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  • Academy plans outdoor amphitheatre

    Academy plans outdoor amphitheatre

    MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is mulling with the idea to open a 17,000-square-foot amphitheater next May as a venue to show classic films, it is said.


    Incidentally, the Academy bought the land way back in 2005 with the intention to build a world-class film museum there but abandoned the idea after the economy crisis hit the world making it impossible to raise the funds needed to build a whole new facility.
     
    In October, the Academy announced plans to lease a former May Co. department store now owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and put the movie museum there.

  • 10 live action short films in Academy list

    10 live action short films in Academy list

    MUMBAI: After declaring the short listed films that will vie for the top honours in the visual effects category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has come out with their short listed names of ten films in the live action short films category.
     
    One hundred seven films had originally qualified in the category. The films are Je Pourrais ?tre Votre Grand-M?re (I Could Be Your Grandmother) Love at First Sight,
    Pentecost, Raju, The Road Home, The Roar of the Sea, Sailcloth, The Shore, Time Freak and Tuba Atlantic.


    Members of the academy‘s short films and feature animation branch will select three to five nominees from the shortlist, to be announced January 24. The 84th Academy Awards will be presented on February 26.

  • Academy grants $ 45,000 to film festivals in US

    Academy grants $ 45,000 to film festivals in US

    MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded $455,000 to 25 US film festivals for the next calendar year.


    The first on the list is the Cleveland International Film Festival that will receive a multiyear grant (three years) of $ 150,000 for its ‘Focus on Filmmakers‘ programme. The Chicago International Film Festival, that is in its second year of a multiyear grant will receive $150,000 in total for its ‘World Cinema Spotlight‘ programme.


    While the grants are awarded for a number of festival programs, organizers are encouraged to submit proposals intended to make festival events more accessible to the general public, provide greater access to minority and less visible filmmakers and help strengthen the connection between filmmakers and the general public.


    Festivals that will receive a grant of $30,000 will be the Los Angeles Film Festival for its ‘Free Screenings‘ programme and San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival for its ‘World Cinema Spotlight‘ programme.


    Since its establishment in 1999, the Academy‘s Festival Grants Program has distributed 277 grants totaling $4.85 million in funding. The Foundation also presents the Academy‘s rich assortment of screenings and other public programs each year.