Coming attraction: Who Am I?

Monday 31 March at 7.30pm

Followed by Q&A with producers Paul Mitchell and Rachel Seiftert at The Frontline Club.

From the press release; "What happens when you discover that your father isn’t your father? What if you learn the man you thought was your father actually killed your biological parents? During the “so-called” dirty war in Argentina (1976-1983), the military dictatorship there abducted some 30,000 people. Some were young women, pregnant or with small children.
About 500 of these children were taken from their parents, given to military families under new identities. Now, some thirty years on, they are grown up and struggling to learn the truth, to find justice for the crimes committed in the past, and above all, to understand what this means for their own identity. Director Estela Bravo has been making this film for twenty years."

Directed by: Estela Bravo
Produced by: Paul Mitchell and Rachel Seiftert
Length: 105 mins

Links
IMDB entry for Estela Bravo, link.
Link to the Frontline club, link.

U-Frame Festival 2008

U.Frame is the first International Video Festival organised by the UP (University of Oporto - Portugal) in partnership with the UDC (University of Coruna - Spain). More than a competition platform for short films, it will promote and showcase creativity applied to new technologies. Thus, two special competition entries are offered: Light Media (films made with mobile phones) and Second Life (films produced in a virtual environment). We aim to promote contacts and exchanges between students in the area of audiovisuals from all over the world and reward the most creative works.

The event aims primarily to:
- promote contacts and exchanges among university students in the field of audiovisuals at an international level
- develop creativity
- reward and endorse the best projects (for example: screen the best works at Oporto's International Film Festival – Fantasporto)
- hold training sessions.

Sections:
3.1. Official competition:
- Documentary
- Fiction
- Animation
- Experimental

3.2. Second Life Special Competition:
- This competition is dedicated only to works produced in the virtual environment of Second Life


3.3. Online competition (Media light):
- Mobile (short movies - maximum 10 minutes - made with a mobile phone, with or without edition).
- 60 seconds (films with a maximum length of 1 minute. The film, trailer and credits included, shouldn't have/be
more than 10 MB, and must be delivered in one of the following formats: .mov, .wmv ou .swf).

Link
Festival U-Frame, link.

Coming attraction: Lost Highway at English National Opera

With 'The 39 Steps' and 'All About my Mother' both on the London stage, this looks quite interesting.

Link

Lost Highway, link.

Coming attraction: 22nd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

Link

22nd London LGFF, link.

From the archive: La Chanson de Bilbao

Coming attraction

IMD entry for No Country for Old Men, link.

Coming attraction

IMDB entry for Back to Normandy, link.

Forthcoming blogathon

Feb 1st-8th, South Dakota Dark's Deeply Superficial Blogathon, link.

Alice in the Cities, Wim Wenders Q&A

Above: Alice in the Cities, Wim Wenders interviewed by Nick Roddick (Evening Standard).

Spain (un)censored.

The Saragossa Manuscript

Link

Link to the official fansite for The Saragossa Manuscript, link.

Coming attraction: Wim Wenders in London & Spain (un)censored

Our friends at NFT or to give it is 'proper' new name: BFI Southbank will be running in January a Wim Wenders season with the man himself coming over on January 10th for a Q&A, I've already bought my ticket (Alice in the Cities) will show earlier that evening. Plus, a great season called 'Spain (un)censored' which looks like it reaches us via MoMa in New York.

Raindance - 15th year

I'm just trying to catch up on stuff I meant to post way back during September, October and November, here is another: Raindance.

Link
Raindance, link.

More missed films...

PiF - PaF or Polska i Film - Polska a Film, which was held at Shepherds Bush Vue 10-13th November, looked like quite a decent showcase of old and new Polish cinema.

Link
PiF-PaF, link.

For the stamp collectors...

Next year Royal Mail will be releasing "Ian Flemming's James Bond" - a very nice looking set of stamps replicating the book jackets from the novels - nice! Available 8th January 2008.

Then on Tuesday 10th June they release another set (no pictures in the booklet they sent me) called 'Classic Carry On and Hammer Films'.

Link
Royal Mail, stamps and collecting, link.

51st London Film Festival

More missed films...

Actually I had planned to go to at least one of the Jacques Demy films but again, missed them all.

Missed attraction

Link
Invitation to a dream was at Ciné lumière (Institut français) but I missed them all, here is the link.

Coming attraction: KM 31 aka Kilómetro 31

Link

IMDB entry for KM 31 aka Kilómetro 31, link.