The Berlinale Talent Campus is an excellent program that takes place every year during the Berlin Film Festival. The application is open from July 15th to October 6th. The talent campus is a six-day creative summit for up-and-coming filmmakers. The next edition is from February 12-17, 2011. Filmmake[...]
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March 28th, 2010 - 9:14 pm § in Contemporary Short Films
Please Say Something
Saw this at the Berlin Film Festival last year. An excellent little short that picked up a hell of a lot of prizes. Amazing visuals, excellent narrative strategies and editing. A real pleasure. Synopsis: A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. Written, Directed &am[...]
February 16th, 2009 - 7:52 pm § in Reviews
Great Movies: Playtime (Tati, 1967)
Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Jaques Tati‘s Playtime at the Berlinale. It was the last night of the 70mm retrospective. In his article “The Death of Hulot,” originally published in Sight & Sound in 1983, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum gave Playtime its most apt de[...]
February 14th, 2009 - 11:44 am § in News
Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival)
I’m a bit of a drama queen. After deciding not to write this blog anymore too many ideas came up for it; apparently I’m hooked. Some notes from the Berlinale: 1. Rejected by NYU, interview at UCLA next month! I’m very unsure of what life in Los Angeles would be like, especially aft[...]