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Slew of International Premieres Slated for Second Sante Fe Independent Festival
Forty international premieres from twelve countries made the cut for the second annual Sante Fe Independent Film Festival (October 19 - 24). Kicking off the 2010 edition will be a screening of Herbert J. Biberman's historic socialist classic "Salt of the Earth," winner of the Crystal Gobe Award for ...
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Milwaukee Film Festival Sees Attendance Double for Successful Second Edition
Yeo-haeng-ja's "A Brand New Life," and Robin Hessman's "My Perestroika," were the big winners at the 2010 Milwaukee Film Festival which just wrapped last Sunday, topping the Fiction Competition and Documentary Competition respectively. Each film walked away with a $2,500 cash prize.
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AFI FEST Sets Young Americans and New Auteurs
AFI FEST 2010 has set its programs for both its first-ever Young Americans section and the New Auteurs section, with a wide variety of festival favorites in the mix, from Robert Mitchell's "The Myth Of The American Sleepover " to Xavier Dolan's "Heartbeats" to recent Reykavik International Film Fest...
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IFC Takes "The Trip"
IFC Films has announced that it has acquired the U.S. rights to Michael Winterbottom’s British comedy "The Trip," starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. The film premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival to warm notices, making this yet another pick-up out of that festival, which ...
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Reykjavik Shares Its "Magic" as Film Festival Closes Its Seventh Edition
"This place is absolutely magical,” Jim Jarmusch said Friday afternoon as the final days of the Reykjavik International Film Festival brought a good hundred filmmakers, journalists, and other film industry folk to the home of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the president of Iceland. Grímsson welcomed everyo...
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European Films Top the Zurich Film Festival Awards
European films were the big winners at the 6th Zurich Film Festival, which just wrapped last night, October 3. The jury for the International Feature Competition, headed by Frank Langella, awarded Srdjan Kolijevic's Serbian drama "The Woman with a Broken Nose," with their top prize, the Golden Eye f...
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SXSW's First Round of 2011 Panels
The 2011 edition of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival have confirmed the first 20 panels, culled from proposals submitted via the SXSW PanelPicker interface. SXSW will take place March 11 - 19, 2001 in Austin, Texas.
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Sundance Institute Teams with Federal Cultural Groups on International Film Initiative
A group of federal cultural initiatives have tapped the Sundance Institute to represent the private sector in a program called "Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue." The concept is a public/private cultural exchange effort spearheaded by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities...
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"White Irish Drinkers" and "Grace Paley" Doc Top Audience Winners at Woodstock
John Gray's 1975 set Brooklyn tale "White Irish Drinkers," and Lilly Rivlin's documentary "Grace Paley: Collected Shorts," were the two big Audience Award winners last night at the Woodstock Film Festival. "Drinkers" nabbed the Audience Award for Narrative Feature, while "Grace Palley" walked away w...
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Box Office: "Superman," "Catfish" Continue Their Surge; "Freakonomics" Disappoints
With few new specialty films reporting estimates, the big story this weekend was definitely the impressive holdover performances of docs "Waiting For 'Superman'" and "Catfish," which in their second and third frames, respectively, showed serious strength. According to estimates provided by Rentrak ...
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