NEW YORK -- The Bermuda International Film Festival marks its tenth anniversary with a lineup that includes 85 films from 32 countries, including several award-winning entries from other fests.
The BIFF opens Mar. 16 with Paul Verhoeven's recent best foreign language film Oscar shortlist entry Black Book, and closes with Taika Waititi's comic love story from New Zealand, Eagle vs. Shark.
Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuss and documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson are among the six jurors who will select a best narrative, best documentary and best short film.
Sean Ellis' Cashback, Slalomed Fatback's Retrieval and Dror Shaul's Sweet Mud (Adam Meshuga'at) will compete with other features for best narrative feature. Luke Wolbach's Row Hard, No Excuses, Yael Klopmann's Storm of Emotions and Adam Bardach's Living with Lew are three of the films vying for the docu prize.
"A Conversation With...Earl Cameron" will honor the Bermuda native and U.K. acting vet on Mar. 17.
The rest of the extensive lineup can be seen in several programs, including World Cinema Showcase, Special Presentations, From the Archives: Festival Favorites, Midnight Madness, BIFF Kids, Czech Republic sidebar films and Onion Patch: Five Films with a Bermuda Connection.
The BIFF opens Mar. 16 with Paul Verhoeven's recent best foreign language film Oscar shortlist entry Black Book, and closes with Taika Waititi's comic love story from New Zealand, Eagle vs. Shark.
Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuss and documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson are among the six jurors who will select a best narrative, best documentary and best short film.
Sean Ellis' Cashback, Slalomed Fatback's Retrieval and Dror Shaul's Sweet Mud (Adam Meshuga'at) will compete with other features for best narrative feature. Luke Wolbach's Row Hard, No Excuses, Yael Klopmann's Storm of Emotions and Adam Bardach's Living with Lew are three of the films vying for the docu prize.
"A Conversation With...Earl Cameron" will honor the Bermuda native and U.K. acting vet on Mar. 17.
The rest of the extensive lineup can be seen in several programs, including World Cinema Showcase, Special Presentations, From the Archives: Festival Favorites, Midnight Madness, BIFF Kids, Czech Republic sidebar films and Onion Patch: Five Films with a Bermuda Connection.
- 3/14/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Four critical favorites from this year's festival circuit have been nominated for the inaugural European Discovery award, a new prize for first-time European directors presented by the European Film Academy. The European Discovery nominees are Gela Babuani's 13 Tzameti, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance; Pingpong from German first-timer Matthias Luthardt, winner of both the screenwriting and young critics nods in Cannes; Slawomir Fabicki's Cannes Ecumenical Jury prize-winner Retrieva; and Fresh Air from Hungarian helmer Agnes Kocsis, winner of the Sandor Simo prize for best first film at this year's Hungarian Film Week.
- 10/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Four critical favorites from this year's festival circuit have been nominated for the inaugural European Discovery award, a new prize for first-time European directors presented by the European Film Academy. The European Discovery nominees are Gela Babuani's 13 Tzameti, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance; Pingpong from German first-timer Matthias Luthardt, winner of both the screenwriting and young critics nods in Cannes; Slawomir Fabicki's Cannes Ecumenical Jury prize-winner Retrieva; and Fresh Air from Hungarian helmer Agnes Kocsis, winner of the Sandor Simo prize for best first film at this year's Hungarian Film Week.
- 10/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Four critical favorites from this year's festival circuit have been nominated for the inaugural European Discovery award, a new prize for first-time European directors presented by the European Film Academy. The European Discovery nominees are Gela Babuani's 13 Tzameti, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance; Pingpong from German first-timer Matthias Luthardt, winner of both the screenwriting and young critics nods in Cannes; Slawomir Fabicki's Cannes Ecumenical Jury prize-winner Retrieva; and Fresh Air from Hungarian helmer Agnes Kocsis, winner of the Sandor Simo prize for best first film at this year's Hungarian Film Week.
- 10/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Four critical favorites from this year's festival circuit have been nominated for the inaugural European Discovery award, a new prize for first-time European directors presented by the European Film Academy. The European Discovery nominees are Gela Babuani's 13 Tzameti, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance; Pingpong from German first-timer Matthias Luthardt, winner of both the screenwriting and young critics nods in Cannes; Slawomir Fabicki's Cannes Ecumenical Jury prize-winner Retrieva; and Fresh Air from Hungarian helmer Agnes Kocsis, winner of the Sandor Simo prize for best first film at this year's Hungarian Film Week.
- 10/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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