tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83437863566937411742011-11-27T23:20:44.050ZTHE OFFICIAL BLOG OF IO, ISABELLA INTERNATIONAL FILM WEEKioisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10983065005577215008noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343786356693741174.post-72364081752752012412008-04-23T14:17:00.005Z2008-04-23T15:05:36.759Z

One over three women is a victim of violence. This alarming figure is the base for a serious UN commitment to solve the problem. Within a structural framework of initiatives pro women, the UN launches a web campaign called Say NO to Violence against Women to raise the issue and push ever more people to take action. The voice and face of the campaign is an exceptional movie star: Nicole Kidman.As

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Toronto's Hot Docs Festival pays tribute to the work of Jennifer Baichwal, director of the beautiful Manufactured Landscapes, which as national premiere at IO, ISABELLA IFW 2007 stirred the admiration of Italian audiences. The Canadian director enters the crew of the many excellent Canadian non-fiction filmmakers (Mark Achbar, Peter Winthonick, etc.) that in recent years brought us wonderful

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It is time for costume drama under the Berlinale's sky. Out of Competition, with it's truck load of (young) stars this morning the Berlinale Palast got its crowd of eager international press watching The Other Boleyn Girl, debut feature by British TV director Justin Chadwick.The Oscar's struck cast includes screenwriter Peter Morgan (nominated for The Queen), producer Alison Owen (nominated for

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The prove that God exists dawn on me earlier this morning when I managed to sneek in the ultra-packed, ultra-selective press screening of Madonna's first film in the director's chair, Filth and Wisdom (see also our 16 May 2007 post), the film screened in the Panorama section of the 58th Berlin Film Festival. Imagine if the biggest pop star that ever walked the planet was to be, on top of that,

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The most intensive stage of world wide Festivals' life is just about to start, as customary Io, Isabella will be present at the hottest dates of the season. Hence, after Venice, the Nederlands Film Festival, the Festa del Cinema di Roma, the London Film Festival, IDFA, the Festival Sottodiciotto we are fully equipped to take by storm the following festivals:Future Film Festival – Bologna, 15-20

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It's Awards' time in the USA and, as custumary, the EMMYs will open the season. Reaching their 59th edition, the prestigious awards of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences often are, like in the case of Documentary films, a safety-net for the Oscar's flaws. Documentaries often exist in that strange world between the big screen and the small screen. Challenging nonfiction films often require

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Very few are aware of the fact or even imagine that Michelangelo Antonioni was a fine and original Non-Fiction filmmaker, in fact throughtout his long carreer he shot 17 documentaries. Chung kuo - Cina, his best known non-fiction film, is a work of incredible value, not only because just to be admitted with a film crew in 1972 China was already an exceptional achievement (rumors has it that the

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With the introduction of every "new" Medium there are a miriad of old and new formats shaping and adapting to it, to create new classics and re-invent the past, like in the remarkable case reported today by The Guardian which we like to bring to our readers attentionwe report from the guardian film blog:Introducing LisaNova was a YouTube hit less than a year after it first appearedLisaNova is

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Venezia .64 is getting closer. The Venice Film Festival reaching its 75th anniversary is trying to put a firm on its organisation after the earthquake caused by the birth of Festa del Cinema di Roma (we wonder if all of these "big" Festivals are not too much for one country alone). Still trying to come to terms with the shock of the Carreer Golden Lion assigned to Tim Burton – not that he won't

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Saturday 28th July, at 20.30h in P.zza del Gesù (Fiumicello) during the award cerimony Provincia di Potenza and the Municipality of Maratea gave the prizes of the III edition of IO, ISABELLA INTERNATIONAL FILM WEEK, an international jury indicated the winners of the Golden Wave 2007:1. Golden Wave for the section SHE’S HOT, CHE BAMBOLA! DONNE IN CONCORSO to:STORM OF EMOTIONS by Yael Klopman(

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writer/director Xiaolu Guo, who with her documentary The Concrete Revolution took part in IO, ISABELLA INTERNATIONAL FILM WEEK 2005, has gained a Special Mention at the 43rd Pesaro Film Festival, her film How is your fish today was part of the competition programme "Pesaro Nuovo Cinema" which listed 8 international titles.Here is the jury's motivation for the Special Mention:for the incisive way

ioisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10983065005577215008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343786356693741174.post-13764539167195791462007-05-19T12:12:00.000Z2007-05-19T20:48:03.157Z

This is the chronicle of a long-lived love story, that between the Cannes Film Festival and controversial documentary director Michael Moore. Today at the Press preview Moore's new film Sicko (see previous post on the film) triggered a long applause on the foreground of its ending titles rolling on screen. Since Bowling for Columbine (which was the first non-fiction film screened at the Festival

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In a matter of minutes the 60th Cannes Film Festival will open its doors, the film to mark this moment is My Bluberry Nights by Wong Kar-Way, the Hong Kong director we discovered in Locarno in 1994 where he got nominated for Chung Hing sam lam, re-discovered with Happy Together, loved with In the Mood for Love and declared a master with 2046.My Bluberry Nights is his first "american" film, it

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...Although it sounds like the name of some religious icon of the Cinematic era, the title actually describes the way the Pop star was seen in London in the past few days. Madonna is busy on the set of her first movie as director Filth and Wisdom, a 30 minutes short said to be a sexually charged comedy with religious undertones, rumored to be inspired by the life of Mrs. Ciccone-Ritchie herself.

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Do you know that weird feeling of "gee I wish I would have thought of this myself"? Well, that's exactly how I felt reading the article And Cannes created woman on the online version of The Independent. How could I not have thoutgh about posting something on the subject on our very own women-in-film oriented blog? I wonder what possesed me. However, thank God our very thoughtful friends at the

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Not yet released and already the new Michael Moore documentary stirs controversy. The canadian filmmaker, known for Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 (which sequel is in pre-production) is the object of a U.S. federal investigation on infringement of the Cuban trade embargo, In March Moore took 9/11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary. Allegedly

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WOMEN IN FILM, the leading nonprofit for women in the global entertainment industry, is bringing scripts and short films made by 40+ women to Hollywood's attention by mean of a competition; if your are interested just follow the link by clicking on the logo on the left. The deadline for entries is June 1, 2007. Good luck!

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As the seasonal celebrations of the 7th Art are en route to Cannes, we like to stop along the way to dedicate a minute of our thoughts to Hollywood's hey-days legend Rita Hayworth, who passed away exactly 20 years ago. Italian Satellite channel Studio Universal (channel 320) devotes to the late actress a cycle of 3 films and a documentary, starting tonight with You'll Never Get Rich (1941) by

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Between sorrow an joy, We Are Together (Thina Simunye) by british director Paul Taylor goes right to one's heart...and wins the 2007 Cadillac Award at Tribeca Film Festival. Paul Taylor and producer Teddy Leifer will dedicate the $25,000 cash prize to school fees for the Agape children through their RISE Foundation.Filmed over three years by Paul Taylor and his crew, We Are Together (Thina

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On May 12, Katharine Hepburn would have turned 100 years old, TCM (Turner Classic Movies) celebrates her anniversary of birth devoting 3 days and 27 films to the late "First Lady of Cinema".Kate – as friends called her – cut her teeth in acting starting off the Theatre stages of New York. A Bill of Divorcement by George Cukor, who casted her against the advice of producer David O. Selznick,

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Here in Amsterdam it's IDFA time. Almost a week into the hypest bo-chic event on Planet Documentary and Io, Isabella decides to skip for a moment any comment on random films fattening the already fat Festival programme, and devote all the attention, heart and soul, to our many friends showing their work on the world's most prestigious Documentary screens. First and foremost the newest SUBMARINE

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A bobbed hairdo, a bold gaze, confident manners and an active working life, all traits defining the stereotyped image of women whose myth persists in the term “New Woman”. This shift in the role of women in society is also the expression of political upheaval and social changes at the beginning of the 20th century. City Girls. Images of Women in Silent Film, the Retrospective of the 57th Berlin

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November 25th. It’s my birthday and instead of celebrating with a breakfast with my Italian friends in Firenze and a dinner with my Dutch friends in Amsterdam (that’s one of the things I simply adore about living in Europe where everything is so close and airports serves almost every major city as if they were metro stations!) I board a train to Roma at six in the morning (!) to finally, after a

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