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 New Chinese Films at UCLA
For this latest edition of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s New
Chinese Cinema series, we are pleased to welcome the California
Institute of the Arts (CalArts) as a partner and to expand the biennial
series into a cross-town venture: with Archive screenings at the Billy
Wilder Theater and CalArts screenings at the Roy and .... Full Story
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 GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA
WMM has announced that GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA has received an Emmy nomination for BEST DOCUMENTARY.<br>Produced
and directed by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman, GOD SLEEPS IN
RWANDA was broadcast on HBO Cinemax's acclaimed Reel Life Series. An
Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short, this powerful film
has garnered countless .... Full Story
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 Romania at LAFF ‘07
In three short years, since Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
(multiple wins including Un Certain Regard in Cannes, Silver Hugo in
Chicago, and several critics awards in 2005) managed to get on scores
of 10-best lists, finishing in 2006 as the No. 1 movie in the ndieWIRE
Critics Poll of 107 voters, young Romanian filmmakers have made .... Full Story
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 RENÉE ZELLWEGER at Karlovy Vary
Academy Award winner and three time nominee RENÉE ZELLWEGER will be coming to Karlovy Vary to introduce Miss Potter.Cold
Mountain, Chicago, and Bridget Jones's Diary are among the films that
have attained success with both the public and film critics alike
thanks primarily to Renée Zellweger's outstanding performances.
After .... Full Story
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 Award goes to Romania
(Los Angeles, May 23, 2007) – At a special ceremony held yesterday in
Los Angeles, the first Audience Choice Award of the just concluded
South East European Film Festival was presented to the honorable
Catalin Ghenea, Consul General of Romania. Romanian film The Way I
Spent the End of the World, directed by Catalin Mitulescu, got a
perfect .... Full Story
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 Grace Lee on DVD
In
honor of Asian/Pacific Islander American (APIA) Heritage Month, Women
Make Movies is pleased to announce the eagerly awaited DVD release of
two of our most successful titles: Grace Lee's THE GRACE LEE PROJECT
and Lisa Denker and Charlotte Lagarde's HEART OF THE SEA:
KAPOLIOKA’EHUKAI. THE GRACE LEE PROJECT opened to rave reviews
in .... Full Story
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 CWB Critics Award
Burbank, California, May 6st 2007 – Today Dragon Tale Entertainment announced that its publication “Cinema Without Borders” would be giving an Award for the Best Film at the 2007 South East European Film Festival, held in Los Angeles. The ‘Cinema Without Borders Critics Choice Award’ will be given by a jury of the .... Full Story
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 Festival Opens Today
The South East European Film Festival 2007 opens today at Goethe Institute, Los Angeles.The South East European Film Festival 2007 showcases the work of filmmakers from Southern and Eastern Europe, and films made by expatriates who live California. The box office Bulgarian hit “L’s Rebellion,” opens the festival, with Romanian .... Full Story
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 ViFF 2007
The Vietnamese-American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and the VietNamese Language and Culture (VNLC) at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will present the 3rd biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF). April 12 – 15 & 19 – 22, 2007 Screening Locations: University of California, Irvine (UCI)’s Film & .... Full Story
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 Phil talks about Character Design
The April 17th session of the Animation 21 Lecture Series is dedicated to two presentations: Character Design and 2D Animation & Game Development. In the first session, Phil Mendez will demonstrate the techniques and essentials of character design. Phil Mendez started the comic strip in the Mercury Shopper’s Guide at the age of sixteen; he .... Full Story
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 "Lucky You" at TRIBECA
The Tribeca Film Festival has tapped the romantic drama Lucky You, directed by Curtis Hanson, to have its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express. Lucky You, a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, stars Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall and Debra Messing, .... Full Story
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 2007 TRIBECA Film Festival
“Tribeca Talks” will be one of the major highlights at the upcoming 2007 Tribeca Film Festival in NYC. Playing host to film celebrities and entertainment professionals such as Eva Mendes, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Tiki Barber, and Rosario Dawson, this series of panel discussions will delve deeply into film trends in the .... Full Story
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 Bermuda Festival Awards
After screening 85 films from 32 countries over nine days, the 10th annual Bermuda International Film Festival, which ran March 16-24, 2007, drew to a close on Saturday night. Following a screening of the closing film “Eagle vs. Shark,” the first film by Kiwi stand-up comedian Taika Waititi, winners of the juried prizes and the .... Full Story
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 “The Raft”, a short film on DVD
A special collector’s edition of The Raft (Das Floß), one of the most awarded short films in the last two years, is now available on DVD. It contains more than 60 minutes bonus materials including limited original 35mm film frame. The film story is about two starved and exhausted castaways who are lost at sea. A seagull drops a fish to .... Full Story
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 Earl Cameron at Bermuda
Celebrated black actor Earl Cameron was honored over the weekend by the Bermuda International Film Festival. Cameron, a Bermuda native, was one of the first black actors to play leading roles in English cinema. He was seen recently in “The Queen” with Helen Mirren. Cameron came in for a screening of “Pool of London” (1951), .... Full Story
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 COL•COA 2007
40 new films, including 20 features (all premieres) and 20 new shorts, will be shown at the 11th Annual City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA). Acclaimed Berlin Film Festival opening film, “La Vie En Rose,” writer-director Olivier Dahan’s masterful biopic of Edith Piaf, starring Marion Cotillard and Gérard .... Full Story
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 NVIDIA Gelato 2.1
NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced the release of NVIDIA Gelato 2.1 high-quality, GPU-accelerated rendering software, which now includes support for Joe Alter’s Shave and a Haircut software for computer-generated hair and fur effects. Other enhancements in this newest .... Full Story
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 Women Make Movies
Women Make Movies (WMM) has acquired a number of films from Sundance and other Film Festivals in 2007. Enemies of Happiness, which took home esteemed awards at the Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary) and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Silver Wolf Award), has been acquired by WMM. The film, by Eva .... Full Story
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 AFI Dallas 2007
Nearly 200 films will be on hand for the first AFI Dallas International Film Festival, starting March 22nd in Texas. The festival will begin with Steven Sawalich's "Music Within" and close on April 1st with Sarah Polley's "Away From Her." The large list of films has surpassed the expectations of even the organizers. There will be 99 features and .... Full Story
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 PAFF Winners
The winners of the 2007 Pan African Film and Arts Festival were announced at the closing awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California today. PAFF is the largest international Black film festival in the United States showcasing films from the United States, Africa, Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. The award-winning films were .... Full Story
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 ARRI at NAB 2007
This year ARRI brings two major lighting tools to industry professionals: the ARRIMAX 18/12 and MaxMover automated stirrup. <br>ARRIMAX is being deemed as a perfect choice for productions requiring maximum light output. It combines the variable beam spread of a Fresnel and the light output of a PAR. The ARRIMAX uses a unique reflector .... Full Story
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 JVC GY-HD110U & Havoc
Director, Robert Lynn Pushes Camera to New Limits in His Latest Handheld Style Feature. Director Robert Lynn shot his new movie, Havoc, with the GY-HD110U ProHD camera. Havoc is a horror/thriller about a team of paintball players who stop at an abandoned prison and encounter a paranoid schizophrenic war veteran who mistakes them for a team .... Full Story
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 Berlin buyers get look at 'Watch'
Russian blockbuster "Day Watch" comes into town today for its international premier at a special Berlinale presentation hosted by distributors Fox Searchlight Pictures.<br> The fantasy epic where the forces of light are put against the forces of dark with the future of mankind at stake shattered all Russian box-office records when it opened .... Full Story
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 Short Film Awards at Berlin
The members of the international short film jury are: Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima (Nigeria) , Riina Sildos (Estonia), Ning Ying (China)<br> The GOLDEN BEAR award was given to RAAK by Hanro Smitsman (The Netherlands)<br> RAAK was given the award “for being a brilliant film on its approach to the subjects of love, anger and .... Full Story
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 The 57th Berlin Film Festival begins!
The 57th Berlin International Film Festival opens Thursday with the world premiere of Olivier Dahan's "La Vie en Rose" and runs until Feb. 18. A total of 373 films will be shown during the 11-day festival. Twenty-six films will be shown in the official competition section, with 22 of them competing for the festival's Golden and Silver Bear awards. .... Full Story
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 And Now: Corel Painter X
Ottawa, Canada – Corel Corporation has announced that Corel Painter X, the world’s most powerful painting and illustration software, is now available for pre-order from www.corel.com /painterx. The latest version of Corel Painter continues its focus on giving professional artists, designers and photographers a natural painting and .... Full Story
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 Sundance 2007 Awards
The jury and audience award-winners of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival were just announced at the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony in Park City, Utah. The films receiving jury awards were selected by renowned jurors from the pool of films screening in the Independent Film Competition and the World Cinema Competition. Awards were given out .... Full Story
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 Academy Awards
Best Foreign Language Movie Nominees for Academy Awards 2007 <br>“Water” Deepa Mehta’s film is set in 1938 Colonial India during Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power and tells the and tells of the struggles of Indian widows in the 1930’s. In the past and present, many women whose husbands have died are forced to enter .... Full Story
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 Berlin Film Festival
French and Asian cinema are back at this year's Berlin International Film Festival and are making quite a presence. There are four French and four Asian films selected for the festival's official competition lineup. Francois Ozon's "Angel," about the troubles of a young author in early 20th century England, will be the closing film of the 57th .... Full Story
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 Santa Barbara Film Festival
The 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced the films for the 22nd installment of the event. The festival will be sponsored primarily by Chrysler and The New Yorker and will take place over 11 days beginning Thursday, January 25, through Sunday, February 4, and will feature 28 World Premieres, 18 US Premieres, and introduce .... Full Story
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 Sacha wins at Golden Globe Awards
The selection of Sacha Cohen for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy for Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan was the best thing that happened at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards. Of course, the question still remains as to why there are two categories for best actor. .... Full Story
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 Pan’s Labyrinth wins at Palm Spring
Pan’s Labyrinth has won the FIBRESCI Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The film, directed by Guillermo Del Toro, has been hailed by critics as one of the best films of the year. Pan’s Labyrinth combines fantasy and reality in a film that has pleased audiences .... Full Story
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 Sundance & Music
Park City, UT –Recently, the 2007 Sundance Film Festival announced details for the panel discussions and events emphasizing the importance of music in filmmaking, as well as the artists performing at the Music Café, Music on Main, and at other Festival events in Park City. The events are part of the Festival’s focus to bringing .... Full Story
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 RioFest Film Festival begins
Environmental film-makers and producers from around the world will come together with the Friends of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge and the Socorro community this month in the inaugural RioFest International Environmental Film Festival. The groups will have a special opportunity to showcase their work and promote environmental .... Full Story
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 Sundance & iTunes
Park City, UT – iTunes users are in for a treat as Sundance Institute and Sundance Channel today announced they will offer narrative, documentary and animation shorts from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for download via iTunes. The announcement highlights Sundance’s stance on using technology to help filmmakers exhibit their work and .... Full Story
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 Lucas & new "Indiana Jones"
Director George Lucas recently announced that filming for the highly-anticipated "Indiana Jones" movie will begin next year and he promised it will be "the best one yet." Lucas said he and director Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script. The movie stars Harrison Ford, who appeared in the three earlier flicks. The fourth chapter of "Indiana .... Full Story
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 Sprint and ELLEN On-the-Go
This holiday season, Sprint is making sure travelers have the power to watch all their favorite television shows and movies while on the go. In addition to its current line-up of more than 50 channels of live and on-demand video content, Sprint announced that today the newest channel available on its Emmy-Award winning Sprint TVSM service is .... Full Story
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 Madden Nation Continues!
EA and ESPN have announced that they will be launching the second season of Madden Nation, a reality TV series that takes Madden fans into an intense competition. Gamers are matched with real NFL players and embark on a journey of smack talk, rivalries, and heated matches of Madden. Airing weekly on Wednesdays, beginning December 13 (12:00 and .... Full Story
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 NEW NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3500M
NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in graphics processors, today announced the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M, a high-performing mobile workstation graphics solution for CAD, Digital Content Creation, and Scientific Visualization. Engineered to deliver unprecedented performance for accelerated workflow and shortened design cycles, the Quadro FX .... Full Story
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 HD FEST Los Angeles 2006
The schedule was released today for HDFEST's Los Angeles event which will be staged at Dolby Laboratories in Burbank. This December event is the final stop on the HDFEST 2006 World Tour, which also included HD Festival events this year in Seoul, New York, Finland, and London. HDFEST Los Angeles will include screenings of high-definition movies, .... Full Story
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 Xbox 360's Video Marketplace!
One year after Microsoft launched its Xbox 360, it has unveiled the Video Marketplace for the system. The service currently hosts many popular movies and television shows which users can download and view on their systems. The pay-to-download system is based off the existing Microsoft Points service and .... Full Story
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 Stitcher Unlimited 5.5 DS
REALVIZ, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to announce the availability of Stitcher Unlimited 5.5 DS ("Double Shot"), which offers the ability to automatically stitch 2-shot fisheye photos. Stitcher Unlimited DS delivers the most versatile and accessible solution for a wide variety of industries, for the creation of .... Full Story
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 RACE TO THE RALLY, Playstation 2
Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision, Inc.is giving gamers the chance to stop dreaming and start riding in Harley-Davidson: Race to the Rally available now for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. Charge out on the highways and bi-ways across America on fully-upgradeable classic and late-model .... Full Story
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 Urban Painting Show
As an immediate follow up to hosting the Los Angeles group show in honor of Pablo Aravena’s film “NEXT, a Primer on Urban Painting” during the AFI Film Festival, Seth Carmichael hosted a new group show of emerging artists at 6:30PM on Saturday, November 18th, 2006. This exhibition will be open to public from Sunday .... Full Story
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 Happy Hours with Happy Feet IMAX
<b>Playing Now Around the Globe in IMAX Theaters</b><br>Warner Bros. Pictures will has released the highly anticipated animated feature Happy Feet to conventional and IMAX theaters nationwide. Happy Feet takes place deep in the cold of Antarctica with a nation of Emperor Penguins. Now, this isn’t your regular ol’ .... Full Story
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 SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6
Avid Technology, Inc. today announced that its Softimage, Co. subsidiary has unveiled SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6, the latest version of its flagship 3D animation and character creation software. XSI 6 software introduces new solutions for accelerated animation that simplify working with 3D characters and motion capture data. A new collaborative framework in .... Full Story
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 BOXX Launches New 3DBOXX RTX
BOXX Technologies Inc., an maker in high-performance computing hardware for visual effects (VFX) professionals, today announced the immediate availability of the 3DBOXX RTX Series Workstation running the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors 5300 series in a unique chassis designed to house up to 15 data drives for up to 1GB/s of storage .... Full Story
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 NUKE helps “Flags” & “Letters”
D2 Software, Inc. announced today that its NUKE high-end compositing software was used extensively by Digital Domain on Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers,” currently in theaters, and the director’s parallel film, “Letters from Iwo Jima,” which tells the story of the same battle from the Japanese perspective .... Full Story
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 modo & GMC Yukon Robot Spot
Luxology, an independent technology company developing 3D content creation software, today announced that modo was used by Vancouver-based visual effects company, The Embassy, for the new GMC Yukon spot, “Respect.” Praised for its speed, stability and pipeline compatibility, modo was used extensively throughout the commercial’s .... Full Story
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 Anark Gameface
Anark Corporation is announcing the launch of the newest version of the Anark Gameface bundle, the industry leading User Interface (UI) authoring tool for next-generation game development. The Anark Gameface 3.7 release is focused on providing enhanced workflow for game artists and performance upgrades for game engineers. Combined, these features .... Full Story
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