Monday, January 30, 2006

Immigrants win Sundance hearts

30/01/06Two films examining immigrant life in America, the Hispanic teen drama "Quinceanera" and the Sudanese refugee documentary "God Grew Tired of Us," won top honors Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Friday, January 27, 2006

Online film site launched

Another day, another on-line film streaming site launched: US-based ClickFlicks.net went live on 16 January 2006 with the aim of addressing "the plight of the independent filmmaker by providing an effective exhibition and distribution environment featuring only independently produced content". The site plans to have online festivals and hopes to attract an audience of millions per month.


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Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche in Hidden
Austrian director Michael Haneke's acclaimed French language 'thriller' Hidden (Caché), starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche, which garnered five awards at the European Film Awards in Berlin on 3 December), opens today. Haneke's portrail of guilt, the media and French colonial past has a latently contemporary feel to it and captures something about the fear-driven societies we live in. An important film and very interesting visually as well.