Programme includes ‘top 10’ films selected by director Wang Bing and selection of Peter Greenaway films.
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has revealed the first 50 titles for this year’s edition, running Nov 8 to Nov 19.
As part of a previously announced Wang Bing retrospective, the director has been invited to programme his “top 10”. The films he has selected are all Chinese and all date from 1999 or later.
They are: Before the Flood (2005) directed by Yifan Li, Yu YanBing’ai (2007) by Yan Feng; Born in Beijing (2011) by Li Ma; Last Train Home (2009) by Lixin Fan; The Next Life (2011) by Jian Fan...
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has revealed the first 50 titles for this year’s edition, running Nov 8 to Nov 19.
As part of a previously announced Wang Bing retrospective, the director has been invited to programme his “top 10”. The films he has selected are all Chinese and all date from 1999 or later.
They are: Before the Flood (2005) directed by Yifan Li, Yu YanBing’ai (2007) by Yan Feng; Born in Beijing (2011) by Li Ma; Last Train Home (2009) by Lixin Fan; The Next Life (2011) by Jian Fan...
- 9/20/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Documentary festival IDFA, which runs Nov. 8 to 19 in Amsterdam, has revealed its first 50 titles, including the top 10 Chinese films selected by Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing, IDFA’s Guest of Honor.
The festival has also revealed the films playing in two of the three Focus programs: Fabrications, which probes the difference between reality and realism, and 16 Worlds on 16, an homage to 16mm film.
Wang’s selection will take the viewer “on a contemplative journey into contemporary Chinese cinema,” according to the festival. “The films and their politics are subtle in their film language, representing a wave of filmmaking rarely shown internationally.”
The selection (see below), which covers films produced since 1999, includes Lixin Fan’s 2009 film “Last Train Home,” which was supported by IDFA’s Bertha Fund. The film documents the millions of migrant factory workers that travel home for Spring Festival each year.
Fabrications explores the relationship of trust between documentary film and audiences,...
The festival has also revealed the films playing in two of the three Focus programs: Fabrications, which probes the difference between reality and realism, and 16 Worlds on 16, an homage to 16mm film.
Wang’s selection will take the viewer “on a contemplative journey into contemporary Chinese cinema,” according to the festival. “The films and their politics are subtle in their film language, representing a wave of filmmaking rarely shown internationally.”
The selection (see below), which covers films produced since 1999, includes Lixin Fan’s 2009 film “Last Train Home,” which was supported by IDFA’s Bertha Fund. The film documents the millions of migrant factory workers that travel home for Spring Festival each year.
Fabrications explores the relationship of trust between documentary film and audiences,...
- 9/19/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
IndieWire exclusively announces the lineup for the Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 Doc Fortnight, its annual series of documentary screenings at the New York museum. The festival runs from February 23 to March 10, and the lineup focuses heavily on environmental issues. This year’s edition of Doc Fortnight will be a hybrid festival, with 19 features and 10 short documentaries screening in the museum’s Titus Theater, with a selection of films available online via MoMA’s Virtual Cinema streaming platform.
The festival is set to open with “Bunker,” Jenny Perlin’s documentary about men living in military bunkers awaiting the end of the world. The official synopsis describes the film as “a timely reflection on ideas of survival and shelter among those preparing for the disintegration of society from a hundred feet underground.” The closing night selection is “The United States of America,” directed by James Benning. The documentary finds the filmmaking...
The festival is set to open with “Bunker,” Jenny Perlin’s documentary about men living in military bunkers awaiting the end of the world. The official synopsis describes the film as “a timely reflection on ideas of survival and shelter among those preparing for the disintegration of society from a hundred feet underground.” The closing night selection is “The United States of America,” directed by James Benning. The documentary finds the filmmaking...
- 2/10/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The festival’s co-production and co-financing market runs 24-27 November.
60 projects are pitching at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) Forum, the festival’s co-production and co-financing market which runs 24-27 November.
Among the titles which theatrical buyers, streamers and commissioning editors are already circling are Erik Gandini’s After Work, produced through Fasad Films, which explores if conventional jobs might disappear within decades. Gandini’s previous films Gitmo, Videocracy and The Swedish Theory Of Love all sold around the world and played at multiple festivals. After Work is in development but already has Cinetic aboard for...
60 projects are pitching at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) Forum, the festival’s co-production and co-financing market which runs 24-27 November.
Among the titles which theatrical buyers, streamers and commissioning editors are already circling are Erik Gandini’s After Work, produced through Fasad Films, which explores if conventional jobs might disappear within decades. Gandini’s previous films Gitmo, Videocracy and The Swedish Theory Of Love all sold around the world and played at multiple festivals. After Work is in development but already has Cinetic aboard for...
- 11/26/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Projects include new work from Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Barbara Wong Chun-chun.
The 17th Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum has unveiled the 23 projects in search of financing, co-production partners and sales to the local and international industry in Hong Kong from March 18-20.
They include new projects from Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi whose Asako I & II screened in main competition at Cannes last year, a $10m romantic drama from Hong Kong’s Barbara Wong Chun-chun called The Wedding Celebrant, and three projects from Filippino filmmakers who have all participated previouslyl in Haf. (See full list below.)
“The number of first-time directors,...
The 17th Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum has unveiled the 23 projects in search of financing, co-production partners and sales to the local and international industry in Hong Kong from March 18-20.
They include new projects from Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi whose Asako I & II screened in main competition at Cannes last year, a $10m romantic drama from Hong Kong’s Barbara Wong Chun-chun called The Wedding Celebrant, and three projects from Filippino filmmakers who have all participated previouslyl in Haf. (See full list below.)
“The number of first-time directors,...
- 1/15/2019
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
An Ohio woman recently convicted of murdering her 5-year-old daughter can be seen in chilling, newly-released video, confessing to the cold-blooded killing of the little girl she beat to death.
Fox 8 in Cleveland has obtained footage from the videotaped confession of Ming Ming Chen, the 30-year-old woman who was recently sentenced to 22 years in prison for the slaying of Ashley Zhao.
Court records accessed by People confirms Ashley’s body was found last January, hidden in a restaurant in Jackson Township, Ohio, owned by Chen and her husband, Liang Zhao.
In the video from Fox 8, Chen showed no emotion...
Fox 8 in Cleveland has obtained footage from the videotaped confession of Ming Ming Chen, the 30-year-old woman who was recently sentenced to 22 years in prison for the slaying of Ashley Zhao.
Court records accessed by People confirms Ashley’s body was found last January, hidden in a restaurant in Jackson Township, Ohio, owned by Chen and her husband, Liang Zhao.
In the video from Fox 8, Chen showed no emotion...
- 1/3/2018
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
An Ohio mother last week pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to allegations that she murdered her 5-year-old daughter in January, People confirms.
MingMing Chen, 29, is scheduled to be tried on charges of murder, tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, gross abuse of a corpse and two counts of endangering children in connection with the death of her daughter, Ashley Zhao, according to the court clerk’s office in Stark County, Ohio.
The girl’s body was found hidden in the family’s Chinese restaurant one day after her parents reported her missing.
Authorities allege Chen, of Canton, Ohio, hit Ashley early on Jan.
MingMing Chen, 29, is scheduled to be tried on charges of murder, tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, gross abuse of a corpse and two counts of endangering children in connection with the death of her daughter, Ashley Zhao, according to the court clerk’s office in Stark County, Ohio.
The girl’s body was found hidden in the family’s Chinese restaurant one day after her parents reported her missing.
Authorities allege Chen, of Canton, Ohio, hit Ashley early on Jan.
- 10/16/2017
- by Madison Rossi
- PEOPLE.com
An Ohio father pleaded guilty this week to charges related to the January death of his 5-year-old daughter, whose body was found hidden in the family’s Chinese restaurant one day after her parents reported her missing.
Liang Zhao pleaded guilty on Monday in Stark County, Ohio, to gross abuse of a corpse, obstructing justice, tampering with evidence and two counts of endangering children, the prosecutor’s office confirms to People.
A murder charge against Zhao was dropped.
The victim’s mother, MingMing Chen — who authorities allege hit her daughter, Ashley Zhao, causing the fatal injuries before the parents concealed...
Liang Zhao pleaded guilty on Monday in Stark County, Ohio, to gross abuse of a corpse, obstructing justice, tampering with evidence and two counts of endangering children, the prosecutor’s office confirms to People.
A murder charge against Zhao was dropped.
The victim’s mother, MingMing Chen — who authorities allege hit her daughter, Ashley Zhao, causing the fatal injuries before the parents concealed...
- 9/13/2017
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
An Ohio mother and father were charged Wednesday in the death of their 5-year-old daughter, who they reported missing before police found her “deceased and concealed” in the family’s Chinese restaurant, People confirms.
Ashley Zhao’s parents contacted police about 9 p.m. Monday and said they believed she “wandered out a back door” of Ang’s Asian Cuisine in North Canton, Ohio, around 5 p.m., according to police in Jackson Township, Ohio.
Their report triggered a statewide alert for the girl, but an investigation revealed that she was already dead. Around 9:15 a.m. Monday, hours before police were contacted,...
Ashley Zhao’s parents contacted police about 9 p.m. Monday and said they believed she “wandered out a back door” of Ang’s Asian Cuisine in North Canton, Ohio, around 5 p.m., according to police in Jackson Township, Ohio.
Their report triggered a statewide alert for the girl, but an investigation revealed that she was already dead. Around 9:15 a.m. Monday, hours before police were contacted,...
- 1/11/2017
- by jefftruesdelltimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
Before we get to the new releases to see in January, our highest viewing recommendation would be to catch up on the 50 best films of 2016, many of which are expanding this month, including Paterson, 20th Century Women, Silence, and Toni Erdmann. When it comes to our January preview, we’ve also included a few 2016 films that had one-week qualifying runs, but are now officially opening (and there are also a few to definitely avoid in that category). Check out the feature below and let us know what you are most looking forward to in the comments.
Matinees to See: The Ardennes (1/6), Railroad Tigers (1/6), Sleepless (1/13), Alone in Berlin (1/3), Detour (1/20), The Founder (1/2), and Ice and the Sky (1/20), and Paris 05:59 (1/27).
10. Split (M. Night Shyamalan; Jan. 20)
Synopsis: After three girls are kidnapped by a man with 24 distinct personalities they must find some of the different personalities that can help them while running away...
Matinees to See: The Ardennes (1/6), Railroad Tigers (1/6), Sleepless (1/13), Alone in Berlin (1/3), Detour (1/20), The Founder (1/2), and Ice and the Sky (1/20), and Paris 05:59 (1/27).
10. Split (M. Night Shyamalan; Jan. 20)
Synopsis: After three girls are kidnapped by a man with 24 distinct personalities they must find some of the different personalities that can help them while running away...
- 1/3/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Laszlo Nemes wins best director for Son of Saul; Mediterranea wins best first film.
The Stockholm International Film Festival awarded its Bronze Horse award for best film to Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs.
The jury – comprised of producer Mimmi Spång, director Peter Grönlund, director Christian Zübert, director Di Phan Dang, and director Arab Nasser – said the film was an “aesthetic masterpiece, a film that innovatively uses all cinematic components to move freely between present, past, dream and imagination. With this tightly woven family drama, the director gradually patches together our broken inner places and makes us visible to ourselves – and to each other.”
The other prize winners were:
Best first film: Mediterranea by Jonas Carpignano
Best director: László Nemes, Son of Saul
Best script: Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour, Mustang
Best cinematography: Manuel Dacosse, Evolution
Best actress: Julija Steponaityte, The Summer of Sangaile
Best actor: Koudous Seihon, Mediterranea
Best...
The Stockholm International Film Festival awarded its Bronze Horse award for best film to Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs.
The jury – comprised of producer Mimmi Spång, director Peter Grönlund, director Christian Zübert, director Di Phan Dang, and director Arab Nasser – said the film was an “aesthetic masterpiece, a film that innovatively uses all cinematic components to move freely between present, past, dream and imagination. With this tightly woven family drama, the director gradually patches together our broken inner places and makes us visible to ourselves – and to each other.”
The other prize winners were:
Best first film: Mediterranea by Jonas Carpignano
Best director: László Nemes, Son of Saul
Best script: Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour, Mustang
Best cinematography: Manuel Dacosse, Evolution
Best actress: Julija Steponaityte, The Summer of Sangaile
Best actor: Koudous Seihon, Mediterranea
Best...
- 11/22/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Full line-up of the Stockholm film festival includes feature and documentary competition line-ups.Scroll down for full line-up
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 11-22) has unveiled the line-up for its 26th edition, comprising more than 190 films from over 70 countries.
The Stockholm Xxvi Competition includes Marielle Heller’s Us title The Diary of a Teenage Girl and László Nemes’ Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
It marks the first time Stockholm has a greater number of women than men competing for the Bronze Horse – the festival’s top prize.
The documentary competition includes Amy Berg’s An Open Secret, an investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry; and Cosima Spender’s Palio, centred on the annual horse race in Siena, Italy.
Announcing the programme, festival director Git Scheynius also revealed that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will visit Stockholm for the first time as chairman of the jury for the first Stockholm Impact Award, which...
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 11-22) has unveiled the line-up for its 26th edition, comprising more than 190 films from over 70 countries.
The Stockholm Xxvi Competition includes Marielle Heller’s Us title The Diary of a Teenage Girl and László Nemes’ Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
It marks the first time Stockholm has a greater number of women than men competing for the Bronze Horse – the festival’s top prize.
The documentary competition includes Amy Berg’s An Open Secret, an investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry; and Cosima Spender’s Palio, centred on the annual horse race in Siena, Italy.
Announcing the programme, festival director Git Scheynius also revealed that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will visit Stockholm for the first time as chairman of the jury for the first Stockholm Impact Award, which...
- 10/20/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl wins Queer Lion
Veteran director Marco Bellocchio’s Blood Of My Blood (Sangue Del Mio Sangue) has won the Fipresci Award at the 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).
The film is a vampire-themed period drama starring Alba Rohrwacher, who won last year’s Volpi prize for best actress with her performance in Hungry Hearts, as a 17th-century noblewoman who becomes a nun and seduces a young army officer and his twin brother. The film is sold by The Match Factory.
Venice’s ‘Collateral Awards’ - prizes assigned independently by film critics and cultural associations - also saw the Queer Lion Award go to Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as Danish artist Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery.
The film, which receives its North American premiere at Toronto tonight (Sept 12), is a hot contender for the upcoming awards season.
Fipresci AwardBest...
Veteran director Marco Bellocchio’s Blood Of My Blood (Sangue Del Mio Sangue) has won the Fipresci Award at the 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).
The film is a vampire-themed period drama starring Alba Rohrwacher, who won last year’s Volpi prize for best actress with her performance in Hungry Hearts, as a 17th-century noblewoman who becomes a nun and seduces a young army officer and his twin brother. The film is sold by The Match Factory.
Venice’s ‘Collateral Awards’ - prizes assigned independently by film critics and cultural associations - also saw the Queer Lion Award go to Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as Danish artist Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery.
The film, which receives its North American premiere at Toronto tonight (Sept 12), is a hot contender for the upcoming awards season.
Fipresci AwardBest...
- 9/12/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has announced 29 projects selected to benefit from Asian Cinema Fund (Acf) 2014, including projects by award-winning directors such as O Muel (Jiseul) and Hannah Espia (Transit).
Acf this year picked 11 projects from Korea and 18 from around the rest of the continent.
Organisers stated Acf got a total of 565 submissions, approximately 30% up from last year. The submissions came from 52 countries including 161 projects from India and 50 from China.
“We think this big increase in submissions is due to the fact that we’ve publicized the Acf a lot, but also possibly because the production environment in Asia has gotten more difficult,” said Acf director Hong Hyosook.
The Acf 2014 Script Development Fund goes to eight projects - three from Korea and five from the rest of Asia. Each will receive a cash grant of KW10m (currently approximately $9,880).
They include projects from filmmakers who previously screened films in Busan like Cambodian-French director Davy Chou, whose...
Acf this year picked 11 projects from Korea and 18 from around the rest of the continent.
Organisers stated Acf got a total of 565 submissions, approximately 30% up from last year. The submissions came from 52 countries including 161 projects from India and 50 from China.
“We think this big increase in submissions is due to the fact that we’ve publicized the Acf a lot, but also possibly because the production environment in Asia has gotten more difficult,” said Acf director Hong Hyosook.
The Acf 2014 Script Development Fund goes to eight projects - three from Korea and five from the rest of Asia. Each will receive a cash grant of KW10m (currently approximately $9,880).
They include projects from filmmakers who previously screened films in Busan like Cambodian-French director Davy Chou, whose...
- 6/30/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Carrie Ng and Shirley Yung’s Angel Whispers won this year’s Haf award for a Hong Kong project at the close of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (March 26), while Taiwan’s Private Eyes won the Haf award for a non-Hong Kong project.
Angel Whispers is a suspense thriller set in the red-light district of Sham Shui Po. Filmmaker and actress Ng will produce with Yung and Chan Pang-chun.
Chang Jung Chi’s Private Eyes is a detective mystery based on the bestselling novel written by Chi Wei Jan. Chang previously directed award-winning drama Touch Of The Light. The Haf awards both come with a cash award of $38,460 (Hk$300,000).
Meanwhile, the $12,820 ($100,000) Haf Script Development Fund, presented by Emperor Motion Pictures and the Hkiff Society, went to Taiwanese filmmaker Jack Shih’s animation feature project The Solitary Pier.
Love Is Speaking, from Shanghai-based director Shu Haolun, won the Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award.
Based on a story...
Angel Whispers is a suspense thriller set in the red-light district of Sham Shui Po. Filmmaker and actress Ng will produce with Yung and Chan Pang-chun.
Chang Jung Chi’s Private Eyes is a detective mystery based on the bestselling novel written by Chi Wei Jan. Chang previously directed award-winning drama Touch Of The Light. The Haf awards both come with a cash award of $38,460 (Hk$300,000).
Meanwhile, the $12,820 ($100,000) Haf Script Development Fund, presented by Emperor Motion Pictures and the Hkiff Society, went to Taiwanese filmmaker Jack Shih’s animation feature project The Solitary Pier.
Love Is Speaking, from Shanghai-based director Shu Haolun, won the Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award.
Based on a story...
- 3/26/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Carrie Ng and Shirley Yung’s Angel Whispers won this year’s Haf award for a Hong Kong project at the close of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (March 26), while Taiwan’s Private Eyes won the Haf award for a non-Hong Kong project.
Angel Whispers is a suspense thriller set in the red-light district of Sham Shui Po. Filmmaker and actress Ng will produce with Yung and Chan Pang-chun. Chang Jung Chi’s Private Eyes is a detective mystery based on the bestselling novel written by Chi Wei Jan. Chang previously directed award-winning drama Touch Of The Light. The Haf awards both come with a cash award of $38,460 (Hk$300,000).
Meanwhile, the $12,820 ($100,000) Haf Script Development Fund, presented by Emperor Motion Pictures and the Hkiff Society, went to Taiwanese filmmaker Jack Shih’s animation feature project The Solitary Pier.
Love Is Speaking, from Shanghai-based director Shu Haolun, won the Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award. Based on a story...
Angel Whispers is a suspense thriller set in the red-light district of Sham Shui Po. Filmmaker and actress Ng will produce with Yung and Chan Pang-chun. Chang Jung Chi’s Private Eyes is a detective mystery based on the bestselling novel written by Chi Wei Jan. Chang previously directed award-winning drama Touch Of The Light. The Haf awards both come with a cash award of $38,460 (Hk$300,000).
Meanwhile, the $12,820 ($100,000) Haf Script Development Fund, presented by Emperor Motion Pictures and the Hkiff Society, went to Taiwanese filmmaker Jack Shih’s animation feature project The Solitary Pier.
Love Is Speaking, from Shanghai-based director Shu Haolun, won the Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award. Based on a story...
- 3/26/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) has unveiled this year’s line-up of 29 projects, including two from the Philippines’ Brillante Mendoza.
The line-up includes four projects under the third annual Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award, which aims to support scripts from up-and-coming Chinese filmmakers (see full line-up below).
Mendoza is bringing feature film project The Embroiderer, about undying love, along with documentary Gay Messiah, which questions religion and belief. The Philippines’ Jun Robles Lana also returns to Haf this year with his project Our Father, after winning the 2013 Haf award for Barber’s Tales.
Hong Kong filmmakers are also strongly represented in the line-up, with five projects, including comedian Lam Tze-chung’s Game and actress-turned-director Carrie Ng’s Angel Whispers.
Hong Kong projects also include Jason Kwan’s A Nail Clipper Romance, produced by acclaimed director Pang Ho-cheung; Philip Yung’s The Sea, produced by Jia Zhang-ke’s regular producer Chow Keung; and Simon Chung...
The line-up includes four projects under the third annual Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award, which aims to support scripts from up-and-coming Chinese filmmakers (see full line-up below).
Mendoza is bringing feature film project The Embroiderer, about undying love, along with documentary Gay Messiah, which questions religion and belief. The Philippines’ Jun Robles Lana also returns to Haf this year with his project Our Father, after winning the 2013 Haf award for Barber’s Tales.
Hong Kong filmmakers are also strongly represented in the line-up, with five projects, including comedian Lam Tze-chung’s Game and actress-turned-director Carrie Ng’s Angel Whispers.
Hong Kong projects also include Jason Kwan’s A Nail Clipper Romance, produced by acclaimed director Pang Ho-cheung; Philip Yung’s The Sea, produced by Jia Zhang-ke’s regular producer Chow Keung; and Simon Chung...
- 1/27/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The "Hammer Horror" on the cover of the new 49th issue of Cinema Scope refers to Kill List, "which strikes me as the key horror movie of the new century so far," writes Adam Nayman, introducing his interview with director Ben Wheatley. Before moving on to the rest of the issue, let me note that Marcus Hearn has a relatively new book out about the original Hammer, The Hammer Vault: Treasures From the Archive of Hammer Films and Kimberly Lindbergs talks with him about it for Movie Morlocks. It's one of her favorite film-related books of the year and, at the Playlist, Drew Taylor gives it an "A."
But back to Cinema Scope. Olivier Père talks with William Friedkin about Killer Joe and, in something of a coup, Jp Sniadecki scores an interview with Ai Weiwei: "He is not officially allowed to give interviews, nor to produce any films,...
But back to Cinema Scope. Olivier Père talks with William Friedkin about Killer Joe and, in something of a coup, Jp Sniadecki scores an interview with Ai Weiwei: "He is not officially allowed to give interviews, nor to produce any films,...
- 12/23/2011
- MUBI
In a city often derided as art-phobic and money-obsessed, the Hong Kong International Film Festival provides an annual opportunity for local audiences to contextualize their own regional cinema alongside the breadth of international contemporary filmmaking. While the glitz of the Hk movie industry is paraded in various galas and a high-wattage opening award ceremony, the programmers have left plenty of room throughout the festival’s seventeen days of screenings for the usual arthouse suspects, student-director and avant-garde showcases, and a strong focus on new Chinese-language cinema. With this diverse slate spread out across multiplex theaters throughout the city, it’s surprising that Hkiff also manages to maintain a certain level of coherence, partly due to the atmosphere created by what seems to be a dedicated viewership and the visibility of well-known Sinophone cinephiles like Tony Rayns and David Bordwell. Since I had just four whole days in the city, I...
- 4/18/2011
- MUBI
Courtesy of the Berlinale A scene from “Together”
HIV/AIDS has been a taboo subject in China since the country’s first reported case in 1985. For years, public health departments reported that only homosexuals or promiscuous citizens were at risk—a policy that aggravated the spread of HIV/AIDS among heterosexuals and propagated the idea that only society’s outcasts could contract the disease.
Tainted blood transfusions in the late 1980s infected an estimated 22,000 Chinese, the U.N. reports, causing the government to take notice.
HIV/AIDS has been a taboo subject in China since the country’s first reported case in 1985. For years, public health departments reported that only homosexuals or promiscuous citizens were at risk—a policy that aggravated the spread of HIV/AIDS among heterosexuals and propagated the idea that only society’s outcasts could contract the disease.
Tainted blood transfusions in the late 1980s infected an estimated 22,000 Chinese, the U.N. reports, causing the government to take notice.
- 2/19/2011
- by Mary M. Lane
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Since 1996, Chinese director Zhao Liang has been documenting a large community of petitioners, ones that have been wronged by their local government and have camped outside of the law office to debate their troubles. These commoners are then forced to fill out paper work and await a hearing for seemingly as long as this office see fit, with most either given the run-around or forced out by thugs ("retrievers") that intercept these complaints and threaten with murder. The make-shift neighborhood consist of people who won't stop until they get the justice they so rightly deserve, whether that takes a…...
- 1/14/2011
- The Playlist
The second annual Migrating Forms experimental media festival will descend on the Anthology Film Archives in NYC on May 14-23 featuring the world’s greatest experimental videos, cultural documentaries, some that are a little of both; plus, several filmmaker retrospectives, some classic films and the endearingly popular Tube Time! video tournament.
Migrating Forms is such an entirely different beast than its predecessor, the New York Underground Film Festival, that we don’t have to keep saying this new event arose from the Nyuff’s ashes, do we? Ok, we’ll just say that one more time. Next year we won’t mention it because, even in it’s first year, Migrating Forms proved itself to be a completely unique arena in the field of experimental media making.
A couple of highlights from the lineup below: The new feature film by cultural explorer Kevin Jerome Everson, Erie, which captures life in...
Migrating Forms is such an entirely different beast than its predecessor, the New York Underground Film Festival, that we don’t have to keep saying this new event arose from the Nyuff’s ashes, do we? Ok, we’ll just say that one more time. Next year we won’t mention it because, even in it’s first year, Migrating Forms proved itself to be a completely unique arena in the field of experimental media making.
A couple of highlights from the lineup below: The new feature film by cultural explorer Kevin Jerome Everson, Erie, which captures life in...
- 5/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
A previous winner of the Hkiff Fipresci Prize for Betelnut, director Yang Heng won the Golden Digital Award with his minimalist cinema and almost silent work Sun Spots, a Chinese-Hong Kong co-production that was first shown at Rotterdam and had been battling for top honors alongside Zhao Dayong’s debut film, a realistic and honest look of the struggling lives in contemporary China, The High Life, which won the Silver Digital Award in this Asian Digital Competition. - The 34th edition of the Hkiff came to a close this just past week with the announcement of its winners: ten awards from five individual competition categories. A previous winner of the Hkiff Fipresci Prize for Betelnut, director Yang Heng (see pic below) won the Golden Digital Award with his minimalist cinema and almost silent work Sun Spots, a Chinese-Hong Kong co-production that was first shown at Rotterdam and had been battling...
- 4/9/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
As we anticipate a month of kudos from Full Frame, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Tribeca and elsewhere, academies and festivals around the world--from Denmark, Germany, Romania, Austria and Greece--were honoring their own. The Montreal-based International Festival of Films on Art gave out a bevy of honors, while Zhao Liang's Petition continued its impressive international festival run, garnering the top doc award at Tiburon.
1) Awards
Danish Film Critics Association Bodil Awards
Best Foreign Film: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman) Best Documentary Film: The Invisible Cell (Dir.: Anders Riis-Hansen)
German Film Academy Lola Awards--Nominees Best Documentary: The ...
1) Awards
Danish Film Critics Association Bodil Awards
Best Foreign Film: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman) Best Documentary Film: The Invisible Cell (Dir.: Anders Riis-Hansen)
German Film Academy Lola Awards--Nominees Best Documentary: The ...
- 4/6/2010
- by twhite
- International Documentary Association
Leonor Manso Luisa Best Film: A Step into the Darkness by Atil Inac [Turkey] Best Director: Ryszard Bugajski for General Nil [Poland] Best Actor: Olgierd Lukaszewicz for General Nil [Poland] Best Actress: Leonor Manso for Luisa [Argentina] Best Documentary: Petition by Zhao Liang [China] Best Cinematography: The Red Baron by Klaus Merkel [Czech Republic] Humanitarian Award: Under Rich Earth by Malcolm Rogge [Ecuador/Us] Best Musical: Hipsters by Valery Todorovsky [Russia] Best Short: Ana’s Playground by Eric D. Howell [Us] Best Music Video: "City of Noise" by Mitch Barany [Canada] Best Dance Short Film: Waterfront Access? by Floanne Ankah [Us] Best Animation: The Magistical by Rebecca Jones [Us] Best Short Animation: The Offering by Michael Zachary Huber [Us] & Solitude by Mehrdad Sheikhan [Iran] Best Sport Film: [...]...
- 3/27/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Santosh's Sivan's "Tahaan" won the Golden Reel for Best Children's Film at the 9th Tuboron International Film Festival in the USA. The winners of the Golden Reel Award were announced during a ceremony on Friday, March 26, 2010 in Tiburon. Here is a complete list of winners.
Best Film: A Step Into the Darkness by Atil Inac [Turkey]
Best Director: Ryszard Bugajski for General Nil [Poland]
Best Actor: Olgierd Lukaszewicz for General Nil [Poland]
Best Actress: Leonor Manso for Luisa [Spain]
Best Documentary: Petition by Zhao Liang [China]
Best Cinematography: The Red Baron by Klaus Merkel [Czech Republic]
Humanitarian Award: Under Rich Earth by Malcolm Rogge [Ecuador/Us]
Best Musical: Hipsters by Valery Todorovsky [Russia]
Best Short: Ana's Playground by Eric D. Howell [Us]
Best Music Video: City of Noise by Mitch Barany [Canada]
Best Dance Short Film: Waterfront Access? by Floanne Ankah [Us]
Best Animation: The Magistical by Rebecca Jones [Us]
Best Short Animation: The Offering by Michael Zachary Huber [Us] & Solitude by Mehrdad Sheikhan [Iran]
Best...
Best Film: A Step Into the Darkness by Atil Inac [Turkey]
Best Director: Ryszard Bugajski for General Nil [Poland]
Best Actor: Olgierd Lukaszewicz for General Nil [Poland]
Best Actress: Leonor Manso for Luisa [Spain]
Best Documentary: Petition by Zhao Liang [China]
Best Cinematography: The Red Baron by Klaus Merkel [Czech Republic]
Humanitarian Award: Under Rich Earth by Malcolm Rogge [Ecuador/Us]
Best Musical: Hipsters by Valery Todorovsky [Russia]
Best Short: Ana's Playground by Eric D. Howell [Us]
Best Music Video: City of Noise by Mitch Barany [Canada]
Best Dance Short Film: Waterfront Access? by Floanne Ankah [Us]
Best Animation: The Magistical by Rebecca Jones [Us]
Best Short Animation: The Offering by Michael Zachary Huber [Us] & Solitude by Mehrdad Sheikhan [Iran]
Best...
- 3/27/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
As a result of Melbourne standing strong in not pulling The 10 Conditions Of Love, about Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer, China has pulled 3 films from the festival: Zhao Liang’s Chinese-French documentary Petition - The Court Of The Complainants, about the injustices perpetuated by China’s bureaucracy and which played in the Cannes Film Festival, Emily Tang’s Hong Kong drama Perfect Life, and the short film Cry Me A River.
- 7/23/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
Direct from Cineuropa:
It’s an impressive feat for Franco-German TV network Arte, which backed 16 features selected in the different sections of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
In the Official Selection, Arte is represented by nine features, including two co-productions by Arte France Cinéma in competition: Danish director Lars von Trier’s Antichrist [trailer] (also supported by Arte/Zdf) and Taiwanese filmmaker Tsaï Ming-Liang’s Face.
The Un Certain Regard section includes three films backed by Arte France Cinéma (Father of My Children by France’s Mia Hansen-Love, Irène by fellow French director Alain Cavalier and Independencia by Philippine filmmaker Raya Martin) and two by Arte/Zdf (Eyes Wide Open by Israel’s Haim Tabakman and The Wind Journeys by Colombia’s Ciro Guerra).
In the Official Selection, there will be Special Screenings of Chinese director Zhao Liang’s Petition (co-produced by Arte France) and Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya...
It’s an impressive feat for Franco-German TV network Arte, which backed 16 features selected in the different sections of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
In the Official Selection, Arte is represented by nine features, including two co-productions by Arte France Cinéma in competition: Danish director Lars von Trier’s Antichrist [trailer] (also supported by Arte/Zdf) and Taiwanese filmmaker Tsaï Ming-Liang’s Face.
The Un Certain Regard section includes three films backed by Arte France Cinéma (Father of My Children by France’s Mia Hansen-Love, Irène by fellow French director Alain Cavalier and Independencia by Philippine filmmaker Raya Martin) and two by Arte/Zdf (Eyes Wide Open by Israel’s Haim Tabakman and The Wind Journeys by Colombia’s Ciro Guerra).
In the Official Selection, there will be Special Screenings of Chinese director Zhao Liang’s Petition (co-produced by Arte France) and Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya...
- 5/3/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
- Opening "Up," U.S., Pete Docter, Bob Peterson Closing "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky," France, Jan Kounen In Competition "Bright Star," Australia-u.K.-France, Jane Campion "Spring Fever," China-France, Lou Ye "Antichrist," Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy, Lars von Trier "Enter the Void," France, Gaspar Noe "Face," France-Taiwan-Netherlands-Belgium, Tsai Ming-liang "Les Herbes folles," France-Italy, Alain Resnais "In the Beginning," France, Xavier Giannoli "A Prophet," France, Jacques Audiard "The White Ribbon," Germany-Austria-France, Michael Haneke "Vengeance," Hong Kong-France-u.S., Johnnie To "The Time That Remains," Israel-France-Belgium-Italy, Elia Suleiman "Vincere," Italy-France, Marco Bellocchio "Kinatay," Philippines, Brillante Mendoza "Thirst," South Korea-u.S., Park Chan-wook "Broken Embraces," Spain, Pedro Almodovar "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," Spain, Isabel Coixet "Fish Tank," U.K.-Netherlands, Andrea Arnold "Looking for Eric," U.K.-France-Belgium-Italy, Ken Loach "Inglourious Basterds," U.S., Quentin Tarantino "Taking Woodstock," U.S., Ang Lee Out Of Competition "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," Canada-France, Terry Gilliam "The Army of Crime,
- 4/23/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- Traditionally, the spots in the Out of Competition, Midnight and Special Screenings are reserved to Hollywood Studios looking to promote a soon-to-be-released summer title, socially relevant documentary film or some genre film from South Korea. I'm surprised that neither Angels & Demons, nor Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins took up a spot. Out of the trio of titles in the Out of Comp section, the film journalists will be flocking to see Heath Ledger's last perf, but I'll be more interested in how Terry Gilliam changes horses mid-stream with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Alejandro Amenabar's Agora is one more heavyweight production grabbing a slot, and thus makes this Cannes edition a great one for Spanish film. A well liked filmmaker in France, Robert Guediguian (Marius et Jeannette) hasn't visited with Cannes often, so The Army of Crime which was tapped for a possible spot in the Competition, will
- 4/23/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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