The west coast fest will unveil a successor on Thursday as the veteran Canadian cinema programmer focuses on his duties at The Royal cinema in Toronto. read more full story ![]()

UPDATED: President Gilles Jacob and artistic director Thierry Fremaux are in Paris to unveil the titles for the 66th festival's Competition and various sidebars.
hollywoodreporter.com (1 month and 1 day ago)
Youth film festival: Tumbleweeds gives the people what they want by Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune Published Mar 7, 2013 12:40PM MDT The unofficial motto of the Tumbleweeds Film Festival just might be “You asked for it, you got it!” The audiences who attended the local children’s and youth film festival in its first two years asked for more movies for older kids. “So...
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(PARIS) — The lineup for the Cannes Film Festival includes 19 films and lots of world cinema, including from some of the globe’s most difficult locales for artists. Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux said Thursday that the high-profile festival protects talent in countries where freedom of expression is threatened. Among the films in competition for the festival’s top...
time.com (1 month and 1 day ago)
My Life As a Dog, Swedish director Lasse Hallström’s debut film in the United States, earned him Oscar nominations for director and adapted screenplay in 1988. But he says the excitement of that experience didn’t match what he felt at the film’s U.S. premiere at the Miami Film Festival.
miamiherald.com (2 months and 19 days ago)

One of the highlights of the Tribeca Film Festival was Christina Voros' documentary "The Director," which gives fashionistas an intimate portrait into the life of Frida Giannini who is the Creative Director of Italian Fashion...
examiner.com (22 days ago)

Kenneth Branagh was there with the director Rob Ashcroft. The actress Maxine Peake was there. Josie Rourke, the artistic director of London’s Donmar Warehouse, was there. The occasion? The announcement of this year’s Manchester International Festival program by its director, Alex Poots.
nytimes.com (2 months and 15 days ago)

Within the many, sometimes obscure, selections of the Tirbeca Film Festival, one can always find a few groundbreaking films. Tribeca Film Festival is a much-needed institution. As our American film industry grows more commercial, we need major festivals beyond Sundance to celebrate the independent voice and artistic visions in America. Over the years, Tribeca has had a hard...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 23 days ago)
Fergus Linehan, a former director of the Sydney festival, is to take over the Edinburgh international festivalFor the second time in a row, the Edinburgh international festival has looked to Australia for an artistic director, with, it has announced, the appointment of Irish native Fergus Linehan to take over from Jonathan Mills from the 2015 festival.Linehan was, until...
guardian.co.uk (27 days ago)

The Glimmerglass Festival’s artistic director has learned that in theater, as in business, “if you don’t make sure the show is right in a small room, it will never be right in a big space.”
nytimes.com (1 month and 12 days ago)
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