News tagged with “film director”. Found:
24 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 24 tagged news reports
Docs about Gould, Suzuki get funding
Toronto :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility
Federal Trade Commission recommended music, TV and video companies voluntarily halt the practice, says an FTC report. Roman Polanski began his house arrest on $4.5 million US bail Friday, rolling into the luxury resort of Gstaad in a police convoy to...
Tags: Toronto Film Critics Association, critic association, Canada, Toronto, Entertainment Culture, Gould, Human Interest, Peter Raymont, Polanski, Jason Reitman, Gstaad, Cinema of Canada, Corbin Bernsen, Franￃﾧois Girard, Technology Internet, Roman Polanski, Sarah Polley, Up in the Air, Chalet, Splice, Jay Scott, David Cronenberg, Comcast, Film director, Gunnarsson, Stephen Jay Gould, The Border, The Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould
DGA shows Jewison the love
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Norman Jewison has been selected as the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of America. Jewison will receive the honor at the 62nd Annual DGA Awards on Jan. 30 at the Century Plaza. "He is an incredible filmmaker whose...
Tags: Norman Jewison, Directors Guild of America, achievement award, Los Angeles, Human Interest, Taylor Hackford, Entertainment Culture, Fiddler on the Roof, Drama films, American film directors, Orson Welles, A Soldier's Story, Steven Spielberg, Film director, Clint Eastwood, In the Heat of the Night, Musical films, The Statement, United Artists films
Women director eye Oscar
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Female helmers have captured plenty of attention in the early days of award season and sparked optimism that, this year, more than one could land a spot on the director's list for the Oscars. It would be a landmark event: Only three women have ever been...
Tags: Alliance of Women Directors, Jacqui Barcos, Los Angeles, Judd Apatow, Lone Scherfig, Film director, Women's cinema, Entertainment Culture
Iranian director wins Freedom to Create prize
Tehrān :: Iran | 15 days ago
Credibility Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, shown with student protesters in June, has won the Freedom to Create Prize. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters) The Freedom to Create Prize has been awarded to the Iranian film director who created the 2001 film Kandahar....
Tags: Sakutin Iran, rights group, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, human rights, detains scores, group says, created prize, iran detains, film director, Iran, Tehrān, Politics, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hosein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian presidential election, Protests, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Makhmalbaf, Iranian election protests, Education, Cinema of Iran, Entertainment Culture, Islamic history, Kandahar, Politics of Iran, Iranian Azeris, Student activism, Political riots, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Siddiq Barmak, Social Issues
Swiss 'tipped off US' on Polanski
Zurich :: Switzerland | about 1 month ago
Credibility The AP news agency said e-mails show that the Swiss authorities tipped off their US counterparts that Polanski, 76, was preparing to travel to Zurich. The filmmaker was held as he travelled from France to collect an award. He has been wanted in the US...
Tags: Roman Polanski, Mr. Polanski, United States, director roman, Switzerland, face charge, film director, U.S, winning director
Swiss court rejects Polanski bid for release
Zurich :: Switzerland | about 1 month ago
Credibility Swiss court rejects Polanski bid for release A Swiss court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by film director Roman Polanski against detention pending extradition to the United States for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. "According...
Tags: Roman Polanski, Swiss Federal Criminal Court, Swiss Criminal Court, director roman, Switzerland, old girl, possible extradition, United States, court rejected, film director
Well-Meaning Stance Hurts Polanski, Lawyer Says
Paris :: France | about 1 month ago
Credibility As a high-powered international legal team presses to free the film director Roman Polanski from a Swiss jail, his French lawyer said Wednesday that inept support from some well-meaning backers had created a phony dispute about whether great artists have...
Tags: Roman Polanski, Mr. Gadhafi, film director
Polanski to remain in Swiss custody
Zurich :: Switzerland | 2 months ago
Credibility Roman Polanski lost the first round yesterday in his battle to avoid extradition to the US for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Already locked in a Zurich cell for the last dozen days, Polanski learned that he will remain incarcerated for...
Tags: Polanski Switzerland, deny bail, Nix Polanski, Swiss Justice Ministry, Roman Polanski, film director, having sex, director roman, Zurich Airport, old girl, Switzerland, Zurich
Swiss deny Polanski's appeal for freedom
Zurich :: Switzerland | 2 months ago
Credibility Roman Polanski will stay behind bars for now after Swiss justice authorities on Tuesday rejected his first appeal to be released from jail. Folco Galli, Justice Office spokesman, said no formal request had yet been received for the filmmaker to be sent...
Tags: Reuters Roman Polanski, Swiss Justice Ministry, Switzerland, Folco Galli, United States, director roman, possible extradition, spokesman folco, film director, ministry spokesman, Zurich
No winners in Polanski case, director says
Zurich :: Switzerland | 2 months ago
Credibility Marina Zenovich, the director of Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, warns that nobody has anything to gain from the detention of the 76-year-old French-Polish director. Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the Zurich Film Festival, Zenovich...
Tags: Roman Polanski, Mr. Polanski, polanski agreed, director roman, Los Angeles Times, justice minister, pay victim, film director, Switzerland, Zurich
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
