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12th Annual ReelAbilities Film Fest Goes Online for Latest Edition
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- Published on Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:58
- Written by Brad Balfour
The 12th Annual ReelAbilities Film Fesitval is joining the recent trend of film festivals shifting to online platforms in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Running March 31 to April 6, ReelAbilities is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with disabilities. Now the festival can be enjoyed from the comfort of your living room.
Films will be available online for 24 hours beginning at the scheduled start time and Q+As with filmmakers and guests will take place after the film’s first screening concludes. Films will still be fully accessible, presented with open captions and audio description. Q+As and panels will be broadcast in interactive livestream with captioning.
The festival includes the world premiere of Brian Thomas’ documentary Amy’s Victory Dance, the story of a former professional dancer who is run over by a 15-ton New York City express bus and her triumphant path back to the stage after the near loss of her life and leg. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is a documentary about the foremost neurologist of the 21st century from director Ric Burns. Serbian director Raško Miljković’s debut feature film The Witch Hunters is a poignant tale about 10-year-old Jovan, who has cerebral palsy, and his imaginative world and adventurous friendship with his classmate Milica.
"We feel that these stories still need to be told and that creating community is as important as ever. For the first time ever, we will present the majority of our films, Q+As, and conversations online. We believe this will allow us to advance our mission of accessibility, making our films and conversations available to our community at times when gathering together in person is not possible." says Isaac Zablocki, the director of ReelAbilities Film Festival:
To learn more, go to: https://reelabilities.org/newyork/
ReelAbilities Film Festival
March 31 - April 6, 2020
The Show Must Go On as Queens World Film Fest Shifts to Streaming Platform
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:58
- Written by Brad Balfour
Embraces & the Touch of the Skin, directed by Sara Koppel
The rise of the COVID-19 disease is creating a shift in nearly every aspect of life as we know it., but at the same time, life must go on. In the interest of public saftey and in not allowing the arts to die, the Queens World Film Festival is shifting to the streaming platform Discovered so that viewers can see the festival from the comfort and safety of their homes.
Running March 19 to 29, the Queens World Film Festival (QWFF) is now in its tenth year of featuring films from all over the world in different thematic blocks: Features, shorts, documentary, LGBT, animation, and short documentaries. In total, QWFF programmers selected two-hundred and twenty remarkable films from thirty-two nations.
Opening Night of the Festival will begin at 7PM/EST on Thursday, March 19th at https://discovered.tv/QWFF. The Opening Night Block is called “Tales of Connectedness” and features six short films from Iran to Brooklyn.
“From the beginning of time we have gathered together around the flickering lights in our darkened caves to share our stories. Although the flickering lights have become zeros and ones, we’ve changed the nature of our caves, but the impulse to gather endures. In these times of crisis, it is even more important that we gather around the humanity provided in film. We are grateful to DISCOVERED.TV for providing their free online platform to make our film screenings possible, and for making the 10th Annual Queens World Film Festival, the first International Film Festival to screen on their site, states Katha Cato, Executive Director, Queens World Film Festival.”
To learn more, go to: https://www.queensworldfilmfestival.com/
Queens World Film Festival
March 19 - 29, 2020
https://discovered.tv/
Youth Culture, Cheating Husbands, & Revolution at the Russian Film Week in New York
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 December 2019 16:01
- Written by Brad Balfour
Acid
Featuring indie, popular, documentary and arthouse works, the Russian Film Week in New York presents a side of cinema not often seen today in the US. Running December 6 to the 13th at the SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street) the fest features a range of films, along with live Q&As with the directors.
"At a time when some want to highlight differences among us, we want the 2019 Russian Film Week in New York to be a bridge to unite people across the oceans," said founders and presenters Maria Shclover and Irina Shabshis of The Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation. "We truly feel that artistry is a powerful force and can be the catalyst to show our commonalities."
Films include Acid, directed by Alexander Gorchilin, a silent manifesto of the generation of twenty-year-olds in search for life's meaning. Another Woman, directed by Anna Parmas, in which a woman’s life spins out of control when she discovers her husband is having an affair. And the historical biopic, The Lenin Factor, directed by Vladimir Khotinenko, following Lenin’s rise as an immigrant to Zurich, to one of the most important figures of the 20th century.
To learn more, go to: http://russianfilmweekusa.com/
Russian Film Week in New York
December 6 - 13, 2019
SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
"Rainbow Trout" & Daring Korean Cinema at Lincoln Center
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- Published on Friday, 22 November 2019 09:36
- Written by Jack Angstreich
From November 22nd through December 4th, Film at Lincoln Center, in collaboration with Subway Cinema, will be sponsoring a timely retrospective called “Relentless Invention: New Korean Cinema, 1996–2003,” featuring many significant films, some presented in 35mm prints, including works by such important directors as Bong Joon Ho, Kim Jee-woon, Hong Sang-soo and Park Chan-wook, alongside many lesser-known titles.
