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  • American, Canadian filmfests call for entries for features, documentaries

    American, Canadian filmfests call for entries for features, documentaries

    NEW DELHI: Several American and Canadian feature and documentary film festivals are calling for entries from across the world to compete their awards.

     

    The New York International Children’s Film Festival has set its final deadline for Feature Films as 10 November.

     

    The Festival is North America’s film festival for children and teens. Each year the Festival presents 100 animated, live action and experimental shorts and features from around the world plus retrospectives, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, audience voting and an annual Awards Ceremony.

     

    It wants creative, original, non-formulaic short and feature films that support the mission to create a more dynamic film culture for children and teens. It also often shows films that were not created with a young audience in mind, but are received passionately and enthusiastically by attendees aged 3 to 18.

     

    Members of the Festival jury include Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Bill Plympton, Christine Vachon, James Schamus, Henry Selick and Gus van Sant, among others.

     

    Meanwhile, the New York Festivals Awards 2015 ceremony will celebrate the World’s Best TV & Films, as well as present the Lifetime Achievement Award, Broadcaster of the Year, Production Company of the Year, and United Nations Department of Public Information Awards.

     

    The deadline to enter the 2015 Television & Film Awards competition is 15 October. All Entries in the 2015 competition will be judged online and screened by New York Festivals Television & Film Awards Grand Jury of 200 plus producers, directors, writers, and other creative media professionals from around the globe. Award-winning entries will be showcased on the NYF Television & Film Awards website.

     

    Meanwhile, the Nashville Film Festival will mark a celebration of the diversity of the human spirit expressed through the art of film. In year-round programs, NaFF helps build a more informed, collaborative and alive community. The call for entries for the 2015 Nashville Film Festival is open and cash and prizes valued at over $54,000 are given. Films that qualify are Live Action, Animated and Documentary Short Films for Academy Award. The deadline is 19 November.

     

    The Hot Docs, Canada’s largest documentary festival, conference and market, will present its 22nd annual edition from 23 April to 3 May 2015. An outstanding selection of approximately 200 documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates.

     

    Hot Docs will also mount a full roster of conference sessions and market events and services for documentary practitioners, including the renowned Hot Docs Forum, Hot Docs Deal Maker and The Doc Shop. In partnership with Blue Ice Group, Hot Docs operates the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, a century-old landmark located in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood.

  • Susan Sarandon inaugurates 44th edition of IFFI

    Susan Sarandon inaugurates 44th edition of IFFI

    MUMBAI:  The 44th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) got underway with Hollywood star Susan Sarandon lighting the ceremonial lamp on 20 November.

     

    The inauguration ceremony was attended by actors as well as officials which included the likes of Kamal Hasan, Waheeda Rahman, information and broadcasting secretary Bimal Jhulka, information and publicity (Goa government) minister Milind Naik, Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar and union minister of state for information and broadcasting (ind. charge) Manish Tewari.
    Waheeda Rehman was honoured with the first Centanary Award at the event

     

    Speaking on the occasion, Jhukla said: “We are promoting India as a filming destination and to encourage foreign film makers to come to India we are setting up a single window clearance system”.

     

    The top official also said that over Rs 600 crore will be invested on the National Film Heritage Mission. Asia contributes to half of the world’s film production and half of it comes from India, he added.

     

    Asha Bhosle, who spoke on the occasion, said that she herself hailed from Goa and expressed her debt to the film industry. “I sang my first song when I was 10. I have been singing since then. The film line has given us so much,” the legendary singer said.

     

    Susan Sarandon, who won an Academy award for her role in the film ‘Dead Man Walking’, among several other Oscar award nominations, said that she was looking forward to spending her time in Goa appreciating films and the place.

     

    “India has produced so many films rich in history of cinema. I am looking forward to meeting artists and seeing film,” the actress said.

  • Waheeda Rehman to be honoured with cinema Centenary Award at IFFI

    Waheeda Rehman to be honoured with cinema Centenary Award at IFFI

    MUMBAI: Veteran actress Waheeda Rehman will be honoured with the first cinema Centenary Award at International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on 20 November, the opening day of the festival. The award has been introduced this year and the actress will be the first one to receive it.

     

    This news has been confirmed by Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari. He tweeted saying, “Congratulations to Waheeda Rehmanji for being conferred the inaugural Centenary Award for the Indian Film Personality of the year 2013.” Other than this, the actress has already bagged honours like the Padma Shri in 1972 and the Padma Bhushan in 2011.

     

    The 44th edition of IFFI would be held at Panjim Goa from 20 November, 2013 with Susan Sarandon as the chief guest.

  • Locarno film fest honours Gael Garcia Bernal

    Locarno film fest honours Gael Garcia Bernal

    MUMBAI: Gael Garcia Bernal, known for his film Motorcycle Diaries, has become one of the youngest actors to win a career achievement award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.
    The Mexican actor, whose career spans more than 20 years, said he still feels inexperienced as he accepted the Excellence Award at the annual movie event on Wednesday, according to a report.
    A similar honour was given to veteran British actress Charlotte Rampling earlier in the festival that kicked off on 1 August.
    Past recipients of this award include Susan Sarandon, John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.

  • Britain fares well at Intl Emmies

    Britain fares well at Intl Emmies

    MUMBAI: The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Iatas) has announced the winners of the 34th International Emmy Awards at a star-studded Gala event held at the New York Hilton, hosted by comedian and talk-show host Graham Norton.

    A cast of international stars including Katie Couric, Susan Sarandon, Christiane Amanpour, Rosie Perez, Roger Bart, Julianne Nicholson and Lorenzo Lamas presented the International Emmy statue to the winners.

    Shows from Britain wom six out of nine programming prizes. The Best Performance by an Actress was won by Maryam Hassouni from the Netherlands for her performance as Laila in Offers and the Best Performance by an Actor was won by British thespian Ray Winstone for his performance in the title role of Vincent.

    Winstone stars as private investigator, Vincent, who often forgets that he is running a business and not a crusade. His partner, Beth, is perpetually looking out for him and keeps his headstrong tendencies in check. In the series premiere, Vincent works on a case of suspected adultery, where he and his team follow the client’s wife to a club and straight into the arms of another man. Vincent realizes that this investigation will end brutally.

    In addition to the Best Actor category, British programmes won in the Children and Young People, Comedy, Documentary, Drama Series and Non-Scripted Entertainment categories.

    Iatas president and CEO Bruce Paisner says, “We congratulate this year’s winners for their outstanding achievement. The Academy is proud to be the international television community’s platform for recognizing excellence in television programming worldwide”.

    Channel 4’s Sugar Rush was awarded the best show in the Children and Young People category. Being an un-cool, 15-year-old lesbian who’s infatuated with the most popular girl in school is tough. Based on the novel by Julie Burchill, Sugar Rush explores the world of Kim and her lust for sassy Maria Sweet, a.k.a. Sugar. Then there’s Kim’s family: a freak brother, an obsessive dad and a mum who thinks she’s 15. Each episode is a journey to Kim’s world as she takes us into the mind of a screwed-up adolescent.

    The best documentary award went to Hiroshima which is a BBC/TFI/ZDF/Discovery Channel co-production in association with the Tokyo Broadcasting System and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Hiroshima is about the first use of an atomic bomb. This film mixes drama, computer graphics and special effects with testimonies from survivors and witnesses.

    Set in the three weeks from the first successful bomb test, it explores both the Allied and Japanese perspectives and follows the scientists who built the weapon. It also examines the politicians who would decide to use it and follows the Japanese people as the bomb explodes.

    The award for drama show went to the BBC’s Life On Mars. Detective Sam Tyler awakens realizing that he’s gone back to…1973. But he regroups and he and his new team – a technologically backward, risibly corrupt CID department – have crimes to solve. Crimes, which are some of the toughest investigations Sam’s encountered, primarily because they appear to be the key to the mystery of his existence in another era. Life on Mars is about one man’s frantic journey to get back home.

    The award for TV movie/mini-series went to France’s Nuit Noire. While de Gaulle was preparing to negotiate the end of the Algerian war, the chief of the Paris police, Maurice Papon, ordered the arrest of more than 11,000 Algerians who were demonstrating peacefully against the abuse of the police force and the curfew they were subjected to. The final death toll went up to several hundred protesters. Nuit Noire, October 17, 1961 reveals the truth of the savagery carried out by the highest levels of French authority.

    The International Emmy Founders Award was presented to Steven Spielberg, for his television career. The International EmmyDirectorate Award was presented to Central European Media Enterprises (CME) and its founder and chairman, Ronald S. Lauder for pioneering the development of independent television broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe.

    Spielberg’s career began in episodic television. His first directing job was an episode of Night Gallery that starred Joan Crawford. He went on to direct a second episode of Night Gallery as well as episodes of such series as Marcus Welby, M.D., The Name of the Game and Columbo. His made-for-television Duel became a breakthrough for him when it was released theatrically in the international market. That led to his first feature films which took off after Jaws.

  • Katie Couric, Susan Sarandon, Christiane Amanpour to present at intl Emmies

    Katie Couric, Susan Sarandon, Christiane Amanpour to present at intl Emmies

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Susan Sarandon and CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour will join the cast of celebrity presenters, which includes actors Rosie Perez (Do the Right Thing), Roger Bart (Desperate Housewives), Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos) and Lorenzo Lamas (The Bold and The Beautiful) for the 34th International Emmy Awards Gala which will take place on 20 November, 2006 at the New York Hilton.

    Returning as host for this year’s event is award-winning British comedian and talk show host Graham Norton.
    Couric will present the Founders Award to Steven Spielberg for his career in television. Time Warner chairman and CEO Richard Parsons will present the Directorate Award to CME & Ronald S. Lauder. Presenters for this year’s event also include actress & Bravo TV chef Padma Lakshmi, French actor and 2005 International Emmy winner Thierry Fremont, Indian film and TV celebrity Anuj Saxena, Brazilian star Milton Gonçalves and Hong Kong news anchor Rose Liuqi.

    The International Emmy Awards recognise excellence in television programming produced outside of the US. Over 1,000 international entertainment decision-makers attend the International Emmy Awards Gala in New York every year.

    This year’s sponsors include Phoenix TV, Accenture, Microsoft, Globo TV, NBC Universal, Savvis, Ascent Media, Reed Midem, Sofitel Hotels, Variety and Sun Media Investment Holdings. Chip Quigley, Kingdom Entertainment, will produce the show for the sixth year in a row.

  • Star World unveils programme line up for the Diwali month

    Star World unveils programme line up for the Diwali month

    MUMBAI: From a special Halloween horror fest to all-new seasons of popular shows, Star World is leaving no stones unturned to get its share of the viewership this Diwali.

    The channel presents Robbie Williams- A Close Encounter on 7 October, the show that broke the Guinness Book Of World Records for the fastest and largest number of concert tickets ever sold in one day – 1.6 million in 24 hours, states an official release.

    Simi Garewal will profile choreographer Farah Khan with her husband Shirish Kunder on 22 October and Aishwarya Rai on 29 October on Rendezvous with Simi Garewal.

    Star World then has the comedy programme Must Sceam TV on 29 October. On 8 October, series 4 of Parkinson kicks off with a look back at some of Series 3’s highlights whose guests include James Blunt, Antonio Banderas, Ricky Gervais, Susan Sarandon, Robbie Williams and Stevie Wonder.