Defamation Articles

2009 Asia-Pacific Screen Awards 2009 Asia-Pacific Screen Award winners: Australia’s Gold Coast on Nov 26. 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Writer-director Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah, Australia's submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award, took best film honors at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Screen Awards held in Queensland, Australia. Samson & Delilah tells the story of two young aborigines (Rowan [...]

European Film Award nominee and a very likely contender for the 2010 best documentary feature Academy Award*, Yoav Shamir's Defamation opens on Friday, Nov. 20, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities across the United States. The film info below is from distributor First Run Features' website: "Intent on shaking up the ultimate ‘sacred cow’ for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on [...]

Star of London for Best Film: Jacques Audiard’s A PROPHET On behalf of the London Film Festival jury, Anjelica Huston stated: “A masterpiece: Un prohète has the ambition, purity of vision and clarity of purpose to make it an instant classic. With seamless and imaginative story-telling, superb performances and universal themes, Jacques Audiard has made a perfect film.” In A Prophet, Tahar Rahim stars as [...]

BEST DOCUMENTARY The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda Veteran filmmaker Agnès Varda remembers her life's beaches, sand dunes, sun rays, and more. Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard In 2007, thousands of monks took to the streets of Burma to protest the military government's brutal anti-democratic policies. The Cove, Louie Psihoyos Beautiful, intelligent dolphins are abused and slaughtered to provide entertainment and fodder for ugly, stupid people. [...]