10th Anniversary of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Comes with Latino & Hispanic Cinema Film Festival, September 16Ficg in L.A. is not the only Latino Film Festival in Los Angeles, a city populated almost 50% by Latinos. NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spotlight emerging global filmmakers at the Annual Latino & Hispanic Cinema Film Festival honoring Hispanic Heritage Month this September.
Celebrating 10 Years, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles continues to champion and promote the works of global emerging filmmakers. With the goal of showcasing, supporting and connecting emerging filmmakers, Nfmla has rapidly expanded to become much more than a monthly film festival for shorts.
As a monthly event, founder Larry Laboe and Susie Kim consistently support emerging filmmakers in much the same way as NewFilmmakers New York does on a weekly basis. In New York, NewFilmmakers New York is a part of the Anthology Film Archives founded in 1998 by Jonas Mekas.
Celebrating 10 Years, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles continues to champion and promote the works of global emerging filmmakers. With the goal of showcasing, supporting and connecting emerging filmmakers, Nfmla has rapidly expanded to become much more than a monthly film festival for shorts.
As a monthly event, founder Larry Laboe and Susie Kim consistently support emerging filmmakers in much the same way as NewFilmmakers New York does on a weekly basis. In New York, NewFilmmakers New York is a part of the Anthology Film Archives founded in 1998 by Jonas Mekas.
- 8/17/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Romantic duo produced by China’s Huayi Brothers.
Im Global is launching sales on two Chinese romantic dramas at Filmart – New York, New York, starring Ethan Ruan and Du Juan, and Beautiful Accident, with Guey Lun-mei and Chen Kun. Both films are produced by Huayi Brothers.
Directed by Luo Dong, New York, New York revolves a hotel concierge and the girl he falls in love with who get caught up an American visa scam. The film is scheduled for release in China on April 15.
Directed by Wi Ding Ho (Pinoy Sunday), Beautiful Accident also stars Wang Jingchun and Ouyang Nana and is scheduled for Chinese release in summer 2016.
Im Global is launching sales on two Chinese romantic dramas at Filmart – New York, New York, starring Ethan Ruan and Du Juan, and Beautiful Accident, with Guey Lun-mei and Chen Kun. Both films are produced by Huayi Brothers.
Directed by Luo Dong, New York, New York revolves a hotel concierge and the girl he falls in love with who get caught up an American visa scam. The film is scheduled for release in China on April 15.
Directed by Wi Ding Ho (Pinoy Sunday), Beautiful Accident also stars Wang Jingchun and Ouyang Nana and is scheduled for Chinese release in summer 2016.
- 3/14/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Kelly Rutherford's ongoing custody saga continued on Thursday and Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom, as the former Gossip Girl star took the stand.
Rutherford – has long been separated from her two children, Helena, 6, and Hermes, 8, due to a custody disagreement with her ex-husband Daniel Giersch – posted a hopeful message on Instagram, walking arm-in-arm with Anthony Giovanni Deane, one of the friends – including Rutherford's current boyfriend Tony Brand, an assistant manager at Gucci – who came to support Rutherford in court.
The Long Slow Road To Justice #La Court #regram @last2therapy
A photo posted by @kellyrutherford on Jul 10, 2015 at...
Rutherford – has long been separated from her two children, Helena, 6, and Hermes, 8, due to a custody disagreement with her ex-husband Daniel Giersch – posted a hopeful message on Instagram, walking arm-in-arm with Anthony Giovanni Deane, one of the friends – including Rutherford's current boyfriend Tony Brand, an assistant manager at Gucci – who came to support Rutherford in court.
The Long Slow Road To Justice #La Court #regram @last2therapy
A photo posted by @kellyrutherford on Jul 10, 2015 at...
- 7/10/2015
- by Lindsay Kimble and Reagan Alexander
- People.com - TV Watch
President Obama — you’ve got much more pressing things to do than to revoke Justin Bieber’s American visa, even though 136,000 people have signed a petition asking you to send him back to his native Canada. Do you agree, HollywoodLifers?
President Obama – it’s quite clear after listening to the State of the Union address last night, Jan. 28, that you’ve got a lot better things to do with your time than to waste it ordering Justin Bieber to be deported.
Justin Bieber Deportation Petition — Should Obama Deport The Biebs?
Nevertheless, you apparently will have to review a petition on The White House’s We The People site, which has garnered more than 136,000 signatures from people who are begging to have Justin Bieber deported.
Justin Bieber Charged With Assault Take Our Poll
The petition reads:
We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture.
President Obama – it’s quite clear after listening to the State of the Union address last night, Jan. 28, that you’ve got a lot better things to do with your time than to waste it ordering Justin Bieber to be deported.
Justin Bieber Deportation Petition — Should Obama Deport The Biebs?
Nevertheless, you apparently will have to review a petition on The White House’s We The People site, which has garnered more than 136,000 signatures from people who are begging to have Justin Bieber deported.
Justin Bieber Charged With Assault Take Our Poll
The petition reads:
We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture.
- 1/30/2014
- by Bonnie Fuller
- HollywoodLife
Kate Del Castillo is one of Mexico's most important actresses and one of the most recognized faces in Latin America. Her imposing presence, both in person and on stage, her charisma, beauty and her enormous talent and passion for acting has lead her to be one of the rising stars in the Hollywood and Ibero American film and television industries. We have enjoyed her work in the most important series of American television, shows like 'C.S.I, Miami, Dallas', 'Weeds' and her many films include American Visa, Bordertown,Bad Guys, Under the Same Moon, The Black Pimpernel, Julia, Without Men and soon to be released A Miracle of Spanish Harlem.
She has shared credits with actresses such as Tilda Swinton, Kevin Kline, Mary Louise-Parker, Edward James Olmos, Eva Longoria and Christian Slater. It was in 2011 where Kate landed in the leading role 'as Teresa Mendoza' on the critical acclaimed 'La Reina del Sur' aired originally on Telemundo in the U.S. which positioned her at the height of her career.
In 2012 the film-director Jules Stewart choose her as 'Mousey' in K-11 which is also one of Kate's best acting challenges. We had the opportunity to accompany her on a day of shooting in her new movie called 'Visitors' a psychological thriller written and directed by Acan Coen and produced by the Mexican producers Jorge Aragon and Jesus Magaña. In the film, Kate plays Ana an skeptic surgeon who will try to win back her husband Daniel and her little Sebastián from the curse that has befallen them. Visitors is her comeback as the star of Mexican Cinema and a genre that she had not ventured before. Del Castillo's talked with us about this new project set to be released in 2014 and how she continues to strengthen her career.
LatinoBuzz: You said once that you yearned the feeling of the experience of doing something for the first time, now that you are going for the first time into a new movie genre, how do you feel working in this production?
Kate: Very happy, as I said the first time of anything is always a very special feeling. It's the first time that I work in a genre like this. I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms, a movie like this has a very different kind of rhythm. I'm very happy and very excited.
LatinoBuzz: What makes this character special to you? What new challenges has it brought to you as an actress?
Kate: For me, the script is always the most important thing. When I read the script, I loved it, I spent nearly two years to consolidate this project, you know cinema sometimes has its delays, but I think it was all worth it, not only because of the story but also because it is a totally different character. Ana is a surgeon, a pragmatic woman, a very logical woman devoted to science, so what makes this character beautiful is that the perfect structure that Ana had starts crumbling as things with no logic started to happen, so when she begins to find logic to what's really happening, her world begins to crumble. That's why I loved this character, the character arc is very beautiful.
LatinoBuzz: How do you feel working with your director Acán Coen?
Kate: Fine, very happy, it's very cool to work with a new director, it's his first film. I like to see that hunger, that urge and that everything that has a new director I learn so much from everyone. I learn, I learn a lot always.
LatinoBuzz: In the thriller genre there's a really thin line between being a thriller movie or becoming a comedy, if the thriller isn't managed well. What should the audience expect from 'Visitants' ?
Kate: I think that happens more often with Horror. Visitants, it's a psychological thriller, so that doesn't happen with us. Visitants is an important production, it is a very well done production, there is a lot of money behind the film, the special and visual effects people are wonderful, the director, the whole team are very professional people who have been working on this for so many years and we are doing something very, very professional, very well done. There is so much talent in Mexico.
LatinoBuzz: What do you think of Mexican Cinema nowadays? What do you think 'Visitants' can contribute to the industry?
Kate: First of all, making a movie of this genre is rarely performed in Mexico, so it seems a very appropriate choice, is a genre that has a lot of spectators, a genre that the audience likes a lot, that sells a lot, it can be a very commercial film and a film that you can take to festivals at the same time too. Mexican cinema it's very vast, it comes in all genders, of all qualities too. We have a huge capacity to go on to compete around the world, festivals and awards around. It is a genre that not everyone dares to enter and that is a dare too. I like challenges, i like that fear you feel for something new and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
LatinoBuzz: Every day you open yourself more doors in the Anglo market, What's next? What are your plans?
Kate: There are many plans, there are many plans with my agency, we want to do many things. We are closing projects. There comes something very important this year that I will be able to say later. I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela. Right now I thank God I have a privileged position where I can afford to choose projects, because I also want to forge a serious and respectable career for me, not for others. My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
LatinoBuzz: I must confess that I especially like your work in 'K-11' your character is impeccable. How was working with the director Jules Stewart?
Kate: Jules is an amazing woman who has worked with all the directors you can imagine, the greatest. She has made thousands of movies working like script supervisor. She had already the entire footage of the movie in her head, we shoot it super fast, she was quite sure what she wanted, everything was amazing and I loved Mousey my character, it was one of those opportunities that you get a once in a lifetime and I could not miss this one. These are the characters where you have lots of fun, you get the chance to add them a lot of things and with Jules help, because there's a very thin line too, right? you can also can became a comedy if this type of character isn't managed well. I am very proud of my work, I can not always say the same thing i am very hard on me, i think it was a job very well done between the two, between Jules and I. Jules is a very charming woman to work with, and is an amazing director, a director who knows how to talk to actors, knows how to work the actors, she knows perfect her camera movements, she had already the entire footage of the movie in her head. Incredible.
LatinoBuzz: Do you miss 'La Reina del Sur' and your role as Teresa Mendoza?
Kate: Very much, very much. Teresa Mendoza is a really beautiful character that has so many things and also goes through a lot. There are very few times that life gives you opportunities like this.
LatinoBuzz: Will there be a movie?
Kate: Maybe, maybe.
LatinoBuzz: Is there a favorite director with whom you would like to work in the future?
Kate: There are many directors I would like to work with. There are many. There are some wonderful spanish filmmakers as Alejandro Amenábar. I love the Coen Brothers too.
LatinoBuzz: What films have inspired you in your career as an actress?
Kate: Many! But one film that fascinates me is 'Orlando' because of the work that Tilda Swinton did there, with whom then I had the fortune to work with in the film 'Julia'. Orlando is one of the films that inspires you and makes you wanna say: I want to be an actress
LatinoBuzz: Where do you see yourself ten years from now?
Kate: I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals and I never do that kind of stuff I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
LatinoBuzz: Mention in three words how would you like the public to remember you:
Kate: In three words I can hardly tell you, but I would like to be reminded with a career that has a wide range, that they can say they see me at least different in each of my roles.
She has shared credits with actresses such as Tilda Swinton, Kevin Kline, Mary Louise-Parker, Edward James Olmos, Eva Longoria and Christian Slater. It was in 2011 where Kate landed in the leading role 'as Teresa Mendoza' on the critical acclaimed 'La Reina del Sur' aired originally on Telemundo in the U.S. which positioned her at the height of her career.
In 2012 the film-director Jules Stewart choose her as 'Mousey' in K-11 which is also one of Kate's best acting challenges. We had the opportunity to accompany her on a day of shooting in her new movie called 'Visitors' a psychological thriller written and directed by Acan Coen and produced by the Mexican producers Jorge Aragon and Jesus Magaña. In the film, Kate plays Ana an skeptic surgeon who will try to win back her husband Daniel and her little Sebastián from the curse that has befallen them. Visitors is her comeback as the star of Mexican Cinema and a genre that she had not ventured before. Del Castillo's talked with us about this new project set to be released in 2014 and how she continues to strengthen her career.
LatinoBuzz: You said once that you yearned the feeling of the experience of doing something for the first time, now that you are going for the first time into a new movie genre, how do you feel working in this production?
Kate: Very happy, as I said the first time of anything is always a very special feeling. It's the first time that I work in a genre like this. I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms, a movie like this has a very different kind of rhythm. I'm very happy and very excited.
LatinoBuzz: What makes this character special to you? What new challenges has it brought to you as an actress?
Kate: For me, the script is always the most important thing. When I read the script, I loved it, I spent nearly two years to consolidate this project, you know cinema sometimes has its delays, but I think it was all worth it, not only because of the story but also because it is a totally different character. Ana is a surgeon, a pragmatic woman, a very logical woman devoted to science, so what makes this character beautiful is that the perfect structure that Ana had starts crumbling as things with no logic started to happen, so when she begins to find logic to what's really happening, her world begins to crumble. That's why I loved this character, the character arc is very beautiful.
LatinoBuzz: How do you feel working with your director Acán Coen?
Kate: Fine, very happy, it's very cool to work with a new director, it's his first film. I like to see that hunger, that urge and that everything that has a new director I learn so much from everyone. I learn, I learn a lot always.
LatinoBuzz: In the thriller genre there's a really thin line between being a thriller movie or becoming a comedy, if the thriller isn't managed well. What should the audience expect from 'Visitants' ?
Kate: I think that happens more often with Horror. Visitants, it's a psychological thriller, so that doesn't happen with us. Visitants is an important production, it is a very well done production, there is a lot of money behind the film, the special and visual effects people are wonderful, the director, the whole team are very professional people who have been working on this for so many years and we are doing something very, very professional, very well done. There is so much talent in Mexico.
LatinoBuzz: What do you think of Mexican Cinema nowadays? What do you think 'Visitants' can contribute to the industry?
Kate: First of all, making a movie of this genre is rarely performed in Mexico, so it seems a very appropriate choice, is a genre that has a lot of spectators, a genre that the audience likes a lot, that sells a lot, it can be a very commercial film and a film that you can take to festivals at the same time too. Mexican cinema it's very vast, it comes in all genders, of all qualities too. We have a huge capacity to go on to compete around the world, festivals and awards around. It is a genre that not everyone dares to enter and that is a dare too. I like challenges, i like that fear you feel for something new and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
LatinoBuzz: Every day you open yourself more doors in the Anglo market, What's next? What are your plans?
Kate: There are many plans, there are many plans with my agency, we want to do many things. We are closing projects. There comes something very important this year that I will be able to say later. I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela. Right now I thank God I have a privileged position where I can afford to choose projects, because I also want to forge a serious and respectable career for me, not for others. My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
LatinoBuzz: I must confess that I especially like your work in 'K-11' your character is impeccable. How was working with the director Jules Stewart?
Kate: Jules is an amazing woman who has worked with all the directors you can imagine, the greatest. She has made thousands of movies working like script supervisor. She had already the entire footage of the movie in her head, we shoot it super fast, she was quite sure what she wanted, everything was amazing and I loved Mousey my character, it was one of those opportunities that you get a once in a lifetime and I could not miss this one. These are the characters where you have lots of fun, you get the chance to add them a lot of things and with Jules help, because there's a very thin line too, right? you can also can became a comedy if this type of character isn't managed well. I am very proud of my work, I can not always say the same thing i am very hard on me, i think it was a job very well done between the two, between Jules and I. Jules is a very charming woman to work with, and is an amazing director, a director who knows how to talk to actors, knows how to work the actors, she knows perfect her camera movements, she had already the entire footage of the movie in her head. Incredible.
LatinoBuzz: Do you miss 'La Reina del Sur' and your role as Teresa Mendoza?
Kate: Very much, very much. Teresa Mendoza is a really beautiful character that has so many things and also goes through a lot. There are very few times that life gives you opportunities like this.
LatinoBuzz: Will there be a movie?
Kate: Maybe, maybe.
LatinoBuzz: Is there a favorite director with whom you would like to work in the future?
Kate: There are many directors I would like to work with. There are many. There are some wonderful spanish filmmakers as Alejandro Amenábar. I love the Coen Brothers too.
LatinoBuzz: What films have inspired you in your career as an actress?
Kate: Many! But one film that fascinates me is 'Orlando' because of the work that Tilda Swinton did there, with whom then I had the fortune to work with in the film 'Julia'. Orlando is one of the films that inspires you and makes you wanna say: I want to be an actress
LatinoBuzz: Where do you see yourself ten years from now?
Kate: I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals and I never do that kind of stuff I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
LatinoBuzz: Mention in three words how would you like the public to remember you:
Kate: In three words I can hardly tell you, but I would like to be reminded with a career that has a wide range, that they can say they see me at least different in each of my roles.
- 9/18/2013
- by Renee Ylizaliturri
- Sydney's Buzz
Nick Bertke, aka Pogo, is an Australian mashup artist who has a major beef with the American visa system. Back in 2011, the then-touring musician was banned from the Us for traveling without the proper work and travel visa. The punishment -- jail time, deportation and a 10-year sentence of prohibited travel to the Us -- is now keeping Mr. Bertke from pursuing his career as an artist in what he claims is "the last place on earth I wanted to be banned from."
The artist recently launched a campaign on YouTube, accompanied by a petition on WhiteHouse.gov outlining his plight. The video, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by this morning, explains how the artist traveled to the Us several times under the Visa Waiver Program -- at one time participating in a Guggenheim exhibit -- but only encountered problems when he accidentally left and reentered Us territory two years ago.
The artist recently launched a campaign on YouTube, accompanied by a petition on WhiteHouse.gov outlining his plight. The video, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by this morning, explains how the artist traveled to the Us several times under the Visa Waiver Program -- at one time participating in a Guggenheim exhibit -- but only encountered problems when he accidentally left and reentered Us territory two years ago.
- 3/19/2013
- by Katherine Brooks
- Huffington Post
Demián Bichir Oscar nominee Demián Bichir at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, on Monday, February 6, 2012. Applauding him are Jean Dujardin, Michel Hazanavicius, Janet McTeer, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Glenn Close, and others at the 2012 Oscar Luncheon. (Photo: Greg Harbaugh / © A.M.P.A.S. Click on the Demián Bichir photo to enlarge it.) Bichir is a Best Actor nominee for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, in which he plays an undocumented Mexican immigrant eking out a living in Los Angeles. His competition for the 2012 Best Actor Academy Award consists of George Clooney for Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's baseball drama Moneyball, Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Jean Dujardin for Michel Hazanavicius' silent comedy-drama The Artist. Dujardin was the Best Actor SAG Award winner.
- 2/11/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
It was Cheryl Cole’s 28th birthday this week and after weeks of hibernation she celebrated in style. Have a look at the photos of Cheryl, her bandmates and other guests.
Now it has been alleged that silly Cheryl had ex-husband and serial philander Ashley Cole as her guest.
The party was rumoured to have cost £40,000 and was held in the Sanderson Hotel. Cheryl showed off her newly cut blonde bob at the party. The Sunday Mirror allege this week that Cheryl’s ex-husband, who she reportedly turned to after being sacked as a judge on the Us X Factor, was a guest along with his brother Matthew.
Oh we really hope not. She is a very sill girl if that is the case.
Cheryl was spotted at the American embassy in London this week picking up an American visa. The visa was applied for when Cheryl was working on the X Factor.
Now it has been alleged that silly Cheryl had ex-husband and serial philander Ashley Cole as her guest.
The party was rumoured to have cost £40,000 and was held in the Sanderson Hotel. Cheryl showed off her newly cut blonde bob at the party. The Sunday Mirror allege this week that Cheryl’s ex-husband, who she reportedly turned to after being sacked as a judge on the Us X Factor, was a guest along with his brother Matthew.
Oh we really hope not. She is a very sill girl if that is the case.
Cheryl was spotted at the American embassy in London this week picking up an American visa. The visa was applied for when Cheryl was working on the X Factor.
- 7/2/2011
- by Oonagh
- Unreality
Southern District (2009), Juan Carlos Valdivia’s follow-up to American Visa (2005), is a bold, innovative film that explores the intricacies of Bolivian society in the wake of the recent political shake-up. Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, was elected president of Bolivia in 2005. He was the first of the country’s indigenous majority to hold such high office and the dramatic shift in politics was to transform most Bolivians’ lives.
Through his portrayal of one upper-class family, Valdivia illuminates a country on the brink of social change and the effect this was to have on ordinary citizens’ lives.
Carola (Ninon Del Castillo) and her children live in the affluent suburb of Zone Sur in the foothills of La Paz – the highest capital in the world. Their two servants are Aymara Indians, the butler and chef, Wilson (Pascual Loayza), and house maid Marcelina (Viviana Condori) who also tends their lush garden.
The cameras are constantly revolving,...
Through his portrayal of one upper-class family, Valdivia illuminates a country on the brink of social change and the effect this was to have on ordinary citizens’ lives.
Carola (Ninon Del Castillo) and her children live in the affluent suburb of Zone Sur in the foothills of La Paz – the highest capital in the world. Their two servants are Aymara Indians, the butler and chef, Wilson (Pascual Loayza), and house maid Marcelina (Viviana Condori) who also tends their lush garden.
The cameras are constantly revolving,...
- 3/22/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
When Latin American girls start wearing bindis, enquire about Indian superstars and Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh Khan shoots a whole TV series in splendid Argentine locales, there is little doubt that entertainment ties between the two regions are flourishing. <p /><p>Shah Rukh's TV game show "Zor Ka Jhakta", which goes on air Tuesday, is the latest to reaffirm these growing bonds. A team of 28 Indian TV and film celebrities and a supporting crew of 20 spent 40 days in Buenos Aires between December-January to shoot the show. </p><p>"Images of Argentina will appear when Shah Rukh Khan hosts 'Wipe Out' ('Zor Ka Jhakta') show from Feb 1 to 16 at 9 p.m. on the Indian TV Channel Imagine. Before each episode, there will be videos of Argentina," R. Viswanathan, Indian ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, wrote on his blog. </p><p>"The Indian cameramen were fascinated with the fantastic sceneries of...
- 2/1/2011
- Filmicafe
New Delhi, Aug 29 – Getting an Indian visa has become as tough as getting an American one, says popular Pakistani singer Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, who was on a four-city tour of the country. But he maintains that films and music are the two ’strong’ bonds between India and Pakistan.
‘Visa has become an issue in the past four to five months. It (Indian visa) is now as difficult as getting an American visa. Insha Allah things will change,’ Shafqat, 44, told Ians in an interview after his Delhi gig, the sixth till date.
‘We are hoping it is one of those good-days-bad-days thing. Sometimes we go to the embassy and ask for.
‘Visa has become an issue in the past four to five months. It (Indian visa) is now as difficult as getting an American visa. Insha Allah things will change,’ Shafqat, 44, told Ians in an interview after his Delhi gig, the sixth till date.
‘We are hoping it is one of those good-days-bad-days thing. Sometimes we go to the embassy and ask for.
- 8/29/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Getting an Indian visa has become as tough as getting an American one, says popular Pakistani singer Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, who was on a four-city tour of the country. But he maintains that films and music are the two .strong. bonds between India and Pakistan..Visa has become an issue in the past four to five months. It (Indian visa) is now as difficult as getting an American visa. Insha Allah things will change,. Shafqat, 44, told us in an interview after his Delhi gig, the sixth till date..We are hoping it is one of those good-days-bad-days thing. Sometimes we go to the embassy and ask for a day.s visa and they permit us for a month. Sometimes we have all the papers ready, but they deny us a visa even when we tell them that the person who has invited us is going to be bankrupt,. said Shafqat,...
- 8/28/2010
- Filmicafe
Director Paresh Mokashi.s Marathi film Harishchandrachi Factory may have been nominated as India.s entry to the Oscars, but that doesn.t make it easy for him to get a Us visa. He was denied a visa yesterday as the Us consulate in Mumbai was not aware of his credentials.Mokashi needs to be in La from November 2 for the promotion of his film, but he is still stuck without a visa. He says, .I don.t really blame them. I didn.t have a face that was instantly recognisable. They didn.t know who I was and I had no papers to prove I had made a film that had been sent to the Oscars..Mokashi had no documents to prove his credentials. .Whatever intimation I received about the Oscar entry from the Us, I have handed it to Utv. This was my first application for an American visa,...
- 10/27/2009
- Filmicafe
Download: The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa (Violens remix) (MP3) Esau & The Very Best @ Supreme Trading in July (more by Ryan Muir) On Tuesday, representatives of the Very Best, an African-British hybrid whose showcase was one of the most highly anticipated of the week, confirmed that the group would not be performing because Esau Mwamwaya, the Malawian singer who performs in the Very Best, "ran into unfortunate travel circumstances." A statement from the band's label, Green Owl, did not explain further but said that Mr. Mwamwaya had an American visa. Green Owl's showcase on Wednesday will...
- 10/21/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
- Volver dominated the noms for Spain's Goya Awards taking in 14 nominations, but it is Alatriste the Viggo Mortensen starrer that picked up an impressive 15 noms. The Goyas will be presented the last weekend of January. Here are the noms: Major Category 2007 Goya Nominations Film"Volver," Pedro Almodovar"Alatriste," Agustin Diaz-Yanes"Salvador," Manuel Huerga"Pan's Labyrinth," Guillermo del ToroDIRECTORAgustin Diaz-Yanes, "Alatriste"Guillermo del Toro, "Pan's Labyrinth"Manuel Huerga, "Salvador"Pedro Almodovar, "Volver"ACTORDaniel Bruehl, "Salvador"Juan Diego, "Vete de mi"Sergi Lopez, "Pan's Labyrinth", "Alatriste"ACTRESSMaribel Verdu, "Pan's Labyrinth"Marta Etura, "Darkbluealmostblack"Penelope Cruz, "Volver"Silvia Abascal, "The Silly Lady"New DIRECTORCarlos Iglesias, "Crossing Borders"Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, "Darkbluealmostblack"Javier Rebollo, "What I Know About Lola"Jorge Sanchez Cabezudo, "The Night of the Sunflowers"Original SCREENPLAYDaniel Sanchez Arevalo, "Darkbluealmostblack"Guillermo del Toro, "Pan's Labyrinth"Jorge Sanchez Cabezudo, "The Night of the Sunflowers"Pedro Almodovar, "Volver"Adapted SCREENPLAYAgustin Diaz-Yanes, "Alatriste"Antonio Banderas,
- 12/18/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
- As committees from each individual country select their respective submissions for the Best Foreign Picture Academy Award derby, folks like myself have the arduous task of trying to keep score. Without a doubt the early favorite is Germanyâ.s selection which has already picked up seven German Film Awards this year. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's directorial debut takes place in East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. Sony Pictures Classics will release The Lives of Others early next year, though it could be challenged for the Foreign Oscar category by another Spc pic â. Pedroâ.s Volver. Also let
- 10/20/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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