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#Cannes2016 Wish List - Part 1 - France One
On April 14 Thierry Frémaux and festival president Pierre Lescure will held the press conference where they will do the official announcement of the 2016 Official Selection; next Monday, April 18 is...
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#Cannes2016 Wish List - Part 1 - France Two
Yesterday Canal+ announced who the Maître de Cérémonie is for the 69th edition of the Festival de Cannes and is an actor that I don't know much about him, except that he is in Elle by Paul Verhoeven,...
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2016 Canadian Screen Awards Winners
Yesterday the Canadian Academy had their award ceremony and I wished I had watched the live stream as press claims Jacob Tremblay stole the show -again- and yes, I believe he deserved an Oscar...
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#Cannes2016 Wish List - Part 2 Prominent Diversity
Usually I do not spontaneously think about independent cinema but I was reminded that in Cannes there is an important showcase of world independent cinema that's looking forward to find distribution,...
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#Cannes 2016 News
As expected news have started to come drop by drop -very nice strategy to keep our attention- and yesterday we learned that none other that great Japanese filmmaker and one of my favorite contemporary...
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#Cannes2016 Wish List - Part 3 Latin American Directors
Latin American cinema has some high film production markets like Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Chile and most award winning films tend to come from those countries but lately markets like Colombia and...
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10th Asian Film Awards Winners
Yesterday the Academy had their awards ceremony and as expected by many, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin swept the night by winning eight awards out of the nine nominations it had, which is a fantastic...
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2nd Women in Motion - #Cannes2016
As I really enjoyed the program last year decided to share the official announcement for the second edition of this program that gives awards but also has the most interesting Talks. Know that many...
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1st Audentia Award Pre-Selection
Recently a new annual award was created by the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund and most interesting, is an award that will be given to female directors. The name: Audentia, which is Latin for...
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#Cannes2016 Poster
As the drop by drop continues to come, today fest organizers released the graphic identity for the 69th Festival de Cannes and believe the word that describes it best is: colorful! Yellow, red and...
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2016 Swiss Film Awards Winners
Last Friday, for the 19th time Swiss Films organization had their award ceremony where the favorite Köpek by Esen Isik won the top Quartz award and leading actress won top acting award, winning 2 of...
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2016 Jussi Awards Winners
Last Saturday Filmiaura had their annual awards ceremony that honor Finnish films and the top winner of the night is none other than Finland's submission to 2016 Oscars, very-entertaining Miekkailija...
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1st Gala du Cinéma Québécois Awards Winners
Not long ago was announced that there will be no more Jutra Awards due to the scandal surrounding famous Québécois filmmaker Claude Jutra; so this year Québec Cinéma, the group that organizes this...
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60th David di Donatello Awards Nominations
Francesco Castelnuovo and Gianni Canova announced a few minutes ago the nominations for the 60th edition of the David di Donatello awards and somehow signaled the many changes that the award will have...
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55th Semaine de la Critique News
Today the oldest parallel section of the Festival de Cannes announced the jurors for the 50+5 edition of la Semaine. Yes there are some special events and that's the reason why to the plus sign.The...
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#Cannes2016 Wish List - Part Four Asian Directors
Some News First As an introduction to this part let us review what has been happening mainly with US industry press, where "insiders" seem to be spilling the beans and let journalists all about the...
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2016 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs News
Today Directors' Fortnight unveiled the poster for current edition and even do rationale tells us a credible story, when I saw it got a completely different one. Cannes Festival section always has had...
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#Cannes2016 Carrosse d'Or
Waking up to great news always makes a great day and I'm truly happy to share with you all that one of my most-favorite directors will be honored this year with the honor given to a director by his...
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#Cannes2016 Wish List - Part Five American Directors
Have not doubt that this year American cinema journalists are the ones that speculate the most with the films that could be in Cannes this year, specially with the ones that could make it to the...
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55th Semaine de la Critique Poster
The oldest among the parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival, La Semaine de la Critique will celebrate its 55th edition by putting the spotlight on the films and talents discovered since its 50th...
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