Vincent Yu Japanese Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa celebrates with the trophy after the Dutch-Japanese-Hong Kong made movie "Tokyo Sonata" won the Best Film award at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong Monday, March 23, 2009. More News Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" was named best film at the third Asian Film Awards on Monday in an evening dominated by Japanese filmmakers. The family drama, which describes the estrangement between a husband, his wife and his children, also won best screenwriter for Kurosawa. Oscar-winning best foreign movie "Departures" won best actor for Masahiro Motoki, who...
Film Independent announces winners at LA Film Festival
The Examiner
The Examiner
Comment RSS Email Print Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced its 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival award winners. The announcements...
Hansal replaces Karan in Dev Anand film
The Times of India
The Times of India
3 Jul 2009, 1152 hrs IST, SUBHASH K JHA Text: Dev Anand's Chargesheet is now being shot at the outskirts of Mumbai. And one filmmaker-turned-actor who happily trotted...
Latest Coppola film personal
The Press Democrat
The Press Democrat
The legendary filmmaker has watched his career rise and fall over the past four decades, from the awards and acclaim for "The Godfather" to the disappointment of "One from the Heart," to the long eight years following...
SF Frozen Film Festival announces schedule
The Examiner
The Examiner
Comment RSS Print The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival has announced its 2009 schedule....
Film Book's Story Is Fully Independent
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
By day, works in an office in Oxford for Zackin Publications, editing a monthly mortgage-banking magazine called Secondary Marketing Executive. But his true love has nothing to do with home loans. For the last 25 years,...
As jury president at Shanghai, Boyle gently chides China for restricting free speech in film
Newsday
Newsday
First Grand Rapids Film Festival Premieres August 26-28
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Independent, foreign and documentary filmmakers along with area film enthusiasts, will converge in Grand Rapids August 26-28, 2009 for the first Grand Rapids Film Festival....




