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Malco Theatres' Elvis Film Fest 6

MALCO HOSTS 6TH ANNUAL ELVIS® FILM FEST Rock and Roll comes home this summer via the silver screen with Malco Theatres’ annual Elvis Film Festival! The sixth annual Elvis Film Festival, is scheduled for Tuesday, August 11, 2009 during Elvis Week®, at Studio on the Square in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee. This year’s festival salutes Fun in Acapulco, Roustabout and returning fan favorites Jailhouse Rock and King Creole. Tickets are $5 each and are on sale now at the theatre box office & online at www.malco.com. Proceeds from the festival will benefit the Elvis Presley® Charitable Foundation.

John Landis will award Zucchero in Ischia Global

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The American director John Landis, author of the cult-movie "The Blues Brothers" and the movie-clips seen in history "Thriller" (actor Michael Jackson), crown Zucchero "Sugar" Fornaciari 'King of Italian blues' by delivering the "Global Music Award "on Monday July 13 in Forio d'Ischia. The culminating event of the second day of the seventh Ischia Global Film & Music Fest, will see the presence of so many other big music world beginning with Sting and Paul Young with Zucchero has collaborated sev...

Lost Songs of Anatolia

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Presented in part at the Turkish Pavillion reception at the Cannes Film Festival, THE LOST SONGS OF ANATOLIA, on a background of clips of peasant musicians from Eastern Turkey featured a modern rock quartet accompanying beautiful authentic shots taken on the spot. The effect was surrealistic and highly original. A musical voyage among exotic places and people of Anatolia, unique host of ancient civilizations, empires as well as mythologies and glory of 10 millennia. The fruit...

The Global Film Village: CLIO Honorary Award Winners Barry Manilow and Mark Cuban by Marla Lewin

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The Clios is a great event, filled with brilliant people, ideas, and everyone focused on creating the next best thing in advertising and social media.  The goal of the panels was to explore how can we connect and engage our audiences. How we can continue to offer a branding service which sells products, provides humor, and opens our hearts to an ever smaller international world.  How to find the means to  incorporate human interest and projects linked to product in new ways that resonat...

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BOSSA NOVA Featured at Festival do BRASIL em Paris 2009

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Tom Jobim                                                         This year's Festival celebrates 50 years of Bossa Nova, the famous musical style that traveled the world with tunes such as "The Girl from Ipanema". In 1989, Tom, (Antônio Carlos Jobim's nickname), explains: "In Portuguese, a bossa means a 'boss', a protuberance, a hump, a bump. Like you have th...

BOSSA NOVA Featured at Festival do BRASIL em Paris 2009

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This year's Festival celebrates 50 years of Bossa Nova, the famous musical style that traveled the world with tunes such as "The Girl from Ipanema". In 1989, Tom, (Antônio Carlos Jobim's nickname), explains: "In Portuguese, a bossa means a 'boss', a protuberance, a hump, a bump. Like you have the bossa of Notre Dame. And the human brain has these protuberances, these bumps in the head. These convexities correspond to the concavities of gray matter in the brain. So, if a guy has something, it is...

Line up 11th Encounters SA Documentry Film Festival 2009

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Already confirmed for this year's festival.   International Films   Waltz with Bashir  (Oscar Nominee & Golden Globe Winner) Rough Aunties (Sundance Winner) Defamation (Sundance Winner) Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love. Afghan Star Slaves Tyson ( Won the Regard Knockout Award at Cannes) Encounters at the end of the world (Werner Herzog) Who killed Maggie? Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator ...

Burning down the house... intervieww with the team

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Interview with Mandy Stein, Marky Ramone, and Bob Gruen, "Burning Down the House: Story of CBGB"The happy and proud director, Mandy Stein, dedicated "Burning Down The House: The Story of CBGB" to her mother, and manager of "The Ramones", Linda Stein, as she stated, "it would have been her birthday today". (Linda was murdered October 30, 2007 in her home)Interview with Mandy Stein:Sharon Abella: Where did your footage come from? Mandy Stein: "All different places, but Amos Poe, I'd always kno...

Interview with Mandy Stein, Marky Ramone, and Bob Gruen, "Burning Down the House: Story of CBGB"

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The happy and proud director, Mandy Stein, dedicated "Burning Down The House: The Story of CBGB" to her mother, and manager of "The Ramones", Linda Stein, as she stated, "it would have been her birthday today".   (Linda was murdered October 30, 2007 in her home)_________________Interview with Mandy Stein:Sharon Abella: Where did your footage come from?  Mandy Stein:  "All different places, but Amos Poe, I'd always known about his footage, which is beautiful,...

24th Annual 2009 International Dance Music Awards

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By Maria Esteves - April 9, 2009 The 24thAnnual 2009 International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) presented by the Winter Music Conference; hosted by chief executive officer/founder Daniel Glass, Glassnote Records, Charo and Felix Sama was held at the Miami Beach Resort & Spa, Miami Beach, FL, Thursday, March 26, 2009, 8:00 PM. IDMA annually acknowledges exceptional achievements and innovation in the dance and electronic music industry worldwide (artists, DJs, producers, promoters, remixers, ...

11th Brazilian Film festival in Paris set to start end April

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Brazilian Film festival in Paris.    Spring is around the corner, bringing with it the eleventh Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris to be held as usual in the Latin Quarter at Nouveau Latina theatre from 29 April through 12 May, 2009.     Discover new fiction film from 29 April to 5 May) and documentaries (May 6th-12th). Fiction Awa...

Queens Theatre in the Park Presents “The Spirit of Sepharad” in Celebration of Purim

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By Maria Esteves - March 22, 2009 The outstanding sold-out musical performance of  "THE SPIRIT OF SEPHARAD" in celebration of Purim presented by and held at Queens Theatre in the Park, New York, on Saturday, March 7, 2009, 8:00pm was a spiritual brilliance! Sephardic music maestro Gerard Edery and the Caravan Ensemble mesmerized audience with a superb mixed media performance (songs, stories, dance and media) of the rich cultural history of Sephardic Judiasm from medieval Spain ...

Festival Celebrates Miami's Music Masters

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Saturday, March 7--------Miami is, among other things, a city of music. And two of the biggest musical giants who have left an indelible mark on the city’s musical legacy will be feted in separate documentaries premiering at the Miami International Film Festival. The films, intimate portraits of singer Celia Cruz and bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" Lopez, bring a new and welcome dimension to the two Cuban musical icons who have put the Miami sound on the world music map. In ...

The 6th International Documentary Film Festival of Madrid will be held from May 1 through 10

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DOCUMENTA 09 will be feature the premiere of the main international films Madrid February 17, -‘09    The festival has broken a record in the number of films participating, with a total of 1078 coming from more countries than in previous years For the first time, all the films participating in the Competitive Sections will make their premiere in Spain. The famous soundtrack composer Michael Nyman will be the feature at the inauguration of the Festival o...

Actress Michelle Marshall as Tina Turner Impersonator head shot

Michelle Marshall as Tina Turner Impersonator

Actress Michelle Marshall head shot

Michelle Marshall as Queen Of Rock n Roll Tina Turner Michelle is a professional singer , shes a sound-alike and look-alike as Tina Turner 

Documenta Madrid received massive international submissions

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May 1st to the 10th will be the dates for the 6th International Documentary Film Festival DOCUMENTA MADRID 09, organized by the City of Madrid. As its main new feature, all the films participating in the competitive sections of the festival will be making their premiere in Spain. The calling of this year's DOCUMENTA is to show a selection of international films as a true reflection of the social, cultural, economic, artistic and environmental realities in today's world. DOCUMENTA MADRID has grow...

“SUNday Shoutin” Opens with Tony Humphries, David Morales & Louie Vega at Webster Hall, NYC

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By Maria Esteves – February 17, 2009 The Official Grand Opening of “SUNday Shoutin” Tea Dance held in the historical Webster Hall, Marlin Room, New York City, on Sunday, February 8, 4:00 PM – 2:00 AM was a huge success.  The exclusive 1990s House Music ten hour set with DJs Tony Humphries, Tony Records, Grammy Award winners Louie Vega, Vega Records, Masters At Work Records (MAW); and David Morales, Def Mix rocked the dance floor!  Producers, remixers, recording artists, performing a...

Producing Green (we don't just mean HULK): the EMA Green Seal

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EMA's Green Seal Program seeks to recognize those productions that choose to embody and promote sustainable ideals. The Green Seal is the ultimate goal of the program, publicly acknowledging those productions that have chosen to incorporate sustainable initiatives into their productions and that have sought to be identified by applying for a Green Seal of recognition. EMA's Green Seal Program was originally conceived as a way of recognizing and celebrating those productions employing spe...

An Interview with Award-winning Famed Icon Randy Jones

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By Maria Esteves - January 28, 2009 Looking at life as art, actor-performing artist Randy Jones (RJ) is defined as an icon in popular culture.  RJ began performing on stage at the age of eight, is known as The Cowboy from the pop musical group Village People, has appeared in three biographical films, performed 22 interviews, 122 articles has been written about him, has taken 56 pictorials, and appeared on 24 magazines front cover. RJ has been honored with countless awards, given keys to ...

Netizen International Film Festival (niff)

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The mission of NiFF is to make the largest movie community in the film world through the Internet. Therefore, NiFF focuses on building strong bonds between audience and filmmaker.To obtain this goal, NIFF generates various programs such as award.

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