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Deadline for Oscar Documentary Consideration Approaching

Friday, September 1, is the deadline for documentary filmmakers to submit their short subject and feature-length documentaries to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 79th Academy Awards. Each entry form must be accompanied by supporting materials including an English-language synopsis of the film, a list of film credits, filmographies of the director(s) and/or producer(s), 25 VHS cassette tapes or 25 DVDs of the film, and proof of a seven-day qualifying exhibition in either Los Angeles County or the Borough of Manhattan in New York. "March of the Penguins," and "A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman...

IFC's Sehring to Receive Woodstock Trailblazer Award

IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring will be honored with the Trailblazer Award at the seventh annual Woodstock Film Festival (October 11 - 15), Meira Blaustein, executive director and co-founder of the event announced Thursday. Sehring has played an integral role in the creation of the Independent Film Channel, IFC Productions, IFC Films, and more recently IFC Center in New York as well as a second distribution label, IFC First Take. Additionally, he has served as executive producer on many productions, including "Boys Don't Cry," and "Me and You and Everyone We Know." Entertainment attorney/producer John Sloss (Sloss Law/Cinetic Me...

The Guardian Interview: Charlize Theron

A recent metamorphosis took Charlize Theron towards producing, with spectacular success, on "Monster," the film that won her the 2004 Oscar for best actress. She took no small risk on the movie; the entire previous output of its writer and director, Patty Jenkins, consisted of a single short that Th...

AFP: Filmmaker shows Japan human side of arch-enemy North Korea

As Pyongyang looms as public enemy number one in Japan, a filmmaker is telling the story of her family divided between the two countries in hopes of driving home a message -- that North Koreans are people, too. Yang Yong-Hi, a Korean born in Japan, spent a decade filming her father, who was formerly...

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