BY ANDRE SOARES, LOS ANGELES, USA (CINEMA MINIMA)

Several weeks ago, I chatted with actor-director-screenwriter Guillaume Canet, who was in the US promoting his 2006 romantic thriller NE LE DIS A PERSONNE | TELL NO ONE, which opens in Los Angeles and New York City tomorrow. I posted the Guillaume Canet interview here.

Based on Harlan Coben’s bestseller, NE LE DIS A PERSONNE follows a pediatrician trying to prove to the police that he did not kill his wife eight years earlier, while at the same time attempting to find out if his wife is actually still living.

The nearly flawless cast features François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nathalie Baye, François Berléand, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Lorit, and Philippe Lefebvre, with whom Canet co-wrote the screenplay.

NE LE DIS A PERSONNE received 9 César nominations in 2006, winning four awards. Additionally, the film won two Étoiles d’Or voted by French film critics, and received best foreign-language film nominations from the London Critics Circle and the British Independent Film Awards.

Guillaume Canet interview

BY ANDRE SOARES, LOS ANGELES, USA (CINEMA MINIMA)

A screening of a digitally restored 35mm print of Charles Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES (1936) and an examination at rare behind-the-scenes photographs revealing the techniques used in creating the film’s special effects will be the focus of "Techno Chaplin," an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ program hosted by visual effects supervisor Craig Barron and silent-film author John Bengtson on Thursday, July 24, at 8 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.

As per the Academy’s press release, the program will "examine Chaplin’s significant use of technical effects such as matte shots, process shots, miniatures and rear projection to complement real-life industrial settings. The presentation also will include a multimedia tour of 1930s Los Angeles, offering a visual journey of the city that served as a backdrop in Chaplin’s work."

Tickets to "Techno Chaplin" are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. Tickets are available for purchase by mail, at the Academy box office, or online at www.oscars.org. Doors open at 7 p.m. All seating is unreserved.

MODERN TIMES Images

BY ANDRE SOARES, LOS ANGELES, USA (CINEMA MINIMA)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has resolved a trademark lawsuit against the public Italian television broadcaster RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana). The lawsuit, concerning RAI’s broadcast of several Italian-language "Oscar" award programs, was filed in 2005 in the United States District Court in Los Angeles.

Last Friday, terms of the settlement were read into the Court record, but were not publicly disclosed. According to an attorney for the Academy, that organization continues to maintain exclusive right to use the name "Oscar" for awards shows.

Other Academy lawsuits against RAI are still underway in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

BY ANDRE SOARES, LOS ANGELES, USA (CINEMA MINIMA)

The Writers Guild of America has announced the names of some of the instructors at the Writers Guild Foundation’s annual summer screenwriting seminar, "Hooked: The First Twenty Pages — and Beyond," to be held Saturday, July 19, at the Writers Guild of America headquarters at 7000 West Third Street in West Hollywood.

Among them are Academy Award winners Tom Schulman (DEAD POETS SOCIETY) and Eric Roth (MUNICH), Oscar nominee Robert Nelson Jacobs (CHOCOLAT), Aline Brosh McKenna (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA), and director-screenwriter Francis Veber (THE VALET).

Registrations are priced at $150, general public; $125, WGA members; and $110-full-time students with I.D. Credit card purchases can be made by calling 1-800 838 3006, or online at www.WGFoundation.org, where an updated speaker lineup can be obtained.

More details on "Hooked: The First Twenty Pages — and Beyond" can be found here.

BY ANDRE SOARES, LOS ANGELES, USA (CINEMA MINIMA)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has mailed Foreign Language Film award entry forms to 96 countries. As per the Academy’s press release, in order to qualify for the 2008 awards a film must have most of its dialogue in a language other than English, and “must be released in the submitting country between October 1, 2007, and September 30, 2008, and be publicly screened in 35mm or 70mm film or in a qualifying digital cinema format for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial motion picture theater.

“Entry forms and film prints must be received at the Academy by Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Only one picture will be accepted from each country.”

The Austrian drama The Counterfeiters received the Oscar for best foreign-language film earlier this year.

Countries that have not received entry packets but that are interested in submitting a film for consideration should contact Awards Coordinator Torene Svitil at (310) 247-3000, ext. 116, or via e-mail at tsvitil@oscars.org.

BY OGOVA ONDEGO. NAIROBI, KENYA (CINEMA MINIMA) — Eastern Africas premier annual international audiovisual media platform for children and youth, Lola Kenya Screen, has announced the films to compete for its 3rd Golden Mboni Award. Some 24 films out of the more than 389 submitted shall seek to outdo one another during the festival that runs August 11-16, 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya. This award has been won by Ukraine and Israel in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

For a film to make it to the official Lola Kenya Screen competition, its content must be creative, demonstrate artistic and technical mastery, speak positively to children of diverse backgrounds and cultures and should provide strong role models for both boys and girls. Additionally, the action of such a film should be child-driven, with the stories being culturally authentic, timely, and of universal appeal. Above everything else, such films should be made by, with and for children and youth rather than about children and youth.

The films competing for the 3rd Lola Kenya Screen Golden Mboni Award are:

• SUBIRA by Ravneet Chadha, Kenya
• MANPASAND/The Perfect Match by Dhvani Desai, India
• I AM ZEINAB FROM LEBANON by Salwa Saab, Lebanon
• HELLO SPRING by Masoone Jafari, Iran
• THE MAGIC TREE: DEVOURERS OF BOOKS by Andrzeej Magescka, Poland
• WORMHEAD by Manauvaskar Kublall, USA
• STI SKIA/In the Shadows by Dimitris Apostolou, Greece
• MAX’S WORDS by Galen Fott and Jerry Hunt, USA
• MIT MEINEM VATER LEBTE ICH AM MEER by Anke Lanzon and Jan Stutz, Germany
• JOURNEY OF A RED FRIDGE by Lucian Muntean and Natasa Stankovic, Serbia
• SIRI RAJA SIRI/King Siri by Somaratne Dissanayake, Sri Lanka
• GAROTO COSMICO/Cosmic Boy by Ale Abreu, Brazil
• QUAMAR/Working to Live by Preeya Nair, India
• HOPPET/Leaps and Bounds by Petter Nss, Sweden
• FORORTSUNGAR/Kids in da Hood by Ylva Gustavsson and Catti Edfeldt, Sweden
• SUDEN ARVOITUS/Mystery of the Wolf by Raimo O Niemi, Finland
• CYKELMYGGEN OG DANSEMYGGEN/A Tale of Two Mozzies by Jannik Hastrup and Flemming Quist Moller, Denmark
• ONNI VON SOPANEN by Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Finland
• STANDING ALONE by Gholam-Reza Ramezani, Iran
• KARLAS KABALE/Karla’s World by Charlotte Sachs Bostrup, Denmark
• PORQUE HAYCOASA QUE NUNCA SE OLVIDAN/ Because There Are Things You Never Forget, by Lucas Figueroa, Spain

Besides the official competition, Lola Kenya Screen 2008 plans to shows films in seven other categories: Films by Children, Kids for Kids Africa Competition, The Prix Jeunesse Window on the World, Eastern Africa Prism, Shorts of Africa, World Panorama, and La Matatena Associa De Cine Ninas Y Ninos. The full list of selected films is online.

All the films submitted to Lola Kenya Screen 2008, even those that did not make it to any of the eight official sections, will be available for private viewing during the festival.

The film submission to Lola Kenya Screen has for the third time demonstrated that Africa has a long way to go in the making of and promotion of films for children and youth. Only a handful of films came from Africa out of which only one made it to the 24-film official competition.

The countries continuing to register their interest in Lola Kenya Screen have increased from 39 and 46 in 2006 and 2007 to 53 in 2008.

The 2008 film submission came in from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Congo-Kinshasa, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Tanzania, Uganda, USA, and Zimbabwe. [Artmatters.info]

BY OGOVA ONDEGO. NAIROBI, KENYA (CINEMA MINIMA) —.

Lola Kenya Screen, the annual international audiovisual media platform—festival, production workshop and market—for children and youth in eastern Africa held in Nairobi every second week of August, has changed its festival dates from August 4-9, 2008 to August 11-16, 2008.

In a Press Statement released in Germany on June 3, 2008, Lola Kenya Screen explained the change has been ocassioned by ‘unscheduled change in the holiday calendar of public schools in Kenya. Lola Kenya Screen regrets this change but cannot help it as our primary target audience are holidaying school-going children and
youth.’

Lola Kenya Screen is represented at the bi-annual Prix Jeunesse festival in Munich, Germany. It is one of various projects of Prix Jeunesse and the only one from Africa in 2008. Also presented at this world’s leading television programmes for children and youth is AFRICAN FOLK TALES ANIMATED, the DVD compilation of short films made by children during the annual Lola Kenya Screen film production workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2007.

Lola Kenya Screen has also announced the short-listing of applicants to its various skill-development programmes and selected films from 52 nations. The organisation will release its festival line up to the media in Nairobi on June 10, 2008.

BY OGOVA ONDEGO. NAIROBI, KENYA (CINEMA MINIMA) —.

The participation application deadline to the third edition of Lola Kenya Screen that holds in Nairobi the second week of  2008 August closed on 2008 April 15 with 300 film submission from 45 nations.

Lola Kenya Screen, eastern Africa’s premier audiovisual media platform exclusively designed for children, youth and family, has received films by children, youth, students and adults from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Congo-Kinshasa, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Spain, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Tanzania, Uganda, USA, and Zimbabwe.

Also applying for participation in the official Lola Kenya Screen skill-development programmes for children and youth–Film Selection Committee, Film Jury, Festival Press, Event Presentation, Film Production Workshop–were applicants from Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Those eligible for participation are usually residents of Nairobi and its environs due to what the festival management describes as ‘logistical reasons’.

This development comes at a time when Lola Kenya Screen has been selected to spearhead the development of audiovisual media content for children and youth in eastern Africa. Being a fully fledged organisation specialising in children, media and culture, Lola Kenya Screen is to work with festivals in Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Rwanda in adding children’s film sections to their programmes.

During an eastern Africa film festival network development meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on 2008 April 22, players from Belgium, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda chose Lola Kenya Screen to be the lead partner in the region.

The Lola Kenya Screen initiative is set to be presented to the world during Prix Jeunesse, the world’s leading television programmes for children festival in Munich, Germany (2008 May 30-June 5).

Lola Kenya Screen, that has already been presented in Rwanda, Uganda, and Belgium where Lola Kenya Screen films by children–AFRICAN FOLK TALES ANIMATED–have also been showcased, will also feature in Zanzibar in July 2008.

AFRICAN FOLK TALES ANIMATED, the compilation of three-film and three-song DVD made by children and youth during the 2nd Lola Kenya Screen in 2007 continue on the international film circuit as more invitations come in for them. The latest invitation is from the London Film Festival for Children that takes place in 2008 November.

The Lola Kenya Screen DVD has already been screened in Tampere, Finland (2008 March 4-9), Kigali, Rwanda (2008 March 16-30), Brussels, Belgium (2008 April 14-25), Kampala, Uganda (2008 May 1-11), and Berlin, Germany, (2008 May 21-25).

The whole compilation will then move to Prix Jeunesse, the world’s leading television programmes for children festival in Munich, Germany (2008 May 30-June 4).

Produced by Lola Kenya Screen, these films—that were made by children aged 9-15 years during the 2nd Lola Kenya Screen film production workshop (August 6-11, 2007)—that premiered at Lola Kenya Screen on 2007 August 11 have since been shown on KBC Television (2007 December and 2008 January).

The inaugural Lola Kenya Screen production—FILMS BY CHILDREN FOR CHILDREN—won the Grand Prize at the 5th World Summit for Media and Children in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2007 March. Since then, there has been no looking back for Lola Kenya Screen that is an annual international film festival, production workshop and market focusing on children and youth in eastern Africa and holding in Nairobi every second week of August.

FILMS BY CHILDREN FOR CHILDREN was shown in Kenya, Poland, Senegal, South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, and Holland, among other countries.

The organisers of Lola Kenya Screen are working with Zimbabwean producer Rumbi Katedza in bringing young people from Zimbabwe to Nairobi for a cultural exchange through the audiovisual media.

Hollywood’s depiction of Africa has changed little since the days of TARZAN and OUT OF AFRICA and — despite the rise of Hollywood activism — Africa is still shown as a place which must be either subdued or saved, writes Sasha Polakow-Suransky in Good Magazine. The author traces the trends in Hollywood stories since 2001, starting with BLACK HAWK DOWN, through BLOOD DIAMOND. He observes that — with the exceptions of HOTEL RWANDA and SOMETIMES IN APRIL — Hollywood’s “themes [have] remained constant: jungle fever, white heroism, and white martyrdom,” concluding, “An Africa that is more than lush landscapes, bloodthirsty tyrants, and trigger-happy killers is long overdue.” [Source: Hollywood Can't Get Africa Right in: Good Magazine]

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO, ONTARIO CANADA (CINEMA MINIMA) — The second session of CopyCamp will take place 2008 April 29 - 30 in Toronto. The conference treats art, copyright, and the Internet. It follows an “unconference” model in which activities would be organized by all participants online via wiki, or spontaneously at the event. The 2006 CopyCamp had brought together a number of filmmakers, artists, activists, lawyers, and other stakeholders in copyright. Registration information for the event is available at its Web site.

The current trend in motion-picture color correction, observes visual-effects artist Stu Maschwitz, is uncompromising preservation of “correct” skin tones.

As filmmakers’ sensibilities became influenced by the possibilities of the digital intermediate (DI) — popularized by colorist Stefan Sonnenfeld’s work on Bad Boys II and that of Jet Omoshebi on Underworld — more “pushed” looks became commonplace. Aggressive color correction is more likely to render skin tones in an unflattering way, so a colorist’s capability has been judged by the skill to hold pleasing skin tones through severe corrections.

Maschwitz’s article is illustrated by examples from THE INCREDIBLE HULK and LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD. He offers specific recommendations for primary and secondary color correction, taken from his book, The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap. [Prolost]

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The 7th Annual NAB Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet will convene in Las Vegas, Nevada USA 2008 April 16 18:30-22:30 at the MGM Grand Hotel, during the NAB Show. The SuperMeet is the annual event of the Final Cut Pro User Group Network, which includes user groups in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Final Cut is a Non-Linear Editing (NLE) application for editing motion pictures, including features, using Apple computers.

The NAB Show takes place 2008 April 11-17 in Las Vegas. The show is put on by the American National Association of Broadcasters. On Monday April 14, Tim Robbins will deliver the NAB show’s keynote speech. The actor-director-producer will look at the changing face of entertainment, and how new distribution and content-creation opportunities will affect Hollywood. [Apple]

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