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Screen International has assembled a jury to vote for this years best non-US film comprised of critics and festival directors from around the world.The award for world film of the year will be presented at the Hollywood Awards gala on October 26, marking the culmination of the Hollywood Film Festival that runs from October 20-26.Screen Internationals US editor Mike Goodridge will chair the panel, which features Dan Fainaru, film critic; Howard Feinstein, film crit
stanley cup ic and Sarajevo Film Festival programmer; Sandra Hebron, artistic director of The Times BFI London Film Festival; Allan Hunter, film critic; Derek Malcolm, film critic; Lee Marshall, film critic; Despina
stanley cup Mouzaki, director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival; Jacob Neiiendam, director of the CPH:PIX-Copenhagen Film Festivals; Jonathan Romney, film critic; and Clare Stewart, director of the Sydney Film Festival.The nominees will be announced on September 30. Qualifying films must have their world premieres between October 1, 2008, and October 1, 2009. We want to ensure that we bridge the gap between established Hollywood and world cinema, festival founder and executive director Carlos de Abreu said. Screen is thrilled to be partnering up again with Carlos and The Hollywood Film Festival for this award, which brings some of the years most exciting international films into the spotlight in Los Angeles
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Frears, Steve Coogan and Judi Dench talk about Venice hit Philomena.Stephen Frears may have wowed the critics in Venice with Philomenas world premiere today, but he also has another aud
stanley canada ience in mind. Im very keen the Pope should see it, he said at a press conference in Venice today. He seems a rather good bloke, the Pope. The Catholic Church, however, might not like the films subject matter. Judi Dench stars as Philomena Lee, an Irish woman who was forced to give up her son for adoption by Catholic nuns in the 1950s; Steve Coogan, who co-wrote the script and is one of the films producers, stars as cynical journalist Martin Sixsmith, who helps Lee try to find her son. The story is true, and chronicled in Sixsmiths 2009 book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee. Teenage girls working in laundries for the Catholic church is a subject already expl
stanley cup ored in Peter Mullans 2002 film The Magdalene Sisters, but the story of the Church selling babies is a shockingly terrible story and it had to be told, Dench said.The appropriately named co-writer Jeff Pope said that if the Church were to take something away from the film it should be whatever has happened in the past, a policy of openness and honesty is surely the way forward. In a small way thats what the film is saying. Pope added: We were very careful not to judge what happened in the 1950s by modern standards. The big
stanley cup ger wrong was the covering up of what had happened. Its not trying to hammer the church for 50 years ago. Coogan sa
