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Since the first recorded images to the pantheons of Greece and Rome to the contemporary art world's fascination with the human form, the human body has not only been a source of inspiration but also of expression for artists in all medium. The sculptures that we still admire from ancient times are just the starting point for a continued obsession with the perfection of the human musculature. That obsession was certainly the key note in the artistic development and output of photographer...
While this blog concentrates on film events in New York City proper, the entire region (from northern Connecticut to southern New Jersey) is quite lively with film and media celebrations all season long. One of the most vital and diverse of these launches this evening in the historic city of Danbury, Connecticut.
The Connecticut Film Festival, one of the most dynamic regional showcases of its kind, opens this evening with a fundraising event accompanied by a work-in-pro...
Baffin Babes
There are no babes like the Baffin Babes. Vera, Emma, Inge and Kristin- four Scandinavian girls who tackled a burly 1,200-km ski trip across Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic in 2009-will talk about the challenges of their expedition, including sleeping in a tent in 40 below with polar bears as their closest neighbors.
Wade Davis
Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology and a Ph.D...
PRESS CONFERENCE- THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ION B. / PORTRAIT OF A MAN / A SMALL ACT / CAMP VICTORY, AFGHANISTAN
On Friday, March 18, 2011, a Press Conference was held as part of the 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Present were the directors Carol Dysinger (Camp Victory, Afghanistan), Alexander Nanau (The World According to Ion B.) Visa Koiso-Kanttila (Portrait of a Man) and Jennifer Arnold (A Small Act).
In her documentary Camp Victory, Afghanistan, director Carol Dysinger...
The 16th annual IFFF launches with a press conference at 1 PM on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. This is the fifth year of presenting the fest at Raleigh Studios, adjacent to the Paramount Studio lot on Melrose Avenue in the heart of Hollywood. This year's film schedule is filled with highlights - each of them with enough back-story to more than...
Clint Eastwood is full of "horse dung" in his new movie about FBI director, J.Edgar Hoover" staring Leonardo DiCapprio! In my early position with the NCS in America, "The National Crime Syndicate", I worked closly with Meyer Lansky, boss of the old combination, as had my father, " The Honorable William A. Craft ESQ, and future partner Paul A. DiCocco Sr! Like all young men on their way up in crime, I had to do my 5 years of low end work, in order to learn my tra...
TO READ POST WITH ACCOMPANYING PHOTOS VISIT TINSEL & TINE
Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor) has once again written and directed a picture that’s been touted at the festivals; however, his newest film has enough mainstream appeal to be backed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Win Win is the story of an attorney, wrestling coach and most importantly, family man, Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) living in a middle class Jersey suburb trying to keep things going in these diffic...
Harris Named Editor-in-Chief at indieWIRE
by Brian Brooks
indieWIRE's newly named Editor-in-Chief, Dana Harris.
Veteran film journalist Dana Harris has been named as indieWIRE‘s new editor-in-chief. Harris has worked for the last decade at Variety, where she most recently served as editor, strategic projects. She replaces Eugene Hernandez, who left the position in late October nearly 15 years after he co-founded the online publication.
Harris will serve as indieWIRE�...
Harris Named Editor-in-Chief at indieWIRE
by Brian Brooks
indieWIRE's newly named Editor-in-Chief, Dana Harris.
Veteran film journalist Dana Harris has been named as indieWIRE‘s new editor-in-chief. Harris has worked for the last decade at Variety, where she most recently served as editor, strategic projects. She replaces Eugene Hernandez, who left the position in late October nearly 15 years after he co-founded the online publication.
Harris will serve as indieWIRE‘s...
A nice complement to Thom Zimny’s documentary, “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town”, comes the World Premiere of “Darkness on the Edge of Town”, a concert film performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in December, 2009, at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park, NJ. Bruce and the band performed the entire 1978 album, “Darkness on the Edge of Town”, just for themselves with no audience.
MAX WEINBERG: “This was my first time seeing t...
MovieFest (CMF), the world's largest student film festival, and Panasonic have announced the launch of CMF 3D, Powered by Panasonic. The announcement was made at the Blu-Con 2010 conference in Beverly Hills by Shiro Kitajima, President of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company, Jon Landau, Academy Award®-winning producer and CMF advisor, and David Roemer, Co-founder and CEO of Ideas United, which runs Campus MovieFest. Campus MovieFest is the only event of its kind, giving hundreds of thousands...
A nice complement to Thom Zimny’s documentary, “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town”, comes the World Premiere of “Darkness on the Edge of Town”, a concert film performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in December, 2009, at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park, NJ. Bruce and the band performed the entire 1978 album, “Darkness on the Edge of Town”, just for themselves with no audience. MAX WEINBERG: “This was my first time seeing the film. I hadn...
New York has always had an abundance of film festivals....some grand, some intimate; some broad, some specialized; some populist and some elitist. The city's major film institutions, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Anthology Film Archives, present on-going film series that bring a new mini-festival to film buffs every week of the year. The city's other great film resources, including the Film Forum and the IFC Center,...
The Paso Digital Film Festival Uncorks it's 2010 blend, of Film, Technology, Music, Characters, and Wine...November 19-23, in Paso Robles, Central Calif. and live in HD worldwide a wild west digital film fest in cowboy wine country south and sideways of Sundance.The festival will screen the HBO movie "Temple Grandin" with the Emmy Award winning director Mick Jackson, (Bodyguard and LA Story) attending the screening to accept the Humanitarian Award. Plus, producers Marc & Brenda Lhormer will scre...
The Accolade Competition is proud to announce the awardwinners for the August 27, 2010 deadline. The list can also be found on our website, http://www.accoladecompetition.org
Best of Show Winners:
- Silent Shame (feature documentary) (Athena Productions LLC, dir. Akiko Izumitani)
-Unstoppable (feature film) (Razor Films UK)
- Vento (short film) (Salem Produções)
- Twentysixmiles (miniseries) (Tower 17 Productions)
Award of Excellence Winners:
9MM P...
The Project Twenty-One (P21) Film Competition, held October 1-3 of this year in Philadelphia’s International House, is a unique opportunity for independent filmmakers to compete against each other and create the best possible short film with limited resources and three weeks to complete it. As well, it is an opportunity for the filmmakers to be a part of a festival that not only encourages quality shorts, but to have filmmakers from around the New Jersey/Philadelphia area to network ...
The artists for 2010 TVIFF Music Fest have been selected:
2010 MUSICFEST FINALISTS
JESSICA ERIN, country / pop singer and writer
Originally from Illinois, Jessica currently resides in
Los Angeles, working hard to hone her craft as a singer/songwriter.
She has opened for Grammy Award winning duo Montgomery Gentry, Country
star Darryl Worley, & others. Her song "Girls Night Out", was aired
on NBC TV's hit show "Friday Night Lights". Her song, "...
By Maria Esteves - August 31, 2010
Denon DJ a leading manufacturer of premium-grade DJ equipment celebrated its
100th Anniversary at the 2010 International DJ Expo with the launch of new products, seminars, and live performance by Video DJ Roonie G, owner, Mix Ultra Lounge, at the luxurious Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ, August 16-19, 2010. The 2010 DJ Expo exhibit hall Denon DJ booth introduced DN-MC6000 full mixer/ 4-deck MIDI controller, DN-X600 digital mixer, w/MIDI interface/sound...
By Maria Esteves – August 31, 2010
The 2010 International DJ Expo (DJExpo10) Clubland's Hitmakers artist moderated by VP promotion Cary Vance, PROMO ONLY Promotions, commenced Tuesday, August 17, 4:30 PM, at the luxurious Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ. The panel of diverse leading artists featuring singer Kaci Battaglia, singer Alexis Jordan, singer/songwriter/producer Blake Lewis, singer/songwriter/producer Chris Willis, and many others, discussed their musical processes in the indus...
By Maria Esteves - August 31, 2010
The 2010 International DJ Expo (DJExpo10) Keynote Q&A Presentation with the legendary Grammy Award winning artist DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey Allen Townes) moderated by editor-in-chief Jim Tremayne, DJ Times magazine, commenced Tuesday, August 17, 3:00 PM, at the luxurious Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ. DJ Jazzy Jeff discussed
his musical career as an award winning American hip hop artist, R&B record producer, actor, and his earlier career with Will...
By Maria Esteves - August 30, 2010
The 2010 International DJ Expo (DJEXPO10) presented by DJ Times magazine and Testa Communications was held at the luxurious Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ, August 16-19, 2010. The DJ Expo is the world's largest disc and video jockey convention/exhibition that annually presents panel discussions, seminars, workshops, keynote presentations, exhibit hall, special events, awards ceremony, live talent showcase, and industry parties.
This year's 20th ...
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor David Spaltro shares his thoughts and vision about his film, Around (2008), which despite being two years old now, is coming 'around' again.
me: "David, can you please start by telling us about the symbolism around Around? And what it means to you?"
David: "...Around is a very personal story, auto-biographical but not auto-biography and an all around love-letter and val...
As the chairman of the Museum Herb Schlosser emphasized at a recent meeting when presenting a status report on the expansion project, the visual media have developed many new production and distribution technologies, expanded their reach by providing more differentiated programs, and grown in their popularity as distinct from the print media. Thus it is very difficult for any museum devoted to the visual media to remain current and contemporary. With more money and time spent by consumers on vis...
SIFF is proud to announce the lineup for the 36th Seattle International Film Festival, the largest and most highly attended event of its kind in the United States. Running a full 25 days, SIFF will present 189 narrative features, 54 documentary features, 13 archival films, and 150 short films from 67 countries, including 25 World Premieres (12 features, 13 shorts), 36 North American Premieres (24 features, 12 shorts), and 12 US Premieres (6 features, 6 shorts). SIFF 2010 runs from May 20...
RE:IMAGE Film Festival is a one-day celebration of the moving image and how it relfects God's love in our world. We will be showcasing the works of artists and filmmakers who strive to deliver inspiring, uplifting and faith-filled messages through film and digital media. Our mission is to support and encourage the next generation of visual storytellers; to explore the glory of God's creation, capture the perseverance for justice and truth, and uphold and defend the dignity of the human person. Participation is open to all faiths and places of origin.
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