Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.Representatives from the Oscar-nominated Foreign Language films attended a question and answer session at the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters on Saturday, a day before the Oscars..After showing clips from the films, the directors answered questions from the thousand-strong audience at the

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.The big event in the film awards calendar, the day before the Oscars, is the Independent Spirit Awards, which honour low budget films, made outside the major studio system. The event, held in a marquee on the beach in Santa Monica

REBUS APPOINTMENT FOR KAHLEEN CRAWFORD CASTINGKahleen Crawford, one of the film & TV industry’s most exciting emerging young casting directors, has been hired to cast all four episodes of the new series of Rebus, one of ITV’s most popular drama serials.Number 24 in the ratings of Billboard’s top TV shows

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.“It all started with a short,” the Oscar-winning short (Teenage Father, 1978) – and Oscar-nominated feature (Ray, 2004) – director Taylor Hackford to an audience of more than a thousand people in Hollywood, gathered to watch this year’s ten Oscar-nominated short

ODEON Hatfield Goes DigitalBell Theatre Services installs First DCI Compliant Digital MultiplexHatfield, 9 February 2007 – Bell Theatre Services today announced the digital conversion of the 9 screen multiplex at ODEON, Hatfield. The equipment, which has been installed and maintained by Bell Theatre Services, is the first DCI compliant fully

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.More than a hundred and forty nominees for the seventy ninth Academy Awards - and special award winners - attended the annual Oscar Nominees' Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton hotel, on Monday.The event is one of the more informal gatherings of

THE UK REGIONAL CRITICS’ FILM AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCEDGUILLERMO DEL TORO’S “PAN’S LABYRINTH” NAMED FILM OF THE YEAR6th February 2007 – Cinema Days announced today the results of the inaugural vote for The UK Regional Critics Film Awards.Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” has been awarded the prestigious accolade of Film of

PENGUIN LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE FILM COMPETITIONTO PROMOTE THE MOST CHILLING THRILLER OF THE YEARYour browser may not support display of this image.THE WOMAN WHO MISSING FOR FIVE YEARSTHE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR WHO FINDS HERAND THE SERIAL KILLER WHO WANTS THEM BOTH DEAD…Penguin is offering an exciting opportunity for budding filmmakers with

13th ¡VIVA! FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT15 - 25 MARCH ’07Now in its 13th year, ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival (March 15 – 25) returns to Cornerhouse, Manchester, with 10 action-packed days and nights of Hispanic film with many new features hitting UK screens for the first time. Sponsored

Untrained Filmmaker Wins Top Award at the 2006 Imperial War Museum Student FilmFestivalA documentary produced by an English Literature student with no formal trainingin film production has been awarded 'Winner of the Audience Poll' in theImperial War Museum's Sixth Annual Student Film Festival. Liberating Dachau,made by Genevieve Simms, who was