Asia was the big winner at the 64th Berlin Film Festival, taking home four Bears, including the Golden Bear for Best Film and Silver Bear for Best Actor (Liao Fan) for Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice (Bai Ri Yan Huo).Click here for full list of winners
Another of the three Chinese titles, Blind Massage, picked up the Silver Bear for Outstanding Achievement, which again went to a cinematographer, Zeng Jian. Last year had seen DoP Aziz Zhambakiyev receive the prize for his camerawork on Harmony Lessons.
At the ceremony on Saturday night, the Silver Bear for Best Actress was presented to Haru Kuroki for her performance in The Little House by veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.
There were a further six prizes or special mentions for films from Asia in the decisions of the Generation and independent juries (Fipresci and Netpac).
Black Coal, Thin Ice is the fourth Chinese film to win the Golden...
Another of the three Chinese titles, Blind Massage, picked up the Silver Bear for Outstanding Achievement, which again went to a cinematographer, Zeng Jian. Last year had seen DoP Aziz Zhambakiyev receive the prize for his camerawork on Harmony Lessons.
At the ceremony on Saturday night, the Silver Bear for Best Actress was presented to Haru Kuroki for her performance in The Little House by veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.
There were a further six prizes or special mentions for films from Asia in the decisions of the Generation and independent juries (Fipresci and Netpac).
Black Coal, Thin Ice is the fourth Chinese film to win the Golden...
- 2/16/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The social network Tagged was founded in the same year as Facebook. When it realized it wouldn't win that fight, it made a bold decision: stop competing. What happened next wasn't always pretty--but lately it's been profitable.
Tagged.com, the social network whose Android app soft-launched last week, was founded in 2004, back when most of us hadn't even heard of a little Harvard startup called Facebook. "We spent three years fighting to be king," recalls Greg Tseng, Tagged's founder and CEO. "By 2007, it became clear that we weren't going to win. So we decided to pivot, to become a site for meeting new people," he explains. "Thank God we did that. The other sites," ones like Hi5 and MySpace, "are getting crushed, are declining, whereas we've built our business over the last three years." Tagged, meanwhile, has over 100 million registered users, and on Monday, announced it had brought in $32 million in revenue last year,...
Tagged.com, the social network whose Android app soft-launched last week, was founded in 2004, back when most of us hadn't even heard of a little Harvard startup called Facebook. "We spent three years fighting to be king," recalls Greg Tseng, Tagged's founder and CEO. "By 2007, it became clear that we weren't going to win. So we decided to pivot, to become a site for meeting new people," he explains. "Thank God we did that. The other sites," ones like Hi5 and MySpace, "are getting crushed, are declining, whereas we've built our business over the last three years." Tagged, meanwhile, has over 100 million registered users, and on Monday, announced it had brought in $32 million in revenue last year,...
- 2/3/2011
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
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