Tag: film making

  • Venice Film Festival-Length

    Lengths  One intriguing entry into the Venice competition program this year is Lahi, Hayop (Genus, Pan) by Lavrente Indico Diaz (better known as Lav Diaz). Those already familiar with the work of the Filipino director will know he is synonymous with slow contemplative cinema. His earlier films Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004) is ten hours […]

  • Berlinale Saved Me

    Berlinale Saved Me

    Rejection is a form of Protection  “It is not enough for a film festival to be righteous. The films shown should be engaging.” I did not attend the Berlinale this year “because of the limited space”.  The likely reason, the Chat Cinema podcast I produced criticising the festival.  Someone took offence.  Reading over the reviews of the […]

  • Did I Say Something Wrong?

    A Trapped Artist Inside    Dealing with bureaucrats with artistic pretensions is a balancing act. On the one hand they crave the hell with life mentality of Fassbinder, the go your own path of a Bowie, the respectability of Nolan mingled with the steady monthly salary of a state tax officer. Nowhere do I see […]

  • Berlinale Overhaul

    The Berlinale is in a Crisis.  What does our creative colleague David Mouriquand think?  Click on the link: http://www.exberliner.com/features/opinion/we-need-to-talk-about-the-berlinale/  

  • The Sunset Inspirational Festival

    The Sunset Inspirational Festival

    Black and Paper exclusive interview with Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival Creative Director Sandra Seeling. Would you say filmgoers are looking for different stories and narratives?  In my experience as a festival programmer, filmgoers want to be surprised and inspired. They want to be taken out of their daily routines and experience new adventures and new point of […]

  • The latest news about the Cannes Film Festival from France 24

    The 2017 Cannes Film Festival line-up has been announced, read the feature from France 24. http://www.france24.com/en/20170413-france-culture-cannes-film-festival-palme-dor-nominees-coppola-haneke-hazanavicius    

  • Berlinale-Strong Island

    Black and Paper interview with Director Yance Ford. “Strong Island” is a documentary that is topical on a social and historical, the shooting of an unharmed African American Man followed by a criminal justice system that vilifies a person of color with a “Guilty Label” regardless of the circumstances and ultimate outcome.  The 107 minute […]