Robin Wright, Catherine Hardwicke, Freida Pinto and Juliette Binoche are joining forces for a new omnibus film Together Now, to be produced by the nonprofit production company We Do It Together. The company’s first feature, Together Now, will be comprised of seven short films, each of which will pair a woman director with a prominent actress to tell what producers promise will be an inspiring story. The directors who have come on board include Wright, Hardwicke, Katia Lund (All the Invisible Children), Patricia Riggen (The 33), Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda), Malgorzata Szumowska (Elles) and Melina Matsoukas (Beyonce’s Formation). Pinto and
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- 5/15/2016
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Xavier Dolan, Sophie Marceau and Sienna Miller also among those on the Cannes Film Festival’s Competition jury
The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 68th edition, comprising nine world cinema names from Canada, Spain, the Us, UK, France, Mali and Mexico.
Us filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who won the Palme d’Or in 1991 for Barton Fink and the Grand Prize of the Jury in 2013 with Inside Llewyn Davis, were previously announced as co-presidents of the jury, which will include four women and five men.
The jury will select from the films in Competition, with prize winners to be announced on stage at a ceremony on May 24. The winner of the Palme d’or will be screened during the festival’s closing evening on May 25, in the presence of the jury and the entire team of the winning film.
Click here for full line-up of filmsTHE Jury
Joel & Ethan Coen (Presidents) Directors, Writers...
The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 68th edition, comprising nine world cinema names from Canada, Spain, the Us, UK, France, Mali and Mexico.
Us filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who won the Palme d’Or in 1991 for Barton Fink and the Grand Prize of the Jury in 2013 with Inside Llewyn Davis, were previously announced as co-presidents of the jury, which will include four women and five men.
The jury will select from the films in Competition, with prize winners to be announced on stage at a ceremony on May 24. The winner of the Palme d’or will be screened during the festival’s closing evening on May 25, in the presence of the jury and the entire team of the winning film.
Click here for full line-up of filmsTHE Jury
Joel & Ethan Coen (Presidents) Directors, Writers...
- 4/21/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Xavier Dolan, Sophie Marceau and Sienna Miller also among those on the Cannes Film Festival’s Competition jury
The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 68th edition, comprising nine world cinema names from Canada, Spain, the Us, UK, France, Mali and Mexico.
Us filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who won the Palme d’Or in 1991 for Barton Fink and the Grand Prize of the Jury in 2013 with Inside Llewyn Davis, were previously announced as co-presidents of the jury, which will include four women and five men.
The jury will select from the films in Competition, with prize winners to be announced on stage at a ceremony on May 24. The winner of the Palme d’or will be screened during the festival’s closing evening on May 25, in the presence of the jury and the entire team of the winning film.
The Jury
Joel & Ethan Coen (Presidents) Directors, Writers, Producers...
The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 68th edition, comprising nine world cinema names from Canada, Spain, the Us, UK, France, Mali and Mexico.
Us filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who won the Palme d’Or in 1991 for Barton Fink and the Grand Prize of the Jury in 2013 with Inside Llewyn Davis, were previously announced as co-presidents of the jury, which will include four women and five men.
The jury will select from the films in Competition, with prize winners to be announced on stage at a ceremony on May 24. The winner of the Palme d’or will be screened during the festival’s closing evening on May 25, in the presence of the jury and the entire team of the winning film.
The Jury
Joel & Ethan Coen (Presidents) Directors, Writers, Producers...
- 4/21/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
London -- Director-producer John Woo is to be awarded a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement during next year's Venice International Film Festival, organizers said Monday.
Venice organizers describe Woo as an "innovator of the contemporary language of cinema" and plan to dish the honor out during the 67th edition of the grand dame of film festivals, which runs Sept. 1-11.
The decision was made by the Biennale di Venezia board, chaired by Paolo Barattaa after Venice festival director Marco Mueller backed Woo for the plaudit.
Woo has plied his moviemaking trade both in Asia and Hollywood, making films such as "A Better Tomorrow," "The Killer" and "Bullet in the Head " in the Far East and "Broken Arrow," "Face/Off" and "Mission: Impossible 2, in the U.S. Woo also authors video games and graphic novels.
Woo will return to the Venice film festival for the fourth time. In 2004 he was...
Venice organizers describe Woo as an "innovator of the contemporary language of cinema" and plan to dish the honor out during the 67th edition of the grand dame of film festivals, which runs Sept. 1-11.
The decision was made by the Biennale di Venezia board, chaired by Paolo Barattaa after Venice festival director Marco Mueller backed Woo for the plaudit.
Woo has plied his moviemaking trade both in Asia and Hollywood, making films such as "A Better Tomorrow," "The Killer" and "Bullet in the Head " in the Far East and "Broken Arrow," "Face/Off" and "Mission: Impossible 2, in the U.S. Woo also authors video games and graphic novels.
Woo will return to the Venice film festival for the fourth time. In 2004 he was...
- 12/21/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Casting is complete, techs crews are hired, distribution rights are being sold and shooting is about to begin on Jordan Scott's feature length film debut. The daughter of Ridley and niece of Tony will be working with starlets Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde, Imogen Poots and Sinead Cusack. Written for the screen by Caroline Ip and Ben Court, based on the novel by Sheila Kohler, Cracks is about a group of girls at a boarding school in England in the 1930s who become caught up in the web of a charismatic teacher. Jordan and Ridley teamed for one of the seven segments (Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Katia Lund, Stefano Veneruso and John Woo) for All the Invisible Children. Screen Daily reports that StudioCanal has taken all rights for the UK, France and Benelux, while the Irish Film Board are adding fund money to the project
- 7/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Spike Lee has joined the list of directors making short films for a new UNICEF project after agreeing to turn a harrowing script written by his siblings into a movie. The movie mogul joins John Woo, and Ridley Scott among the directors featured in All the Invisible Children - a collective effort featuring films about troubled children. Lee's film, written by Joie Lee and Cinque Lee, surrounds the daughter of drug addicts, who is born HIV-positive. Spike Lee says, "This is my first involvement with UNICEF and I want to do more."...
- 5/3/2005
- WENN
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