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Czech director based in Los Angeles, Ester Brym, has a new film in the works. After her multi-Award winning feature Butterflies that profiled the Internet celebrity, her 2nd feature is much more personal and visually stunning. Autumn of Route 66 documents ones journey through the history, the incredible experience of driving the first American highway, Mother of all roads, the Route 66.
Brym is currently in late post-production stage and raising finishing funds to complete the ...
Teaser for new feature documentary by director Ester Brym, the Autumn of Route 66
Director: Jan-Willem Breure.
We live in a society that condemns pedophiles, though biological instinct and world cultures throughout history suggest that an attraction to adolescents is as natural as it is unavoidable. The fashion industry on the one hand sexualizes ever-younger girls while those who act on these instincts are reviled. The apparent hypocrisy at the heart of society forces the question: What do we mean when we talk about Pedophilia? Are All Men Pedophiles?
Director: Patrick BAUCELIN.
Forts and fortresses in the Caribbean were the only defense against invasions sometimes English, sometimes French, sometimes of Holland, sometimes Spanish.
All known or unknown, in ruins, restored or erecting still proudly turn, all have a story and resonates to their glorious past.
Go back in over time with historical detail, the milestones that have marked the history of the Caribbean and anecdotes about the sights of everyone who will make this documentary, a film unavoidable and exciting.
By Robert Barry
In April 2005, less than a year before shooting their own debut film Electroma, the French electronic group Daft Punk directed themselves in a video for the song 'Robot Rock', from their third album, Human After All. The video finds Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo in black leather and robot masks performing on a dark, neon-lit stage resembling somewhat the sets for the BBC's flagship pop music show Top of the Pops in the late eighties. Surrounding the stage, a p...
Director: Elise Kermani.
In Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex" Jocasta hangs herself shortly after finding out that Oedipus is both her husband and son. In Euripides' play "The Phoenician Women", Jocasta stays alive a little bit longer to try and reconcile her sons but stabs herself shortly after they kill each other during the war at Thebes.
But in Kermani's film "Jocasta", Jocasta stays alive after her sons' mutual murders to perform a sacrifice to save Thebes, and to satiate Ares' ancient fury of Kadmos' slaying of the dragon. Jocasta chooses the creative act of writing over suicide. Her ritual act remembers that Body is Presence (Plato's 'ousia' and Heidegger's 'Ereignis') and Jocasta reminds us that she (also known as Iocasta) is related to Io, the Great Cow goddess of Egypt.
The origins of writing are sacred manifestations of ousia/hestia...esti/Being. She reverses the taboo of incest, and reestablishes the symbollic image of mother and son.
Jocasta's sacrifice was inspired by an ancient Persian ritual of ingesting the Word to cure illness.
www.elisekermani.com/jocasta.html
www.elisekermani.com/thejocastaproject.html
Director: ZACHOS SAMOLADAS.
DARK LEGEND is the fourth film of director ZAHOS SAMOLADAS. The film goes back to the roots of vampirism, Lamia and the ancient fables of Greece. It is the story of two brothers with leathal forces, two vampires Manoyil and Drakon, both children of Lamia. Their different origin, separates them in the path that leads to the dark side of their existence. The snob and vicious Drakon, wants simply to dominate on all mortal and immortal and Manoyil the son of a mortal, who wants to collaborate with humans. Between them two women, Thalia and Niki accept the call of the night creatures. But the moral code of Manoyil brings him confronted with his dark substance. In the path of history and Time Manuel will fall in love with Niki a girl that saves from the death from the hands of Germans in 1943, and the pain. Two vampires that become the terror of their opponents and will keep up to the end their scary secret.
Director: Jonas Trukanas.
Year 1869 – Lithuania is a part of Imperial Russia. Both Lithuanian written language and Lithuanian press are banished. But these oppressions are engaged by secret Lithuanian schools – where young people are thaught Lithuanian language and book smugglers start walking around villages and smuggling books to simple folk. Even if large part of society is still indifferent to Lithuanian national identity – book smuggler ranks are constantly growing.
Colorful life of nineteenth century Lithuanian country side, humor, adventures, dangers and hard choices… That’s only a little part of what scapegrace named Jurgis experiences when he meets book smuggler Mažvydas.
If you like to help me, please email at filmester [at] brymproductions [dot] com
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A film by Tino Schwanemann. Music by Steffen Greisiger & The Film Orchestra Babelsberg.
Synopsis:
Africa is full of nature’s colors. A colorful experience! The social, political and economical problems of the continent, however, are unsaturated. Neither black nor white, but endless gray.
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life witho...
Where did the Queens World Film Festival come from?
For many years, we were volunteers with another festival, running their Youth Initiative providing filmmaking bootcamps to three local schools. The program was very successful with a growing reputation for excelence.
Last year, in it's 7th year the festival had grown and more than 400 films entered. We were working very hard on the Youth Initiative when disaster hit. Two days prior to the festival's opening we found out that t...
Director: Aydin Erel.
The golden age of aviation coincided with the Great Depression. Although the depression had tremendously negative effect on global economy, two fearless American aviators emerged to take back the long distance record from France. The pilot Russell Boardman was once a cowboy, motorcyclist and a stunt pilot for Hollywood movies. The co-pilot John Polando was an aircraft mechanic with more than 10 years of aeronautical experience; together they found a way to fulfill a lifelong dream.Their Bellanca monoplane” Cape Cod” was literally a flying bomb with the take-off weight consumed two-thirds fuel it trundled down Floyd Bennett airfield in the early morning of July 28, 1931. Boardman and Polando loaded 16 copies of the New York Times on board. These were to be parachuted over various cities as a mean of communicating with the world. They had never flown outside the United States before. Their objective was to fly from New York to Istanbul. It was to be the longest distance ever flown in history. They were unreported from land or sea for two nights and a day. What they lacked in equipment such as radio, parachutes or navigation light was compensated with plenty of determination, resolve and steely courage.
Production & Direction
FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE
THE COLLEGIUM - FORUM & TELEVISION PROGRAM BERLIN
in association with
CULTURAL ZEPHYR e.V.
present
XXV. Black International Cinema Berlin 2010
Anniversary
A COMPLEXION CHANGE – International & Intercultural Diplomacy
The Magical Oasis Cinema Experience
in cooperation with
Commissioner for Integration, District Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin
May 4-8, 2010
RATHAUS SCHÖNEBERG (City Hall)
Kinosaal (cinema)...
Production & Direction
FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE
THE COLLEGIUM - FORUM & TELEVISION PROGRAM BERLIN
in association with
CULTURAL ZEPHYR e.V.
present
XXV. Black International Cinema Berlin 2010
Anniversary
A COMPLEXION CHANGE – International & Intercultural Diplomacy
The Magical Oasis Cinema Experience
in cooperation with
Commissioner for Integration, District Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin
May 4-8, 2010
RATHAUS SCHÖNEBERG (City Hall)
Kinosaal (cinema)...
A COMPLEXION CHANGE
International and Intercultural Diplomacy
"FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND?"
Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre
Photographic Exhibition - Visual Documentation
Fotoausstellung - Visuelle Dokumentation
June 1 - 30, 2010
Foyer im Rathaus Schöneberg / Rathaus Schöneberg (city hall) foyer
John-F.-Kennedy Platz 1, 10825 Berlin-Schöneberg
Exhi
"Footprints in the Sand?": on photo from left: Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre origins: Prof. Donald Muldrow Griffith, Lynnda Curry, Prof. Gayle McKinney Griffith, Ricky Powell, photograph: Detlef Bäcker
A COMPLEXION CHANGE
International and Intercultural
Diplomacy
"FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND?"
Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre
Photographic Exhibition - Visual Documentation
Fotoausstellung -
Visuelle Dokumentation
Ju...
A COMPLEXION CHANGE
International and Intercultural
Diplomacy
"FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND?"
Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre
Photographic Exhibition - Visual Documentation
Fotoausstellung -
Visuelle Dokumentation
June 1 - 30, 2010
Foyer im Rathaus Schöneberg / Rathaus Schöneberg (city hall)
foyer
John-F.-Kennedy Platz 1, 10825 Berlin-Schöne
TheBIG GUNS
Catching my eye on arrival was the “newest, largest and most powerful of the big guns” - not a producer - but a British 15” naval gun previously mounted on the HMS Ramillies and first seeing action in 1920 during The Greco-Turkish War before firing on the Italian landforces and warships… it could fire a 876kg shell a distance of 29kms… that’s like propelling an equivalent of 10 well proportioned men over The EnglishChannel. This gun ha...
We have received an interesting array of films in our first submissions from a short 11 second Stop Action Animation entered by a 13 yr old!, to a wonderful fun film about "100 Uses for a Handkerchief" produced by a husband and wife team. Our latest entry is about a giant pet hamster. We look forward to receiving more querky and sureal films.
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The Ryde International Film Festival Isle of Wight has started to receive its first early bird submissions. We look forward to a nice busy Festival in September.
For more detailed entry information and the categories that you can entre films into visit Isle of Wight International Film Festival. We look forward to receiving your entries.
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West Virginia mountaineer short film festival will take place in the historic Warner Theater in downtown Morgantown. Built by the Warner Brothers, H. M., Major Albert, and J.L nearly 80 years ago, this distinguished movie house is reminiscent of the early years of film. It's a perfect venue for screening works that strive to be new, innovative and original, as our festival does. Its historical significance also lends itself to one of the festival's areas of emphasis, exploring regional/Appalac...
Based in Ryde, Isle of Wight, on the south coast of England. This is
the first International Film Festival to be held on the Island. With
its fantastic golden sands and town on the beach. We aim to become one
of the UK’s and internationally sought after film festivals.
So, we are open to anyone out there, who has made a film, thought of
making a film, or is in the process of making a film. To send your
entries to us use the withoutabox link or post them to us directly.
Films can be up to five years old and with over 20 categories to
choose from, there is no excuse for anyone to say they can’t have a go.
If it’s in your wardrobe or under your bed, dust it down and send it
off to us and we will show it on one of our big screens on the beach,
or at the traditional Commodore Theatre in the centre of town.
Looking forward to seeing you and your films on the beach in April 2011 – don’t forget your swimming costume only for the brave!!!!!
Mission Statement
The aim of the Ryde Isle of Wight International Film Festival is to
encourage creativity in all aspects of film production, not dependant
on financial and physical restrictions, gender, geographical location,
age or ability. We acknowledge and encourage film making through
diversity.
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