The 2015 Venice Film Fest has announced the jury members who will decide the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film–Lion of the Future, headed by Italian director Saverio Costanzo (“Hungry Hearts”) They are: Hong Kong producer Roger Garcia, executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival since 2010; French film critic and historian […]
Venice Film Fest 2015: Jury of Horizon Section
July 27, 2015 by
The 2015 Venice Film Fest has announced jury members of its Horizons section, dedicated to more cutting edge fare and headed by Jonathan Demme. They are: French director and screenwriter Alix Delaporte, who made a splash on the Lido last year with “Le dernier coup de mart eau” (“The Last Hammer Blow”), for which actor Romain […]
Venice Film Fest 2015: Main Competition Jury
July 27, 2015 by
The 2015 Venice Film Fest has announced the full roster of its main competition jury, which will include US actress-director Elizabeth Banks, actress Diane Kruger, Turkish auteur and 2014 Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Poland’s Pawel Pawlikowski, who directed “Ida,” winner of this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Rounding out the fest’s main jury […]
Venice Film Fest 2015: Johnny Depp’s Black Mass World Premiere
July 24, 2015 by
The Venice Film Fest announced the out-of-competition world premiere of Warner’s drama Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp. Trailer 2 http://emanuellevy.com/trailers/black-mass-trailer-2/ Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace), the film centers on the notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. The ensemble cast also includes Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Jesse Plemons, Dakota Johnson, […]
OutFest 2015: Awards in All Categories
July 19, 2015 by
Sebastian Silva’s “Nasty Baby,” Parvez Sharma’s “A Sinner in Mecca” and Andrew Nackman’s “Fourth Man Out” topped the winners of Outfest, the nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting LGBT stories on the screen. The 2015 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Fest, presented by HBO, started July 9 and closed Sunday night, July 19, with a screening […]
