All Articles

iW NEWS | Sundance Institute Names Fellows for Composers Lab

Six musicians have been selected for the 10th Sundance Institute Composers Lab, taking place July 24 - August 9 in Sundance, Utah. This year's Composers Lab Fellows are Jeremy Flower, Derrick Hodge, Shahzad Ali Ismaily, Enis Rotthoff, Gingger Shankar, and Jeff Toyne. During the two-weeklab, organized by the Sundance Institute, fellows participate in workshops and creative exercises under the guidance of veteran film composers and film music professionals. The Composers Lab fellows also collaborate with filmmakers from the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program and Documentary Program to "explore the process of writing music for film and to ...

Swanberg's Favorites: 'Hannah' Takes the Summer

"Midnight Madness" Offers Global Gore

iW NEWS | Toronto Unveils Midnight Madness, Sprockets and Wavelengths Titles for Upcoming Fest

The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled additional titles screening in the event's Sprockets Family Zone, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths sections. Among the titles screening in Sprockets, presented by the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival, is a gala screening of Canadian filmmaker Aristomenis Tsirbas' animated feature "Terra" about a precocious alien girl (voiced by Evan Rachel Wood) living on the planet Terra who is thrown into conflict with Earth's last inhabitants. Joining Midnight Madness are zombie film "George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead" by George A. Romero (USA); Hitoshi Matsumoto's "Dainipponjin" by Hitoshi M...

'Ten' Q&A @ SXSW 2007

Battle of the Get-Work Stars

NYT: Hollywood Hopefuls (Dream On) at Pitchfest

It's probably best envisioned as a horror flick, with comic elements. So, here's the pitch: 200 writers from all over pay $395 apiece to take face-to-face meetings with legitimate Hollywood buyers and brokers. Scouts from top talent agencies and management firms, studios and production companies are seated behind little conference tables, waiting to be bowled over. But the starry-eyed screenwriters, imagining a Cinderella story with themselves in the lead, instead get just a chilling seven minutes to present their ideas before time stops like a guillotine's drop and they're ushered out the door--and back into oblivion. David M. Halbfinger rep...

Get Your Romanian On! or "scu's me!"

SF360: In the ring with Jewish boxers at SFJFF

"The Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language contains 392 synonyms for the word 'hit,' including k'nack, patch, tzettle and zetz," says San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Program Director Nancy Fishman. "We are showing five great films that showcase the moxie and smart fighting style of Jewish boxers, bo...