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The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) is teaming up with Cirque du Soleil on a multi-year fellowship program for TFT graduate students, it was announced today. Dean Teri Schwartz says the collaboration offers students the opportunity to work across multiple platforms that integrate visual storytelling with live performance, multimedia, 3D, CGI and other forms for digital content creation. Four graduate students will be chosen from candidates from the Film/TV/Digital Media Department and Theater Department. They will participate in the creative, technical, production and management process of Cirque du Soleil’s resident shows in Las Vegas and will be involved in the process from development through production. Aspiring candidates must write a narrative on why he/she wants to participate in the program. It’s set to get underway this summer.
Cirque Du Soleil And UCLA Film School Partner On Student Fellowship Program
OSCARS: Early-Year Festivals Even More Important To Awards Campaigns
Awards season is turning into a year-’round affair when it comes to the festival circuit. Though film festivals haven’t always had a strong impact on the Oscar race, this year in particular demonstrates that awards positioning is starting much earlier—so early, in fact, that some of the jockeying for the 2013 Academy Awards started even before the red carpet unfurled for the 2012 ceremony.
While the fall-fest triumvirate of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto has long been considered the true start of the six-month season, campaigners have started using fests like January’s Sundance, May’s Cannes, and even June’s frothier Los Angeles Film Festival as places to spotlight a potential awards player. Though studios and distributors still closely concentrate their awards contenders in the fall timeframe, this year saw more early hints at which films have Oscar hopes. Read More »
‘Source Code’ To Open SXSW Film Festival
The Duncan Jones-directed Source Code will be the opening night film of the South by Southwest Film Festival. The fest runs March 11-19 in Austin, Texas. Source Code stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright. The film … Read More »
Long Island Starts Gold Coast Film Festival
Hey, New York, ready for another film festival? The Gold Coast International Film Festival will launch in June through the Great Neck Arts Center. The festival’s executive director will be GNAC founder Regina Gil. Senior programmer will be Sean McPhillips, the former Miramax acquisitions executive who most recently programmed the … Read More »
Sundance Institute: Film Forward 1st Slate
LOS ANGELES, CA – Following up on last month’s announcement of the Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue initiative, Sundance Institute announced today the ten films selected to participate in the inaugural year of this cultural exchange program. The first Film Forward slate includes five American and five international films
Robert Redford Talks About UK Sundance
O2, the London concert venue, is in discussions with Sundance founder Robert Redford about staging a film festival. All O2 will say publicly is it would love to host a UK version of the Utah event. Negotiations are still … Read More »
Latest UK On-Demand Movie Service Elbows Its Way Into Crowded Market
Projector.tv, the newest internet movie service, is in talks with local distribs Icon and Artificial Eye. It has already licensed 43 films from Metrodome for its video-on-demand business. The service aims to have 20,000 registered users within two to three years, … Read More »
Weinstein Takes U.S.+ Rights To Woo Pic
Shanghai, June 11, 2010: On the eve of the Shanghai Film Festival, Fortissimo Films Chairman Michael J. Werner and The Weinstein Company’s Bob and Harvey Weinstein jointly announced that The Weinstein Company has pre-bought North American and South African rights
CANNES: ‘Uncle Boonmee’ Wins Palme D’Or
CANNES Film Festival 2010: Full List Of Winners
Palme d’Or (Top Prize)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Grand Prix (Runner-Up)
Des Hommes Et … Read More »
CANNES: ‘Hahaha’ Wins Un Certain Regard
South Korean director Hong Sangsoo’s film recounts differing memories that an aspiring film director and a young film critic have of their separate visits to seaside town Tong-yeong. Daniel and Diego Vega’s film Octubre won the Jury Prize, while the Best Performance award was tied between three actresses in Argentinian … Read More »
CANNES: Ken Loach Swipes ‘Hurt Locker’
The director has blasted Hollywood for glorifying the sacrifices which American soldiers have made in Iraq war films, while ignoring civilian casualties. Loach, whose latest film Route Irish is competing here, said at this afternoon’s press conference … Read More »
CANNES: Equity Becoming Increasingly Important, Say Financiers
The pre-sale market has dried up and is never coming back, financiers at this year’s Cannes tell me. That, combined with fewer banks lending to producers, means equity investment is more important than ever. Even those private lenders still left in the game, say they want to fully finance their … Read More »
CANNES: Sony Pictures Classics Acquires ‘Of Gods And Men’
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. and Australia/New Zealand rights to Of Gods and Men, the Xavier Beauvois-directed drama that unspooled in competition at Cannes. Deal was made by sales agent Wild Bunch. Drama is the story of eight French Christian monks who live in harmony with their Muslim brothers … Read More »
CANNES: ‘Fair Game’ Gets Mixed Reaction
After some initial good press, there were boos as well as applause for the only American movie In Competition at its first screening at Cannes. Critics here feel it’s too conventional to be … Read More »
CANNES: Market Deals Round-Up
– Optimum UK has taken Reliance Big Pictures’ Kites from IM Global. Brett Ratner has done a “remix” of the original Hindi film. Kites has also been sold to other major territories, including France, Germany Australia/New Zealand.
– High Point Media has sold $290,000 UK feature The Be All And End … Read More »
CANNES: News In Brief Round-Up
– Andy Serkis, the actor who will play Gollum again in Guillermo Del Toro’s Hobbit, plans to direct his first feature next year. Serkis has formed a production company, Caveman Films, with Bridget Jones producer Jonathan Cavendish. Serkis tells me it’s a psychological thriller. Caveman’s first co-production, Alicia Duffy’s All … Read More »
CANNES: ‘Fair Game’ Not A Political Film?
Fair Game director Doug Liman’s film was well received at Cannes as a political exposé of the Bush administration’s White House press leak regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame, played by Naomi Watts. But Liman told this … Read More »
CANNES: Marketplace Treads On Tedious
How tough has the Cannes Film Festival marketplace been for domestic acquisitions? The deal of the day so far is Magnet Releasing’s U.S. rights acquisition of Rubber, the Cannes Critic’s Week offering about a psychopathic car tire with telepathic powers named … Read More »
CANNES: “We Were Young, Good-Looking, And Stupid. Now We’re Just Stupid.”
Mick Jagger arrived in town to promote his Rolling Stones docu Stones In Exile and summed up his past and present life with the above quote. The hour-long film charts the making of the Stones classic Exile On Main Street. The … Read More »
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