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Lives of YouTube “Weblebrities” Chronicled in Upcoming Documentary
The
increasingly popular world of new media has introduced online viewers across
the world to a diverse group of individuals in cyberspace. YouTube.com has emerged as one of the
leaders to catapult an Average Joe into an instant “Weblebrity” with the stroke
of a computer key. Meet six folks
in the feature documentary “Butterflies” who share the common goal of becoming
internet sensations via YouTube...
Eminent Chinese director, screenwriter and producer, Huang Jianxin, will head the International Jury for the third annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). He will be joined by Australian playwright and screenwriter David Williamson, Iranian filmmaker Tahmineh Milāni, Indian playwright, screenwriter and director Feroz Abbas Khan and Korean writer/director Gina Kim. The International Jury will determine winners in the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards to be announced in a ceremony on Australia'...
SAG | AFTRA | EQUITY Stats: Ht:5′ 7″ Eyes:Brown Wt:147 lbs Hair:Brown Television Valley Heat (new pilot) Co-Star Jack Clemens/ NBC E.R. Guest Star GRB Entertainment Emmy Voting Member Television Arts & Sciences Pretty When You Cry Day Player Jack Green / HBO Insecurities ( series pilot ) Co-Star Blondes Have More Fun Prods. ...
Eminent Chinese director, screenwriter and producer, Huang Jianxin, will head the International Jury for the third annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). He will be joined by Australian playwright and screenwriter David Williamson, Iranian filmmaker Tahmineh Milāni, Indian playwright, screenwriter and director Feroz Abbas Khan and Korean writer/director Gina Kim. The International Jury will determine winners in the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards to be announced in a ceremony on Australi...
A slate of cinema’s top award-winning filmmakers galvanized a sold-out event at VIFF’s 24th Annual Film &Television Forum on Saturday, October 3 at the Vancouver International Film Centre. New Filmmakers’ Day, the only event of its kind in Western Canada drew a packed house for such notable guests as Oscar-winning writer/director Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Synecdoche, New York) and award-winning cinematographers, Ellen Kuras (Away We Go, Shine a Lig...
With a festival which prides itself as being “fiercely independent”, the Woodstock Film Festival, which concludes today, is committed to the discovery of new talents, both behind and in front of the screen. With budgets that are tight in the extreme, more often that not, the actors used are new to the screen and unknown to the public (I included myself in this). However, when a performance of great depth or realism is given by someone you do not know, my tendency is to pay very close attenti...
Franc. Reyes is a songwriter, choreographer, dancer, scriptwriter, and film director. His songs have charted on the Billboard Magazine’s Top 40 list and in films. In 2002, Universal Pictures released director Reyes first major film “EMPIRE,” and his second feature film "ILLEGAL TENDER," in 2007. Reyes latest film "THE MINISTERS," is set to premiere in New York, Friday, October 16, 2009. I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Franc Reyes in New York, on Tuesday, September 15, 2009. T...
CHILDREN OF INVENTION With a festival which prides itself as being “fiercely independent”, the Woodstock Film Festival, which concludes today, is committed to the discovery of new talents, both behind and in front of the screen. With budgets that are tight in the extreme, more often that not, the actors used are new to the screen and unknown to the public (I included myself in this). However, when a performance of great depth or realism is given by someone you do not know, my tende...
By Maria Esteves - October 1, 2009
Franc. Reyes is a songwriter, choreographer, dancer, scriptwriter, and film director. His songs have charted on the Billboard Magazine’s Top 40 list and in films. In 2002, Universal Pictures released director Reyes first major film “EMPIRE,” and his second feature film "ILLEGAL TENDER," in 2007. Reyes latest film "THE MINISTERS," is set to premiere in New York, Friday, October 16, 2009. I had the honor and privilege of interviewing ...
The Woodstock Film Festival, which opens this evening with a pre-Festival screening of Oscar winning documentarian Barbara Kopple's WOODSTOCK: NOW AND THEN, is celebrating its 10th anniversary as one of the independent film festival's most intriguing and enjoyable events.
The Festival, which runs through Sunday, is set in the idyllic town of Woodstock, New York, about 3 hours north of Manhattan. While many might associate the town with the legendary 1969 rock concert (and cultur...
By Maria Esteves - September 30, 2009
The U.S. Premiere of BRIGHT STAR directed by Jane Campion, presented by Vanity Fair & Apparition was held at the Paris Theater, New York, Monday, September 14, 7:00 pm. Sponsored by Grand Marnier, as part of Vanity Fair's Campaign New
York (celebrating N.Y. culture, art and style), the premiere coincided with New York's Fashion Week. The films lovely fashionable outfits from the British Regency era (1795-1820) were designed by ERDEM, CHRISTIAN CO...
The 22nd Helsinki IFF ? Love & Anarchy ended Sunday the 27th September. For the first time the attendance number of the festival grew to a record breaking 50 000 plus.The final attendance number of the 22nd HIFF was 51 277. This figure breaks the previous record of 48 400 from 2008.This year?s festival included 425 screenings, of which 96 were sold out. Among the most popular films were (500) Days of Summer, Il Divo, The September Issue, An Education, Synecdoche, New York, Hierro, The Cove, Hump...
By Maria Esteves - September 27, 2009
By Maria Esteves - September 27, 2009
The New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (MBFW/SS10) Narciso Rodriquez Spring/Summer 2010 runway show was held at Bryant Park, New York, September 15, 2009, 8:00 PM. Mercedes-Benz Presents designer Narciso Rodriquez as this season's highest level of quality, dedication, and innovation in design. Narciso Rodriquez Spring 2010 collection presented an elegant combination of sculptural tailored dresses with fluid shapes (silk, crepe, cotton, pleated and embr...
By Maria Esteves - September 26, 2009
BLUEBEARD (Catherine Breillat)
With French film master Alain Resnais kicking off the 47th edition of the New York Film Festival last evening with his Cannes Film Festival winner WILD GRASS, this year's event is another example of the New York audience love affair with French cinema. With French filmmakers and actors in town for the Festival, the premieres this week of Cedric Klapisch's PARIS and Anne Fontaine's COCO BEFORE CHANEL (starring Audrey Tautou), not to mention the on...
By Maria Esteves - September 24, 2009
The 12th Latinbeat Film Festival special panel discussion "LATIN-O-AMERICANA" was held at Walter Reade Theater, New York, on Thursday, September 10, 7:00 pm. Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Cinema Tropical and NALIP-NY, the event celebrated emerging filmmakers of Latin American and New York-based Latin American descent. The panelist included filmmakers Natalia Almada (THE GENERAL), Cruz Angeles (DON'T LET ME DROWN), and Alex...
Branchage Festival
2009
Jersey film festival to
screen The
Wizard of Oz in magical
drive-in cinema experience
- The Wizard of Oz
screened People’s Park Oct 3rd
- As part of
Branchage, taking place Oct
1st
–
4th
Branchage Jersey
International Film Festival is coming back to the island in
October, screening an incredible
selection of films in breathtaking
and unusual locations.
Highlights for 2009’s festival will
include a spectacular drive-in-cinema showing seminal Judy Garland classic
The Wizard Of Oz, a screening of this year’s most shocking film Lars
Von Trier’s Antichrist and
British Sea Power performing their
poignant soundtrack to the renowned 1934 fisherman film Man of Aran.
Branchage Jersey
International Film Festival has an unbeatable range of films
being screened in truly breathtaking locations, including a beautiful drive-in screening of
The Wizard Of Oz at People’s Park
on the island, a truly terrifying
screening of Antichrist in a scary
hut in the Jersey woods and an incredible performance by British Sea Power to
the classic black & white fisherman film Man of Aran.
The festival launched in 2008 as a
vibrant cross-arts film festival that transformed a number of Jersey’s well recognised landmarks and changed them into
unusual screening venues.
Venues secured for the 2009 festival
include: Mount
Orgueil Castle, Jersey Museum Cinema, The Town Hall/Magistrates Courts, The War Tunnels, Victoria College Boys School Hall, Jersey Opera House. There’ll also be screenings
inside the spectacular Barclays Wealth Spiegeltent, plus an incredible drive-in screening at People’s
Park.
Branchage
aims to create new cinema-going
experiences by holding screenings at
unusual, atmospheric locations -
bringing people into environments they wouldn't usually associate with
film, and hand-picking the perfect
films to screen in these breathtaking locations.
The festival is also giving a total
of £10,000 in awards for
filmmakers, across a range of
categories.
Festival director Xanthe Hamilton said: “Rolling off the success of the first year Branchage
is back in 2009 with even more gusto. This year we have really honed our
programming style, and with even more
unusual venues we will be taking films into fitting and interesting
spaces, offering our audiences a
whole new cinema experience.
“The film
programme is vast and diverse, and
this year we have a very strong educational and industry strand and in true
Branchage style a heavy helping of live music and party madness. This year we
are proud to be inviting several filmmakers from around the world to present
their films in Jersey, and we are
exited about our new partnerships
with the US based True/False Documentary Film Festival and a radio show coming
live out of the festival on air in New Jersey and New
York.”
Branchage Festival
2009
Jersey film festival to
screen The
Wizard of Oz in magical
drive-in cinema experience
- The Wizard of Oz
screened People’s Park Oct 3rd
- As part of
Branchage, taking place Oct
1st
–
4th
Branchage Jersey
International Film Festival is coming back to the island in
October, screening an incredible
selection of films in breathtaking
and unusual locations.
Highlights for 2009’s festival will
incl...
AmericaFree.tv, LLC (AFTV) www.americafree.tv, a leading Internet streaming Television and Movie broadcaster, today announces its first online independent virtual film festival with a call for submissions from filmmakers of all genres. The festival, one of the first "all virtual" film fests, will honor films with awards, exposure to the AmericaFree.TV audience, and a $2,000 grand prize.
AmericaFree.TV will present the Grand Prize winner with a physical screening in Los Angele...
AmericaFree.tv, LLC (AFTV) www.americafree.tv,a leading Internet streaming Television and Movie broadcaster, today announces its first online independent virtual film festival with a call for submissions from filmmakers of all genres. The festival, one of the first “all virtual” film fests, will honor films with awards, exposure to the AmericaFree.TV audience, and a $2,000 grand prize. AmericaFree.TV will present the Grand Prize winner with a physical screening in Los Angeles to meet Academ...
THE 4th ANNUAL WASHINGTON, D.C.INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL is proud to announce that the Opening Night event this year will be the Aniversary Screening of one of the most influential and controversial films of the last half-century, Herschell Gordon Lewis’ TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! Filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis will help introduce the film as well as provide a lively Q&A session following the screening (perhaps even leading a sing-along of his infamous opening titles song), at the Ameri...
by Sandy Mandelberger, Festival Dailies Editor
ENTRE NOS, a hard-hitting and emotionally involving drama about the struggles of an illegal immigrant to make a life for herself and her children on the mean streets of New York City, was chosen as the Best Film in the North American Independents Competition of the 25th edition of FESTROIA: The Troia International Film Festival. The Festival, the oldest and largest in Portugal, ran from September 4 to 1...
5th Zurich Film Festival: September 24 – October 4, 2009Thursday, September 10, 2009Thirty Films in Three Competitions, Ten World Premieres and Celebrated GuestsThe 5th Zurich Film Festival has announced further film highlights, introduced the three competition juries and presented the entire festival program.Festival directors Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri and curators of the Competition Program Christine von Fragstein and Nikolaj Nikitin, announced the Competition and the Out of Compet...
by Sandy Mandelberger, Festival Dailies Editor
It takes a tremendous amount of courage and insight to make a film that cuts so close to the bone, but in ENTRE NOS, an American Independent film screening at FESTROIA, the actress/writer/director Paola Mendoza delves into her own troubling past to create a universal story of perseverance and triumph.
Mendoza, who co-wrote and co-directed the film with Gloria La Monte, also stars as Mariana, a Colombian refuge...
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