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Indian Film Festival of LA 2011
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- Published on Sunday, 10 April 2011 05:00
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The 9th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) runs April 12 - 17, 2011 at the ArcLight 
Hollywood Theater in Hollywood, California. This year’s Festival showcases its line up with 13 feature films, 6 documentaries and 13 short films, including world premieres and US premieres.
"We are extremely proud of this year's program. This year's selections were selected not only for their great storytelling, but because each reflects the creativity, color, pace, and surprises that truly represent Indian culture and cinema," said Christina Marouda, the festival's Executive Director.
Kicking off the festival is the Los Angeles premiere of I Am Kalam, directed by Nila Madhab Panda. A young boy struggles to get an education over seemingly insurmountable odds. With Gulshan Grover, Harsh Mayar, Hussan Saad, Beatrice Ordeix, Meena Mir. The film's star Gulshan Grover (Payback, Breaking Waves) in attendance.
This marks the director's feature film debut after having directed over 60 short films. It is also India's first feature film to be produced by a development organization. The film is inspired by India's former President Abdul J Kalam as well as by Panda's own childhood experiences.
Famous Monsters' Own Imagi-Movies Film Fest
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 21:46
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Presented by Famous Monsters of Filmland and organized by Sean Fernald, the Imagi-Movies Film Festival is showing April 8 - 10, 2011 at the Laemmle's Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills, California, 
This is a banner year for Monster mavens -- first, this is a new annual festival, and second, it celebrates the legacy of Forrest J "Uncle Forry" Ackerman, America's #1 Sci-fi Fan. In addition, the Festival celebrates The Vincent Price Centennial and Dracula's 80th Anniversary.
In addition to its homage to the imagination of filmmaking, FM will be donating a portion of the weekend's proceeds to the Red Cross to aid in the relief for the victims of the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
The Vincent Price Centennial features two days of celebrity panels led by daughter Victoria Price, director and producer Roger Corman, writer William Goldstein, and filmmaker William Malone, with special screenings of two of Price's acclaimed films: The Masque of the Red Death and The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
Havana Film Festival NY
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 05:00
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The 12th Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is screening April 7 - 15, 2011 at the Quad Cinema, El 
Museo del Barrio and NYU's King Juan Carlos II of Spain Center in Manhattan, as well as The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, plus other venues around New York.
HFFNY presents a selection of the best features, documentaries, and shorts from all over Latin America.
Tribute to Gerardo Chijona
HFFNY honors Gerardo Chijona, the award-winning Cuban director of Adorable Lies, by screening several of his films, culminating in the New York premiere of his latest film, Ticket to Paradise.
Adorables mentiras / Adorable Lies
dir. Gerardo Chijona (Cuba, Spain)
Chijona's first feature is a black comedy. Jorge Luis, a young man with dreams of becoming a screenwriter and film director, meets the beautiful Sissy at a film premiere. In order to impress Sissy, Jorge impersonates a director looking for a non-professional actress and Sissy, who dreams of becoming a successful actress, pretends not to be interested. Thus begins a relationship where the two act as not as they really are, but how they want to be, to escape the dull reality of their lives. With Isabel Santos, Luis Alberto Garcia. Chijona will be present for Q&A.
Current European Cinema Has 3d Act
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- Published on Monday, 04 April 2011 05:00
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Disappearing Act III, A Showcase of Current European Cinema is screening April 6 - 14, 2011 at Bohemian 
National Hall in New York City.
Disappearing Act, launched as an annual event in 2009, is a film showcase highlighting the vitality of European cinema. This year it presents 19 films that have made a name for themselves among critics and on the festival circuit, yet still remain largely unknown to American audiences.
Special guests this year:
- Srdjan Koljevic, director
- Filip Remunda, director
- Ioana Uricaru, director
- Sabine Schenk, producer
- Olga Neuwirth, composer
A traditional part of Disappearing Act is an industry panel discussion devoted to the issues facing foreign-language films and their access to American screens and audiences.
This year's panel is the Subtitled Cinema Initiative. The panelists are:
Moderator: Carlos A. Gutierrez, co-founding director of Cinema Tropical
Oana Radu, deputy director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Delphine Selles-Alvarez, cinema program officer of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
John C. Woo, executive director of Asian CineVision
Some of the films being shown are:
Czech Peace / Cesky mir 
dirs. Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda (Czech Republic)
followed by Q&A with director Filip Remunda
This documentary is about the Czech government's approval of the installation of a U.S. antimissile system right in the heart of the country, on a site once occupied by Soviet soldiers during the Cold War. The decision sparked the largest and most organized Czech protests since 1989.
The Happiest Girl in the World / Cea mai fericita fata din lume
dir. Radu Jude (Romania)
In a lottery held as publicity for a soft drink, a teenager has just won a brand new car! But her overcontrolling parents want to decide what she does with it.
Come Undone / Cosa voglio di piu
dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy)
With Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, Teresa Saponangelo, Giuseppe Battiston
A young woman who thinks she has everything she needs suddenly finds herself embroiled in a passionate love affair with a married man she meets in a restaurant where he waits tables.
The Girl / Flickan
dir. Fredrik Edfeldt (Sweden)
With Blanca Engstrom, Tova Magnusson-Norling, Mats Blomgren
The parents of "the girl" (left nameless by the director) leave their 10-year-old daughter behind during summer vacation while they depart with their older son on a trip to Africa (to be "useful to the needy"). The aunt they call to the rescue proves to be more than unfit to care for the girl and soon also departs.
The Father of My Children / Le pere de mes enfants
dir. Mia Hansen-Love (France) 
With Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Chiara Caselli, Eric Elmosnino, Sandrine Dumas
Based on the true story of an admired French producer, the film depicts the struggles of a man devoted to his work yet beloved by his family and friends, who carry on his project when he’s unable to do so himself.
Tales from the Golden Age / Amintiri din epoca de aur
dirs. Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu (Romania) followed by Q&A with director Uricaru
A group of shorts set in the last decade under communism.
Kill Daddy Good Night / Das Vaterspiel
dir. Michael Glawogger (Austria)
introduced by producer Sabine Schenk and composer Olga Neuwirth
With Helmut Koepping, Sabine Timoteo, Ulrich Tukur, Itzhak Finzi
A pair of onetime lovers reconnect at the whim of a woman who calls from New York to invite her friend to come from Vienna right away and help her with a rebuilding project. A sequence of events begins that will uncover secrets about the woman’s family she herself has never known. At journey's end the man must decide whether or not he can forgive a war-time criminal and reconcile with the hate he feels for his own father.
Disappearing Act III is curated and coproduced by Irena Kovarova, organized by the Czech Center New York and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York in partnership with:
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
the Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia
the Consulate General of Sweden in New York
the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York
the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
the Goethe-Institut New York
the Hungarian Cultural Center
Instituto Cervantes – The Cultural Center of Spain in New York
the Italian Cultural Institute
the Norwegian Consulate General
the Polish Cultural Institute New York
the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre
the EYE Film Institute Netherlands
the Slovak Film Institute
An official project of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) with support from the EU Delegation to the UN.
For more information, visit www.czechcenter.com.
Disappearing Act III, A Showcase of Current European Cinema
April 6-14, 2011
Czech Center New York
Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street
New York City
