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New Social Site theBlu is Like Etsy for Digital Aquatic Art
18 October 2011 3:00 PM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Wemo Media A screenshot from theBlu
For aquatic social media enthusiasts, Wemo Media’s new project theBlu is the site for you.
TheBlu is a virtual ocean, where audiences can use Wemo’s “Maker Media Platform” to buy user-created animals and plants to populate their screens and jump around to various oceanic vistas. Each of the creatures and items available for sale are designed by artists, animators, software engineers and developers from around the world, who receive a cut of »
- Michelle Kung
Louie Psihoyos And “The Singing Planet”
3 October 2011 10:39 AM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Louie Psihoyos started out as a still photographer for National Geographic. He won an Oscar for his first feature length documentary: The Cove, which took an unflinching look at the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. He is now starting work on his next film, The Singing Planet, which will be shot underwater using extraordinary sound recording advances. He took a moment to talk with me about his films and his work as an enviromentalist.
Filmmaker: How did you get interested in still photography? How did you start working as a photographer?
Psihoyos: I loved making art when I was a kid. I think that’s what got me into still photography, that I could make instant art. When you are drawing or painting it can take days or weeks to make a piece of artwork, but with photography you could do it relatively instantly. I drew birds. I drew wildlife. »
- Alix Lambert
The Cove Benefit Screening Pictures
24 June 2011 5:06 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
The Cove benefit screening Q & A and Bob Weir live performance.Photo copyright Jonathan Shensa / PR Photos. The Cove benefit screening Q & A and Bob Weir live performance.Photo copyright Jonathan Shensa / PR Photos. The Cove benefit screening Q & A and Bob Weir live performance.Photo copyright Jonathan Shensa / PR Photos. The Cove benefit screening Q & A and Bob Weir live performance.Photo copyright Jonathan Shensa / PR Photos. The Cove benefit screening Q & A and Bob Weir live performance.Photo copyright Jonathan Shensa / PR Photos. 06/22/2011 - Louie Psihoyos, Bob Weir - "The Cove" Benefit Screening - Q & A and Bob Weir Live Performance - Christopher B. Smith »
- Michelle Wray
Tribeca 2011: Award Winners
4 May 2011 9:41 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
You can tell how massive and diverse a festival like Tribeca is by the fact that I saw 10 features and a whole bunch of shorts, yet only one film I saw won an award and none received special mention. I want to congratulate Rider & Shiloh Strong for winning best online short for their amazing film, The Dungeon Master. I have been pushing it as my favorite short of the festival and apparently many people agreed with me. Below is the list of all the winners & special mentions. Congratulations to all of them and congrats to everyone who just played at the festival, which is a huge honor by itself.
World Narrative Competition Categories:
The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition were Souleymane Cissé, Scott Glenn, David Gordon Green, Rula Jebreal, Art Linson, Jason Sudeikis and Dianne Wiest.
The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature . She Monkeys (Apflickorna), directed by Lisa Aschan, »
- Jerry Cavallaro
Tribeca Film Festival reveals its winners
29 April 2011 8:37 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of its competition categories Thursday night at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City.
Not that the festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, is finished. It runs through May 1, giving audiences time to go see the films that topped their respective categories.
“It’s wonderful to have reached our 10th edition and to be able to celebrate with all of these gifted filmmakers. We’ve been fortunate that as we have grown we have remained a place that welcomes a diverse range of stories told by compelling and exciting filmmakers,” said Jane Rosenthal, festival co-founder. “We are truly honored that the community has supported the Festival all these years – the community of New York and the international film community.”
Screenings of all winning films will take place throughout the final day of the Festival, »
- Sean O'Connell
2011 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Awards
28 April 2011 7:17 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Today the Tribeca Film Festival awarded $185,000 in cash prizes for both narrative and documentary films. Some notable awards include: She Monkeys for Best Narrative, Artificial Paradises for Best Cinematography, Turn Me On Goddammit for Best Screenplay, and Carice van Houten as Ingrid Jonker in Black Butterflies for Best Actress. Check out the press release below for the full lineup of awards.
2011 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Awards
She Monkeys, Journals Of Musan, Bombay Beach And Like Water
Win Top Awards In Juried World Competitions
Festival Awards More Than $185,000 In Cash Prizes
[April 28, 2011 – New York, NY] – The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City. The Festival runs through May 1, 2011.
The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen »
- Christopher Clemente
Tribeca Film Festival 2011 Announces Jurors for Competitive Categories
20 April 2011 7:10 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its jurors who will be choosing the winning films, filmmakers and actors from the six competitive Festival categories. The thirty-eight jurors consist of award-winning filmmakers, screenwriters and notorious actors such as Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Cera. Winners will be announced at the Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28, which will be hosted by Gideon Yago and streamed live on TribecaFilm.com. Below is the press release from Tribeca.
Please visit www.tribecafilm.com for more details. The 2011 Festival runs from April 20 – May 1.
2011 Tribeca Film Festival Jury Announced
David O. Russell, David Gordon Green, Dianne Wiest, Souleymane Cissé, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Rainn Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Denis Leary,Atom Egoyan and Fran Lebowitz are Among the 38 Festival Jurors
New York, NY – April 18, 2010 – The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced its jurors »
- Christopher Clemente
Tribeca Film Festival 2011 Jury: Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Wilson, Souleymane Cissé, Michael Cera
18 April 2011 1:59 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Whoopi Goldberg The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, which runs April 20-May 1, has announced its jurors. [Full list of Tribeca 2011 jury.] In the internationally eclectic list are found Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, Your Highness' David Gordon Green, The Tillman Story's Amir Bar-Lev, Bullets Over Broadway's Dianne Wiest, The Cove's Louie Psihoyos, Ghost's Whoopi Goldberg, Up in the Air's Anna Kendrick, American Gigolo's Lauren Hutton, The Sweet Hereafter filmmaker Atom Egoyan, and Sleepless in Seattle's Nora Ephron. Also: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work's Annie Sundberg, Little Miss Sunshine's Paul Dano, producer Christine Vachon, Little Children's Patrick Wilson, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World's Michael Cera, and curiously, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. All that talent will be divided among the Tribeca Film Festival's six competitive categories. The winners will be announced on April 28 at a ceremony hosted by Gideon Yago, which will be streamed live on TribecaFilm. »
- Anna Robinson
Michael Cera, Whoopi Goldberg among Tribeca jurors
18 April 2011 1:00 PM, PDT | Cineplex | See recent Cineplex news »
Michael Cera and Whoopi Goldberg are among the 38 jurors for the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival.
Tribeca announced its jurors Monday, two days before the New York festival, launched by Robert De Niro, opens. Goldberg and Cera are among the jurors for the world documentary competition, which also includes filmmakers, film festival directors and producers Amir Bar-Lev, Rj Cutler, Abigail Disney, Louie Psihoyos and Peter Scarlet.
Director David Gordon Green, whose medieval comedy Your Highness hit theatres just last weekend, "Saturday Night Live" player and Hall Pass co-star Jason Sudeikis and actress Dianne Wiest are among those overseeing the world narrative competition. »
- Cineplex.com and contributors
The Cove Blu-ray Review
18 April 2011 12:00 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
If someone told you that The Cove was a really, really good-- but really, really depressing-- documentary about dolphins being slaughtered in Japan, you probably wouldn't leap at the chance to see it (sic transit gloria, and all that). But Louie Psihoyos' The Cove is much, much more than that: it plays out like a real-life cloak-and-dagger mission, one where the stakes are as high as they come (everyone involved put their life on the line to secure some of the footage seen here) and the methods are just as elaborate and clever as the ones that George Clooney put into play with his crew in Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven series. Besides that, though, The Cove is a film that everyone-- yes, including you-- needs to see at least once. Read on to find out why after the jump, folks. Louie Psihoyos' The Cove is-- let's face it-- not a pleasant film to watch. »
- Scott Wampler
David O. Russell, Whoopi Goldberg among Tribeca Film Fest jurors
18 April 2011 11:18 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: David O. Russell, Nora Ephron, Rainn Wilson, Paul Dano, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Whoopi Goldberg and Dianne Wiest are some of the celebrity names added to the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Jury, announced today.
The jurors have been divided among the six competitive Festival categories and will announce the winning films, filmmakers and actors in those categories at the Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28.
The 2011 Festival runs from April 20 – May 1.
“This year’s jury is made up of a range of accomplished individuals in their respective fields, bringing a fresh and well-rounded perspective,” said Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. “It’s an honor to have a jury of such caliber watching and discussing the films in competition this year.”
Following is a list of all 2011 Festival jurors and their respective categories.
World Competition Categories:
The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition »
- Sean O'Connell
Tribeca Film Festival announces 2011 jurors
18 April 2011 10:00 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
David O. Russell, Nora Ephron, Dianne Wiest, Jason Sudeikis, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Rainn Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Denis Leary, Atom Egoyan and Fran Lebowitz are among the 38 jurors for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 20 to May 1. “This year’s jury is made up of a range of accomplished individuals in their respective fields, bringing a fresh and well-rounded perspective,” said Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, in a statement. “It’s an honor to have a jury of such caliber watching and discussing the films in competition this year. »
- Jeff Labrecque
[DVD Review] The Cove (Blu-Ray)
9 April 2011 3:52 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
By now, you are probably familiar with the horrific climax of The Cove: a seemingly endless sequence in which dolphins are massacred wholesale by Japanese fishermen, in the minor inlet of the film’s title. Had the film been not so clear about which side of the ideological divide it stood on, it would have doubtlessly come under fire by animal rights activists as exploitative, regardless of its veracity, but it does. It never allows you for one moment to guess what its thoughts are on the topic of the Japanese dolphin industry, nor what yours should be. Without the horrific footage it possesses to back it up, this would have grown tiresome quickly, but since it builds as effectively as it does to its now infamous finale, the missionary zeal of the protagonists seems not only noble, but justified and relateable. The film may be intended as a call to arms, »
- Anders Nelson
The Cove
8 April 2011 5:48 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Starring: Richard O'Barry, Brook Aitken, Joe Chisholm
Director: Louie Psihoyos
The Scoop: This winner of the 2010 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature explores the political, legal and moral ramifications of Japan's extensive culture of dolphin hunting. That's right, some people in Japan hunt -- and then eat -- dolphins. We're still waiting for the follow up about the harvesting of meat for their lucrative baby unicorn burger industry. Needless to say, this hasn't proven popular in Japan.
Special Features: Commentary, deleted scenes, trailer, featurettes
Rated PG-13, 92 min. | Watch the trailer »
- NextMovie Staff
The Cove director sends dolphin slaughter DVDs to whole fishing town
28 February 2011 5:37 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Louie Psihoyos wants people of Taiji in Japan to see his Oscar-winning movie about annual hunt by 'handful of thugs'
The director of The Cove, an Oscar-winning film about the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji on Japan's Pacific coast, has sent free DVDs of the movie to the town's residents.
Louie Psihoyos said he was concerned that the film had not been given enough exposure in Japan, particularly among the 3,500 residents of Taiji.
The American director said Japanese-language copies of the movie, which last year won the Oscar for best documentary, had been delivered to every household in Taiji over the weekend with the help of a local ocean conservation group.
"The people of Taiji deserve to know what millions of others around the world have learned about their town," he told Associated Press.
The town office confirmed it had received two copies of the film, dubbed into Japanese, »
- Justin McCurry
Charles Ferguson's Inside Job Wins DGA Award – Best Documentary
29 January 2011 10:32 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Charles Ferguson has won the DGA Award for Best Director of a Documentary, Inside Job, which is also up for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category. Inside Job tells the ugly story behind the economic meltdown of 2008. Unlike the DGA-Oscar match-ups in the Narrative Feature category — all but eight* DGA winners have won Best Picture Oscars the same year — nearly all DGA documentary winners have failed to take home an Academy Award statuette. In fact, many DGA winners weren't even nominated for an Academy Award, e.g., Asger Leth's Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2007), Arunas Matelis' Before Flying Back to Earth (2006), Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005), and Steve James' Hoop Dreams (1994). Last year, Louie Psihoyos' The Cove managed to win both the DGA Award and the Oscar. * See DGA Award vs. Academy Award Winners: From John Huston to Roman Polanski »
- Steve Montgomery
2011 The Cinema Eye Honors: Gift Shop and Last Train Home Win Big
19 January 2011 9:15 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
It was a wonderful night celebrating documentary filmmaking at the fourth annual Cinema Eye Honors, held in the beautifully renovated Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, N.Y. on January 18th. Hosted by filmmakers Aj Schnack (Kurt Cobain: About a Son) and Esther Robinson (A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory), the nominees comprised of some of the best documentary films of 2010, truly a celebration of nonfiction filmmaking rather than a competition. David Schwartz, the chief curator of the Museum, relayed the thoughts of many filmgoers who say that “the best films at festivals are the documentaries.” The night kicked off with musical accompaniment by the Quavers and an excerpt of Utopia in Four Movements, performed by Sam Green. His excerpt was at both funny and poignant, touching upon a mix of history and comedy, segueing between 1960s ideas of the future world to »
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