Tag: Waltz With Bashir
British Independent Film Awards Winners
The winners of the 11th British Independent Film Awards have been announced on Sunday, November 30, 2008 which were handed in London.
“Nominations and award winners prove that filmmaking in Britain is alive and well”, says Elliot Grove, the founder of Raindance and the British Independent Film Awards.
“Slumdog Millionaire” directed by Danny Boyle (“Trainspotting”) and Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” both won three honors at the BIFA.
“Slumdog Millionaire” won the top two awards – Best British Independent Film and Best Director.
London Film Festival 2008
52nd London Film Festival is set to be bigger than ever, with a huge selection of screenings, talks and special events lined up.
London film fest artistic director Sandra Hebron unveiled a program that includes 15 world, 20 European and 119 U.K. preems.
“We are excited that London in October will play host to world renowned directors, writers and actors, as well as to some of the most important new voices in international cinema,”
Cannes 2008 – Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir
Playing in the Official Selection, Israeli director Ari Folman‘s Waltz With Bashir, a documentary about the Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of 1982, is a major revelation.
Waltz with Bashir documents the struggle of the filmmaker, Ari Folman, to come to terms with the gaps in his memory surrounding the part he played in the first Lebanese war and the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in the West Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
Cannes Reveals Two Animated Films In Competition
Cannes Film Festival officials on Wednesday revealed the lineup for the 61st festival in France.
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman‘s ‘Waltz With Bashir‘, an animated feature about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon is entered in the competition, and is garnering some buzz.
‘My Rabbit Hoppy‘ from Anthony Lucas (Australia) is one of nine films in the shorts competition. He was nominated for an Oscar for his 2005 short ‘The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello’.
