Thursday, December 31, 2015

Attention Aspiring Showrunners: SeriesFest 2016 Submissions Due February 15

SeriesFest, one of several independent TV festivals highlighting the growth of indie TV in recent years, is now accepting submissions for its second edition, June 22-26, 2016 in Denver, Colo. The deadline for submitting pilots (via Withoutabox) is February 15; full guidelines are available at the festival's website. SeriesFest is also accepting half-hour comedic script submissions for its Storytellers Initiative,  where finalists will have the opportunity to win a development deal and a professionally produced pilot presentation, valued at $60,000.  READ MORE: "IMDb's Withoutabox Adds Fire TV Judging App (EXCLUSIVE)"   ...

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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Klaus Härö’s Golden Globe-nominated "The Fencer" to Open PSIFF, Closing, and Additional Programs Announced

The 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will launch on Friday, January 1 with Klaus Härö’s Golden Globe-nominated and Academy Award-shortlisted "The Fencer." The Festival’s closing night film will then screen on Sunday, January 10 with the U.S. premiere of "Last Cab to Darwin," directed by Jeremy Sims. The Festival announced its complete lineup of films including Talking Pictures, Special Presentations and additional programming. A total of 176 films will screen in this year’s festival from January 1-11. “Bookending the festival are two films from opposite sides of the globe, both of which promise an emotionally...

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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Brady Corbet's 'The Childhood of a Leader' to Close IFFR 2016

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) closes its 45th edition on Saturday February 6th with a screening of "The Childhood of a Leader." It promises to be a spectacular musical finale: the film music by American singer-songwriter Scott Walker will be played live during the screening of the film in de Doelen by Codarts Symphony Orchestra, led by Mark Warman. The orchestra will also have a special line-up just for this event, featuring a number of guest musicians from England who performed on the original soundtrack. Like last year, following the screening of the film, the festival will close in style with the Closing Party by Warsteiner. In...

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Sunday, December 20, 2015

52nd Antalya Film Festival Winners Of Golden Orange Awards

The 52nd International Antalya Film Festival this year was a case of “The Show Must Go On”. In spite of several setbacks which made Turkey quite unstable and put it on the U.S. State Department’s Alert List, it took place in the beautiful Turkish seaside site of the recent G20 Conference. It rivals Cannes for its Croisette; its boulevards exceed any street in Cannes. Organized by the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality whose Mayor Menderes Türel, recently reelected for a five year term, is supporting this festival in a major way and directed by Elif Dağdeviren, the Festival’s Closing Night was an extravaganza of special effects as it announced its winners and handed...

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Friday, December 18, 2015

2016 Berlin International Film Festival Announces First Wave of Generation Section

READ MORE: Jeff Nichols' 'Midnight Special' Leads 2016 Berlin International Film Festival Competition Lineup Announcements for the 2016 Berlin Film Festival continue to roll in, as programmers have unveiled 13 more titles that will screen in the Generation section. The lineup is split between the Generation Kplus, which features films targeted and younger audiences, and Generation 14plus, which is designated for teenage audiences. According to the festival, all the selected films "feature young individuals whose inner lives are in turmoil." The films join the previously announced Competition and Panorama selections, as well as the Coen Brothers' "Hail,...

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

The Palm Springs International Film Festival Books Opening and Closing Nights, Special Programs

Running January 1-11, Palm Springs annually offers a robust showcase for the Foreign Language Oscar contenders, which will be announced on December 18. Many remain at large on the distribution market while others, including such expected buzzy titles as "Son of Saul," "The Clan," "Viva," "The Second Mother," "Mustang" and "A War" have had or will have qualifying runs in the US this season. This year ex-Newsweek critic David Ansen joins the festival as lead programmer.  READ MORE: 81 Foreign Language Oscar Contenders and Frontrunners Opening night will be 50s thriller "The Fencer," both a...

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Sundance Reveals 7 Late Additions to 2016 Lineup

There are always a few late-breaking additions to the Sundance slate—in some cases due to jockeying for position with the Berlinale, which follows only a few weeks later—but this year's are particularly compelling. Only one competition title, New Zealand doc "Tickled," is new to the mix, while the world premiere of Douglas McGrath's "Becoming Mike Nichols" is a welcome sight, a little more than a year after the beloved director's death.    READ MORE: "Sundance Programmers Unveil, Discuss 2016 Competition, NEXT Lineups (EXCLUSIVE)" In addition, the final seven films and special events added to the 2016 lineup include a screening of "Dazed and...

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Berlin's Panorama Section to Feature Chantal Akerman, Rebecca Miller, More

The world premiere Rebecca Miller's "Maggie's Plan," starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore, headlines the first slate of titles in the 2016 Berlinale's Panorama section, along with "War on Everyone" a New Mexico-set satire starring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James from John Michael McDonagh ("Calvary"). The 12 fiction films and two documentaries announced Thursday will be joined by an additional 20 fiction films and 16 documentaries before the festival, Feb. 11-21, 2016. READ MORE: "Berlinale 2016 to Honor Scorsese, Nichols, Fassbinder Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus"  The Berlinale is also set...

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Greta Gerwig-Starring 'Maggie's Plan' Leads 2016 Berlin International Film Festival Panorama Lineup

READ MORE: Jeff Nichols' 'Midnight Special' Leads 2016 Berlin International Film Festival Competition Lineup The 2016 Berlin International Film Festival has announced the first wave of films that will play in its Panorama section. The movies join the previously announced Competition titles, as well as the Coen Brothers' star-studded "Hail, Caeser," which will open the festival on February 11. Also announced this morning are the films that will screen in the Teddy30 program, which puts a spotlight on some of the most renowned LGBT films from decades past. This year, the Teddy30 program includes titles from Chantal Akerman and Mary Harron. While only a quarter of the films that...

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Winston Baker Hosted Successful Inaugural Asia Pacific Entertainment Finance Forum in Hawaii

Winston Baker, a leading global producer of entertainment finance conferences, hosted its successful inaugural Asia Pacific Entertainment Finance Forum in conjunction with the Hawaii International Film Festival from November 18 – 20, 2015. Winston Baker has long recognized the growing alliance between Hollywood, China, and Silicon Valley. Co-founders Katherine Winston and Amy Baker designed and produced the APEFF – the first event of its kind – to help creative masterminds and forward-thinking financiers take advantage of the unique opportunities this partnership offers, particularly in the face of the rapid innovations sweeping the entertainment business. The ...

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Palm Springs International Film Fest Announces Premieres, New Voices/New Visions, and Modern Masters

The 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) has announced its line-up of Premieres, New Voices/New Visions competition and Modern Masters. Films from 60 countries, including 54 premieres (7 World, 17 North American and 30 U.S.), will unspool at the Festival, running from January 1-11, 2016 in Palm Springs, California. “The line-up this year, while full of unexpected surprises, vividly reflects what is going on in the world around us,” said Festival Director Darryl Macdonald. “There’s a particular focus on stories about displaced people – immigrants, emigrants, refugees, those seeking asylum or shelter. There’s a concurrent trend toward...

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Palm Springs International Film Fest Announces Premieres, New Voices/New Visions, and Modern Masters

The 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) has announced its line-up of Premieres, New Voices/New Visions competition and Modern Masters. Films from 60 countries, including 54 premieres (7 World, 17 North American and 30 U.S.), will unspool at the Festival, running from January 1-11, 2016 in Palm Springs, California. “The line-up this year, while full of unexpected surprises, vividly reflects what is going on in the world around us,” said Festival Director Darryl Macdonald. “There’s a particular focus on stories about displaced people – immigrants, emigrants, refugees, those seeking asylum or shelter. There’s a concurrent trend toward...

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Eleven Films Presented at the 63rd San Sebastian Festival Receive 39 Goya Award Nominations

The Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España has announced the nominees for the 30th edition of the Goya Awards, to be presented on February 6. The finalist with most nominations is "La Novia" (The Bride) , which had its world premiere in the Zabaltegi section at the last edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The film by Paula Ortiz is nominated in twelve categories: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Inma Cuesta), Best Actor (Asier Etxeandia), Best Supporting Actress (Luisa Gavasa), Best New Actor (Álex García), Best Adapted...

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Monday, December 14, 2015

Epic ‘Bilal’ Team Talks to SydneysBuzz About Making the First Middle Eastern CG Animated Feature

The World Premiere of “Bilal” (UAE; 2015) took place at Doha's Ajyal Youth Film Festival. This new animated feature film, directed by Ayman Jamal and Khurram Alav, is for families and the rating is expected to be PG-13. Families in Qatar enjoy going out together as is obvious as one walks around looking at the people: fathers pushing strollers, mothers with the little brothers and sisters, all enjoying the many types events at the youth festival, stopping by stands for ice cream or pizza, going to museums, the peaceful enjoyment of weekends. The press screening was itself very interesting, attended mostly by Arab men of the press from all over the Middle...

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Friday, December 11, 2015

Jeff Nichols' 'Midnight Special' Leads 2016 Berlin International Film Festival Competition Lineup

READ MORE: The Coen Brothers' 'Hail, Caesar!' to Open 2016 Berlin International Film Festival The 2016 Berlin International Film Festival has announced the first eight titles that will play in its Competition and Berlinale Special programs. As previously announced at the start of the month, the Coen Brothers' star-studded comedy "Hail, Caesar!" will open the festival on February 11. Five productions from Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the U.S. are the first additions to the Competition program, which finds the world premiere of Jeff Nichols' "Midnight Special" facing off against an intriguing new Alex Gibney documentary and the anticipated filmmaking...

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

10 More Hidden Gems from the 2016 Sundance Lineup

This week's most recent and presumably final announcements of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival lineup, a hefty list of titles that included narrative and documentary premieres as well as 72 short films, provided a lot to sift through. As usual, several names familiar to anyone keeping tabs on contemporary American cinema stand out. New movies from Ira Sachs ("Little Men"), Kelly Reichardt ("Certain Women") and Todd Solondz ("Weiner-Dog") are both expected and welcome reminders that some of this country's best working filmmakers show no signs of giving up. READ MORE: 9 Hidden Gems from the 2016 Sundance Lineup But they're only one part of the story. Dig...

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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

And the Winners Are...Third Ajyal Youth Film Festival in Doha Announces

Doha, Qatar is taking the lead in bringing children’s films to the public with 80 features and shorts from 20 countries among which Russia, U.S., Spain, Germany, Lebanon, France and Brazil took prizes. The winners of Ajyal, chosen by children’s juries were honored at a colorful closing ceremony. In Competition this year were some fine examples of children’s films, an area not widely discussed in our “sophisticated” international film business world, and yet an area you would suppose most cineastes would find extremely important for their own children’s growth. This contradiction --between the lack of conversation about children’s films in the international film...

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Sundance's Shorts Program is 39% Female-Helmed

The short film programs at Sundance 2016 have been announced, and of the 72 shorts being screened across various subsections, 28 are directed or co-directed by women. That means that, overall, the slate is 39% female-helmed. For comparison, women directed or co-directed 45% of TIFF's shorts program this year. The numbers for both TIFF and Sundance exceed the average. A recent study revealed that a whopping 68% of shorts showing at the world's top film festivals are directed by men, with just 32% directed by women. The U.S. Narrative Short Films lineup includes one short directed by a Hollywood star. "Jurassic Park" and "The Help" actress Bryce Dallas Howard's...

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Hawaii International Film Festival is a Pacific Beacon!

In late November I had the privilege of being a guest at the Hawaii International Film Festival where a wonderful film business seminar was being held during and at the Fest in Honolulu, hosted by Katherine J. Winston and Amy Baker, Co-Founders & Managing Partners WINSTON | BAKER. In a coming blog I'll write abut that important Seminar but here now I want to focus on this wonderful Film Festival. HIFF 2015 ran from November 12-22: the HIFF 35th Annual Fall Festival. READ MORE: 35th Hawaii International Film Festival Audience Award Winners I sat down during the Fest Executive Director Robert Lambeth and HIFF Director Emeritus Chuck Boller. We discussed the vision...

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UK Distributor Swipe Films Acquires Rights to Festival-Winning Dramedy 'Taking Stock'

READ MORE: Watch: Bonnie and Clyde Meet Martin Scorsese in Gangster-Fueled 'The Wannabe' Trailer UK distributor Swipe Films has acquired the UK rights to Belfast-born director Maeve Murphy's latest feature, "Taking Stock," and has announced that it will release the indie feature on February 12, 2016.  Featuring Kelly Brook in a starring role, Murphy's newest film won four Angel Film Awards at its international premiere at the 13th Annual Monaco International Film Festival, held in in Monte Carlo last weekend. The decision was made thanks to an all-female jury, which included the executive producer of "Beasts of No Nation," Elika Portnoy. In total,...

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The 15th Edition of ‘Canada’s Coolest Film Festival’ Wraps

The 15th anniversary celebration of the Whistler Film Festival wrapped Sunday night, living up to its title as ‘Canada’s coolest film fest’ by hosting more premieres, filmmakers, industry executives, and celebrities than ever before, including unique experiences from films, music and parties to high adrenaline races. The Whistler Film Festival’s Pandora Audience Award went to British-American romantic drama "Carol," directed by Todd Haynes from the screenplay by Phyllis Nagy (Variety 10 Screenwriters to Watch class of 2014) starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, which received its Canadian premiere at Whistler. The WFF Audience Award runner-ups were ...

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Doha Film Institute Unveils First Two Masters as Qumra Enters 2nd Year

Qumra means “camera” in Arabic, and this word can be traced back to Arabic scientist, astronomer and mathematician Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, 965-c.1040 CE), whose work in optics laid out the principles of the camera obscura. And now a new experiment is taking place for the second year. Designed for first and second time filmmakers, somewhat similar to Mexico’s first such event which I attended last month, Pueblo Magico , the Qumra Industry Manager, Ali Khechen has close ties to Mexico, having worked for seven years with Guanajuato Film Festival and a good friend of Pueblo Magico’s Flavio Florencio. Read more about the first edition of...

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Sundance 2016 Shorts Program Features Films by Bryce Dallas Howard, Jason Reitman, Sebastian Silva, More

The Sundance Film Festival's always fascinating selection of short films is now set for 2016, with 72 titles—including "Jurassic World" star Bryce Dallas Howard's "Solemates," "Up in the Air" director Jason Reitman's documentary short "Roast Battle," and "Nasty Baby" filmmaker Sebastian Silva's "Dolfun."  READ MORE: "Sundance Adds New Films by Werner Herzog, Kenneth Lonergan, Kelly Reichardt, and Others to 2016 Slate" When it comes to shorts, Sundance is trying to help find new models to help people looking for content, via new technology and an Adobe program, said the festival's chief programmer, Trevor Groth....

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EVENT: "The Greatest Cartoons Ever" 2015 at The Alex Theatre

Unabashed plug: On the day after Christmas - Boxing Day December 26th, 2015 -   I will be co-hosting a big-screen animation program at the Alex Theatre in Glendale  - The Greatest Cartoons Ever with my cohort, animation producer/director Frank Gladstone. This is the fifth time we've put together this event - and it's now become a post-Christmas weekend tradition. Watching theatrical animated short subjects on the big screen - in a classic movie palace like the Alex, with a large crowd - is perhaps the BEST way to view them - presented the way they were meant to be seen and experienced. And in this digital age, a great family experience.   Tom & Jerry, Bugs...

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Sundance Announces Its 2016 Premieres

Sundance has revealed the lineups for its narrative and nonfiction Premieres sections.  Seventeen narrative films will be making their world premieres at Sundance next year. Only three (or 18% of the section) will be directed by women: Kelly Reichardt's "Certain Women," Anne Fontaine's "Agnus Dei" and Maggie Greenwald's "Sophie and the Rising Sun." All three women-helmed films are female-centric. With "Certain Women," Reichardt reunites with longtime collaborator Michelle Williams to tell the story of three womens' interconnected lives in small-town America. Joining Williams onscreen will be Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern. Fontaine's...

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Monday, December 7, 2015

Ira Sachs, Kelly Reichardt, Kenneth Lonergan, Robert Mapplethorpe and Chelsea Handler Highlight Sundance's 2016 Slate

Sundance Institute today completed its feature film lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with the highly anticipated narratives, documentaries, episodic work and events in the Premieres, Documentary Premieres, Spotlight, Sundance Kids and Special Events sections. The full list is below, and it sure is full of titles we can't wait to see. The Festival takes place January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Sundance and Ogden, Utah. PREMIERES A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated narrative films of the coming year. Agnus Dei / France, Poland (Director: Anne Fontaine, Screenwriters: Sabrina N. Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer) — 1945...

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Sundance Adds New Films by Werner Herzog, Kenneth Lonergan, Kelly Reichardt, and Others to 2016 Slate

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival's world premieres will include new films by Werner Herzog, John Carney, Kenneth Lonergan, Kelly Reichardt, Ira Sachs and many more leading lights of the indie cinema. In addition to these arthouse stalwarts (see also: Liz Garbus, Joshua Marston, Spike Lee, D.A. Pennebaker), the festival will feature the debut of two highly anticipated television projects from independent filmmakers, bringing further attention to the now-common crossover from film to TV. Other highlights include the second and third features respectively from actors John Krasinski and Diego Luna, and the directorial debut of screenwriter and former Focus Features CEO James Schamus. READ...

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‘Very Big Shot’ Makes Very Big impact with its Powerful Take on Politics and Crime

In the spirit of fun and satire as only the Lebanese can do it (think Nadine Labaki), “ Very Big Shot” (Lebanon, Qatar; 2015) takes an unexpected twist from its initial drug heist opening to its anti-hero protagonist grasping the power of the image of media and ultimately spinning into the power of image in politics. This romp brings to mind 2012 Toronto Film Festival’s “Seven Boxes” (“7 Cajas”) which sold very well internationally. The comedic mask covers a lot more for the audience to either pick up on or just to enjoy for what it is: a well told fun and funny story. The story has a particular Lebanese flavor and it began in a particular community which has...

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Sunday, December 6, 2015

Youth Juries at Ajyal Youth Film Festival Watch, Discuss and Create

When the juries gathered and the Ajyal Youth Film Festival officially opened, last year’s videos were shown as examples of what 450 jury members between the ages of 8 and 21 from all over the world would watch, discuss and even create in some workshops. 95% of the jury live in Qatar year-round. 16 older jury members are sent by their countries to partake. The films and workshops are designed to inspire and motivate using content and social media for self-expression. The student jurors come after their school classes end and have lunch, in itself a very important component of this Festival. Master chef Frank Bordoni, an award winning chef cooks organically and with...

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Third Doha Giffoni Youth Media Summit at the Ajyal Youth Film Festival

Conflicts, economic inequality and physical or mental challenges limit the involvement of a large section of youth in film and other cultural pursuits. An important component of the Ajyal Youth Film Festival in Doha is its partnership with the Giffoni Film Festival, youth’s foremost international film festival which was founded in 1971 by then 18-year-old Claudio Gubitose who remains its director and inspiration. This now year-long cultural event brings in children and young adults from 50 countries to Italy. It is now exported worldwide and Doha hosts its international summit. Claudio Gubitosi, Director and Founder of Giffoni Experience, said that young...

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Friday, December 4, 2015

LOOK: Coen Brothers' 'Hail, Caesar!' to Open 2016 Berlinale, and the Cast Photos Are Divine

The Coens usually go to Sundance, but the film's Feb. 5, 2016 release date means a big get for the Berlinale. Anything the brothers do, whether it hits theaters in the depths of winter or the heart of awards season, is sure to pique the interest of the cinephile set, and "Hail, Caesar!" is no different.   Set at the height of Hollywood cinema, the high-gloss period comedy follows a single day in the life of studio fixer Edward Mannix (Josh Brolin) on the fictional Capitol Pictures lot. The film also features George Clooney as movie star Baird Whitlock, kidnapped in the course of filming "prestige" epic "Hail, Caesar!"; Ralph Fiennes as...

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Doha Film Institute-Supported Projects Win Top Honors at 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Two films supported by the Doha Film Institute have won top honors at the ninth Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), which recognize and promote the cinematic excellence and cultural diversity of the vast Asia Pacific region. "The Idol" (Palestine, UK, Qatar, The Netherlands; 2015) directed by Academy Award-nominated Hany Abu-Assad, and co-financed by the Doha Film Institute, won the APSA UNESCO Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film. "The Idol" was the opening gala of the Doha Film Institute’s third Ajyal Youth Film Festival earlier this week, with both Abu-Assad and Arab Idol...

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Ajyal Youth Film Festival, Doha – Arrival and Opening Night “The Idol”

Doha Film Institute flew me in via Istanbul to attend the Ajyal Youth Film Festival. My first time in Doha Qatar, I am stunned by the luxury of it all. The area is filled with large buildings, modern and yet very Arabic in style, from the huge gleaming glass and steel airport with its marble floors and, at least at 1:30 AM, empty to the St. Regis Hotel, again huge with its arches and arabesque style towers, to the people, elegantly enshrouded women in black and men in gleaming white. After a day to recuperate from my 24 hour flight, we, the press, had a welcome dinner and the next day was devoted to “The Idol” Opening Night Film’s press screening and press conference...

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Sundance 2016 Competition Lineup Unveiled, Over 40% Directed by Women

Sundance has released the competition slate for the 2016 installment of the festival, and nearly half of the program is women-directed. Of the 54 films that have been announced in competition with a credited director, 22 are directed by women (amounting to 41%). Last year, 36%, or slightly more than a third, of the films in competition were helmed or co-helmed by female filmmakers.  Women directors will feature characters as diverse as female reporters and investment bankers to mermaid sisters and anarchists, and in the documentary categories, subjects include cyber-bullied teens and controversial former U.S. congressman Anthony Weiner.  Actress Clea DuVall ("The...

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Why Pete Docter's NYFCC Award Winner 'Inside Out' Was So Tough to Make Into Must-See Pixar

Pete Docter is accustomed to working in a collaborative way with the Pixar dream trust on his films, from "Up" to "Inside Out." But as the director, he was the one on the line when a powerful emotion—fear—told him that the movie wasn't ready to hit its scheduled dates. It needed more time. After showing the film out of competition at Cannes this spring, where it roused both audiences and critics to enthusiastic ovations, "Inside Out" is now this year's leading contender for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, and just earned the New York Film Critics Circle's seal of approval to boot. But it isn't easy to take an original idea—what happens inside the mind of...

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Sundance Announces 2016 Competition Lineups, Including Some Potential Future LGBT Classics

What do "The Times of Harvey Milk," "Longtime Companion," "Poison," "The Living End," "Swoon," "Paris is Burning," "Go Fish," "High Art," "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "The Kids Are All Right," "Pariah," "How To Survive a Plague," "Keep The Lights On," "Kill Your Darlings," "Nasty Baby," "Tangerine" and "Grandma" have in common? They are all fantastic LGBT films, for one. But they also all premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, which just announced its 2016 competition and NEXT lineups. For the 2016 Festival, 120...

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

9 Hidden Gems from the 2016 Sundance Lineup

The Sundance Film Festival lineup always creates an explosion of speculation and anticipation in equal measures. By next week, we'll have a better idea of the overall program, as the Premieres section will showcase a number of veterans returning the festival this year. But today's announcement of the NEXT and competition lineups already provide a window into many intriguing possibilities. Indiewire checked in with Sundance director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth for some tips on a few hidden gems from the selection so far (and did a little digging of our own). Stay tuned for more in the days and weeks to come. READ MORE: Sundance Announces Competition and NEXT...

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Cinefamily Announces "Animation Breakdown 2015" Line Up

Hollywood's The Cinefamily has announced the line up for its annual animation festival - Animation Breakdown - which will commence next week, Thursday Dec. 10th through Sunday December 13th.Highlights include Rick and Morty Live; The L.A. Premiere of a lost anime masterpiece Belladonna Of Sadness (1973); a Karel Zamen retrospective; Behind the scenes panels for Fox's Bob's Burger's, Nick's Pig Goat Banana Cricket and Disney's new Mickey Mouse shorts (moderated by yours truly).  And more! More details here - ticket info at links below. Cinefamily’s week-long slate of mind-expanding international animation, old and new, shorts and features: Animation Breakdown...

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