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Cannes Showstopper Could Be James Toback’s Doc About Cannes, Filmed There Last Year

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Cannes Showstopper Could Be James Toback’s Doc About Cannes, Filmed There Last Year

We won’t know for another couple of weeks. But it does seem like James Toback‘s documentary, “Seduced and Abandoned,” could be the hot ticket in Cannes this year. Of course, the doc, which Toback filmed at Cannes last year with Alec Baldwin, is about, of course, Cannes. Toback and Baldwin spent the two weeks of the festival interviewing everyone they could nail down. They even got some people who weren’t there. But their crew was everywhere, and the duo managed even to snare Roman Polanski. The only person they may not have gotten was Harvey Weinstein. Toback did do a little filming around the festival as well with Neve Campbell. He also got Bernardo Bertolucci and Francis Ford Coppola. There will be footage from various events including amFAR’s ridiculous annual dinner and Vanity Fair’s famous star studded bi annual party at the Hotel du Cap. We may also see the crew being denied entry into certain places, and that’s always fun, too. There hasn’t been a good movie about Cannes since Henry Jaglom’s “Festival in Cannes” more than a dozen years ago. PS Sources say the doc may have a distributor before the festival even starts.

PS I first reported the existence of “Seduced and Abandoned” back on September 12, 2011– exclusively. http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/09/14/alec-baldwin-and-james-toback-planning-secret-film

Cannes Plan: Hunger Games Part 2, Liberace, Marion Cotillard, Coens On List

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Cannes Plan: Hunger Games Part 2, Liberace, Marion Cotillard, Coens On List

Everyone’s starting to talk about the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Which films will make the cut, or be ready? We already know that “The Great Gatsby” will open the festival on May 15th– even though the film will screen in New York on May 1st with a premiere and open on May 10th in the U.S. The closing film was just announced, as well–Jerome Salle’s “Zulu” with Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom, shot entirely in South Africa. Alexandre Desplat composed the score. Audrey Tatou will be opening night hostess.

But what else? I can tell you exclusively that at least footage and some kind of presentation will be made for the second chapter of “The Hunger Games,” called “Catching Fire.” This is a good way to get newly crowned Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence into Cannes, along with castmates like Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Toby Jones.

I’m also told that Steven Soderbergh’s “Behind the Candelabra,” starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, may go into competition. The HBO film here will be a theatrical release abroad. It’s all about Liberace, and those who’ve screened it already say it’s a winner. With a script by Richard La Gravenese, and the potential of a real Hollywood star– Debbie Reynolds– coming to town, plus this being Soderbergh’s last movie (at least for a while), this could be a sensation.

Also on the docket: “Inside Llewyn Davis” from the Coen Bros, already bought by CBS Films here, and said to be a knockout. Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, and John Goodman lead the cast of this 1960 saga of folk music in Greenwich Village. What’s the common demoninator between the Village of that era and France? The beret, mon frere!

And two titles I’ve heard mentioned: James Gray’s “Lowlife” starring Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Renner, and Joaquin Phoenix. Jon S. Baird’s “Filth” starring James McAvoy, Imogene Poots, and Jamie Bell could give the festival the jolt usually reserved for Lars von Trier. It’s supposedly very dark, and very “out there.” The Croissette is ready!

Keep checking, as with Cannes, c’est la vie, everything changes…

Review: Legend and Trail Blazer Jackie Robinson Comes Alive in “42”

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Review: Legend and Trail Blazer Jackie Robinson Comes Alive in “42”

Watching the new film ’42,’  at times harkens you back to the hokey films of yore, yet at the same time the film’s compelling and triumphant story can’t help stir the insides and then bring a smile to even the most jaded moviegoer.  This story is a tough one to hit the right notes on, but Oscar winning screenwriter of “LA Confidential,” Brian Helgeland, does just that.  Helgeland brings the tale of baseball legend Jackie Robinson to life in good old –fashioned Hollywood style.

Chadwick Boseman, who plays Jackie, is a relative newcomer and is quite the revelation. Boseman doesn’t play a sainted Jackie, but a multi-dimensional one; with all his anger, albeit justified, in full force as well as his laudable otherworldly courage and strength.  Nicole Beharie plays his sheltered wife Rachel Robinson with loveliness and grace.  Harrison Ford plays Dodgers owner Branch Rickey ; he is a happy surprise. Audiences have not seen Ford like this, he’s the anchor of the film, a cranky, gruff and quipping rich man with a rock solid moral core that is the theme throughout and the strength on which Jackie so relied on.

There is also terrific work from the supporting cast, including Lucas Black as team captain Pee Wee Reese, Christopher Meloni as the troubled manager Leo Durocher and T. R. Knight as Rickey’s assistant Harold.  In addition, Alan Tudyk plays the literally loathsome, racist team manager of the Philadelphia Phillies Ben Chapman, whose unrelenting taunts towards Jackie actually had the opposite effect; it resulted in teammates circling the wagons around him.  The scenes of the verbal abuse are down right sickening.  Helgeland does not play it all safe.

The ugliness of the time and its language are not pink-painted over.  That is to his credit and that’s what makes this film so deeply affecting on so many levels.  Yes, it’s a tad too long, and some scenes required a bit more depth than was given to them.  ‘ 42,’ while not a home run, is a definite and tremendously gratifying solid third base hit.

Record Exec Who Signed Beastie Boys, Cutting Edge Bands, Found Dead in Thailand

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The record business is shaken today by news of a probable murder: Tim Carr, the A&R exec who signed the Beastie Boys and other cutting edge groups, was found dead yesterday in Thailand. The 57 year old A&R exec who worked for Capitol and other labels, had a long knife wound across his chest when he was found naked in his room, according to Phuket News viz The Minneapolis Star Tribune. The Thai news reported “qround the room was signs of a disturbance and numerous blood stains. There was also evidence of drug usage after the Colonel spotted a rolled-up 20 Baht note and a plastic card covered in white powder. Large amounts of prescribed medication was also seen.”

Carr was a cousin of New York Times reporter David Carr, who Tweeted news of his death later. Tim Carr had been at the center of Minneapolis’s art and music scene, and had worked with bands like Devo and Babes in Toyland and artists (and musicians) like David Byrne and Cindy Sherman. He was instrumental in the Beastie Boys’ breakthrough album “Paul’s Boutique.”

Sting, “Soul Man” Sam Moore, Chic Blow the Roof off the Manhattan Ballroom

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Sting, “Soul Man” Sam Moore, Chic Blow the Roof off the Manhattan Ballroom

Quite a night for Nancy Hunt and Nile Rodgers’ We Are Family Foundation: they finally got to honor Sting and Trudie Styler for their work with the Rainforest Foundation, postponed from last October 31st– remember that date? It was Hurricane Sandy. The reboot turned into a wild night of fantastic music as Sting,
“Soul Man” Sam Moore fresh his White House PBS gig, and Nile Rodgers with Chic rocked the Manhattan Ballroom for an invited audience. Styler first spoke so eloquently about the work of both foundations. It was lovely.

Accepting the humanitarian award, Styler said: “We’re all born into this world. Some are placed gently, others  thrust into it, and still others abandoned. But whatever the unequal circumstances of our birth, we share the same basic human needs of survival: water, food, shelter, warmth. There is another equally essential basic human if we are to survive, and that is love. Mahatma Gandhi said Where there is love, there is life. Well perhaps tonight we can change that tonight to say Where there is love, there is family.”

Sting and Trudie were introduced by Caryl Stern, CEO of the US Fund for UNICEF.

Then came a torrent of great music. Moore performed his classics,  “Soul Man” and “When Something is Wrong with My Baby,” pumping his fist and turning it out at age 77. Sting took the stage and first sang “Englishman in New York,” then acoustic heartbreaking “Fields of Gold.”  He invited Moore back onstage to make an R&B duet of “Every Breath You Take” that made the crowd go nuts. Then they took on Bill Withers’ hit “Just the Two of Us” sort of impromptu, before Rodgers fired by Chic and a dance party began.

The ballroom was filled with plenty of people who’d just paid, and some heavy hitters and celebs like Motown great Valerie Simpson, Denise Rich, Broadway producer Jean Doumanian, long time record industry exec Michael Ostin, Q Tip, philanthropist Jean Shafiroff, “Guiding Light” actor Grant Aleksander, and the always amazing Rosie Perez. A white Gibson guitar signed by Sting, Moore, Rodgers, and not comedian Russell Peters–who opened the show with some real laughs–fetched $26,000 in a live auction.

 

Number 1 in UK on iTunes? “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead”

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Number 1 in UK on iTunes? “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead”

It only costs 79 cents, and it only last 51 seconds. It’s not a long song, but it’s an old song. It’s sung by the Munchkins, recorded in 1938. But “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead” is currently the number 1 track on iTunes in the U.K. This seems like an overreaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher, but nothing else will explain this odd turn of events. And it’s been number 1 for a day or more, so it’s not just a prank. The track comes from the soundtrack to “The Wizard of Oz.” Ah, the English have such an interesting sense of humor! http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

Tom Cruise “Oblivion” Premiere: Shakes Fans’ Hands, Skips Party, Saves World (Again)

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Tom Cruise “Oblivion” Premiere: Shakes Fans’ Hands, Skips Party, Saves World (Again)

Well, you can’t have everything. The Hollywood premiere of “Oblivion” at the Dolby Theater was a good news, bad news story: Tom Cruise did his usual routine of shaking every hand and signing every autograph with fans who were held back by barricades lest they devour their favorite star like a morsel of catnip. On the other hand, Cruise did this for so long that the movie started very late. By the time it ended, he was long gone, and skipped the after party.

The good news: even though “Oblivion” is hard to follow, our Leah Sydney liked it. After she encountered Cameron Crowe, Mark Burnett and Tom and Nicole Kidman’s high school deejay son Connor in the lobby, she settled down with popcorn in hand:

Review:

“Oblivion'” is groundbreaking, chock full of innovation in every way, exhilarating, albeit a tad confusing and fuzzy. Joseph Kosinski, who previously helmed “Tron: Legacy,” brings to life his vision of post-apocalyptic Earth with such originality, mystery and intrigue that even a non sci fan cannot help but be enthralled.  “Life of Pi” Oscar winner Claudio Miranda shot this, and he should expect another nomination next year.  The visuals are enveloping and stunning.

To explain the narrative is pretty much futile, since the only people that can truly follow this will be fan boy/girls total sci fi geeks.  Without giving too much away, the film takes place in 2077; years after the people of Earth fought a war with the evil space invaders, the Scavengers. Tom, playing tortured fighter pilot and technician Jack Harper,  is one of the last men still on Earth.

The rest of the film is Tom Cruise righting wrongs and finding his way to his true home in every sense of the word.  Bottom line though, Cruise never disappoints.  He literally owns that screen with his fabled intensity, which has only gotten stronger over the years. Coupled with the stunning spectacle of the visual effects and the sound, ‘Oblivion,’ will be the first mega hit of 2013.

The ladies fare extremely well too. Melissa Leo, Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko are all terrific and hold their own against formidable Cruise.  Morgan Freeman always adds class and gravitas.  ‘Oblivion’ is a feast for your eyes and a bit of a puzzle for your brain.  But you won’t be bored, not even for a second.

“Oblivion” opens around the world beginning today, and in the US next Friday April 19th.

NBC Renews Carson Daly, Ends Crazy Rumor About Alec Baldwin Talk Show

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NBC Renews Carson Daly, Ends Crazy Rumor About Alec Baldwin Talk Show

Late yesterday NBC swiftly announced the renewal of Carson Daly’s very late night show “Last Call” that follows Jimmy Fallon. This was meant to end the crazy speculation earlier in the day that actor Alec Baldwin might get his own show at 1:35am. It seems like that story began in the New York Times, of all places, and was immediately picked up by blogs who didn’t realize that a) Daly has a long term deal with NBC that includes hosting their number 1 show in prime time “The Voice” and b) The Times had been spun by a publicist who exaggerated Baldwin’s own deal with the network.

This came only hours after Baldwin said in an interview that he was “born to spit…on Rupert Murdoch.” The Times piece, published late in the day on April 9th, was either completely a “plant” or it was some kind of ploy by NBC– now fully engaged in using the media to conduct negotiations with its late night stars–to hasten Daly into a new agreement for the next season of his show. Either way, Alec Baldwin was never going to be hosting a late night show.

Broadway: “Matilda” Will Make Tony Award Race for Best Musical Tightest Ever

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Broadway: “Matilda” Will Make Tony Award Race for Best Musical Tightest Ever

“Matilda” opens tonight on Broadway, adding itself to “Kinky Boots,” the soon to close “Hands on A Hardbody,” and “Cinderella” (a new old show). That’s four musicals, all original (since “Cinderella” was made for TV originally), plus “Motown: The Musical,” which some original material to augment the jukebox of classic hits. “Hardbody” may be closing, but that doesn’t diminish its many achievements. That’s the best field of shows in a long time, frankly.

I saw “Matilda” last night and I can tell you–it’s not what you expect. Around 16 children between the ages of 9 and 14 are its stars. There are adults, principally Bertie Carvel, a man who plays a woman, and who is really spectacular. The other adults are Gabriel Ebert, Lauren Ward, and Lesli Margherita. They will all be “names” on Friday morning.

So will the girls who play Matilda. Last night, Bailey Ryon played the first act and part of the second until she fell and hurt herself. The capable Milly Shapiro stepped in, picked up and finished the show. Both girls took bows. They, and all the children in the show, are so exceptional it’s hard to believe they’re not small adults. They aren’t.

“Matilda” comes from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Dodgers. Matthew Warchus directs, and the set– which is like a giant world of Scrabble pieces for children– is from Rob Howell. The entire physical production, including school desks that rise out of the stage, is jaw dropping.  There’s one scene in which Karen Aldridge, playing Matilda’s librarian friend, sits on a cube as a fanciful scene unfolds in front of her. I thought, that woman must be thinking this is sort of amazing, as a complete fantasy appears before Matilda.

The show is dark, edgy, and not your basic family fare. It’s Roald Dahl without any sugar coating. Everything is played as if the kids are adults. No one is talked down to. Some kids in the audience loved it. Others looked like they needed a drink. In the second act, there’s a number that looks like 9 year olds are doing “American Idiot” crossed with “Spring Awakening.” But 90 plus year old legend Marge Champion, who I spoke to during the intermission, was aglow with praise. The choreography is mind bending. And these kids are doing it.

Did I mention the songs? What a year for songs– from Cyndi Lauper to Amanda Green to Berry Gordy and the Motown writers to Rodgers and Hammerstein. And Australian Tim Minchin has written some extraordinarily beautiful songs that are real songs. They’ll stick in your head. “Matilda” isn’t perfect. It’s a little too long, and gets some convoluted in the second act. But what a great job these people have done.

Tribeca Film Fest Juries Include Whoopi, Mira Sorvino, Paul Haggis, and Kenny Lonergan

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Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Haggis, Mira Sorvino, Kenny Lonergan and Tea Leoni are just some of the jurors for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The annual gathering begins next Wednesday and should be pretty exciting given the films and all the people participating. Once again Jane Rosenthal and Robert DeNiro will have a hit on their hands. The Festival ends with a new print of Martin Scorsese’s classic “King of Comedy.” Hopefully we’ll be seeing Jerry Lewis at that event.

Here’s the whole release: The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by founding partner American Express®, is pleased to announce our diverse group of 42 influential industry leaders, including award-winning filmmakers, writers, producers, actors, journalists and entrepreneurs, that will be divided among the seven competitive Festival categories.

In addition, the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) announced the six individuals who will serve as jurors for the Tribeca All Access (TAA) Creative Promise Awards, presented by the Time Warner Foundation. The winning projects will be announced during the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25. TFI also announced the three jurors for the Latin America Media Arts Fund, including the Heineken VOCES awards.

The seven TFF juries will award $180,000 in cash and prizes. TFF winners will also receive a work of original art by an acclaimed artist as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program, sponsored by Chanel. The winning films, filmmakers and actors in each category will be announced at the TFF Awards Night ceremony, streamed live on TribecaFilm.com on April 25.

Additionally, TAA will award  $20,000 — $10,000 for narrative and $10,000 for documentary. TFI will also award $130,000 in grants to Latin American film and video artists, including two $10,000 Heineken VOCES grants for Latin American filmmakers living and working in the United States.

Following is a list of the 2013 Festival and Tribeca Film Institute jurors and their respective categories.

World Competition Categories

The jurors for the 2013 World Narrative Competition are:

Kenny Lonergan: Academy Award®-nominated playwright, filmmaker and screenwriter. Credits include You Can Count On Me, Gangs of New York, and Margaret. His stage credits include Lobby Hero, The Waverly Gallery and This is Our Youth. He is a member of the Naked Angels Theater Company in New York.

Bryce Dallas-Howard: Multi-award nominated actress, director, writer and producer. Acting credits include The Help, 50/50, The Twilight Saga, Hereafter, Restless, Lady in the Water, The Village and the HBO adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. She directed the short film When You Find Me as part of Canon’s innovative and inaugural “Project Imagin8ion” campaign and directed one of five short films included in The Lifetime Original Movie event “Call Me Crazy: A Five Film.”

Paul Haggis: Academy Award®-winning filmmaker whose credits include Crash, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters to Iwo Jima, Casino Royale, In the Valley of Elah and television including Thirtysomething and The Tracey Ullman Show.

Blythe Danner: Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress. Stage credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, Betrayal, Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, The Miser and The Seagull. Film work includes The Great Santini, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge and Meet the Parents.

Jessica Winter: Senior editor at Time magazine, directing coverage of the arts and culture. Her writing has appeared in Time, The New York Times, Slate, The Guardian and many others. Previously served as a juror at the London and Vancouver International Film Festivals.

The jurors for the 2013 World Documentary Competition are:

Whoopi Goldberg: Makes her directorial debut at in the 2013 TFF with the documentary I Got Somethin’ To Tell You. One of an elite group of artists who have won an Academy, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Awards.

Sandi Dubowski: Director and producer whose award-winning work has screened at Tribeca, Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals; BBC, PBS, and ZDF-Arte; and in cinema release globally. Credits include Trembling Before G-d, A Jihad For Love and Budrus.

Joe Berlinger: Academy Award® nominated filmmaker and two-time Emmy Award-winning television producer and director. Films include Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and Crude.

Evan Rachel Wood: Critically acclaimed actress who has garnered Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe nominations. Credits include The Wrestler and HBO’s Mildred Pierce. Stars in the 2013 TFF selection A Case of You.

Mira Sorvino: Academy Award®-winning actress best known for Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, The Replacement Killers, Mimic and Norma Jean and Marilyn.

Emerging Competition Categories

The jurors for the 2013 Best New Narrative Director are:

Stu Zicherman: New York-based screenwriter, producer and director. Co-created the ABC’s Six Degrees and wrote and produced ABC’s What About Brian and FX’s Lights Out. Has written feature scripts for several major studios and made his feature directorial debut at the 2013 Sundance Film festival with the comedy A.C.O.D.

Ari Graynor: Film, stage and television actress and producer. Credits include the films For a Good Time Call, Celeste and Jesse Forever, 10 Years, Holy Rollers, Conviction and Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist and the television series The Sopranos and Fringe. Broadway credits include The Performers, Relatively Speaking and The Little Dog Laughed.

Naomi Foner: Academy Award®-nominated and Golden Globe-winning screenwriter, producer and director. Writing credits include Running on Empty, Losing Isaiah and Very Good Girls.

Radha Mitchell: Australian actress, Radha Mitchell who currently stars on the ABC series Red Widow is best known for her work in past feature films such as High Art, Man on Fire, Finding Neverland and Woody Allen’s Melinda & Melinda.

Tony Gilroy: Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter and director whose credits include Dolores Claiborne, Michael Clayton and the Jason Bourne series.

The jurors for the 2013 Best New Documentary Director are:

Taraji P. Henson: Academy Award® nominee for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Hustle & Flow, Date Night, Karate Kid, and Think Like a Man. Currently stars in the CBS hit Person of Interest.

Josh Radnor: Actor, writer and director best known for the Emmy Award-winning television series How I Met Your Mother. He wrote, directed and starred in Happythankyoumoreplease and Liberal Arts and next appears in Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight.

Jared Cohen: Founder and director of Google Ideas, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an author. His books include: The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business; Children of Jihad; and One Hundred Days of Silence. Previously served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and a close advisor to Condoleezza Rice and later Hillary Clinton.

Riley Keough: Actress whose film credits include The Runaways, The Good Doctor, Jack and Diane and Magic Mike.

Short Film Competition Categories

The jurors for the 2013 Narrative Short Film Competition are:

Sheila Nevins: President of HBO Documentary Films, is responsible for overseeing the development and production of all documentaries for HBO, HBO2 and Cinemax. She has overseen the creation of more than 500 documentaries and has earned dozens of awards, including, Primetime Emmys, News and Documentary Emmys, and Peabody Awards.

Kassem Garaibeh: Actor, comedian, and co-founding talent of Maker Studios, a network that includes over 10,000 channels on YouTube. Credits include his award-winning YouTube series California On and Going Deep.

Jessica Hecht: Stage and screen actress known for roles on Breaking Bad, Bored to Death, Friends and Law and Order. She appears in 2013 selections The English Teacher and Space Cadet, and is starring on Broadway in The Assembled Parties.

Chris Milk: Artist, music video director and photographer. Credits include Wilderness Downtown, Last Day Dream, The Johnny Cash Project and videos for Kanye West, U2, Arcade Fire and Gnarls Barkley. Co-creator of the 2013 TFF Storyscapes selection This Exquisite Forest.

Christine Baranski: Tony, Emmy, SAG and American Comedy Award-winning actress. Stage credits include The Real Thing, Rumors, Lips Together Teeth Apart, Boeing-Boeing, Hurlyburly and The House of Blue Leaves. Screen and television credits include The Good Wife, Cybill, Frasier, The Big Bang Theory, Chicago, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Cruel Intentions, The Ref, Reversal of Fortune and Mamma Mia!

The jurors for the 2013 Documentary and Student Short Film Competitions are:

John Skipper: President of ESPN Inc. and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks. Frequently appears on “most influential” lists in such outlets as Sports Business Journal, CableFAX Magazine, Business Week and The Sporting News.

Eva Longoria: Golden Globe-nominated and SAG and ALMA Award-winning actress, producer, businesswoman and philanthropist best known for ABC’s Desperate Housewives.

Bobby Flay: Acclaimed chef, restaurateur, Food Network star and cookbook author. Hosted and produced 3 Days to Open with Bobby Flay, The Next Food Network Star and is an Iron Chef on Iron Chef America.

Jason Silva: Television personality, media artist, filmmaker and techno-philosopher who has presented at TED Global, Google, The Economist Ideas Festival and at keynote events for Microsoft and IBM on the evolution of technology and its effect on humanity.

Danny Strong: Emmy Award-winning writer of HBO’s Game Change and is currently writing the two-part finale of The Hunger Games. Also an actor on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls and Mad Men.

Abigail Breslin: Academy Award®-nominated actress best known for Little Miss Sunshine. Other credits include M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, New Year’s Eve, My Sister’s Keeper,  Zombieland, Rango and The Call. Forthcoming films include Haunter, Ender’s Game, Final Girl and August: Osage County.

Storyscapes

The jurors for the 2013 BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Award for Transmedia:

Jeff Gomez: CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, the world’s leading expert at expanding entertainment properties, premium brands and socio-political themes into highly successful transmedia franchises and international campaigns.

Frank Rose: Bestselling author, speaker and digital anthropologist known for his books The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories and Into the Heart of the Mind. Contributing editor to Wired magazine.

Thomas Allen Harris: Filmmaker whose videos and installations have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney, Corcoran Gallery and the London Institute of the Arts.

TAA Creative Promise Awards

The jurors for the 2013 TAA Creative Promise Award—Narrative are:

Rubén Blades: Panamanian-born musician, recorded over 20 albums, won eleven Grammys, acted in over 30 films. Ran for the Panamanian presidency in 1994. Was Minister of tourism there from 2004 through 2009. Holds degrees from Panama’s Universidad Nacional, Harvard Graduate Law School and received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music.

John Forte: Grammy-nominated recording artist, composer, music producer, educator and activist. Former Fugees. Co-producer of the 2013 TFF selection The Project.

Tea Leoni: New York-native and actress whose credits include Flirting with Disaster, Spanglish, You Kill Me, Bad Boys, Family Man and Tower Heist.

The jurors for the 2013 TAA Creative Promise Award—Documentary are:

Shola Lynch: Director, Producer and Writer whose documentary credits include Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed, and the recently released in theaters, Free Angela & All Political Prisoners.

Sol Guy: Culture ninja and social entrepreneur who has worked with Lauryn Hill, Outkast and P. Diddy. Co-creator and host of the series 4REAL and currently developing a new TV series, The Talent Show.

Rachel Dratch: Funny-lady best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, creating the characters Boston Teen Denise, Debbie Downer, Denise and Sheldon. Credits include Down with Love, Click and 30 Rock.

TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund

The jurors for the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund, including the Heineken VOCES awards are:

Julia Bacha: Brazilian media strategist and award-winning documentary filmmaker who highlights under-documented stories from the Middle East. Most recently directed and produced the short My Neighborhood, winner of a 2013 Peabody Award.

Carlos Gutierrez: Co-founder and executive director of Cinema Tropical.

Leonardo Zimbron: Latin producer best known for his films Efectos Secundarios, Bajo la Sal, Viento en Contra and Nosotros los Nobles.

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