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24 September 2009 10:47 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »

The Third Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) has announced its gala screenings for its festival, October 8-17.  The festival’s Centerpiece film will be the documentary “Oceans” by “Microcosmos” directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud.  The Closing Night film for the festival will be Grant Heslov’s “The Men Who Stare at Goats.”  The festival announced earlier this week that the Egyptian film “The Traveler will open … »

7 April 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

In 2002, French producer Jacques Perrin had a modest international hit with Winged Migration, a beautifully photographed film about the astonishing journey birds make each year from one habitat to another. Buoyed by contemplative music, minimal-but-well-placed narration, and non-enhanced close-ups of birds in flight, Winged Migration followed the old Disney “true-life adventure” mold in subtle ways, crafting the migratory patterns of birds into mini-narratives marked by perilous encounters with pollution and hunters. Perrin, whose Microcosmos took an intimate look at the world of insects, prefers immersion to explication with his nature films, but like most movies about the animal kingdom ... »

2 articles from 2009