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Angelina Jolie - "A Mighty Heart"
Director:
Michael Winterbottom
Writer:
John Orloff
Producers:
Dede Gardner, Andrew Eaton, Brad Pitt
On January 23, 2002, Daniel Pearl, South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street
Journal, disappeared while researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. In the
face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of
journalism led his wife, Mariane, to write about his disappearance, the intense effort
to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir. Six months pregnant when the
ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the
book, upon which the film is based, to introduce Adam to the father he would never
meet.
Director:
Steve Buscemi
Writers:
David Schechter & Steve Buscemi
Producers:
Bruce Weiss, Gijs Van De Westelaken
INTERVIEW is a sexually charged drama about media, truth, and celebrity. Selfdestructive
journalist PIERRE PEDERS (Buscemi) is no stranger to violence and
inhumanity, having made his name as a war reporter, so he feels that his current
puff-piece assignment, an interview with pop diva, TV and movie star KATYA (Miller),
is beneath his dignity. The two meet in a restaurant and, instantly, it's a collision of
two worlds. As the evening progresses their confrontation evolves into a passionate
verbal chess game spiked with wit, intrigue and sexual tension, capped with a riveting
twist ending.
Ellen Page - "Juno"
Director:
Jason Reitman
Writer:
Diablo Cody
Producers:
Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
Meet Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) –a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots
with a nonchalant cool and an effortless attitude as she journeys through an
emotional nine-month adventure into adulthood. Quick witted and distinctively
unique, Juno walks Dancing Elk High's halls to her own tune - preferably anything by
The Stooges - but underneath her tough no nonsense exterior is just a teenage girl
trying to figure it all out.
Parker Posey - "Broken English"
Director/Writer:
Zoe Cassavetes
Producers:
Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente, Andrew Fierberg
Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about
love and relationships, in this astute collaboration with first-time writer/director Zoe
Cassavetes. Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can't help but
wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey's
(Drea De Matteo) "perfect marriage." After a series of disastrous first dates, she
meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion
for living. Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same
mistakes. She finds herself in Paris looking to break old patterns. Inevitably, Nora
has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly,
love.
Tang Wei - "Lust, Caution"
Director:
Ang Lee
Writers:
James Schamus & Hui Ling Wang
Producers:
Bill Kong, Ang Lee, James Schamus
Lust, Caution is the new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award winning director of
"Brokeback Mountain" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A startling erotic
espionage thriller -- set during World War II -- about the fate of an ordinary woman's
heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and
stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei. The
screenplay is by Wang Hui Ling and James Schamus
