Britains foremost advocate for the film industry, Academy Award winner and producer of Chariots of Fire, The Mission and The Killing Fields, Lord Puttnam, will be the keynote speaker at the 2010 SPADA Conference in Auckland on 11 and 12 November.

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Film World Doyen To Address NZ Industry At Spada

At the close of this weekend, Pixar Animation’s 11th feature-length film (and the future 2010 Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Film ), Toy Story.

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'Toy Story 3' Becomes Highest Grossing Animated Film of All Time …

Similarly with her performance in The Libertine (see below) Pike sneaks in and very nearly scoops the film out of the hands of her co-stars. But, as with Moore, maybe her screen time wasn’t quite enough to grab the Academy’s full …

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Film Experience Blog: Take Three: Rosamund Pike

Veteran film executive Tom Sherak has been re-elected to his second term as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Tom Sherak re-elected president of film academy

Organizers of an Indianapolis film festival that recognizes uplifting movies are working to reach a $12.5 million fundraising goal to strengthen its influence.

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Heartland Film Festival aims to raise national profile

A film about the Holocaust produced by a Jesuit priest and directed by his son finds itself on a possible path to the Academy Awards. The 37-minute documentary is called The Labyrinth, and tells the story of One of Marian Kolodziej’s sketches.

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Holocaust film produced by Jesuit possible Oscar contender

MANILA, Philippines – Among the films in the lineup of Eiga Sai 2010, the Japanese Film Festival, is “The Battery, Future in Our Hands,” a movie about baseball and what it means to a young pitcher in the Japanese middle school league. The film is directed by Academy Award-winning director Takita Yojiro.

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Film Review: ‘The Battery, Future in Our Hands’

Most know Don Hertzfeldt for his bizarre and surreal animated short film , Rejected. An Academy Award nominated, highly recognized animator, Hertzfeldt has.

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Sunday Shorts: Ah l'Amour | Film School Rejects

Nimród Antal and Robert Rodriguez have resurrected a dying bread. For almost 23 years now the Predators have slowly been fading away from an onslaught of.

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[Review] Predators | The Film Stage

Stapling humans together? That’s just fine.

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THE LOVED ONES – A Torture Film NOT Playing In The States …