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"Blessed by Fire" and "The War Tapes" Take Tribeca Film Festival Honors

Two war-inspired films took top honors at the 5th Tribeca Film Festival. "Blessed by Fire" (Iluminados por el Fuego) by Tristan Bauer and U.S. director Deborah Scranton's "The War Tapes" won the Best Narrative Feature prize and Best Documentary Feature prize respectively during an awards dinner thi...

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"Blessed by Fire" and "The War Tapes" Among Top Tribeca Film Festival Winners

Two war-inspired films took top honors at the 5th Tribeca Film Festival. "Blessed by Fire" (Iluminados por el Fuego) by Tristan Bauer and U.S. director Deborah Scranton's "The War Tapes" won the Best Narrative Feature prize and Best Documentary Feature prize respectively during an awards dinner this evening (Saturday) in Chinatown in Lower Manhattan. "Fire," (Argentina, Spain) is based on the memoir of a veteran of the Falklands Islands War between Argentina and the U.K. in the early '80s, while present-day Iraq is the backdrop for "War Tapes," which chronicles the stories of several members of a National Guard unit deployed to Iraq sharing ...

Cuban/Wagner Launch HDNet Films International

Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente have announced the launch of HDNet Films International, with Laird Adamson on board at the division. He will serve as head of international sales for the company, which will launch at the market in Cannes this year. Among the films on their slat...

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Reuters: New film shows drama of Golden Gate Bridge suicides

Every few weeks, someone climbs over the railing of San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge and jumps to their death at one of the highest-profile suicide sites in the world. Local media rarely report the deaths, and few people have seen the dramatic suicides -- until now. Filmmaker Eric Steel's ne...

Reuters: Hollywood wonders "What would Jesus direct?"

Long criticized by conservative Christians for profiting from violent or sexually graphic films that corrupt the young, Hollywood is starting to see there is money to be made catering to those critics. "On Sunday, 43 percent of America was in church," Jonathan Bock, head of a movie marketing company...