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Tulpan
''Tulpan'' ( kk, Тюльпан, ''Tıýlpan'') is a 2008 Kazakh drama film. It was directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. ''Tulpan'' was Kazakhstan's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film category. It won the award for Best Film at the 2nd Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Overview Asa, a recently discharged Russian Navy sailor, is living in the remote Kazakhstan steppe with his sister Samal, her older husband, Ondas, and their three children. He dreams of becoming a herdsman and owning his own ranch, but he believes that to attain this goal, he must first marry. Asa hopes to marry Tulpan, the daughter of a neighboring family and the only eligible young woman in the area. However, her parents are unwilling to see their daughter marry an unemployed man with few prospects and Tulpan herself appears to have little interest in Asa. The plot of the story follows the trials of Asa, his surrogate family, and his western culture-lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Dvortsevoy
Sergey Vladimirovich Dvortsevoy (born 1962) is a Kazakh filmmaker of Russian origin. His 2008 feature film ''Tulpan'', was Kazakhstan's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film category. Dvortsevoy worked as an aviation engineer. He also worked for nine years as a radio engineer at Aeroflot; before studying film in Moscow in the early 1990s. His films immediately garnered international acclaim, receiving prizes and recognition at festivals around the world, including the nomination of Bread Day (1998) for the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. The following year, his work was presented at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an institution dedicated to Flaherty's adherence to the goal of seeing and depicting the human condition. Dvortsevoy's documentaries are committed to observational filmmaking. His subjects are people living in and around Russia in transition—try in their individual ways to eke out a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
39th International Film Festival Of India
The 39th International Film Festival of India was held in Panaji, Goa from 22 November 2008 to 1 December 2008. Winners * Golden Peacock (Best Film): " Tulpan" by "Sergey Dvortsevoy" * Silver Peacock Special Jury Award: Malani Fonseka for the film " Akasa Kusum" * Silver Peacock Award for the Most Promising Asian Director: "Sergey Dvortsevoy" for the film " Tulpan" Jury *Niki Karimi * Tabassum Hashmi * Marco Mueller *Lav Diaz * Peter Ho-Sun Chan In competition The competition section had 15 films including *My Mother's Tears * Rupant *The Shaft * Kanchivaram * Mahasatta *The Song of Sparrows * The Red Spot * Tulpan * Pensil * Ploning * Akasa Kusum *The Coffin ''The Coffin'' is a 2008 horror film starring Ananda Everingham and Karen Mok. Plot A young man named Chris (Ananda Everingham), and several years later, a woman named Zoe ( Karen Mok), undergo a Thai ritual of lying in a coffin, which is suppo ... References 2008 film festivals 2008 festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Yatsura
Yelena Yatsura (Russian: Елена Яцура) is an independent Russian film producer. Career Yatsura has collaborated with “Slovo”, “Non-Stop Production”, “Bogwood Kino” and “Filmocom” film companies. She has produced debut films by various directors, including Philipp Yankovsky (''In Motion'', 2002) and Fedor Bondarchuk (''The 9th Company'', 2005); prize winners of international film festivals – Alexey German-jr. ('' The Last Train'', 2003) and Ilya Khrzhanovsky (''4'',2004); and symbolic representatives of Russian artistic circle Konstantin Murzenko (''April'', 2001) and Renata Litvinova (''The Goddess: How I Fell In Love'', 2004). In 2008 Sergei Dvortsevoy with ''Tulpan'', an ethnic film about Kazakh nomads that received international awards including "Un Certain Regard Award" in Cannes and outstanding reviews Awards She won the Best Producer of the CIS and Baltic Countries award at the Open Film Festival Kinoshok in 2003. She is a two-time winner of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykjavík International Film Festival
Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF; is, Alþjóðleg kvikmyndahátíð í Reykjavík ) is an international film festival held annually in Reykjavík, Iceland. The festival lasts 11 days each year and emphasizes young talents. One way of doing so is having a competitive category (named ''New Visions'') exclusively limited to a director's first or second feature-length film. At each festival, a number of awards are given out. The main award is the ''Discovery of the Year'' award, also called Golden Puffin, given by an international jury. The international federation of film critics FIPRESCI send a jury to RIFF from 2006. Also, the audience can vote for their favorite film from the whole programme. Lifetime achievement awards and creative excellency awards are given to well-known film directors who have achieved excellence in their work. History Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF) was founded in 2004 by a group of film enthusiasts and professionals with the go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeitgeist Films
Zeitgeist Films is a New York-based distribution company founded in 1988 which acquires and distributes films from the U.S. and around the world. In 2017, Zeitgeist entered into a multi-year strategic alliance with film distributor Kino Lorber. Zeitgeist has distributed early films by directors such as Todd Haynes, Christopher Nolan, Francois Ozon, Laura Poitras, Atom Egoyan, and the Quay Brothers. Their catalog also includes filmmakers such as Marguerite von Trotta, Ken Loach, Guy Maddin, Derek Jarman, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Peter Greenaway, Yvonne Rainer, Andrei Zyvagintsev, Astra Taylor, and Raoul Peck. Previous Zeitgeist Films releases in association with Kino Lorber include Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You, Ric Burns’ Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, and M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity. Zeitgeist films have been nominated for Academy Awards several times. ''Nowhere in Africa'' (2001), won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Their films have been featured in v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films with unusual styles and non-traditional stories seeking international recognition. winners In 1998, the was introduced to the section to recognize young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works by presenting one of the films with a grant to aid its distribution in France. Since 2005, the prize consists of €30,000 financed by the Groupama GAN Foundation. Other awards References and notes {{Un Ce ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFFI Best Film Award
The IFFI Best Film Award (officially known as the Golden Peacock for the Best Feature Film) is the Main Prize of the International Film Festival of India presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with the ''Golden Peacock'' a representation of the Peacock Peafowl is a common name for three bird species in the genera ''Pavo (genus), Pavo'' and ''Afropavo'' within the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae, the pheasants and their allies. Male peafowl are referred to as peacocks, and female pea ..., India’s national bird, with a permanent motto of the festival ‘ Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (The whole world is a family). The award is announced for films produced in a year across the world. The award was instituted in 1965 from the 3rd IFFI competitive edition. Feature Film Awards Golden Peacock Award winners (Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) is an international cultural initiative overseen by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and headquartered in Australia. In order to realise UNESCO's goals of promoting and preserving the different cultures through the influential medium of cinema, it honours and promotes the movies, actors, directors, and cultures of the Asia Pacific area to a worldwide audience. Event history APSA was established in 2007 and works with FIAPF, the International Federation of Film Producers Associations. An international jury selects the winners, and films are evaluated based on their cinematic quality and how well they reflect their cultural backgrounds. More than 70 nations and regions in the Asia Pacific region are represented by APSA, which introduces their films to new international audiences. It is a sister organisation to the European Film Academy and Premios PLATINO del Cine Iberoamericano. Nominees are inducted into the Asia Pacific Screen Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film '' Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakhstani Drama Films
The demographics of Kazakhstan enumerate the demographics, demographic features of the population of Kazakhstan, including population growth, population density, Ethnic group, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, Religion in Kazakhstan, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. Some use the word Kazakh to refer to the Kazakhs, Kazakh ethnic group and Kazakh language, language (autochthonous to Kazakhstan as well as parts of Russia, China and Mongolia) and Kazakhstani to refer to Kazakhstan and its citizens regardless of ethnicity, but it is common to use Kazakh in both senses.UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, ''Kazakhstan'', 2 Feb 2011 . Demographic trends ...
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Films Shot In Kazakhstan
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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