- [Ed's note: Over 3500 pics taken, over 30 capsule reviews and a couple of interviews on the slate – Pierre Alexandre delivered way beyond expectations.] It's already over! Well, it was about time. 13 days for a film festival is totally intense – in addition to the 3 weeks of press screenings prior to the beginning of the festival. So, I ended up seeing about 55 films, which is very little for this festival that had almost 200 features length films. Most of the films were good; unfortunately, as in every festival, there were some very crappy ones. It's hard to understand how in a festival that receives some 2,000 features submissions there still bad films are making their way in the selection. Even the publicist hired by one of the film to promote it said to someone it was a "very bad film" – he didn't say that to the journalists, of course! Despite those few dissappointments, Tribeca 2006 was totally worth it. In doing my top 10 of some festivals I sometimes have a hard time coming up with
- 5/8/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
- Here are the winners as announced by the festival. The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature â. Blessed By Fire (Iluminados por el Fuego), Directed by Tristán Bauer, Argentina, Spain. Presented by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal with Dick Walsh. Winner receives $25,000. Art award "Twin City Theatre", created by Wim Wenders. Jury compromised Ed Burns, Terry George, Josh Lucas, Kelly Lynch, Antonio Skármeta, Trudie Styler and Melvin Van Peebles. Best Documentary Feature â. War Tapes, Directed by Deborah Scranton, USA. Presented by Ken Burns and Ira Yohalem. Winner receives $15,000. Art award "Untitled", created by Alex Katz. Jury compromised Ken Burns, Robert Drew, Whoopi Goldberg, Oren Jacoby, Rory Kennedy and Marc Levin. Special Documentary Jury Prize - Voices of Bam, Directed by Aliona van der Horst and Maasja Ooms, Netherlands. Presented by Ken Burns and Ira Yohalem. Winner receives $10,000. Art award "Moroccoâ., created by Clifford Ross. Jury compromised Ken Burns,
- 5/8/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
MADRID -- The Films in Progress section of the 52nd San Sebastian International Film Festival, a program devoted to awarding completion funds to new projects, has selected seven films from South America and Spain to vie for postproduction incentives, organizers said Thursday. The titles in the sidebar, set to run Sept. 21-22, include Alvaro Buela's Alma Mater (Uruguay); Marcelo Gomes' Cinema, Aspirina e Urubus (Brazil); Tristan Bauer's Iluminados por el Fuego (Argentina); Javier Fox Patron's El Marlboro y el Cucu (Mexico); Edgardo Cozarinsky's Ronda Nocturna (Argentina); Sebastian Campos' La Sagrada Familia (Chile); and Ruy Guerra's O Veneno da Madrugada (Brazil).
- 8/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- Six unfinished Latin American films have been chosen to participate in the fifth edition of Films in Progress at the Cervantes Institute in Toulouse, France, as part of the XVI Recontres Cinemas d'Amerique Latine, organizers said Wednesday. Of the 42 films submitted, the six finalists are Alma mater, directed by Alvaro Buela (Uruguay); Iluminados por el Fuego, directed by Tristan Bauer (Argentina); Parapalos, directed by Ana Poliak (Argentina); Proxima Salida, directed by Nicolas Tuozzo (Argentina); Fugaz, directed by Victor Dinenzon (Argentina); and Suspiros del Corazon, directed by Enrique Gabriel (Spain-Argentina).
- 3/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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