazaki dazzles with his usual beautifully rendered flourishes, but this time exploring a grounded, evolved, and sophisticated nostalgia that is a fitting final celebration of art, science, and the impulse to create.

http://youtu.be/imtdgdGOB6Q

BELLE BELLE

BELLE

Often missing from the gorgeous settings, romances, and sophisticated language of English period dramas is the institution at the foundation of that refined life: slavery. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson), Belle’s (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) lineage—the illegitimate, biracial daughter of a Royal Navy admiral in 18th-century Britain—affords her wealth and certain privileges, but the color of her skin keeps her on the outside looking in. Left to wonder if she will ever find love or acceptance, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar’s son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England— and end her question, “How may I be too high in rank to dine with the servants but too low to dine with my family?”

http://youtu.be/Wtdk6owFj2o

BOYHOOD by Richard Linklater Added to Sundance Film Festival 2014 Program Lineup

Sundance Film Festival

BOYHOOD by Richard Linklater, has been added to the program lineup for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and will premiere on Sunday, January 19, 2014, at the Eccles Theatre. The 2014 Festival takes place January 16 to 26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. With the addition of Boyhood, the 2014 Festival will present 121 feature-length films.

BOYHOOD / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Richard Linklater) — Filmed over short periods from 2002 to 2013, Boyhood is a groundbreaking cinematic experience covering 12 years in the life of a family. At the center is Mason, who with his sister Samantha, are taken on an emotional and transcendent journey through the years, from childhood to adulthood. Cast: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater.

DGA Announces 5 Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2013

Awards

The Directors Guild of America announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries for 2013. The winner will be named at the 66th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

The nominees are (in alphabetical order):

Zachary Heinzerling
CUTIE AND THE BOXER

Cutie and the Boxer

Jehane Noujaim
THE SQUARE

THE SQUARE

Joshua Oppenheimer
THE ACT OF KILLING

THE ACT OF KILLING

Sarah Polley
STORIES WE TELL

STORIES WE TELL

Lucy Walker
THE CRASH REEL

THE CRASH REEL

25 Films to Compete for Golden Bear for Best Short Film at 2014 Berlin International Film Festval

Berlin International Film Festival

La Casona (The Big House) by Juliette Touin

25 films from 21 countries will compete for the Golden Bear for Best Short Film and the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festval. The films on the lineup range in subjects from groups of men clenching pump guns against their chests AS LONG AS SHOTGUNS REMAIN (Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe), and naked women running with broad smiles through Macao’s pristine nature TAPROBANA, to parents from the Cuban countryside trying to comprehend their twelve-year-old son’s suicide A PARADISE (Un Paraíso).

Berlinale Shorts 2014:

Afronauts, Frances Bodomo, USA, 13’ (IP)

BIRDS, Ulu Braun, Germany, 15’ (WP)

La Casona (The Big House), Juliette Touin, Cuba, 25’ (IP)

darkroom, Billy Roisz, Austria, 13’ (WP)

Do serca Twego (To Thy Heart), Ewa Borysewicz, Poland, 10’ (IP)

Im Tekhayekh, Ha’Olam Yekhayekh Elekha (Smile, and the World Will Smile Back), Familie al-Haddad/Ehab Tarabieh/Yoav Gross, Israel / Palestinian Territories, 21’ (WP)

Kamakura (Snow Hut), Yoriko Mizushiri, Japan, 5’ (WP)

LABORAT, Guillaume Cailleau, Germany, 21’ (WP)

Marc Jacobs, Sam de Jong, Netherlands, 17’ (WP)

Om Amira, Najy Esmail, Egypt, 25’ (IP)

Optical Sound, Elke Groen/Christian Neubacher, Austria, 11’ (WP)

Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa, USA, 18’ (IP)

Raconte-moi des salades (Salad Days), Olias Barco, Belgium / France, 10’ (WP)

As Rosas Brancas (The White Roses), Diogo Costa Amarante, Portugal / USA, 20’ (WP)

Sky Lines, Nadine Poulain, Serbia, 10’ (IP)

Solo te puedo mostrar el color (I Can Only Show You the Color), Fernando Vílchez Rodríguez, Peru, 26’ (WP)

Symphony no. 42, Réka Bucsi, Hungary, 10’ (WP)

Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe (As Long As Shotguns Remain), Caroline Poggi/Jonathan Vinel, France, 30’ (WP)

Taprobana, Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal / Sri Lanka / Denmark, 24’ (WP)

Three Stones for Jean Genet, Frieder Schlaich, Germany, 7’ (WP)

Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), Mark Dornford-May, South Africa, 35’ (EP)

Un Paraíso (A Paradise), Jayisha Patel, Cuba, 14’ (WP)

Washingtonia, Konstantina Kotzamani, Greece, 24’ (WP)

WONDER, Mirai Mizue, France / Japan, 8’ (WP)

Xenos, Mahdi Fleifel, Denmark / United Kingdom, 13’ (WP)

(WP = World premiere, IP = International premiere)

Members of the International Short Film Jury (in alphabetical order):

Edwin (Indonesia)
The director Edwin was born in 1978 in Surabaya, Indonesia and studied graphic design at Universitas Kristen Petra in Surabaya. He then studied film at Institut Kesenian Jakarta. In 2009 he was a guest at the Berlinale with his short film Trip to The Wound. That same year, his feature film debut Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly received the Fipresci Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Postcards from the Zoo is his second feature film for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film celebrated its world premiere at the 62nd Berlinale and was presented in Competition. Edwin is now working on his third feature.

Nuno Rodrigues (Portugal)
Curator and festival programmer Nuno Rodrigues is a co-founder and the artistic director of the Portuguese film festival Curtas Vila do Conde. In 1999, he founded Agência – Portuguese Short Film Agency, where he is now a member of the board of directors, and handles the promotion and distribution of Portuguese short films on international markets. Since 2005 he has been the director and coordinator of the Solar Gallery in Vila do Conde, where he has curated numerous exhibits. In recent years, he has also been active as a film producer, and in 2013 he became vice president of Short Circuit, a network for film and video art distribution in Europe.

Christine Tohme (Lebanon)
Christine Tohme is a curator and director of Ashkal Alwan–The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, established in 1994. Over the years, the non-profit organization has been committed to the production, facilitation and circulation of artistic practices across a range of disciplines and media. Its platforms include “Home Works”, a forum on cultural practices; “Home Workspace Program” (HWP), a free international arts programme at the post-graduate level; and Video Works, a video production grant. In 2006, she received the Prince Claus Award for her work in arts practices and the civic sphere.

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Unveils 2014 Lineup; Opens with PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KATRINA GILBERT

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KATRINA GILBERT

More than 130 non-fiction films are announced as the official selections for the 11th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which takes place February 15-23 in Missoula, Montana. Continuing a tradition with HBO Documentary Films, the festival’s opening night will once again center on an early look at an upcoming film from the network’s documentary film division. PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KATRINA GILBERT is described as a searing and heartfelt portrayal of a single mom who struggles under the poverty line despite working a full-time job. Paycheck is executive-produced by Maria Shriver, and is part of the Emmy-winning journalist’s series “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink.”

The festival has embraced comedy as its theme for 2014, which will be anchored by a live set from renowned comic Tig Notaro. Other strands of note include “Made in Montana”, which showcases films shot in or created by filmmakers living in Big Sky Country, and “The Wild 50,” a collection of films selected to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Wilderness Act, the screenings of which will be free to the public.

2014 FEATURE COMPETITION

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times
A World Not Ours
Alive Inside
Bending Steel
Death Metal Angola
Rent a Family
This Ain’t No Mouse Music
Trucker and the Fox (Ranande va roobah)
Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulge
Who Took Johnny

2014 BIG SKY AWARD COMPETITION

Art is War
Momenta
Occupy the Farm
Transmormon
Uranium Drive-In
Where God Likes To Be
White Earth

2014 SHORT COMPETITION

Bhiwani Junction
Blessed Fruit of the Womb
Can’t Stop the Water
Eddie Adams: Saigon ‘68
Herd in Iceland
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
The Record Breaker
Stay Where You Are
Vacant Seat
What I Hate About Myself

2014 MINI-DOC COMPETITION

Adrift
Eugene
Finding Home
Haenyeo: Woman of the Sea
Jared Lyell
Of Cows and Men
Shaped on all Six Sides
Shell Game
The Pixel Painter
Yapawarnti Palu Rijikarrijani (Children Playing)

Daniel Patrick Carbone’s HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES from 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Gets a March 2014 Release Date | VIDEO: Watch Trailer

News

Daniel Patrick Carbone’s directorial debut HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES, which was recognized recently with the “Best Film Still Awaiting U.S. Distribution” from the National Society of Film Critics Awards will be released after all. Tribeca Film will release HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES beginning March 25, 2014 on cable/telco and satellite video-on-demand and digital platforms, followed by a theatrical release beginning March 28, 2014. Written and directed by Carbone, the film played to rave reviews when it premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival, and received the New Directors Award at the Starz Denver Film Festival.

A dreamlike portrait of adolescence, HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES explores rural American life through the distorted lens of youth. Unfolding over one hot, hazy summer, the film follows two young brothers — nine-year-old Tommy (Ryan Jones) and 14-year-old Eric (Nathan Varnson) — as they come to terms with the mysterious death of one of Tommy’s friends.

http://youtu.be/BCni8utWHB8

Italian Film THE GREAT BEAUTY Wins Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film

Awards

Paolo Sorrentino's THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA) Paolo Sorrentino’s THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA)

Paolo Sorrentino’s THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA), beat France’s Blue is the Warmest Color; Denmark’s The Hunt; Iran’s The Past; and the Japanese animated film The wind Rises to win the award for Best Foreign Film at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards. Set in Rome, the 2013 THE GREAT BEAUTY follows Jep Gambardella, played by actor Toni Servillo, a hedonistic socialite who is forced to examine his party-filled life after his 65th birthday.

http://youtu.be/fJfvX6zPAuQ

Complete List of Winners of 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards

MOTION PICTURES

Picture, Drama: “12 Years a Slave.”

Picture, Musical or Comedy: “American Hustle.”

Actor, Drama: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Actress, Drama: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine.”

Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity.”

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Adams, “American Hustle.”

Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle.”

Foreign Language: “The Great Beauty.”

Animated Film: “Frozen.”

Screenplay: Spike Jonze, “Her.”

Original Score: Alex Ebert, “All Is Lost.”

Original Song: “Ordinary Love” (music by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. and Brian Burton, lyrics by Bono), “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.”

TELEVISION

Series, Drama: “Breaking Bad.”

Actor, Drama: Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad.”

Actress, Drama: Robin Wright, “House of Cards.”

Series, Musical or Comedy: “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Poehler, “Parks and Recreation.”

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Andy Samberg, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”

Miniseries or Movie: “Behind the Candelabra.”

Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Elisabeth Moss, “Top of the Lake.”

Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Michael Douglas, “Behind the Candelabra.”

Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jacqueline Bisset, “Dancing on the Edge.”

Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jon Voight, “Ray Donovan.”

Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: Woody Allen.

Indian Documentary ALGORITHMS about Unknown World of Blind Chess to get U.S. Release | VIDEO: Watch Trailer

Documentary

The Indian documentary ALGORITHMS, directed by Ian McDonald has been snapped up by New York based First Run Features for release in the U.S. The documentary which has screened at over twelve international film festivals and won four awards, including Best Film at Film SouthAsia in Kathmandu, follows three boys and a champion player turned pioneer over three years and uncovers the fascinating but largely unknown world of Blind Chess.

http://youtu.be/pHVZD2yrb7k

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THE ACT OF KILLING and THE GRANDMASTER Among Films Honored by Denver Film Critics Society as Best Films of 2013

THE 2013 DFCS AWARD WINNERS:

Complete List of 2014 Oscar Nominations

Seven Films Selected for 43rd New Directors/New Films

Human Rights Watch Film Festival Heads to Toronto; Opens with THE SQUARE on Feb 27, Closes on March 6 with HIGHWAY OF TEARS

BELLE and Master Animator Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES to Open 2014 Portland International Film Festival

BOYHOOD by Richard Linklater Added to Sundance Film Festival 2014 Program Lineup

DGA Announces 5 Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2013

25 Films to Compete for Golden Bear for Best Short Film at 2014 Berlin International Film Festval

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Unveils 2014 Lineup; Opens with PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KATRINA GILBERT

Daniel Patrick Carbone’s HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES from 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Gets a March 2014 Release Date | VIDEO: Watch Trailer

Italian Film THE GREAT BEAUTY Wins Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film

Indian Documentary ALGORITHMS about Unknown World of Blind Chess to get U.S. Release | VIDEO: Watch Trailer