20th September 2008 Day 3 of the San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 20. 2008 in Uncategorized

Tropical Thunder – Ben Stiller’s new film is in contention here at the San Sebastian Film Festival. It is a film that has brought some controversy with Robert Downey Jr. playing a black...

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19th September 2008 Day 2 of the San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 19. 2008 in Uncategorized

Samira Makhmalbaf who directed the Two Legged Horse comes from a Iranian Film Family her sister and father.

Two of her previous films The Blackboard (00) and At Five in the Afternoon (03), received jury prizes...

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18th September Day 1 of the San Sebastian Film Festiival 2008

Written September 18. 2008 in Uncategorized

San Sebastian Film Festival 2008
As Stakeholder Forum prepares for the United Nations High Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals in New York next week I have taken the chance to enjoy three...

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30th September Day 10 of the San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 29. 2006 in Uncategorized

Camalot revisted …Bobby

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." June 6th, 1968 (From the last speech Bobby gave)

Overshadowing the festival everyday...

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29th September Day 9 San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 29. 2006 in Uncategorized

The marathon of the San Sebastian Film Festival is nearly over this is the penultimate blog. In two day the strange world of films, celebrities and parties will be over. Today’s highlights have been seeing...

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28th September Day 8 San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 28. 2006 in Uncategorized

“One is tempted to say that we must now focus all our energies on the struggle against terrorism, and on directly related issues. Yet if we should do so, we will be giving the terrorists a victory...

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27th September Day 7 San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 27. 2006 in Uncategorized

September 27th The festival is in its midway period and some of the awards are already being announced or have been given. Pedro Almodóvar, the Director of Volver received the FIPRESCI...

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26th September Day 6 San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 26. 2006 in Uncategorized

26th September

For breakfast today the SF team Virginia and me met with Alberto Gartzia Garmenda the Press Advisor for the Basque Government to discuss the UNEP Global Environmental Outlook meeting we...

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25th September Day 5 San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 25. 2006 in Uncategorized

September 25th

I have to say it was lucky I had written most of yesterday’s blog during the day. Otherwise it would have been a very short blog. Just after midnight I was taken to the Brazilian Party at the...

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24th September Day 4 of the San Sebastian Film Festival

Written September 25. 2006 in Uncategorized

24th of September

A couple of months ago San Sebastian was host to what is called a jazz Festival (http://www.jazzaldia.com/ ) but which seems to have artists that stretch that concept considerably....

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