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DISPATCH FROM AMSTERDAM: Inside the Forum, Pitching New Docs and Scoring The Euros

While audiences make their way in and out of IDFA screenings at the City Theaters on Amsterdam's busy Leidseplein, a select group of festival attendees have spent the last few days down the street at the Paradiso, a popular local concert venue. On the first level of the auditorium, seated at tables ...

AFP: Serbian festival pulls Chinese film after warning

The organisers of a Belgrade film festival have been forced to withdraw a Chinese movie about the 1989 Tiananmen square democracy protests after a warning from the country's embassy in Serbia, state-run media reported. The movie, "Summer Palace," was scheduled to open the Author Film Festival on Tue...

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European Film Awards to Honor Garrel, Pell and Rozenbaum December 2

The European Film Academy Critics' Award 2008 Prix FIPRESCI will go to Philippe Garrel's "Les Amants Reguliers," the event announced. Additionally, the prize for Artistic Contribution 2006 will go to Pierre Pell and Stephane Rozenbaum in recognition of their production design for Michel Gondry's "The Science of Sleep." Both nods will presented during the European Film Awards, taking place in Warsaw, Poland on December 2. "Philippe Garrel made his first film when he was 16, and by 20 had earned the reputation of the Nouvelle Vague's Wunderkind and 'younger brother of Godard,'" Andrei Plakhov, president of FIPRESCI commented in a statement. "Hi...

Indie Gets Indie: Sundance and Spirits Go Back to Basics

PARK CITY '07 | Sundance Unveils Competition Slates: Organizers Highlight Diversity, Innovation and

The 2007 Sundance Film Festival, to be held Jan 18-28, is shining its spotlight on an enormously diverse collection of American independent films. The seen-that coming-of-age New York stories and dysfunctional family comedies are scarce, say festival organizers, replaced with complicated storylines ...

H'Wood Reporter: Indie world's Gotham Awards suffer identity crisis

When the Gotham Awards are handed out in New York Wednesday, the winners won't necessarily be independently produced movies with a local flavor. That was the original mission of the event when it was established 16 years ago but times have changed, to the chagrin of some observers. This year's lineu...

Dueling parties after the Gothams

Conquistador brings a new meaning to the word vomit