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The Vail Film Festival Continues In 2012
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- Published on Tuesday, 27 March 2012 20:07
- Written by Joanne Choi
Film festival at a ski resort? You bet!
Opening March 29 - April 1 2012, at the ski resort of Vail, Colorado, the annual Vail Film Festival makes it to its ninth edition.
The Vail FF promotes independent filmmaking, with a special focus on new and innovative filmmakers. Besides screening some of the year's top films from around the globe, the festival also features workshops, seminars, industry panel discussions and special events with award-winning actors, writers and directors.
With Cadillac as a returning sponsor, this four-day event includes a special awards ceremony, ski and snowboarding, VIP parties and live music as well as a rich film program.
Produced by the Colorado Film Institute, this non-profit arts organization is dedicated to fostering independent cinema and creative filmmaking.
There will be numerous events this year which celebrate films and filmmakers from all over the world.
Screenings place in various venues:
- Sebastian Hotel in Vail Village
- The Four Seasons
- Vail Mountain School
- Cinebistro in Solaris Plaza
Alongside the film festival, the annual screenplay competition will be running in unison. Attendees will experience a weekend filled with film screenings, parties, live music, ice skating, and a hospitality lounge with complimentary Stella Artois, leading to the closing night of the ceremony.
New Directors – Family Films, $200 Movies and Body Builders
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- Published on Friday, 23 March 2012 19:07
- Written by David D'Arcy
New Directors/New Films has showcased the work of emerging artists for over 40 years, and continues to celebrate the most innovative voices in filmmaking. Presented by Lincoln Center's Film Society and MoMA.
As New Director/New Films opens March 21, 2012, at MoMA, here are some recommendations from noted film writer/reviewer David D'arcy with more to come. --ed
The Ambassador
directed by Mads Brugger
(Denmark)
Anything but diplomatic, this documentary/mockumentary by Mads Brugger, the Colbert of Denmark, made its debut at IDFA in Amsterdam late last year. Its political incorrectness will offend some tender souls, as it did at Sundance. Brugger, posing as a businessman, buys an Liberian ambassadorship to the Central African Republic, and then opens a factory in which pygmies, roaring drunk when we meet them, will make matches one day.
DC Environmental Film Fest Celebrates 20 Years
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 March 2012 17:39
- Written by Renzo Adler
Activist film making has existed in one form or another for decades, but it was not until the 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth, that 
the world of environmentalist filmmaking was pushed to the forefront. There has always been a stalwart figure in the world of environmental cinema that continues to support enviromental activist cinema: The Environmental Film
Festival in the nation's capital.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, The Environmental Film Festival (March 13-25, 2012), will exhibit 180 documentary, narrative, animated, archival, experimental and children’s films from 42 countries.
Films are screened at over 60 venues throughout the Washington metropolitan area, including museums, embassies, libraries, universities and local theaters. Most screenings are free.
Dallas Int'l Film Festival 2012: The Best of the Lone Star State
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- Published on Friday, 16 March 2012 10:00
- Written by Sean Cusack
The annual Dallas International Film Festival takes place on April 12th – 22nd, 2012, in its titular Texas neighborhood showcaseing some of the finest new films to be released around the globe including two world premieres and nine Texas premieres. Approximately 180 films from all over the world will be screened over its 11 days.
The festival is a presentation of the Dallas Film Society. In addition to producing one of the largest festivals in the southwest, the Society produces numerous year round events, screening series and partnership programs with arts organizations around the city.
The Film Society celebrates films and their impact on society. As a non-profit organization, it recognizes filmmakers for their achievements in enhancing the creative community, provides educational programs to students to develop better understanding of the role of film in today's world, and promotes the City of Dallas and its commitment to the art of filmmaking.
For the first year since the festival’s inception there will be a Festival Village at the fashionable Mockingbird Station. The Festival Village will serve as the hub of the festival where filmmakers and film fans will have the chance to mingle and network at the Festival Lounge, and CBS Radio will present its first ever Music Lounge -- showcasing local music to the public every evening for the festival’s 11-day duration.
