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Revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assault jolted the film industry around the world. Yet even as victims continue to speak out, much of the community has been stunned into another silence.

Generations of former Weinstein employees, including those who toiled on his staff during the seminal Miramax days, refuse to speak publicly for fear that the association could make them complicit. Others who collaborated with Weinstein — an expansive Venn diagram of publicists, sales agents, programmers, and their institutions — remain wary of saying anything that could somehow drag them further into his orbit.

The Cannes Film Festival, where Weinstein was the steward for Palme d’Or winners “sex, lies and videotape” and “Pulp Fiction,” is no exception. Taking precedence over any other conversation, the world’s most revered gathering of international cineastes prefer to fixate on the art form. Cannes didn’t create Weinstein, but it was the...

Fans of fierce, challenging indigenous cinema rejoice. It’s not every day that you see a film from and depicting the life in the Dominican Republic, let alone one as intriguing as Cocote. Writer/director De Los Santos Arias’ feature debut shines a light on an underrepresented part of the world and casts a truly outlandish spell that confounds and overwhelms. Fair warning: sheer cultural divide would most likely prevent a deeper appreciation of the film, but the authenticity and intensity of its voice alone proves excitingly – if also gruelingly – memorable.

The protagonist Alberto (a brooding, charismatic Vicente Santos) works as a gardener at an über-affluent family in the island state’s capital. This key bit of background information is communicated efficiently through two static shots of a giant, shockingly beautiful swimming pool that more or less bracket the movie. Though seen from afar to take in the royal height...

“Are you free, dead or in jail?” a character asks in Life and Nothing More, neatly summing up the existential situation of its characters, and perhaps of all of us. The trials and tribulations of a thirty-ish single mother and her son are the focus of Antonio Mendez Esparza’s stylistically very different follow-up to his well-received Mexican immigrant debut Here and There. Located somewhere between family drama and social crit, the quiet but intense Life stands out mainly for the compelling naturalism of its non-pro performances and for a script which teeters dangerously on the edge of preachiness without falling in....

Mubi is proud to present the world premiere of James N. Kientiz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir's epic The Republic (2017). It will be showing in most countries around the world from July 4 - August 3, 2017.About The REPUBLICThe Republic is a narrative with precedents set more by the philosophical thought experiments of Plato, More and other imagineers of Utopias than by drama or film. While there are characters and these characters have emotions and drives, and while there are funny and sad moments, the real preoccupation—the final overall image, in my opinion—is how a society is structured, and how that structure changes to accommodate new parts.The society in question is comprised of old men who embody the values of liberalism to an almost perverse degree. These “citizens” (as they refer to themselves), are Beings with an unyielding drive for that situation which most of us claim to want: Freedom.

Sarah Stage is almost six month pregnant with her second child, yet you wouldn't know from looking at her.

The 33-year-old model spoke with Et about her pregnancy, workout regime and how she handles internet trolls claiming that she Photoshops her pics.

Related: Model Sarah Stage Stays So Fit You Can Barely Tell She's 8 1/2 Months Pregnant

"I'm 23 weeks [and] due in October," Stage told Et. "We are thinking of doing a gender reveal party for our close friends and family!"

Earlier this week, she shared a pic on Instagram of her looking great in a bikini while having some pool time with her 2-year-old son, James Hunter. "Almost #6monthspregnant and just wanted to say Positive Mind...

This holiday season, why not distract yourself from all the seething hate around you with more hate on screen? Admittedly, Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa is a raucous Christmas comedy that jingles my bells – but Bad Santa 2 is downright despicable. Mean-spirited, perverse and emptier than an alcoholic’s three-day-old vodka bottle. Zwigoff’s original film works a tight ensemble comedy angle, but Mark Waters’ second coming is worse than any family’s most inebriated member (even sicker than Brian Posehn’s Uncle Nick).

Imagine your drunk Uncle. Now imagine him puking on the dinner table, putting out his cigarette in the bile and then proceeding to fuck whatever cooked bird was served – in front of everyone, while laughing. Bad Santa 2 is the equivalent of that unstable mess, never living up to the sinful sentiments of 2003’s first mall-Santa heist.

Billy Bob Thorton is back once again as Willie Soke,...

Joel McHale has joined many other notable names in protesting North Carolina's recently passed HB2 law, which prohibits local governments from enacting anti-discrimination measures. While performing a comedy show at the Durham Performing Arts Center on Friday, McHale wore a homemade Lgbtq T-shirt and announced that all proceeds from the show would go to the Lgbtq Center of Durham. A video of the performance features a bewildered McHale expressing his distaste for the controversial law, which he calls stupid and "f------ crazy," and making the commitment to donate "every single dime" he earned from the show to the city's Lgbtq organization.

Joel McHale has joined many other notable names in protesting North Carolina's recently passed HB2 law, which prohibits local governments from enacting anti-discrimination measures. While performing a comedy show at the Durham Performing Arts Center on Friday, McHale wore a homemade Lgbtq T-shirt and announced that all proceeds from the show would go to the Lgbtq Center of Durham. A video of the performance features a bewildered McHale expressing his distaste for the controversial law, which he calls stupid and "f------ crazy," and making the commitment to donate "every single dime" he earned from the show to the city's Lgbtq organization.

Edited by Natalie Clubb | Senior Art Editor Rob Farmer | Published by Titan Comics | Format: Paperback, 176pp

There was a time, pre-Netflix and Amazon Prime, when network TV ruled the airwaves in the U.S, and churned out a steady supply of middle of the road TV shows, firmly aimed at the ‘average viewer’ demographic. For the comic book/ science fiction fan like me there was very little to get excited about. Then The X-Files happened, and sent shockwaves through fandom. Here was a show seemingly made for us, made by geeks for geeks, and for several years it made us happy, appearing seemingly everywhere in comics, books, magazines, games, action figures etc. Then, after trailblazing the way for other shows, it faded away and became part of genre history.

Like all good things, The X-Files have returned to TV, and Titan Comics (have they put a single foot wrong of late,...

Dense with allusions to other work but more fun than a barrel of monkeys (studded with nails and rolled down a hill, à la Herschell Gordon Lewis’s 2000 Maniacs), Quentin Tarantino’s movies cry out to be viewed both singly and in relation to one another — as the journey of a boy who once lived through grindhouse movies and is now permitted to dramatize (and cinematize) his fantasies on an epic scale. Few directors give you the sense that they’re getting off so much on their own work. For better, and occasionally for worse, Tarantino really digs Tarantino. N.B.: Here and there, I’ve mined some of my past reviews (the ones I still agree with, anyway) for descriptions. It’s not just laziness. The feelings that come to you in the first flush of pleasure after seeing a Tarantino movie are difficult to recollect in tranquility.

One Flew Over the Housing Project: Forbes Relates Childhood Memories in Debut

Screenwriter Maya Forbes makes her directorial debut with Infinitely Polar Bear, an exploration of a specific and potentially tumultuous period from her youth. Potentially because she paints these memories over with a glossy lamination, and despite some seriously committed performances, the end result feels a bit too removed from reality to feel as emotionally potent or resonant as one would hope.

In 1978 Cambridge, Massachusetts, Amelia (Imogene Wolodarsky) and her younger sister Faith (Ashley Aufderheide) have grown up with caring parents under problematic circumstances. Manic depressive father, Cameron (Mark Ruffalo) is unable to hold down a job, leaving mother Maggie (Zoe Saldana) to take care of most things on her own. Following a nervous breakdown and brief institutionalization, Cameron and Maggie separate. However, Maggie’s inability to find a decent job leads her to desperate measures so she can...

There’s an old Hollywood truism that good movies are made from second-rate books, not the classics. On Broadway, the new musical “Honeymoon in Vegas,” which opened Thursday at the Nederlander Theatre in New York, uses a second-rate movie from 1992 for its source material. Have its makers been able to turn it into a good musical? Or is this one effort that should have stayed in Vegas?

Here and there, “Honeymoon in Vegas,” the musical, is better than good, with most of the good being Jason Robert Brown’s very plentiful score, which shows him in a much lighter, less...

Directors: Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton; Starring: Björk; David Attenborough Running time: 96 mins; Certificate: U

It feels like Biophilia has been around for ages. Björk's eighth studio album was released in October 2011 alongside some quirky apps. A series of remixes followed, some of which were collected on the Bastards compilation a year later.

Björk toured the album from 2011 to 2013, and this film is made from one of the last dates at London's Alexandra Palace. It opens with the comforting tones of David Attenborough, whose meeting was recorded on the BBC's enjoyable When Björk met Attenborough.

The album is gorgeous. The live show looks wondrous. But sadly Björk: Biophilia Live fails to deliver on the tease of Attenborough's opening monologue. We're promised a melding of nature, technology, music and wonder. We only get it in flashes.

All of Biophilia is played, along with a sprinkling of a Bio-d up back...

Alpha Violet is a unique sales company based in Paris and was started by Virginie Devesa and Keiko Funato. These experienced and passionate women focus on refined films--stories that are works of art that they are inspired to share.

There's something to be said about the power and magic of good working relationships; the two have worked incredibly well together for years and the first film they ever brought to Cannes (2012), Here and There, won the Grand Prix of Critics' Week. They started at Celluloid Dreams and then joined Urban Distribution International where Devesa setup the company's international arm and where Funato used her legal expertise. Beyond the marriage of their legal and sales strengths, it was their strong connection, teamwork and passion for sharing the films they love on screens around the world that ignited the creation of Alpha Violet three years ago.

Devesa explains more about their success and background:

We have very intense communications with all of our producers. I want them to feel comfortable with every move we make. This is the way we work. Sharing these films is our life. We're totally passionate and this is why we started our company.

We've got a few titles that were distributed in the United States. We have a French film called 2 Autumns 3 Winters, which will be distributed by Film Movement in the USA in June of this year. The main actor is Vincent Macaigne, and he totally cracks us up. He was the only actor on the Croisette with three films in selection last year.

We have a total 18 films. The first film we launched was in Berlin called Off White Lies (from Israel), which was also distributed by Film Movement. Then we were lucky with one film shot entirely in Mexico called Here and There by Spanish filmmaker Antonio Mendez who won many awards internationally.

Titles at Cannes

Last year, we had a first feature film directed by Marcela Said called The Summer of Flying Fish that screened at Directors' Fortnight, (also a part of the official selection of Cannes). Every year since we've started, we've always had a first feature in Cannes. We love first features because the director is really driven to get his energy out there.

We're very excited about our film in competition. It's called The Tribe, a Ukrainian feature film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy. It's his first feature. It's actually a very special film because it's only in sign language. There is no translation, no voiceover, but it was shot entirely with deaf people in a school. It's a love/hate revenge story. It's very strange, because it's very easy to understand what's happening. There's no need for translation or dialog. The idea started with a short film called Deafness; this is when he realized that sign language has nice choreography.

Who are your buyers?

We have a wide range of buyers. We worked with many good distributors through Celluloid Dreams back in 2000, and we've grown with them throughout the years. Many were buying lots of art house feature films, and now they're with the more established companies.

What are your backgrounds?

I studied foreign languages in France and business communications in the United States. My business partner is 100% Japanese. She worked in distribution for an art house company called Uplink in Japan, and she decided to come to France and work in cinema. She always wanted to have her own company to be able to represent the films that she chooses.

What types of films are you looking for?

We have many films directed by women, because we are women and we feel like we have different perspectives--especially about intimacy, love, and the father daughter relationship. We have six women directors, and we're always looking for more. I guess films with emotions...films that make us understand, dream, and share.

See Alpha Violet's Cannes lineup here

More About Alpha Violet:

Alpha Violet is a new independent sales company based in Paris. Virginie Devesa and Keiko Funato met together while working for Celluloid Dreams.

They share the same passion for working with filmmakers and producers. They have also worked together for UMedia (Urban Media) and their combined experiences have led them to work together again today with the creation of their sales company, Alpha Violet.

They wish to offer with their new label a transparent way to promote their films worldwide thanks to a special database. They have received the support of the French Chamber of Commerce of Paris for their project and they have established their offices in one of the prestigious “pépinière” in Ménilmontant, Paris.

Exclusive: Comedies dominate Films Boutique’s line-up of market premieres at next week’s Marché du Film in Cannes.

The Berlin-based sales outfit will be presenting three comedies among its latest pickups.

These include Serbian writer-director Darko Lungulov’s Monument To Michael Jackson. It follows his award-winning feature Here And There and was pitched at various co-production events, including Sofia Meetings and Moscow Business Square; the film was co-produced by Macedonia’s Producer on the Move, Ognen Antov of Dream Factory Macedonia;T

The other two titles are Belgian film-maker Geoffrey Enthoven’s Halfway and Pascal Rabaté’s Patchwork Family, to be released in France on July 9 by Ad Vitam Distribution, as buyers-only screenings.

Halfway is the second film by Enthoven to be handled internationally by Films Boutique after the sales company had sold Come As You Are, a drama about three disabled youngsters going to Spain to get laid, to 42 territories...

Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler in David Wain’s “They Came Together”

They Came Together

Written by David Wain and Michael Showalter

Directed by David Wain

USA, 2014

Molly (Amy Poehler) and Joel (Paul Rudd) are likable singles who reside in New York that we immediately want to get together and stay together but beyond the initial thrills of seeing them meet, the material of David Wain’s They Came Together soon turns disappointingly repetitive. Mimicking The Shop Around the Corner and You’ve Got Mail, Molly’s small candy business goes up against Joel’s employer- the Corporate Candy Company. They have direct personal conflicts with each other but there is an undeniable pull of attraction between them that can’t be ignored. From ridiculing falling-in-love montages to klutzy bumblings on dates, this film in no way approaches the absolute zaniness of the best of Wain’s previous achievement with...

We thought the stressful part of The Big Reunion was over, but we were wrong. Sure, everyone's got their hideously awkward meetings out of the way, and the rehearsals started out all friendly, but it was only a matter of time before the nerves began to kick in - with intense results. Read on to find out what we found out from this episode, which focused on rehearsals for the all-important Hammersmith gig...

1. Damage might seem smooth, but their dancing needed some serious work.

"It was just a bit of a shambles." Those are Jade's words, not ours - though frankly, if he hadn't said it, we would have done. Yes, Noel can pull out a backflip. But there was some serious awkward shuffling going on. "Rahs used to be the main dancer," Jade snarked. "I Still Am," Rahs yelled, later admitting that he'd "completely destroyed" the image of himself as a smooth mover.

Lotfy Nathan's "12 O'Clock Boys" is a riveting documentary that sheds light on a fascinating subculture. Shot on the streets of Baltimore, the documentary follows Pug, a young man that seeks to join the local gang. This gang is unique, for their anti-social behaviour comes in the form of motorbike acrobatics, riding down city streets while poppin' wheelies, creating a vertical profile like the hands on a clock.

This movie was a critical and audience favourite when it played the Hot Docs documentary festival last year, and the film is finally getting a limited theatrical run. Moviefone Canada had a chance to speak to the film's director about the influence of David Simon on the project, how he balanced being a filmmaker vs. being close to his subject, and how he views the documentary a year later.

Moviefone Canada: The way that you shoot Baltimore is eerily similar to the...

The Photographers' Gallery, London

William Burroughs's photographs offer real insight into his written work. Lynch's and Warhol's images pale by comparison

"A picture just means I know where I was every minute," Andy Warhol once said. "That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary." In this instinct, Warhol was, as always, ahead of the game. One senses that he would have been very much at home in today's digitally driven, relentlessly mediated world where diaristic photography – the recording of the everyday – is a predominant form.

Likewise William Burroughs, a writer who photographed the world around him, wherever he was, whether New York, London or Tangiers and processed the results at the nearest chemist's. Both were drawn to the disposable nature of photography but, paradoxically, took great care to arrange their images – in Burroughs's case, into meticulous collages. Warhol's embrace of photography, though, was central to his wider artistic practice,...

Geronimo!… Allons-y!… Fan-tastic!… Bow ties are cool… Fez’s are cool… wibbly-wobbly / timey-wimey… you know how it goes. Last weekend, nearly 13 million viewers in the UK and millions of others watching at exactly the same time in more than 90 countries around the world witnessed John Hurt – aka the War Doctor – make a scathing assessment of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in The Day Of The Doctor: “do you have to talk like children?”. It was a much needed and long overdue observation.

Assuming you’ve avoided a sense of humour by-pass and not had your inner laugh track excised completely, you can probably cope with the kiddy-speak. It’s mildly amusing, maybe even funny… once or twice. Here and there. Every now and again. But as repeated memes throughout the entire tenure of one or more Doctors? It’s all a bit silly, really.

One way and another, it’s...

Today, we bring Daily Dead readers a lengthy excerpt from Fiddlehead, the latest novel from Boneshaker author Cherie Priest:

“Award-winning author Cherie Priest returns with Fiddlehead (A Tor Trade Paperback Original; $14.99; On Sale: November 12, 2013) – the fifth and final thrilling volume in the series that began with Boneshaker. New readers and returning fans can immerse themselves in a very different 19th century America where the Civil War still drags on, featuring prominent historical figures – like Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant – as characters. In Fiddlehead, you’re invited to travel back in time for a rousing adventure, ending in a nail-biting finale you can’t miss.

Ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but it’s a less glamorous job than you’d think, especially since someone tried to kill him for it. Worse yet, they tried to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called the Fiddlehead, which offers undeniable...

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

As we approach the end of another year we once again find EA and Activision butting heads for total domination over the military subgenre line of First Person Shooter games. Similar to how Ufc owner Dana White clearly secretly wishes he was WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and in charge of a $1billion industry, EA desperately wants that annual gangbuster success that Activision reaps in yearly. They aren’t giving up either in their fruitless endeavors and are seemingly prepared to release Battlefield game after Battlefield game whether we give a good damn or not, all in hopes of one day slaying the mighty beast that is Call of Duty.

Before I even begin critiquing the various aspects of Battlefield 4 however, the most direct and concise summarization I can give the overall package is that it should have not been released on current generation consoles. Whether you...

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The Performer | Lizzy Caplan

The Show | Masters of Sex

The Episode | “Pilot”

The Airdate | Sept. 29, 2013

The Performance | If an actress is very, very lucky, once in her career, she’ll get the part — the one that finally shows all the world just how brilliantly she sparkles. For Sarah Michelle Gellar, for instance, that role was Buffy. For Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars. And now, for Lizzy Caplan, at last there is Virginia Johnson.

We’ve loved her for years, in everything from The Class to New Girl. But not until we saw...

The first reviews for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim have appeared online and thankfully, they are mostly positive. As if Kanye West’s endorsement wasn’t enough (he called it one of his favorite films of all time), we now have the trusty word of publications like THR, HitFix and Total Film to go on.

Admittedly, tracking for the film hasn’t been what the studio hoped for but Warner Bros. has been doing a decent job with the marketing and as of now, I think that Pacific Rim will be a hit.

The Playlist has been kind enough to compile all of the reviews together and separate them into positive, mixed and negative. You can check them all out below and let us know what you think in the comments. So far, I’m feeling pretty good about this one.

Pacific Rim opens on July 12th. Be sure...

Central and Eastern European filmmakers presented 19 projects at various stages of production at Karlovy Vary’s annual Works in Progress initiative.

The popular industry programme at Kviff is in its ninth year, and past films shown as Works In Progress include I Am, Lunacy, Katyn, Tricks, Alois Nebel and My Dog Killer, among many others.

This year’s selection included a standout pitch for The Disobedient [pictured], a Serbian coming-of-age road movie about two 24-year-olds from Tilva Ros producers Mina Djukic (who will direct) and Nikola Lezaic.The film is now in post for autumn delivery after wrapping its shoot in September 2012.

Another promising Serbian title, of a very different flavour, was the crowdpleasing dark comedy Monument to Michael Jackson (working title). The film will be ready to launch this autumn and the footage shown got the day’s only laughs out of the industry-heavy crowd. The film is a co-production with Macedonia and Germany.

Among the Czech...

Considering he started off his career in the genre world, it's certainly fitting that now Jamie Kennedy is producing horror movies, including Matt Orlando's A Resurrection, which arrived in limited theaters this weekend.

Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Orlando, A Resurrection stars Mischa Barton, Devon Sawa, J. Michael Trautmann and Michael Clarke Duncan in his final role and follows a mentally ill student named Eli (Trautmann), who believes his recently deceased brother is returning from the grave for revenge on the students who killed him. The project was produced by Jamie Kennedy Entertainment and Levine Pictures.

Dread Central chatted with Kennedy earlier this week for Indie Horror Month to talk about his first indie horror production, A Resurrection, and what the future holds for Jamie Kennedy Entertainment as they continue to produce independent horror films. Since we had him on the phone, we couldn't help but get nostalgic...

The Ann Arbor Film Festival, having survived their half-a-century blowout in 2012, is back with another rip-roarin’ 51st edition in 2013, which will run from March 19-24, screening a mind-boggling amount of experimental short films and a few features.

Highlights of the fest include:

Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.

There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...

This week sees the release of Ex-Heroes, a novel from Peter Clines that pits small group of superheroes against hordes of undead in a battle to protect the last remaining humans on Earth. If you’d like an idea of what to expect from the novel, we’ve been provided with an exclusive excerpt you can read right now.

Synopsis: “Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a better place. Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Billions died, civilization fell, and the city of angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland.

Now, a year later, the Mighty Dragon and his companions protect a last few thousand survivors in their film-studio-turned-fortress, the Mount. Scarred and traumatized by the horrors they’ve endured, the heroes fight the armies of ravenous ex-humans at their citadel’s gates,...

Spoiler Alert! In this week’s episode of Justified, “Where’s Waldo?”, written by Dave Andron and directed by Bill Johnson, the bag mystery deepened as Art (Nick Searcy) suited up with Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) and Tim (Jacob Pitts) to meet Waldo Truth’s family and learned they’re really looking for a pilot named Drew Thompson. And Boyd (Walton Goggins) paid Preacher Billy (Joe Mazzello) a visit and made Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) a business proposition that he politely/violently refused. As he’ll do throughout the season, showrunner Graham Yost takes us inside the writers room. Read our...

Ep. 3.08, “Don’t You Leave Me Here”

Written by Tom Piazza (Teleplay), Eric Overmyer (Story)

Directed by Ernest Dickerson

Ep. 3.09, “Poor Man’s Paradise”

Written by George Pelecanos (Teleplay and Story), Jordan Hirsch (Story)

Directed by Roxann Dawson

Ep. 3.10, “Tipitina”

Written by David Simon (Teleplay and Story), Eric Overmyer (Teleplay), and Anthony Bourdain (Story)

Directed by Anthony Hemingway

After a strong showing all season, and a potentially series-best in episode 3.07, “Promised Land”, Treme finishes out season three in fine form, with continued focus on character, atmosphere, and the series’ ever-present themes of perseverance, artistic expression, and self-determination. The season’s final three episodes bring plot points aplenty, with Albert and Delmond’s withdrawal from the Jazz Center program, Sonny’s proposal and marriage to Linh, Annie and Davis’ breakup, and the highly anticipated trial of Ladonna’s attackers. It’s a mixed bag, to say the least, but each moment feels patiently earned and,...

The Guadalajara International Film Festival (Ficg) is taking part in the year’s first celebration of the seventh art—the Palm Springs International Film Festival—where it is slated to present the Cine Latino Award to the best Iberoamerican film screened at the 24th edition of the California festival, which will run from January 3rd to 14th, 2013.

The award is accompanied by a cash prize of Us$5,000 contributed by the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the University of Guadalajara Foundation/USA located in Los Angeles, California.

The Cine Latino Award highlights the enormous creativity of new talents in the world of Iberoamerican cinema, at the same time underlining the commitment of the Ficg and the University of Guadalajara Foundation/USA to the consolidation of culture and the arts in the region and to the wider interchange of ideas within a global context.

I will have the pleasure of being on the jury along with Juan Carlos Arciniegas (Ccn en Español), a journalist with an established career in the area of motion picture and entertainment criticism and analysis—and Iván Trujillo Bolio, director of the Guadalajara International Film Festival.

Listed below are the 22 films eligible for the award. They include some of the productions from Iberoamerican countries nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Foreign Language Film category of the 85th Academy Awards, to be held on February 24th, 2013.

7 Boxes (Paraguay), (Isa:Shoreline Entertainment)

Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori

After Lucia (Mexico), (Isa: Bac Films)

Director: Michel Franco

Beauty (Argentina), (Isa: Campo Cine)

Director: Daniela Seggiaro

Blancanieves (Spain/France) (Dreamcatchers)

Director: Pablo Berger

Checkmate (Dominican Republic)

Director: José María Cabral

Clandestine Childhood (Argentina/Brazil/Spain)

Director: Benjamín Ávil

The Cleaner (Peru) (Isa: Flamingo Films)

Director: Adrian Saba

The Clown (Brazil)

Director: Selton Mellobr

The Dead Man and Being Happy (Spain) (Isa: Udi)

Director: Javier Rebollo

Drought (Mexico) (Isa:imcine)

Director: Everardo González

The Girl (USA/Mexico) (Isa: Goldcrest Fims)

Director: David Riker

Here and There (Spain/USA/Mexico) (Isa: Alpha Violet)

Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza

La Playa D.C. (Colombia/Brazil/France) (Isa: Cineplex)

Director: Juan Andrés Arango García

Multiple Visions (The Crazy Machine) (Mexico/France/Spain)

Director: Emilio Maillé

The Passion of Michelangelo (Chile/France)

Director: Esteban Larraín

Sadourni’s Butterflies (Argentina)

Director: Darío Nardi

The Sleeping Voice (Spain) (Isa: The Match Factory)

Director: Benito Zambrano

The Snitch Cartel (Colombia)

Director: Carlos Moreno

Tabu (Portugal/Brazil/France/Germany)

Director: Miguel Gomes

The End (Spain)

Director: Jorge Torregrossa

Una Noche (Cuba/UK/USA)

Director: Lucy Mulloy

White Elephant (Argentina/Spain/France)

Director: Pablo Trapero

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Aquí y Allá (“Here and There”) is a film about home and separation; of returning to where you left and trying to reintegrate with a life that has, for all intents and purposes, gone on without you. Dreams and opportunities; responsibility and consequence; hope and fear–these are all central not only to the film, but to the day-to-day life of every human being around the world. As such, Aquí y Allá exceeds the admittedly weighty (and very touching) premise of Mexican emigration to the U.S.–and all the tensions and the void that can come of it–to strike a relatable chord regardless of …...

A look back at 2012 reveals an undeniable fact, it has been a great year for Latino film. Sundance started the year off strong with films like Aurora Guerrero’s sweet and tender Mosquita y Mari and Marialy Rivas’ rambunctious Joven y Alocada (Young & Wild). Gina Rodriguez broke out in Filly Brown, as a rapper who needs to make it big so she can raise money to get her mom out of jail. In the film, Jenni Rivera played the part of Filly’s mom in her first, and sadly last, movie role.

There was also a strong Latin American presence at Cannes this past summer, boasting films from Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. It might as well have been called Mexi-Cannes, with Mexican films winning awards across all main sections of the festival. Carlos Reygadas was honored as the Best Director for his controversial film Post Tenebras Lux, despite having received boos at its premiere screening. The prize for the Critics’ Week section went to Aquí y Allá (Here and There) and Después de Lucía (After Lucia) won the top prize for Un Certain Regard.

It’s been an especially favorable year for Chilean cinema. The New York Film Festival, in its 50th edition this past Fall, included three highly anticipated films by Pablo Larraín, Valeria Sarmiento, and the late Raúl Ruiz. And Chile continued to outshine the rest of the region by winning two top spots at the Festival Internacional de Nuevo Cine Latino de La Habana (the Havana Film Festival) just a few days ago. Pablo Larraín’s No, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, won the First Coral Prize. It’s a brilliant take on the real life story of an advertising campaign that ousted General Pinochet from power during a shining moment in Chilean politics. Violeta se fue a los cielos (Violeta Went To Heaven), a biopic about internationally famous Violeta de la Parra, a Chilean singer, songwriter, and poet won the Second Prize.

Whether it was at Cannes, Sundance, or countless other festivals, Latino films were winning award after award this year and even getting distribution (albeit usually in limited release). With the flurry of activity surrounding the region’s filmmaking, it can be hard to keep up with it all. Thankfully, there are professionals who get paid to keep track of what movies are receiving accolades, have the most buzz, and got picked up for distribution. LatinoBuzz went straight to the experts, film programmers, to ask, “What’s your top 5 Latino films of 2012?”

Carlos Gutierrez, Co-Founder and Director of Cinema Tropical

In no particular order, a list of five Latin American films that made it to Us screens in the past year (some of them are a couple of years old), which I highly recommend.

De Jueves a Domingo (Thursday Till Sunday), Director: Dominga Sotomayor, Chile

O Som ao Redor (Neighboring Sounds), Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil

El Estudiante, Director: Santiago Mitre, Argentina

El Velador, Director: Natalia Almada, Mexico

El Lugar Más Pequeño (The Tiniest Place), Director: Tatiana Huezo, Mexico/El Salvador

Juan Caceres, Director of Programming at the New York International Latino Film Festival

Mosquita y Mari is a gorgeous film full of heart. Marialy Rivas (Director of Joven y Alocada) is an incredibly exciting new voice in Latin American cinema. She's fearless and full of love. I'm a huge fan of Lucy Mulloy (Director of Una Noche). She draws these wonderful performances from non-professional actors. A natural at using the lens to tell a story. In Las Malas Intenciones Fatima Buntinx plays the lead perfectly. Andres Wood made a beautiful film called 'Machuca', that captured the soul of Chile in the 70's and he does the same with a bio-pic of Violeta Parra, a folk singer who was a part of 'La Nueva Canción Chilena'.

Mosquita y Mari, Director: Aurora Guerrero, USA

Joven y Alocada (Young and Wild), Director: Marialy Rivas, Chile

Una Noche, Director: Lucy Mulloy, Cuba

Violeta Se Fue A Los Cielos (Violeta Went to Heaven), Director: Andrés Wood, Chile

Las Malas Intenciones (The Bad Intentions), Director: Rosario García-Montero, Perú

Christine Davila, Programming Associate at Sundance Film Festival

There are way too many Latino films and not enough coverage on American Latino films so with that -- mine are going to be strictly American Latino films.

Los Chidos, Director: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, USA/Mexico

Mosquita y Mari, Director: Aurora Guerrero, USA

Elliot Loves, Director: Terracino, USA

Aquí y Allá (Here and There), Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza, USA/Spain/Mexico

Love, Concord, Director: Gustavo Guardado, USA

Lisa Franek, Artistic Director at the San Diego Latino Film Festival

Just 5?? That's tough! In Filly Brown, Gina Rodriguez turns in a great performance, and I expect to see more great things from her very soon. No, I saw at Cannes, and it was fascinating, especially in contrast to Larraín's previous (amazing) films. La Hora Cero has unforgettable scenes and characters! La Mujer de Ivan has amazing acting, and I believe Maria de Los Angeles Garcia is definitely a talent to watch. Reportero is also fantastic.

La Mujer de Iván, Director: Francisca Silva, Chile

No, Director: Pablo Larraín, Chile/France/USA

La Hora Cero, Director: Diego Velasco, Venezuela

Reportero, Director: Bernardo Ruiz, USA/Mexico

Filly Brown, Directors: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos, USA

Marcela Goglio, Programmer for Latinbeat at The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Las Acacias, Director: Pablo Giorgelli, Argentina

As Cançoes (Songs), Director: Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil

Unfinished Spaces, Directors: Alyssa Nahmias & Benjamin Murray, USA

O Som ao Redor (Neighboring Sounds), Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil

Aquí y Allá (Here and There), Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza, USA/Spain/Mexico

Pepe Vargas, Executive Director of the International Latino Cultural Center and Chicago Latino Film Festival

Not an easy task to come up with 5 titles - there are so many good movies.

La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live In)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar, Spain

Salvando al Soldado Pérez, (Saving Private Perez)

Director: Beto Gómez, Mexico

Un Cuento Chino (Chinese Take-Out)

Director: Sebastián Borensztein, Argentina/Spain

Lobos de Arga (Game of Werewolves)

Director: Juan Martínez Moreno, Spain

Mariachi Gringo

Director: Tom Gustafson, USA/Mexico

Amalia Cordova, Coordinator of the Latin American Program at the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Granito, Director: Pamela Yates, USA/Guatemala/Spain

Desterro Guarani, Directors: Patricia Ferreira y Ariel Duarte Ortega, Brazil

Violeta Se Fue A Los Cielos (Violeta Went to Heaven), Director: Andrés Wood, Chile

5 x Favela – Agora por nós Mesmos (5 x Favela, Now by Ourselves), Directors: Manaíra Carneiro, Wagner Novais, Cacau Amaral, Rodrigo Felha, Luciano Vidigal, Cadu Barcelos, and Luciana Bezerra, Brazil

Un Cuento Chino (Chinese Take-Out), Director: Sebastián Borensztein, Argentina/Spain

Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.

The fifth edition of the Bengaluru International Film Festival will hold retrospectives of Girish Kasaravalli and Jahnu Barua among others. Five of Kasaravalli’s films: Tabarana Kathe (1986), Kraurya (1996), Thaayi Saheba (1997), Dweepa (2003) and Hasina (2004)will be screened. While Barua’s Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (1987), Banani (1990), Firingoti (1992) and Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door(1995) will be screened.

Besides, three other sections are dedicated to Indian cinema. Chitrabharathi – Indian Cinema Competition, Kannada Cinema (competition and screening of films in other dialects in Karnataka) and 100 years of Indian Cinema (screening of 14 films).

Complete line up:

Retrospective

Chan-Wook Park (South Korea)

1. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park/110/2000/South Korea)

2. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/129/2002/South Korea)

3. Old boy (Chan-Wook Park/120/2003/South Korea)

4. Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/112/2005/South Korea)

5. Thirst (Chan-Wook Park/133/2009/South Korea)

Fatih Akin (Germany)

1. Short Sharp Shock (Fatih Akin/100/1998/Germany)

2. In July (Fatih Akin/99/2000/Germany)

3. Solino (Fatih Akin/124/2002/Germany)

4. Head On (Fatih Akin/121/2004/Germany/Turkey...

Last night, New York played host to the 22nd annual Gotham Awards, honouring some of the year’s finest independent feature films, and a strong part of the awards season that we’re currently in the midst of.

Having debuted at Cannes earlier in the year, followed by a record-breaking release in the spring, Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom has taken home the top prize, winning Best Feature at last night’s awards.

As a huge fan of both the film and Anderson, himself, I couldn’t be happier with the result.

Starring Mark Ruplass, Emily Blunt, and Rosemarie DeWitt, Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister fought off very strong competition – including Moonrise Kingdom, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, and Colin Trevorrow’s Safety Not Guaranteed – to win Best Ensemble Performance.

And the critically acclaimed Beasts of the Southern Wild took home two awards, earning Benh Zeitlin the Breakthrough Director award,...

The 22nd Annual Gotham Awards took place Monday night, November 26 at Cipriani Wall Street and congratulations go to Wes Anderson and his Moonrise Kingdom crew as they took home the Best Feature award over films such as Richard Linklater's Bernie which is confusingly being pushed pundits all over the Internet and the much-buzzed about Middle of Nowhere from Ava DuVernay, which I just received a screener for today and will be diving into soon based on all the love it has received. As a matter of fact, a surprise winner in the Breakthrough Actor category comes in the form of Middle of Nowhere star Emayatzy Corinealdi. I say surprise only because Beasts of the Southern Wild star Quevenzhane Wallis is all anyone is talking about as the youngster is poised for an Oscar nomination, but perhaps this Gotham win may be the start of something bigger for Corinealdi, whom...

The 22nd Annual Gotham Awards took place Monday night, November 26 at Cipriani Wall Street and congratulations go to Wes Anderson and his Moonrise Kingdom crew as they took home the Best Feature award over films such as Richard Linklater's Bernie which is confusingly being pushed pundits all over the Internet and the much-buzzed about Middle of Nowhere from Ava DuVernay, which I just received a screener for today and will be diving into soon based on all the love it has received. As a matter of fact, a surprise winner in the Breakthrough Actor category comes in the form of Middle of Nowhere star Emayatzy Corinealdi. I say surprise only because Beasts of the Southern Wild star Quevenzhane Wallis is all anyone is talking about as the youngster is poised for an Oscar nomination, but perhaps this Gotham win may be the start of something bigger for Corinealdi, whom...

In the battle of the Andersons, it was Wes who beat P.T for Best Feature at the 2012 Gotham Awards. Moonrise Kingdom would go 1 for 2 as Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister easily among the year’s the best, for its natural, on-screen chemistry was handsomely awarded the Best Ensemble Performance prize. Making it an almost all Sundance Film Festival takes Gotham kind of year, in the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You it’s Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty which gets an extra boost for theatrical play. Pic was produced by Andrew Corkin who is lining up Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are for festival play next year.

The heavy favorite in all categories combined was Beasts of the Southern Wild‘s Benh Zeitlin as Best Breakthrough Director and Audience award, while in the Breakthrough Actor category, it’s Emayatzy Corinealdi...

The Independent Feature Project’s Gotham Awards were dished out tonight at Cipriani Wall Street, celebrating the best of independent film. The awards are being hosted by Mike Birbiglia, who is up for a Breakthrough Actor Award for Sleepwalk With Me. Hate to say it, but he seemed to sleepwalk through his opening monologue, though it’s kind of a Gotham Award tradition to see awkward openings of the show. Keep refreshing as we add winners. Breakthrough Director: Benh Zeitlin won for Beasts of the Southern Wild. The other nominees were Zal Batmanglij for Sound of My Voice Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky for Francine Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin for Now, Forager Antonio Méndez Esparza for Aquí y Allá (Here and There) Gotham Independence Film Audience Award Winner: Artifact: the documentary directed by Bartholomew Cubbins beat out nominees that included Beasts of the Southern Wild, which Jared Leto...

The 2012 Gotham Awards were handed out Monday, November 26th in New York City.  Here's a complete list of the night's winners and nominees. Best Feature "Bernie" "The Loneliest Planet" "The Master" "Middle of Nowhere" "Moonrise Kingdom" - Winner Best Documentary "Detropia" "How to Survive a Plague" - Winner "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present" "Room 237" "The Waiting Room" Best Ensemble Performance "Bernie" "Moonrise Kingdom" "Safety Not Guaranteed" "Silver Linings Playbook" "Your Sister's Sister" - Winner Breakthrough Director Antonio Méndez Esparza, "Aquí y Allá (Here and There)" Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Winner Brian M. Cassidey, Melanie...

About five months back, Idw released the first issue of a truly beautiful Frankenstein book—not one featuring the typical neck-and-bolts caricature, but a book about a lonely, wandering soul rendered in black and white. Now, two of the greatest talents in horror comics have unleashed a second issue upon us, and it was well worth the wait. Bernie Wrightson’s artwork is breathtaking, and Steve Niles’s story ebbs and flows so naturally it almost seems like Mary Shelley wrote it herself.

I spoke with Niles this week about the synthesis of such an incredible project.

Famous Monsters. So in some of these laboratory and library scenes… have you just let Bernie [Wrightson] let loose? Do you tell him some of the things you think should be in the background?

Steve Niles. I wanted 400 books. he only drew 300.

FM. [laughs]

Sn. Kidding. We talk through the story, and then Bernie does...

The American Film Market (Afm®) and AFI Fest presented by Audi join forces and introduce a new AFI Fest screening program at this year’s market. Three AFI Fest films seeking international sales representation will be screened today, starting at 9:00 am. The program was jointly announced by Jonathan Wolf, Afm Managing Director and Jacqueline Lyanga, Director, AFI Fest.

The three festival titles that have been selected by AFI Fest to screen at Afm are: Here And There (AquÍ Y AllÁ) from writer/director Antonio Méndez Esparza (9:00 a.m. screening); Nairobi Half Life from director David Tosh Gitonga (11:30 a.m. screening); and Starlet from co-writer/director Sean Baker (2:30 p.m. screening).

“This was a natural progression in our long partnership with AFI Fest and provides these filmmakers an invaluable opportunity to screen for the world’s top sales agents,” said Wolf.

"The new screening program at the Afm has so much potential. It is going to give our AFI Fest filmmakers a chance to bring their films to the market to find representation; it's going to get their films directly in front of sales agents and buyers, and we hope that it will ultimately help these films get distributed internationally,” said Lyanga.

Afm and AFI Fest provide the only concurrent festival-market event in North America, connecting both art and commerce. The alliance affords films that are represented and/or screening at the market and festival unmatched marketing exposure. The partnership also provides AFI Fest filmmakers who visit Afm access to key decision makers from more than 400 of the world’s leading production and distribution companies.

A total of 27 films screening at AFI Fest will also be represented at this year’s Afm.

11 AFI Fest films will screen at Afm, including ABCs Of Death (Magnolia Pictures); Antiviral (IFC Films/TF1 International); Come Out And Play (Cananá Films); Ginger And Rosa (The Match Factory); John Dies At The End (Magnolia Pictures); Kon-tiki (Media Plan PR/HanWay Films); Quartet(HanWay Films); Simon Killer (IFC Films/ Fortissimo Films); and Zaytoun (Pathé International).

16 additional festival selections will be represented at Afm including: A Royal Affair (Magnolia Pictures); Berberian Sound Studio (IFC Films/The Match Factory); Beyond The Hills (IFC Films); Caesar Must Die (Adopt Films, LLC/Rai Trade); Eat Sleep Die (The Yellow Affair); Here Comes The Devil (Mpi Media Group); Holy Motors (Indomina); In Another Country (Kino Lorber); In The Fog (Strand Releasing/The Match Factory); Kid (Media Luna New Films); Pieta (Finecut); Tabu (Adopt Films, LLC); The Hunt (Magnolia Pictures); The Impossible (Summit Entertainment); The Most Fun I’Ve Ever Had With My Pants On (Continental Media); and War Witch (Tribeca Enterprises/Films Distribution).

About the Afm

The business of independent motion picture production and distribution reaches its peak every year at the American Film Market, Oct. 31 – Nov. 7, 2012. The global film industry converges in Santa Monica for eight days of deal-making on films in every stage of development and production, as well as screenings, conferences, networking and parties.

With 8,000 industry leaders from more than 70 countries, 700 screenings and the industry’s largest Conference Series, Afm is the pivotal destination for independent filmmakers, directors, distributors, financiers, industry executives, producers, talent, writers, the international media and all those who provide services to the worldwide motion picture industry.

The Afm is produced by the Independent Film & Television Alliance®, the global trade association of the independent motion picture and television industry and the voice and advocate for the Independents worldwide. Visit www.AmericanFilmMarket.com and www.Ifta-online.org for more information.

About AFI Fest presented by Audi

The American Film Institute’s annual celebration of artistic excellence, AFI Fest presented by Audi brings the audience and the entertainment community together to explore the year in global cinema through the new works of film masters, moving image icons and breakthrough talents, and it is the only film festival of its stature that is free to the public. AFI Fest mixes nightly red carpet galas of Hollywood films with new auteur works from around the world, ensuring that an extraordinary array of foreign filmmaker voices is heard. Launching awards season each year, AFI Fest offers a crucial avenue of exposure to the entertainment community, while providing audiences with the very best of global cinema, right in the center of the movie-making capital of the world.

Celebrating its 26th year as a program of the American Film Institute, the festival has paid tribute to numerous influential filmmakers and artists over the years, including Pedro Almodóvar and David Lynch as Guest Artistic Directors, and has screened scores of films that have produced Oscar® nominations and wins including, most recently, The Artist and A Separation.

AFI Fest 2012 presented by Audi will take place November 1 through 8 in the heart of Hollywood. AFI Fest is the only Fiapf-accredited film festival in the United States, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes AFI Fest as a qualifying festival for the Short Films category for the annual Academy Awards®.

Additional information about AFI Fest is available at AFI.com/Afifest. Connect with AFI Fest at facebook.com/Afifest,twitter.com/Afifest and youtube.com/Afifest.

AFI Fest 2012 presented by Audi, a program of the American Film Institute, today announced the events and screenings in its Presentations and Conversations programs, an additional screening and some of the guests who are expected to attend this year.s festival. AFI Fest, which annually presents the best of world cinema in the movie capital of the world, will take place November 1 through 8 at the historic Grauman.s Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Stay with us here at Wamg as we bring you the latest from the AFI Fest screenings, panels and after-parties right here in Hollywood!

Presentations:

This variety of special screening events offers audiences a unique festival experience.

Sunset Boulevard: Dir Billy Wilder

With restoration services by Technicolor, be among the first to experience one of Hollywood.s most beloved films as it was originally intended. A fitting release...

Mumbai – The 14th Mumbai Film Festival ended here with an awards ceremony that honored such movies as U.S. film Beasts of the Southern Wild, Mexico's Here and There, Denmark's The Hunt and India's Miss Lovely. Mexican immigrant drama Aquí Y Alla (Here And There) won the award for the best film by a debutant director in the international competition category. The film was honored with the Golden Gateway of India award and a cash prize of $ 100,000. It also won the Silver Gateway Award for best director given to Antonio Méndez Esparza. American fantasy drama Beasts

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Mumbai, Oct 25: Director Ashim Ahluwalia's "Miss Lovely" was named the best film in the 'India Gold' category of the 14th Mumbai Film Festival. It also won 'Reliance Media Works CreaTech (Creativity & Technology) Award' as the eight-day cine extragvanza concluded Thursday here.

While Hansal Mehta's "Shahid" was the runner-up in the same category, the special jury award was given to Manjeet Singh for "Mumbai Cha Raja".

"Here And There" was being recognised as the best film in the 'International Competition for.

In the newly introduced competition section for Indian feature films ‘India Gold’, Miss Lovely was announced as the Best Film and awarded the Golden Gateway of India Trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakh at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival 2012. Hansal Mehta’s “Shahid” won the second award in the category with a Silver Gateway trophy and cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh.

The Special Jury Award of a Silver Gateway of India trophy was given to Manjeet Singh for “Mumbai Cha Raja”. The Reliance Media Works CreaTech (Creativity & Technology) Award was bestowed upon the makers of Miss Lovely, who will be entitled to utilize the resources Reliance Media Works Service Solutions for a value up to Rs.1 lakh.

Aquí Y Alla´ (Here And There) won the Golden Gateway of India Award and a cash prize of Us $ 100,000 as the best film in the International Competition for the First Feature...

Bernie, Middle of Nowhere, Moonrise Kingdom and Beasts of the Southern Wild each received a pair of nominations for the 22nd Gotham Independent Film Awards, but the big surprise has to be the Best Picture snub of Benh Zeitlin’s Sundance and Cannes winner. The jury of five favored Moonrise Kingdom, Bernie, Middle of Nowhere, The Loneliest Planet and The Master over other well-received truly indie titles such as Craig Zobel’s Compliance and James Ponsoldt’s Smashed. The awards will be handed out on November 26th.

Best Feature

Bernie

Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Ginger Sledge, Celine Rattray, Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer, Matt Williams, David McFadzean, Judd Payne, Dete Meserve, producers (Millennium Entertainment)

The Loneliest Planet

Julia Loktev, director; Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Helge Albers, Marie Therese Guirgis, producers (Sundance Selects)

The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson, director; Joanne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, producers (The...

Last year, two of the films nominated for Best Feature at the Gotham Independent Film Awards went on to earn Oscar Best Picture nominations -- The Descendents and Tree of Life -- and this year two films nominated for Best Feature are currently on my list to be nominated for Best Picture. Those two are Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, which are joined by Bernie, The Loneliest Planet and the buzzy Middle of Nowhere. Bernie and Moonrise also find themselves nominated for Best Ensemble along with awards season heavyweight Silver Linings Playbook, while Beasts of the Southern Wild enjoys some Breakthrough attention with Benh Zeitlin nominated for Breakthrough Director and 8-year-old star Quvenzhane Wallis nominated for Breakthrough Actor. The Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 26 and I have included the complete list of nominations for the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards...

The Master, Bernie, and Moonrise Kingdom were nominated by the Gotham Independent Film Awards for Best Feature. One of the first major awards ceremonies of the Oscar season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards focus attention on worthy independent films and breakthrough performances. Mike Birbiglia, who was nominated for a Breakthough Actor award for his performance in Sleepwalk With Me, will also host the ceremony on Nov. 26.

Click below for complete nominations.

Best Feature

Bernie

The Loneliest Planet

The Master

Middle of Nowhere

Moonrise Kingdom

Best Documentary

Detropia

How to Survive a Plague

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Room 237...

★★☆☆☆ Nobody would question the fact that Antonio Mendez Esperanza's Here and There (Aquí y Allá, 2012) raises some extremely important and relevant points about the challenges faced by Latin American migrant workers. Yet, even the most ardent fans of slow cinema may well find Esperanza's film a chore. The narrative follows protagonist Pedro, who has returned to his home village after a stint working menial jobs in the Us. Reunited with his family, which consists of wife Teresa and two daughters Lore and Heide, he sets about trying for form a band in an attempt to make extra money.

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