Tag: Film

LAHORE - Delegations from 21 universities, 19 local and five international, will attend the 4th Vasaakh documentary film festival being organised by Forman Christian College (FCC) Mass Communication Department from April 18 to 20.
Notable foreign universities have been invited to the festival, including University of Oslo, Norway, Delhi University, India, University of Bhopal, India and Katmandu University, Nepal. The festival will showcase student documentaries based on cultural

LAHORE - An exciting line-up of 25 feature films will screen at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), the oldest and most prestigious Indian film festival in the US, including 15 world and US premieres.
Making its US premiere at the May 4 to May 8 festival in Manhattan will be Sudhir Mishra's acclaimed romantic crime drama 'Yeh Saali Zindagi' starring Irrfan Khan, the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) announced Tuesday. Legendary actress Shabana Azmi stars in the

The director of an upcoming Charles Manson biopic has confirmed Lindsay Lohan has been offered the role of Sharon Tate. The actress is in negotiations to play the pregnant pin-up, who was killed by Manson and his followers, according to Tyler Shields.
Tate was married to filmmaker Roman Polanski at the time of her death in 1969. Shields is confident Lohan will sign on for the controversial role. She said, "We've worked together many, many times. She asked me about 'Eyes of a

LAHORE - Akifa Mian's short film Inaam will be screened at Cinegold Cinema, Bahria Town on April 9. Inaam has made its mark at the 13th London Asian Film Festival 2011. Inaam is a short film, which has a universal appeal, as its story is based on a young man who struggles as an immigrant in a new culture.
The short film was filmed at London with an international cast and crew. The film is based on socio political issues faced by Pakistani immigrants living in a small community in

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's first gay-themed movie has been a hit at the box office but an official from the conservative party on Thursday called for it to be banned despite its anti-homosexual ending.
'Dalam Botol' ('Inside a Bottle') raked in one million Ringgits ($330,000) in the first five days, making it a local hit despite Malaysia's conservative views on homosexuality. The movie, which opened on March 24, features a gay male character who has a sex-change operation to

HONG KONG - South Korea's finest celebrated after they blitzed the annual Asian Film Awards on Monday, bolstering the country's growing reputation as the pre-eminent force in the region. South Korean movie stars and filmmakers dominated the glitzy ceremony in Hong Kong, now in its fifth year, snapping up awards for best director, best screenplay, best actor, best supporting actress and best editing. Lee Chang-Dong clinched best director for the feature film 'Poetry,' which also won

Hollywood studio Warner Bros has released a short trailer boasting the "first look behind the scenes" of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2", the final instalment in the hit franchise.
The 93-second clip features soundbites from key actors, producers and director David Yates and glimpses of what its makers promise will be an action-packed finale to one of the world's most successful film series.
The first seven movies have grossed around $6.4 billion at the

BUCHAREST - The One World human rights film festival kicked off in Bucharest Thursday offering 37 documentaries promising to tackle sometimes prickly issues under the theme "What a wonderful world?!". Alongside the showings at the six-day festival in the Romanian capital will be debates on its main themes with surprise 2010 Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus, the ecologist ex-mayor of Bogota, a star guest.
The event is sorted into the categories "What would you do

MUMBAI - After years of Bollywood award functions dominated by glamorous movie stars, fans in India are now using Twitter to honour deserving performances snubbed by the more mainstream events.
A rant on Twitter about an apparent bias in Indian film awards led to the launch of the Tweeple Film Awards, with more than 1,500 Twitter users voting to choose the jury alone.
"Film awards are commercialised, pander to stars and are given out depending on which star is attending the

GENEVA - Israel has complained to the United Nations for allowing the US premiere of a controversial film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the UN headquarters.
A red-carpet showing of 'Miral' by award winning American-Jewish director Julian Schnabel was held at the UN General Assembly hall on Monday.
The film is based on an autobiographical novel by Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal that traces the Arab-Israeli conflict after 1948 from a Palestinian perspective. The

LOS ANGELES - Julianne Moore will play former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in "Game Change," an HBO movie about John McCain's unsuccessful presidential campaign. Based on the bestselling book of the same name by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the film will center on McCain's selection of Palin as his running mate and their defeat in the 2008 election by Barack Obama. Jay Roach will direct from a script by Danny Strong. They previously worked together on HBO's 2008 political movie

James Bond actor Daniel Craig has dressed in drag for a short film about sexual equality made to coincide with International Women's Day on Tuesday. The film, available on YouTube here is directed by "Nowhere Boy" film maker and artist Sam Taylor-Wood and features the voice of actress Judi Dench in the style of "M," her spymaster character in the Bond movie franchise.
The script asks a besuited Craig-as-Bond a series of questions about issues facing women including pay

LOS ANGELES - Director Michael Bay has labeled as "crap" his 2009 movie "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," blaming its shortcomings on the Hollywood writers' strike. In an interview with a British magazine, Bay admits that they "made some mistakes" while filming the critically panned sequel. "The real fault with (Transformers 2) is that it ran into a mystical world," he explains. "When I look back at it, that was crap. The writers' strike was coming hard and fast. It was just

MOSCOW - Georgian moviemakers are banking on European partners, international stars such as Mexico's Gael Garcia Bernal and their rich landscape to rebuild a film industry that was devastated by the Soviet collapse. 'The Loneliest Planet,' an independently financed thriller focusing on a young couple's trek through the wilderness, stars Bernal and Israeli actress Hani Furstenberg and was entirely shot in Georgia last summer. Directed by Russian-American director Julia Loktev, the

OUAGADOUGOU - Africa's biggest film festival hands out its top award today after a week of viewing works tackling some of the continents pressing issues against the backdrop of the Arab world uprisings. The inclusion of two films from Egypt, among 18 standing for the Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) grand prize, has new relevance after President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in the pro-democracy revolt. Entries from Algeria and Morocco, touched by the uprisings, are also

NEW YORK - Fresh off Oscar wins for "The King's Speech," Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein were hit with a $50 million lawsuit on Wednesday claiming they sabotaged production of a troubled animated film. Filmmaker Tony Leech, a co-director and co-writer of the 2005 animated hit "Hoodwinked!" which was distributed by The Weinstein Co, filed the lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court over the much-delayed action-comedy, "Escape From Planet Earth."
He was joined by producer

LAHORE - Shirkat Gah along with Women Reclaiming and Redefining Cultures (WRRC) has scheduled a film festival titled "Violence Is Not Our Culture", which will be held on March 3 from 11 am to 3 pm at Ali Auditorium, in connection with centenary celebrations of International Day of Women on March 8. The film festival will include the work of film students of universities including Lahore University of Management Sciences, Kinnaird College, Punjab University, Beaconhouse National