23rd April to 1st May 2010 - Teatro Nuovo "Giovanni da Udine" and the Visionario Udine Far East Film 12.

The Udine Festival is granted, for its launch on the 23rd April, the World Premiere of Dream Home, the highly anticipated slasher by Pang Ho-cheung!

The fables of peasants in "The Enchanted Forest" - "El Bosque Animado" are typically Gallician folklore.

Atieh Attarzadeh, a talented Iranian female director, is presenting her recent documentary to the attention of film festival directors worldwide.

Surely the most versatile of Hollywood Directors, and although his name rings no bells, Gordon Douglas - sometimes billed as Gordon M. Douglas, created a remarkable piece of work, his cinematic career spanning over five decades.

Having grown up in Canada, it was my pleasure to meet, on the occasion of the Rencontres Cinéma Paris/Berlin/Madrid, held in Paris, early December, the Head of the Québec Cinémathèque, Madame Yolande Racine. This accomplished lady holds an M.A. (Master of Arts) in Art History from the University of Montréal.

The winners of the 15th Festival on Wheels have beenannounced.

The third edition of The Ushuaia shh... Mountain film festival took place 19th to the 24th of August 2009, in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

One whole week filled with films, nature, culture, adventurers' stories and mountaineering awaits the audience in the winter's air. Experts, fans and general public once again able to enjoy an exquisite film exhibition.

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2009

Since 1997, Rencontres internationales,multimedia contemporary works of cinema, video and other audiovisual forms have been presented in the last months of the year, first in Paris, then in Berlin and lastly, in Madrid, a cornucopea of international 'art' works by lesser-known artists to the public, due to the more "difficult" nature of the abstract creations.

The aim ot Rencontres internationales is thereby, to offer a greater visibility of such works to the ordinary viewer, promote their circulation in areas they otherwise might not appear, and to foster exchanges between the various creative media and between their artists, directors and the actors of that cultural scene.

Born Jan. 3, 1905, in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Wong played the lead role in the first Technicolor feature, The Toll of the Sea, in 1922, when she was just 17. By 19 she was intriguing against the movies' top action star, Douglas Fairbanks, in his super-production The Thief of Bagdad. At 23 she went to Europe, where she starred in a half-dozen A pictures - including her best one, E.A. Dupont's Piccadilly - and, when sound films arrived, performing roles in three languages: English, German and French.

" The Scent Of Oak " spearheads 1st Travalling Carribbean Film Showcase : April 14-18 at Unesco, Paris.

This new travelling film showcase from the Caribbean region, chaired by Cuban filmmaker, Rigoberto Lopez, at Unesco, recently showed a selection of features and shorts chosen among 21 participating Caribbean countries.