Sundance Film Festival 2003 – The Independent Body Bérénice Reynaud March 2003 Festival Reports Sundance is festive, vulgar, commercial, unexpected, challenging. It is indeed popular and successful, but is it true, as some people keep complai...
How We Talk about Things: Report on the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam Genevieve Yue March 2003 Festival Reports 22 January - 2 February 2003 In his introduction to the program guide, Simon Field sets out an ambitious agenda for the Rotterdam Film Festival...
Making a Song and Dance of It – 34th Hungarian Film Week Andrew James Horton March 2003 Festival Reports 28 January – 4 February When cinema first appeared at the end of the 19th century, there was a huge debate as to whether it could be considered...
A Report of Dreams of a Nation – A Palestinian Film Festival Jared Rapfogel March 2003 Festival Reports January 24-27, 2003, NYC http://www.dreamsofanation.org In New York City, a town largely defined by the presence of so many ethnic and nationa...
2003 Berlin Film Festival – A Report Peter Brunette March 2003 Festival Reports The Berlin Film Festival has always struggled with an inferiority complex in regard to its better-known rival, Cannes, which for starters takes pl...
Too Beautiful To Live; Too Young To Die: A Report on the 6th Bangkok International Film Festival Brandon Wee March 2003 Festival Reports (1) Bangkok International Film Festival 2003 10-21 January 2003 It would have been the event's sixth incarnation, but the blizzard of publ...
Preview of the Adelaide International Film Festival 2003 and an Interview with its Director, Katrina Sedgwick James Brown January 2003 Festival Reports Considering the South Australian government's continual recycling of the promotional dictum that we are "the festival state", it is ironic – and y...
Perspectives on the Ethereal: The 46th London Film Festival George Clark January 2003 Festival Reports (6 - 21, November 2002) The London Film Festival has taken place at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank, a hub for current redevelopmen...
An Industry of Philanthropy – Balkan film at the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival Andrew James Horton January 2003 Festival Reports 8-17 November 2002 Festival website: www.filmfestival.gr “I have always thought that European cinema should protect themselves…” said Nae Car...
Chinese films at the 27th Toronto International Film Festival – A Report Shelly Kraicer December 2002 Festival Reports Toronto International Film Festival, 4-14 September 2002 The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) affords an opportunity akin to an annua...
Toronto 2002: A Festival Report Girish Shambu December 2002 Festival Reports The 2002 Toronto International Film Festival (5th to 14th September) screened over 260 feature films in a variety of programs including: Galas (hi...
The New York Film Festival 2002 – A Report Jared Rapfogel December 2002 Festival Reports The 40th anniversary of the New York Film Festival was a strange affair – a far more relevant event than in past years, but relevant in spite of i...
The 47th Cork Film Festival – A Report Maximilian Le Cain December 2002 Festival Reports The 47th Cork Film Festival took place between the 6th and 13th of October at three venues around Cork City. Although known mainly as a short film...
The 21st Vancouver International Film Festival – A Report Lisa Roosen-Runge December 2002 Festival Reports Vancouver International Film Festival (all original titles as listed in the VIFF catalogue), September 26 - October 11 2002 Dragons & Tigers ...
Inhaling a Unique Atmosphere – Central and East European Film at the 37th Karlovy Vary Andrew James Horton October 2002 Festival Reports 4-13 July 2002 Festival website: www.iffkv.cz In the 1970s and ‘80s, a film in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was...
WOW International Film Festival – A Preview Samantha Murray October 2002 Festival Reports The WOW International Film Festival runs from 17- 20 October 2002 in Sydney, Australia, before embarking on a national tour. For more information...
3rd Annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival: A Report Albert Fung October 2002 Festival Reports It's no surprise that the third annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) embraced sex and themed this year's Festival “sexuality”. Sex ha...
Unseen Cinema: An Interview with Bruce Posner John Conomos and Bill Mousoulis July 2002 Festival Reports This interview was conducted on June 18, 2002. One of the two outstanding hallmark programs of this year's Sydney Film Festival was, besides th...
Baby Steps: Samples From the 2002 St Kilda Film Festival Jake Wilson July 2002 Festival Reports The most obvious lesson from the 2002 St Kilda Film Festival is that the definition of a film is more elastic than ever. Over half the inclusions ...
49th Sydney Film Festival – A Report Bill Mousoulis July 2002 Festival Reports June 7-21, 2002 For a list of the Festival's award winners, click here. Curiously, the Sydney Film Festival has not spliced the word 'Intern...
Festival De Cannes 2002 – A Report George Papadopoulos July 2002 Festival Reports May 15-26 2002 Having attended the Cannes Film Festival as a film distributor on the lookout for films with the promise of commercial success,...
Spotlight on the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival: Festival Wrap-Up Various July 2002 Festival Reports Back to Daily Updates Posted Wednesday 24 July - Saturday 10 August Posted Monday 12 August (Festival Wrap-Up) * * * by Anthony Carew K...
Daily Reports from the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival Various July 2002 Festival Reports Posted Monday 12 August (Festival Wrap-Up) Posted Saturday 10 August (Roberto Succo) Posted Friday 9 August (The Son) Posted Thursday 8 Augus...
Daily Reports from the 11th Brisbane International Film Festival Various July 2002 Festival Reports Posted Sunday 21 July (The Commune (Paris 1871), The Universal Clock) Posted Friday 19 July (Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth) Posted Thursda...
Spotlights in the Dark – Argentine Films at the Buenos Aires IV International Festival of Independent Cinema Hit by the Crisis Daniela Espejo May 2002 Festival Reports A discussion on select Argentine films playing at Buenos Aires.
Negotiating Truth in the REAL Documentary Film (or is that Video?) – A Report on the 4th REAL: LIFE ON FILM International Documentary Festival Julian Savage May 2002 Festival Reports Considering films recently screened at this national documentary festival, Julian digs deeper into questions of truth, reality and ethics in documentary and fiction filmmaking.
Between Seeing and Reading – A Report on the Reading Godard Conference Glen W. Norton May 2002 Festival Reports Reading Godard: Intertextuality And The Film And Video Work Of Jean-Luc Godard April 5 - April 7, 2002, University of Iowa Before arriving in ...
The 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival – A Report Lisa Roosen-Runge May 2002 Festival Reports Hong Kong Kong International Film Festival, March 27 – April 4, 2002 Websites: www.hkiff.org.hk, www.aoihk.org, www.filmarchive.gov.hk Film...
The 4th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema – An Affair to Remember Fiona Villella May 2002 Festival Reports An overview on this unique festival that defied all the odds to continue its strong reputation.
Bridging Cultures at the 11th Arizona International Film Festival C.J. Shane May 2002 Festival Reports Festival website: www.azfilmfest.com The theme of the 11th annual Arizona International Film Festival (AIFF), held April 11-21 in Tucson, was “...
The 21st Sundance Film Festival – A Report Bérénice Reynaud March 2002 Festival Reports In 2002 Sundance returned to form with innovative independent film and documentary.
The 13th Trieste Film Festival: “Alpe Adria Cinema” Andrew James Horton March 2002 Festival Reports Though geographically located in Italy, the Trieste Film Festival showcases many films from the former communist countries.
French Film Festival (March 2002, Australia) – A Report Scott Murray March 2002 Festival Reports From Rivette to Cantet: discussions on five films playing at this year's French Film Festival.
Madly in Love with Marlene: The 52nd Berlin International Film Festival Belinda van de Graaf March 2002 Festival Reports From the retrospective of European films of the '60s to mainstream American cinema to intriguing documentaries, variety was the order of the day at this year's Berlin Festival.
Cinema-Tourism: The 4th International Bangkok Film Festival Genevieve Yue December 2001 Festival Reports Fighting US imperialism at Bangkok.
The Pusan International Film Festival – Mature and Independent Stephen Teo December 2001 Festival Reports A comprehensive discussion of this key Asian film festival.
