The streets of Saugatuck, Michigan were deceptively empty during the first couple days of the 2004 Waterfront Film Festival, which began June 10. The steady rain kept the usual stream of weekend tourists away from all the specialty shops and gourmet restaurants in this West Michigan town of just over a thousand permanent residents, but poor weather’s apparently not a major deterrent when films are screened indoors, as the opening night presentation – a restored print of Clara Bow’s celebra...

34TH ANNUAL USA FILM FESTIVAL – APRIL 22-29CLOSING NIGHTThe Hunting of the PresidentWho would have thought that the most miserable and preoccupying interludes of the Clinton administration would make such a riveting, even entertaining, film? Based on the best-selling Joe Conason and Gene Lyons book of the same name, Clinton friend and Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, along with co-writer/director Nickolas Perry, have managed just that. Wittily constructed and intercut with Hollywood, movie...

Inaugural Dubai International Film Festival aims to build cultural bridges.Cultural understanding and international harmony will be the themes of the inaugural Dubai International Film Festival, Dubai Media City’s newly launched film festival scheduled for December 6-11, 2004.DUBAI MEDIA CITY CORPORATE PROFILEDubai Media City is the media arm of Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone which emerged out of the vision of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Du...

Last-minute entry: Forum to show Jehane Noujaim's Control RoomThe Forum has decided to include Control Room by Jehane Noujaim in its programme as another documentary focussing on the year’s main political topic. The 90-minute film addresses the media battle behind the American campaign in Iraq. The Egyptian-American director witnessed the toppling of the Ba’athist regime from two completely different perspectives in Qatar on the Persian Gulf. On the one hand, there were the American propagan...