Brillante Mendoza Articles

The winners at the 6th edition of the Dubai Film Festival, which ran Dec. 9-16, were announced about ten days ago. They were divided into two sections: Arab Award and Asia-Africa Award winners. The top narrative feature in each section was, respectively, Michel Khleifi's Zindeeq (above, top photo) and Brillante Mendoza's Lola (above, lower photo). A Palestinian/British/United Arab Emirates co-production, Zindeeq tells the story of [...]

2009 Cannes Film Festival Awards 2009 Cannes Film Festival: May 13–24   IN COMPETITION – FEATURE FILMS Palme d'Or DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon) directed by Michael HANEKE Grand Prix UN PROPHÈTE (A Prophet) directed by Jacques AUDIARD Jury Prize (tie) FISH TANK directed by Andrea ARNOLD and BAK-JWI (Thirst) directed by PARK Chan-Wook Best Director Brillante MENDOZA for KINATAY Best Actor Christoph WALTZ [...]

Peter Bradshaw on Bright Star (with Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, above) in The Guardian: "Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d'Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which I think could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the [...]