Xavier Dolan - "Heartbeats" (Les Amours Imaginaires)

Xavier Dolan -

 His intrepid experimentation with visual language is not always successful but suggests great things from the young film-maker in the future.

By Mike Goodridge / ScreenDaily

No more goodies, no more baddies: they’re all ugly

No more goodies, no more baddies: they’re all ugly

The crime megaseries that have redefined television in the past three to four years – The ShieldThe SopranosThe Wire, running across 60-90 episodes – are not clear.

By John Lloyd Published: June 5 2010 01:39 | Last updated: June 5 2010 01:39

South Africa - 'We're standing on the threshold of history'

South Africa - 'We're standing on the threshold of history'

South Africa has come alive, and will never be the same after this World Cup' " Jacob Zuma

Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron : Why We Must All Defend Indepedent Filmmaking

Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron : Why We Must All Defend Indepedent Filmmaking

 Join Robert Redford in the fight to keep independent filmmaking INDEPENDENT. Read Redford’s important call to help filmmaker Joe Berlinger in his legal battle with Chevron.

Robert Redford on Jun 03, 2010 at 10:06 am

Sam Worthington Bio

Sam Worthington Bio
Sam's career took off internationally when he was cast in "Avatar" and "Terminator Salvation". He has said that he will go where ever the work takes him and would "like to go on 'Dancing With The Stars'".

THE SPIDER Fights The Iron Men... at Moonstone?

THE SPIDER Fights The Iron Men... at Moonstone?

 For this comic adaptation of this seminal story, Moonstone enlisted writer Howard Hopkins and artist J. Anthony Kosar to bring this story to modern audiences.

By Chris Arrant
posted: 08 June 2010 10:45 am ET

 

 

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SLAMDANCE UNVEILS SHORT FILM LINEUP

86 films to run in four competition categories

The Slamdance Film Festival has selected 86 short films in four competition categories: documentary, narrative/experimental, animation and the new musicvideo classification.

The entries, announced Monday, will be eligible for a grand jury award. All entries were chosen by the shorts programming committee, comprised primarily of Slamdance alumni filmmakers.

Notable alumni from Slamdance's shorts include Gina Prince-Bythewood ("The Secret Life of Bees"), Mike Mitchell ("Shrek Goes Fourth"), Seth Gordon ("Four Christmases"), Jared Hess ("Napoleon Dynamite"), Matt Nix ("Burn Notice") and Rian Johnson ("The Brothers Bloom").

Slamdance will run concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four jury competitions, Slamdance also has two out-of-competition shorts categories -- the Anarchy Online Film Competition and $99 Specials, produced by Slamdance and directed by Slamdance alumni for $99.

The festival has also formed a venture with Indieroad.net to stream films throughout the festival. Each online viewing of a Slamdance film or shorts will cost $9, and one third of that will go directly to the filmmakers.

The documentary short competition includes "Circles of Confusion" by Phoebe Tooke; "The First Kid to Learn English from Mexico," Peter Jordan; "Grand Teton," Julia Kim Smith; "King Surfer," Nadia Hallgren; "Rare Chicken Rescue," Randall Wood; and "Theo," Georgi Banks-Davies.

The narrative/experimental category includes "City Girls," Jon Rafman; "The Covenant of Mr. Kasch," Joshua Beahan and Ruwan De Silver; "Cute Couple," Courtney Moorhead Balaker; "Dish," Brian H. Krinksy; "Diversions," Peggy Bruen; "El Ladroncito," Yamin Segal; "An Evening With Emery Long," Brad DeMarea; "Feelings and Stuff," Samuli Valkama; "Funny Guy," Frank Rinaldi; "Happy Rabbit," Patrick Jackson; and Francois Gamaury; "Hatemail," Frazer Churchill; "Hold Your Fire," Wes Benscoter; "Horsefingers 3: Starfucker," Kirsten Kearse; "I Don't Sleep I Dream," J.P. Chan; "I Think It's Love," Susan Hippen; "Immersion," Richard Levien; "Imminent," Randall Good; "It Shines and Shakes and Laughs," Matthew Wade; "Let's Go," Maxim Kuphal; "A Little Mouth to Feed," Jack Daniel Stanley; "The Maid," Heidi Saman; "Milbe," Karl Tebbe; "Moon Lady," Sulyn Zan; "One-Half World," Daniel Berube; "The Pond," Sonja Phillips; "Princess Margaret Blvd.," Kazik Radwanski; "The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven," Keith Bogart and Don DeLillo; "River," Guinness Rider; "Sapsucker," Christopher Holmes; "Shor," Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, "A Short Ride (Scurta Plimbare Na Masina), Paul Negoescu and Simona Ghita; "Six and a Half," Ana Lily Amirpour; "The Skooks," Norwood Cheek; "Tony Zoreil," Valentin Potier: "Una y Otra Vez," Antonio Mendez; "Vapid Lovelies," Frank Feldman, David Luna and Chris Lemon; "Vodka & Women," Xavier Tatarkiewicz.

Animation includes, "5," Graeme Hawkins; "The Adventures of Ledo and Ix," Emily Carmichael, "Alice's Attic," Robyn Yannoukos and Brian LoSchiavo; "Dear Fatty," Hsin-I Tseng; "ELA, In Love at First Byte," Fernando Sarmiento, Alejandro Sarmiento and J.F. Mackeprang; "Flute Babies," Gretta Johnson, "Forestry," Woodpecker; "Kanizsa Hill," Evelyn Lee; "Seeking You," Jean-Julien Pous; "Swimming Moon," Nahomi Maki, "Suncrow," Martin Falconer; "Trepan Hole," Andy Cahill; "Undone," Hayley Morris, "An Unquiet Mind," Chihwen Lo.

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