Monday, September 23, 2019

NFDC Film Bazaar 2019-INDUSTRY SCREENING

NFDC has programmed to screen films to a select audience of producers, distributors, sales agents, financiers and festival programmers which will give a great opportunity for national and international exposure and also media attention. This is happening at Marriot, Panaji, Goa from 20th to 24th during the 50th edition of IFFI. You need to be a registered delegate of the Film Bazar 2019 to participate. Films of any length and any genre can be submitted.



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Sunday, September 8, 2019

76 th Venice International Film Festival 2019- Awards declared

The actor Joaquin Phoenix stars in the film “Joker,” drawn from the DC Comics character, which won the top prize at the Venice International Film Festival on Saturday.Image result for Kore-Eda's drama " The Truth".

The 76th edition of the festival opened with the Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-Eda's drama " The Truth". Films of prominent auteurs, Noah Baumbach(Marriage Story), James Gray(Ad Astra), Oliver Assayas(Wasp Network), Roman Polanski (J'accuse-An Officer and a Spy) etc were showcased in the fest.
Image result for Roman Polanski (An Officer and a Spy)Image result for Olivier Assayas(Wasp Network)
The Jury chaired by   Lucrecia Martel, and comprised of Stacy MartinMary HarronPiers HandlingRodrigo PrietoShinya TsukamotoPaolo Virzì, having viewed all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows:

GOLDEN LION for Best Film to:
JOKER
by Todd Phillips (USA)

SILVER LION - GRAND JURY PRIZE to:
J’ACCUSE
by Roman Polanski (France, Italy)

SILVER LION - AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR to:
Roy Andersson
for the film OM DET OÄNDLIGA (ABOUT ENDLESSNESS) (Sweden, Germany, Norway)

COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actress:
Ariane Ascaride
in the film GLORIA MUNDI by Robert Guédiguian (France, Italy)

COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actor:
Luca Marinelli
in the film MARTIN EDEN by Pietro Marcello (Italy, France)

AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Yonfan
for the film JI YUAN TAI QI HAO (No.7 CHERRY LANE) by Yonfan (Hong Kong SAR, China)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to:
LA MAFIA NON È PIÙ QUELLA DI UNA VOLTA
by Franco Maresco (Italy)

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD
for Best Young Actor or Actress to:
Toby Wallace
in the film BABYTEETH by Shannon Murphy (Australia)

   ORIZZONTI


The Orizzonti Jury of the 76th Venice International Film Festival, chaired by Susanna Nicchiarelli and composed of Eva SangiorgiÁlvaro BrechnerMark AdamsRachid Bouchareb, after screening the 19 feature films and 13 short films in competition has decided to award:

The ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST FILM to:
ATLANTIS
by Valentyn Vasyanovych (Ukraine)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR to:
Théo Court
for the film BLANCO EN BLANCO (Spain, Chile, France, Germany)

the SPECIAL ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE to:
VERDICT
by Raymund Ribay Gutierrez (Filippine)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS to:
Marta Nieto
in the film MADRE by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain, France)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR to:
Sami Bouajila
in the film BIK ENEICH – UN FILS by Mehdi M. Barsaoui (Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Jessica Palud, Philippe Lioret, Diastème
for the film REVENIR by Jessica Palud (France)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM to:
DARLING
by Saim Sadiq (Pakistan, USA)

the VENICE SHORT FILM NOMINATION FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2019 to:
CÃES QUE LADRAM AOS PÁSSAROS (DOGS BARKING AT BIRDS)
by Leonor Teles (Portugal)

   VENICE CLASSICS


The Venice Classics Jury, chaired by Costanza Quatriglio and composed of 22 cinema history students – nominated by their professors – from Italian universities, DAMS performing arts courses, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, has decided to award:

the VENICE CLASSICS AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY ON CINEMA to:
BABENCO - ALGUÉM TEM QUE OUVIR O CORAÇÃO E DIZER: PAROU (BABENCO – TELL ME WHEN I DIE)
by Bárbara Paz (Brazil)

the VENICE CLASSICS AWARD FOR BEST RESTORED FILM to:
EXTASE (ECSTASY)
by Gustav Machatý (Czechoslovakia, 1932)

   VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM

The Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film Jury at the 76th Venice Film Festival, chaired by Emir Kusturica and comprised of Antonietta De LilloHend SabryTerence Nance and Michael Werner, has decided to award:

LION OF THE FUTURE
“LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM to:
YOU WILL DIE AT 20
by Amjad Abu Alala (Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar)
GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI
as well as a prize of 100,000 US dollars, donated by Filmauro, to be divided equally between the director and the producer.

     VENICE VIRTUAL REALITY

The Venice VR Jury of the 76th Venice International Film Festival, chaired by Laurie Anderson and composed of Alysha Naples and Francesco Carrozzini, after viewing the 27 projects in competition has decided to award:

the GRAND JURY PRIZE FOR BEST VR IMMERSIVE WORK to:
THE KEY
by Céline Tricart (USA)

the BEST VR IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE FOR INTERACTIVE CONTENT to:
A LINHA
by Ricardo Laganaro (Brazil)

the BEST VR IMMERSIVE STORY FOR LINEAR CONTENT to:
DAUGHTERS OF CHIBOK
by Joel Kachi Benson (Nigeria)

Monday, September 2, 2019

76th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2019)-Pedro Almodóvar received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement .

76th venice international film festival logo എന്നതിനുള്ള ചിത്രംPedro Almodóvar, Golden Lion for Lifetime AchievementPedro Almodóvar received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for directors at the 76th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2019).
The decision was made by the board of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, which espoused the proposal made by the Director of the Festival, Alberto Barbera.
Accepting the award, Pedro Almodóvar declared: “I am very excited and honoured with the gift of this Golden Lion. I have very good memories of the Venice Film Festival. My international debut took place there in 1983 with Dark Habits. It was the first time one of my films travelled out of Spain, it was my international baptism and a wonderful experience, as it was my return with Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in 1988. This Lion is going to become my pet, along with the two cats I live with. Thanks from the bottom of my heart for giving me this award”.
Pedro Almodóvar will hold a masterclass on Friday 30th August at 3:00 pm in the Sala Perla 2 (Palazzo del Casinò).
Access: public* (*please collect the free coupon at the ticket offices) - all pass holders.
Regarding this award, Alberto Barbera declared, “Almodóvar isn’t only the greatest and most influential Spanish director since Buñuel, he is a filmmaker who has offered us the most multifaceted, controversial, and provocative portraits of post-Franco Spain. The topics of transgression, desire, and identity are the terrain of choice for his films, which he imbues with corrosive humor and adorns with a visual splendor that confers unusual radiance on the aesthetic camp and pop art to which he explicitly refers. Lovesickness, the heartache of abandonment, the contradictions of desire, and the lacerations of depression converge in movies that straddle melodrama and its parody, achieving peaks of emotional authenticity that redeem any potential formal excess. Without forgetting that Almodóvar excels, above all, in painting incredibly original female portraits, thanks to an exceptional empathy which allows him to represent their power, emotional richness, and inevitable weaknesses with a rare and touching authenticity.”

Pedro Almodóvar was born in Calzada de Calatrava, in the heart of La Mancha, in the 50s. At seventeen, he left home and moved to Madrid, with no money and no job, but with a very specific project in mind: to study cinema and direct films. It was impossible to enrol in the Official Film School because Franco had just closed it. Despite the dictatorship that was suffocating the country, for an adolescent from the provinces Madrid represented culture, independence and freedom.
He worked at many sporadic jobs, but he couldn’t buy his first Super-8mm camera until he got a “serious” job at the National Telephone Company of Spain in 1971. He worked there for twelve years as an administrative assistant. In the mornings, his job gave him an in-depth knowledge of the Spanish middle class at the start of the consumer era, with its dramas and its misfortunes, a real gold mine for a future story teller. In the evenings and nights, he wrote, loved, acted with the mythical independent theatre group Los Goliardos and made films in Super-8. He collaborated with various underground magazines and wrote stories, some of which were even published. He was a member of a parody punk-rock group, Almodóvar & McNamara. He had the good fortune that his personal explosion coincided with the explosion of the democratic Madrid of the last seventies, early eighties. That was the period the world knew as La Movida.
After a year and a half of eventful shooting on 16mm, in 1980 he opened Pepi, Luci, Bom, a no-budget film made as a cooperative effort with the rest of the crew and the cast, all beginners, except for Carmen Maura.
In 1986, he founded the production company El Deseo with his brother Agustín. Their first project was Law of Desire. Since then, they have produced all the films that Pedro has written and directed, they have also produced other young directors.
In 1988, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown brought him international recognition. Since then, his films have opened all around the world.
With All About my Mother (1999) he won his first Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, he was also awarded as Best Director in Cannes Film Festival. Three years later, Talk to Her got him an Academy Award for Best Script.
In 2004, Bad Education was chosen to open the Cannes Festival. In 2006, he presented Volver in Cannes Film Festival, where it got the Best Screenplay Award as well as the Best Actress Award for the six actresses of the film, leaded by Penélope Cruz, who would eventually became the first Spanish actress nominated for an Academy Award for a Spanish speaking film.
He is been awarded with the Prince of Asturias Award to the Arts and has special University Honours by Harvard and Oxford Universities.
Some of his films have been adapted into plays (All About My Mother) and even into musicals (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown).

Filmography
1980               Pepi, Luci, Bom
1982               Labyrinth of Passions
1983               Dark Habits
1984-85         What Have I Done to Deserve This?!
1985-86         Matador
1986               Law of Desire
1988               Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1989               Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1991               High Heels
1993               Kika
1995               The Flower of my Secret
1997               Live Flesh
1999               All About my Mother
2001               Talk to Her
2003               Bad Education
2006               Volver
2009               Broken Embraces
2011               The Skin I Live In
2013               I’m So Excited!
2016               Julieta
2019              Dolor y gloria
courtesy: LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA