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Memoirs of a Geisha Interviews

Live from the Santa Barbara premiere: a rare interview of the cast and crew from the movie Memoirs of a Geisha after the hit novel by Arthur Golden.
The Director Rob Marshall speaks to the priviledged viewers from filmfestivalsTV.com and Santabarbaraartstv.com

The film adaptation of the novel directed by Rob Marshall and starring Zhang Ziyi was released December 23rd 2005 by Sony. It has cumulated so far a promising $20M from its limited Oscar platform release and last week expansion to 750 prints.

Interview produced and directed by Cliff Baldridge

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Drabet - Manslaughter in competition at San Sebastian

Drabet - Manslaughter by Peter Fry incompetition at San Sebastian festival 2005.

DRABET (MANSLAUGHTER)
A married university lecturer has a relationship with a young girl who is a member of a group of anti-globalisation activists. In an attack on an arms factory the activists kill a policeman by running over him. They all refuse to reveal who was driving the van when it ran over him.
The latest film by the director of Inheritance, that won the Jury Award for Best Script at the San Sebastian Film Festival two years ago, it raises highly topical issues and doesn't dodge controversial solutions.


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7 Virgins trailer from San Sebastian

7 VIRGENES (7 Virgins) by Alberto Rodríguez competes at San Sebastian festival.
For a few hours Tano gets out of the reformatory that he has been placed in to attend his brother José's wedding. This is the time to meet up again with his best friend Richi, with his girlfriend Patri, with his nonagenarian grandmother who lives at home, with the members of his neighbourhood gang... The prospect of going back to the reformatory casts a shadow over everything. Another impressive performance by the unforgettable actor in El bola, in the latest film by the director of El factor Pilgrim and El traje, which were both premiered in Zabaltegi.

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Ouar Lordz Fasttrack Animation winner

Ouar Lordz, 2 minutes short animation, directed by Jean- Paul Suau has been selected by a professionnal jury as FastTrack winner 2004-2005 for best animation.
Two battle chiefs, Ouar Lordz are fighting against territory, using all kinds of means and weapons untill the moment when their madness destroys their own planet.
An animation short film with a short and simple message.  more

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Blind Spot Fasttrack winner

Blindspot (Fasttrack Winner) has been selected by the FastTrack Jury as 2005 FastTrack winner of the film schools competition organised by Cinergie in partnership with filmfestivals.com
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Be With Me Trailer

Trailer of the movie "Be With Me" directed by Eric Khoo which is presented in the Director's Fortnight section of the Festival. Cast includes: Theresa Chan Poh Lin, Ezann Lee, Samantha Tan, Seet Keng Yew, Chiew Sung Ching, Lawrence Yong, and Lynn Poh.

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Sin City Trailer

Trailer of the American movie "Sin City" directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. Cast includes: Jessica ALBA, Benicio DEL TORO, Brittany MURPHY, Clive OWEN, Mickey ROURKE, Bruce WILLIS, Elijah WOOD and Rosario DAWSON.

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Lemming Trailer

Trailer of the French film "Lemming" directed by Dominik MOLL. Cast includes: Laurent LUCAS, Charlotte GAINSBOURG, Charlotte RAMPLING, André DUSSOLLIER..

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