Berlin 2013: Best Director David Gordon Green This year's Best Director at the Berlinale was David Gordon Green for Prince Avalanche, featuring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two quite disparate road workers who develop an unlikely friendship. Green also wrote the Prince Avalanche screenplay, from an original story by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson. (Pictured above: David Gordon Green.) Best Actress Paulina Garcia Best Actress winner Paulina Garcia (pictured above holding her Silver Bear) is the star of Sebastián Lelio's dramatic comedy Gloria, which follows a middle-aged woman who rediscovers love in the person of a naval officer in his mid-60s. Roadside Attractions will handle the distribution of the well-liked Gloria in the U.S. Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi receives award The Best Screenplay prize went to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi for the narrative drama Closed Curtain. While accepting the award, Partovi told the audience that...
- 2/17/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Rome -- German-Turkish auteur Fatih Akin and Iranian artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat will chair the juries that will hand out two of the main secondary prizes at the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival this summer.
Both Akin and Neshat are Venice regulars: Akin won the special jury prize at last year's festival for "Soul Kitchen," while Neshat has the are distinction of having won a major prize at both the Venice Film Festival, where her first feature film "Woman Without Men" won her the Silver Lion award for best director, and at the Venice Art Biennale, where she won a Golden Lion ten years earlier for a set of video installations called "Turbulent" and "Rapture."
At this year's event, Akin will chair the jury that will select the winner of the Luigi de Laurentiis Award for debut films, while Neshat will head the International Orizzonti Jury, which...
Both Akin and Neshat are Venice regulars: Akin won the special jury prize at last year's festival for "Soul Kitchen," while Neshat has the are distinction of having won a major prize at both the Venice Film Festival, where her first feature film "Woman Without Men" won her the Silver Lion award for best director, and at the Venice Art Biennale, where she won a Golden Lion ten years earlier for a set of video installations called "Turbulent" and "Rapture."
At this year's event, Akin will chair the jury that will select the winner of the Luigi de Laurentiis Award for debut films, while Neshat will head the International Orizzonti Jury, which...
- 5/11/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shirin Neshat doesn’t shy away from complexity. Her internationally lauded photography and video installation work takes as its primary subject matter the epistemology that informs how we view Muslim women and the real world forces which shape there lived experiences. She challenges stereotypes and received knowledge in all of her works, a quality that has not gone unnoticed by the international art world. A pair of major installations in the late 1990′s, Turbulent (1998) and Rapture (1999), both of which received prizes at the Biennial of Venice, long ago cemented her place as one of the world’s most compelling visuals artists. That claim is only strengthened by her feature directorial debut Women Without Men. Based...
- 5/5/2010
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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