The News Review:
- Venice Film Festival kicks off
- Yu Nan to judge Pusan Film Festival
- Festival rockin’ toward 10 years: Arts Beats & Eats…
- Film Festival: Women in the picture
Venice Film Festival kicks off
央è§åé – Aug 30, 2007
The Festival competition gets serious this year with entries that tell stories about the Iraq war and its impact on U. society; police brutality in Egypt; corporate corruption and the mafia in Italy. The Venice Film Festival is famous for its red carpet glamour late night parties on Venetian canals and critical kudos from the world’s oldest cinematic competition.
Yu Nan to judge Pusan Film Festival
æ°åç’ – Aug 30, 2007
30 — “Tuya’s Marriage” actress Yu Nan has been invited to judge the upcoming 12th Pusan International Film Festival which opens on ct. 4 in the South Korean city of Pusan. The 28-year-old Chinese star will be the only actress jury member of the prestigious festival’s New Currents award working alongside four top directors who are Cristian Mungiu from Romania Goran Paskaljevic from Serbia South Korean director Lee Chang-dong and jury president Dariush Mehrjui from Iran. Yu Nan the best actress at the 2004 Paris Film Festival has seen her career accelerate after “Tuya’s Marriage” garnered the Golden Bear award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The actress who is fluent in both English and French currently has several filming projects lining up on her schedule among which is the Warner Bros.
Festival rockin’ toward 10 years: Arts Beats & Eats…
Free with registration – Detroit Free Press – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 30, 2007
(30-AUG-07) Detroit Free Press (Detroit MI). 30–akland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson could make himself sound more sophisticated when it comes to Chrysler Arts Beats & Eats — he knows that.
Film Festival: Women in the picture
Jerusalem Post – Aug 30, 2007
The festival with screenings of more than 60 movies at the city’s Cinema Chen and Weizmann Institute of Science gets underway with the Israeli premiere of Waitress the final film by Adrienne Shelly the writer actress and director murdered last November in her Manhattan office. The film with TV star Keri Russell as an unhappily pregnant restaurant worker differs from nearly all the other festival offerings in its setting – a small unnamed town in the American South. The majority of the festival’s films arrive with an Israeli or European pedigree though one of the festival’s guests documentary maker Sarah Moon Howe spends part of her film in the US as well. Moon Howe’s project the suggestively titled Don’t Tell My Mother fits nicely with the festival’s theme for the year – passion and its depictions on screen.