Küstendorf festival

"Kusturica is very busy these days with preparations for the second Kustendorf Film Festival in January 2009 .... Special guests ... will be Diego Maradona, American director Jim Jarmusch and actress Salma Hayek, among others."

(Found here)

This could be a sign that The Limits of Control is intended to be ready for the film festival circuit by January (though, of course, Jarmusch appearing at a festival does not necessarily entail that he'll also be bringing his new film).

[Edit: A comment to this post makes clear that Jim Jarmusch – along with Oliver Stone, Laurent Cantet, Alain Delon, Takeshi Kitano and Tilda Swinton – will attend the festival in order to hold "workshops and masterclasses". See the comment for more info.]

The Küstendorf Film and Music Festival takes place in the "ethno village" Drvengrad on Mokra Gora in Serbia. The festival is headed by the Serbian filmmaker Emir Nemanja Kusturica (who also financed the construction the village itself!).

The festival site (still not updated since this year's edition) [Update December 29] The site has now been updated, and includes info on a "Retrospective of Greatness: Jim Jarmusch" program:
http://www.kustendorf-filmandmusicfestival.org/

Emir Kusturica

Oct 06, 2008

Information needs correction said...

Under the patronage of multi-award winning director Emir Kusturica and the Ministry of Culture of the republic of Serbia the 2nd edition of KUSTENDORF FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL will held at Mokra Gora, Serbia from the 8th until the 14th of January 2009.

Aimed at rewarding future generations of filmmakers as well as providing master classes with established talent, the festival is a by-invitation only event with 6 segments:

1. COMPETITION PROGRAMME (in which student films from over 15 countries which are going to be rewarded with Gold, Silver and Bronze Egg, depending of the jury’s choice)

2. RETROSPECTIVE OF GREATNESS

3. RETROSPECTIVE

4. CONTEMPORARY TRENDS

5. EVERGREEN

6. MUSIC PROGRAMME.

The workshops and masterclasses of this year festival will be held by Oliver Stone, Jim Jarmusch, Laurent Cantet (2008 Palm d’Or winner), Alain Delon, Takeshi Kitano, and Oscar winning actress Tilda Swinton, among others.

Students or self-taught non-released filmmakers can submit a film (under 45 minutes of duration) on any genre for consideration to the competition programme.

The films should be sent in a DVD with English subtitles (if the original language is not English) and on a separate CD the following shall be included:

In word format:

- short synopsis including film duration

- short director biography

- cast (director, editor, director of photography, editor, screenplay, producer)

- at least two (2) stills – one of the director and crew and one still image of the film in JPEG, GIFF or PDF.

The submission deadline is November 1st and selected students will be announced by December 1st. The invited filmmakers will have their expenses paid by the Festival and will attend the workshops and events.

for more info paula@pinballonline.co.uk

Oct 28, 2008

Fiona Gelsomina Ziegler said...

I'll be there!!!Great

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