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Film Festivals

Anne Hathaway and Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak announced the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards Feb. 2 playbill.com

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Canada’s Top 10 films revealed
The three Quebec pics that repped Canada at this year’s Cannes Film Festival are among the films selected by the Toronto Intl. … They are Denis Cote’s experimental docudrama “Carcasses,” 20-year-old writer-director Xavier Dolan’s gay-themed dramedy “I Killed My Mother” and seasoned helmer Denis Villeneuve’s “Polytechnique,” based on [...]

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For the past 3 years, actresses giving Oscar Award acceptance speeches have been sprinkled foreign accents. And what does this trend mean for American actresses? See the article in today’s Variety.

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Christian Jeune, Deputy General Delegate and Australian preselector for Festival de Cannes Official Selection (In Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard) will return to Australia in early December 2009.
Mr. Jeune will be in Australia to view new features and short films that meet the criteria for potential preselection for the 2010 Cannes [...]

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On 19th, November, in Amsterdam, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam will screen 13 Australian documentaries.
In the Competition section of the festival, a record of seven Australian films have been to selected to compete;
“Contact”
“The Miscreants of Taliwood”
“The Snowman”
“The Matilda Candidate”
Screening in the Short Documentary Competition section are:
“My Uncle Bluey”
“Salt”
This is the first time that seven [...]

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A record 17 Australian films have been selected for Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Some of the films selected include Mao’s Last Dancer, Bright Star, Balibo, My Year Without Sex, Beautiful Kate, Samson & Delilah and Wake in Fright. Toronto selectors received more than 4,300 submissions from more than 60 countries for this year’s [...]

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Sydney Screening Best of TROPFEST ‘09

by Olivia Taylor on 07/04/2009

in Film Festivals

eNews Media Release — THE BEST OF TROPFEST 2009 will showcase the best of the world’s biggest short film festival in a special two-hour presentation from the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace hosted by Richard Wilkins on Saturday, April 11 at 9.30pm on Channel Nine.

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‘A cinematic orgy for ravenous film lovers” is how Ray Murray, nicely mixing his metaphors, describes Philadelphia Film Festival/Cinefest ‘09. March 26 – April 6.

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Three new Australian feature films based on the true story of the infamous Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict who was hung for murder and cannibalism in 1824, have been created.

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Australian actress Mia Wasikowska who has recently appeared on the HBO drama In Treatment, is famous for being cast in the lead role of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland opposite Johnny Depp.

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