articles by Conall Cash
Doing Film Criticism
Berlinale Talent Press, February 12, 2011
Doing Film Criticism Film criticism was never really something I decided to do, but it's something that I've always done. Criticism is an act, not a profession. You do it because the artwork requires it; and if the artwork doesn't require it, if there's nothing necessary for criticism to ...
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Family Lessons and a Familiar Message
Berlinale Talent Press, February 12, 2011
Family Lessons and a Familiar Message Yasemin Samdereli's Berlinale Competition entry ALMANYA is a feel-good immigration tale. The Yilmazes, a modern-day Turkish-German family, have their problems. Grandma Fatma is anxiously trying to get German citizenship for herself and her husband Hü ...
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Rooted and Uprooted
Berlinale Talent Press, February 14, 2011
Rooted and Uprooted A conversation with director Kyoko Miyake about her Berlin Today Award winning HACKNEY LULLABIES. Kyoko Miyake initially moved to the UK from Japan to study history. Today she sees certain parallels between her academic work and her films. “When I studied history, I w ...
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Complicity, Victimhood, Violence
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2011
Complicity, Victimhood, Violence The controversial story of a man who became involved at a young age in the horrors of Pinochet's Chilean dictatorship: a documentary in the Berlinale Forum. Jorgelino Vergara was nicknamed “El Mocito” by the police agents and thugs who employed him as an ...
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The Uses of 3D Cinema
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2011
The Uses of 3D Cinema A panel discussion with Wim Wenders and his team about PINA and the future of 3D filmmaking. Wim Wenders wanted to make a film about Pina Bausch almost from the time he first saw her dance productions on stage, over twenty years ago. "But," he added, speaking at Mon ...
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Screenplays, Stories, Meanings
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2011
Screenplays, Stories, Meanings The "Dial F for Fiction" event discusses the scripts the participants of the Berlinale Talent Campus Script Station have worked on. The Berlinale Talent Campus Script Station brings together young screenwriters working on developing projects for an intensiv ...
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