Abbas Kiarostami is the most influential and controversial post-revolutionary Iranian filmmaker and one of the most highly celebrated directors in the international film community of the last decade. (sensesofcinema.com)
Those are a few of the names on the Petition for Roman Polanski, spotlighting the precise reason this incident is important to the international film community: By their extraterritorial nature, film festivals the world over have... (awardsdaily.com)
It surprisingly takes an international film community (coin coming from several sources) to keep Palme d'Or winner Thai Joe (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) in business of feature filmmaking but it takes very little to motivate him as an artist: his generous output is visible in art installations, short films, to medium - sized items such as Mekong Hotel. (ioncinema.com)