TORONTO -- Despite Montreal's summer film festivals remaining under a political cloud, the Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Festival of New Cinema) on Monday announced new programmers and awards for its 35th edition in October. Festival founder and programming director Claude Chamberlan said New York-based film producer Madeleine Molyneaux (Down in the Valley) will program U.S. independent films in Montreal, while art and technology specialist Hugo Guerreiro will select new media works. In addition, Tokyo-based Hiromi Aihara has been brought on board to help program the Temps Zero sidebar on Asian film. Past programrs returning to the Festival du Nouveau Cinema include festival co-founder Dimitri Eipides, Philippe Gajan, Julien Fonfrede, Don Lobel, Daniel Canty and Nicolas Girard Deltruc. The festival, which runs Oct. 18-28, also has introduced new awards in its international juried short-film competition, including best actor and actress trophies.
- 3/28/2006
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TORONTO -- Montreal's Festival of New Cinema and New Media on Tuesday unveiled a 197-strong lineup for its 34th edition, including George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, Lodge Kerrigan's Keane and Bennett Miller's Capote. Hoping to avoid the organizational glitches that plagued two earlier Montreal summer film festivals, Claude Chamberlan's Festival of New Cinema and New Media said it has booked A Perfect Day, by Lebanese directors Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas; All About My Dog, a collection of short films by 10 Japanese directors; and Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov's Bed Stories.
- 9/27/2005
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TORONTO -- Former Berlin and Venice festival boss Moritz de Hadeln said Thursday that the New Montreal FilmFest, due to start Sunday, has garnered a major lineup of international films. "I'm very satisfied. We have succeeded in only six months to put together an attractive program (for the inaugural launch)," he said. As chief programmer for the event, he announced a 184-film lineup that starts Sunday with the North American premiere of "Les poupees russes" (The Russian Dolls) from French writer-director Cedric Klapisch. De Hadeln faced bitter rivalries with two other Montreal film festivals, Serge Losique's Montreal World Film Festival, which wrapped Sept. 5, and Claude Chamberlan's Festival of New Cinema and New Media , and strong competition for U.S. titles from Toronto and Venice.
- 9/15/2005
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TORONTO -- When the curtain goes up on the 29th Montreal World Film Festival on Friday night, it will launch eight weeks of marathon screenings in Montreal by three different festivals. A gala screening at the Place des Arts for Chinese director Xiaogang Feng's A World Without Thieves caps off a difficult year for MWFF founder and director Serge Losique, who lost key government funding to the rival New Montreal FilmFest, which opens Sept. 18. At the same time, Claude Chamberlan is set to go ahead with the 34th edition of the Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media on Oct. 13, having seen key backers Daniel Langlois and Sheila de la Varende defect to the New Montreal FilmFest.
- 8/25/2005
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TORONTO -- In another shakeup for the Canadian film festival community, the Montreal Festival of New Media and New Cinema on Thursday said its founder and director, Claude Chamberlan, has made a surprise exit from the festival he founded 34 years ago. "Claude Chamberlan quits today his functions within the organization," the festival said in a statement. Chamberlan could not be reached for comment Thursday. A spokesman at the Montreal Festival of New Media and New Cinema said he was leaving Thursday night on a preplanned trip to Paris ahead of the Festival de Cannes. His sudden departure follows the February exit of the Montreal Festival of New Media and New Cinema's chief financial backer, Daniel Langlois, after he defected to L'Equipe Spectra's upstart New Montreal FilmFest.
- 4/28/2005
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TORONTO -- More china was broken Tuesday as the upstart Montreal New Film Festival continues its struggle to fix dates, and its footing, in an increasingly crowded late-summer Canadian film festival season. Gregor Ash, executive director of the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said his event was "blind-sided" Friday when the Montreal New FilmFest suddenly announced it had shifted the dates for its inaugural edition to Sept. 18-25 from Oct. 12-23. The Montreal New FilmFest said moving its dates up by a month was aimed at ending an earlier scheduling clash with the Oct. 13-25 run for Claude Chamberlan's rival Festival of New Media and New Cinema (HR 4/11).
- 4/13/2005
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TORONTO -- Moritz de Hadeln's New Montreal FilmFest, the newest player in an increasingly combative Montreal festival scene, shifted the dates for its inaugural edition to Sept. 18-25 from Oct. 12-23 to end an embarrassing scheduling conflict with Claude Chamberlan's rival Festival of New Media and New Cinema. Myriam Achard, a spokeswoman for the L'Equipe Spectra-run New Montreal FilmFest, said Friday that the new time slot was taken to end bitter infighting between rival festivals in Montreal for government funding and independent films. The fest now is scheduled to run immediately after the Toronto International Film Festival, which unspools Sept. 8-17. "We took the decision to move the dates because that was the best decision for the industry and the cinema environment in Montreal, and it will give a better and more coherent image of our city and our festival to the global industry," Achard said.
- 4/10/2005
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TORONTO -- Faced with the prospect of having to choose between warring Montreal film festivals, a group of Canadian filmmakers on Thursday came out in support of Claude Chamberlan's embattled Festival of New Cinema and New Media, now in its 33rd year. "Claude Chamberlan shouldn't be put in a position where he has to defend his wonderful festival nor should he need to fight to maintain its funding," John L'Ecuyer (Regenesis) said in an open letter. The letter of support from English-Canadian and bilingual directors, also signed by Bruce McDonald, Ryan Larkin, Peter Wintonick, John Pozer, Ron Mann, Manfred Becker and Jerry Ciccoritti, follows a March 3 open letter by French-language directors, led by Robert Lepage and Andre Forcier, urging support for Chamberlan and his event.
- 3/11/2005
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TORONTO -- Faced with the prospect of having to choose between warring Montreal film festivals, a group of Canadian filmmakers on Thursday came out in support of Claude Chamberlan's embattled Festival of New Cinema and New Media, now in its 33rd year. "Claude Chamberlan shouldn't be put in a position where he has to defend his wonderful festival nor should he need to fight to maintain its funding," John L'Ecuyer ("Regenesis") said in an open letter. The letter of support from English-Canadian and bilingual directors, also signed by Bruce McDonald, Ryan Larkin, Peter Wintonick, John Pozer, Ron Mann, Manfred Becker and Jerry Ciccoritti, follows a March 3 open letter by French-language directors, led by Robert Lepage and Andre Forcier, urging support for Chamberlan and his event. L'Ecuyer and his colleagues called attention to the New Montreal FilmFest's plans to unspool Oct. 12-23, virtually at the same time that the Festival of New Cinema and New Media will be running this year (Oct. 13-23).
- 3/11/2005
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TORONTO -- Former Berlin and Venice festival boss Moritz de Hadeln has faced mounting obstacles introducing the New Montreal FilmFest to a global film industry grappling with the limits of launching films in Montreal. The international press has had a field day following warring Montreal film festivals as de Hadeln, recently named head programmer at the New Montreal FilmFest, uses his connections and know-how to lay the groundwork for an inaugural Oct. 12-23 run. "I find it very sad, all this battling," he said Thursday of recent confrontations with Serge Losique's Montreal World Film Festival and Claude Chamberlan's Montreal Festival of New Media and New Cinema, which will also run in October.
TORONTO -- After two weeks of feuding among three major Montreal film festivals, Telefilm Canada and the Societe de developpement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) on Tuesday reaffirmed their support for the New Montreal Film Festival ahead of its first edition in October. In a joint statement, Telefilm Canada, the public film financier, and SODEC, its Quebec provincial counterpart, "reaffirmed their intention to give Montreal a major festival" by helping underwrite the costs of launching the New Montreal Film Festival. Officials at Telefilm Canada could not be reached for comment at press time. Myriam Archard, a spokeswoman for the New Montreal Film Festival, said the reaffirmation of support followed two weeks of negative press attention in Montreal surrounding that city's three main film festivals: Serge Losique's Montreal World Film Festival, Claude Chamberlan's Montreal Festival of New Media and New Cinema and the New Montreal Film Festival, to be operated by L'Equipe Spectra, which also runs the popular Montreal Jazz Festival.
- 2/23/2005
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TORONTO -- Citing creative differences, movie effects creator Daniel Langlois said Tuesday that he will part company with the Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media, which he co-founded in 1997. Langlois will instead join forces with the New Montreal FilmFest, which is headed up by former Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival boss Moritz de Hadeln and plans to launch its inaugural edition Oct. 12-23. His sudden departure also injects further venom into a Montreal film festival environment in which Serge Losique's embattled Montreal World Film Festival has fought long-running battles with the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media and its longtime director and co-founder Claude Chamberlan.
- 2/16/2005
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