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Women to Blog About: Fina Torres
Fina Torres (Josefina Torres Benedetti) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Her film Habana Eva, a Cuban Venezualan co-production, shows tonight at LALIFF. Fina studied design, photography and journalism in Venezuela and earned her bachelors degree in cinematography at the Institute de Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques in Paris. After graduating, she worked as a film editor, camera operator, and script supervisor and also made short films and documentaries. Her debut feature Oriana (which she directed, wrote, and produced) won the Cannes Festival Camera d’Or and international acclaim. In 2001, she directed the romantic comedy Woman on Top starri...
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Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
LALIFF kicked off its 5 day festival last night with a great audience pleaser, Venezuelan film by first time director (and writer), Marcel Rasquin, HERMANO, audience and jury prize winner from Moscow FF and rumored to be headed toward Telluride. The international sales agent EuropaCorp (whose Luc Besson was president of the Moscow jury when the film won Moscow International Film Festival's top prize, the Golden George), was uncertain that it wanted the film to show in this festival where it had been promised before EuropaCorp was in the picture. But the filmmaker must have prevailed and a packed house at Mann's Grauman Chinese was lucky to ...
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La Soga and its Distributors and International Sales Agent
Last year in Toronto the Dominican film La Soga caused some buzz. It now has chosen its release patterns with MJ Pekos of Mitropoulos Films ♀and Steven Raphael of Required Viewing consulting on all marketing and distribution elements in its North American release which will be done, along with inte...
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New York Film Festival's Female Factor ♀
Once again, Women and Hollywood has tabulated The Female Factor. Same as usual, a paltry 7.4% which means two women with films of their own. If you count 2 women directors out of 10 in Revolucion 20%), it makes 11%. Notably Julie Taymor’s The Tempest ♀ is the centerpiece of the festival (yeah!). ...
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Winners of Locarno With Contacts - Update Sales Agent for Winter Vacation
Locarno is already over with its winners announced. Chinese director Li Hongqi took home the Pardo d’oro, or Golden Leopard, for his film, Han Jia (Winter Vacation), closing out the 63rd Locarno Film Festival. Winter Vacation NOW HAS AN international sales agent: Nantes based French sales agent/ th...
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Montreal World Film Festival: Around the World in 12 Days
Montreal World Film Festival, August 26 to September 6 is still under the reins of its founder Serge Losique along with his longtime colleague Daniele Cauchard as his invaluable second-in-command. Its huge lineup (430 films) come from 80 countries. There are 10 categories of screenings. It's got ...
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Producers Lab Toronto Set by EFP and TIFF for Co-Productions
The European Film Promotion (EFP) in collaboration with the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is inaugurating a co-production opportunity international film projects which will include 12 European and 12 Canadian producers. It will take ...
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Pusan fest unveils Asian Cinema Fund recipients
Another innovation inaugurated during the tenure of KIM Dong-Ho, the retiring head of the Pusan International Film Festival are the Asian Cinema Fund Awards which were announced in July by the Pusan Film Festival. In addition to the Fund's awards, a $8,300 award is made to Asian Film Academy gradua...
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Goodbye Mr Kim, we’ll miss you very much!!!
by guest blogger Peter Belsito, 6 August, 2010
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Toronto Docs
Women And Hollywood is becoming the watchdog for women fimmakers' representation in festivals. This time they are commenting on Toronto IFF's choice of docs. Women have 9 films directed by women out of 25. That’s 36%! A record thus far. I quote them here verbatim.
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