Nesta Morgan CONTENT for Cannes 2025 Sketches (listed 1-12) (copyright Nesta Morgan 2025) 23 May 2025 FAO Bruno Chatelin c/o filmfestivals.com 1a. Kering Women in Motion Charlotte Gainsbourg Inspired by Brigitte Bardot, Lars Von Trier and her own documentary, My Mother. A few steps, I can have a Vision, any character. My secret rhythms, different...

Every day at 9:30PM, the Festival de Cannes reinvents itself as night falls, transforming the Croisette's Plage Macé, opposite the Majestic hotel, into an open-air cinema. In addition to the screenings, meetings and Official Selection events held at the Palais des Festivals, this is another way for everyone to get involved to the great cinema party. The...

THE 44th ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL SELECTIONS AND AWARDS 11-22 April 2025   Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the Istanbul Film Festival is set to return from 11 to 22 April 2025. The festival, sponsored by N Kolay, once again brings together pioneering filmmakers whose stories and styles are redefining today's cinema.   ...

They Shot The Piano Player Reposted by Robin Menken Bossa Nova is making a comeback-filmically.First there was Roberto de Oliveira’s “Elis and Tom”, a documentary from remastered footage of a legendary recording session in LA in 1974: then Dandara Ferreira & Lô Politi bio pic about Gal Costa "Meu Nome e Gal"- a look at Gal Costa's career as part of Tropicalia's political resistance to...

  BERGAMO FILM MEETING International Film Festival 43rd edition, March 8 - 16, 2025 43rd EDITION – THE WINNERS Gina - Ulrike Kofler     Gina by Ulrike Kofler (Austria, 2024) is the winner of the main competition Mostra Concorso of the 43nd edition of Bergamo Film Meeting. Chosen by the audience, the film will receive the Bergamo Film Meeting Prize, worth...

“Directed by Michael Lippert, “Sloane: A Jazz Singer” is set to premiere at the Santa Fe Film Festival this month. One of its executive producers is Stephen Barefoot, once a bartender at the Frog and Nightgown (and the owner of the ill-fated club in Chapel Hill), who talked her into the project. “There is no such thing […] The post The New York Times on Carol Sloan first appeared on The...

BIFFes 16, 2025: The opening, closing, and the team behind the festival Besides showing films, major film festivals have a grand inaugural ceremony and an equally grand closing ceremony. The venue for the BIFFes 16 inauguration was the lawmakers’ abode, the Vidhan Soudha (Legislative Assembly) ramparts. Invited guests were taken there in big, comfortable cars or coaches. On such...

Led by Multi-GRAMMY® Award-Winning Engineer, Mixer, Producer, and Musician Rafa Sardina Abbey Road Institute, a leading international professional music production school, is proud to announce the opening of its newest campus in the heart of the global music industry, Los Angeles, California. Set to open in 2025, the new campus will be launched by 19-time GRAMMY® and LATIN GRAMMY®...

Composer Will Bates has composed original scores for a myriad of filmmakers including acclaimed directors Mike Cahill (Another Earth; I Origins; Bliss), Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks; Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief; Zero Days; The Forever Prisoner), Ry Russo-Young (You Won’t Miss Me; Nobody Walks) and Fisher Stevens (Mission Blue; Bright...

VARIETY ARTISANS AWARD honoring Judy Becker – The Brutalist: Production Design Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot: Original Score Clement Ducol and Camille – Emilia Perez: Original Song Nick Emerson – Conclave: Editing Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys: Cinematography Tod Maitland – A Complete Unknown: Sound Pierre-Olivier Persin – The Substance: Hair/Makeup Paul Tazewell – Wicked: Costume...