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World’s Greatest Dad to close 11th Annual Cinevegas Festival
Bobcat Goldthwait’s dark comedy World’s Greatest Dad starring Robin Williams will close the 11th Annual CineVegas Festival, which as previously reported will open on June 10 with Hue Rhodes’ insurance fraud comedy Saint John Of Las Vegas.
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Dennis Lim joins New York Film Festival selection committee
Dennis Lim, editor of the Museum Of The Moving Image’s online publication Moving Image Source, has joined the New York Film Festival’s selection committee.
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Italy's Far East Film Festival announces line-up
The 11th edition of Italy’s Far East Film Festival will kick off on April 24 with the European premieresof Thai martial action film, Ong Bak 2, and Chinese black comedy, Crazy Racer.
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AFI Dallas hosts three documentary world premieres
Fifteen features will screen at the AFI DALLAS 2009 set to run from March 26-April 2, including three documentary world premieres of Justin Wilson’sOne Nationabout human rights, Libby Spears’ sex trafficking talePlaygroundand and John Chester’sRock Propheciesabout an obsessive concert photographer.The US premieres are Robert Keener’s documentary Food Inc, Matt Aselton’s ...
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Awards Countdown - Best documentary - Reality check
AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOORSteve James and Peter Gilbert, the award-winning makers of Hoop Dreams, produced and directed this look at the death penalty through the eyes of long-time Texas death-house chaplain Pastor Carroll Pickett. The audio tapes Pickett recorded on execution days show “the toll it takes on a ...
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Berlin Panorama announces first half of programme and Forum titles
World premieres of The Countess, by Julie Delpy, Fig Trees by John Greyson, Light Gradient by Jan Krüger and Ghosted by Monika Treut are among the 21 titles selected so far for the Berlinale Panorama by section director Wieland Speck.As in previous years, documentaries will ultimately make up approximately a ...