Director Catherine Hardwicke joined 8 young filmmakers from around the world in a Google+ Hangout to teach them about Production Design, as part of the Ghetto Film School's MasterClass series. 

GFS MasterClass is a free innovative virtual class for young people who want to learn filmmaking from top directors in the industry. Through Google+'s Hangout videochat technology, young filmmaking students from around the world get lessons from established filmmakers. They happen once a month and so far we've had Lee Daniels ("Precious") and Catherine Hardwicke. 

3 weeks ago we shot a MasterClass with Catherine Hardwicke, where she talked about Production Design and how she's tackled it in Twilight, Red Riding Hood, Lords of Dogtown, Thirteen and more. Besides, she dropped some very cool tips on how to achieve a great look for your films and sharing her extensive experience on the subject. 

Here's the link to the Full hangout - Catherine Hardwicke MasterClass on YouTube

For more info on upcoming Hangouts, visit Ghettofilm.org

Alliance subsidiary Momentum Pictures UK has acquired a raft of sought-after titles out of Sundance and Berlin, including Catherine Hardwicke’s erotic thriller Plush from IM Global. Set in the Los Angeles music scene, Evan Rachel Wood [pictured] plays a musician who gets more than she bargained for after a one-night stand leads to danger for her and her family.

Among Momentum’s impressive shopping spree are a handful of strong French titles from Wild Bunch, including Francois Ozon’s In the House, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, about a gifted student’s curious relationship with his schoolmate’s family; portmanteau film The Players, a series of short films set around the theme of infidelity, featuring Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Guillaume Canet and directors Michel Hazanavicius and Fred Cavaye; and romance Populaire about a small town girl who finds love and success through typewriting, with Romain Duris, Deborah Francois and Berenice Bejo.

Controversial thriller V/H/S, about a group of misfits hired to burglarise a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, was another unannounced pick-up out of Sundance, while Momentum will be hoping for another Scandinavian home-run with 14th century-set thriller Escape, from TrustNordisk, about a young girl who must evade her captors who have brutally killed her family.

Previously announced titles include Berlin acquisitions A Most Wanted Man from Anton Corbijn, John McDonagh’s Calvary with Brendan Gleeson, Can a Song Save your Life? with Scarlett Johanssen and Mark Ruffalo, Everly starring Kate Hudson as a woman who must fight off waves of assassins and Robot and Frank out of Sundance.

UK thrillers include Blood from Nick Murphy starring Paul Bettany and WWI story A Forbidden Ground.

Robert Walak, svp of acquisitions worldwide for Alliance Films, said: “We are very excited to bolster our release slate with such a diverse range of films. Ranging from big Hollywood names to European superstars and some of the most exciting talents in British film, these deals underline the confidence we have in our longstanding relationships and new partnerships with independent film makers at home and abroad.”

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Evan Rachel Wood is reuniting with director Catherine Hardwicke for an erotic thriller set in the turbulent world of Los Angeles' rock-and-roll community, TheWrap has confirmed.

Although the script to "Plush," which Hardwicke and Artie Nelson wrote, is under wraps, the movie is said to be a 21st century "Fatal Attraction."

The movie will be Hardwicke and Wood's first collaboration since their 2003 "Thirteen."

IM Global is selling the project at the European Film Market in Berlin. CAA is handling U.S. rights.

Since working together on "Thirteen," Hardwicke has directed "Lords of Dogtown," "Twilight" and "Red Riding Hood." Wood (right) has gone on to star in the television series "True Blood" and the movies "Running With Scissors" and "The Wrestler," among others.

The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news

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In this new video of Catherine Hardwicke being interviewed recently at Sundance, she says that she may make a new film with Evan Rachel Wood! It would be great to see them work together again. From 3:12 onwards:



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Actress Noomi Rapace is "not worried" about teaming up with her ex-husband on a new movie, insisting the project has helped "reunite" the former couple.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star married actor Ola Rapace in 2001 and they went on to have a son, Lev, two years later (03).

They split last year (10), but are now set to play lovers in new film Knockout - and the actress is looking forward to repairing her friendship with her ex.

She tells Britain's Stella magazine, "I'm not worried, you know. It's quite good to have a shared goal, something we can fight for together. It kind of reunites us, so we are on the same side again."

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Miss Representation, featuring Catherine Hardwicke, will premiere on OWN Thursday October 20th at 9 pm.

Some of America's most influential women, including Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem, come together to give audiences an inside look at the media's message and depiction of women.

Newest Miss Representation Trailer (2011 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection) from Miss Representation on Vimeo.

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Texas native will kick off VIFF’s New Filmmaker’s Day

VANCOUVER -- Before she had a Twilight budget to work with, director Catherine Hardwicke had to make every dollar, and every moment behind the scenes count.

With Thirteen, her critically acclaimed directorial debut, the Texas native had just $1.5 million to bring the story of a straight-A student’s descent into a life of sex, drugs and petty crime to the big screen.

“On that one, I had such a very detailed shot list, and diagrams of how we were going to film every scene, and I had rehearsed with the actors,” said Hardwicke.

“That’s what made it possible to shoot that movie.”

On Oct. 1, Hardwicke will kick off New Filmmakers Day at the Vancouver International Film Festival’s Film and TV Forum with a workshop on the preparation process behind movie production.

Titled The Art of Prep: Directing Workshop, the 75-minute seminar will focus on creating tight shot lists, script development, the advantages of storyboards and other tips.

It will include handouts, audience participation throughout and examples illustrated with clips from Hardwicke’s work, including Thirteen.

The independent film garnered numerous awards and nominations, including the Director’s Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, Golden Globe nominations for stars Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter, and an Academy Award nomination for Hunter. Hardwicke’s other works include Vancouver-shot Red Riding Hood, a gothic retelling of the classic fairy tale; The Nativity Story; and the skateboard movie Lords of Dogtown.

Hardwicke also will discuss her experience directing Twilight, the vampire blockbuster that grossed $69.6 million on opening weekend — the highest opening ever for a film by a female director.

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Twenty "visionaries" talk to the camera about Joseph Campbell's major findings in his life-long study of mythology and the human experience.

If you don’t mind being lectured to for 80 minutes, Patrick Takaya Solomon’s Finding Joe makes an excellent primer on the seminal teachings and discoveries of the late mythologist Joseph Campbell. Only a few old photos of the famed Sarah Lawrence professor appear on screen and the film contains not a single interview with him. Instead Solomon tracks down 20 “visionaries” to express Campbell’s major findings in his study of mythology.

These startlingly radiant, at times even joyous, faces expound about Campbell’s wisdom, often completing each other’s sentences. Much of this is drawn from Campbell’s seminal book, The Hero’s Journey, published in 1949.

The whole thing takes on the aspect of a self-help movie rather than a documentary though. These disciples peach the gospel of Joe and, one suspects, they’ll be preaching more or less to the choir in the film’s limited engagements that start in western states. (Does the filmmaker believe this is a “Left Coast” film?)

Solomon brings his interviewees in from several fields but labels many with vague terms such as “Best Selling Author” or “Philosopher/Entrepreneur.” It might have been helpful for a viewer know what books the person authored or what business he might have launched.

Some come from the show business such as Mike Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac, film director Catherine Hardwicke, screenwriter/producer Akiva Goldman and actress-writer Rashida Jones.

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