Doha Tribeca Film Festival http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:11:05 GMT en Avatar Hurt by 'Locker' at 82nd Academy Awards http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/videos/video-detail/item_200215.htm Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:02:00 GMT At this year’s 82nd Academy Awards James Cameron’s Avatar was expected to take home some of the night’s top honors – but instead Kathryn Bigalow, Cameron’s ex-wife, stole the night with six Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director - a first for a female director.

Watch the video above for more winners and highlights from this year’s Oscars!

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin reports.


Avatar Hurt by 'Locker' at 82nd Academy Awards]]> Doha's Residents Pick Their Oscar Winners http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/videos/video-detail/item_200214.htm Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:53:00 GMT DTFF Trainee Producer Hamida Al-Kuwari hit the City Center today to ask the residents of Doha who they think will win big at the Oscars tonight.


Doha's Residents Pick Their Oscar Winners]]> Al Jazeera: Avatar Could Make Oscar History http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/videos/video-detail/item_200213.htm Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:01:00 GMT Al Jazeera take a look at Avatar, which has raked in more than $2.5 billion in ticket sales worldwide making it the highest-grossing film of all time, and is a contender for several Oscars including the coveted Best Picture and Best Director Awards.


Al Jazeera: Avatar Could Make Oscar History ]]> FPS: Andy Serkis Is Stuck in the 70's http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/fps/video-detail/item_200212.htm Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:50:00 GMT Actor Andy Serkis and Screenwriter Paul Viragh join Amanda Palmer, DTFF's Executive Director, and the Fabulous Picture Show audience for a family-friendly Q&A about Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

The film Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll portrays the life of Ian Dury, with a phenomenal central performance by serial scene-stealer Andy Serkis.

Serkis even performs many of Dury's classic tunes with his original backing band, the Blockheads - including Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, and of course, Dury's signature tune that both defined and satirised an era: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

Also in the show, Kurdish-Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi speaks to FPS about his latest feature, No One Knows About Persian Cats. The film, which was part of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival 2009, is about a group of young musicians in Tehran attempting to form an "illegal" band despite the very real dangers facing such an enterprise.


FPS: Andy Serkis Is Stuck in the 70's]]> DTFF Talks To Film Reviewer Kaleem Aftab About Metropolis http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/videos/video-detail/item_200211.htm Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:40:00 GMT DTFF talk to Film Reviewer Kaleem Aftab about his highlight of Berlinale '10 - the German Silent Movie Classic Metropolis.

A new cut of the film, that includes 30 minutes of footage that was previously lost, was given a huge, outdoor screening at the Berlinale this year.


DTFF Talks To Film Reviewer Kaleem Aftab About Metropolis]]> Behind the Scenes with DTFF at Berlinale http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/videos/video-detail/item_200209.htm Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:40:00 GMT
Since arriving at Berlinale, the DTFF team has been divvying up films, planning meetings, rushing to press conferences and drinking lots of coffee. 

As more members of our team arrive, we are trying to maximize our coverage and networking. 

We thought we'd share some footage shot behind the scenes using our Flip camcorder so we could share a little bit of Berlinale with you.

Behind the Scenes with DTFF at Berlinale]]> FPS: Nuummioq Special Part 2 http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/fps/video-detail/item_200208.htm Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:56:00 GMT Watch Part One

In this special edition of The Fabulous Picture Show, we witness the birth of a film-making nation - the story of how Greenland presented itself to the world with its first ever self-produced and financed feature film, Nuummioq.

Many Greenlanders feel they are portrayed either as happy Eskimos hunting polar bears with spears, or dysfunctional drunks unable to cope with modern life. But as the nation prepared for the November 2008 referendum, extending their self-governing status from Denmark, producer Mikisoq Lynge and director Otto Rosing were attempting to tell a story that that would show real life in modern Greenland.

We first meet Mikisoq as he struggles to raise money at the Cannes film festival in May and follow him as he battle indifference from investors; unfair Danish funding laws; the vast ice cap that covers most of their country; long working days that exhaust their crew and the sheep that refuses to be slaughtered on camera.

But the resulting film, Nuummioq, looks fantastic and succeeds in telling a powerful story about life in modern Greenland. When it finishes its run in Greenlandic cinemas, is likely to have been seen by 10 per cent of the population. Most importantly for the filmmakers, it is already a movie that makes Greenlanders proud.


FPS: Nuummioq Special Part 2]]>