By Liza Palmer, Review Section Editor. The long-awaited call for reviews is finally here. Film International is actively seeking reviews for publication online or in print (at our discretion) of the following books and DVDs: Books Bollywood: Gods, Glamour and Gossip, Kush Varia (Wallflower) — TAKEN The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, Deborah Allison (Lexington Books) [...]
By Anthony Killick. On November 28, 2012, Secret City, a new feature-length documentary about the City of London and the Corporation that runs it, was screened in Venezuela’s Bolivar Hall in London. As a postgraduate student and member of the production team I have, over the past year, gained insight into the relationship between the [...]
Cornerhouse is pleased to announce ¡Viva!, its annual, internationally acclaimed Spanish & Latin American Film Festival. Celebrating the most outstanding contributions in new cinema from a wide range of countries, the 2013 Festival programme will showcase significant world premieres and previews alongside high calibre feature films, short films and documentaries. ¡Viva! will also welcome inspirational [...]
By Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Programme Associate. In a year when cultural institutions of all kinds have felt under direct attack, building the size and scope of an African film festival in London has been no easy task. With funding cuts, and an increasingly rampant rhetoric of ‘necessity’ and ‘efficiency’, the question ‘why does London need [...]
MUSIC & THE MOVING IMAGE VIII Conference at NYU Steinhardt: May 31-June 2, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, TV, video games, mobile media, and interactive performances) through [...]
caboose, an independent publisher of books about film located in Montreal, Canada, is starting a new project on film projection called Planetary Projection, coordinated by Marina Uzunova. They are seeking contributions for an online album and eventual book from projectionists willing to share their experiences. For more information about this project, please see this PDF: Planetary [...]
By Liza Palmer, Review Section Editor. Welcome to July! Here’s hoping the heat is not too awful for those of you experiencing summer at the moment. It is my pleasure to offer you a vibrant list of available review items. As always, thanks for your support of and service to Film International. If you are [...]
Subversion is a new group show of Arabic art taking place at Cornerhouse in Manchester from 14 April – 5 June 2012. It’ll feature work by eleven emerging and established artists including Marwa Arsanios, Sherif El-Azma, Wafaa Bilal, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Khaled Hafez, Larissa Sansour, Tarzan and Arab, Sharif Waked and Akram Zaatari, [...]
The French Cinema Project ‘Portraits d’artistes’ is currently seeking scholars willing to offer bibliographical entries both literary and personal on French actors/actresses (1000 words maximum) for a future publication. If you are interested in contributing please email: michael.abecassis AT mod-langs.ox.ac.uk. If you have suggestions for other actors/actresses we would be pleased to discuss them. We [...]
The journal Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) welcomes film reviews. Should you like to review a particular documentary or send us one to review, please email the film review editor, Dr Michael Abecassis, directly: michael.abecassis AT modern-langs.ox.ac.uk ACME is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal devoted to the anthropological studies of societies [...]