Monday, August 31, 2015

Italy's View Conference Names Jorge Gutierrez, Shannon Tindle, Mark Osborne and Randy Thom as Keynote Speakers

The 16th annual VIEW Conference, Italy’s premiere annual gathering of industry professionals focusing on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 2D/3D Animation, Gaming and VFX, has announced this year’s lineup of Keynote Speakers.  “We are honored and thrilled to welcome four amazing artists, Mark Osborne, Randy Thom, Jorge Gutierrez and Shannon Tindle, to Turin for this year’s VIEW conference as our Keynote Speakers,” says Professor Maria Elena Gutierrez, Director of the annual conference. “I know their presence will inspire our audience of students and professionals.” This year’s accomplished Keynote Speakers are: ** Mark Osborne, a multiple...

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Attention, Filmmakers: Montclair Film Festival Now Open For Submissions

READ MORE: 'The Tribe,' 'Christmas Again' and More Announced for Montclair Film Festival Main Slate and Inaugural Competitions The Montclair Film Festival has announced its submission dates for its fifth installment, which will take place April 29 through May 8. For those looking to submit, the submission dates are as follows: November 20: Early Bird Deadline December 14: Regular Deadline January 8: Late Deadline January 15: Extended Deadline The festival is based out of Montclair, New Jersey and has competitive categories in fiction, documentary and low budget independent filmmaking, as well as non-competitive categories in fiction, documentary, world...

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Martin Scorsese's Venice Film Festival Short Cancelled

What happened to Martin Scorsese's "The Audition," the 17-minute short film slated to premiere on the Lido this year? According to the Venice Film Festival, the September 7th screening was cancelled: “We have just been informed by the production that due to unexpected technical problems the film could not be here in time.” Doubling as a promotion for a set of new casinos in Asia, "The Audition" stars Scorsese as a director opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro as actors vying for a lead role. Brad Pitt also co-stars in the film penned by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Terence Winter, Scorsese's collaborator on upcoming HBO period drama "Vinyl." A rep...

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Woodstock Film Festival Selects Atom Egoyan and Guy Maddin as 2015 Honorary Award Recipients

READ MORE: Woodstock Film Festival Celebrates 16 Years in Official Poster Art The Woodstock Film Festival has announced that Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan ("Exotica," "The Sweet Hereafter") and Guy Maddin ("Archangel," "The Heart of the World") will receive the Honorary Maverick Award and the second annual Fiercely Independent Award, respectively. The awards will be presented to the filmmakers on October 3 during the annual Maverick Awards Gala at BSP Kingston, NY. Additionally, Egoyan's "Remember" will open the festival on October 1, while Maddin's "The Forbidden Room" will close the event on October...

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Star Sightings

The hottest celebrity photos, coast to coast and around the world, for the week of August 31, 2015.
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Friday, August 28, 2015

LatinoBuzz: San Sebastian Films in Progress: 3 from Chile, 1 Venezuelan, 1Uruguayan, 1Brazilian

113 films from 20 countries were submitted to the Films in Progress 28 initiative at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The final selection includes: "Aquí no ha pasado nada" (Much Ado About Nothing) by Alejandro Fernández Almendras (Chile),whose previous film, "To Kill a Man," won numerous prizes at international festivals and represented Chile at the Oscars last year; "Era o Hotel Cambridge" (The Cambridge Squatter) by Eliane Caffé (Brazil - France), "La Emboscada" (The Ambush) by Daniel Hendler (Uruguay - Argentina), "La Princesita" (The Princess) by Marialy Rivas (Chile - Argentina - Spain), "Rara"...

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Angelina Jolie's 'By the Sea' the First Woman-Directed Film to Open AFI Fest in At Least a Decade

"By the Sea," Angelina Jolie's third narrative feature as a director, will open this year's AFI Fest (November 5-12). The drama about a husband and wife (played by Jolie Pit and her husband Brad Pitt) trying one last time to salvage their broken marriage while on vacation will be the first woman-helmed opener at the festival in at least a decade.  The November 5 screening will be the film's world premiere and will likely kick off the Universal release's award-season stump.   The festival's full line-up will be announced in October. "By the Sea" is slated to open November 13. [via Deadline]

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Christopher Nolan to Address Film Preservation at London Film Fest

Christopher Nolan is among the filmmakers headlining the 2015 BFI London Film Festival's first-ever LFF Connects, a new series of provocative conversations about the future of film and its impact on other creative industries, from TV and music to art, games and technology. Nolan and artist Tacita Dean, celebrated for her grand-scale Tate Modern exhibition FILM in 2011, will launch the talks on Friday, October 9 at the BFI Southbank in a conversation about the importance of film projection—which is something Nolan has long-advocated with his films including 70mm-exhibited "Interstellar," and his position on the board of Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation. Christoper Nolan most...

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Thursday, August 27, 2015

'Homeland' Season 5

'Homeland' Season 5.
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DOC NYC Announces Lifetime Achievement Recipients and Opening Night 'Miss Sharon Jones!'

READ MORE: DOC NYC and IDA to Launch Documentary Film Preservation Summit DOC NYC, America's largest documentary film festival, has announced its second annual Visionaries Tribute, which will take place during a luncheon and present Lifetime Achievement Awards to Jon Albert, Barbara Kopple and Frederick Wiseman. Alpert is the co-founder of New York's Downtown Community Television (DCTV), the country's oldest nonprofit community media center, and has received 15 Emmy Awards. His documentaries include "One Year in the Life of Crime," "Baghdad ER" and the Oscar-nominated shorts "Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" and...

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Rialto Acquires Cannes Doc 'Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words' (Video)

Rialto Pictures has acquired US and Canadian theatrical rights to director Stig Björkman's "Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words," a feature-length documentary tribute to the icon. The documentary has also been selected for this fall’s New York Film Festival and is set to open at New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on November 13 and L.A.’s Nuart on December 11. This could be good fodder for the Academy to honor one of its own. "In Her Own Words" met warm reception out of this year's Cannes Classics program, where it received a special Golden Eye for Best Documentary. Melding home movies, rare personal effects and more, the documentary charts the life and career of...

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Angelina Jolie's 'By the Sea' Becomes Full-Blown Oscar Contender as AFI Fest Opening Night Selection

READ MORE: Angelina Jolie's 'By the Sea' to be Released During Awards Season 2015 One of the more glaring absences in the recent onslaught of festival lineups from TIFF, NYFF and Venice has been the omission of Angelina Jolie's "By the Sea." The actress' third directorial effort finds the megastar acting opposite real-life husband Brad Pitt in an art film about a husband and wife working out their marriage while on vacation at a seaside resort in 1970s France. While the gorgeous debut trailer suggested an assured adult drama, many were left wondering exactly what state the film was in, as it failed to find a place at any of the major fall festivals.  Fortunately, that has...

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Angelina Jolie's 'By the Sea' to Open AFI Fest (Trailer)

AFI FEST 2015 will kick off with the Opening Night Gala premiere of "By The Sea," starring writer/director Jolie and Brad Pitt, on November 5 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. This is the film's world premiere, which means we won't see it at any of the other fall fests this year. (Trailer below.) "By the Sea" follows an American writer named Roland (Pitt) and his wife, Vanessa (Jolie Pitt), who arrive in a tranquil and picturesque seaside resort in 1970s France, their marriage in apparent crisis.  As they spend time with fellow travelers, including young newlyweds Lea (Laurent) and François (Poupaud), and village locals Michel (Arestrup) and Patrice...

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Here Are the Finalists For the 2015 NYFF Critics Academy

Indiewire's partnership with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment magazine continues this year with the fourth edition of the Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring film critics set to take place during the New York Film Festival. The program is designed to nurture promising film critics and journalists from the New York area as they attend and cover screenings and events at this year's festival. Today, we're thrilled announce the names of the eight participants selected for the 2015 edition. Since 2012, more than 50 people have participated in the workshop in New York as well as the affiliated one at the Locarno Film Festival. In the days leading up to the festival,...

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'Dancing With The Stars' Season 21 Cast... So Far

The famous faces hitting the ballroom for 'Dancing With The Stars' Season 21.
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