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In the late 1970s, an associate professor in the Philosophy department at Johns Hopkins (thesis title: "The Nature of the Natural Numbers") began publishing essays on Hollywood movies. George M. Wilson wasn't the first person to undergo this shift in specialism. At the start of the decade, Stanley Cavell had published The World Viewed, a series of "reflections on the ontology of film." But Cavell had always been concerned with how works of art enable us to think through philosophical themes such as knowledge and meaning, and he held a chair, at Harvard, in Aesthetics. Wilson differed in that he brought a range of analytic gifts to an ongoing revolution: the close reading of American cinema, conceived as part of the "auteur" policy of Truffaut and other writers at Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s, and concertedly developed in the following decades by critics in England such as V. F.

It’s (almost) the most wonderful time of the year, which means all those Christmas commercials will be kicking into gear soon, and now is your chance to be a part of one. A major electronics brand is currently seeking talent for a holiday-themed spot. There are also roles available in a series teaching English as a second language, and a commercial shooting in Philadelphia that encourages people to be themselves! Major Electronics Brand Shoota major electronic brand is currently casting actors for an upcoming holiday-themed commercial featuring five to six comedic vignettes. Nonunion male and female talent are wanted for three roles in the spot, such as male and female friends, and a young, fun dad. Good comedic timing is needed, and prior commercial experience is preferred. The production will shoot Nov. 11–12 in NYC. Pay is $560 per day. Apply here! “Wide Angle”“Wide Angle,” a narrative series teaching English as a second language,...

Festival employees appeal for “support and participation”.

Update: Kim Dong-ho, Kang Soo-youn have now resigned. Full story Here.

Original story: Busan International Film Festival (Biff)’s executive staff have issued a public statement criticising festival director Kang Soo-youn and chairman Kim Dong-ho while calling for former fest director Lee Yong-kwan to be reinstated.

In an open letter released today, employees including secretary general Kim Gwang-ho and publicity manager Jungyun Kim stated they made this move after communications broke down with Kim and Kang to stabilise Asia’s leading cinema event in the aftermath of ex-president Park Geun-hye’s political manipulations of the culture sector. Some of those machinations contributed, at least in part, to landing Park and aides in jail.

The letter criticised Kang for giving “indulgence” to Busan mayor Suh Byung-soo even though Suh had not apologised for going after the festival and specifically Lee, through targeted audits and legal prosecution, after they refused...

You Are There, Doi Boy win awards.

The Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (Seafic) has awarded prizes to projects from Singapore’s Nicole Midori Woodford (pictured) and Thailand’s Nontawat Numbenchapol in its first round of awards.

Midori Woodford’s You Are There won both the Seafic-tfl Award and the Open Sea Fund Award, presented by Vs Service and White Light Post, which came with $25,000 of in-kind services. Through the Seafic-tfl Award, the project’s producer Jeremy Chua will attend this year’s TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (November 24-26).

Nontawat’s Doi Boy won the Purin Award, which came with a cash prize of $15,000. The award was presented by a jury comprising Cannes director of film department Christian Jeune, former Cj Entertainment executive Kini Kim and Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi.

Produced by Steve Chen and Supatcha Thipsena, Doi Boy is a Thai-Cambodian co-production that marks the first narrative feature from Nontawat whose first two documentaries, Boundary and By...

When Thelma Schoonmaker won the first of her three Academy Awards for “Raging Bull,” she humbly told journalists that she believed she was being honored for work done by the director, Martin Scorsese.

“I won the Oscar for ‘Raging Bull’ for those fight sequences,” said Schoonmaker in a 1991 interview with Wide Angle/Closeup. “If you look at those fight sequences, those were so incredibly storyboarded and shot in an incredible way – that is the conception a good director has to bring.”

Read More: Oscars 2017 -Editors on Bold Storytelling in ‘La La Land,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea,’ ‘Moonlight,’ and More

All below-the-line talent interprets a director’s vision through their crafts, but the editor’s work is most closely associated with the director’s. From 1981 to 2016, every Best Picture winner, except “Birdman,” was nominated for Editing. “Birdman” features long, unedited takes and elaborate camera movements; that might be the only way...

Line-up for first Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab includes debut fiction film from Nontawat Numbenchapol, whose documentary #Bkky is premiering at Busan.

The Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (Seafic) has unveiled the five projects selected for its first edition, including the debut fiction film from Nontawat Numbenchapol, whose documentary #Bkky is currently premiering at Busan.

Nontawat’s first two documentaries, Boundary and By The River, premiered at the Berlinale Forum and Locarno Film Festival in 2013, respectively.

Seafic invites first second and third-time filmmakers to work with a script consultant and international experts for nine months to develop their projects. In total, Seafic received 57 applications from nearly every Southeast Asian country.

The inaugural line-up also includes the debut feature from Pham Ngoc Lan, to be produced by Vietnamese filmmaker Phan Dang Di (Bi, Don’t Be Afraid), and the second film from Sivaroj Kongsakul, to be produced by Thai director-producer Pimpaka Towira (The Island Funeral). See full project...

Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.

In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.

Twentyfiveish

Logline: Rosie travels with her best friend, Tucker, for a weekend getaway, reuniting with former high school friends who face equally uncertain futures.

Elevator Pitch:

#adulting is hard. “Twentyfiveish” follows Rosie, in the midst of a quarterlife crisis, who escapes for a weekend trip with her best friend Tucker. Upon arrival, she is surprised by former high school friends, some welcome and some not, who also face equally uncertain futures. Together, over the course of the weekend, they try to navigate their way through being twentyfiveish.

Production Team:

Brendan Robinson

Producer/Cast

Brendan is an American actor known for playing...

Festival will open with the world premiere of Zhang Lu’s Korean film A Quiet Dream.

Busan International Film Festival (Biff) on Tuesday unveiled its line-up, set to open with the world premiere of Zhang Lu’s Korean film A Quiet Dream.

Running October 6-15, the 21st Biff will screen a total of 301 films from 69 countries with 96 world premieres and 27 international premieres. The festival will close with the international premiere of Iraq-Germany-Qatar co-production The Dark Wind, directed by Hussein Hassan (Narcissus Blossom).

Festival director Kang Soo-youn said of A Quiet Dream: “It’s a film that people who like films and people who make films can’t help but like.”

The latest from Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu (Dooman River, Grain In Ear), A Quiet Dream stars Han Ye-ri (Haemoo) as a young woman caring for her comatose father while running a bar and being wooed by three men.

Young Korean indie directors Yang Ikjune, Yoon Jong-bin...

Festival will open with the world premiere of Zhang Lu’s Korean film A Quiet Dream.

Busan International Film Festival (Biff) on Tuesday unveiled its line-up, set to open with the world premiere of Zhang Lu’s Korean film A Quiet Dream.

Running Oct 6-15, the 21st Biff will screen a total of 301 films from 69 countries with 96 world premieres and 27 international premieres. The festival will close with the international premiere of Iraq-Germany-Qatar co-production The Dark Wind, directed by Hussein Hassan (Narcissus Blossom).

Festival director Kang Soo-youn said of A Quiet Dream: “It’s a film that people who like films and people who make films can’t help but like.”

The latest from Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu (Dooman River, Grain In Ear), A Quiet Dream stars Han Ye-ri (Haemoo) as a young woman caring for her comatose father while running a bar and being wooed by three men. Young Korean indie directors Yang Ikjune, Yoon Jong-bin...

Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow.

Aftrs' new five-year strategy was shaped by what the school calls the most comprehensive and up-to-date national industry skills survey ever undertaken. The report was supplied by Screen Audience Research Australia (Sara) who undertook nationwide research, consulting with more than 500 Australian practitioners.

The survey found skills gaps in the areas of screen business, new technologies, and script coverage, among others. Sara CEO Peter Drinkwater pointed out that "the industry is rapidly changing: tighter budgets and greater time pressures mean less acceptance of failure. The role of training is therefore paramount, with 90 percent of the industry wanting access to more training opportunities in the future..

On the eve of the report's unveiling earlier this month, If sat down with Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow to discuss the school.s five year strategic plan and its focus on outreach, talent development and industry training.

Coming in to Aftrs around nine months ago,...

Screen development organisation Wide Angle Tasmania will close in June 2016.

The closure comes after Screen Australia ceased funding and Screen Tasmania offered reduced funding.

The board has decided there is no viable way for Wide Angle Tasmania to continue in the long term.

Wide Angle's board and management have spent the past 18 months scoping alternative business models, according to a statement.

"The board has determined that Wide Angle's slate of activities can only be delivered by a not for profit organisation, which requires appropriate government support," according to a statement.

"All other alternatives dilute or conflict directly with our core mission of encouraging, developing and supporting emerging screen practitioners in Tasmania."

Wide Angle Tasmania chair, Tony De Cesare, said government support for the not for profit organisation had helped to deliver impressive results for the screen sector over the past 10 years.

"It's the right model for service delivery,...

The 20th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) is to present its Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award to Hayao Miyazaki’s Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Studio Ghibli was founded by My Neighbor Totoro director Miyazaki and Takahata Isao, who directed recent Oscar-nominated animation The Tale Of Princess Kaguya.

Studio Ghibli has produced 21 films including Howl’s Moving Castle and Berlinale Golden Bear winner Spirited Away, which also picked up the 2003 Oscar for best animated feature film.

Biff organizers said: “Studio Ghibli has produced numerous masterpieces with an extended production period, providing a stable production system as well as training successors for the development of animations.

“The studio has also left a significant mark through activities concerning environmental protection, peace, and the future of children.”

To mark the occasion, Biff is screening My Neighbor Totoro in the Open Cinema section and Takahata’s Only Yesterday in the Wide Angle – Animation Showcase...

The 20th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has announced its line-up of 304 films from 75 countries with 121 world and international premieres.

The fest in South Korea will open Oct 1 with the world premiere of Indian film Zubaan, the feature directorial debut of independent film producer Mozez Singh (White Noise, Peddlers).

Produced by Guneet Monga (The Lunchbox), Zubaan is about a young man’s search for values and self.

Biff will close Oct 10 with the world premiere of Chinese film Mountain Cry, directed by Larry Yang, based on Ge Shui-ping’s award-winning novel.

Gala Presentations will include Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash and the world premiere of previously announced Busan-Youku collaboration project Color Of Asia - Masters, directed by Im Sang-soo, Naomi Kawase, Wang Xiaoshuai and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Other Asian masters set to attend include Eric Khoo with Singaporean 50th anniversary omnibus 7 Letters, Bahman Ghobadi with the...

South Korean film festival also announces Wide Angle juries.

The 20th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) (Oct 1-10) has announced that Berlinale Panorama director Wieland Speck is to receive this year’s Korean Cinema Award.

The award is annually awarded to individuals who have contributed to the promotion of Korean Cinema to worldwide audiences.

Biff decided to award it this year to Speck who has screened a total of 29 Korean films in his 23 years at his post.

Speck’s selections included Im Kwon-taek’s Seopyonje (1994), and films by Ryoo Seungwan, E J-Yong, Lee Songhee-il, and Kim Ki-duk.

Speck said: “Korean cinema remains ever surprising, a vivid mirror of its diverse societal developments - which makes selecting for the Berlin International Film Festival so exciting.”

Past winners of the Korean Cinema Award include Cannes’ Gilles Jacob, Tokyo Filmex’s Hayashi Kanako and Film Society of the Lincoln Center’s Richard Pena.

Wide Angle Juries...

Lee previously headed the Korean Film Commission.

South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) has appointed Lee Choong-jik as its new festival director.

Lee is a professor at Chung-Ang University’s graduate school and previously served as head of the Korean Film Council (Kofic, known at the time as the Korean Film Commission) from 2002-2005.

He will start his three-year term on August 1.

After graduating from Chung-Ang University’s film and drama department for undergrad and graduate studies, Lee went to the Ecole Supérieur de Réalisation Audio-Visuelle (Esra) in France and graduated as a film directing major.

His previous experience also includes serving as festival director at the first Seoul International Independent Film Festival; a jury member for the second Busan International Film Festival’s Wide Angle section; head of Kofic’s committee to promote digital cinema when it was first being integrated in Korea; dean of Chung-Ang University’s graduate school of Advanced Imaging Science...

Screen Australia will host a visit by Dosin Pak, programmer for the Busan International Film Festival, in July.

Dosin will view new Australian films for preselection for the festival, which runs from October 1-10, and make recommendations about narrative feature films for the World Cinema, Flash Forward and Midnight Passion sections. World Cinema showcases feature films from non-Asian filmmakers around the world, including those from established filmmakers. Flash Forward is for new narrative features from non-Asian filmmakers reflecting bold vision and creativity.. Midnight Passion screens horror, sci-fi and cult films. Last year Kill Me Three Times screened in World Cinema, The Mule featured in Flash Forward, Paper Planes in Wide Angle and Wyrmwood in Midnight Passion. Busan.s requirements stipulate films should not have been completed before last October and must be 60 minutes or more. Filmmakers with eligible features should contact Dale Fairbairn at Screen Australia via email: dale.fairbairn@screenaustralia.

More than 1,000 Korean filmmakers and actors, including Park Chan-wook, Kim Ki-duk and Park Hae-il, have joined a declaration at Busan urging for legislation to ensure an independent special investigation into the Sewol ferry disaster.

Over 300 people are counted dead or missing, with 250 of them minors, as a result of the Sewol ferry sinking this past April.

Perhaps in the largest consolidated action comprising independent and commercial filmmakers as well as actors, the group has announced they will hold a variety of cultural events and activities at the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) in order to communicate their intent to the world’s film community and audiences.

They started with a press conference yesterday (Oct 3) in front of Biff’s Busan Cinema Center and plan to hold one-person protest demonstrations, flash mobs and a petition campaign over the next fortnight. Yellow ribbons commemorating the lost are visible on participants’ chests as well.

The Truth Shall...

Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Paradise In Service and Lee Bo-Cheung’s Gangster Pay Day to bookend 19th edition.

The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) (Oct 2-11) today announced its line-up with the international premiere of Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Taiwanese film Paradise In Service as the opening film.

Niu and cast members will be on hand at the opening ceremony on Oct 2, to be emceed by Moon So-ri and Ken Watanabe.

Lee Bo-Cheung’s Hong Kong-China film Gangster Pay Day will receive its world premiere as the closing film on Oct 11. The director as well as stars Anthony Wong and Charlene Choi will be on hand to present the film.

Biff will screen 314 films from 79 countries with 98 world premieres and 36 international premieres.

All the 12 New Currents competition films are world or international premieres, including Amin Dora’s Ghadi, the first Lebanese film to screen in this section, and Jalal’s Story, directed by Abu...

Long-rumoured project to begin casting this month with a shoot planned for 2015.

Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) is set to make a Korean-language thriller based on Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, his producers have confirmed, and will start casting this month.

The original crime novel, first published in 2002, was set in Victorian London and centred on young women who are petty thieves (fingersmiths). Park’s adaptation will be set in Korea during the time of Japanese rule.

The film’s Korean title phonetically reads “Agashi”, meaning ‘young lady’ or ‘miss’. The English title has yet to be decided.

This new project, Park’s first feature since the English-language Stoker starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode, will mark the director’s return to Korean features after six years.

He has intermittently made shorts including A Rose Reborn, which will screen in the upcoming Busan International Film Festival’s Wide Angle section, but today’s...

The Oscar-winning director of A Seperation will oversee jury members including Bong Joon Ho.

The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) today announced its New Currents jury members to include Snowpiercer director Bong Joon Ho with the Oscar-winning director of A Separation, Asgar Farhadi, to head it up.

The jury will award two films $30,000 each, selected from the 12 in the New Currents showcase for new directors.

Farhadi and Bong will be joined by Indian actress and filmmaker Suhasini Maniratnam, whose Kadal was a Gala Presentation last year in Busan, and professors Dina Iordanova of St. Andrews and Jacques Rancière of the University of Paris VIII.

Farhadi’s film The Past, which won the best actress award for Bérénice Bejo in Cannes, screened in Busan’s A Window on Asian Cinema section last year, while Bong’s Snowpiercer was a Gala Presentation.

Wide Angle

The festival yesterday announced its two juries for the Wide Angle section for creative...

The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has announced 29 projects selected to benefit from Asian Cinema Fund (Acf) 2014, including projects by award-winning directors such as O Muel (Jiseul) and Hannah Espia (Transit).

Acf this year picked 11 projects from Korea and 18 from around the rest of the continent.

Organisers stated Acf got a total of 565 submissions, approximately 30% up from last year. The submissions came from 52 countries including 161 projects from India and 50 from China.

“We think this big increase in submissions is due to the fact that we’ve publicized the Acf a lot, but also possibly because the production environment in Asia has gotten more difficult,” said Acf director Hong Hyosook.

The Acf 2014 Script Development Fund goes to eight projects - three from Korea and five from the rest of Asia. Each will receive a cash grant of KW10m (currently approximately $9,880).

They include projects from filmmakers who previously screened films in Busan like Cambodian-French director Davy Chou, whose...

The Chicago Underground Film Festival recently announced the members of the 3-panel jury serving for the fest’s 21st annual edition, one of whom is Mike Everleth, Executive Editor of the Underground Film Journal.

The other two members of the jury are Brian Chankin, who runs the Chicago video store Odd Obsession Movies; and Therese Grisham, a cinema studies and humanities professor. Full bios of each jury member is below.

Cuff has a unique awards system in which the Jury can hand out a total of six awards for whatever reasons they see fit. No simple Best Feature, Best Animation, etc. awards given out here; with the exception of the prestigious “Made in Chicago” award, which will be given to a local filmmaker. Everything else is up in the air.

While the Underground Film Journal has been keeping tabs on and writing extensively about the Chicago Underground Film Festival for...

The Supreme Court of Korea yesterday (Nov 14) overturned a teenager restricted rating given to Kim Jho Gwang-soo’s gay romance Just Friends? by the Korea Media Ratings Board (Kmrb).

The film had originally requested a 15-and-over rating and went through appeals for four years to get this final judgment.

Kim Jho - who uses both his father’s & mother’s surnames as part of a gender equality movement in South Korea, declared it a victory and that the Kmrb “should no longer judge homosexuality and heterosexuality by different standards in ratings classifications.”

With a 30-minute running time, Just Friends? premiered in the Busan International Film Festival’s Wide Angle Short Film Showcase section in 2009. About a young gay couple, the film centers around what happens when one is doing his mandatory military service and the other visits him at the same time the soldier’s mother happens to be there. The film features...

Exclusive: At Busan’s Asian Film Market, Thailand’s Pop Pictures has sold previous New Currents Award winner 36 to UK distributor Day for Night.

Thai director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s debut feature also picked up the Fipresci Award last year at the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) before going on to other fests including Rotterdam’s Tiger Competition.

“We’re very happy to continue this relationship with Day for Night. They had a very nice release for our previous film Hi-so in London in March, and when they showed the same enthusiasm for 36, I did not hesitate to work with them on the new title,” said Aditya Assarat, Pop Pictures managing director and producer of the film.

Assarat’s own directorial debut Wonderful Town was also a New Currents winner in 2007 as well as an Asian Cinema Fund winner. He has since returned with several films - either as director or producer, including this year...

The soundtrack for Universal's straight-to-video action/horror feature Dead in Tombstone will be released by Back Lot Records Oct. 15, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The film's soundtrack will feature new music from UK-based electronic group Hybrid, which consists of composers Michael Truman, Chris Healings and Charlotte James.  Story: John Lennon's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Defaced "Director Roel Reine wanted us to deliver a contemporary score for a traditional film with a unique twist," the group said in a statement. Since their debut album Wide Angle in 1999, the group has incorporated filmic elements to

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Eleven Indian features are screening at this year’s Busan International Film Festival, reflecting the growing strength and diversity of cinema from the subcontinent.

The line-up ranges from indie dramas such as Laxman Utekar’s The Letter and Anup Singh’s Qissa – The Tale Of A Lonely Ghost, which are screening in Busan’s A Window On Asian Cinema section, to the brashest of mainstream offerings such as Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and Telugu hit Fly (Eega), which are both receiving outdoor screenings in the Open Cinema section.

The festival opened with Vara: A Blessing, directed by Bhutanese filmmaker Khyentse Norbu, which is set in India; Mani Ratnam’s Kadal is screening as a Gala presentation, and Girish Malik’s Jal (Water) is screening in the New Currents competition.

A Window On Asian Cinema is also presenting Vikas Bahl’s Queen, Santosh Sivan’s Ceylon, Prakash Jha’s The Protest, Bejoy Nambiar’s David...

Eleven South Asian features are screening at this year’s Busan International Film Festival, reflecting the growing strength and diversity of cinema from the subcontinent.

The line-up ranges from indie dramas such as Laxman Utekar’s The Letter and Anup Singh’s Qissa – Tale Of A Lonely Ghost, which are screening in Busan’s A Window On Asian Cinema section, to the brashest of mainstream offerings such as Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and Telugu hit Fly (Eega), which are both receiving outdoor screenings in the Open Cinema section.

The festival opened with Vara: A Blessing, directed by Bhutanese filmmaker Khyentse Norbu; Mani Ratnam’s Kadal is screening as a Gala presentation, and Girish Malik’s Jal (Water) is screening in the New Currents competition.

A Window On Asian Cinema is also screening Vikas Bahl’s Queen, Santosh Sivan’s Ceylon, Bejoy Nambiar’s David and Ritesh Batra’s Cannes favourite The Lunchbox.

The strong...

Alison Owen to give festival keynote address, returning initiatives include Pfm, Think-Shoot-Distribute.

This year’s BFI London Film Festival’s ( Oct 9 -20) returns with flagship industry events Cross-Media Forum, run in partnership with Power to the Pixel, the Film London Production Finance Market (Pfm), and project development scheme Think-Shoot-Distribute.

Saving Mr Banks and Jane Eyre producer Alison Owen will give a keynote in which she will explore the extent to which cinema is under threat from games and online.

Industry panels will include ‘The Wide Angle: Launching the BFI’s International Strategy for UK Film’ with the BFI head of international Isabel Davis and ‘Remodelling the Release: Insights from the BFI New Models scheme’, which will explore the results of non-traditional release models including Spirit of ’45, A Late Quartet, A Field in England, What Maisie Knew and A Pervert’s Guide To Ideology.

Panelists on the latter will include Ben Luxford (Curzon Film World), Gabriel Swartland (Picturehouse...

The 18th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has announced its full line-up of 301 films from 70 countries with 95 world premieres and 42 international premieres.

Running Oct 3-12, the festival will open with the world premiere of Bhutanese film Vara: A Blessing, directed by Buddhist monk Khyentse Norbu, who formerly served as technical advisor to Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Buddha.

Biff will close with the world premiere of Korean film The Dinner, directed by Kim Dong-hyun whose Hello, Stranger (2007) won Asian Cinema Fund (Acf) post-production support and won the 12th Biff’s Netpac Award.

New Market Incentive

The Asian Film Market is launching new incentives for buyers and sellers participating from this year.

Market head Jay Jeon said: “With an aim to being more productive and bring more Asia-focused development in future, we are going to offer indirect support with flight and accommodations to buyers who pick up films at the Asian Film Market.

“We’ll be giving...

Most directors have an identifiable style consistent with their approach and perspective. Each week Cinelinx will chose one director for an in-depth examination of the “signatures” that they leave behind in their work. This week, we examine the trademark style and calling signs of Terry Gilliam.

No matter his success as director or writer, Terry Gilliam will always be remembered for his contribution to Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Despite his name, Gilliam was the only American member of the posse. Although he wasn’t featured as heavily as the rest of the cast, Gilliam found his niche as the show’s animator. Those silly and very British newspaper/cardboard style animations that gave the show its unique style were created and organized by Gilliam. It’s only fitting then that he used his artistic talents after his time on the TV show to become a full-fledged movie director.

Gilliam...

This Week’s Must Read is actually a few weeks old, but I’ve been skipping these links posts a lot. Anyway… The Brooklyn Rail got a bunch of big names, such as P. Adams Sitney and Ken Jacobs, to discuss the legacy of their friend, Jonas Mekas. That legacy, of course, can never be summed up in just one article, but this is good.Media artist Clint Enns interviewed media artist Sabrina Ratté about her working process. Clint’s probably one of the most insightful people regarding our world of experimental media I know, so this is a must read.Filmmaker Magazine interviewed one of our favorite underground comedy directors, Zach Clark, about his new Christmas movie White Reindeer, which, of course, we’re dying to see.Our pal J.J. Murphy recently posted his annual “Best of 2012″ indie films list, as he traditionally does around this time of year.

Twelve Indian films have been selected for the 17th edition of the Busan International Film Festival. The festival will be held from 4th – 13th October, 2012. A total of 304 films from 75 countries will be screened during the festival.

Indian films are scattered across sections.

‘A Window on Asian Cinema’:

Born to Hate…Destined to Love (Ishaqzaade) by Habib Faisal

I.D by Kamal K.M

Shymal Uncle Turns off the Lights by Suman Ghosh

Valley of Saints (India/United States) by Musa Syeed

New Currents:

Filmistaan by Nitin Kakkar

Wide Angle:

In God’s Land by Pankaj Rishi Kumar

The Artist by Siddartha Jatla

Arjun by Arnap Chaudhuri

Char… the No-Man’s Island by Sourav Sarangi

Open Cinema:

Barfi! by Anurag Basu

Midnight Passion:

Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 by Anurag Kashyap

Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2 by Anurag Kashyap...

Supriyo Sen

Indian independent filmmaker Supriyo Sen will serve on the ‘Mecenat’ Jury at the Busan International Film Festival 2012. The Biff Mecenat Jury will select and award the winners for the best Asian documentary presented in the Wide Angle section.

Supriyo Sen has produced and directed feature and short documentaries such as The Nest (2000), Way Back Home (2003), Hope Dies Last in War (2007) and Wagah (2009).

The Nest (2000) won National Award for the Best Film on environmental issues. Way Back Home (2003) received BBC Audience Award for the best documentary in Commonwealth Film Festival at Manchester and National Award for the best documentary on social issues.

Sen’s Hope Dies Last in War (2007), was funded by Asian Network Documentary (And) of the 2006 Asian Cinema Fund (Acf).Furthermore, with his film Wagah (2009), he received several awards that include the Berlin Today Award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival and the Best Short Documentary at the 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

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The Bang Bang Club tells the true story of four photographers who risked their lives amid gunfire - hence their name - to take iconic and shocking pictures during the last, violent days of South Africa's apartheid.

Their harrowing stories are captured in this thought-provoking film, which is released on DVD this week by Entertainment One.

Set in 1994, The Bang Bang Club is made up of four young South African men: Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe - Cruel Intentions, I Know What You Did Last Summer), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch - X Men Origins: Wolverine), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and João Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), as they set out to document some of the best, yet most horrific images of their lives - in some of the most hostile and turbulent places in the world.

Greg is a freelance photographer who follows his instincts to capture the rebels' point of view...

Filmmaker Maria Tran has been announced the Nsw champion in the state round of the National Pitch competition.

Tran is currently working on Once Upon A Time in Cabramatta for Sbs and has just completed her documentary, Quest for Jackie Chan.

The competition has been run by Screen Development Australia [Sda], which includes Metro Screen (Nsw), Media Resource Centre (Sa), Open Channel (Vic), Film and Television Institute (Wa), Qpix (Old) and Wide Angle Tasmania (Tas).

Each state finalist will compete in the final held at Sydney’s Chauvel Cinema on 12 October and become the Australian representative at the Mpa Cice Film workshop in Beijing, winning accommodation for three nights, workshop registration and return airfare.

Best documentary at the Oscars is, like best foreign language film, the type of category that seems invented to be grumbled over, with selections and winners rarely reflecting the films everyone else in the world finds most worthy of praise. So it's much less frustrating to look to organizations like the International Documentary Association for better indicators of the docs that are the cream of 2010's crop.

The nominees for the 2010 Ida Documentary Awards were announced today, and the contenders for the top prize include Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop," a personal favorite; Laura Poitras' Al-Qaeda saga "The Oath"; Joonas Berghaell and Mika Hotakainen's look at Finnish sauna culture "Steam of Life"; Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's trailing of Montana sheepherders "Sweetgrass"; and Lucy Walker's tale of making art of trash "Waste Land," opening in New York on Friday. The awards will take place in L.

A total of six Australian feature films and one short will be heading to the 15th Pusan International Film Festival, which will be held from October 7 to 15.

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World Cinema

Dreamland

Production Company: Bunya Productions

Producer: David Jowsey

Director/Writer: Ivan Sen

Sales: Bunya Productions

Australian Distributor: PackScreen in association with Bunya Productions

Cast: Daniel Roberts, Tasma Walton

Synopsis: Dan Freeman, an obsessive UFO hunter, roams the Nevada desert around the border of Area 51 searching the skies for contact. But alone in the desert he awakens to a bigger mystery.

Oranges and Sunshine

Production Companies: See-Saw Films & Sixteen Films

Producers: Emile Sherman, Camilla Bray, Iain Canning

Director: Jim Loach

Writer: Rona Munro

Sales: Icon Entertainment

Australian Distributor: Icon Film Distribution

Cast: Emily Watson, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving

Synopsis: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organised deportation of children from the UK.

Buzz is that you were joining politics…I’m not. I never ever said I have any political ambitions. What about photography? You’ve just come out with a book, Wide Angle.Photography has been my passion since I took a trip to Srinagar during the under-17 camp, sometime in 1987-’88. My brother gifted me an aim-and-shoot camera and I was soon capturing everything around me. Any other interests apart from photography and cricket?I follow a lot of other sports. I watch the major tennis tournaments. I loved watching John McEnroe, Boris Becker and Pete Sampras. I’m a huge fan of football as well. I ...

Cameras will start rolling on the set of Ripple World Pictures' new feature film 'Parked' next week. 'Parked' is directed by Darragh Byrne (Wide Angle), written by Ciaran Creagh, and features an illustrious cast including Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth, Stuart Graham, Michael McElhatton and David Wilmott. The film's tagline 'Sometimes the person you least expect will change your life for ever' introduces a story about the unlikely duo of Fred, a mobile homeless man who loses his London-based job at the start of the film and Cathal, a frenzied 21 year old with a serious dope problem.

Montreal, September 7, 2009 – Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce that nine Canadian feature films have been officially selected for the 14th edition of the Pusan International Film Festival, which takes place in Pusan, South Korea from October 8 to 19, 2009.

“Telefilm recognizes Pusan as a valuable venue for Canadian filmmakers to showcase their work to international audiences,” states Sheila de la Varende, Director, International & National Business Development. “Participation in Pusan supports our efforts to increase foreign sales, encourage co-production, and raise the profile of Canada’s industry on the international scene, all of which are critically important to building a sustainable, vibrant film industry in this country.”

In 14 years, Pusan has become one of Asia’s most important film festivals, to which a market component, the Asian Film Market, was added in 2006. Telefilm has been organizing screenings for Pusan’s selection committee and facilitating the selection of Canadian films...

Ndtv Imagine Film Company has forayed into movie production in South. The company has allied with Wide Angle Creations to produce a Tamil action thriller, titled Madhurai Sambhavam. The movie will star actors Harikumar, Anuya Bhagwat and Karthika in the lead and is scheduled to go on floors from December 2008. Apart from this film, Ndtv Imagine Film Company is partnering with directors and film-makers of national repute as well as up and coming talent. With over 30 projects in varying stages of development, the film company plans to produce and release 6-8 films in one year.

The five nominated features in the 23rd annual International Documentary Assn. Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards competition were announced Thursday, and Crazy Love, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, Sicko, Taxi to the Dark Side and A Walk to Beautiful made the cut.

Winners will be announced at the IDA Awards gala benefit Dec. 7 at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles.

Nominees in the short-film category are Black and White, "Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy," The Fighting Cholitas, Freeheld, and A Son's Sacrifice. Nominated programs in the continuing series competition are 30 Days (FX), American Experience (PBS), American Masters (PBS), This American Life (Showtime) and Wide Angle: Season Five (PBS). Limited-series category noms are Addiction (HBO), Coming Out Stories (Logo), The Hill (Sundance Channel) and The Supreme Court (PBS).

The IDA also will present the ABCNews VideoSource Award for the best utilization of television news footage as an integral component of the work; the Pare Lorentz Award to the filmmaker whose documentary best represents the activist spirit and lyrical vision of Pare Lorentz, who was the first recipient of the IDA Career Achievement Award; and the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award.

• [ This is part two of our continuing Tribeca Coverage. You can read about the competitive sections of the festival in part one. ] Another day, another major announcement by the Tribeca Film Festival (Tff). The selection of a few non-competitive sections has been announced. The 60 films in the â€.Spotlightâ€., â€.Discoveryâ€. and â€.NY Specialsâ€. have been announced and represent a wide selection of established and new filmmakers from 16 countries. The Spotlight section contains new works by Chen Kaige, Claude Chabrol, Guy Maddin, Chris Marker and Sydney Pollack!! * * * Spotlight The Spotlight category was created to present distinctive out-of-competition films with established and international talent. From revisiting the New York soccer craze of the 70â€.s, to a daughter's unique and heartfelt tribute to her father, to an overweight and under-loved actor in search of his soul mate, the Spotlight category reflects the full spectrum of human emotions in 18 films from eight countries. The Spotlight category includes narratives and documentaries by or with some of the worldâ€.s highest profile film talent such as Chen Kaige,

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