Morelia International Film Festival

Todd Haynes developed an interest in film at an early age, and, while still a high school student, he produced his first film, a short about contemporary teenage life entitled The Suicide (1978). He went on to study at Brown University, where he made his directorial debut with the short film Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud (1985). read more

Films that might properly be described as 'philosophical' -insofar as they're cinematic enquiries into the existence, nature, meaning and interrelatedness of things (including, of course, cinema itself)- are rare indeed. Philosophical films that are wise, warm, witty and intellectually accessible to most audiences are still less common. read more

When Michael published his study Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (1974), he could hardly have foreseen his own contribution to that 'beyond'. Disaffected with modernism, Nyman had abandoned composition, however in 1976 Harrison Birtwistle commissioned him to provide music for a production of Goldoni's Il Campiello... read more

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 14, 1963, Steven Soderbergh, of Swedish ancestry, discovered his passion for cinema during his adolescence when he began making short 8 and 16 mm films and taking animation classes. When he was very young, he went to Hollywood to try his luck and in 1985 began working as a freelance film editor. One year later, his film Yes: 9012 Live was nominated for a Grammy.

In 1989, Soderbergh made Sex, Lies and Videotape, his first worldwide commercial success. It won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the FIPRESCI, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and the Audience Award at Sundance. The film soon became an icon in contemporary cinematography. read more