FilmFestival Week NYC

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Parent Category: Film Festivals

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Published on Friday, 11 November 2011 05:00

Written by L E Shannon

Film Festival Week - NYC screens November 17 - 24, 2011 at the Quad Theatre in Manhattan, New York City.

Film Festival Week showcases a catchall of independent works, including features, shorts, documentaries, webisodes, TV content, music videos and animations from all over the world.

Some 25 countries will be represented, including:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Canada
• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• India
• Ireland
• Italy
• Japan
• Kosovo
• Malta
• Mexico
• Mongolia
• Nepal
• Russia
• South Africa
• Sweden
• Switzerland 
• Turkey
• UK

Some of the documentaries screening are:

Wild Horses & Renegades
dir. James Anaquand Kleinert
The old expression "wild horses can‛t drag me..." is turned on its head as the wild horses themselves are now being dragged away to removal and slaughter from public lands of Disappointment Valley, Colorado and the American West. Interviews abound as a wide range of advocates weigh in, from scientific experts, wild horse owners and animal rights activists to celebrities, such as Viggo Mortensen, Daryl Hannah, Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson.

Child of Giants: My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange
dir. Tom Ropelewski
A profile of Daniel Rhodes Dixon, the son of two icons of the American art world: photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) and painter of the Southwest landscape, Maynard Dixon (1875-1946).

Finding Shangri-La
dir. Ted Vaill
James Hilton‛s 1933 novel Lost Horizon. Frank Capra's 1937 film. Is there a real Shangri-La? This film proves there is, and it is as beautiful as Hilton described it.

Grace Paley: Collected Shorts
dir. Lilly Rivlin
This is an intimate portrait of the iconic New York writer/activist "whose frank and brilliant stories celebrating the daily lives of women are classics of American literature."

Some narrative films are:

Five Minarets in New York
dir. Mahsun Kirmizigül (USA/Turkey)
starring Haluk Bilginer, Danny Glover, Gina Gershon, Robert Patrick
This film examines the conditions of present day Turkey, as two Turkish agents are assigned to bring back a terrorist leader from New York City.

The Stalker
dir. Martin Kemp
starring Jane March, Colin Salmon, Bill Murray
A writer struggling with her second novel is terrorized by a homicidal personal assistant.

Dogs Lie
dir. Richard Atkinson
starring Arnie Mazer, Frank Boyd, Gita Reddy, Ken Anderson, Roya Shanks, Samrat Chackrabarti
Patients and clinicians in "a night of monitoring and observation at a luxury New York sleep clinic."

Deep Blue Breath
dir. Patricia Cardoso
starring Clayton Beabout, Sean Astin, Miguel Sandoval, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Ernie Hudson
A live action/animated story about a boy who travels within his own body into an animated world while under anesthesia.

For more information, go to www.ticketweb.com and type in "Quad".

Film Festival Week - NYC
November 17 - 24, 2011

Quad Cinema
34 West 13th Street
New York City

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