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  • I raised my kids on Pixar – and it has ruined classic cinema for them November 29, 2020 3:16 pm The Guardian I was recently scrolling through Christmas films at the cinema opposite the kids’ school, picturing the happy scene where I arrive unexpectedly outside the gates, on 17 December or thereabouts, wearing flashing reindeer horns, and bear them off to see It’s …
  • The Kenyan film director taking on the world -- with positive stories of black life November 29, 2020 3:15 pm eNews Channel Africa Lyn Johnstone, Royal Holloway In a 2017 TED Talk, the Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu shared her mission to make what she called “Afrobubblegum” art. The aim is to contribute to a world where African audiences see themselves reflected in ways that …
  • How '76 Days' director Hao Wu got an inside look at the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan November 29, 2020 3:13 pm Los Angeles Times - California As a documentary filmmaker, Hao Wu has focused throughout his career on smaller, character-driven stories that bridge the divide between his native China, where he grew up, and his adoptive home in America. In 2013’s “People’s Republic of Desire,” for …
  • Maradona's doctor is 'charged with negligence' as police probing his death raid the physician's home November 29, 2020 2:47 pm Daily Mail Diego Maradona's doctor has reportedly been charged with medical negligence and police are treating his death as a possible culpable homicide. Police raided the home of the footballer's personal physician Leopoldo Luque on Sunday and investigators …
  • You can stay at the Welsh cottage where a hit Netflix show was made November 29, 2020 1:43 pm Wales Online As far as short getaways go, staying on a movie set is quite an impressive place to visit. Especially when it's right on your own door step, here in Wales. There's no need to jet off to Hollywood, not that we can right now anyway. You might …
  • Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse dead at 85 November 29, 2020 1:23 pm Daily Star Dave Prowse, the British actor behind the menacing black mask of Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died, his agent Thomas Bowington said Sunday. "It's with great sadness that we have to announce that our client Dave Prowse... passed away …
  • FEATURE- Encrypted apps and false names- New Taiwanese book club takes no chances November 29, 2020 1:18 pm Taipei News.net In the early 1950s in Taiwan, 19-year-old Tsai Kun-lin (蔡焜霖) was arrested and jailed after joining a book club. The young man spent more than a decade on Green Island (綠島), building the prison that held him as a political enemy of the authoritarian rulers …
  • Kazakhstan’s Ulbolsyn Best Asian Film at Tallinn Black Nights FF November 29, 2020 1:04 pm Kazinform TALLIN. KAZINFORM Kazakhstan’s Ulbolsyn film directed by well-known Kazakhstani film director Adilkhan Yerzhanov awarded the Best Asian Film title at XXIV Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Kazinform reports. «Best Asian Film ‘Ulbolsyn’ Director: Adilkhan …
  • Patrick White makes a writer's Day, again November 29, 2020 12:19 pm WAtoday Gregory Day is not a book collector; he's a book reader. But he does collect first editions of one writer, Patrick White, the first Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The only one he's missing is Happy Valley, White's 1939 …
  • Gerardo Naranjo’s ‘Kokoloko’ Wins Best Mexican Film at... November 29, 2020 12:15 pm Stamford Advocate - Connecticut Photo: Credit: Tonatiuh Figueroa Photo: Credit: Tonatiuh Figueroa Photo: Credit: Tonatiuh Figueroa Gerardo Naranjo’s ‘Kokoloko’ Wins Best Mexican Film at Guadalajara Click here to read the full article. Gerardo Naranjo’s “Kokoloko” took home the Premio …

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Ταινία γυρισμένη με το iphone 6, σαρώνει τις υποψηφιότητες στα κινηματογραφικά φεστιβάλ

3 Οκτωβρίου, 2017 Posted in FESTIVAL

Η ταϊβανέζικη ταινία “The Great Buddha +”, μια μαύρη κωμωδία γυρισμένη αποκλειστικά με ένα iPhone 6 Plus, μετά από τη συμμετοχή της στο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου του Τορόντο, έλαβε δέκα υποψηφιότητες στα βραβεία Golden Horse του Διεθνούς Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Taipei (μεταξύ άλλων καλύτερης ταινίας μεγάλου μήκους και καλύτερου νέου σκηνοθέτη).

Η ταινία, που είναι ασπρόμαυρη σε σκηνοθεσία του Huang Hsin-yao, είναι παραγωγή του φημισμένου φωτογράφου Chung Mung-hong, ο οποίος είναι και υπεύθυνος για τη φωτογραφία της...

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