New programming team hires also announced ahead of 48th edition running September 7-17.
TIFF top brass have renamed the Contemporary World Cinema section Centrepiece ahead of the 48th edition running September 7-17, 2023.
The festival said the name change was designed to better reflect and amplify the full spectrum of programming in the section. “Centrepiece is a showcase for acclaimed titles from festivals around the globe, highly anticipated premieres from Canadian and international talents, and the latest work of influential filmmaking luminaries,” said director of programming and Platform lead, Robyn Citizen.
“We are proud to bring the world together through film,...
TIFF top brass have renamed the Contemporary World Cinema section Centrepiece ahead of the 48th edition running September 7-17, 2023.
The festival said the name change was designed to better reflect and amplify the full spectrum of programming in the section. “Centrepiece is a showcase for acclaimed titles from festivals around the globe, highly anticipated premieres from Canadian and international talents, and the latest work of influential filmmaking luminaries,” said director of programming and Platform lead, Robyn Citizen.
“We are proud to bring the world together through film,...
- 4/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Although relatively shrouded in secrecy since its production last year, with a premiere just a few days away, we’re now getting a few more details on Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical tale The Fabelmans. Set for a world premiere at TIFF in just a few days, followed by an AFI Fest closing slot in early November, it’ll then arrive in theaters on November 11.
The 151-minute film shot by Janusz Kamiński and featuring a score by John Williams stars Gabriel Labelle as Sammy Fabelman, with an ensemble cast including Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch, Jeannie Berlin, and David Lynch, the first image has now arrived above while TIFF has the most detailed synopsis yet courtesy of their official blurb. While we await the premiere and first trailer, check it out below as written by Jane Schoettle.
Steven Spielberg’s most personal film yet is based on the...
The 151-minute film shot by Janusz Kamiński and featuring a score by John Williams stars Gabriel Labelle as Sammy Fabelman, with an ensemble cast including Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch, Jeannie Berlin, and David Lynch, the first image has now arrived above while TIFF has the most detailed synopsis yet courtesy of their official blurb. While we await the premiere and first trailer, check it out below as written by Jane Schoettle.
Steven Spielberg’s most personal film yet is based on the...
- 9/7/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Toronto Film Festival said Thursday that it is planning a return to an in-person festival for this year’s edition, which it confirmed will run September 8-18. The festival had been all but virtual the past two years because of the global pandemic.
Plans call for a return of TIFF’s networking and events as well including the TIFF Opening Night Party, the Industry Conference, Filmmaker Dinners, Industry Networking Events, Press & Programmers Events and the TIFF Tribute Awards Gala.
TIFF also said it has added five members to its curating team including Robyn Citizen, who has been at TIFF since 2018 and has been appointed Director of Festival Programming & Cinematheque. She most directly Diana Sanchez, who exited her role as Senior Director, Film in January after three years. Other additions include Jane Schoettle returning to lead programming in the Special Presentations section; imagineNative’s Jason Ryle in the new role...
Plans call for a return of TIFF’s networking and events as well including the TIFF Opening Night Party, the Industry Conference, Filmmaker Dinners, Industry Networking Events, Press & Programmers Events and the TIFF Tribute Awards Gala.
TIFF also said it has added five members to its curating team including Robyn Citizen, who has been at TIFF since 2018 and has been appointed Director of Festival Programming & Cinematheque. She most directly Diana Sanchez, who exited her role as Senior Director, Film in January after three years. Other additions include Jane Schoettle returning to lead programming in the Special Presentations section; imagineNative’s Jason Ryle in the new role...
- 2/24/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival is planning a return to an in-person format for 2022 and will welcome back guests who are both local to Toronto and Canada as well as international guests, TIFF said in a statement Thursday.
2022’s TIFF will run for 11 days between Sept. 8-18, and the festival also plans to relaunch various networking and celebratory events including the TIFF Opening Night Party, the Industry Conference, Filmmaker Dinners, Industry Networking Events, Press & Programmers Events, as well as the TIFF Tribute Awards Gala.
After 2020’s TIFF went virtual due to Covid, last year’s TIFF had some guests in-person, but the festival was largely slimmed down, and the same buzz and parties that usually surround the festival were, “essentially missing,” as TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote at the time.
“We’re thrilled to share this news about TIFF 2022 and to introduce fresh voices to our programming team,” Cameron Bailey,...
2022’s TIFF will run for 11 days between Sept. 8-18, and the festival also plans to relaunch various networking and celebratory events including the TIFF Opening Night Party, the Industry Conference, Filmmaker Dinners, Industry Networking Events, Press & Programmers Events, as well as the TIFF Tribute Awards Gala.
After 2020’s TIFF went virtual due to Covid, last year’s TIFF had some guests in-person, but the festival was largely slimmed down, and the same buzz and parties that usually surround the festival were, “essentially missing,” as TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote at the time.
“We’re thrilled to share this news about TIFF 2022 and to introduce fresh voices to our programming team,” Cameron Bailey,...
- 2/24/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will return in person this fall, welcoming local and international guests from Sept. 8 to 18.
Also returning in person are TIFF’s networking and celebratory events, including the opening night party, industry conference, filmmaker dinners, industry networking events, press and programmers events and tribute awards gala. The move follows two straight years of hybrid or largely digital festivals, a concession that TIFF, like many other film gatherings, made for public health reasons as Covid raged. In 2021, TIFF did host live screenings, but at reduced capacity, and the festival had far fewer international attendees. Clearly, this edition will look much more like pre-pandemic versions of TIFF unless variants spoil those plans.
The festival also announced the addition of five new film curators to its programming team. Leading the team is Robyn Citizen, who has been appointed TIFF’s director of festival programming and Cinematheque. Andréa Picard has...
Also returning in person are TIFF’s networking and celebratory events, including the opening night party, industry conference, filmmaker dinners, industry networking events, press and programmers events and tribute awards gala. The move follows two straight years of hybrid or largely digital festivals, a concession that TIFF, like many other film gatherings, made for public health reasons as Covid raged. In 2021, TIFF did host live screenings, but at reduced capacity, and the festival had far fewer international attendees. Clearly, this edition will look much more like pre-pandemic versions of TIFF unless variants spoil those plans.
The festival also announced the addition of five new film curators to its programming team. Leading the team is Robyn Citizen, who has been appointed TIFF’s director of festival programming and Cinematheque. Andréa Picard has...
- 2/24/2022
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Women comprise 50% of entire programming team.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced five new key members of the programming team and unveiled brief details of this year’s edition which is set to run from September 8–18.
Robyn Citizen will lead the festival programming team and has been appointed TIFF’s director of festival programming & Cinematheque. Citizen started at TIFF in 2018 and prior to that was a film lecturer in the departments of Asian studies and theatre and film at University of British Columbia from 2012-17; before that, Citizen was board co-chair for Breakthroughs Film Festival and programmed for Human Rights Film Festival.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced five new key members of the programming team and unveiled brief details of this year’s edition which is set to run from September 8–18.
Robyn Citizen will lead the festival programming team and has been appointed TIFF’s director of festival programming & Cinematheque. Citizen started at TIFF in 2018 and prior to that was a film lecturer in the departments of Asian studies and theatre and film at University of British Columbia from 2012-17; before that, Citizen was board co-chair for Breakthroughs Film Festival and programmed for Human Rights Film Festival.
- 2/24/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Two documentaries, two narratives invited to interactive programme.
The New Works-in-Progress (Wip) forum at the Seattle International Film Festival has announced its 2019 film teams and industry mentor line-up.
Four feature films – two documentaries and two narratives – have been invited from across the world to participate in the interactive event.
“The mission of the New Works-in-Progress Forum is to bring together the three vital parts of the cinema experience at a critical junction before the film has locked picture: filmmaker (as artist), industry (as conduit), and audience,” said Wip curator Kathleen McInnis. “We create a safe intersection near the end of...
The New Works-in-Progress (Wip) forum at the Seattle International Film Festival has announced its 2019 film teams and industry mentor line-up.
Four feature films – two documentaries and two narratives – have been invited from across the world to participate in the interactive event.
“The mission of the New Works-in-Progress Forum is to bring together the three vital parts of the cinema experience at a critical junction before the film has locked picture: filmmaker (as artist), industry (as conduit), and audience,” said Wip curator Kathleen McInnis. “We create a safe intersection near the end of...
- 4/24/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Palm Springs International Film Festival: Michael Lerman, Artistic Director InterviewedI caught up with a very, very busy Michael Lerman today, Christmas Eve. Asked what at the moment was occupying his mind he said he was making sure the juries were in place and that the Q&A schedule was on track.
The ten-day Festival will screen 223 films from 78 countries, including 48 premieres from January 3–14, 2019.
The line-up includes a focus on cinema from France, India and Mexico, Premieres, Talking Pictures, Book to Screen, Special Presentations, Flos: Foreign Language Oscar Submissions, Gay!L.A., Local Spotlight, Modern Masters, True Stories, World Cinema Now, a 30-film retrospective of selections from past festivals (free screenings sponsored by Desert Care Network and National Endowment for the Arts), and more.
Sydney Levine: The Palm Springs Film Festival is often dubbed as “gays and grays”, is that your audience?
Michael Lerman: I have never heard that phrase before…...
The ten-day Festival will screen 223 films from 78 countries, including 48 premieres from January 3–14, 2019.
The line-up includes a focus on cinema from France, India and Mexico, Premieres, Talking Pictures, Book to Screen, Special Presentations, Flos: Foreign Language Oscar Submissions, Gay!L.A., Local Spotlight, Modern Masters, True Stories, World Cinema Now, a 30-film retrospective of selections from past festivals (free screenings sponsored by Desert Care Network and National Endowment for the Arts), and more.
Sydney Levine: The Palm Springs Film Festival is often dubbed as “gays and grays”, is that your audience?
Michael Lerman: I have never heard that phrase before…...
- 12/28/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Share her Journey to offer partial support for female selections.
Six women and six men have been unveiled as the 12 Canadian participants in this year’s Tiff Writers’ Studio as Tiff continues its commitment to gender parity across its talent development programmes.
The women will be supported in part by the organisation’s Share Her Journey campaign to champion women in front of and behind the camera.
The 2018–19 Tiff Writers’ Studio participants are: Danilo Baracho, Yung Chang, Martin Edralin, Sarah Goodman, Carinne Leduc, Jennifer Liao, Frieda Luk, Kaveh Nabatian, Celeste Parr, Kazik Radwanski, Lina Rodriguez, and Jorge Thielen-Armand.
Tiff Writers...
Six women and six men have been unveiled as the 12 Canadian participants in this year’s Tiff Writers’ Studio as Tiff continues its commitment to gender parity across its talent development programmes.
The women will be supported in part by the organisation’s Share Her Journey campaign to champion women in front of and behind the camera.
The 2018–19 Tiff Writers’ Studio participants are: Danilo Baracho, Yung Chang, Martin Edralin, Sarah Goodman, Carinne Leduc, Jennifer Liao, Frieda Luk, Kaveh Nabatian, Celeste Parr, Kazik Radwanski, Lina Rodriguez, and Jorge Thielen-Armand.
Tiff Writers...
- 6/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Share her Journey to offer partial support for female selections.
Six women and six men have been unveiled as the 12 Canadian participants in this year’s Tiff Writers’ Studio as Tiff continues its commitment to gender parity across its talent development programmes.
The women will be supported in part by the organisation’s Share Her Journey campaign to champion women in front of and behind the camera.
The 2018–19 Tiff Writers’ Studio participants are: Danilo Baracho, Yung Chang, Martin Edralin, Sarah Goodman, Carinne Leduc, Jennifer Liao, Frieda Luk, Kaveh Nabatian, Celeste Parr, Kazik Radwanski, Lina Rodriguez, and Jorge Thielen-Armand.
Tiff Writers...
Six women and six men have been unveiled as the 12 Canadian participants in this year’s Tiff Writers’ Studio as Tiff continues its commitment to gender parity across its talent development programmes.
The women will be supported in part by the organisation’s Share Her Journey campaign to champion women in front of and behind the camera.
The 2018–19 Tiff Writers’ Studio participants are: Danilo Baracho, Yung Chang, Martin Edralin, Sarah Goodman, Carinne Leduc, Jennifer Liao, Frieda Luk, Kaveh Nabatian, Celeste Parr, Kazik Radwanski, Lina Rodriguez, and Jorge Thielen-Armand.
Tiff Writers...
- 6/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Director Marc Forster brings forth a romantic tale that is much more than meets the eye in the new film, All I See Is You. Actress Blake Lively and actor Jason Clarke lead the way from a script by Forster and screenwriter Sean Conway with a story of intrigue, mystery and chilling uncertainty for a woman whose second chance to see for the first time since childhood brings both happiness, as well as striking new questions about her relationship. Here's how Jane Schoettle at Tiff describes the new movie from the director of Monster's Ball and World War Z: Marriages are a delicate psychological interplay between two people, and there's no shortage of stories about how that connection is altered when things take a turn for...
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- 9/19/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column.
– The 60th BFI London Film Festival has announced that Mira Nair’s “Queen of Katwe” will receive its European Premiere on October 9 at the Odeon Leicester Square, screening in the Festival’s prestigious headline gala section. The film stars David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o and newcomer Madina Nalwanga. It is Nair’s seventh film to show at the festival.
The film “is the vibrant true story of a young girl, Phiona Mutesi (Nalwanga) selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess by Robert Katende (Oyelowo) a soccer player turned missionary. As a result of the support she receives from her mother Harriet (Nyong’o), family and community, Phiona is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
– The 60th BFI London Film Festival has announced that Mira Nair’s “Queen of Katwe” will receive its European Premiere on October 9 at the Odeon Leicester Square, screening in the Festival’s prestigious headline gala section. The film stars David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o and newcomer Madina Nalwanga. It is Nair’s seventh film to show at the festival.
The film “is the vibrant true story of a young girl, Phiona Mutesi (Nalwanga) selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess by Robert Katende (Oyelowo) a soccer player turned missionary. As a result of the support she receives from her mother Harriet (Nyong’o), family and community, Phiona is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
- 7/21/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Plus: Kino Lorber acquires The Daughter; Aspen Film appoints industry trio for flagship events; and more…
Voltage Pictures CEO Nicolas Chartier announced on Wednesday that the company has entered into an exclusive arrangement with Alissa Phillips to make features, TV series and mini-series.
Phillips will work alongside the Voltage production team of partner and president of Voltage Productions Craig Flores, Voltage Pictures president of production Zev Foreman, and senior vice-president Dom Rustam.
Prior to Voltage Phillips was a producer with Michael De Luca where she produced Moneyball, Dracula Untold and Butter. She is serving as executive producer on the Focus Features film On The Brinks.
“We are incredibly excited to have Alissa work with us. Her studio experience and multi layered production experience will be a great compliment to our existing team,” said Chartier (pictured).
“I’m delighted to join the Voltage team,” said Philips. “I’ve admired Nicolas’ award-winning work from afar for some time and...
Voltage Pictures CEO Nicolas Chartier announced on Wednesday that the company has entered into an exclusive arrangement with Alissa Phillips to make features, TV series and mini-series.
Phillips will work alongside the Voltage production team of partner and president of Voltage Productions Craig Flores, Voltage Pictures president of production Zev Foreman, and senior vice-president Dom Rustam.
Prior to Voltage Phillips was a producer with Michael De Luca where she produced Moneyball, Dracula Untold and Butter. She is serving as executive producer on the Focus Features film On The Brinks.
“We are incredibly excited to have Alissa work with us. Her studio experience and multi layered production experience will be a great compliment to our existing team,” said Chartier (pictured).
“I’m delighted to join the Voltage team,” said Philips. “I’ve admired Nicolas’ award-winning work from afar for some time and...
- 7/20/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jane Schoettle.
Tiff programmer Jane Schoettle will visit Australia in April to view new feature films for the 2016 festival..
Schoettle has been the official representative for Australia since 2008, and will again be hosted by Screen Australia.
"Australian films have increasingly been festival highlights for Tiff's enthusiastic and discerning audience", Schoettle said.
"Like myself, our audience has come to appreciate the remarkable breadth of talent that the filmmaking community holds, a pool of talent that I am privileged to engage with every year".
The 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival will take place 8 to 18 September..
2016 attendances were approximately 473,000 at the festival, and 5,400 industry professionals..
Tiff.s eligibility guidelines can be found here.
The history of Australian films at Tiff over the last ten years can be found here.
Filmmakers with eligible features should contact Markets and Festivals manager.Dale Fairbairn (dale.fairbairn@screenaustralia.gov.au) by April 11. .
Tiff programmer Jane Schoettle will visit Australia in April to view new feature films for the 2016 festival..
Schoettle has been the official representative for Australia since 2008, and will again be hosted by Screen Australia.
"Australian films have increasingly been festival highlights for Tiff's enthusiastic and discerning audience", Schoettle said.
"Like myself, our audience has come to appreciate the remarkable breadth of talent that the filmmaking community holds, a pool of talent that I am privileged to engage with every year".
The 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival will take place 8 to 18 September..
2016 attendances were approximately 473,000 at the festival, and 5,400 industry professionals..
Tiff.s eligibility guidelines can be found here.
The history of Australian films at Tiff over the last ten years can be found here.
Filmmakers with eligible features should contact Markets and Festivals manager.Dale Fairbairn (dale.fairbairn@screenaustralia.gov.au) by April 11. .
- 3/30/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Toronto International Film Festival is in its 40th year, and the Tiff CEO and Artistic Director this morning announced the programmers for 2015’s festival.
Tiff runs from September 10 to September 20. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a reveal of the full film lineups. Read the press-release for this year’s festival programmers below:
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40th Toronto International Film Festival Announces Its Programmers
Toronto — Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, reveal the team of 22 programmers who will make the selections for the 40th Toronto International Film Festival®, which runs Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 20, 2015.
Piers Handling
Europe, City to City: London, Special Presentations, Gala Presentations
Handling is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tiff. He has held this position since 1994, and is responsible for leading both the operational and artistic growth of the organization. Under Handling’s direction,...
Tiff runs from September 10 to September 20. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a reveal of the full film lineups. Read the press-release for this year’s festival programmers below:
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40th Toronto International Film Festival Announces Its Programmers
Toronto — Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, reveal the team of 22 programmers who will make the selections for the 40th Toronto International Film Festival®, which runs Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 20, 2015.
Piers Handling
Europe, City to City: London, Special Presentations, Gala Presentations
Handling is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tiff. He has held this position since 1994, and is responsible for leading both the operational and artistic growth of the organization. Under Handling’s direction,...
- 5/11/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
We've already gotten one look at Simon Pegg as an assassin in the forthcoming comedic thriller Kill Me Three Times, and now the film is poised to premiere at Tiff 2014. And to hype up the unveiling of the film at the festival, a special animated poster has been released for the film that also stars Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Bryan Brown, Callan Mulvey and Luke Hemsworth. This is one is just for Tiff because you'll notice that the smoking matchbook (the only animated part of the poster) says Tiff on it, which is actually pretty cool. Apparently the film is a "must-see" according to Tiff programmer Jane Schoettle. We'll see if that's true soon enough when we hit the Canadian festival. Look! Here's the animated poster for Kriv Stenders' Kill Me Three Times: Kill Me Three Times is directed by Kriv Stenders (Australia's hit Red Dog...
- 8/29/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Thanksgiving. A time for tradition, a time for reflecting and a time for family. This week, while the Sundance programers led by John Cooper are wrapping up their selection process and will be adding to their forever expanding family this week (they break the news to the lucky few during the civic Holiday amongst family and friends), I continue my “tradition” of predicting and “reflecting” on the current year of production and what films and filmmakers will be part of the next January’s edition of the 29th Sundance Film Festival (17th-27th). Via industry contacts, the festival’s history and current trends, I’ve selected 70 titles that have a bona fide chance at cracking the ’13 line-up and according to my hit and misses of the previous year, the majority of my inaccurate calls trickle into SXSW or end up being items to watch out for when Tiff programmer Jane Schoettle builds her slate.
- 11/21/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Palm Springs International Shortfest, the largest short film festival and market in North America, announced its Festival award winners on Sunday, June 24, 2012. 324 short films screened throughout the Festival along with more than 3,000 filmmaker submissions available in the film market. A total of $118,800 in prizes, including $16,000 in cash awards, were awarded in 20 categories. Held from June 19-25, 2012, the Festival had another record-breaking year in attendance for ticket buyers, filmmakers and film industry delegates.
Darryl Macdonald, ShortFest Programming and Executive Director, said, “It's been a great year for ShortFest, with record crowds, a spectacular lineup of provocative and engaging new films and a banner year for the ShortFest Forums, with acclaimed talents like Robert Elswit, Gus Van Sant and Oorlagh George participating. All in all, we've achieved everything we set out to accomplish with this year's Festival. I'm confident we've provided a fitting springboard for the astonishingly accomplished young filmmakers who participated.”
Returning for a second year, the Palm Springs International ShortFest continued the ShortFest Online Film Festival. Ten films were chosen to represent the Festival online. The ShortFest Online Audience Award went to Lost & Found (UK), directed by Sam Washington. The film will be available to view online for the next three months.
Jury Category Awards
Awards in the non-student and student categories were selected by ShortFest jury members Richard Abramowitz (President of Abramorama, distribution and marketing company), Lael Loewenstein, (President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and a critic for Variety) and Jane Schoettle (International Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival). All first place winners in the non-student categories received a cash award of $2,000. First place winners in the non-student Animation and Live Action categories may be eligible for Academy Awards consideration. Second place recipients received a $500 cash prize.
Designated by AMPAS as an award-qualifying festival, and accredited by the International Short Film Conference, the Palm Springs International ShortFest and its Short Film Market are the largest and most prominent short film showcase in North America. The Festival and its concurrent 3,000-film Market continue to serve as a scouting ground for new filmmaking talent and are well attended by those in the business of buying and selling short films.
The Palm Springs International ShortFest is supported by an ever-growing number of new and longtime sponsors with local, national and international prominence. The Title Sponsor is the City of Palm Springs with Presenting Sponsors The Desert Sun and Spencer’s. Major Sponsors include, Panavision, The BottomLine, Stampede Post Productions, Greenhouse Studios, Kqed San Francisco and The Australian Consulate General in Los Angeles. Special support has been provided by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
The 2012 Palm Springs International ShortFest award winners are:
Jury Awards
Best Of Festival Award – Winner received $2,000 cash prize, Software Package courtesy of The Showbiz Café & Store, Post Production award courtesy of Greenhouse Studios and Final Cut Pro X courtesy of Apple. The winner of this award may be eligible to submit their film to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration.
Behind the Mirrors (Detras del Espejo) (Peru/USA), Julio O. Ramos
A young husband, and soon-to-be father, manages a local brothel with his wife. When one of the night’s customers leaves behind an unexpected mess, the husband's keen eye for opportunity and quick thinking may change their fortunes forever.
Panavision Grand Jury Award – Winner received a Panavision Camera Package valued at $60,000.
Paulie (USA), Andrew Nackman
Paulie is a nine year old in the seventh grade. Used to being the smartest kid in the room Paulie aces every test, wins every spelling bee and science fair, and does not lose. So when bully Tony beats him one day at an essay contest, Paulie refuses to let it go.
Future Filmmaker Award – Winner received a $2,000 cash prize and a post production package courtesy of Greenhouse Studios.
Khaana (UK), Rajinder Sawhney
A pregnant, orthodox Muslim woman living in London has an appetite for life as well as for food, in this delightful exploration of the ways in which her homeland’s culture intersects with her still novel foreign surroundings.
Audience Awards
Audience Favorite Live Action Short
A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences (Netherlands), Joost Reijmers
An absurdist journey through time with an explosive ending in the heart of Amsterdam, this Dutch treat won the Best Comedy Award at the recent Aspen ShortsFest, and rightly so: its inventive tale links up three hapless heroes living in different centuries whose worlds collide unexpectedly in the present day.
Runner-up – Talking Dog For Sale, 10 Euros (Se Vende PerroQue Habla, 10 Euros) (France/Spain), Lewis-Martin Soucy
Audience Favorite Documentary Short
Mr. Christmas (USA), Nick Palmer
Bruce Mertz is the kind of guy who lights up the lives of those around him -- quite literally -- when every holiday season he transforms his house into a beacon with 50,000 colorful lights and himself into Mr. Christmas.
Runner-up – The Little Team (L’Equip Petit) (Spain), Robert Gomez
Audience Favorite Animation Short
The Boy in the Bubble (Ireland), Kealan O’Rourke
Young Rupert Shelley utilizes magic to win the heart of his true love at school and save his own heart from breaking. The magic works, but not in quite the way that Rupert had expected.
Runner-up – The Gruffalo’s Child (UK), Uwe Heidschötter, Johannes Weiland
Best Animation short
First Place ($2,000) – Nuru (Belgium), Michael Palmaers
In this dazzling, CG-enhanced story about an abandoned zoo and its lone animal inhabitant, a zookeeper looks after a giant gorilla who is being subjected to a dark experiment run by an opportunistic director.
Second Place ($500) – Amen! (Germany), Moritz Mayerhofer
Best Live Action short over 15 minutes
First Place ($2,000) – Dura Lex (Belgium), Anke Blondé
When two detectives show up at Kristi’s house asking lots of questions about her Albanian maid, she has little time to decide what to think, say, and do – and her answers will have major consequences for all concerned.
Second Place ($500) – Light Years (Lichtjahre) (Germany), Florian Knittel
Best Live Action short 15 Minutes And Under
First Place ($2,000) – The Devil’s Ballroom (Mannen fra isødet) (Norway/Greenland), Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
After burying his last remaining companion, a fearless explorer has to find his way to the North Pole alone, fighting snow-blindness and physical strain. An unexpected encounter forces him to decide between honor and fame in the history books or keeping the moral high ground—a choice which will haunt the rest of his life.
Second Place ($500) – The Moment (Australia), Troy Bellchambers
Best Documentary short:
First Place ($2,000) – The Record Breaker (Denmark), Brian McGinn
Climbing Machu Picchu on stilts is not for everybody, but it suits Ashrita Furman just fine. Furman holds the official record for the most Guinness World Records by one individual, and he has set his sights on one more for the books.
Second Place ($500) – The Globe Collector (Australia), Summer DeRoche
Student Categories
All first place winners in these categories received a software package courtesy of The Showbiz Café & Store along with a one-year download membership to videoblocks.com or stock footage DVD set courtesy of Video Block and Footage Firm.
Best Student Animation
First Place – Bear Me (Germany), Katarzyna Wilk
A young woman’s object of love, and other desires, is a surprisingly strange choice in her seemingly otherwise quite normal world.
Second Place – Flamingo Pride (Germany), Tomer Eshed
Best Student Live Action short over 15 minutes
First Place – Hatch (Austria/USA), Christoph Kushnig
On a wintry Vienna night, a young couple makes the decision to give up their child, knowing they cannot raise it and realize their own youthful dreams. Across town, another couple is desperate for a child of their own, with no way to conceive one. When the paths of these two couples briefly cross, fate holds an unexpected lesson for each of them.
Second Place – Good Night (UK), Muriel d’Ansembourg
Best Student Live Action short 15 Minutes And Under
First Place – Behind the Mirrors (Detras del Espejo) (Peru/USA), Julio O. Ramos
A young husband, and soon-to-be father, manages a local brothel with his wife. When one of the night’s customers leaves behind an unexpected mess, the husband's keen eye for opportunity and quick thinking may change their fortunes forever.
Second Place – Paulie (USA), Andrew Nackman
Best Student Documentary short
In an unprecedented decision, the ShortFest jury has decided to award first place jointly to two documentaries: The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist and Julian. The jury issued the following statement: “With strikingly different techniques, each paints a remarkable portrait of family ties. Although we didn’t set out to define the category thematically, we noted that both films raised questions of parental legacy, filial responsibility, and the indelible cost of personal ambition. Each left an unmistakable impression on us. And so, after sustained and impassioned deliberations, we decided that the only real option was to recognize both films.”
First Place (tie) – The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist (USA), Mark Columbus
Filmmaker Mark Columbus takes an inventive, probing and amusing look at his relationship with his dad, a once famous jazz guitarist from the Fiji Islands, whose career stalled when he moved to the U.S.
First Place (tie) – Julian (USA), Bao Nguyen
When a young man named Julian looks straight into the camera and talks about the lure of joining the Marines and the possibility of not returning home, so begins this riveting portrait of a young soldier and his family.
Best Student Cinematography - Software package courtesy of The Showbiz Café & Store.
Saro Varjabedian (cinematographer), Jesus Loves Youssef (Lebanon)
Young Youssef is praying for a bike for a first communion gift, but communion involves confession, and the boy is feeling awfully guilty about something that he doesn’t want to confess to the priest.
Second Place – Anand Kishore (cinematographer), Mong (China)
Best Student Film Award (From A Us Film School) - $2,000 cash prize courtesy of Kqed, San Francisco.
First Place – Hatch (Austria/USA), Christoph Kuschnig
On a wintry Vienna night, a young couple makes the decision to give up their child, knowing they cannot raise it and realize their own youthful dreams. Across town, another couple is desperate for a child of their own, with no way to conceive one. When the paths of these two couples briefly cross, fate holds an unexpected lesson for each of them.
Additional Prizes
The Alexis Award for Best Emerging Student Filmmaker went to Kiss Me (USA), directed by Jules Nurrish. The recipient received Final Cut Pro X courtesy of Apple. The Alexis Award is selected by the Festival’s programming team and was created in honor of Alexis Echavarria, a young filmmaker, whose talent as a budding filmmaker and gift for inspiring excellence among his fellow students were cut short suddenly in 2005 at age 16.
Bridging the Borders Award presented by Cinema Without Borders went to Road to Peshawar (USA), directed by Hammad Rizvi. The winner received a certificate for an upcoming Method Acting Intensive with a value of $2000 from Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. The runner-up was Dura Lex (Belgium), directed by Anke Blondé.
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will be held January 3-14, 2013.
Darryl Macdonald, ShortFest Programming and Executive Director, said, “It's been a great year for ShortFest, with record crowds, a spectacular lineup of provocative and engaging new films and a banner year for the ShortFest Forums, with acclaimed talents like Robert Elswit, Gus Van Sant and Oorlagh George participating. All in all, we've achieved everything we set out to accomplish with this year's Festival. I'm confident we've provided a fitting springboard for the astonishingly accomplished young filmmakers who participated.”
Returning for a second year, the Palm Springs International ShortFest continued the ShortFest Online Film Festival. Ten films were chosen to represent the Festival online. The ShortFest Online Audience Award went to Lost & Found (UK), directed by Sam Washington. The film will be available to view online for the next three months.
Jury Category Awards
Awards in the non-student and student categories were selected by ShortFest jury members Richard Abramowitz (President of Abramorama, distribution and marketing company), Lael Loewenstein, (President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and a critic for Variety) and Jane Schoettle (International Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival). All first place winners in the non-student categories received a cash award of $2,000. First place winners in the non-student Animation and Live Action categories may be eligible for Academy Awards consideration. Second place recipients received a $500 cash prize.
Designated by AMPAS as an award-qualifying festival, and accredited by the International Short Film Conference, the Palm Springs International ShortFest and its Short Film Market are the largest and most prominent short film showcase in North America. The Festival and its concurrent 3,000-film Market continue to serve as a scouting ground for new filmmaking talent and are well attended by those in the business of buying and selling short films.
The Palm Springs International ShortFest is supported by an ever-growing number of new and longtime sponsors with local, national and international prominence. The Title Sponsor is the City of Palm Springs with Presenting Sponsors The Desert Sun and Spencer’s. Major Sponsors include, Panavision, The BottomLine, Stampede Post Productions, Greenhouse Studios, Kqed San Francisco and The Australian Consulate General in Los Angeles. Special support has been provided by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
The 2012 Palm Springs International ShortFest award winners are:
Jury Awards
Best Of Festival Award – Winner received $2,000 cash prize, Software Package courtesy of The Showbiz Café & Store, Post Production award courtesy of Greenhouse Studios and Final Cut Pro X courtesy of Apple. The winner of this award may be eligible to submit their film to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration.
Behind the Mirrors (Detras del Espejo) (Peru/USA), Julio O. Ramos
A young husband, and soon-to-be father, manages a local brothel with his wife. When one of the night’s customers leaves behind an unexpected mess, the husband's keen eye for opportunity and quick thinking may change their fortunes forever.
Panavision Grand Jury Award – Winner received a Panavision Camera Package valued at $60,000.
Paulie (USA), Andrew Nackman
Paulie is a nine year old in the seventh grade. Used to being the smartest kid in the room Paulie aces every test, wins every spelling bee and science fair, and does not lose. So when bully Tony beats him one day at an essay contest, Paulie refuses to let it go.
Future Filmmaker Award – Winner received a $2,000 cash prize and a post production package courtesy of Greenhouse Studios.
Khaana (UK), Rajinder Sawhney
A pregnant, orthodox Muslim woman living in London has an appetite for life as well as for food, in this delightful exploration of the ways in which her homeland’s culture intersects with her still novel foreign surroundings.
Audience Awards
Audience Favorite Live Action Short
A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences (Netherlands), Joost Reijmers
An absurdist journey through time with an explosive ending in the heart of Amsterdam, this Dutch treat won the Best Comedy Award at the recent Aspen ShortsFest, and rightly so: its inventive tale links up three hapless heroes living in different centuries whose worlds collide unexpectedly in the present day.
Runner-up – Talking Dog For Sale, 10 Euros (Se Vende PerroQue Habla, 10 Euros) (France/Spain), Lewis-Martin Soucy
Audience Favorite Documentary Short
Mr. Christmas (USA), Nick Palmer
Bruce Mertz is the kind of guy who lights up the lives of those around him -- quite literally -- when every holiday season he transforms his house into a beacon with 50,000 colorful lights and himself into Mr. Christmas.
Runner-up – The Little Team (L’Equip Petit) (Spain), Robert Gomez
Audience Favorite Animation Short
The Boy in the Bubble (Ireland), Kealan O’Rourke
Young Rupert Shelley utilizes magic to win the heart of his true love at school and save his own heart from breaking. The magic works, but not in quite the way that Rupert had expected.
Runner-up – The Gruffalo’s Child (UK), Uwe Heidschötter, Johannes Weiland
Best Animation short
First Place ($2,000) – Nuru (Belgium), Michael Palmaers
In this dazzling, CG-enhanced story about an abandoned zoo and its lone animal inhabitant, a zookeeper looks after a giant gorilla who is being subjected to a dark experiment run by an opportunistic director.
Second Place ($500) – Amen! (Germany), Moritz Mayerhofer
Best Live Action short over 15 minutes
First Place ($2,000) – Dura Lex (Belgium), Anke Blondé
When two detectives show up at Kristi’s house asking lots of questions about her Albanian maid, she has little time to decide what to think, say, and do – and her answers will have major consequences for all concerned.
Second Place ($500) – Light Years (Lichtjahre) (Germany), Florian Knittel
Best Live Action short 15 Minutes And Under
First Place ($2,000) – The Devil’s Ballroom (Mannen fra isødet) (Norway/Greenland), Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
After burying his last remaining companion, a fearless explorer has to find his way to the North Pole alone, fighting snow-blindness and physical strain. An unexpected encounter forces him to decide between honor and fame in the history books or keeping the moral high ground—a choice which will haunt the rest of his life.
Second Place ($500) – The Moment (Australia), Troy Bellchambers
Best Documentary short:
First Place ($2,000) – The Record Breaker (Denmark), Brian McGinn
Climbing Machu Picchu on stilts is not for everybody, but it suits Ashrita Furman just fine. Furman holds the official record for the most Guinness World Records by one individual, and he has set his sights on one more for the books.
Second Place ($500) – The Globe Collector (Australia), Summer DeRoche
Student Categories
All first place winners in these categories received a software package courtesy of The Showbiz Café & Store along with a one-year download membership to videoblocks.com or stock footage DVD set courtesy of Video Block and Footage Firm.
Best Student Animation
First Place – Bear Me (Germany), Katarzyna Wilk
A young woman’s object of love, and other desires, is a surprisingly strange choice in her seemingly otherwise quite normal world.
Second Place – Flamingo Pride (Germany), Tomer Eshed
Best Student Live Action short over 15 minutes
First Place – Hatch (Austria/USA), Christoph Kushnig
On a wintry Vienna night, a young couple makes the decision to give up their child, knowing they cannot raise it and realize their own youthful dreams. Across town, another couple is desperate for a child of their own, with no way to conceive one. When the paths of these two couples briefly cross, fate holds an unexpected lesson for each of them.
Second Place – Good Night (UK), Muriel d’Ansembourg
Best Student Live Action short 15 Minutes And Under
First Place – Behind the Mirrors (Detras del Espejo) (Peru/USA), Julio O. Ramos
A young husband, and soon-to-be father, manages a local brothel with his wife. When one of the night’s customers leaves behind an unexpected mess, the husband's keen eye for opportunity and quick thinking may change their fortunes forever.
Second Place – Paulie (USA), Andrew Nackman
Best Student Documentary short
In an unprecedented decision, the ShortFest jury has decided to award first place jointly to two documentaries: The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist and Julian. The jury issued the following statement: “With strikingly different techniques, each paints a remarkable portrait of family ties. Although we didn’t set out to define the category thematically, we noted that both films raised questions of parental legacy, filial responsibility, and the indelible cost of personal ambition. Each left an unmistakable impression on us. And so, after sustained and impassioned deliberations, we decided that the only real option was to recognize both films.”
First Place (tie) – The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist (USA), Mark Columbus
Filmmaker Mark Columbus takes an inventive, probing and amusing look at his relationship with his dad, a once famous jazz guitarist from the Fiji Islands, whose career stalled when he moved to the U.S.
First Place (tie) – Julian (USA), Bao Nguyen
When a young man named Julian looks straight into the camera and talks about the lure of joining the Marines and the possibility of not returning home, so begins this riveting portrait of a young soldier and his family.
Best Student Cinematography - Software package courtesy of The Showbiz Café & Store.
Saro Varjabedian (cinematographer), Jesus Loves Youssef (Lebanon)
Young Youssef is praying for a bike for a first communion gift, but communion involves confession, and the boy is feeling awfully guilty about something that he doesn’t want to confess to the priest.
Second Place – Anand Kishore (cinematographer), Mong (China)
Best Student Film Award (From A Us Film School) - $2,000 cash prize courtesy of Kqed, San Francisco.
First Place – Hatch (Austria/USA), Christoph Kuschnig
On a wintry Vienna night, a young couple makes the decision to give up their child, knowing they cannot raise it and realize their own youthful dreams. Across town, another couple is desperate for a child of their own, with no way to conceive one. When the paths of these two couples briefly cross, fate holds an unexpected lesson for each of them.
Additional Prizes
The Alexis Award for Best Emerging Student Filmmaker went to Kiss Me (USA), directed by Jules Nurrish. The recipient received Final Cut Pro X courtesy of Apple. The Alexis Award is selected by the Festival’s programming team and was created in honor of Alexis Echavarria, a young filmmaker, whose talent as a budding filmmaker and gift for inspiring excellence among his fellow students were cut short suddenly in 2005 at age 16.
Bridging the Borders Award presented by Cinema Without Borders went to Road to Peshawar (USA), directed by Hammad Rizvi. The winner received a certificate for an upcoming Method Acting Intensive with a value of $2000 from Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. The runner-up was Dura Lex (Belgium), directed by Anke Blondé.
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will be held January 3-14, 2013.
- 7/5/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Organizers of the Palm Springs International ShortFest announced Thursday that Shia La Beouf and Matthew Modine will be among the filmmakers unveiling new short films during the fest’s 18th edition. Running from June 19-25at Camelot Theatres, ShortFest will feature 323 shorts from 52 countries, with $118,800 in cash prizes, equipment and potential Oscar consideration at stake for competition films. Toronto film festival programmer Jane Schoettle, Variety critic Lael Loewenstein and Abramorama president Richard Abramowitz will serve as the ShortFest jury. Winners will be announced Sunday, June 24 at a closing night reception. The Palm Springs ShortFest will also continue the online film festival it launched last year, during which ten of the selected films will be available online the week before ShortFest begins and then for two months after. Voting will determine an audience award winner for the online fest program. “Once again this year the...
- 6/7/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
We're going to be taking our sweet time wrapping up this year's SXSW Film Festival, looking over one section at a time and allowing for digressions and occasional notes on films that screened in Berlin and Sundance as well, focusing on what's interesting, skimming over what's not. Before we begin, a few pointers to overviews of the festival in general: IndieWIRE and the Playlist have indexed their extensive coverage and Eric Kohn's had an end-of-the-fest chat with Ben Kenigsberg and Matt Singer; James Francis Flynn posted a diary at Cinespect; and, in his podcasts for the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Kut.org, Eugene Hernandez has interviewed a slew of filmmakers and touched on broader issues with a wide range of critics: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
On to the Narrative Feature Competition, eight films in all, of which I saw none; it was only after the festival was over that I realized...
On to the Narrative Feature Competition, eight films in all, of which I saw none; it was only after the festival was over that I realized...
- 3/20/2012
- MUBI
Mrs. Carey’s Concert, Bob Connolly’s first documentary since 2001′s Facing the Music, will open next month’s BigPond Adelaide Film Festival on February 24.
The biannual event will be closed by Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards.
Mrs. Carey’s Concert (co-directed by Sophie Raymond) is one of the 14 projects supported by the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund. The film chronicles the preparations for a classical music concert at a Sydney’s girl school; both directors will be in attendance, alongside the school’s music director Karen Carey and some of her students.
Other guests in attendance will include:
The International Award jury – Julietta Sichel, Pierre Rissient, Hossein Valamanesh, Trevor Groth, and Robin Gutch; The Hive participants (Richard Tognetti, Meryl Tankard, Garry Stewart, Gideon Obarzanek, Kate Champion, Michael Kantor, Rose Myers, Chris Drummond, Matthew Whittet, Lynette Wallworth, Susan Norrie, Tony Krawitz Glendyn Ivin, Anna Broinowski, Ashlee Page, Amy Gebhardt and...
The biannual event will be closed by Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards.
Mrs. Carey’s Concert (co-directed by Sophie Raymond) is one of the 14 projects supported by the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund. The film chronicles the preparations for a classical music concert at a Sydney’s girl school; both directors will be in attendance, alongside the school’s music director Karen Carey and some of her students.
Other guests in attendance will include:
The International Award jury – Julietta Sichel, Pierre Rissient, Hossein Valamanesh, Trevor Groth, and Robin Gutch; The Hive participants (Richard Tognetti, Meryl Tankard, Garry Stewart, Gideon Obarzanek, Kate Champion, Michael Kantor, Rose Myers, Chris Drummond, Matthew Whittet, Lynette Wallworth, Susan Norrie, Tony Krawitz Glendyn Ivin, Anna Broinowski, Ashlee Page, Amy Gebhardt and...
- 1/21/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
New kid on the block distributor Indomina Releasing, have made their second pick-up in just as many weeks. After grabbing Chinese martial arts film True Legend, they've grabbed the superhero by the cape -- putting their hands on the Tiff premiered Griff the Invisible. A pic that Tiff's Jane Schoettle describes as"the story of two lost souls that crash into each other with delightful, postmodern force, Griff the Invisible is a heartwarming and idiosyncratic film that brings irony and introspection to the superhero genre", actor Ryan Kwanten who'll next be seen in Red Hill [11.05] and saw his stock increase with his True Blood status, plays a Clark Kent role of Griff, a clumsy, paper-pusher by day and a fearless superhero by night, who finds his world turned upside down when he meets Melody (Maeve Dermody), a beautiful young woman, who shares his passion for the impossible. Expect a 2011 release with further film festival exposure.
- 9/28/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Of all the films from down under, while Stuart Beattie's directing debut, With Tomorrow, When The War Began will likely grab the majority of the attention in the "market" portion at Tiff, this year there will be a half dozen Australian films featured at the film festival. Announced just last week, the Discovery program, a showcase for innovative new filmmakers will contain 3 Australian features. We have Blame (written and directed by Michael Henry) - the story of five vigilantes who seek vengeance over a sexual betrayal where the film is scheduled for a domestic Australian release in October. See pic below. Griff the Invisible (written and directed by Leon Ford) starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) is about an office worker/superhero who faces a dilemma when he meets a beautiful young scientist, Melody who shares his passion for the impossible. The screening will be a world premiere. Ben C...
- 8/31/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday named Allen Braude and Elizabeth Muskala as co-directors of learning, with overall responsibility for the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children.
In addition to programming Toronto's annual Sprockets kids film festival, Braude adn Muskala will oversee youth and adult film appreciation initiatives at Bell Lightbox, the festival's year-round home set to open in late 2010.
Braude most recently was programming manager for Sprockets, while Muskala will be promoted from director of program administration at the Toronto festival.
Their ascent at Sprockets follows Jane Schoettle, the long-time director of the kids festival, stepping away from day-to-day control of Sprockets to assume more general programming duties at the Toronto festival.
The 11th annual Sprockets festival is set to run April 12-18. Programming highlights for this year's installment include Logan Smalley's "Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life" and Todd Kessler's "Keith", both from the U.S., and Swedish director Hella Joof's "Bitter Sweetheart".
In addition to programming Toronto's annual Sprockets kids film festival, Braude adn Muskala will oversee youth and adult film appreciation initiatives at Bell Lightbox, the festival's year-round home set to open in late 2010.
Braude most recently was programming manager for Sprockets, while Muskala will be promoted from director of program administration at the Toronto festival.
Their ascent at Sprockets follows Jane Schoettle, the long-time director of the kids festival, stepping away from day-to-day control of Sprockets to assume more general programming duties at the Toronto festival.
The 11th annual Sprockets festival is set to run April 12-18. Programming highlights for this year's installment include Logan Smalley's "Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life" and Todd Kessler's "Keith", both from the U.S., and Swedish director Hella Joof's "Bitter Sweetheart".
- 2/13/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW DELHI -- More than 300 films from 40 countries will participate at the 15th biannual International Children's Film Festival, aka the Golden Elephant, organizers said Thursday.
The festival, run by the Children's Film Society and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, takes place Nov. 14-20 in the southern city of Hyderabad.
A total of 45 films will compete for the top award, the Golden Elephant Plus, with a cash prize of 200,000 rupees ($4,600), while another 20 films will compete in the Asian Panorama.
The international jury includes Toronto International Children's Film Festival director Jane Schoettle and Indian filmmakers V. G. Samant and Mike Pandey, with Pandey as jury head.
The festival, run by the Children's Film Society and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, takes place Nov. 14-20 in the southern city of Hyderabad.
A total of 45 films will compete for the top award, the Golden Elephant Plus, with a cash prize of 200,000 rupees ($4,600), while another 20 films will compete in the Asian Panorama.
The international jury includes Toronto International Children's Film Festival director Jane Schoettle and Indian filmmakers V. G. Samant and Mike Pandey, with Pandey as jury head.
- 10/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO --The cuddly creatures and comic screen characters featured at this year's Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children may be the harbingers of an emerging market in Toronto for buyers and sellers of kid-friendly product, the organizers claim. "We're seeing the beginnings of an unofficial market," Jane Schoettle said Tuesday, midway through the kids film festival she founded in 1998 to showcase smart, engaging kids films not available to audiences in the Hollywood orbit. The kids market is the offspring of the Toronto International Film Festival Pauline Fischer, vp of acquisitions for home entertainment at Paramount Pictures, said she's in Toronto to scout mostly for finished movies for distribution worldwide.
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