The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, will be held April 15– April 26, 2015 in New York City. The Festival announced a call for submissions for narrative features, documentary features, short film entries and transmedia projects. Also announced was the promotion of Genna Terranova to Festival Director and Cara Cusumano to Senior Programmer.
Today’s The Day starring Danny Devito
HollyShorts has announced the full lineup of short films for the upcoming 10th anniversary of the HollyShorts Film Festival taking place August 14-23, 2014 at the TCL Chinese Theater and Roosevelt Hotel, in Los Angeles. The lineup includes Today’s The Day starring Danny Devito and directed by Daniel Cloud Campos.
The first trailer has been released for Scottnes Smith’s Hear Me Move which premiered last month at South Africa’s Durban International Film Festival. Described as the first ever dance film from South Africa, Hear Me Move features energetic “sbujwa” and “pantsula” dance sequences, choreographed by the award-winning Paul Modjadji, that play out against the backdrop of a gritty urban Johannesburg seldom seen on the silver screen. Smith says, “We opted to focus on sbujwa and pantsula, our home grown urban street dances, because we wanted South Africans to see themselves and be proud of their contemporary culture.”
Trouble & the Shadowy Deathblow
HollyShorts, is unveiling details of the what it describes as its most star-studded opening night in the festival’s history, for its upcoming 10th anniversary edition which takes place on Thursday August 14 at the TCL Chinese Theater. HollyShorts opening night will feature filmmakers and talent from the most popular TV series and Feature films.
Stephanie Laing, Producer for some of the most popular shows including Veep, Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals, will premiere her short film Trouble & the Shadowy Deathblow. On hand for her big night will be the cast which includes: Tony Hale (Arrested Development), Andy Buckley (Bridesmaids), Jean Villepique (I Love You Man),Tim Baltz (Drunk History), and Frankie Faison (Banshee). Also supporting Laing’s premiere will be friends and colleagues Danny McBride, and Chris Addison (In The Loop) and other cast members from Veep and Eastbound & Down.
Cheryl Boone Isaacs
Cheryl Boone Isaacs was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tuesday night (August 5) by the organization’s Board of Governors.
In addition, Jeffrey Kurland was elected first vice president, Leonard Engelman and John Bailey were elected to vice president posts, Dick Cook was elected treasurer, and Bill Kroyer was elected secretary.
The Durban International Film Festival announced its award-winners at the closing ceremony of the festival’s 35th edition At the awards ceremony, the festival’s highest accolade of Best Feature Film went to Malian auteur Abderrahmane Sissako’s masterful Timbuktu, from a selection of competition films that the international jury described as having dealt with “individuals coping with ideological, social and political pressures whilst trying to find their own identity and humanity in a world increasingly under distress.”
U. S. Premieres of foreign films took the top awards at the 19th Annual Stony Brook Film Festival. U.S. premiere of French film Paper Souls (Les âmes de papier) directed by Vincent Lannoo took the Jury Award for Best Feature, and U.S. Premiere of Dutch film Kenau directed by Maarten Treurniet won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature
Stony Brook’s ten-day festival screened films each evening at Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University. Opening night was sold out, with over 900 in the audience for Ralph Macchio’s short film, Across Grace Alley, followed by the U.S. Premiere of the German film Back on Track from Beta Cinema. Alan Inkles, founder and director of the Festival, greeted European and American filmmakers at the awards night, following the New York Premiere of Erik Poppe’s 1,000 Times Good Night starring Juliette Binoche.
Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Florian Habicht’s concert documentary film Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets which will be released by Oscilloscope Laboratories this November, will get a special preview screening at Rooftop Films Summer Series on Thursday, August 7th. Florian Habicht and PULP’s charismatic frontman Jarvis Cocker will be on hand for a Q&A session.
PELICAN DREAMS, a documentary film by Judy Irving, the director of “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill” will open at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and at the Angelika Film Center in New York, and at the Royal, Playhouse 7, and Town Center in Los Angeles on November 7. A national release will follow.
The Amazing Catfish (Los Insolitos Peces Gatos)
The 6th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival which runs September 25 to October 9, 2014 at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay Cinema Grill and Times Cinema, announced Mexico as the spotlight country for its fourth annual Passport program. Featuring a selection of eight films set in Mexico (with seven of the eight made by Mexican filmmakers), Passport: Mexico includes an eclectic mix of award-winning films ranging from comedies and hard hitting dramas to revealing documentaries and poignant coming-of-age tales.
The Last Hijack
USC’s Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture, has been selected to make the Keynote Address for the 2014 NYFF Convergence, which takes place September 27-28, 2014. In addition, the festival announced the initial three selections for NYFF Convergence.
The 10th Anniversary edition of the HollyShorts Film Festival will open with the premiere of Luke Wilson’s Award-winning short film Satellite Beach, which follows the unique journey of the Endeavor space shuttle as it travels through the streets of LA and the final move of the Atlantis space shuttle to the Kennedy Space Center. In addition, fest alumni brothers Joe and Anthony Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) will be honored with the HollyShorts Visionary Award on opening night. The festival and Film Conference take place August 14-23 at the TCL Chinese Theater and Roosevelt Hotel.