Festival Award Winners; IFP at reRun Theater
Accolades were handed out to films at the Chicago and London Film Festivals, Sundance sets its return to the UK, the Independent Filmmaker Project teams up with the reRun Theater in Brooklyn, and more news in today's FilmLinc Digest!
Convergence: Disney and Living Worlds
Walt Disney Imagineering will finally shed some light on their Living Worlds initiative later today, but what does it really mean for transmedia storytellers?
Lee’s “Oldboy” gets release date; Fincher wants Pitt for “Leagues”
David Fincher adapts 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Spike Lee remakes Oldboy, and Indiewire shows Chasing Ice some political love.
Mice, Madd and Mountains
"What are men to rocks and mountains?" Such is the wisdom Mary Bennet brings to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. For some answers. check out this year's Mountainfilm in New York festival!
A Peek Inside “New York Film Festival Gold”
This advance look at our gorgeous new book celebrating 50 years of NYFF (and film) history features a complete table of contents, reproductions of select pages, and excerpts from some of the 15 in-depth essays by critics, film historians, and NYFF alumni.
“Beasts,” “Kingdom” & “Nowhere” Get Gotham Awards Nods
Twenty-six films were nominated for Gotham Awards, the first prizes to be presented as awards season begins.
ND/NF Alums Are Geniuses; First Doc-Only Theater
Two of this year's MacArthur fellows come from the ranks of New Directors/New Films, the President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts announces his departure, Pathé set to go digital with film catalog, and more in our FilmLinc Digest!
Is “Holy Motors” Cinema’s Elegy or Its Exciting Rebirth?
One of the most talked-about films of the year seems to simultaneously celebrate and mourn the movies. We track what director Leos Carax has had to say about the film at Cannes, Locarno, NYFF and beyond.
Interview: Sasha Friedlander, “Where Heaven Meets Hell”
The filmmaker talks about her life-long interest in Indonesian culture and how it moved her to make this documentary on the sulfur miners of East Java. Friedlander's film screens Tuesday night as part of our ongoing Art of the Real series.
Interview: Jaime & Yamandu Roos, “3 Million”
The father and son co-directors of the Latinbeat Closing Night film from Uruguay open up about the personal nature of their documentary and share how they got behind the scenes of the 2010 World Cup.
