Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine of the Beirut-based production company will also present two movies, Mounia Akl‘s 'Costa ...

Lebanese indie Abbout Productions will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Raimondo Rezzonico Award celebrating ...

Georges Schoucair became the CEO of Abbout Productions in 2004, and Myriam Sassine joined as lead producer in 2010.

She "embodies the best of a tradition of performers who continue to be able to infuse each role with the deepest knowledge about the actor’s work," says Locarno festival artistic director Giona A.

The Locarno Film Festival will present its Honorary Leopard Award, Pardo d’Onore, to American filmmaker Alexander Payne on ...

Emma Thompson will receive the Leopard Club Award at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where her latest flick, The Dead Of Winter, will debut. From director Brian Kirk, the film follows a widowed ...

Beirut-based independent producer, led by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine, to receive Locarno's producing award.

Emma Thompson will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival where her latest film, Brian Kirk’s action thriller “The Dead of ...

Nebraska director Alexander Payne will receive the Pardo d’Onore at the Locarno Film Festival. The American filmmaker will be ...

Her fearless choices and groundbreaking performances continue to inspire audiences and redefine what it means to be an artist ...

Easy to overlook in the looming shadow of the Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals (and all of the awards season hoopla they portend), Switzerland’s historic Locarno Film ...

Kill Bill star Lucy Liu will be honoured with a career achievement award at Locarno Film Festival, where she will also ...