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Meet Liwaa Yazji

With its 8th edition, the prestigious Doc Alliance Selection Award moves to Locarno, Switzerland. There, one of the seven directors nominated for the award designed primarily for emerging documentary talents will receive the award on August 8. With her debut HAUNTED, Syrian native Liwaa Yazji enters this year’s competition. Read about the success of her film […]

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Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – July 2014

Midsummer has past and it’s time for July’s Deadline List! ‘Our festival exhibits absolute enthusiasm for short films.‘ This is what Roma Creative Contest – Short Film Festival had to say in our interview with them. With a mandate to show the most innovative short films and a crew made up of only under-30’s, it’s a young and 100% forward-thinking fest! Also […]

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5 Facts For Filmmakers About NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL

For its 25th anniversary the New Orleans Film Festival wanted to do something new. That’s why the festival added an entirely new category for music videos! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences themselves enabled this years festivals spotlight, which aims to showcase new work from both emerging and established black filmmakers. ‘So we’re on the lookout for […]

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ACHTUNG BERLIN Opens For 2013: Filmmakers Vocalize Local

Achtung Berlin’s 2013 festival opening was our local to-do last night, screening Aron Lehmann’s wildly entertaining Kohlhaas oder die Verhältnismässigkeit der Mittel at Kino International. While ‘local’ is the frequented word here, my position is closer to the ongoing conversation between local versus international, intimate versus immensely-boast-able and which of the extremes filmmakers should ground themselves in […]

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Bao Nguyen • INTERVIEWED

[decoline][details] [item title=”Age”]28[/item] [item title=”Country”]United States/Vietnam[/item] [item title=”City”]New York/Saigon[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Director and cinematographer[/item] [item title=”Website”]www.baominhnguyen[/item] [item title=”Latest”] WHERE HEAVEN MEETS HELL [/item][/details] [decoline] Please meet the great talent Bao Nguyen that we got to know during the Berlinale festival. The 28 year old photographer and filmmaker is currently based in both New York and Saigon. […]

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Rafael Balulu • INTERVIEWED

[decoline][details] [item title=”Age”]31[/item] [item title=”Country”]Israel[/item] [item title=”City”]Afula[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Director and screen writer[/item] [item title=”Website”]rafaelbalulu.tumblr.com[/item] [item title=”Latest”] BATMAN AT THE CHECKPOINT [/item][/details] [decoline] Today is the last day of the Berlinale Talent Campus! Israeli director Rafael Balulu won the Berlin Today Award, the prestigious Talent Campus prize for upcoming filmmakers! The short film, BATMAN AT THE […]

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Amirah Tajdin • INTERVIEWED

[decoline][details] [item title=”Age”]25[/item] [item title=”Country”]Kenya[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Screen writer and director[/item] [item title=”Latest”] FLURESCENT SIN [/item][/details] [decoline] It is Berlinale time and FilmFestivalLife would like to introduce you to one of its Talent Campus participants Amirah Tajdin. The 25 year old filmmaker was originally born and brought up in Nairobi, but spend her teenage years in […]

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