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16
Oct

Chicago International Film Festival Announces 2007 Award Winners

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Chicago International Film Festival, Documentary, Film, Foreign Film, Independent Film

Chicago International Film Festival The Chicago International Film Festival on Oct. 14 announced its 2007 award winners.

Mexico, China, Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States took top honors in the festival’s 43rd iteration.

Chicago audiences selected from 102 feature films, 14 documentaries and 33 shorts and student films spanning 43 countries. Films showcased both well-known and promising new filmmakers.

The festival’s highest honor is the Gold Hugo, which was coined after the mythological god of discovery. When perusing the awardees, notice “Chicago 10” and “America the Beautiful,” which I mentioned back on Sept. 19.

Click here for the full list of awardees…

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11
Oct

Academy Award-Winning Director István Szabó to Speak on Friday in Chicago

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Celebrity News, Chicago International Film Festival, Foreign Film

Around the same time as the John Cusack red-carpet event on Friday, the Chicago International Film Festival will have an evening with Academy Award-winning director István Szabó at 6:45 p.m. at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema.

He will speak on the intimacy and insight that can be achieved with the use of the close-up in film.

Szabó says film has “one singular quality that no other art form can supply. The moving picture is capable of showing us a living human face in close-up. This ability is the source of its special energy.”

Szabó uses close-ups to convey what he has called “life’s beautiful changes: the constant movements of the human expression in the most intimate moment – in the moment of its birth.”

Szabó received an Academy Award for best foreign-language film for “Mephisto,” which is one in a trilogy that includes “Colonel Redl” and “Hanussen”. Other directorial credits include “Sunshine” and “Being Julia”.

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