" BERLIN (JTA) -- Berlin's international film festival is a purveyor of anti-Semitic propaganda, a filmmakers organization says. The Club of Iranian and European Filmmakers will protest Thursday outside the screening of "Letters to the President," a film about Iranian...
" Israeli filmmakers and directors remove taboos from the Israel-Arab wars and see them as valuable resources for anti war movies.The successful Beaufort, Oscar nominated...
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"Warner Bros, Cohen Bros and Walia Bros! How does it sound? 'Cool', say the UK-based filmmakers Walia brothers in an interview with India EU Film Initiative. Yugesh and Sunandan, who founded Endboard Productions...
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"Ayub Khan Din, the writer of Award-winning comedy 'East is East', about the conflict between a Pakistani father and his mixed race family in Salford, 1971, will mentor the budding screenwriters for a new film...
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"India's independent filmmakers are joining forces at 61st Cannes 2008 despite the fact that this is, arguably, the worst year for Indian cinema at Cannes. Indian films in each category are conspicuous by their...
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The popularity of documentary films seems only to be getting bigger and the quality of doc films being made seems only to be getting better. So what's not to love about Hot Docs?Canada's annual, big ticket doc...
As a path-breaking culture of film exchange begins with the screening of Indian films in Pakistan and vice versa, the jury is still out whether it's going to last for some time for real good. India blockbuster...
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A business to business news portal of Indian and European filmmakers was launched in London Monday April 14, 2008. India EU Film Initiative (IEFILMI) is poised as a bridge to link the film cultures between Europe...
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Over the past several years, documentary films have made a powerful resurgence into the mainstream movie landscape, and recent Canadian productions such as the remarkable "Up the Yangtze", clearly demonstrate that...
I must say that ads sure do mess up a movie. An interesting, and perhaps groundbreaking, decision from the Swedish Supreme Court which ruled that inserting ads into a movie without the directors explicit permission is in violation of the copyright. The limitation with this...
created by ryan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 317 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
I had no idea, until this morning, that Bollywood movies were banned from being screened in Pakistan. Having only allowed three Indian films to be shown in Pakistan, back in 2006, today's announcement proposes...
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This is promising news: Guillermo del Toro, the acclaimed director of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, may take on directing duties for the upcoming Hobbit movies. "Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct...
More Moby in movies? I like that it's free for indie filmmakers, but isn't there enough Moby floating around in the pop culture universe? Also, I didn't know he was a "dance musician." I thought he was...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1310 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment