What goes into the making of a film? What are the trends in contemporary cinematography? These and other questions will be addressed by world-renowned filmmakers who have worked on such cult classics as American Beauty, The King’s Speech, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. On 13 March, the Visegrad Film Forum will open its gates at the Film and Television School of the Ac ...

For an entire week in March, film enthusiasts will have the opportunity to attend inspiring meetings with world-renowned film professionals. DoP José Luis Alcaine, known for his long-term collaboration with Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar; Tariq Anwar, editor of such films as American Beauty or The King’s Speech; cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, who has worked on cult classics like Star Wars: The Empire S ...

PARK CITY, UTAH, January 23, 2024 — Tonight at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival the short film jury awards were announced during the Shorts Awards Party presented by Argo and WeShort at The Park in Park City.The Festival, which kicked off on January 18 and runs through January 28 in person and across the country online, has long been known as the premiere showcase of short filmmaking talent. The Short Film G ...

2024 Sundance Film Festival’s 40th Edition Kicks Off On Thursday January 18 Park City, Utah - Today, in advance of the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival kicking off on January 18, the nonprofit Sundance Institute is commemorating the four decades of extraordinary independent filmmaking presented at the Festival with the results of a survey taken by the filmmaking communities on their top ten featur ...

Tariq Anwar, editor of such films as American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, or The King’s Speech, laureate of two BAFTAs and two-time Academy Award nominee; Rúnar Rúnarsson, one of the most awarded short film directors of our time, holder of the Palme d’Or, the European Film Award, and one Oscar nomination. These and many other acclaimed filmmakers will be coming to Bratislava for the Visegrad Film Forum (13– ...

December 14, 2023, Park City, UT — The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today that Academy Award–nominated actress Kristen Stewart will be honored with the Visionary Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s fundraiser Opening Night Gala: Celebrating 40 Years Presented by Chase Sapphire®, which will take place on January 18, 2024, at the DeJoria Center in Utah. The annual gala enables the nonprofit t ...

The Feminist Film Festival "Filma" will run from November 27 to December 10. For two weeks, 14 films will be available on the festival's website, comprising three programs: the labor rights program "United in Struggle", the housing rights program "This is an Address" and the open call program "The Art of Healing" about traumatic experiences, and ways to heal and find strength.  The three thematic selec ...

✨Filma. Feminist Film Festival announces an open call for entries for the special non-competitive program!✨ The collective is welcoming all films that: ▪️ touch on key topics for intersectional feminism; ▪️ have been created following feminist work principles (or you're trying to follow said principles when making a film and are ready to share your experiences); ...

REVIEW - BOOK: Some Versions of Cary Grant (James Naremore, Oxford University Press, 2022) - MILAN HAIN - Indiana University Professor Emeritus James Naremore is a scholar with many diverse interests, as I reported in the pages of 25fps years ago. In addition to film noir, adaptation and authorship (Welles, Kubrick, Minnelli), foremost among them is film acting, to which Naremore devoted his influential and ...

Fifteen awards were given to producers and directors during the East Doc Platform Partners' Awards and the Closing Ceremony of One World & East Doc Platform on Thursday, March 30. The East Doc Platform Award 2023 jurors Hanka Kastelicová (HBO Max), Thomas Beyer (MDR) and Alexandra Derewienko (CAT&Docs) awarded the project about the refugees trapped by the Belarusian government in a cynical geopoliti ...