SIX Injured in Demo at Cannes Film Festival
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
French showbusiness workers protesting against plans to cut their benefits occupied a cinema at the Cannes Film Festival today, leading to clashes with police ... <http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2932104>

BOLLYWOOD TO CANNES
Smash Hits - India
... interface with international film making community and will help the Indian film industry understand the international production, distribution and exhibition ... <http://ww.smashits.com/index.cfm?Page=Reviews&Subpage=bigarticle&ID=3539>

MALAYSIAN cinema eclipsed by cultural, political change
Jakarta Post - Indonesia
... some closing down after no more than one release due to a lack of understanding of the film industry fundamentals of production, marketing and distribution. ... <http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfeatures.asp?fileid=20040515.Q01&irec=5>

JAKE Gyllenhaal: An actor who's ready for action
Alameda Times-Star - Alameda,CA,USA
... that say about me?" bedroom in Los Angeles, where he ... known for are his characters in indie films "Donnie ... seen in next year's Ang Lee film, "Brokeback Mountain ... <http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1549~2150675,00.html>

N. Texas shoots to jump-start film biz
MSNBC - USA
... Dallas," the grand dame of all TV series that chronicled the decadent 1980s, to "Primer," indie filmmaker's Shane Carruth's 2003 Sundance Film Festival winner ... <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4981134/>

INTERVIEW With Harry Potter Director, Alfonso Cuaron
Godric's Hollow - USA
... That?s what happened from pretty much one-third into the film. It ... studio. It?s as if I?ve been doing my huge indie movie in England. ... <http://www.godrics-hollow.net/modules.php?name=AvantGo&file=print&sid=1600>

ALL Film is Political
AlterNet - USA
... Bedroom came out. That was an indie film seemingly about something different, but it was also about vigilante justice. In this case ... <http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18709>

SEATTLE International Film Festival is looking good at 30, n'est ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
The cinematic juggernaut that is our annual Seattle International Film Festival actually rolls into town at the very tail-end of this week, opening Thursday ... <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/173218_siff14.html>

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL
Movie City News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Los Angeles, CA – Today, the Sundance Film Festival announced details for its first-ever World Cinema Competition. Building on ... <link>

COFFEE AND CIGARETTES
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
... Indie hipster Jarmusch's distinctive brand of effortless cool and quirky humor ... with a wistful little vignette starring New York underground icons Taylor Mead ... <http://www.nypost.com/movies/20832.htm>

LILI Taylor in "A Slipping Down Life"
Hollywood.com - USA
... overlooking the teeming Los Angeles savanna below, veteran indie actors Taylor and Pearce sat down with Hollywood.com to explain, for one, why the film took so ... <http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/story/t4/feature/1752900>

THE ageless, purr-fect Eartha Kitt
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
After recent roles in the movies "Holes" and "Anything but Love," she's coming soon in the indie film "On the One" and has been named to the cast of the big ... <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2001928212_nite14.html>

NATIONAL Briefings
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... multibillion-dollar pornographic-film industry, which employs ... 60-day shutdown on film production last ... Schembri, a former New York City corrections commissioner ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/national/13brfs.html>

HER 'Streetcar' Has Arrived
Washington Post - USA
... and whose mother is a longtime New Orleans city councilwoman, is ... is all the comic relief this film needs as ... demimonde," Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times ... <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8637-2004May7.html?nav=lb>

MIRAMAX Boss Weinstein Writing Memoirs
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
... lower-middle class roots in Queens, New York, through the ... Shakespeare in Love." But in an industry with a ... Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film.". ... <http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/05/13/ap/Entertainment/d82hsa3o4.txt>

ALMODOVAR'S Bad Education
opens 57th Cannes film festival Financial Times - London,England,UK The 57 th annual Film Festival de Cannes opened on Wednesday with a screening of Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education, a film which reunites two friends and their ... <link>

RISING to the Challenge of Contemporary Shorts in Oberhausen Indie Wire - USA ... The 68 selected came from 36 different countries, something of a feat given the lack of infrastructure for short film distribution. ... <link>

ACTOR'S far more than 'Almost Famous'
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... Independent film is Hoffman's own particular love. He broke into the mainstream consciousness of movie audiences with "Boogie Nights" in 1997. ... <http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=calendar&story_id=051304ca_hoffman>

COLIN Theys wins best animation at Ivy Film Festival
Orange Bulletin - Orange,CT,USA
Thog, a short film by 2003 Amity grad Theys Theys, has won the Best Undergraduate Animation at the third annual Ivy Film Festival. ... <link>

CANNES Film Festival up a tree
Xinhua - China
BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhuanet) -- With the 57th Cannes Film Festival about to open, it faces disruption by striking arts workers. Workers ... <http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/12/content_1464162.htm>

PHONE firms ring changes to back city film festival
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... president of brand marketing for Orange UK, said: "We’re delighted to join Nokia in becoming the main sponsors of the UK’s most prestigious film festival. ... <http://news.scotsman.com/movies.cfm?id=540712004>

9/11 flicks set to dominate Cannes Film Festival
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
Politics looks set to dominate this year’s Cannes Film Festival with a slew of films about the war in Iraq and the events of September 11. ... <http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=103974032&p=yx3974738>

OPENING night for Cannes Film Festival
Radio 1 - UK
... schmoozing. A total of 18 films are competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or prize for the best film of the festival. Vying for ... <link>

CANNES Film Festival begins its 11-day run
Big News Network.com - Australia
The Cannes Film Festival opened Wednesday at the French resort with Charlize Theron, Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt among stars set to attend the 11-day event. ... <http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?rid=ab550c2a90bfb20c>

TOP Story: Possible Disney/Miramax Split on the Horizon Hollywood.com - USA ... which expires in 2005, Miramax distributes its film through Disney's ... But the loss of its indie arm would be a ... A hearing is set for June 25 in Los Angeles. ... <link>

PROFESSOR'S film wins Peabody
Memphis Business Journal - Memphis,TN,USA
Hoxie: The First Stand, a film produced by University ... and are widely considered the industry's most coveted ... Peabodys will be presented May 17 in New York City. ... <http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2004/05/10/daily20.html?jst=b_ln_hl>

PORN 101 -- A beginner's class sheds light on a low-budget, down ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... the population in general, just because people in the industry are conscientious ... He likes film. ... He makes most of his films in New York City, while 95 percent ... <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/12/DDGU16J7R01.DTL>

THE bleaker the better
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... 4. It is also opening in the US via indie distributor Strand ... presence of Stahl in the cast helped the filmmakers finance the flick ... Getting a first film made is ... <link>

BIRD Film Festival
South Bay News - South Bay,NY,USA
Garvies Point Museum is proud to present films related to birds during its May Weekend Bird Film Festival, announced Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi. ... <http://www.southbaynews.com/news/2004/0512/Community_News/013.html>

SUPER Size Me" Gobbles Up the Box Office; Miramax Debuts " ...
Indie Wire - USA
... The big indie news this week was audiences shelling out McBucks at the box office over the weekend dining on a documentary feast on a film that captures the ... <http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_040511boxoffice.html>

NEW Film Breaks Silence on Legacy of India's Partition
New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
... filmmaking at the Sarah Lawrence College in New York and has ... of films shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival held recently in the city. ... <http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=721d90fa662e5bc9fc4d849c70bf5522>

CMP Launches DV Magazine and DV Expo in Czech Republic
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... US, with the advent of digital technologies the film industry is now a very global industry," said Scott ... December 8-10) and once in New York City (July 14 ... <link>

OFFSHORING the Audience
Atlantic Online - USA
... International film box-office revenues regularly surpass domestic ones ... In our lifetimes instantaneous worldwide satellite-to-theater distribution is expected to ... <http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/06/kipen.htm>

BOWLING for controversy
La Voz Online - USA
... Disney subsidiary, stepped in during May 2003 to finance the film ... massive corporations, maybe he could go all-out indie and release the film himself. <http://www.lavozdeanza.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/05/10/40a0239907d13>

GM Stationary Fuel Cell Provides Power To Tribeca Film Festival's ...
Fuel Cell Today - UK
This week a General Motors stationary fuel cell, which only emits pure water, will provide power to the Tribeca Film Festival's General Motors Drive-In. ... <link>

THE HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival Kicks Off The 12th ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... New Yorkers will return to the city's version of the 60s drive-in when "American Graffiti" kicks off the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, presented for ... <link>

THE 3rd Annual Tribeca Film Festival - Part Two
Comingsoon.net - USA
The 3rd annual Tribeca Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday May 9 with its traditional closing night awards ceremony, having shown over 250 films, including ... <http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4639>

MADE for TV, but Shown First in a Theater
New York Times - USA
... I don't understand the business of film distribution," she said. "Now we have to make a quick decision whether it's TV or theatrical. ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/business/media/10hbo.html?ex=1084852800&en=93efe8ab096f15cb&ei=5062>

Chinese film wins New York prize
Actor Robert De Niro, co-founder of New York's Tribeca Film Festival
Chinese film The Green Hat has scooped a pair of awards at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3699895.stm

CANNES Film Festival Will Go Ahead, Director Says
Reuters - USA
PARIS (Reuters) - The Cannes Film Festival will not be derailed by a row between the French government and show business workers, who stopped several festivals ... <link>

MAKING Movies: Angels, Dragons and Black Knights
Drum Online - UK
... He's now just secured a distribution deal with a small US film distribution company who have agreed to promote the film at various film festivals around the ... <link>

DISNEY Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush newbrainframes.org - Italy ... quash Miramax's distribution of films if it deemed their distribution to be against the interests of the company. The executive said Mr. Moore's film is deemed ... <link>

MEMENTO ( Alliance A . . .
DVDAnswers - UK
... No distributor would distribute the film and the production company eventually had to setup their own distribution arm to handle the film. ... <http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=2&c=175>

WHAT'S on the movie horizon
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... But thanks to the launch of a new indie film label, Warner Independent Pictures, and the pesky counter-strategy of a number of other mini-studios and indie ... <http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~82~2132027,00.html>

THERE'S more to Moore's claims
Orlando Sentinel (subscription) - Orlando,FL,USA
... Happiness, director Todd Solondz's controversial 1998 film, was set to be distributed by an indie-type Universal subsidiary until Universal got nervous and ... <link>

SUMMER Releases: May
New York Times - USA
... The elder Mr. Van Peebles had to make his first full-length film, "The Story ... Man," and his third, "Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song" (1971), was an indie hit ... <link>

BROOKLYN studio sees big picture
Crain's New York Business - New York,NY,USA
... lot of people in the industry there, and what has been missing in New York City has been these stages," says Katherine Oliver, New York City's film commissioner ... <http://www.crainsny.com/article.cms?articleId=21010&a=f>

TRENTON Film Festival drawing rave reviews
The Trentonian - Trenton,NJ,USA
... was walking around it reminded me of a nice day in New York City. ... ve got a lot of cast and crew from New Jersey, so it’s good to bring this film home and ... <link>

FILM work's in his blood
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... worked on "The Siege," "Sex and the City" and "Men ... and still is one of the preeminent New York directors ... for Lumet was like getting a full film-school education ... <http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/191430p-165505c.html>

MICHAEL Moore Lied About Disney Ban
antiMUSIC.com - CA,USA
... The lightning rod film producer claims that he had a contract with Disney for distribution, but according to independent.co.uk, a source close to Miramax (the ... <http://www.antimusic.com/news/04/may/item23.shtml>

A King in New York / A Woman of Paris
DVD Talk - Portland,OR,USA
... Not having had a wide distribution even when it was originally released, this movie had been little seen over the year. Chaplin reworked the film, and ended up ... <http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=10627>

SWAG: See Where Andy Goes
Film Stew - Hollywood,CA,USA
... screenwriter Stuart Bloomberg based Emile Hirsch's porn-loving friend in the film, Eli (Matt ... a rainmaker responsible for bringing in a host of new indie talent ... <http://www.filmstew.com/Content/PhotoFinish/Details.asp?PhotoFinishID=222>