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War Witch and Una Noche Take Top Tribeca Film Festival Prizes

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Kim Nguyen’s War Witch cast a spell at the Tribeca Film Festival Thursday evening, winning the event’s $25K Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature, while Una Noche ‘s Lucy Mulloy won $50K and the fest’s Best New Narrative Director prize at a ceremony in Lower Manhattan. Also taking home prizes at the ceremony were The World Before Her by Canadian Nisha Pahuja, which took Best Documentary Feature while Dutch director Jeroen van Velzen’ won Best New Documentary Director for Wavumba . “It’s been so gratifying to see the audiences react so positively to the films, and our juries have been equally passionate. I celebrate these immensely talented filmmakers,” commented Nancy Schafer, TFF Executive Director in a statement. “We salute the courage of the jury to award films that not only tell stories about real issues in the world, but are beautifully constructed and crafted,” said Frederic Boyer, TFF Artistic Director. “The amazing first-time performances by young actors are a tribute to the creativity of the films and filmmakers.”   Screenings of all winning films will take place throughout the final day of the festival, Sunday, April 29. The List of 2012 Tribeca Film Festival winners : The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – War Witch , directed by Kim Nguyen (Canada) Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film – Dariel Arrechada and Javier Nuñez Florian as Raul and Elio in Una Noche , directed by Lucy Mulloy (UK, Cuba, USA) Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film – Rachel Mwanza as Komona in War Witch , directed by Kim Nguyen (Canada) Best Cinematography in a Narrative Feature Film – Cinematography by Trevor Forrest and Shlomo Godder, for Una Noche , directed by Lucy Mulloy  (UK, Cuba, USA) Special Jury Mention – Alex Catalan for Unit 7 Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature Film – All In (La Suerte en Tus Manos) , written by Daniel Burman and Sergio Dubcovsky and directed by Daniel Burman (Argentina) Best New Narrative Director – Lucy Mulloy, director of Una Noche (UK, Cuba, USA) Special Jury Mention – P. Benoit, director of Stones in the Sun ; and Sharon Bar-Ziv, director of Room 514 Best Documentary Feature – The World Before Her , directed by Nisha Pahuja (Canada) Special Jury Mention – The Revisionaries , directed by Scott Thurman Best Editing in a Documentary Feature – The Flat (Hadira) Best New Documentary Director – Jeroen van Velzen for Wavumba  (Netherlands) Special Jury Mention – Christian Bonke and Andreas Koefoed, directors of Ballroom Dancer Best Narrative Short – Asad , directed by Bryan Buckley (USA) Special Jury Mention – Ritesh Batra, writer and director of Café Regular Cairo Best Documentary Short – Paraíso , directed by Nadav Kurtz (USA) Special Jury Mention – David Darg and Bryn Mooser, directors of Baseball in the Time of Cholera Special Jury Mention –Tati Barrantes and Andinh Ha, writers and directors of Adirake Tribeca (Online) Film Festival Best Feature Film: On The Mat , directed and written by Fredric Golding (USA) Tribeca (Online) Film Festival Best Short Film: CatCam , directed by Seth Keal (USA) Read more from Tribeca here .

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Hoy En Mi Gente News: 19 Year-Old Cuban Actors From “Una Noche” Go Missing After Not Attending Movie Premiere At Tribeca Film Festival

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Se fueron y no regresar… Cuban Actors From “Una Noche” Disappear Prior To Tribeca Film Festival In a case of life imitating art, a pair of young Cuban actors who were expected at the New York premiere of their film about defecting to the U.S. have disappeared after landing in Miami. The film “Una Noche” is about three young Cubans who decide to flee the country on a raft after one of them is accused of assault. The film follows the day they attempt to make it 90 miles across the ocean to Florida. All three of the film’s stars — Anailin de la Rua de la Torre, Javier Nunez Florian and Dariel Arrechaga — were expected to appear at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere. But Torre and Florian, both 19, were nowhere to be found the night of the event. “Only Dariel Arrechada attended the Tribeca Film Festival premiere screening of ‘Una Noche’ on Thursday, April 19,” a spokeswoman for the Tribeca Film Festival said in a statement. “We have not had any contact with Anailin de la Rua de la Torre or with Javier Nunez Florian.” Tammie Rosen, spokeswoman for the festival, confirmed to ABCNews.com that all of the actors were invited to the festival. “We can’t say for sure what the status of these guys are,” Katie Tichacek Kaplan, spokeswoman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), told ABCNews.com. “There are a number of things they could be thinking. We just don’t know what their plans are.” Ohhhhh we can tell you EXACTLY what their plans are, they got the HELL outta Dodge! Comin’ from Cuba? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit, good luck finding them! More On Bossip! Coupled Up In NYC: Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Spotted Cheesin’ & Swirlin’ In The Big Apple [Photos] Celebrity Cribs: Which Legendary Actor is Selling This La Quinta Cali Mansion For $4.5M?? [Photos] Some Instagram Preciousness Courtesy Of C-Milli, Swizzy And Slim Thug For The Ladies: 10 Men That Have Admitted To Enjoying Taking Their Oral Talents Down South

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Weekend Receipts: Think Like a Man Thinks Like a Champ

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

After nearly a month in first place, The Hunger Games surrendered its banner to another big-league bestseller-adaptation — and not the one that you (or I, for that matter) were expecting. Your eye-opening Weekend Receipts are here. 1. Think Like a Man Gross: $33,000,000 (new) Screens: 2,015 (PSA $16,377) Weeks: 1 Author Steve Harvey’s comic self-help literary phenomenon became director Tim Story’s comic cinematic-infomercial phenomenon over the weekend, soundly shutting down the Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Lucky One . Or maybe “shutting down” is being kind: Any time you can open on a third fewer screens and earn a third more opening-weekend loot — and more than double the per-screen average — than your closest competition, that’s just an ass-kicking. 2. The Lucky One Gross: $22,805,000 (new) Screens: 3,155 (PSA: $7,228) Weeks: 1 And the thing is, these aren’t especially horrible numbers for the Zac Efron potboiler: As the second-best opening for a Sparks movie to date, it would factor strongly overall into the film’s Sparks Quotient . It would also suggest that Zac Efron couldn’t open a packet of cheese let alone a movie full of the stuff. 3. The Hunger Games Gross: $14,500,000 ($356,900,000) Screens: 3,752 (PSA $3,865) Weeks: 5 (Change: -31.3%) God, third place? After five weeks ? Slackers. 4. Chimpanzee Gross: $10,205,000 (new) Screens: 1,563 (PSA: $6,529) Weeks: 1 Now that’s a fine way for Rich Ross to leave Disney : Fourth place on a nature documentary. The guy couldn’t wait two weeks for The Avengers ? I mean, I know they’d moved his personal parking space to a gas station around the corner from the studio, but still. Have some pride, son. 5. The Three Stooges Gross: $9,200,000 ($29,355,000) Screens: 3,482 (PSA $2,642) Weeks: 2 (Change: -45.9%) Someone had to finish fifth. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Brad Bird, Christopher Nolan Stay on IMAX Warpath

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Where have you read this before ? “In December, Paramount made the unconventional decision to release Ghost Protocol exclusively in IMAX theaters five days before broadening its release. The move, which Mr. Bird advocated, helped catapult the film to the No. 1 spot when it went wide the following week on the way to becoming the highest-grossing Mission Impossible installment yet. For Mr. Bird, the point is that the typical multiplex theater lacks excitement. When he was young, he says ‘if you wanted to see a brand new movie, the only way was to see it perfectly projected in a really big theater with the bulb turned all the way up and an attentive projectionist.'” Adds Christopher Nolan: “These were cameras that had been to the top of Mount Everest, to the bottom of the ocean and into outer space, but people thought we couldn’t make a feature film. It was absurd.” [ WSJ ]

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Cuban Castmates Defect En Route to Tribeca Premiere

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I know at least part of the feeling : “The Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Una Noche , a film about three Cuban teens trying to escape the Communist island nation for a better life in the U.S., was marred by the disappearance of two of the film’s lead stars — who went missing as soon as their plane from Cuba touched down in Miami. Anailin de la Rua de la Torre and Javier Nunez Florian, the 20-year-old Cuban-born actors, were flown from Cuba to the United States on Wednesday and were supposed to make their way to New York on Friday in order to promote the film. But instead, the pair stayed in Miami, according to 20-year-old Dariel Arrechada, the third star of the film who traveled with them.” [ Huffington Post ]

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