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Daily Recommendation 10.01.08: Ballast
Ballast was the winner of the Best Director and Best Cinematography prizes at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and screened in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as the Boston (Grand Jury Prize), San Francisco (FIPRESCI Prize), Buenos Aires (FIPRESCI and Directing Awards), and New Directors/New Films festivals.
IFC ‘Heart’s Danish cinema
Variety reports that the VOD specialist has picked up Danish helmer Simon Staho's marriage drama for an eventual release next year.
Webber to take Trip to ‘The Spider’s House’
Brit filmmaker Peter Webber is embarking on his third straight novel to film adaptation, translating Paul Bowles' Moroccan-set novel.
Daily Recommendation 09.30.08: PBS’ P.O.V.: Critical Condition
In a subject matter that Michael Moore recently explored in Sicko, just in time for the U.S. Election, PBS's P.O.V series explores a hot topic issue via Roger Weisberg's Critical Condition - a docu on the health care crisis that has crippled middle class and poor America.
The Class, Gomorra, and Waltz with Bashir among films to beat in Foreign Oscar nom process
So far, about one third (35 countries to be exact) of the 96 invited to submit their entry for the Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Picture category have done so.
